Rob Dial, welcome to I-Way, how are you?

Hey, I'm doing amazing. Thanks for having me.

No, I'm thrilled that you're here. I have normally been reticent to have anyone on this podcast

who talks around positive mindset

or, you know, you yourself are known as the mindset mentor. There is a huge like portion of the

internet that is occupied by people who are telling others that they can just think their way

through problems.

And a lot of the time the people get circulated the most are straight white men.

And I sometimes worry that that will not be relatable for my audience.

But you kept on coming up on my feed because there is a different strand the way that you talk about these things and your own lived experience and what you have had to work your way through yourself

while not discounting you know social advantages I think is incredibly important incredibly

relatable and I think that the evolution of your work is something that has

really resonated with me. And so that's why I wanted you to be here today. But I wanted to just

address that straight up in case anyone's a bit dubious about this. I feel as though you have

very much so considered a way to make this conversation relatable for everyone, because I do think mindset, if used in the right way, is an imperative part of resilience and an imperative part of life.

And I myself, as disadvantaged as I've been in some areas, I think I'm only alive because of the

resilience that's been built up by the discipline to do so.

So before we start, can I ask you to explain the incident in your life that you feel like

sent you in this trajectory?

Yeah.

I mean, the biggest thing that the kind of have everybody

understand my story is I was raised with two parents. Everything I thought was great until I realized

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