724 Do What You Love with Mike Holston: The Real Tarzann

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

🗓️ 26 November 2018

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

DO THE UNEXPECTED. Do you go the easy route? The expected route? Or do you find your own path that compliments your unique passions? Finding your own way takes inner strength. You won’t be able to do it without believing in yourself. It takes a special person to defy expectations and break into a new field. People will doubt you when you do something unexpected. That’s a given. It’s how you respond when people try to dissuade you will determine if you’re successful or not. On today’s episode of The School of Greatness, I talk with an unlikely zookeeper who is known online as The Real Tarzann: Mike Holston. Mike Holsten is a 24 year-old zookeeper at Mario Tabrue’s Zoological Wildlife Foundation. He recently did a collaboration with Will Smith and has over four million followers on Instagram. Mike says that working hard, believing in yourself, and prayer will help you be successful against any odds. So get ready to learn how The Real Tarzann came to be on Episode 724. Some Questions I Ask: How many animals do you have right now? (16:00) How many times have you been bitten or stung? (22:30) Why is important to see someone who looks like you doing what you do? (28:30) What was the first job you had that paid you to work with animals? (33:00) What’s the most endangered animal? (38:00) What has being around animals taught you about humans? (39:00) What has changed since Will Smith posted about you? (51:00) What has kept you motivated to pursue this dream? (53:00) Do you eat meat? (1:03:00) In This Episode You Will Learn: The biggest thing Cesar Millan taught Mike (14:00) Why some species get along with each other (19:00) The best pet Mike has (20:00) About the time Mike swam with sharks (24:00) If Mike thinks that wild animals should be left in the wild (35:30) The story of how Will Smith found Mike (47:00) What Mike did to get out of his depression (49:00)

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0:00.0	This is episode number seven two four with the real Tarzan Mike Holston.
0:07.7	Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Louis Howes, a former pro athlete
0:13.2	turned lifestyle entrepreneur. In each week we bring you an inspiring person or message
0:18.7	to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness. Thanks for spending some time with me today.
0:24.6	Now let the class begin.
0:30.7	Harriet Tubman said every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you
0:40.2	the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
0:47.0	And today we've got a young man who is reaching for the stars and changing the world literally
0:52.5	through the use of all of his education and his massive social media following.
0:58.3	The King and the Jungle and the real Tarzan. Those are the names that this exotic animal specialist
1:05.3	teacher and zookeeper Mike Holston from Miami calls himself. He's got over four million followers
1:11.6	on Instagram and a massive following on YouTube. And he's used his huge social media following to
1:18.0	teach others about exotic animals and wildlife and our part in conserving this wildlife and
1:24.9	maintaining this wildlife. He's inspired by Steve Irwin who he calls his idol and the best man
1:31.0	to stroll this earth. The real Tarzan uses visibility that he gets for the good causes that he's
1:38.1	a part of. He loves to educate people about animals and he often visits schools to teach kids.
1:44.8	And now he uses his platform to teach people all over the world. And I've become obsessed with
1:49.9	watching him on Instagram. He's literally grown I think three million followers on Instagram.
1:55.2	And the last six to eight weeks alone, it's amazing what this guy is doing and educating us. And I
2:01.4	realized how uneducated I am about animals until I watched some of his videos. And this is really
2:08.2	inspiring stuff. And I think sometimes we lose perspective of wildlife and animals in our own
2:14.5	backyard or around the world. What's actually happening. And we talk about this today on some of
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