A Conversation of Hope With Brett
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A Conversation of Hope With Brett
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In this jam-packed episode, we explore how a shift in perspective can dramatically change your life — from building resilience and reducing stress to unlocking gratitude, motivation, and stronger relationships. The episode also features two powerful real-life stories: an Olympic kite surfer rescuing a drowning woman, and a heroic truck driver stopping an armed highway shooter. We highlight Denzel Washington’s unforgettable “Becoming Unstoppable” speech, packed with life lessons about discipline, risk-taking, and perseverance. Plus, this week’s challenge encourages you to do a random act of kindness for a family member — just because.
Becoming Unstoppable Starts With One Choice - Denzel Washington
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-resilient-mind/id1562025210?i=1000703935386
Kristen Welch: How Saying No Leads to Life's Biggest Yes
Angela Davis - "Believe That You Are Capable of Your Dream
Simple Daily Routine Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1njZbEbTg-NKLto1OptvAkglc6mxdXKo7/view?usp=drive_link
Techniques to Share Perspective: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l4403t-xJCA9RReae3a8lEX4_yJGxs_1/view?usp=drive_link
Welcome to A Conversation of Hope with Brett. This podcast is all about you. The mission? To remind you that you are a masterpiece, to inspire you to dream again, to equip you with simple, actionable strategies for success. Strategies you can start using today to begin your journey toward the incredible life you deserve. Brett will be sharing insights from his latest books, along with powerful stories of triumph over adversity. He wants to remind you of the champion you were born to be. No matter your past or current struggles, Brett firmly believes that your best days are still happy. He's grateful you're here and promises to give you all each week to help you create a life you're meant to live. Even though you enjoy listening, I'll see the difference. So buckle up. Let's get started.
SPEAKER_01Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Welcome, welcome, welcome, and thanks for taking your valuable time to listen in to a conversation of hope. I have a very exciting jam-packed episode for you. I think you're going to be super excited about. First of all, though, I'd like to give a shout out to my beautiful bride, my lady of love, 35 years together. She is our executive producer, and she's the one that puts the podcast together every week for us. So I wanted to say shout out to Shali, my lady of love. I love her with all my heart. And I know our next 35 years are going to be even better than our first 35 years. Without her, none of this would happen. All right, y'all. Let's buckle up and let's get rolling. Today's topic is perspective and how it can change your life overnight. A simple shift in your thinking will help you have that life that you've always dreamed of. Let's dig deeper into it and see what the research says. So we've got the right perspective can dramatically improve your quality of life by shifting how you interpret and respond to events, relationships, and challenges. Whip perspective will give you increased resilience. A positive or growth-oriented perspective helps you bounce back from setbacks more quickly. Instead of seeing failure as a defeat, you see it as feedback or a learning opportunity. It also helps you reduce stress, wrong to what's possible or within your control. Everyday problems feel more manageable, lowering anxiety and frustration. It also helps you improve your relationships. A compassionate and open perspective encourages empathy, better communication, and reduced conflict with others. You can also have greater gratitude and joy. When you consciously view your life through a lens of appreciation rather than lack, and then also last but not least, the right perspective gives you motivation and growth. Seeing challenges as stepping stones rather than roadblocks empowers you to take action, set goals, and pursue meaningful growth. In essence, your perspective doesn't just reflect your reality, it shapes your reality. Now let's look at when people say the right perspective changed my life, they often mean that a shift in how they view situations themselves or the world allowed them to grow, heal, or make meaningful changes. Here are a few common ways this plays out. When you have that right perspective, you shift from a victim to an empowered perspective. Someone stuck in blame or resentment may adopt a perspective of personal responsibility, realizing they can't control what happens, but they can control how they respond to what happens. They also go from scarcity to gratitude. Instead of focusing on what they lack, people begin to notice and appreciate what they already have. This can drastically increase happiness and reduce anxiety. And then you go from failure to feedback. People who fear failure start to see mistakes as learning opportunities which can unlock personal and professional growth. You go from comparison to self-compassion. Rather than constantly measuring yourself against others, you learn to value their own journey and treat themselves with kindness. From urgency to presence, instead of always rushing to the next goal, some adopt a perspective that values mindfulness and being present, which can relieve stress and deepen relationships. When I put on the right perspective and when things come at me and I look at it through the right set of eyes, I'm telling you, it changes everything. You can take a situation that most people be upset about and you go, you know what? I know we can get some good out of this. There's some positive that's gonna come out of this. All right, y'all. Joke of the day. Why was Cinderella so bad at soccer? She kept running away from the ball. I know. Pretty cheesy, pretty, pretty, pretty cheesy. So let's see what we got this week. I know I pulled up two really good stories for you. So we got Olympic kite surfer saves drowning woman. Wow, oh my goodness. So an Olympic level kite surfer for Brazil happened to be testing out some video equipment on his board when he suddenly became the only hope of rescue for a stranded exhausted swimmer. Thirty-one-year-old Bruno Lobo described the rescue as the day that God used me as an instrument to save this young woman. All honor and glory be to him. The husband and father of one recorded much of the rescue completely by accident as he was trying out a new mount that attached a camera to the front of his board. It was a cloudy day. Windy conditions were not the best, but I decided to test the support that had arrived. It was the first day using the material. I put the camera to record and headed to the coast. After sailing a few meters, I heard a cry for help and looked at the girl who was drowning. I quickly approached her with the kite. I tried to calm her down and asked to climb on my back. She was quite tired and powerless. I used the equipment to bring her safely to the sand. After running to her friends and being examined by lifeguards, the woman hugs Lobo and thanks him for