The School of Greatness - 676 Behind the Scenes of My Talk Show Launch
Episode Date: August 6, 2018“WHEN YOU HAVE A BIG DREAM, LIFE IS GOING TO CHALLENGE YOU.” I am so excited to share something really big with you. It’s something I’ve been working on for a long time now. I have a new Faceb...ook Watch show that’s available to view now: Inspiring Life with Lewis Howes. This is something I created for you. I wanted to help improve the lives of 100 million people. In order to do so I knew I needed to team up with one of the biggest networks to make it happen. By that I don’t mean a traditional network that’s burning out, like one on TV. I meant the next big network. That’s why I teamed up with Facebook to make this happen. They have more users than any other network, and I knew I could be on the forefront of something truly special. On top of it all, I have something exciting that can directly affect you personally. I’m having a contest for you to come out and hang with me in LA. That’s right, I’m looking to have 5 lucky viewers come out to LA to hang out with me. I’m going to pay for your flight, I’m going to pay for your hotel room. On top of that, you’ll be on the School of Greatness. You’ll have lunch with me and a very special guest (who will remain nameless for now). I’m not stopping there either. You’ll also get two free tickets to the Summit of Greatness (which isn’t cheap) and a School of Greatness Grab Bag, which will come with some of my favorite products and goodies. Plus, more bonuses and surprises. Honestly, I don’t know exactly how much this all comes to but I know it’s a value of thousands of dollars to five lucky guests. So listen to this episode to hear the 4 simple steps it takes to win all of these prizes, and I’ll give you some behind the scene details on what my show is, how I made it, and everything it took to get it started. Learn all about my new Facebook Watch Show, Inspiring Life with Lewis Howes, on Episode 676. In This Episode You Will Learn: The contest to hang out with me (5:37) How many winners I’ll be picking (7:14) An extra special bonus (9:11) The four steps to win (10:21) What it was like to make the show (11:50) How I sold the show (14:53) A lesson on making a big move in your life (18:45) How I recovered from being a people pleaser (21:48) What you need to find (26:21) What our first practice round was like (30:08) Why I created the show (34:22) When I will be announcing the winner (38:32) The vision of this show (40:38)
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This is episode number 676, all about my new talk show, Inspiring Life with Lewis Howes.
Welcome to the School of Greatness.
My name is Lewis Howes, a former pro athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur.
And each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness.
Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let the class begin.
Michael Phelps said that there will be obstacles, there will be doubters, there will be mistakes,
but with hard work, there are no limits.
That's right.
This is it.
This is the episode I've been wanting to talk about for a long time now
because my new talk show,
Inspiring Life with Lewis Howes on Facebook Watch is live.
But this is a powerful episode.
This is a powerful show.
And I'm going to break down the behind the scenes of the show,
what it is, what you're going to get out of it,
all the people that have been involved, all the things you need to know about it,
and really what you need to know about launching a big project in your life and a big vision and
a dream of yours, the challenges and obstacles that are to come your way and all the great
opportunities that will come your way as well. Again, I will be doing a massive contest. I'm
going to be talking about that contest here in a minute contest. I'm going to be talking about that contest here
in a minute, and I'm going to be flying people out, paying your way, having you on the podcast,
and giving a lot of different surprises and goodies with that contest as well. But before
we dive into the contest and this episode, I want to give a shout out to the fan of the week as
always, because this show wouldn't be here without all of you fans and listeners.
And I meet so many of you all the time.
You talk about the things you're learning and how you're growing.
And that's what makes me light up is hearing about your stories, hearing about the transformation you have in your life, your relationships, your health, your wealth, everything. This one's from Roxanne who said, always inspirational, interviews great
people, knows how to ask questions, and always gives you tips to help and improve. The five
minute Fridays are amazing for quick listens as well. So Roxanne, you are the fan of the week and
you guys can always go to the Apple podcast section or the podcast on your iPhone and just leave a review there.
Leave your stars.
We've got over 3,000 five-star reviews.
It's amazing.
I love you guys.
I appreciate you.
And go ahead and leave a review
if you haven't left one yet.
And this is a year and a half in the making, guys.
I want to share a little bit behind the scenes
because everyone's been asking me about
how hard was this?
What happened?
How has the process been?
What's this been like?
Would you change anything if you did it all over again?
And this has been a journey.
Some things I'm going to share here.
Some things I'm going to wait until after the season is over
to share even more.
But essentially, there are so many moving parts
to make this happen.
