You Are Who You've Been Looking For with Adam Roa
Take Back Your Mind
Michael B. Beckwith
5.0 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
A note to listeners: This episode contains explicit language.
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Today, Michael speaks with Adam Roa. Adam is a poet, artist, and transformational voice known for articulating emotional truths people feel but often struggle to express. His spoken word poem, You Are Who You've Been Looking For, has reached over 250 million people, becoming the most viewed live poetry performance in history. Through his work, Adam helps individuals access authentic confidence, deepen self-awareness, and reconnect with their own inner truth through vulnerability, creativity, and self-reclamation. His highly-anticipated first book of poetry, _CrazyLove_ , comes out in May. Get on the pre-order waitlist here: https://www.adamroa.com/crazylove.
Conversation Highlights Include:
-How heartbreak became a turning point, creating space for deeper awareness and emotional healing.
-The realization that art is not just expression, but a powerful tool for transformation and inner connection.
-What happened internally when success arrived, and how external validation did not resolve deeper feelings of disconnection.
-A more honest look at self-love as an evolving relationship, not a destination you arrive at once and for all.
-Why growth often feels like a spiral, where challenges resurface not as failure, but as opportunities for deeper integration.
-What it means to let go of rigid structure and begin trusting your own inner guidance moment by moment.
-Insights from the darkness retreat and what emerges when all external distractions are removed.
-How cultural conditioning and survival patterns shape emotional expression, and how awareness begins to loosen their grip.
-The tension between authenticity and performance, and what it takes to tell the truth even when it feels uncomfortable.
Next, Michael closes with a guided meditation that invites you into stillness, presence, and deeper self-awareness.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | you are who you've been looking for. |
| 0:03.0 | So stop looking for more unless you're looking in a mirror |
| 0:06.0 | because it's about time for you to see clearly |
| 0:08.0 | that you are who you've been looking for. |
| 0:11.0 | And that empty feeling you got, that hole in your chest, |
| 0:14.0 | you only got that feeling because you think you're not blessed |
| 0:16.0 | with everything you need. |
| 0:18.0 | You see, we live in a consumerist society, which means they need you to buy stuff. And the easiest way to sell it is to tell you you're not enough. By this car, you'll get girls. By this bra, you'll get guys. And we're seeing it so much that we start believing these lies, but the truth is, the makeup they're selling to make you feel prettier is the same makeup you buy to stop feeling |
| 0:38.2 | shittier about this lie. They keep telling you that you are not enough. And what about the movies |
| 0:44.2 | we watch? All the shows on TV. The more I watch, the more I see, I need you to complete me. |
| 0:49.7 | Crazy. And yes, love is the answer. Love is the key. But if you can't love yourself, how can you ever love me? |
| 0:56.5 | And loving yourself, what does that even mean? Like massages and selfies and that sort of thing? |
| 1:01.3 | Because the more I think about it, the more it feels weird. I've always thought self-love was something to be feared. |
| 1:06.4 | I've been taught that arrogance is bad and vanity it's not good and even my bracelets are telling me to act how Jesus would. |
| 1:11.9 | So what should I do? |
| 1:14.0 | How should I act? |
| 1:15.1 | I'm supposed to love myself, but how do I even do that? |
| 1:18.7 | Peace and Rich's blessings. |
| 1:20.0 | I am Michael B. Beck with the host of Take Back Your Mind. Listen. Feel it. Feel it. Deal it. Deal it. |
| 1:28.3 | As we're lifted up, |
| 1:30.3 | into the spiritual domain. |
| 1:32.3 | Listen. |
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