Purpose Through Pain Joseph James

When you keep telling yourself the same story, nothing will change.
In this episode, Joseph James talks all about identity, and how most people prioritize the wrong thing. Changing your identity is something that many people struggle with for a whole lifetime.
If you want to change your identity, the vision of yourself must change.
How we feel about our own lives is so important. We create an identity for ourselves about how we talk, look, act, and even who we interact with so we can keep up a certain look or idea of ourselves
But when your profession becomes your identity, something certainly needs to change. Joseph experienced this first hand, and in this episode, tells the story of how he was able to change his mindset around this.
If your identity is work, and if your job changes, your job changes your life feels meaningless.
In this episode:
Joseph shares how he had to change his identity twice. Once after a career change, and once after his wife passed away. The steps to take to change your identity. How to know when your identity is no longer working for you.

Key Takeaways:
If you want to change your identity, the vision of yourself must change.Work should not be your identity.Your identity can change, when you put effort into it.

Tweetable moments:
“Align your future with where you want your identity to be.”“If I want a different future, I have to change how I think now.”“Change your mindset, change your world.”

Connect with Joseph James:
Website: https://thealphaleadership.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meetjosephjames/

We all face difficult times in our lives that can lead to stress. How do we deal with it, learn from it, and manage it? Tar'Lese is no stranger to dealing with stress; however, she is not confined by it either. Listen to how Tar'Lese takes you from dealing with parents who committed suicide, to life-threatening injuries to her body, to living a life on her own terms by using stress management tools.
In this episode:
• Tar’lese shares how she starts teaching people how to get rid of stress.
• Tar’lese and Joseph discuss the challenges they have overcome and how they surpassed them.
• Tar’lese talks about addressing and processing emotional pain, and focusing on identifying and acknowledging feelings rather than avoiding or suppressing them.

Key Takeaways:
• People only share their highlights and best moments on social media, so don't compare yourself to others.
• Taking the first step is to assess the situation.
• There is no right or wrong, nor good or bad, you have to release the emotions you've been bottling up and then address them.

Tweetable Moments:
1. "At the end of the day, when you're going through your own stuff, it feels like no one else understands."
2. "Vulnerability brings healing to us, but it's our transparency that brings healing to other people."
3. "Pushing through the pushing through is really pushing away."

Connect with Tar'lese Rideaux at:
Website: https://www.digitalrichesroadmap.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarlese/

Connect with Joseph James:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/purthrpn
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/252908273026721
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meetjosephjames/

In this episode:
Joseph will talk about Alpha Leadership part 2 and the acronym of ALPHA.Learn what flipping the script is. Joseph will share his journey and how he flipped the script in his life story.
Key Takeaways:
Your thoughts, good or bad, lead to emotions, emotions lead to choice, your choice leads to habits, and your habits lead to your character. Your character leads you into your destiny.No matter where you're or what you believe, you have a way out of everything that has been said and spoken over you that's caused you to disbelieve in who you are and feel something other than genuine.We can't get rid of things or conquer these negative thoughts, lies, or beliefs unless we confront them.
Tweetable Moments:
1. "When we verbalize things, two things can happen, it can lose its power, or it can gain power."
2. "Pain is life's greatest teacher. It's also life's biggest crutch."

Connect with Joseph James:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/meetjjames
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/252908273026721
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meetjosephjames/

In this episode, Joseph will talk about a title that is the creation of their leadership coaching and the launch of their book called Alpha Leadership. Joseph will tell us what Alpha is and is not and the acronym of ALPHA. Alpha leadership is based on Joseph's experiences as a young man who grew up in a very abusive home. He went through many different things in life, and because of those things, he learned.
We learn from the good experiences, we learn from the bad experiences, and we learn from the indifferent experiences. We can take those experiences and learn from them to create better opportunities. We have a choice to be a victim or a victor. It's up to us.
Key Takeaways:
When walking through the fire, we have one of two choices: it can either destroy us or refine us. The choice is ours.When we are being authentic, it allows the true self to be what we have claimed we are.Your "I am" statement may push you to greatness and ignite a fire inside of you. It will teach you how to take your word and become a daily habit to create the alpha leader within yourself.

Tweetable Moments:
1. "We have a choice to be a victim or a victor. It's up to us."
2. "Pain can be the crutch that gets you stuck, or it could be the thing that launches you into your destiny."
3. "I am can recreate, reinvent, restructure your mindset to becoming who you called to be, and that is to be authentic."

Connect with Joseph James:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/meetjjames
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/252908273026721
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meetjosephjames/

Divorce can be painful, ugly, depressing, but you can be refined, and redefine yourself to live an extraordinary bonus life filled with peace, joy, gratitude, self-love and celebration. Listen as Kelli helps women going through any stages of separation and divorce go from fearful to fearlessly pursuing what sets their soul on fire.
On this episode:
• Joseph and Kelli will talk about trauma, the hurt, the pain, the guilt, everything that comes along with, or that can be attached to a divorce.
• The struggles that Kelli had to face during her relationship with her ex-husband and how she overcame them.
• Kelli’s transition from the divorce coaching to now the health and the wellness coach.
• How group counselling help people overcome challenges.
• Kelli shares her book and how it impacts to coach people.
Key Takeaways:
1. Every person that you have been with has a piece of you and you have a piece of them.
2. If hurt people can hurt people, healed people can also heal people.
3. We're all looking for unconditional love. The only place that we can get it is from God.
4. You are who you hang around.
5. The things that we do go through in life, prepare us for those times that are dark, for those times, that are uncertain for those times that you just I gotta find myself again.
Tweetable Moments:
1. “Love is not taught, it's caught.”
2. “Victim energy is actually equivalent to death.”
3. “You adjusting by teaching others and then teaching others, teach others.”
4. “What happens in the home is just magnified out in the workplace.”

Connect with Kelli Calabrese:
Website: https://www.intentionallyfabulous.com/?r_done=1
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellicalabrese/
Personal Website: https://kellicalabrese.com/

Connect with Joseph James:
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/meetjoejames
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meetjosephjames/

Lacey Pruitt is an IFBB Pro Female Bodybuilder who has survived cancer three times. In 2018, just 10 months after her 2nd cancer diagnosis, she began training hard and getting ready for competitions. Lacey says that her cancer was just part of her journey to get to the bigger stage in life. Lacey shares how she wrote her own story and didn’t let cancer become her whole identity. 
In this episode:
How Lacey overcame cancer three times and became a professional female bodybuilder. Lacey’s key mindset changes that took her from a cancer victim to a striving bodybuilder.Creating her own story and being more than just “Lacey the sick girl”How her support system got her through her cancer
Tweetable Quotes:
“I wouldn’t change having cancer for a thing. It had made me who I am today. If I can help just one person, my life is fulfilled”“Most people in our lives are looking for an opportunity to serve other people”I didn’t view it as ‘I am a sick girl’. I didn’t allow that to happen. I wanted people to know me as Lacey, not the girl who has cancer. “This does not control who I am, this is just part of the journey to get to the bigger stage in life”
Connect with Lacey:
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