Turn Your Pain Into Power | Rupi Kaur

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Rupi Kaur shares the vulnerable truth behind her rise to global fame—and how real confidence only came when she stopped chasing validation and started honoring her own voice. A powerful reminder that healing is an inside job, no matter how bright the spotlight.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:11.1	What do you feel like was the biggest pain or pains you experienced growing up that have taken you the longest to heal?
0:18.8	I would say believing that I am somebody
0:23.5	who has value
0:25.2	and is worthy of being seen and heard.
0:28.4	Really?
0:28.9	Yeah. That's probably been like
0:31.3	the most, um,
0:33.8	hardest sort of thing to like work through.
0:36.3	What created that belief in you?
0:38.5	I think just I was...
0:41.7	Was there a number of instances or moments or was it just an overall tone and like kind of
0:46.5	family dynamics or was there like a few things that really triggered you?
0:51.5	Yeah, I would say it was a mix of family dynamics.
0:56.0	You know, I cover some of the experiences that have happened to me in chapter one of the book and those experiences that were
1:04.0	violent really left me feeling silent and invisible. And so it's taken a lot of work and I'm not even done doing the
1:15.0	work to, you know, be like, I am worthy of being listened to. I do have value. And that's like
1:22.4	something that I'm only, you know, I'm really actually embodying, like, confidence and celebrating myself in
1:32.4	just the last few years.
1:33.8	Really?
1:34.3	Yeah.
1:34.7	So did you feel like you had confidence after the first couple of books came out?
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