Forging Life Podcast

S2E38: The Morning 5 with Glenn Lundy


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In this episode, I speak with Glenn Lundy. I first met Glenn on Clubhouse when I was looking for a morning message as I did my morning routines. Monday through Friday, Glenn goes live on all social media platforms to share a message and positivity into your morning. He is a husband and father of 8, author and international speaker. Check out below for ways you can connect with Glenn!

(3:00) Grew up in a blended home with his mom being white and father black. Glenn explains growing up in this situation

(7:00) Started struggling in his teen years with his Identity. While in college, Glenn met a girl and found out that she became pregnant

(8:00) Living the “looks good, feels good” life

(9:00) Work life excelled while his home life tanked. Daughter was taken from him. A warrant was out for his arrest

(11:00) How over time, homelessness eventually makes you invisible.

(13:00) Glenn decided it was time to take his life and walked out into the middle of the ocean.

(14:00) Realized that he is the constant in life. So, he is also to blame for all of the good things

(15:00) Went on a journey of self-discovery

(16:00) Reframed to “looks good, feels good, and is good” then go after it

(20:00) Creating a space online that is a safe space and does a morning show that cracked 830 episodes at the time of this recording.

(21:00) Seeks out others to make sure that they are seen, heard, and understood.

(25:00) Glenn shares some parts of his Morning 5 book to help you win your day

(28:00) The importance of goals and why you don’t write out your goals. Before writing goals, take time to write out gratitude. It gets you in a positive mindset instead of negative.

(37:00) The first step Glenn took was starting a morning show that was first recorded inside of the utility closet.

(42:00) Four words his company goes off of. Rise, Evolve, Impact, Together. Rise with intention and purpose, evolve to the best version they can be, impact others, doing things together

(46:00) The importance of investing time into everything. Don’t spend time because that’s a negative. Just like if you spend your money, your bank account goes down

(49:00) Put everything on a calendar. Even eating breakfast with his kids is on a calendar.

(51:00) What fires up Glenn…

Go to www.GlennLundy.com and you can connect to all social media platforms

Clubhouse, Breakfast with Champions, www.themorning5.com to get the download of his book

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