There are so many people parts to make this happen. There are so many people involved to make this happen.
And it all started with a dream, a dream that I had to want to impact 100 million people
every single week to help them live a better life.
That's what I've wanted to do.
Ever since the beginning, I wanted to help people.
It's my mission, 100 million people
to live their greatest lives. And Scooter Braun, who has been a friend of mine for many years,
who his brother, Adam Braun, who I'm on the foundation of his charity called Pence the
Promise. I'm on the advisory board with Scooter. We became friends years ago. He said, hey, man,
let's do it. Let's do a show together. Let's make
something happen. Let's impact more people. Because he was a big fan of the podcast. And he said,
let's do something even bigger. Let's take it to another level. And I said, listen, I really want
to do a show. But I feel like I just want to partner with the biggest network in the world.
And I want to be ahead of the trends. I want to be ahead of what's happening in media
and how people are consuming content. And tons of people are consuming audio on podcasts.
But a lot of people are just on social media, right? Less and less people are
going and watching a set time when a show comes out like we used to growing up.
A lot more content is on demand. The Netflix
and Hulu's of the world are just recording shows on TV and watching it on demand when you wanted
to. I'm seeing this trend happen more and more because of the podcast trend. People are listening
to on-demand audio content when they want to on their terms, as opposed to 10 a.m. radio show, you got to be there to listen
to it. Otherwise, you can't listen to it again. So I'm seeing this trend that that's what the
market, that's what everyone is wanting. And so I said to Scooter, who is a brilliant businessman,
a brilliant business mind, has incredible relationships, obviously very well respected.
For those who don't know who he is, represents a lot of the biggest artists in the world,
very well respected. For those who don't know who he is, represents a lot of the biggest artists in the world and is much smarter than a lot of people think because of the way his business mind works.
He's doing so many things behind the scenes that he doesn't really talk about publicly, which
are just brilliant, brilliant minds. And I said, for some reason, I feel like I want to be on
Facebook and I want to partner with Facebook because they've got 2 billion plus users from around the world and they can really target people.
They can really put it in front of the right people and figure it out. I think one day they're
going to be able to figure out how to do this on-demand content creation thing on their own.
And he said, cool, let's explore the process. Let's go down the process. Let's give
them a call. Let's figure it out. And this was, we got on the phone with them. We talked with them
and they were like, we are actually about to be launching our own original content in the next
six plus months. We're not there yet, but this is something we're actually doing.
we're not there yet, but this is something we're actually doing. And so for whatever reason,
timing worked out where, hey, I wanted to do a show. Facebook was already in the process of creating on-demand original content, kind of like a Netflix or another network does. And they were
starting to talk about buying original programming. So having that relationship with Scooter and making that
introduction was a great in. It got me in the door. It got things started. It got the conversation
started. Then we presented an idea. We said, you know, I really want to bring back this
intimate, live, interactive talk show feel where we're talking about powerful, positive, inspiring things, things like forgiveness,
things like grief, things like money mindset, things like what to do when, like the Time's
Up and Me Too movement, keys to happiness, just other things that, ideas, topics that
help us overcome the daily challenges that we face in our life.
And we wanted to bring back this kind of environment and experience and make something
meaningful online because there is so much negativity and so much drama and so much just
anger and frustration that's being shared. I see a lot of it on Facebook from just users sharing
stuff that they're frustrated about. What if we could help people overcome some of those pains?
What if we could help people overcome some of those challenges and problems they're facing
in their life in a different curated way than what I'm already doing on the podcast, right?
You guys love the podcast for a reason.
We've got this hour-long, roughly hour-ish long interview style, one-on-one, intimate,
diving in deep with one person. But I wanted to
take it to another level. I wanted to do it with a live audience. I wanted to get powerful reactions
from members of the audience. I wanted to make it interactive with people on Facebook. I wanted to
just have multiple layers to even take these ideas to another level. And that's what we brought up
with Facebook. It actually took many, many months
to get to the place where Facebook was ready to launch, to bring this opportunity to them,
and that we were ready to bring it together. So it took a lot of months kind of back and forth.
You know, when you partner with arguably the biggest network in the world,
it's not this quick thing that happens, or at least
from my personal experience starting out. There's a lot of back and forth. There's a lot of talking.
There's a lot of sharing ideas. You've got to be willing to play on their level, make sure that
they're ready for it, timing, a lot of things, right? It was a back and forth process. This
wasn't just an easy, hey guys, we've got an idea for a podcast.
Like let's set it up today and launch it tomorrow, right?
