In this episode, we’re sharing some of our FAVORITE mindset conversations from 2024.
As we approach the new year and its limitless possibilities, this is the perfect time to establish a mindset of gratitude, confidence, and abundance.
You’ll hear from preeminent mindset thought leaders, including Jon Gordon, Michael Chernow, Dr. Jenelle Kim, Andy Bustamante, Peter Crone, Michael Unbroken, Victoria Vesce, Jim Curtis, Kehinde Thomas, and Michael Bernoff.
Andy Bustamante on how to read someone’s body language:
“Body language is something that is super helpful but also it can be misleading. There are two basic, rudimentary forms of body language. There’s open language and closed language. Open language is … your arms are open, you’re leaning back but your chest is exposed, your face is exposed, you’ve got a smile on your face. Open usually means receptive or curious. But then, closed body language is when you see people with their arms crossed, or their hands closed together, or their legs crossed, or somebody who has a furrowed eyebrow or a frown. That’s closed body language. That means somebody is inherently suspicious or trying to keep themselves distant.”
Jim Curtis and the journey to becoming magnetic:
“You truly become magnetic when you cultivate presence in this realization that we are far greater than this human form. We have this spiritual life, this spiritual presence, this energy that’s all around us that we can’t see. And we start to rise above these everyday crazy, monkey-mind thoughts. We just simply become more present. And then everybody is attracted in some way because they find you as having something they don’t.”
Victoria Vesce on why she started travelling the world:
“After I got diagnosed with my brain tumor and I went through all of that, it gave me a new perspective on life. The only thing I could think of when I was lying in the hospital bed not being able to move was, ‘I haven’t seen the world.’ So, that was step one of my ‘I want to travel’ process. But after that I went to law school, so I never really acted upon it. And then when my mom passed away suddenly from COVID – my mom was my best friend and we had planned to do so much together – I was like, ‘You know what, I’m not waiting any longer. Enough of the waiting, I want to go travel.”
Kehinde Thomas’s gratitude and why he loves the United States:
“We take a lot of things for granted; we really do. But if you had an experience like I had growing up, you will have a tremendous appreciation for life. A tremendous appreciation for abundance. A tremendous appreciation that you have the ability to fail or succeed. The freedom that we all treasure. … America is the best country in the world. What it has done for a guy like me; an immigrant. To be able to come to a place like this and end up doing the things that I did; I have tremendous appreciation. Nothing is perfect; but my appreciation is enormous.”
Michael Bernoff on the power of the words we choose:
“You’ve got to take full responsibility for how your language actually impacts your actions and the things that you do. I’ll give you a great example. People come to me and say, ‘I can’t stop eating this thing. I love it.’ Well, think about the word you just used. You just said, ‘I love (for example) Netflix. I love watching shows. I love Twinkies. I love some food.’ The second you said you loved it; you used the most powerful word in the English language. … When we use those words, it’s hard to shift.”
Jon Gordon on why positive thoughts and self-talk are so important:
“I’m flooding my brain and body with these positive emotions that are uplifting me, instead of the stress hormones that are slowly draining me. And I’m also creating a fertile mind that is ready for great things to happen. And so, I’m changing my mindset. … The brain is an antenna. It’s not ‘like’ an antennae; it actually is an antenna. You have 86 billion neurons in your brain, and every neuron has a transmitter and a receiver. And there are two main frequencies that you’re tuning in to – a positive frequency or a negative frequency. That’s why everything in life comes down to positive and negative in this world. One frequency calls you to less; one calls you to more. One lies to you and tells you that you’re not enough; the other one calls you to your hopes and your dreams and what is possible.”
Dr. Jenell Kim on the importance of pausing and not making emotional reactions:
“In any situation, if you react it’s (often) based on emotion. And emotion is so important. We’re human beings and we have to have emotion, and we have to have feelings. But, if we let that run our lives, our lives can become very chaotic. We can make a lot of decisions that later, because we didn’t pause, we regret. A lot of times we might not even know that if we had paused, we would have had a much better outcome.”
Michael Unbroken and why telling the truth is everything:
“People have got to get to that moment of looking at their life when they refuse to accept the reality. … The very first thing I did was to stop being a liar. But here’s the thing, if you would have been like, ‘Hey, if you want to change your life, stop lying.’ And then you told me the consequences of honesty, I don’t know if I would have done it. There was so much truth to be told. So much to honor. So much to lay out on the line. So many wrongs to right. For myself, for my family, for everything that I touched. And what’s really interesting about that is you always hear, ‘The truth will set you free.’ It’s honestly probably the most accurate statement ever created in the history of the world.”
Michael Chernow on the importance of building great habits:
“The things that we do consistently define who we are. Period. Done. It’s not who we want to be, it’s not who we say we are, it’s not who we think we are. It’s the decisions we make, on a consistent basis, day in and day out, that define who we are and how the world sees us. … I think I’ve thrown my flag in the ground as a human being that really does believe that life is a day. It’s all you get. Yesterday’s gone, and tomorrow is not guaranteed. So, our life is literally lived in a day. You get to put numbers on the board today. You cannot do it yesterday and you certainly can’t do it tomorrow. So, we have to live our lives like this is what we get.”
Peter Crone on how he feels about death:
“To me, to be truly alive, is to constantly die to the current iteration of yourself. In order to access true vitality, you have to free your mind. And the only way to free your mind is to die to the limitations of your identity that were born in your childhood through whatever circumstances you had to go through.”