Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.

Hey everyone, I'll go ahead and assume we all want to achieve a long-term success in life.

But as Lewis Housh tells me in this episode, striving for success is actually a fool's errand.

Now this may sound strange coming from a wildly successful New York Times best-selling author,

keynote speaker, industry-leading show host and former pro-athlete.

Lewis is arguably one of the greats. But stay with me here. To achieve true greatness,

Lewis says you need to understand and heal your personal trauma, find a meaningful mission,

and fulfill your purpose in the service of others. And in today's motivational episode,

he'll teach you exactly how to do just that.

Lewis, so good to see you. Welcome. My man, Jason, good to see you.

You know, I was saying to you before we started recording, I was trying to remember the last time

I saw you in person. And I believe it was like January or February of 17 in New York.

We were having a party to celebrate Amanda Chantal Bacon, the founder of Moonju. She did a cookbook

and you were in town and you stopped by for a minute to say hello.

I think that was the last time I saw you. It's been six years.

Crazy man, it's been a long time. And it has been a long time and it's been so great to see your

ascents. You were just crushing it. You know, you've turned out best-selling books. Your podcast

has exploded. You've now gone. It's expanded to radio. And so maybe start with telling folks

a little bit about your background before I butcher it any further. I grew up very insecure

and struggled in school. So I always had this kind of belief that I was never as smart as everyone

else based on my academic results, my grades and just how much I struggled in school. So with that,

I was like, what can I be good at? And sports was a thing that I naturally lean towards. I was

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