Chapter 1: What personal experiences shaped Lewis Howes' beliefs about money?
My friend, welcome back to the School of Greatness. I'm excited about today because I'm sharing something a little bit different than I've ever shared, I think, here in over 12 years of the School of Greatness. I'm sharing a live speech that I gave.
Now, for those of you who've been on this journey with me for a while, you saw that I had a book come out a couple of months ago called Make Money Easy. And I went on a book tour. And maybe some of you were there. We had an amazing time. It was seven cities in like 10 days all around the country. It was, I think, maybe two weeks or three weeks after I'd just gotten married.
So I've had all these amazing life moments happening at the same time from a wedding, getting married to... traveling back to Los Angeles, to launching the book, then going on tour for a few weeks, and getting to meet so many people in person was just such a beautiful season of life. And I wanted to share this speech that I gave while I was on tour.
And this is from my New York City stop because I realized that it resonated with so many people. A lot of the times on this show, I interview other people and I ask them about their life story and about their lessons and what greatness means to them and how they overcame challenges and all these things.
But so many people come up to me and say, Lewis, please share more of your lessons and your stories from your personal life, but also from all the wisdom that you've learned from the last 12 and a half plus years on the School of Greatness. So in this conversation, you're going to hear me sharing some of my most personal stories
from this stop in New York City about childhood trauma, the pain of watching my brother go to prison and what that did for us, the invisible story of unworthiness that I carried for so many years, and these wounds that shaped my belief about success, money, love, and relationships, until I made the conscious choice to start rewriting and rewiring these stories and these beliefs.
And in this conversation, the speech that I shared today, this episode, it's going to show you what's possible when you stop hiding from your past and start healing it. And I'm going to share the unconscious connection between emotional wounds and your financial reality. So if you feel like you're not where you want to be financially, There's a few different areas right now for people.
People feel stuck like they've hit a ceiling of their financial opportunities. They feel like they're only making a certain amount every year. And they also feel like they have a stressful relationship with money. So there's a couple of challenges that people have. It's one, they want to learn how to earn more. And two, they want to learn how to have a better relationship with it.
So they want to feel more in harmony with money when they spend it, when they receive it, when they earn it, when they have to pay it for the things they love buying, when they have to pay for the things they don't enjoy like taxes or interest or insurance or things like this. And how can we really have a different relationship with money?
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Chapter 2: How can childhood trauma affect financial beliefs?
And my goal for you guys today is to really assess what is blocking you from feeling free and feeling abundance in your life. That's my intention and my goal for you today, to figure out what is blocking you from feeling free and abundant in your life. And for many years I was driven to receive, to get, to accomplish in order to feel worthy.
And no matter how much success I accomplished, I still didn't feel worthy. I still didn't feel lovable. I still didn't feel enough. And I've realized that there are four different ways that you can live life around the idea of money. The first way is to be broke and live with scarcity. And this is the bottom of the bottom. No one wants to live like this. And let me give an example.
When I was 24, I was pursuing my dream of playing professional football, and I went to play arena football. I got injured and then I had to go live on my sister's couch. This was in 2000, end of 2007 through 2009. I was living on my sister's couch. And in the beginning of that first kind of year and a half, I was broke financially. I had no money.
I had about 24 grand in college debt, living on three credit cards, no money. financially broke, and living with scarcity inside of me. So I was emotionally defeated, I was a victim, I was frustrated, I was angry, I was resentful, I was scared, and I was scarce emotionally, spiritually, mentally. And I was living from that place of financial, brokenness and also emotional brokenness.
And those two things are not a good place to be in. Then something started to shift. I started to get out of this victim mentality. I said, okay, I've got to figure out something with my life. I started reaching out to mentors. I started learning about things in online marketing. I started reading books. I started developing certain skill sets and overcoming certain fears.
One of the fears was learning how to speak on stage. I had no clue how to do it and I was terrified to get in front of a room of a few people and speak because when I was in school, in eighth grade, I got tested at a second grade reading level. So again, I was just in confirmation, in confirmation that I was not good enough and not smart enough through school.
And I struggled, I was in special education all the way through graduating high school. And so that was a fear of mine, the humiliation, the embarrassment of standing in front of a room and someone not liking me or judging me or laughing at me or whatever. And I started overcoming that fear by going all in on learning how to do public speaking by going to Toastmasters every single week.
All right, clap it up. You guys know what Toastmasters is. Every single week for a year, I started going to Toastmasters and I started to develop more belief in myself through the consistency, through the coaching and the accountability process that I had.
Another fear was literally reading and writing because my senior year in high school, my teacher was like, you're failing English halfway through. And she goes, just to let you know, Lewis, if you flunk out of English senior year of high school, you can't go to college. And for me, I was just like mind blown that I had to pass in order to go to college.
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