In this episode, we’ll welcome Anthony Trucks, a serial entrepreneur, author, speaker, shift coach, and former-NFL player. Anthony is a sought after expert in helping people know their identity and navigate life’s shifts, good and bad, with grace and optimism, so they can develop into who they want to be. We heard him speak at an event, and we were so moved that we just had to have him on the show because we feel he is the perfect pusher to introduce to the PUSH community.

Anthony has overcome some of the worst circumstances you could ever imagine. He started out in foster care at the age of three along with three of his siblings where they endured beatings, starvation and some of the most imaginable things that children could ever go through. At the age of eight, he was adopted by an all white family (and he’s African American, so you can imagine the challenge here), but he still managed to persevere to achieve an amazing dream worthy career (The NFL), and start a family of his own. 

Somewhere down the line things weren’t going so well, and he lost his career and marriage. To make matters worse, he also lost his adoptive parents and was left with his identity completely shattered. He’s going to share his amazing story of resilience, tenacity, and drive, and teach us how we can “Make Shift Happen” in our lives, so we can achieve happiness, success, and fulfillment.. 

Key Points Discussed:

• Learning how to overcome adversity and going for our dreams no matter what (05:56)
• Common failure, version failure, and predicted failure, and the harm in making them abject (07:12)
• Avoiding the emotional space of opportunistic joy by not talking aspiration (13:25)
• How we create either a strong or weak mindset, and having the confidence to show up for ourselves (16:42)
• Getting to a point where success is your second nature (22:20)
• Showing people the bridge to cross to the other side of the river (25:09)
• The importance of giving ourselves permission to do better (27:21)
• Overcoming an identity crisis to become the man that he is today (31:52)
• The reactive identity shift we are having to face as a society right now (39:42)
• Going through a huge reset, so we can have great ideas once the Coronavirus situation is done (45:27)

Additional Resources:

• Anthony on Instagram
• Anthony’s Website
• www.JanelleCopeland.com/Challenge
• Janelle’s website: JanelleCopeland.com
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• The Push Podcast’s official website: thePushPodcast.com

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