When you don't have any self-worth or you don't have these roommates in your head tell you what a bad person you are all the time,

it forced me to, instead of just lay in bed and say, I'm catching my chips, it's got me to do all this great stuff so I can get some love from the outside end.

Welcome to the School of Greatness.

My name is Lewis Howes, former pro athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur.

And each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness.

Thanks for spending some time with me today.

Now let the class begin.

Before the episode starts, I want to give a quick trigger warning that we do discuss different

forms of sexual abuse and healing from those experiences.

Welcome back to everyone in the School of Greatness.

We've got the man, Jake Glazer.

I'm so glad you here, man.

So grateful about what you're up to. Last time I saw you was in my gym, Unbreakable, right? He came in there, Steve Weatherberg. You lifted every weight in the place and we were in ever the same. Exactly, yes. Now you live around the corner, let's go, man. We're gonna get you back in there yet. I promise I will. It's a great little community. I'm excited, man. You've had an amazing story, and your whole book, Unbreakable, is about how you turn depression, anxiety, into really motivation that you can accomplish things without feeling overwhelmed and stress. But you just told me before we started that you've had a panic attack since 2005 until now every week. Every week. Every week. How did you now when I grew up, and I'm assuming when you grew up, I grew up in the Midwest, I was never able to talk about my feelings. Right. It was just like suck it up. You grew up in the Midwest. I grew up in Jersey. That's even harder for you. But I was, we went a lot of talk about, you know, how I felt. Playing football, playing baseball, play, whatever. It was just like suck it up. Keep going. Yeah. When did you feel like it was okay to talk about feeling of anxiety, stress, mental health? When was this like a conversation you could have without

being made fun of, laughed that, picked on, bullied, told you're a woozy or whatever it is?

Yeah.

No, look, for me, and you talk about the motivation part, right?

My, and I got, I have depression, anxiety, ADD, Element O P, whatever you mean, I got everything, you know.

But you know, we talk about mental health, but who describes it?

God bless me with the ability to communicate.

I want to let me be a service and give a words.

I was never, hmm, I was never, I don't want to say this I'm gonna say it was never

shamed because there's been shame like I've been embarrassed to tell certain people

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