This is a full on production.
This is a full on partnership that has a lot of people involved and a lot of moving parts.
And so the process has been long and challenging and at times very time consuming. I think some of you are going to
watch the show and say, oh, wow, this was cool. Maybe this happened overnight and,
you know, Lewis, this was so easy to do. But this was a year and a half in the making. This took
time. This took a lot of energy. So many emails, hundreds and hundreds of emails,
took time. This took a lot of energy. So many emails, hundreds and hundreds of emails, calls every single week for hours talking about this with multiple different people involved.
And that was just to get to film date, right? That was just to get to the place that we could
actually start filming. And so anytime, this is just a lesson for people here. Anytime you're looking to make a big move
in your life, sometimes it may be seamless, but you can't always expect that. I think when we
have a big dream, life is going to challenge us in many ways to see how committed we actually are
to our vision and our dreams by putting some big obstacles in our way, right? It's going to do
two things for us. It's going to put opportunities in our way to show us that it is possible.
And it's going to put challenges in our way to see how committed we actually are to our vision
and our dream. How much sacrifice are we willing to put into our vision?
How much time away from other opportunities are we willing to do? What are we willing to give up
in order to create to have something potentially way bigger and more successful than what you
already have? And I think a lot of people are mistaken that things should be easy. And yes,
things should be easy. And yes, we should be able to go through it and have the tools to not allow these things to stress us out constantly, to not allow these things to consume our minds and keep
us up at night. That's why I continue to do the things I do to continue to grow and learn and
interview people because I want to learn the tools on how to master life to make it feel easy because I've done so much
hard work to be in the position that I'm in, right? I've gotten so many tools in my tool belt
that if I feel overwhelmed, if I feel stressed, if I feel anxious, if I feel in fear, what can I tap
into to move through that faster so that I am never in a position where I don't chase my dreams. It makes me sick in my
stomach when people tell me they have a dream and fear cripples them. Fear, anxiety, what happens
when I fail? What happens when someone makes fun of me? And so they go decades with ever actually doing anything. And that's why for me, I've always been an advocate
for throwing myself into the biggest fears, throwing myself into embarrassment,
throwing myself into humiliation, throwing myself into failure, putting myself in the most uncomfortable situations because that way,
I'm never crippled by my dreams. And when I focus on throwing myself into the fear,
I catapult myself into my dreams. And that's where most people get hung up on. I think it's a simple
hung up on. I think it's a simple concept, very hard to implement, but a simple idea of the mind and being willing to say, you know what? It's okay if I'm alone. It's okay if I lose friends.
It's going to be okay if people make fun of me. You have to understand, guys, as a recovering people pleaser of the
biggest kind, my whole childhood was to do things to try to fit in and please people
because I was always feeling alone. Then in high school and in my early 20s, when I was
broken on my sister's couch, I said,
screw it. I've got nothing. I've got no job. I've got no money. I started falling in love
with being alone and said, I'm going to tackle all my fears of public speaking and salsa dancing and
everything else that I had fears around, writing books, everything that I
had fears of being judged and critiqued. I said, I'm going to throw myself into these things. My
early 20s, all I did was train my mind and master skills. And I did it by going out alone all the
time and saying, you know what? This isn't that bad being alone because I have the skills to
connect with people. If I lose some
friends, I can make new friends. It's not going to be the end of the world if I fail at something.
And so to go off on this rant, just try to bring it back somewhere because I felt like that was
powerful for me to say, this has been a journey, guys. This has been a process. This has not been easy. And I will share even more when I'm allowed
to on some of these things after this show comes out in the future. Hopefully, we'll get picked up
again. But what I go back to is gratitude. Gratitude for so much because this show, again,
gratitude for so much because this show, again, was for me to partner with the biggest platform in the world, Facebook, and spread positivity, help people live a greater life, help people
overcome those daily fears, those daily challenges, those daily insecurities, the things that are
holding all of us back from living and feeling and experiencing life in the way we want to feel it.
And I live in gratitude for this last year and a half
as challenging and unclear and uncertain
as moments have been for me.
There have been so many people
who have been working on this project
that none of this would be possible
without dozens and dozens and dozens of people,
guys. None of this. So you have to understand that this was not me alone. I didn't create this by
myself. Nothing great happens on your own. I don't care if you think you're the one who did it all.
There's always other people who have supported you along the way, mentored you,
guided you that you've learned from, whether directly or indirectly. And this show is that.
