Justin Prince
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Your playing small does not serve the world. If you've got a song to sing, you've got to go sing it. A book to write, you've got to go write it. A podcast to produce, go produce it. A YouTube post, go post it. A book to write, go write it.
You've got to get this stuff out because these gifts, these talents, this vision, this you-ness that's inside of you is not given to you for you, it's given to you for all of us.
Heather, what an honor to be with you. I was sharing with you as we were jumping on. One plus one when you get the right people together doesn't always equal two, right? There's a synergistic effect. And with what you're doing in the world, I'm just super honored to get our orbits to connect because I feel like it's three or more when the right people get together.
Yeah. I mean, look, my folks had worse when I was 12, I was my mom's oldest. So my mom, when she married my dad, he had my sister and my brother. So they were five and four when I was born. And so when they were divorced, I was the oldest at home, the oldest with my mom. And so you kind of grew up fast. We moved 13 times in the seven years through the teenage years.
School was never, you know, school was never my thing. I was just like, man, I only wanted to play sports and talk to the girls, you know, and hang out with my friends. When I got into my kind of my working career, I was working at a mall kiosk selling animated Bible videos. I'm 21 years old. I have no college education. My wife and I got married when I was 22. She was 25.
One year and a month later, we have our little baby, my son, Isaac. He's now almost 20. It's this crazy thing. You're like, the world's coming at you fast. Life's coming at you fast, you know? So at 25, I start my first business. I kind of get the courage to go for it. I'm like, man, I'm in. I wanted to make my little boy proud of me. He was a year and a half old.
I want to make my wife proud of me. I was like, let's do this. And long story short, the business fails, right? So I'm at this point, I'm below zero financially, back on credit cards, back on taxes. We moved my pregnant wife and are now two kids into the loft of my wife's parents' garage. So my two little babies sleep in the closet. My wife and I are sleeping in the room.
I have two part-time jobs. So I went back and got my old Bible sales job back, tail between my legs, went back, hey guys, can I like come back, you know? And then I went and got another job. So I had a job during the weekdays at night and then a job on the weekends, you know, and you're just hustling. You're just trying to make a dollar. You're trying to keep the family afloat, the whole thing.
But I still had dreams and I still had goals and I got enough courage to start a second business. You're basically burning the candle at both ends. My wife and I had six pregnancies. We have four babies. So she had a stillborn birth and a miscarriage. She was four for four C-sections.
And my wife, from the moment she would get pregnant until delivery, she would have that, like, basically the worst version of morning sickness, but it would last the whole nine months. So that whole time... This whole journey was just like, it was just a blur. You're just grinding and trying to make it happen.
And, you know, it's so interesting, Heather, at the time, you kind of say to yourself, man, I wish I wasn't going through this. And man, this is hard. And am I ever even going to get there? Like, am I crazy? Am I chasing a fake dream? Is this ever going to be real for us? Like, I know it's real for other people. Will we ever succeed?
And I, my guess is some of your audience right now, they're listening like, hey, I know Heather's successful. I know I've watched so-and-so on social media, but I don't know if I can actually do it. You know, do I have what it takes? And I've asked those same questions. And I look back now and I'm so grateful for the struggle. I tell people there's three sections to the journey.
There's the dream, the struggle, the victory, and they're all equal. So in other words, what we want sometimes in life is I have a big dream, right? I really want to accomplish something. I want a super small struggle and then a big, humongous victory. I want them to be disproportionate and they're all commensurate. They're all the same size. So
For those of you that have dreams in your heart, goals, these visions in your mind of like, I wanna live a significant life. I wanna do something to make my kids proud, make my spouse proud, like do something in the marketplace. You're signing yourself up for a struggle equal to the size of the dream and a victory equal to the size of the struggle.
And I share with people, take good notes in the struggle section because people will relate more to your struggles than they will your victories. So in other words, this is where you build some empathy. This is where you build a little bit of heart. You'll be able to look people in the eye and be like, listen, I get it. I understand where you're coming from. But then I'll also share this.
And Heather, you know, this, your struggle is not your story. How you overcame the struggle is a story. So don't anchor in an identity of the struggle as the story. You are not the divorce. You are not the bankruptcy. You're not the addiction. You are not the failed business, the pains you're going through. That is not who you are. We all want to hear how you made it through this thing.
So you got to get back up, go again and, you know, make it through. So the dream, the struggle, the victory, by the way, what do you do for those of you that are in the victory section? Listen, you go sign yourself up again, you have big dreams again, and you go pay the price. And you just kind of keep repeating that cycle.
Like Heather, even with all the things that you've accomplished, you're still out there freaking hustling and making it happen. And like, you know, we were talking as we were starting, like you got 57 things happening all at once. That's what dreamers do. You know, we just sign up for a bigger struggle, right? Bigger victory.
So as I look back at that, that gave me so much wisdom and perspective to go through those years of grind and years of challenge and of struggle. And people have asked me before, they said, how did you get through? Why did you not quit? And this is so interesting. The simple answer is I just kept going. I literally was like a left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot, keep moving forward.
Augment Dino in the great book, the greatest salesman in the world, scroll number three says, I will persist until I succeed. My friends, the word until can guarantee your success. Most people persist until it's hard. Most people persist until the client quits. Most people persist until that business fails.
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