Eric Thomas

welcome back everyone to the school of greatness very excited about our guest if you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you'll be successful we've got et the hip-hop preacher in the house my man welcome back it's been a while it's been a minute i gotta say this uh congratulations man um you know i was saying when i was talking to you it's like

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

I'm excited about this because I feel like you haven't been out there a lot.

You've been doing a lot of your own stuff for a while.

So I'm excited because...

There's probably a lot of people who don't know your full story because you used to tell it a lot 10, 15 years ago.

So I kind of want to reintroduce you to the world.

And I feel like the world is at such a unique place right now as we go into 2025.

And it almost feels like there needs to be a massive mindset shift.

for everyone to take back ownership of their life, to take the full responsibility of their life, to not rely on other people to give them opportunities, but to go own their own opportunities by creating and having a clear vision.

And there's a few things that I wanna talk about that I've seen you share some incredible strategies around mindset.

I'm gonna dive into in a second.

But for those who don't know, you were at one point living homeless a long time ago.

People probably don't even know this about you, because you used to talk about it, but it's like you had a season of life where you didn't have any money, you had no education, you had no opportunities.

essentially living homeless, struggling trying to figure out what you're going to do with your life.

And I don't think people remember this about you because they see the success.

They see the coaching, the speaking, the massive following, the New York Times bestseller.

They see all these things now.

But 20 years ago, you weren't in this space.