Obviously, Scooter Braun, it wouldn't be a show without him and SB Projects and Scott Manson and
Ben Sheehan, who worked on the show close with me early on, and James Shin over there. All those
individuals and his entire team have been
dedicated and working on this and behind the scenes. So it wouldn't be even happening without
that starting. So I'm in deep gratitude for all of them, including Scooter, who's my partner on this,
ITV, who's our production company, ITV and Left Field. I mean, these guys are an incredible
production company and the show would not be
where it's at without them managing everything from all the people on the crew. I mean, this is
a big crew, right? All the people on the crew, the camera people who are incredible, the stage
managers, the floor managers, the directors, everyone who was on set. This would not be possible without
Sean Witt, Jordy, Gretchen over at Leftfield, who were incredible, and their entire team. They're
some of the smartest people I know in the production business. Gratitude to Rob, who is
my showrunner. This guy, this man might have more passion and commitment than me in this show sometimes.
You know, he is calling me every day, texting me constantly.
So big thank you and gratitude to Rob, who is just one of the most incredible showrunners
and passionate about this.
Again, I love being surrounded by a team of people that believe in the same thing.
And that's another thing.
If I didn't have this incredible team of people, Rob and Jeff, who was working with Rob as well, if I didn't have this team of people
who were constantly passionate about the same vision of trying to inspire 100 million people
to live their greatest lives, the vision wouldn't work. And that's another thing you got to learn
is that you've got to find people who want more than just a paycheck or more than just money to be a part of your dreams
or your goals or your business or your life if you're in a business, right? Now, yes, people do
things for the money too. They've got to survive. They've got to thrive. So people are going to do
things for money, but it's got to be more than money. They've got to be invested in a vision
if you want them to get through the challenges
when challenges arise, because they will arrive. So Rob and Jeff, who work closely with me on
the vision of the show, developing and creating a show, and the entire production team, the writers,
the people who are doing the casting. I mean, this is so many people involved that I have to thank. Also, Todd Weinstein,
who is entertainment lawyer, Jeff Finkelstein, Tara Hanks over at CAA, and all of their teams.
This wouldn't have happened without them working on the deal with Facebook and making sure it goes
through. They worked hundreds and hundreds of hours to just make it actually come together so that we could start
filming, right, guys? There's so many people. My girlfriend, Jan Esker, who has been incredible
supporting me through the stressful nights, right? She's been there for me. And the entire
greatness team, my entire greatness team, Matt, who most of you know as Caesar, he is my COO,
team. Matt, who most of you know as Cesar, he is my COO and he has been navigating all of this, and Brittany and Christine and Tiff and Katie and Asia and Sarah and Lionel and everyone on the team
who has done so much to support this. There's so many moving parts for one idea, one vision,
for one idea, one vision, one project.
And there are more people.
Facebook, obviously, that wouldn't be happening without Facebook, our partner,
the biggest network in the world, Ricky Van Veen over there, Todd,
and their entire team.
I mean, there's dozens of people that I'm working with. I can't name everyone's name.
There's dozens of people that I'm on calls with, that I'm meeting with,
that are working on the social media, that are working on the content and are helping edit it. So many people, guys, over at Facebook. So big thank you and gratitude
to Facebook and the entire team for believing in this. And there are more people. There's so
many more people involved. I'm not going to sit here and name names for another 20 minutes because these are the main people who have been involved in this.
And why I'm grateful and why I'm speaking into the gratitude for all of them is because
that's one of the keys to living in abundance. It's one of the keys to living a fulfilling life
is being grateful for everything that you do have. I could sit here
and complain about things. Oh, why did this take so long? Or why did this happen? Or why did this
happen? But you're going to attract what you speak into. And I am speaking into gratitude.
And that's why I talk about gratitude and perspective every single day. That's why I
talk about it before I go to sleep. That's why I talk about when I wake up. That's what I talk about on my voicemail. When my friends call me, my answering machine is asking people to share what they're
grateful for first. It is something that when I am embedded in my life, my life is better.
And so I'm constantly speaking into gratitude daily. And I encourage you to do that with any
project or any experience that you have in your life as well. Again, I'm
used to the podcast, right? I'm used to a format for the last five and a half years where I'm just
interviewing one person for an hour, diving into their life. So this for me is in a way to take
my life, my experiences, my growth to a whole new process. And I tell you what, the first
practice round we did was a little all over the place, right? Because we were figuring out what
we were going to do. You know, Rob and Jeff, my showrunners, they were like, you know, try this
and try that and explore this. And I try things and they're like, okay, actually it doesn't look
that good on camera or this didn't work. So, you know, you have to really trust yourself and be willing to fail. Trust yourself
and be willing to fail. Trust yourself and be willing to look silly. And this is with a live
audience, right? There's 40, 50 people in the room. You know, you have to be mindful. I'm reading a
teleprompter. There's multiple cameras all around, But I'll tell you what, at least this is how I felt.
