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The Light Watkins Show

264: How to Lead with Love and Prosper Like a Spiritual Millionaire with Preston Smiles

The Light Watkins Show

Light Watkins

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

4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Light Watkins sits down with Preston Smiles, a spiritual teacher, abundance coach, and bestselling author of Love Louder and Spiritual Millionaire. Preston shares his incredible story of transformation, starting with a challenging childhood in Compton, California. By age seven, he was placed in special education, and by age 11, he joined a gang. But a pivotal decision at 15 set him on a completely different path—one that would eventually lead to profound spiritual and persona...

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When I was 11, my dad caught me smoking weed and he sat me down.

0:06.0

And instead of giving me a weapon or punishing me, he just asked me to think about whether I wanted the life of the other people that I knew who smoked weed.

0:16.0

And 24 hours goes by and he asked me, says, do you want their life?

0:20.0

And I said, no, I don't want their

0:21.7

life. He said, fantastic. You told me you want to be like Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson. So they

0:26.5

don't smoke weed. The boys on the corner smoke weed. But here's what I know about you. And this is

0:30.8

an important thing because my dad said this at 11 and it came back at 15. So he said, you're a leader and you're such a leader that if everybody else is going left,

0:40.3

but something in you says go right, you'll go anyway.

0:44.8

And he just poured into me in that moment.

0:46.9

And he let me go.

0:48.0

So now 15 years old, my buddy Scott calls says, oh, let's go out.

0:52.0

Let's go drink.

0:53.8

And something said, don't go.

0:55.7

And then my dad's voice popped in.

0:57.9

You're a leader.

0:59.0

I said, no, man, I'm a chill.

1:00.3

I'm a chill.

1:01.2

So hang up the phone.

1:02.3

And within one hour of me hanging up that phone,

1:04.7

every single friend that was in that van was shot.

1:07.6

And my best friend was shot in the head and he died. As you can imagine at 15 years old, I've already been through so many traumas, so much shame,

1:16.6

so many things that I'm working through prior to that.

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