Lewis Howes: A Big Man With a Dark Secret and Heart of Gold
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2014
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
I'm rarely stunned. But this was one of those times...
Lewis Howes is a radiant, towering hulk of a human being. Driven, energized, magnetic and successful. I've known Lewis for a number of years now and consider him a good friend.
When he came to me earlier this year to share a dark, incredibly-painful secret from his childhood, I was floored. Did not see it coming. He'd been living with the pain and deep trauma of sexual abuse for decades. At the hands of another man, though he was just a boy.
When he told me, a few months after, that he wanted to "go public" in an effort to help others who'd been through the same thing, I was hesitant.
I didn't know how people might take it, or mis-attribute any unfounded motivations. But he was determined to make it happen and asking me to help guide the conversation. I knew how important it would be to create a "safe container," so I said yes.
The conversation that unfolded was incredibly raw, real, vulnerable and powerful on so many levels. He recently shared it with his community, and now I'm sharing it with you.
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| 0:00.0 | I've known Louis Howes for probably a better part of five years now, and I consider him |
| 0:04.0 | a pretty good friend. |
| 0:05.0 | I thought he knew pretty well too, and I still do. |
| 0:09.2 | But when he came to me last year to share something, share something that has been weighing |
| 0:14.0 | deeply on his heart, deeply in his head, and his soul since he was a small child, a deep |
| 0:19.4 | secret. |
| 0:21.2 | I was stunned, absolutely stunned. |
| 0:24.0 | This was one of those moments where you ask yourself, wow, do we really ever talk about |
| 0:28.8 | anything real? |
| 0:32.6 | A little bit later, Louis came to me and said he wanted to share what he shared with me |
| 0:36.7 | publicly, and he asked if I would sit down with him, and if we would record a conversation. |
| 0:42.7 | He had shared it with a number of different friends, and he felt like his experience, what |
| 0:47.8 | happened to him when he was a small child, was something that he wanted to bring public |
| 0:53.3 | to help other people who may have endured something similar. |
| 0:57.9 | I was hesitant because I didn't know how people would receive it, but I agreed. |
| 1:03.1 | And what unfolded I think was a pretty powerful conversation. |
| 1:07.0 | Louis shared that conversation with his own community a couple of months back, and I'm |
| 1:14.5 | going to share it with you guys today because I think it's an important conversation. |
| 1:18.8 | So here's Louis Howes. |
| 1:23.3 | I'm Jonathan Fields. |
| 1:24.8 | This is Good Life Project. |
| 1:39.0 | Freedom is a spontaneous day at the beach. |
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