After we did a couple of, you know, the practice round
and then about one or two other episodes,
I felt like, man, I was in the flow.
I felt like I was getting in the flow, getting in the zone.
And we filmed five incredible episodes.
I'm going to talk about those in a second.
But for me,
once I got through kind of the practice round and a little bit of the first episode, I just felt like
we were finally clicking as a team, right? When you go to practice for the first day,
I remember going to practice in football and basketball, first day. It doesn't matter if you
have all stars on your team. You don't know each other. You don't know each other's personalities, where someone's going to go, the tendencies.
You don't know each other on a basketball, football, any sports team.
It takes months until the playoffs, really, until you get into such a flow.
We had five days.
We had five days to get to there, right?
We really had one day to get there. And we had five full
days as a team where we filmed everything, right? And a big thank you to our stage team, the people
who set up the whole set, that designed the whole set. I mean, there's so many, again, so many people
that I'm going to forget who were involved in this project who are unbelievable. We shot everything
in five days. Do you know how hard it is to gel with people
in five days with the pressure of filming and live audience and all these different topics?
Do you understand the challenges that are there? This was, for me, something hard and challenging.
But after about a day and a half, I felt like, man, I could just do this all the time.
I could do this every day, every week. It was something I loved. I just fell in love with the
process because I realized, wow, this is something that I have been training myself for for almost a
decade. I've been training. I've been doing public speaking training for almost a decade by
mastering public speaking. Five years ago, I started developing myself as a workshop facilitator.
I started from speaking on stages to thousands of people, one to many. Then I started working
one to many in smaller groups and facilitating exercises and workshops and learning to
groups and facilitating exercises and workshops and learning to kind of contain a room of people and facilitate conversation and move energy and open up ideas. So I've been doing that for half
a decade. I used to be a very slow reader, right? And then a year and a half ago, two years ago,
I said, you know what? If we get this show figured out, I'm going to have to learn to read a teleprompter.
And so I was practicing with my team behind the scenes every single week, reading off
the prompter, doing videos myself with it, just studying and practicing this to five
and a half years of interviewing some of the most influential people in the world and bringing
it all together. It just felt so natural. After the
first couple sessions when we were just kind of figuring out, okay, who goes where and who are you
and what do you do? After figuring all that out, it just felt so natural. My goal is that these
episodes, these five episodes every week take off. And my vision is that you guys fall
in love with them and that you watch them and that you comment and you share. You get your
friends involved and you become part of the conversation and it becomes a community for you
on Facebook. This is all about mastering your health, your wealth, your relationships,
your spiritual life, your purpose, and more, and tackling the biggest challenges and obstacles we face in our life, and how do we overcome them
with ease, with grace, with love? We've got some of these powerful episodes. We've got Gabby
Bernstein talking about the power of forgiveness, and how do we overcome forgiving, and what does
it do to us when we hold on to these grudges, right? We've got Jay Shetty, one of my dear friends. He's got one of the largest and fastest growing Facebook pages
in the world with over 15 million fans talking about what happens with friends and family
when we disagree on something. How does it affect us? How can we come together when we have
arguments or different political views or different social views or different money views?
And it seems to pull us apart as a family and friends.
How do we come back together?
We've got Ramit Sethi talking about the money mindset and overcoming your fears of money
and how to really break through to earn more, save more, and invest more.
We've got Gretchen Rubin on the keys to happiness.
And if you're feeling depressed or sad or lonely, we dive into
that topic deeply. We talk about Me Too and Time's Up. We've got Guy Winch on there as well,
talking about grief. And the powerful thing is we have so many great stories from people in the
audience who are sharing, who probably have a lot of similar stories to you and myself that I was just moved by, people in tears,
people opening up in powerful ways.
This is a lot of fun.
And at the end of every episode, we give you exercise,
a specific exercise to master that in your life.
And I challenge you.
I want you to get challenged and try something every single week
and then share back in the community on the page what you learned,
the results you're getting. This is all about improvement, growth, and getting results in your
life. And I am so pumped. I can't wait for you to watch it. Again, you can go to lewishouse.com
slash win to be a part of the challenge. You opt in there. You follow and like the Inspiring Life show page on Facebook.
