Your Transformation Station - 86. Staying Discipline in the MO

Episode Date: January 12, 2022

In the heart of St. Louis, Missouri keeping yourself accountable everyday with Favazza discussing the dark side of his life and overcoming those low expectations that were placed on him. Mental health is the focus for this season and we're eradicating the victim mentality. https://www.ytsthepodcast.com/s3e86 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oh, oh, here we go. Make sure that's up all the way. And I'm back again for number night or morning, too. I've decided to do this morning wake up, trying to keep myself accountable in my habits and being deliberate in my actions. Excuse me, I got out colder some shit coming through. Oh, God.

It's just nasty weather, you know? Like, hang on. It's the morning wake up with Greg Favaza. I'm the podcast host for Your Transformation Station. And it's a little bit of a, it's holding me accountable and staying consistent. Usually, I'm not doing my interviews. I'm constantly striving to do whatever I can to,

create some sort of graphic art, some sort of connection to get people on the podcast that can resonate with my listeners. When I talk about resonating with them, I'm looking for people that have dealt with trauma, but that can handle it in a way where they can be open and look back on their past and just blatantly curse the motherfuckers for actually. actually having done that to them. That is me. I'm the youngest of seven. I've experienced trauma as a kid.

I've been thrown as at the age of six months. I had an alcoholic abuse of father who just couldn't handle a crying baby and decided to throw me, breaking my shoulder. Didn't find that out till probably about a month ago. I always wonder what that scar was. To experience sexual trauma and abuse from a sibling at the age of nine. I've experienced verbal abuse, physical abuse, left and fucking right, and still kept moving. After a certain point, I was able to protect myself and to deal with what I was dealing with, but I couldn't.

cope in a healthy way. I internalized everything and held myself responsible and couldn't make out in my head which direction I want to go. And eventually after dealing with fucking issues, we're going into college. I had a shitty counselor. His name was Chris Lorenz. I'll never forget this motherfucker. He told me that I won't ever make it in college he said that high school is the furthest you're going to get and I'm like no way I'm not gonna let you fucking hold me back that's that's like a self-fulfilling policy or prophecy I'm not going to go into and a year goes by

and I find myself failing out of fucking math like I think we all have that fucking issue like math is our weakest fucking subject and that holds us back with just that thought alone. I got this dry mouth, so forgive me here for a second. Oh, yes. But I started to believe him, and I chose to go a different route. I was under academic probation, so I couldn't go forward. So I decided to join the military.

I did that for about five and a half years. And afterwards, I went back into school. Got my fucking associates, and here I am, trying to still figure out where my impact is on the right people. Right now, I'm doing a podcast. Your Transformation Station, we just switched over to focusing on mental health. It's my calling. There's so much shit that I've been through. It will paint the sky a different fucking color, if you heard it all.

But that's not my goal is to one up somebody or to say my trauma is fucking worse than yours. My goal is to find us a solution for us to live and embrace our vulnerabilities as our authentic self. To live with it. To look back and say, fuck you for allowing that shit to happen. For allowing that shit to happen as a kid to put a child. to put a child through that to change today's millennial population on what we can do as parents today, how we can handle ourselves, what steps we can apply to improve ourselves, what image do we want to portray to our children, and allow them to navigate life with the right tools that we provide them.

It's all these little habits. I'm not going to beat a dead horse. We all hear the shit. We all need to do this, X, Y, and Z. But how come we can't? How come we fall back and fuck up again? And then we feel like we're the only one and everybody else is out there doing what they, putting on this false image that everything is okay.

Oh, I'm doing fantastic. How come you're not doing okay? Really? Now I feel like I'm crazy. Well, turns out they're not. They're lying to themselves. Hopefully that that little fake mindset will actually pay off and you'll start to fucking get where you're trying to go.

That doesn't work either. You actually have to purge the fucking trauma that you experienced, rip that shit out, find an individual and say, fuck you, and move on. And if you can't do that, you have to cope with it and rip it out and just be able to live with a neutral perspective without it holding you back. We all struggle with this shit. But why isn't anybody talking about it? That's my intention.

I'm a father of a newborn son, also fathering a daughter that's a blended family with my significant other. Just got a house, a full-time student. I'll have my degree in organizational leadership by the end of this year. And I want to be a motivational speaker. I want to talk to people. I want to learn everything I can. And I want to make a real social cause happen.

I want to change the way we look back at our past and how we can live. comfortably as our authentic selves. And the only way we can do that is we've got to embrace our vulnerabilities. That's the only way. But doesn't pick that out off my chest. And I'll see you guys tomorrow. Thanks for listening. Lifelock, how can I help?

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