How To Battle : Navigating Changes In Life with Carlos Vasquez

Evolve With Emily

Emily Hayden

Health & Fitness, Fitness, Nutrition, Wellness, Self-improvement, Education, Personaldevelopment, Entrepreneurship, Health

4.9 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Emily interviews motivational speaker, coach, & mentor, Carlos Vasquez. He shares how his family struggles during his teenage years lead him down a path of gang involvement, violence, experiencing death up close and personal, and ultimately a 20 year prison sentence. He battled through years in solitary confinement, battling thoughts of not wanting to be here, and going against the grain as a shot caller who ended up changing his life in a positive direction mid-sentence. He shares the importance of mentors in this world & how much value they hold in the lives of those they are helping. Today’s episode will help you understand that your life has value, you are here for a purpose, and you are capable of making a big impact in this world.

In today’s episode you will hear about:

The illusion of separation
His time being incarcerated
A fatherless generation
The impact of your words
Solitary Confinement
Developing a strong mindset
Faith , God, & the evolution of his experience
The Power of Knowing your learning style
Creating a Vision & Mission for your life

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0:00.0	All right, ready? Yeah. Cool. Hello everyone and welcome back to the Evolve with Emily show. I am your host, Emily Hayden. And today I'm actually in studio. You guys should definitely check out the YouTube videos. The quality is going to be much better than normal. I'm in a studio in Las Vegas. I'm traveling. And I figured while I was here, I would hit up some friends and some
0:22.3	connections from friends. This one is actually, this interview today is a friend, a mutual friend
0:27.5	that we have is Peter Meyerhoff, so shout out to Peter for the hookup. And today we have in
0:32.1	studio, someone who is a coach, a mentor, a motivational speaker, and somebody who is truly using their life experience
0:39.1	to make a wave in the world, like a really incredible wave of just, I feel like hope and
0:46.0	inspiration to a lot of people that feel like they're hopeless and they lack that inspiration.
0:51.0	So today I'm excited to introduce to you guys, Carlos Vasquez. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Yeah, I'm excited to introduce to you guys, Carlos Vasquez. Welcome to the show.
0:55.6	Thank you. Thank you for having me. Yeah. I'm excited to talk to you today. So I think the biggest
1:00.8	illusion in this world is separation. People thinking that they are separate from each other,
1:06.8	that they are separate from God. I think sometimes the external things that we go through,
1:12.0	even the way that we look,
1:13.2	can provide a layer of separation that truly is just false.
1:17.1	Like people could probably look at your story,
1:19.6	you know, and we'll get into it a little bit,
1:21.1	of being sentenced, what was it, 20 years?
1:23.7	Yeah, 20 years.
1:24.5	Being sentenced 20 years in prison.
1:26.5	You know, they could look at that story and say, oh, I have nothing in common with him, right?
1:30.3	Because maybe someone who's listening is a girl who grew up in a neighborhood, went to a good school, a good family.
1:37.3	And, you know, but when we get deeper into your story, we'll actually see that when you take off all the external things of the actual
1:45.1	you know life circumstances that we went through yeah we all deal with a lot of the same shit
1:50.2	you know yeah like when you get down to it i was i was looking into your story just a little bit about
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