Lance Essihos. What to Do When Life Gets Hard. Episode 390 with The Real Brad Lea (TRBL)

Lance has faced some of life's most difficult challenges. Grinding his way through the hockey ranks to traveling the world as a bartender. Through his personal battle with drugs and alcohol for well over a decade, the tragic loss of his brother to suicide followed by the great loss of his father to cancer only a year later, Lance realized he had hit rock bottom. In the darkest of days, he made a promise to himself that he would create a new life.

In this episode Lance and Brad unpack everything about what makes life hard and how it really never stops because it's up to YOU to get better.

00:00 Intro

02:20 The identity crisis…

06:03 2016 news for Lance that changed his mindset

08:21 University of Adversity Podcast

11:00 Ayahuasca

13:00 "In order to love yourself you have to love all the stuff you push away." - Lance Essihos

14:51 "The dark shit is just as important as the warm and fuzzy shit." - Lance Essihos

20:33 Bomb 1: You have to get to the root of the reason why you make bad decisions

22:06 Gratitude

24:18 "If you do not believe in yourself you will never move yourself forward." - Lance Essihos

27:00 About Lances' podcast

31:35 Bomb 2: "People don't realize how resilient they are." - Lance Essihos

32:45 Brad's book "Lessons I Learned The Hard Way So You Don't Have To"

36:45 "If you don't believe in yourself, who will?" - Lance Essihos

41:00 There will always be levels to your problems…

42:30 "All of it is true!"

45:04 Follow Lance!