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The Mindvalley Podcast

Mathew Knowles, Father Of Beyonce On How To Raise A Daughter

The Mindvalley Podcast

Mindvalley

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today on The Mindvalley Show, we are creating a framework to develop your child's passion and vision for life. Our guest is Mathew Knowles, the father of legendary Beyonce and Solange Knowles and the visionary behind Destiny's Child. He gives insight into his mindset as a parent and how you can help your children achieve their wildest dreams. No one can be great at everything, yet parents commonly pressure their children into being straight-A students, assume extracurricular activities, and expect perfection unseen in the adult world. Mathew believes perfection kills your child's creativity and prevents them from realizing their passions. He teaches you to nurture your children's natural abilities instead of molding them into your vision.  We discuss the importance of honesty. Mathew reveals that he never hid his mistakes and struggles from his children. This honest communication set Beyonce and Solange up for success in the real world. Without experiencing failure, your children can't grow, and one big mistake could be their catalyst for greatness.  Mathew imparts his key ingredients to develop your children's passion so they can dream big and never fear failure. All children have greatness inside them, and today we learn how you can become the positive influence your children need to achieve their vision. Your words and actions unconsciously influence your children's understanding of the world. Join us to discover how you can grow as a parent and help your child achieve their dreams.   Key Takeaways: [2:00] Raising an Inspiring Daughter [3:40] Growing up With Racial Trauma  [8:00] Living a Life of Integrity  [10:40] The Catalyst of Mathew’s Career [14:45] Identifying Your Child’s Passion [17:35] Supporting Your Kid’s Passion [19:00] Kids Can’t be Experts in Everything [23:40] Sharing Your Failures with Your Kids [29:00] A Child’s Innate Vision [32:45] Talk-to-Do Ratio  [36:30] The Words You Choose Matter   Where to Find Our Guest: The DNA of Achievers: 10 Traits of Highly Successful Professionals Destiny's Child: The Untold Story   Memorable Quotes: “I realize, every area we’re not experts in. I think parents sometimes we forget that, that ourselves we’re not experts in every area. There will be some areas our kid will struggle in.” [19:41] -Mathew Knowles “We also shared our mistakes with them, and our failures with them. We didn’t hide that from our kids and I think that was a positive thing.” [23:43] -Mathew Knowles  Words matter, especially with kids. What words you say is critically important, and I think when we have a topic like race, or we have a topic like education we have to be really careful how we say these words to our kids, because they’re like an empty glass, and we’re filling them up with our belief system.” [40:10] -Mathew Knowles     To stay connected and to learn more about Vishen and Mindvalley, click on the links below:  Website: Mindvalley.com YouTube: @vishenlakhiani Instagram: @mindvalley Instagram: @vishen Facebook: @mindvalley   Subscribe to 'Mindvalley Membership' to discover 65+ transformational Mindvalley programs – at a surprisingly low annual fee here 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know, my mother says it's something happens Jesse, take your brother, get under that

0:04.1

barbed wire fence and just run as fast as you can.

0:08.0

I'm really excited about our guest today. Matthew Knoltz is the man who helped create

0:12.1

Destiny's Child. He is the father of Beyoncé and Solange.

0:16.3

Beyoncé has gone on to become the biggest Grammy winner in history and the greatest female

0:22.3

musical act of the last 100 years.

0:25.4

We are witnessing history tonight.

0:27.5

Breaking the record for the most Grammy wins of all time, Beyoncé.

0:34.8

Do you want to thank my parents, my father, my mother for loving me and pushing me.

0:44.6

The topic today that we're going to be discussing is how to raise a daughter and this is a topic

0:48.8

that means a lot to me because I have a nine year old daughter who is the love of my

0:53.0

life. If I really wanted to have this conversation because as a man, I think there are so many

0:59.6

things that we can learn that we can get better at when it comes to raising children.

1:05.0

But specifically, I want to focus on raising a daughter because when I was Googling online,

1:11.0

I couldn't find enough content on this and who better to interview on this topic than

1:16.4

Matthew.

1:17.4

The other reason I'm super excited about this, Matthew and welcome to the Mind Valley

1:20.3

Podcast.

1:21.3

This is a video I took of my daughter, Eve, the first time she danced.

1:33.8

We had the song Single Ladies on TV and Eve got up and started imitating Beyoncé.

1:42.1

All the way down and I was shocked because she was one year old.

1:44.8

She just learned to walk and all of a sudden she was hooked on this video imitating Beyoncé.

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