I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and

thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind,

body, spirit and work.

I want to bring forth a guy who kind of kicked my butt when I was playing small.

And I want you to listen to him for the next 30 minutes or so as we go on this interview

because I think you're going to get some really important things out of this.

But what I want to share with you are some of the people

that inspired me to go bolder. And I'm hoping that some of this will rub off on you too

so that no matter where you are, you also can go bigger and bolder in terms of collective instruction manuals

for spaceship Earth.

Patrick Grove is a really unique character.

I've known him as a friend for over a decade and I'll tell you one story about him.

I actually wrote about this story in my book, The Code of the Extraordinary Mind.

I was in Starbucks and I was working on something like small.

To me it was a big deal, but it like small.

To me it was a big deal, but it was small.

It was basically an optimized blog

so that I could earn income as a teacher

from affiliate marketing.

Sounded cool to me back then, but here's what happened.

I walk into Starbucks to sit down and start writing down my idea of the blog and I see Patrick

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