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The Secret To Success with CJ, Karl, Jemal & Eric Thomas

Feeling Stuck in a Dark Place? This Is Why Your Life Isn’t Changing | S2S 519

The Secret To Success with CJ, Karl, Jemal & Eric Thomas

S2S podcast

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship

4.96.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

If life feels heavy, confusing, or just stuck… you’re not broken. You’re not cursed. You’re not “falling behind.” You’re in a phase nobody teaches you how to navigate: the dark season. In today’s episode, the guys break down why your hardest moments keep repeating, why running from discomfort actually makes it worse, and the one shift that finally moves you forward. ET explains how every version of success he’s had was formed in moments nobody saw. Jamal talks about the darkness that exposed the real picture of his life and pushed him toward real estate. Karl breaks down how creativity, identity, and resilience are all born in the dark—never in comfort. This conversation will change how you interpret struggle, setbacks, disappointment, and pressure. Because the truth is simple: You don’t grow in the light. You grow in the hard stuff. And once you know how to face it, everything changes. 🔥 In This Episode You’ll Learn: Why God prepares your table in the presence of your enemies—and why you keep praying them away How darkness is not Satan's domain—it's where God forms everything The difference between light (what's already formed) and dark (where you're being formed) Why the Buffalo runs into the storm while everyone else gets stuck in it longer Jamal's real story: sitting in that squad car at midnight, feeling like a failure—and how that darkness exposed the picture God was developing How to do dark different: prepare before it comes, embrace it when it's here, and let it form you instead of break you Why your prayers in the light are different than your prayers in the dark—and how that's costing you your breakthrough 🚀 JOIN THE 1% CHALLENGE Surround yourself with people who won’t let you settle. 👉 ETOnePercent.com 🎥 JOIN THE PATREON FAMILY (LIVE RECORDINGS + EXCLUSIVE CONTENT) Don’t just watch the podcast—experience it with us. 👉 Patreon.com/S2SPodcast120 📘 READ KARL’S BOOK — “Moving Past Potential” A blueprint for breaking through fear, hesitation, and overthinking. 👉 MovingPastPotential.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

We hear what you're saying.

0:01.0

We have to do dark different in that moment.

0:04.1

What are the tangible things that we can do?

0:06.2

Because it can be scary.

0:08.1

I just think his perspective, like the blessing of like Maher's sitting next to me.

0:12.7

I'm like, yo, the blessing of that is he did make it to the NFL.

0:16.0

And somebody's darkness became millions of people's light.

0:19.8

Everybody got their cell phones now. But back in the day, you couldn't see the picture unless it was dark. It was called exposure. So we're going to name darkness another way to see. Hmm. Come on. So the light is one way to see. Wow. And darkness is another way to see. Okay. Hold on now. You know what I'm saying?

0:37.8

Hold on now.

0:38.3

They both are a way to see. Wow. But they, they are the polar opposite. But the light, the light though, good. The light though that you see, the picture is already. Yeah, it's already there. It's already been formed in the light. But the process of it, the exposure of it, the coming together of it only comes together in the dark.

1:23.6

Yeah. What's Secret of Success Podcast. What's going on world?

1:30.2

Welcome to another edition of the Secret to Success Podcast.

1:33.3

We host, CJ, joined as always by the Bayesian sensation, Mr. Carl Wesley Phillips.

1:37.5

What's going on, y'all?

1:38.4

What did you do?

1:39.3

Dr. King in the building, Dr. King.

1:41.8

How you feeling?

1:42.5

Oh, man, I'm wonderful, brother.

1:45.0

I'm wonderful, dog. I'm wonderful.

1:51.1

Dawn. Life is great. You know, my bears are doing their thing, bro. Yeah. Yeah.

1:56.8

Hey, Chicago, they say crime went down by 70% now. Yeah.

2:00.7

All that time, they were just mad the bears was at. That's it. Rob, Ben Johnson need mad to bearers. That's it.

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