Lance Essihos. What to Do When Life Gets Hard. Episode 390 with The Real Brad Lea (TRBL)
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Lance has faced some of life's most difficult challenges. Grinding his way through the hockey ranks to traveling the world as a bartender. Through his personal battle with drugs and alcohol for well over a decade, the tragic loss of his brother to suicide followed by the great loss of his father to cancer only a year later, Lance realized he had hit rock bottom. In the darkest of days, he made a promise to himself that he would create a new life.
In this episode Lance and Brad unpack everything about what makes life hard and how it really never stops because it's up to YOU to get better.
00:00 Intro
02:20 The identity crisis…
06:03 2016 news for Lance that changed his mindset
08:21 University of Adversity Podcast
11:00 Ayahuasca
13:00 "In order to love yourself you have to love all the stuff you push away." - Lance Essihos
14:51 "The dark shit is just as important as the warm and fuzzy shit." - Lance Essihos
20:33 Bomb 1: You have to get to the root of the reason why you make bad decisions
22:06 Gratitude
24:18 "If you do not believe in yourself you will never move yourself forward." - Lance Essihos
27:00 About Lances' podcast
31:35 Bomb 2: "People don't realize how resilient they are." - Lance Essihos
32:45 Brad's book "Lessons I Learned The Hard Way So You Don't Have To"
36:45 "If you don't believe in yourself, who will?" - Lance Essihos
41:00 There will always be levels to your problems…
42:30 "All of it is true!"
45:04 Follow Lance!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Listen up or run |
| 0:23.2 | What it is Bradley back again with another episode of dropping bombs and as you know |
| 0:28.0 | I always bring your badass individuals and today's no different folks |
| 0:33.6 | Introducing Lance Eastos. What's up Lance? What's up brother guys if you guys don't know who he is |
| 0:39.0 | He's a badass with a with a history we're gonna talk about he's got university of adversity |
| 0:44.2 | You can follow him on social media at lance dot ECOS, but it spelled ESS I H OS |
| 0:51.8 | What is that Greek Greek yeah your Greek yeah from Canada Canada and you played hockey |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, mm-hmm like professionally or just no, no, I played up until I was about 20 into junior and |
| 1:06.1 | There's a story to that why that ended too, so I want to get I want to get into the stories |
| 1:11.9 | You know you've got university of adversity you you're connected with all these badasses. So your story must be epic |
| 1:19.6 | What's what's connecting you with all of these big personalities? |
| 1:24.3 | Yeah, man, you know I there's a few different layers. I I started out playing hockey and |
| 1:32.5 | There's a lot of crazy shit that went on in my teenage years while I was trying to play hockey |
| 1:37.2 | I had a really really difficult time with a stepmother that was fucking |
| 1:42.9 | from hell and |
| 1:44.9 | while I was trying to play make it professional I just went through a lot of really really dark times and |
| 1:50.7 | and |
| 1:52.8 | Which led me to |
| 1:55.2 | You know trying to navigate |
| 1:57.7 | How to become an athlete how to deal with like a lot of the stuff that I had gone through and then my final year hockey |
| 2:04.6 | You know, I was trying to get a scholarship. I was trying to make it and I did a huge cyclist steroids and |
| 2:11.8 | Completely fucked up my career. So about why I |
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