721 Charlamagne Tha God on Success, Anxiety, and Mental Health

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

4.8 • 22K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

TAKING CARE OF MENTAL HEALTH IS POWERFUL, NOT WEAK. It’s time to open up. No matter what you’re dealing with, you’re not alone. There is nothing shameful about having anxiety. Think about this acronym for FEAR- you either Fear Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The more you confront the things in your past you don’t want to do with, the more you’ll be able to move forward. So, are you going to run from your fear, or face it? On today’s episode of The School of Greatness, I talk about anxiety and PTSD with a man who has become an unofficial mental health advocate: Charlamagne the God. New York Times Best-Selling Author Charlamagne Tha God is best known for being co-host of the nationally syndicated hip-hop iHeartRadio program The Breakfast Club. He is also a social media influencer; an executive producer with his own production company, CThaGod World; and co-host of the popular podcast Brilliant Idiots. Charlamagne says that refining his life’s mission and examining his past helped him take control of his anxiety. Don’t allow anxiety or depression to cause you to keep suffering. Learn about Charlamagne The God’s mental health struggles and what he did to restart his life on Episode 721. Some Questions I Ask: What are the tools you’ve learned in the last year to deal with anxiety? (12:55) What was your first job? (17:57) When was the moment that you realized you made it in radio? (20:17) Why did you get fired from your radio jobs? (20:47) How do you manage working with other big personalities? (37:45) What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned from doing radio? (38:52) What’s your mission moving forward in using your platform? (42:48) What’s your biggest fear? (51:38) In This Episode You Will Learn: Why Charlamagne decided to go to therapy (5:47) Charlmagne’s experience in the prison system (16:49) How Charlamagne’s radio career started (19:20) How Breakfast Club changed Charlamagne’s life (35:55) What made Charlamagne change his life mission (44:02) How keeping a journal of the things that cause anxiety can help (48:15) How to have healthy boundaries on social media (55:44)

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0:00.0	This is episode number seven two one with New York Times bestselling author Charlemagne the God.
0:08.5	Welcome to the School of Greatness.
0:11.6	My name is Louis Howe's former pro athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur.
0:15.7	In each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness.
0:23.7	Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let the class begin.
0:30.0	Plato said nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
0:38.8	And Ralph Waldo Emerson said, sorrow looks back, worry looks around.
0:45.8	Faith looks up.
0:48.3	We've got an important interview today with Charlemagne the God who is best known for being the co-host of the nationally
0:56.0	syndicated hip hop I hard radio program called the breakfast club.
1:00.5	He is also a massive social media influencer and executive producer with his own production company
1:06.4	see the God world and co-host of the popular podcast brilliant idiots.
1:11.5	He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Black privilege opportunity comes to those who create it.
1:18.0	And the new book shook one anxiety playing tricks on me.
1:22.7	And in this interview we go deep guys we talk about how his struggles with anxiety and mental health
1:29.2	led him to want to start opening up and writing about this book and doing therapy.
1:33.6	Also why men need to take off their mask and talk about mental health more.
1:39.3	He discusses the pressures that social media tends to have on us and what it does to us
1:44.7	and how to be authentic and true to yourself when the odds are stacked up against you.
1:49.9	It's going to be a powerful one.
1:51.5	It's going to shake you up in a powerful way.
1:53.8	Make sure to take a screenshot out of this right now.
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