Befriending Cowardice and Why Change is Our Most Defining Characteristic with Eliot Marshall

Eliot Marshall is a martial artist, business owner, podcaster, bestselling author, and a self-proclaimed “ex-UFC fighter turned motivational speaker”.

Eliot points to change as the defining characteristic of his life and career. He looks at each new day as an opportunity for growth, and believes fully that he is a better man today than he was at any other point, regardless of past successes. In fact, even with a prolific run in MMA behind him, Eliot admits that “my UFC career was literally just me trying to hide all these insecurities I have.”

Today, instead of running away from the coward within, Eliot embraces that side. He made it a point to learn all about his fear, and to coexist with that fear. He goes on to speak about how love from those he cared about the most yanked him out of the literal death spiral of negative self-talk that enslaved him early on.

Eliot explains how anybody can reverse engineer their ideal life in order to start taking steps toward it. This includes going through the three Is that you need to write down to start calibrating your mindset for growth: your I ams, your I cans, and your I wills.

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Key Highlights

• Eliot explains how and why he used his career as a professional fighter to hide the coward inside of him.
• How was Eliot able to surround himself with a great community of people that he could trust in his darkest hours?
• How good can our life become just by changing our mindset?
• Eliot may no longer be in the UFC, but he is clearly still a fighter. He shares what he is fighting for today.

Episode resources:

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• Eliot Marshall
• The Gospel of Fire Podcast
• The Gospel of Fire Book