585: The Woman Who Raised Me - My Mom's Incredible Mindset with Julie Wilson

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Hal Elrod

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This episode is incredibly long overdue but the stars aligned, and I had the chance to interview someone who has been instrumental in helping me become the man I am today. That person is none other than my mom, Julie Wilson. I can’t wait for you to hear her story and mine from her perspective.

You’ve heard me talk about many of the difficult chapters in my life—losing my sister, surviving a near-fatal car crash, battling cancer—but today, you’ll hear those stories through the eyes of the woman who lived them right alongside me. And when I say literally, I mean literally beside me.

My mom has been through more than most: the heartbreaking loss of a daughter (my sister), raising a rebellious teen (yep, that was me), watching me fight for my life multiple times, and most recently, surviving a serious fall that shattered her heel and broke her wrist. And yet, she remains one of the most joyful, optimistic, and resilient people I know. Her strength doesn’t come from avoiding hardship—it comes from choosing laughter, faith, and service in the face of it.

Whether you’re a parent, a child, or someone simply navigating a tough season with life’s curveballs, this episode is packed with love, wisdom, and great perspective. You’ll learn how the positive mindset that I have today started when I was very young, why my family chooses to focus on the good things and not on the things that are out of our control, and how my mom lives with unshakable joy, even when life gets tough.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

How the words “Can’t Change It” is more than a phrase—it’s our way of life
How my mom turned the loss of her daughter into a mission of healing for others
Why giving tough love is necessary sometimes, especially when raising teenagers
The positive mindset my mom had after a devastating fall from a ladder
Her simple advice on true happiness and feeling young at heart
That it’s better to give than to receive and why my mom is compelled to help others

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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.
0:09.6	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,
0:16.6	as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals
0:21.9	themselves and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need
0:26.6	to do to do the same. Ready? Here we go.
0:36.4	Hello friends. Welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast. This is your host, Hal Elrod, and I am here today with my mom, none other than Julie Wilson. And obviously, my guest today shaped me more than anyone else. If you followed my journey, you know that my sister died when I was eight years old in my mother's arms. I was a troubled teen. You may not know that. Then my mother got a phone call that I had a car accident and may or may not be alive when she got to the hospital. Then at 37 years old, I was dying for the rare cancer and given a 30% chance of surviving and she got that phone call as well. And there's a
1:12.7	lot more in between. But you've heard my story. You haven't heard hers. And so it's been, this is a
1:17.8	long time overdue. Mom, I'm really excited to talk to you today. Thanks for having me,
1:22.4	Hal. I'm always happy to talk about you. Yeah, there you go. I want to talk about you more than me. Yeah.
1:28.1	Okay. And you don't mind talking about yourself. I mean, if we're honest. Yeah, that's all right.
1:31.4	Yeah. And by the way, this is the first, this is also a very special moment in the podcast in that I'm not
1:37.5	set up in my home office to do home interviews. And this is the first. Thanks for the patience in like getting all of this setup to work. I don't mind.
1:44.6	Yeah.
1:45.4	Moms are four.
1:45.9	All right.
1:49.5	So I've got a list of things I want to talk to about because I don't want to forget.
1:50.4	I don't want to miss anything.
1:54.2	And part of what prompted me for the interview is we were talking yesterday.
1:59.0	And what our listeners probably don't know is a year ago, you, or less than a year ago, you fell off of a ladder. The ladder broke and literally caved in, it broke, and you fell from how far, how tall?
2:06.6	About six feet.
2:07.6	Six feet up, and you landed on your heel, you shattered your heel, liquefied it, I think, is what the doctor said, and you broke your wrist.
2:15.6	I mean, your hand literally came off, like it broke off of,
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