Optimal Self with Jeremy Herider

Joseph James | Vulnerability Will Bring YOU Healing... Plus Hope


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Joseph James is a former U.S. Marine and Law Enforcement veteran, business owner, father, motivational speaker and life coach. Joseph has spoken in many venues across the nation and has helped 1,000โ€™s of people understand their purpose in life.

After his wifeโ€™s battle of cancer, and the journey of pain his family went through, Joseph is now coaching people that have gone through lifeโ€™s struggles, pain and trauma to help them not just find their purpose through pain but teach them to take their pain and launch them into their destiny!

Social Media Sharable Quotes:

โ€œHe started out with spankingsโ€ฆ there was no โ€œtime outโ€ for my siblings and Iโ€ฆ Then spankings quickly escalated and became beatings!โ€ Joseph referencing his father and childhood

โ€œMy 3-year-old showing me Google Maps asking me; where is heaven dad?... because thatโ€™s where is mom isโ€ฆโ€ Joseph talking about losing his wife right after the birth of their child.

โ€œWe have to understand the capacity of the humans rejecting usโ€ฆโ€ - Jeremy on dealing with rejection at any age

โ€œI smell the smell of death and I have no hopeโ€ โ€“ Josephโ€™s wife โ€œI realized right then this was not a day-by-day battle, or month by month, or year by year, BUT it was a SECOND-by-SECOND battle. Every moment matters and the mood can change in a second! โ€“ Joseph

โ€œVulnerability brings healingโ€ฆ you can say, here, this is the ball and chain I have been carrying for so long, man will you please take it from me and do something with it?!โ€- Joseph regarding his healing process


Show Notes:

0:22- Jeremy introduces Joseph James and give brief story about how they met

2:01- Joseph tells his โ€œstoryโ€

10:54- Jeremy and Joseph dive into โ€œseeking approvalโ€ from parents, teacher, coaches, brother, co-worker etc. Hint: remove the word โ€œapprovalโ€ with โ€œopinion. Listen as Jeremy explains

21:50- Rejection: โ€œA lot of it is just self-forgivenessโ€ฆโ€ Donโ€™t miss this Action Item from Joseph

36:42- Joseph begins the story of losing his wife after being diagnosed with cancer 8 weeks before the due date of their child.

54:43- Vulnerability Brings Healing

1:02:01- Listen to Joseph describe โ€œHell in the Hallwayโ€- Transition of Life

1:15:56- 4 Must Have Takeaways from Joseph:

1- Self -Forgiveness

2- Take Time to Grieve

3- Listen to the Episode for #3 and #4


Connect with Joseph James:

Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/purthrpn 

Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/252908273026721 

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/meetjosephjames/


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