He Looked in the Mirror and Said He Was Sorry | Eric Thomas
episodePreviously titled “How To CREATE Your Life With Your MINDSET - Shape Your Reality With Your Thoughts & Feelings | Eric Thomas” — renamed by the publisher on Sep 3, 2026
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What is the hardest thing to do for personal growth?
I never even realized I was where I was because of who I was. And I was actually getting the physical manifestations of my thoughts, of my feelings, my emotions. I was creating this. Somebody asked me the other day, like, what's one of the hardest things you ever done? The hardest thing I've ever done was look in the mirror and tell myself I was sorry.
From living off the streets to becoming one of the world's most in-demand motivational speakers. The voice that ignites a fire in millions. Eric Thomas. You need to tell you that you owe you something.
You need to be more disciplined about your minds. And all the stuff that you said was absolutely right. My daddy wasn't there. My mama did this. This person did to me. Why would you let them destroy your life? Let's go. Why would you allow that thing they did to hurt you not define? your life at the end of the day you have to be the first thing that you invest in before you check anything check you and go look yourself in the mirror and go yo i'm my lottery ticket we have worship careers more than we worship create and so the first thing i would say to that group is what would life look like if you did it on your terms i want you to think about your life instead of the life what would the next couple steps be to set up the mindset for success i would say
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 got to say this. Congratulations, man. You know, I was saying when I was talking to you, it's like, 10 years ago. And I remember, because you were like, E, I want you on the show. And I hadn't really started doing podcasts yet. So that was like one of the first podcasts. And I was like, but my mother, my godmother was dying of cancer. And so I was like, man, I can't leave and go. But I definitely want to. And you were gracious enough. Like, where you at, E? I was like, Embassy Suites. I like drove out to anywhere.
I was like, all right, let's do this. Let's get it.
And man, just to see your evolution over the years. And like I said, it was a lot of us that started during that timeframe and to see kind of where you are today and you survived the resilience. Bouncing back, getting bigger, stronger, better. They're like, you ready to go back to sports? Let's go, baby. Let's go. Yeah, so congrats, man. I've seen it. I mean, I can't name all the people, but Kobe, I've seen. My girl Tab on the show, you know, and just to see all the people you've had. Of course, I watch the show and learn from it. So, man, congratulations.
Thank you. Appreciate it, man. Congratulations. 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, five 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 want to talk about that I've seen you share some incredible strategies around mindset. I'm going to dive into in a second. But for those who don't know, you were at one point living homeless, you know, 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 gonna do with your life.
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