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The Light Watkins Show

106: Ed Mylett on Happiness, Making Hard Choices, and The Power of One More

The Light Watkins Show

Light Watkins

Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is recognized as an ultra-successful entrepreneur, renowned keynote speaker, performance expert, coach, and bestselling author, but Ed Mylett has had to overcome some extraordinary hardships to become the man you see before you. Ed shares some insight into his journey; from growing up as the scrawny son of an alcoholic father with three sisters, a pro-baseball pipe dream, and zero self-confidence to finding his purpose as a counselor for disadvantaged children, which turne...

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What happened was I went broke and I lost my house my wife's car got repossessed and I lost the power in our house which is all bad but if you've ever experienced this one,

0:13.4

we had the water turned off.

0:15.1

Even talking about it now is hard for me.

0:17.0

I mean, and I talked about it a lot.

0:18.3

I haven't done it in a while.

0:19.5

But we would have to get up in our apartment complex

0:21.5

and climb down the stairs in the morning and go to the pool

0:24.2

and there's an outdoor shower there.

0:26.1

I hold a towel up where my new bride would take her shower so no one could see her outside,

0:31.5

brush her teeth. Then we would switch and she'd hold the towel up and

0:35.1

I'd shower and brush my teeth and then we would walk back. We would walk back. I was so ashamed,

0:40.9

completely emasulated. I felt like a fraud. Here I am selling the dream every day in my business life and living a nightmare.

0:47.0

And it was one of the most difficult times in my entire life. I was very humbling, very humiliating.

0:53.0

Hey there, it's Light Watkins,

0:59.0

welcome back to the Light Watkins show.

1:01.0

If this is your first time here. I interview ordinary people who have

1:05.4

taken extraordinary leaps of faith in a direction of their path and their purpose and in doing so,

1:11.5

they've been able to positively impact many others to do the same.

1:15.2

My guest today is someone who I've been following for years.

1:18.0

He's one of the most motivational and inspirational people that I've come across.

1:22.2

His name growing up was Eddie the spaghetti

1:24.9

due to his small and skinny stature. But today we know him as the

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