Welcome visionaries, creators, innovators, entrepreneurs, leaders, and growth seekers of all types to the Passion Struck Podcast.

Hi, I'm John Miles, a peak performance coach, multi industry CEO, Navy Veteran, and entrepreneur on a mission to make Passion Go viral for millions worldwide.

In each week, I do so by sharing with you an inspirational message, an interview, and high achievers from all walks of life who unlock their secrets and lessons to become an Passion Struck.

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You can use to achieve peak performance and for too much Passion-driven life you have always wanted to have.

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Welcome to Momentum Friday, an episode 51 of the Passion Struck Podcast.

And I wanted to thank all of you so much for continuing to watch and listen to the Passion Struck Podcast and helping us make our goal of bringing passion to the world a reality.

If there's a certain topic or guest you would like us to interview, please DM me on Instagram at John our Miles.

Now let's get on with today's episode, which starts with a quote from Thomas Horton who said,

that danger is this, when we are being taught to be highly sensitive to others identities, we are also implicitly being told to take pride in our own identity. This is where the problem lies. Pride is a vice. Regardless of your own self identity, we all have a vision of ourself that is far different than the world pictures us.

In most cases, the way we see ourselves is glamorized into someone who is more like more intelligent, more decisive than who we really are.

And that very reasoning is why humility is so vital to your very success.

We all want to feel self-important and there's nothing wrong with that. It is great to have self-confidence.

I would even say it's vital if you want to have a passion struck life. But the problem with self-inflated self-worth is that it can cause a huge ego problem and that becomes a massive liability.

Now let me illustrate this through a personal story. A few years ago, I was working as a consultant to a company and my client's son had recently gotten a job with one of the up-and-coming scooter companies.

I found in this new job that he was in charge of new market development. The father thought that landing the Tampa Bay market, which is the 12th largest market in the country, would be an incredible start for his son's future.

And he knew that I had connections with both the mayors of St. Petersburg, for a Christman and Tampa, Bob Bacorn at the time. And not only did I have connections with them, I had deep connections with both their respective staffs.

I would use those connections to help his son out. And I reluctantly said, yes, you see the rumors about his son, where that although he was highly astute and was Ivy League educated, he had a vision of himself and his self-worth that was larger than the state of Texas.

And coupled with that, he had just come from working a stint in the Trump administration. However, I had never met him, so I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt.

I used my personal contacts and set up meetings. And as we approached that first meeting with Bob Bacorn, the mayor of Tampa, I reached out to the son to finalize not only the agenda, but also discuss what attire we were going to wear to make sure that we were in unison on both.

And I suggested to him that we dress formally, or at least have a sports jacket on, and I received zero responses. And then I tried again on the eve of the meeting, and I received a response and text that I will never forget.

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