You share the episode on Facebook.
And you comment on the episode.
And when you do that, you can enter in the contest.
The contest to win a flight paid by me,
a two-night stay in LA, come on the podcast,
all the goodie bags, have dinner with me as the group,
all that
and more.
Go to lewishouse.com slash win and be a part of that contest right now.
I'm telling you guys, do this right now.
Get in because I want to see who wants to come and hang out with me.
I'll be doing some coaching.
A lot of you guys know I charge a lot of money for coaching, $10,000 an hour when I coach
people.
So you're just really getting that as being part of the dinner.
We'll be doing coaching, Q&A, all that stuff in the group.
Go to Facebook and like the page.
If you just type in Inspiring Life with Lewis Howes, it should show up right at the top.
Go there, follow the page, like the video, share the video, and leave a comment.
Do it right now because we are looking to get this out in a major way. And I'm asking for your
support. I'm asking for your help here because I can't do this without you. I really can't do this
without this audience. And the goal is that this spreads far and wide. We get a great engagement.
And Facebook wants to continue
partnering with us to create more powerful episodes because I think we can all agree that
there's a lot of negativity that has spread on social media. And I want to be a force for good.
I want to create something powerful and meaningful that inspires and helps people as opposed to hurts
people. And I believe that there needs to be more inspiring content and helpful news and
information and stories that move people to taking powerful action as opposed to hurting people. And
if you agree with me on that, then take a screenshot of this. Let me know on Instagram,
on Facebook, because I want to hear your thoughts. So Inspiring Life with Lewis Howes on Facebook Watch is out right now.
Go there.
They've got a contest.
I'm going to be announcing the winner every Sunday night.
We'll be announcing the winner.
We'll be sharing it out and letting you know when the announcement is.
You can go to lewishowes.com slash win, W-I-N,
to learn about the contest, all the details.
But you've got to opt in there if you want
your chance of being flown out to LA, spending the day with me and the other four people that
will be included in this challenge. I'm super pumped, guys. This is the day. This is the moment.
We'll see how it goes. Every single week, I'll be on a journey with you. Every Wednesday night
over the next five weeks, we'll be doing a journey with you. Every Wednesday night over the next five weeks,
we'll be doing a Facebook Live as well,
talking about the episode.
So you can tune into that on the Facebook Watch page as well.
Every Friday, there'll be additional content being released.
So make sure to share all the content if you can.
Watch it and let me know what you think.
The contest is only involved in sharing the main episode every week,
but if you share other stuff too, then I'll love you even more.
And this is it, guys.
I'm going to share more about the journey and the behind the scenes
probably in a few months when I'm allowed to talk about more,
but I wanted to give you a taste of what this is like.
And again, the bigger the dream you have,
life and the universe is going to put opportunities
in your way to help propel you towards that dream.
It's going to move out of the way in some areas.
And in other ways, it's going to create bigger challenges and obstacles for you to overcome
to see how committed you actually are to your dream and your mission.
And I'm very grateful for the challenges over the last year and a half
because even though stressful and frustrating at times,
it showed me how much I really wanted to create this.
I kept doing whatever it took, whatever it took, whatever it took.
Every challenge that came my way, I said, whatever it takes,
whatever it takes because I'm committed to 100 million people. I'm committed to reaching that. And that's just
really a number for me, right? If we get there, great. But the vision is to reach as many people
as possible. And it's not about anything else. It's not about money, because I'm not making a
lot of money on this, right? It's not like a money thing. If it was all money, then I would have ended it a long time ago because it's
not about making money. It's about making an impact. And that's what I'm excited about. Yes,
I want to be paid for my time and my value and my services. But if that's the only reason I did this,
I would have said it's too challenging. A year and a half of my life so far is too much energy and time. There's a lot of other ways I can make money in a weekend and not
stress as much. So you've got to find something that you are deeply passionate about, that you
love, that you want to do to serve a greater purpose because that's where your commitment will show up the most.
This is it, guys.
I love you so very much.
Again, Michael Phelps said,
there will be obstacles.
There will be doubters.
There will be mistakes.
But with hard work, there are no limits.
You were born for great things.
Be grateful. Experience that and share that gratitude with those you're grateful towards. Keep dreaming, keep living, keep pursuing the
thing that you love. Throw yourself into the embarrassment so that you can overcome failures
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It's time to go out there and do something great. Thank you.