EP. 63 Your Worldview Can Make or Break You with Lizzie Velásquez

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

“You are the one that decides what your world is going to look like everyday.” These powerful words from Lizzie Velásquez ring true to today’s environment and even though this specific interview was recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic, it also applies to your mindset no matter what’s going on! I was so honored to talk with motivational speaker, Lizzie Velásquez for today’s podcast episode. Lizzie was born with a rare congenital disease called Marfanoid-progeroid-lipodystrophy syndrome. Her condition has prevented her from accumulating body fat and gaining weight. During her teenage years she faced terrible cyber bullying, which inspired her to share her message to the world as a motivational speaker. In this episode, Lizzie shares about loving the body she was born in, the challenges she has faced during her lifetime and how they’ve empowered her to speak to audiences around the globe, including in TEDx AustinWomen. Lizzie also opens up about being vulnerable, showing her authentic self, and having your eyes wide open for opportunities that aren’t very clear. We also talk about her latest book, Dare To Be Kind and how kindness is such a powerful force to impact people’s lives. Everyone can learn a thing or two from Lizzie’s inspiring story! Listen to today’s episode to discover how you can change your mindset and be more kind to others.

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0:00.0	I'm not going to let this stop me. I allowed myself this time to feel sorry for myself and pick myself back up and just say now I have this extra motivation of I know there are people who think I'm done, but now I'm going to keep going to show them that I'm on.
0:15.0	So here's the thing, entrepreneurs, leaders, salespeople.
0:18.0	We all want to create consistent, repeatable and scalable ways to grow our business and our income and we want to do it better faster and more seamlessly why
0:27.0	So we can actually enjoy our lives take vacations and spend the quality time what we want with the people that we love
0:34.4	How do we do all this without spending a fortune or running ourselves ragged? That's the big question and this show is dedicated
0:40.0	to the answer.
0:42.0	Hey so welcome to the podcast.
0:44.0	Today I have a super inspiring guest speaker.
0:48.0	She is an author, she's an activist, she is a motivational speaker, she's a
0:52.5	youtuber like myself, and she was born
0:56.8	as only one of two people in the world
0:59.8	with an extremely rare congenital disease,PL syndrome and yet she had a vision she
1:07.0	had a dream she had a goal and it was really put on the map in 2014 when she did her first TED Talk which was called
1:15.4	How Do You Define Yourself? I watched it three times this morning and once last
1:21.2	night with my wife and the message it's obvious
1:24.2	why it's nearly at 10 million views and it probably should be at 4 or 500 million
1:28.0	views so make sure you go there and watch it. This woman is inspiring on steroids.
1:35.0	So I am just super stoked to introduce you to Lizzy Velasquez.
1:39.5	So Lizzy, welcome to the podcast.
1:41.0	Thanks for having me.
1:42.0	That was so nice what you said.
1:44.0	Well, listen, I mean, I, you know, I, and I have to give a big shout out to Brenda over here on my team who was like,
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