GARY JOHN BISHOP is one of the leading personal development experts in the industry. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Unf__ Yourself, as well as Stop Doing that Sh_t and Do the Work, and forthcoming Wise As F__. His “urban philosophy” approach represents a new wave of personal empowerment and life mastery that has helped more than one million readers achieve miraculous results.
In this episode we talk about:
- growing up in Glasgow and stopping school to get to work at age 15 to be able to support himself (and being on the side of the tracks that stole the tracks)
- we taking a trade job for the security and benefits and then moving into a government job for even more security and income
- giving up his secure jobs to put his full attention on a music career at age 25
- living as a musician for 7-8 years and feeling like he was ready to move on so becoming a contractor to support himself and his wife
- never thinking he would end up in the personal development world or even being interested it, telling a family member who recommended he do a workshop he went to he would never do it – but doing it since it was paid for by the family member
- Feeling like a mirror was being held up at him and while he didn’t want to face it at first – he started to make sense to himself, other people started to make sense to him – everything just started to make sense to him
- seeing that he had become an asshole and by doing this work he was able to see himself from the outside and the inside.
- how we make up our own versions of what is and our experiences and limit the potentional for possibitilites
- being inspired by what he was discovering about himself and wanting to help others so shifting his work to teach the work he had learned
- seeing possibilities exist for ALL people not just certain people that we think will be open to them.
- how we explain things away and don’t see that we have a say in our lives and how we show up and feel.
- how we use our past to explain our lives and train others how to treat us.
- self-limiting beliefs and why we don’t see our own.
- his beef with life coaches and how in order to call yourself that you REALLY have to be prepared to hold a lot for your clients.
- why affirmations DO NOT work for many people
- why he initially chose to self publish and why he chose to use a cuss word in the title against everyone’s advice
- Which keychain he chose from my line and why!
Find Gary at https://garyjohnbishop.com and @garyjohnbishop and his books!
LINKS to other things/people/music we mentioned!
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I call bullshit on wanting to be a good person.
My video on how I create affirmations after naming what holds us back.
My Chalkboard Mag article on naming what they feel to move through it.
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