Fear Is Your Best Friend Part I, Feat. Akshay Nanavati, with Joel Marion - BTI 64
Born to Impact
Joel Marion
4.8 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2020
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
He is a Marine Veteran, Bestselling Author, Speaker and Coach dedicated to helping people turn their biggest fears and darkest places into the biggest and most meaningful triumphs in their life.
Akshay’s work helping people live a limitless life has been featured all over the media including Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, Ink Magazine, Fast Company, and CNN.
He is also an adventurer having run ultra marathons, climbed the Himalayas, and skied 350 miles across the world's second largest ice cap.
Akshay is the author of the best selling book “FEARVANA: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear into Health, Wealth and Happiness”. The book has a forward written by the Dhali Lama where he said, “Fearvana inspires us to look beyond our own agonizing experiences and find the positive side of our lives.”
We discuss:
-How Akshay rose above his drug habit
-Akshay's experience serving as Marine Corps infantry
-Why you should follow the advice you're giving others
-Why fear is not a bad thing
-When stress and anxiety become the source of your strength
And so much more.
Akshay Nanavati’s story will inspire you, encourage you, and pull you even closer to living the life you were born to live ... don't miss it.
Even more, be sure to subscribe to the Born to Impact podcast to ensure you get notified as new episodes release each week!
After listening, connect with Akshay on Instagram @fearvana and be sure to get your copy of “FEARVANA” on Amazon.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | While I had this corporate job, |
| 0:01.0 | I was getting trained as a life coach |
| 0:02.6 | from this organization. |
| 0:04.2 | And it's starting to build my business around this, right? |
| 0:06.6 | So business is growing, |
| 0:08.1 | but firstly, I'm drinking over the weekends. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm not drinking every day, |
| 0:12.1 | but when I drink, I'm kind of hard. |
| 0:14.1 | See it as a problem. |
| 0:15.4 | And eventually, I get to a point |
| 0:16.5 | where two days of drinking becomes three. |
| 0:18.6 | Three becomes four, four becomes five. |
| 0:20.5 | And so this drinking from binge drinking days on end, |
| 0:23.9 | meanwhile, you're the personal development coach. |
| 0:26.2 | Ironically, right? |
| 0:27.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.9 | As it happens, exactly. |
| 0:29.7 | Because even to this day, |
| 0:31.0 | like I was actually rereading my own book |
| 0:32.6 | in preparation for sharing it on mentor box. |
| 0:34.6 | And I was like, man, you should follow your own advice sometimes. |
| 0:36.6 | It's funny because we know what's right. |
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