Hi, I'm Natalie Jill, fat loss expert turned high performance coach.

When odds are stacked against us, how do we shift and create everything from nothing?

How do we level up when we aren't feeling it yet or we've had a big setback?

On this podcast, I'll be talking to some of the most inspiring and courageous men and women on this planet who, at their

worst, learned how to achieve success greater than they ever dreamed possible, leveling up

and creating everything from nothing.

At age 18, Joe Polish was a drug addict.

And not just any drug addict, the hard stuff, cocaine, meth, and more.

He was suicidal, unhealthy, and he was doing anything and everything to soothe the trauma that he had lived through.

He had lost his mom when he was just four years old. He was raped and molested as a child by a man he knew who paid

him to keep quiet. And he had a lot of shame around this and suicidal thoughts. But after witnessing

a drug rage from one of his friends with lighter fluid trying to burn everything down, Joe woke up. He had had enough. Today,

Joe is a master connector of people. He's a marketer, a thriving results leader, and he's the

founder of Genius Network, one of the highest level groups in the world of entrepreneurs,

and Genius X as well. The groups being home to some of the most successful

entrepreneurs alive and is considered one of the most influential connectors in the world.

Joe's helped build thousands of businesses and he's generated hundreds of millions of dollars

for his clients. Some of the points Joe shares on this

episode today that we are asking the wrong questions when it comes to addiction. We need to be asking

about the pain that caused it, not why are we addicted. That we are only as sick as our secrets.

That there is no failure. We are either winning or learning and that there is no relationship between being good

and being paid, but there is a huge relationship between storytelling, connecting, and getting

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