saving her life. That's the golden rule living. We have another one here. A truck driver intervenes in highway shootout, wins Goodyear Highway Hero Award. A New York timber truck driver has been recognized as a highway hero after using his 18-wheeler to help corral a shooter who had injured a police officer. It happened on Interstate 88 in June 2023. Tim was preparing to pass a state trooper who was approaching a car who had just pulled over. Van Strom is the owner and operator of his own logging transportation company in Northville, New York, and is well acquainted with dangerous work. Although the risk he faced don't typically involve gunfire. It happened so fast, he said. I wasn't sure what I saw at first, but I saw the trooper kind of skip sideways a little bit. Then Van Stromem explains he saw the driver draw his gun and start shooting out of the back window of his car at the trooper, which started a 12-minute ordeal where bullets were flying. Van Strom then pulled his logging truck in front of the shooter's car, cornering him against the side of the road and ensuring the shooter was stopped. Fox didn't specify if he had been taken into custody, wounded or killed by the troopers, and eventually back that arrived. Van Strom was later honored by the New York State Police and by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company as a high righway hero. The Goodyear Highway Hero Award is one way that Goodyear recognizes the importance of the commercial trucking industry, which helps move 72%. Wow, I didn't know that, y'all. 72% of all the U.S. economy goods is done by truck drivers, according to the American Trucking Association. Well, hats off to him getting involved, not just watching something go awry, but actually saying, you know what, I think I could probably help out with this. And he did. And I think that is awesome. So it's time for the top three podcast episodes. But this week's going to be a little bit different, as I will dig deeper into the first podcast, as it literally has been my favorite podcast of the year. It has a ton of wisdom, and I want to share with you all the wisdom I got out of it because I thought, man, this thing is powerful. I want to share it with our group. So here we go. Our number one podcast. This is from Denzel Washington, and it's called Becoming Unstoppable Starts with One Choice and You Never Quit. Without commitment, you will never start. Without consistency, you will never finish. Fall down seven times and get up eight. Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship. Keep moving, keep growing, and keep learning. I got everything I have by working hard. Anything you want good, you can have. Claim it. Work hard, get it. When you get it, reach back and pull someone else up. Don't just aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference. Put God first in everything that you do. Everything you see in me, says Denzel, and everything I have is by the grace of God. You will never see a U-Haul behind a hurts. You cannot take material things with you when you die. What are you gonna do with the gifts and talents you have? Do what you feel passionate about. Don't be afraid to fail. Don't be afraid to go outside the box. Have dreams but have goals. Have life goals, yearly goals, monthly goals, and daily goals. Understand to achieve your goals, you must apply discipline and consistency every day. We don't plan to fail, we fail to plan. He says hard work works. Working really hard is what successful people do. Just because you're doing a lot, it doesn't mean you're getting a lot done. There's a difference between busy work and productive work. Don't confuse momentum with progress. You can run in place all day and never get anywhere. Fall forward. He talks about how Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career. The most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about any of the strikeouts. All that people remember with Reggie Jackson is how many home runs he hit. The 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Take risks. You'll fail at some point in your life. Accept it. You will lose. You will embarrass yourself. Embrace it. Just don't quit. Pray and keep moving forward. You will catch a break. Do you have the guts to fail? If you don't fail, you're not even trying. To get something you have never had, you're gonna have to do something that you've never done before. When you fail, fail forward. Say thank you in advance for what is already yours. True desire in the heart. That desire is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it is yours. Anything you want good, you can have. So claim it. Work hard and get it. When you get it, reach back and pull someone else up. Teach one, teach one. Alright, the second podcast was Angela Davis. Believe that you are capable of your dream. And then number three, the third one was Kristen Welch. How saying no leads to life's biggest yes. So remember, all of those podcasts every week are going to be in your show notes for you. Definitely, if you get a chance, listen to the first one for sure, Denzel Washington's. The other two are really good as well. But uh man, I just think you'll really enjoy them. Let's wrap this thing up. This episode is dedicated to my brother. He beat cancer and is an amazing inspiration to me and how a man should be. Total class act. I love my bro. He's three years older than I am, and we live pretty close by and we talk uh a couple times a day at least via text and stuff. Love him, love him, love him. All right, weekly challenge. This week, do a random act of kindness for somebody in your family. Something fun, different, exciting. Maybe a phone call out of the blue, just telling them how much you love them, a text, uh, maybe a gift card, maybe send them some flowers. Do something cool just because they'll be like, hey, I didn't, it's on my birthday. What's going on? Just because I love you. We're family. All right, time to close it out. Receive these words spoken over you with love. You are amazing, you are incredible, you're a masterpiece, you are a one-off, you are talented, intelligent, and without question. Your best days are ahead of you, not behind you. Let's keep this going as we're on a road to a million. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever stop dreaming and believing big for you and your family. You deserve it, your family deserves it, and until next week, God bless.
SPEAKER_00Thank you once again for listening to a conversation of hope with Brett. Brett wants to remind you that you are loved and appreciated. If you found value in this episode and know someone who could use a little hope and encouragement, please like, share, and subscribe. Be sure to check out the show notes for links to Brett's top three podcasts of the week. And don't forget, Brett is offering a free copy of his book. Just send an email to dpdxfreedom at gmail.com to claim your work. If you're facing a tough challenge and would like another perspective on how to navigate it, feel free to email us at dpdxfreedom at gmail.com. We'd love to help. Until next time, we give you and your family an incredible life and ultimately a great life because you yes, you deserve it. God bless.