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The Mike Dillard Show

How To Conquer Your Greatest Fears…With Akshay Nanavati

The Mike Dillard Show

Mike Dillard

Education, Entrepreneurship, Business, Self-improvement

4.8583 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over the past year, is that the size of your struggles, is proportional to the size of the gift you have to offer the world as you overcome them.

In other words, our biggest challenges in life can be turned into an opportunity to grow, and then to give, if we’re brave enough to face them head-on and conquer them.

Well, the gentleman you’re about to meet today is one of the most incredible living examples of this philosophy that I’ve ever met.

His name is Akshay Nanavati and his story is so amazing that I’m not even going to give you a preview of what’s to come in today’s episode because I don’t want to ruin it for you.

But the fact that the Dali Lama wrote the forward to his book, should tell you all you need to know about this man’s challenges in life, and what he’s turned them into.

We all have challenges and we all have fears in life. Those are not optional when it comes to being human, but how you choose to respond to them, is.

Resources:

Fearvana.com
FEARVANA: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear into Health, Wealth and Happiness

Music:

Music by: Barren Gates
Song: Devil
Licensed under a Creative Commons License

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Mike Dillard podcast where we help entrepreneurs like you get the knowledge

0:08.9

and skills that you need to bring your dreams to life. Well, gang, one of the biggest lessons

0:13.3

that I've learned over the past year is that the size of your struggles is directly

0:18.0

proportional to the size of the gift that you have to offer the world as you overcome them.

0:24.1

In other words, our biggest challenges in life can be turned into an opportunity to grow and then to give

0:29.2

if we are brave enough to face them head on and conquer them.

0:34.0

Well, the gentleman that you're about to meet today is one of the most incredible living examples of this philosophy that I have ever met. His name is Akshay Nanavati, and his story is so amazing that I'm not even going to give you a preview of what's to come in today's episode as I normally would, because frankly, I would just end up ruining it for you, and I don't want to do that. I will say this,

0:55.0

though, the fact that the Dalai Lama wrote the fore to his book should tell you all you need to

0:59.1

know about this man's challenges in life and how he has chosen to face them and use them to help

1:05.1

and serve others today. All of us have challenges. All of us have fears that we face on a daily

1:09.7

basis. Those are not optional when it comes to the human experience, but how you choose to respond to them is. And

1:16.2

Akshay's example that he is providing for myself, for you and everybody else is absolutely

1:21.2

inspiring and unbelievable. So that is it, ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome,

1:26.2

Akshay Nanavati. Akshay Nanavati, welcome to the podcast. It's a pleasure to have you.

1:32.3

Thank you so much for having me, Mike. It's a real honor to be here.

1:35.3

Yeah, absolutely. So you and I got to know each other a little bit over the last couple of months.

1:39.3

You signed up for a consulting session and we went through your funnel and I got to know more about your work.

1:46.4

And I thought it was fascinating.

1:48.1

You have one hell of a story.

1:49.9

So I'm really excited to have you here to share with everybody.

1:53.7

Yeah.

1:53.9

Thank you so much.

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