328: The Realities of Racism and Elevating Consciousness with Preston Smiles

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Education, Self-improvement, Business

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🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

How do you feel about the current state of our world? Personally, I've got mixed feelings. On one hand, this is a crazy time in human history. People are dying, millions are unemployed, and many of our freedoms are being threatened or altogether taken away. All of this saddens me.

However, on the other hand, people from all walks of life are uniting and working together to incite change. Protests are happening around the world, corrupt police officers are being held accountable, and people are courageously speaking up against injustice. All of this gives me hope.

The cause that has been at the forefront of my mind is racial equality. This is a topic that is new to me, so I'm listening and learning as much as I can. I've realized that racism is more than just words, beliefs and actions. It includes all the barriers that prevent people from enjoying dignity and equality because of their race.

Joining me today, to talk about this and much more, is my good friend Preston Smiles. Preston is the author of Love Louder, and he is a wise, courageous leader who has been unafraid to stand up for what he believes in. He has a uniquely modern, love-based approach to living, and today you'll gain his insights on everything from the "four levels of consciousness" to Preston's experiences as a black person in America, and ultimately how we can all elevate our consciousness to be better and live well as we do difficult, necessary work within ourselves, our families, and our communities.

Every time I talk with Preston, I walk away feeling inspired, empowered, and equipped to be a better version of myself, and I believe that you will as well.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.5	I am your host Hal Elrod and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves, and we ask them to give you a
0:24.0	peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do the same.
0:28.0	Ready? Here we go. Goal achievers and members of the miracle morning community. Hey, this is Hal Elrod and
0:40.0	welcome to the podcast. I am grateful that you are here. A quick disclaimer before we get started,
0:45.9	I just realized as I was listening back to the episode I just recorded for you're
0:55.0	are going to get the computer audio,
0:56.3	which usually doesn't sound nearly as good.
0:58.8	So just a quick warning.
1:00.9	Hopefully you can power through that.
1:03.0	Today's guest is a good friend of mine, Preston Smiles, and I met Preston probably five, six years ago, maybe seven years ago.
1:13.1	We were both speaking at an event,
1:15.0	and he was my favorite speaker there.
1:17.1	He was the first time I had seen him, met him, heard of him,
1:20.1	and I was blown away.
1:22.1	I was moved by his authenticity and his heart and his wisdom and his humor, all of it.
1:29.0	And I approached him, I met him, I connected with him, I said that's somebody that I would love to be friends with.
1:34.0	And we've been friends ever since. And right now, what's going on in the world, there's a lot going on in the world.
1:42.0	Last month it was coronavirus now it's you know the
1:44.7	the protests and the looting and all of the things around the Black Lives
1:49.8	Matter movement and police brutality and racism and white privilege all of these kind of
1:55.7	topics which by the way I know very little about well I know a lot more now than I
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