Your Second Chance with Mike Foster #075
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
“Life is a process of ailing and transformation.” —Mike Foster
According to best-selling author, speaker and entrepreneur Mike Foster, he’s in the emotional fitness business. Although he has a positive disposition, he has experienced pain, shame and guilt in his past. By working through his pain, he discovered a deeper level of understanding and compassion for others, which helped him help other leaders. In this Takeover Tuesday episode, Mike Foster shares his story, including the experiences that changed his life. He shares how to use negative experiences to heal, why it’s vital to integrate the positive and the negative into our lives in order to achieve transparency, the importance of self-care and why it’s vital to accept our emotions. He also offers his tips to help you start the day with a positive perspective and outlines strategies to help others work through their challenges.
Inspirational quotes from today’s interview:
“I get to lean in with people and help them with their not-so-perfect stories.” — Mike Foster
“We learn how life works and how to respond to life when we’re young.” — Mike Foster
“Many parts of our stories land like a big thud; what do you do with that?” — Mike Foster
“Life is a process of ailing and transformation.” — Mike Foster
“I don’t believe in closure. I believe in openings. These are openings to new levels of understanding, compassion and empathy and we’re constantly doing the work within us.” — Mike Foster
“When I can integrate the light and the dark in my life, I live a life of integrity.” — Mike Foster
“Pain and our past create a fog and mystery and it’s hard for us to deal with deeper things because they’re scrambled. When you write things down, your clarity increases.” — Mike Foster
“In leadership, we’re the ones processing and helping others work through their problems. We’re not in a position where we can talk to people about our stuff.” — Mike Foster
“Self-care is not selfish, self-care is strategic.” — Mike Foster
“Be who you are; how you were created and designed to be.” — Mike Foster
“One of the worst things to die with is unused possibility and potential.” — Mike Foster
Mentioned in the episode:
People of the Second Chance by Mike Foster Fun Therapy — Mike Foster’s podcast Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self by Richard Rohr Ragamuffin Gospel by Brannan Manning
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello and welcome to TakeOver Tuesday. I'm your host, Dermott Buffini. And as you |
| 0:21.0 | know, the purpose of TakeOver Tuesday is to interview people who've been there and done |
| 0:25.6 | that. People have achieved superior performance in different areas of life and I want to know |
| 0:30.2 | what makes the person as much as what makes the success. My guest today is Mike Foster. |
| 0:36.8 | Mike is a best-selling author, speaker and entrepreneur. Over 200,000 people have gone through his |
| 0:42.6 | powerful workshops, trainings and his content is designed to help people experience freedom |
| 0:47.1 | from the hurts and struggles of life so they can thrive once again in their lives. He's |
| 0:51.4 | been featured in the New York Times on Good Morning America and on Fox News and we're |
| 0:55.4 | delighted to have him today on TakeOver Tuesday. Mike, welcome to the show. It is great to |
| 1:00.4 | be here. It's great to have you. You know, Mike, you have an unusual business. I asked you |
| 1:04.5 | what business you're in and you said you're in the emotional fitness business. Yes. That's |
| 1:09.4 | got to be some business. It's a great business. I tell people all the time I got the greatest |
| 1:13.7 | job in the world because I just get to lean in with people and help them with their not |
| 1:17.8 | so perfect stories and help them deal with some of the things that cause a lot of friction |
| 1:23.2 | and a lot of chaos in their lives and really bring some tools, bring some counseling, bring |
| 1:28.9 | some insight for them to really begin to thrive again. That's awesome. Well, we've become |
| 1:34.4 | fast friends. I've been introduced to you through mutual friends and I can't wait to |
| 1:38.8 | get into this today because I know it's going to be super helpful. But before we do that, |
| 1:41.9 | a little bit of background. Where did you grow up? Yeah, I'm a Southern California native. |
| 1:46.9 | I can't be far from the ocean. That's just my mission in life. Do not go too far from |
| 1:51.2 | the ocean. So that's why I live now in San Diego. But grew up in a great family. I think |
| 1:56.3 | I was one of the lucky ones where my mom and dad loved me well. They were always incredibly |
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