Top 3 Podcasts That Inspire A Limitless Mindset
“I am limitless. Limits are created by our own mindset.”
I have played it safe for the majority of my life. As an engineer, all of my risks are carefully calculated, while minimizing uncertainty with a high probability of success. I cautiously followed the predetermined roadmap to success and checked all the boxes.
While I have a great career and family, there was always a part of me that was curious if I could be something more than the constraints and limitations I have allowed in my life. However, I had no idea where to start.
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How do you break free from what may be holding you back if you don’t even know what is possible? How do you know if you are living to your fullest potential? The short answer I found is through the inspiration of others that you can relate to.
Seeing people take risks, fail, bounce back, and stretch themselves beyond their limits was not something I was exposed to daily. Certainly, not people that were seemingly like me in my surrounding environment. Naturally, this made me scared to try something new without knowing the end result.
I came across 3 podcasts that have helped me cultivate a limitless mindset to start getting the courage to try new things that would stretch and challenge me.
Hearing other people’s relatable stories, courage, and resilience regularly really started to shift my perspective on the possibilities for my own life.
The key for me was immersing myself in this type of limitless mindset weekly, if not daily, to start having it sink in.
I have found that one of the best ways I learn is through repetition. If I can install a limiting mindset for over 30 years of conditioning, I can certainly install a limitless one for the next 30!
Here are the top 3 Podcasts that inspire a limitless mindset:
How I Built This with Guy Raz
Guy Raz is a journalist that interviews entrepreneurs to learn about how they started their businesses on his podcast, How I Built This. This podcast is very inspiring, even if you have no interest in starting a business. Guy explains the intention of this podcast as, “At the deepest level, How I Built This, is about who these successful entrepreneurs were when they were lying on the bathroom floor crying about a failure or crisis - because that’s relatable for all of us.”
The show's entrepreneurs give you the whole story, how they started, their struggles, failures, and successes. Many of them did not come from money or a family of successful entrepreneurs and still created businesses that prevailed.
My favorite episode is with Sarah Blakely, the creator of Spanx. Blakely explains her story as being in fax machine sales and having this idea to create a product that no one believed in for an industry that she knew nothing about (other than being a consumer).
Despite all the odds and the rejections, she still created this huge intimate apparel brand and is a self-made billionaire who gives back to help other women-owned businesses succeed.
Hearing these types of stories on the podcast makes me believe that anything is possible for anyone.
Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik
When Jim Kwik tells his childhood story, he explains that he was identified as the “boy with the broken brain.” Due to a brain injury, he had trouble learning with conventional education methods and was often an outcast.
Up until his early adulthood, he believed he wasn’t smart based on the constant messages he received and allowed this to limit him for some time (who wouldn’t?!).
He transformed that mindset and is now a renowned brain coach that teaches people how to effectively learn anything, remember anything, and speed read in a short amount of time. He is absolutely amazing! You can learn more about him here.
In his podcast, Kwik Brain, he gives a small amount of information in each episode that is easy to digest and apply to help everyone develop a limitless brain.
He also has a book titled, Limitless, which I cannot recommend enough that teaches you how to, as stated in the book, “learn anything faster and unlock your potential.” I ended up learning how to read approximately 3x faster and more effectively with Jim’s teachings. His results are real and absolutely incredible.
The Mindvalley Podcast with Vishen Lakhiani
Mindvalley’s mission is to “create personal transformation that raises human consciousness.” The Mindvalley Podcast serves as a free inspirational platform that shares life-changing education from renowned experts on transforming areas such as your spiritual, emotional, personal, and professional life.
Mindvalley’s education is not woo-woo or theoretical stuff that cannot be reliably applied in real life. The advice is actionable, it’s useful, and it works fast. If you want to be more connected, successful, happy, productive, inspirational, or a better leader, go here; you won’t regret it.
I find the host and the creator of Mindvalley, Vishen Lakhiani, to be very inspiring and relatable to me.
He started off his professional journey as an engineer, faced burnout, and found himself wanting to contribute to a larger purpose aligned with his values. We both share the same value of transformation.
Check out these 3 podcasts so that you can start cultivating a limitless mindset, realize what is possible, and break past the limits that are no longer serving you.
Please feel free to share any other podcasts that you have found helpful for cultivating a limitless mindset in the comments below.
Go Do it. Just Start. Take Control. Report Back.
Jess
Bert’s take: Bert sees no limits, this is a human thing.
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