015: From Gang Member to Leading with Love with Preston Smiles

Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill

Natalie Jill

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A thought leader in transformation and conscious media, Preston Smiles is fiercy creative and unique.

Raised under very challenging circumstances, as a child Preston was labeled learning disabled, hyperactive, and dyslectic.

Smoking pot and joining gangs at the age of 11, Preston longed to belong.

Through a series of life altering tragedies, trauma and events, Preston was able to escape the trajectory he was on re-write his story by questioning everything and embracing that wounds are not our faults but that healing is our responsibility.

Best selling author Preston Smiles is a Disrupter, truth teller, urban mystic, author of LOVE LOUDER 33 ways to amplify your life, founder of STRETCH 22 and C.M.B the conscious man brotherhood...fashion guru, afro amazing surfer and amazing father to kingston Ra and husband to Alexi Panos, PRESTON SMILES is a force to be reckoned with.

Tune in to find out how Preston was able to Level up, creating everything from nothing.

In this episode, you will learn:

How to start loving from the inside out instead of the outside in
How someone else's path isn't your path
The power of leading with love instead of hate
Why embracing our 'short-comings' is the best thing we can do to live out best life

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Natalie Jill, fat loss expert turned high performance coach.
0:07.2	When odds are stacked against us, how do we shift and create everything from nothing?
0:11.0	How do we level up when we aren't feeling it yet or we've had a big setback?
0:15.2	On this podcast, I'll be talking to some of the most inspiring and courageous men and women on this planet who, at their
0:20.9	worst, learned how to achieve success greater than they ever dreamed possible, leveling up and
0:26.9	creating everything from nothing. A thought leader in transformation and conscious media,
0:35.9	Crescent Smiles, is fiercely creative and unique.
0:39.8	Race under very challenging circumstances as a child, Preston was labeled as learning disabled,
0:44.4	hyperactive, and even dyslexic. Smoking pot and joining gangs at the age of 11, Preston longed
0:51.3	to belong. And then through a series of life-altering tragedies, trauma, and
0:55.8	events, Preston was able to escape the trajectory he was on and rewrite his own story by questioning
1:01.0	everything and embracing that wounds are not our fault, but that healing is absolutely our responsibility.
1:09.3	Please welcome today, bestselling author, Preston Smiles,
1:12.4	who today is disruptor, truth teller, urban mystic, and hear how he levels up and created
1:19.1	everything from nothing. I've got my friend Preston smiles today, and Preston is the most
1:26.3	energetic, motivating individual. I think I've known in my life,
1:29.9	Preston, seriously, from the moment I met you, you just have this contagious energy about you
1:33.7	that makes me want to do so much and be so much because of who you are. So thanks for joining me
1:39.8	today so much for being here. Thank you. Oh, ooh. So freaking lootly. Let's do this. Oh, Preston, you look like
1:47.3	you have your stuff together. I mean, and you do have your stuff together, but you see you
1:50.6	online. I see you leading your workshops and speaking and your videos and you're so confident
1:55.6	and together and so many amazing things about you. And I know that it wasn't always like that for
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