This is episode number 640, a solo round on how to overcome any obstacle.

Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Louis Howe's former pro athlete

turned lifestyle entrepreneur. In each week we bring you an inspiring

person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness.

Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let the class begin.

Ryan Holiday said that failure shows us the way by showing us what isn't the way.

Welcome to another solo round. I did one of these recently and so many of you

keep saying do more of these, please do more. So you guys share what you want.

I'm listening and I'm giving you and delivering. And this solo round is about

five key obstacles I faced growing up. Some of you may have heard some of them

and others probably haven't heard any of these. So I wanted to get a little vulnerable,

little real here and share a lot of these challenges because so many people come to me

and say, Louis, it looks like you've just had everything handed to you.

You look like you've had it easy to get to where you're at. And I'm going to talk

about the different challenges that I've been through, how I overcame them,

and also as a Mother's Day special, talk about how my mom supported me through each one of these challenges

and how I believe it's so important that we have moms, especially supporting sons,

all their children, obviously, but for me as a man growing up, it was really key to have a mother

like my mom to support me going through these challenges because I don't know

if I would have been able to get through them as gracefully without her.

So love you mom, happy Mother's Day. Make sure you guys send some love to your moms as well.

And it's easy to think that you can't achieve greatness because your challenges are too big

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