What would happen if you could remove all of your self-limiting beliefs, all of the anxiety

in your life? The answer is it would change absolutely everything. And we're going to discuss

how to do that today with my guest, Jean-Paul Gravel.

John Paul, man, great to have you here. Can you, for people who don't know, we were starting

off there a little bit, but just give your background story a little bit, how you grew up,

and what led you to where you're right now? Yeah, my background. My background was filled with

violence. I was just part of normally normal, daily life in my house and outside.

And this was where you're going up? In Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, that's what I was born.

And so I became a product of my environment. I was a tough guy life and all that stuff.

And one day, and I stopped doing the tough guy stuff, at least beating people up in my teens,

because I smartened up at least. And were you getting arrested? Were you in trouble?

No, no, no, I just got about like too many fights to name as a child. It's like you wouldn't think

of like a tiny, tiny kid would get into fights. It started very young. There was a lot of violence

in the house, right? That's how I saw my dad behave. And so I got that. That's what I thought

what a man was. You know, got to dominate, got to put everybody into place and all that stuff.

So I just, you know, made my environment and grew up, tons of tons of fights. In my teens,

I stopped that nonsense, but I still had that other energy, all that aggression, all that

you know, you don't let anybody talk to you like this and, you know, take a lot of things

personally and stuff, but stop the violence. And then somewhere in my house, 1996, New York City,

I experienced something that had me realize that I do not have to be angry. I do not have to

be upset. I don't have to take things personally. I do not have to be a quote unquote tough guy.

And I realized that I wanted to be a contribution to the world. Now, sounds kind of cheesy. And that's

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