392: How Eric Hansen Went from Homeless to Total Inspiration

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Business, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is a very real, raw, and authentic conversation with someone who's become a total inspiration to me, Eric Hansen. Despite living through unimaginable circumstances, he has figured out how to embody what I've been talking about for the past year… Inner Freedom.

Eric is a recovering drug addict who began using at the age of 12, raised by his mother who was also an addict. He has been homeless multiple times, and he's been in and out of jail and prison. While he was in prison, he discovered this podcast, and it transformed his outlook on life.

Currently out for four months, employed, and living in a halfway house, Eric is still navigating difficult health struggles and various painful consequences of his previous actions. However, his internal quality of life and his ability to experience the inner freedom that we all seek, are truly exceptional. He's building a following in the Miracle Morning Community Facebook group, where he has posted every single day, for 96 consecutive days.

I've been so inspired by him that I knew I needed to talk to him on the very same podcast that changed his life.

In this extraordinary conversation, Eric tells the story of how he fell from success to homelessness, how to recover from hitting rock-bottom, and how to truly take responsibility for–and choose how we experience–our lives.

Key Takeaways

How Eric discovered the Achieve Your Goals podcast while in prison, and the immediate impact it had on him.
What the Miracle Morning has done for Eric that nothing else did.
How Eric's career in sales thrived as he fell further and further into cocaine addiction and his family fell apart.
How Eric stays accountable to himself, even in the toughest times.
How Eric was able to further his education during his most recent stint in jail–and why episode #338 of this show, "Freedom from Your Emotional Pain," impacted him like nothing else.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake
0:06.1	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
0:14.2	strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world-class experts
0:19.0	and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves and we ask them to give you
0:23.8	a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same.
0:28.2	Ready?
0:29.2	Welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, this is your host, Hal Elrod.
0:35.4	And today you're going to hear a conversation, real, raw, authentic, with no preparation
0:42.0	that I had with Eric Hansen.
0:43.7	And Eric Hansen is someone who's become a real inspiration to me.
0:48.0	I discovered him in the Miracle Morning Community Facebook group through his daily post
0:52.9	and today was his 96th consecutive daily post.
0:57.8	Now what makes Eric so inspiring is there's a few things, number one is knowing his background.
1:03.1	I didn't know the details but you're going to hear his incredible story today.
1:08.3	But the high points are he was a drug addict, began his drug addiction at age 12 years old
1:16.0	and I had a mother that was an addict and went from smoking, you know, marijuana every day
1:20.9	to sorting cocaine every day to then free-basing cocaine to then smoking meth.
1:27.1	He then became homeless living on the streets.
1:30.0	He's been in and out of jail, he's been to prison ten times.
1:33.8	Most recently he's been out for four months and while he was in prison he discovered this
1:37.4	podcast.
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