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The Jordan Harbinger Show

297: Eric Thomas | Success Secrets of The Hip Hop Preacher

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Education, Science, Business

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Eric Thomas (@ericthomasbtc) is a motivational speaker, YouTube personality, podcaster, pastor, director of Breathe University, and author of several books, including The Secret to Success: When You Want to Succeed as Bad as You Want to Breathe.

What We Discuss with Eric Thomas:
  • How Eric Thomas went from homeless to PhD to become one of the world's top motivational speakers.
  • How and why to get out of our psychological bubbles whether we're broke or millionaires.
  • Why we do not have to accept life as it was given to us.
  • How to break out of patterns and mindsets that no longer serve us.
  • What taking responsibility for our own actions ultimately gives us (and what blaming others takes away).
  • And much more...

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger.

0:05.8

As always I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo.

0:08.3

On the Jordan Harbinger show we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's

0:12.1

most brilliant and interesting people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that

0:16.8

you can use to impact your own life and those around you.

0:19.8

Want to help you see the matrix when it comes to how these amazing people think and behave?

0:24.0

Want you to become a better thinker?

0:25.7

If you're new to the show, we've got episodes with spies and CEOs, athletes and authors,

0:30.6

thinkers and performers as well as toolboxes for skills like negotiation, public speaking,

0:35.4

body language persuasion and more.

0:37.7

So if you're smart and you like to learn, then you'll be right at home here with us.

0:42.5

Today on the show, Dr. Eric Thomas, we call him ET The Hip Hop Reacher.

0:46.7

He's a PhD author speaker, educator and a pastor and as you'll see today he's really

0:51.4

full of energy.

0:53.1

This one is from the vault and recorded a few years back but it's an oldy but a good

0:56.6

day.

0:57.6

I wanted to bring this one back out again.

0:58.6

Even though I'm not normally one for motivational speakers as you all know, right?

1:03.2

I just love Eric's message and delivery and originally he wanted to do this interview

1:07.8

at 7 a.m. in the morning and we couldn't find a studio that would even be open at that

1:12.3

time.

1:13.3

That's the kind of hustle I like to see.

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