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The Light Watkins Show

233: Plot Twist: How Surrendering and Letting Go Can Lead to Finding Your True Purpose with Kyle Cease, Transformational Comedian

The Light Watkins Show

Light Watkins

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

4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Light Watkins Show, Light Watkins revisits a powerful and transformative moment from a past conversation with Kyle Cease, a comedian turned transformational speaker and New York Times bestselling author. Kyle shares a pivotal plot twist in his life, where his successful career in comedy took an unexpected turn that ultimately led him to discover his true calling.At the height of his comedy career, Kyle was performing regularly, yet he began to experience intense anxiety...

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I'll never forget I'm on stage in Mesquite Nevada and I have this thought I wonder if you could think about it enough if you could make yourself faint and then right when I thought that I got dizzy and I felt myself whiting out for a second and I was like,

0:15.0

I remember everything going white and me just being like, what the f- and I had this fear.

0:20.0

On the external, I'm just killing, I'm doing a show, blah, baa baa baa just having a great set and inside my mind is going what the hell was that like I don't know what I'm even saying on the external I'm much more listening to the inside while some habit is doing its thing and I walk off stage and I said to a couple other comics like I have this bizarre thing that I could make myself faint when I'm on stage and they're like oh yeah you totally could they

0:43.4

keep thinking about it and the underlying belief that I hadn't gotten to for

0:47.8

years later is if I faint while I'm on stage then my career is's over, and then I'm no person.

0:54.2

I don't exist if I don't have comedy.

0:56.0

Hey friend, welcome back to the Light Watkins show I'm Light Watkins and I have

1:05.2

conversations with ordinary folks just like you and me who take an extraordinary

1:09.8

leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their purpose, or what they've identified

1:15.1

as their mission in life.

1:17.1

Today I have another bite-size plot twist episode for you.

1:20.8

A plot twist is a shorter clip from a past episode where the guest shares the story of that pivotal moment in their life trajectory where they found the gateway to their calling and the idea behind sharing these plot twists is to inspire you to lean into those

1:37.0

plot twists whenever they show up in your life, because usually when you get turned around

1:41.9

from what you thought was going to be your path in life

1:44.3

What's actually happening is you're being detoured toward your actual path for this season in your life and sometimes that looks like being betrayed or losing money or in the case of today's guest

1:56.7

transformational comedian Kyle Seis he was performing comedy on the road constantly and living on fast food and he started to have

2:06.5

anxiety on stage and then he started to develop this irrational fear that he was going to faint in the middle of his performance and

2:14.7

then that led him to the hospital because he was having these suicidal ideations and

2:19.9

when the doctors didn't have any good answers for him, Kyle's anxiety then led him to the bookstore

2:25.0

to find books on anxiety, which of course are in the self-help section, and that's where he discovered

2:31.3

a book by Tony Robbins Robbins which became his gateway to doing inner work.

2:36.5

And Kyle is now the New York Times Best Selling author of, I hope I screw this up,

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