45 min

Lance Essihos. What to Do When Life Gets Hard. Episode 390 with The Real Brad Lea (TRBL‪)‬ Dropping Bombs

    • Entrepreneurship

Lance has faced some of life's most difficult challenges. Grinding his way through the hockey ranks to traveling the world as a bartender. Through his personal battle with drugs and alcohol for well over a decade, the tragic loss of his brother to suicide followed by the great loss of his father to cancer only a year later, Lance realized he had hit rock bottom. In the darkest of days, he made a promise to himself that he would create a new life.
 
In this episode Lance and Brad unpack everything about what makes life hard and how it really never stops because it's up to YOU to get better. 
 
00:00 Intro
02:20 The identity crisis…
06:03 2016 news for Lance that changed his mindset
08:21 University of Adversity Podcast
11:00 Ayahuasca
13:00 “In order to love yourself you have to love all the stuff you push away.” - Lance Essihos
14:51 “The dark shit is just as important as the warm and fuzzy shit.” - Lance Essihos
20:33 Bomb 1: You have to get to the root of the reason why you make bad decisions
22:06 Gratitude
24:18 “If you do not believe in yourself you will never move yourself forward.” - Lance Essihos
27:00 About Lances’ podcast
31:35 Bomb 2: “People don’t realize how resilient they are.” - Lance Essihos
32:45 Brad’s book “Lessons I Learned The Hard Way So You Don’t Have To”
36:45 “If you don’t believe in yourself, who will?” - Lance Essihos
41:00 There will always be levels to your problems…
42:30 “All of it is true!”
45:04 Follow Lance! 
 

Lance has faced some of life's most difficult challenges. Grinding his way through the hockey ranks to traveling the world as a bartender. Through his personal battle with drugs and alcohol for well over a decade, the tragic loss of his brother to suicide followed by the great loss of his father to cancer only a year later, Lance realized he had hit rock bottom. In the darkest of days, he made a promise to himself that he would create a new life.
 
In this episode Lance and Brad unpack everything about what makes life hard and how it really never stops because it's up to YOU to get better. 
 
00:00 Intro
02:20 The identity crisis…
06:03 2016 news for Lance that changed his mindset
08:21 University of Adversity Podcast
11:00 Ayahuasca
13:00 “In order to love yourself you have to love all the stuff you push away.” - Lance Essihos
14:51 “The dark shit is just as important as the warm and fuzzy shit.” - Lance Essihos
20:33 Bomb 1: You have to get to the root of the reason why you make bad decisions
22:06 Gratitude
24:18 “If you do not believe in yourself you will never move yourself forward.” - Lance Essihos
27:00 About Lances’ podcast
31:35 Bomb 2: “People don’t realize how resilient they are.” - Lance Essihos
32:45 Brad’s book “Lessons I Learned The Hard Way So You Don’t Have To”
36:45 “If you don’t believe in yourself, who will?” - Lance Essihos
41:00 There will always be levels to your problems…
42:30 “All of it is true!”
45:04 Follow Lance! 
 

45 min