Welcome to the show I'm Greg McEwan, and I'm your host on the What's Essential Podcast.

There are lots of shows on how to improve on how to become successful, but there is only one

on what to do once you are. This is essential because success can be a catalyst for failure,

especially if it leads to the undisciplined pursuit of more. This show is about how to become

successful at success. It's for high performers who are on the edge of exhaustion,

it's for people who struggle with the curse of capability. It's important because what got

you here is not what's going to get you there. So, if you're age-driven, hard-working,

productive person who is running out of space but still wants to make a higher contribution,

the What's Essential Podcast is designed especially for you. So, let's begin.

John Hope Bryant. Hello, hello, Greg. How are you? This is awfully good to have you here today.

I want to call you like Dr. Hope. I need you to have a PhD so I can call you Dr. Hope.

Well, I've got a couple of honorary PhDs, but just call me John. I love that you have the honorary

degrees because that's how I want people to know you. Dr. Hope, amazing story that you have.

What an extraordinary thing. Raised in Compton, life totally transformed really from a seed,

an intervention, nine years old, taught financial literacy, and from that point, this expansion

of possibility, and you've just done so much with it, built 70 organizations across business,

community outreach, and also, of course, this juggernaut operation hope that is empowering

people in exactly the way you were empowered at nine years old, helping people to be able

to make these transitions towards financial literacy and the enormous empowerment that can come

with that. It is a pleasure to have you on the show. Thank you for coming. Thank you, Greg.

My honor to be with you. You've got an excellent reputation.

And so I'm honored to lean in. Well, lean in is exactly what we're going to do. And here's

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