Tom Bilyeu's Mindset Playbook

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Tom Bilyeu's Mindset Playbook episodes

March 19 David Bayer on Shifting Into a Powerful Mindset at Any Time, in Any Situation
The personal growth and self-help industry has done a great job of leading people to self-awareness. But being aware of limiting beliefs and actually knowing how to unwind them are two very different things. David Bayer has made it his life’s mission to help people actually unwind their limiting beliefs. On this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, David Bayer explains how to use visualization to figure out precisely what you really want, then breaks down the exact steps you need to take to get into a powerful, creative mindset in any situation.
SHOW NOTES:
David asks how we can change the habitual methods of thinking that we are addicted to [2:35]
David describes how beliefs are formed and how beliefs trap people [3:48]
Tom and David discuss how to unwind limiting beliefs [6:40]
David advocates that what causes people to regress are thoughts that are simply untrue [11:35]
David advocates that all unbounded intelligence is all there is [15:11]
David and Tom discuss evolution, spirituality, and how to view the universe [17:59]
At any given time, you are only paying attention to what you believe [21:25]
David explains how to use visualization to figure out what you really want [22:16]
David and Tom discuss how indecision and procrastination stop people [24:45]
David shares his story of overcoming addiction [26:36]
David describes his spiritual journey through meditation and breath-work [29:55]
David explains the practice necessary to constantly shift into a powerful mental state [33:57]
David describes the exact steps necessary to shift into a powerful state [36:56]
David shares the impact he wants to have on the world [38:55]
QUOTES:
“The fastest way for you to eradicate a limiting belief is to actually see the limiting belief as untrue. The moment that happens there is a reorganization in your brain. You can’t unsee it, once you see the lie is a lie.” [13:52]
“That which we tend to pay attention to is aligned with what we believe, and so that’s all we get.” [21:44]
“Most people know what they don’t want, but they don’t know what they do want.” [22:16]

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45 min
March 16 Molly Bloom on How to Reach True Fulfillment
Molly Bloom, the exceptional woman behind Molly’s Game, ran the world’s most successful illegal poker game. And then it all came crashing down. It’s a fascinating story, but what is more amazing is her recovery from devastating failure. On this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, Molly Bloom explains the importance of courage, character and integrity, how to recover from even the most brutal setbacks, and how to enjoy your life on the road to success.
SHOW NOTES:
Molly talks about being the underdog [3:40]
What is “constructive suffering?” [4:41]
Molly advocates perseverance as the primary value [6:48]
Molly explains how her father taught her to face fear [8:48]
Molly talks about how she might raise her kids [10:25]
Molly explains why she decided to hold on to her integrity at all costs [11:56]
Molly says that her come back from rock bottom is her most impressive accomplishment [15:04]
Molly describes the process to getting her story told through a movie [16:34]
Molly defines survival mode and explains how she used survival mode to succeed [19:54]
Molly explains the “rage to master” [26:05]
Molly talks about flexibility and self-awareness, and how it’s necessary to adapt [28:15]
Molly talks about her relationship with her father [31:02]
Molly describes the advantages of femininity [33:58]
No shortcuts [37:08]
Molly advocates being ok with uncomfortable feelings and emotions [39:01]
Molly claims that meditation will make you dangerous [40:26]
Molly describes mental training and character development [42:26]
Molly discusses the limitations of self-help and how she wants to overcome those limits [45:13]
Molly shares the impact she wants to have on the world [48:47]
QUOTES:
“Fear is the greatest thief of dreams and a fulfilling life.” [10:18]
“He sits back in his chair and he gives me this amused expression. And he’s like, “Well I’ll tell you one thing. I’ve never met someone so down on their luck and so full of themselves.” [19:14]
“You know inside when you’ve taken a shortcut. When you haven’t shown up 100%...No shortcuts. Ever. Every detail, you put your name on.” [38:04]
“I was around some of the world’s most successful, wealthy, powerful people. I can count on this hand and half of this hand how many people were enjoying their life.” [44:25]

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57 min
March 12 Kute Blackson on How to Respond When Life Tests You
Son of a charismatic miracle-worker, Kute Blackson could have inherited his father’s church. He could also have become the next Oprah Winfrey. But his intuition told him to find his own path. Now he devotes his life to helping other people find out who they really are, and experience true liberation. On this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, Kute Blackson explains why we need to stop lying to ourselves, why truth is the most fundamental value, and how to reframe your negative feelings as gifts.
SHOW NOTES:
Kute explains how to get into a state of flow by getting out of your own way [2:58]
Kute believes that there is an intelligence beyond the mind that breathes through us [4:28]
Kute advocates that there is a level where we know everything [5:33]
Kute explains how to develop your gifts [8:31]
Kute describes liberation experiences [11:31]
Kute explains why it’s important to embrace death and realize that life is temporary [15:10]
Kute advocates that we keep ourselves stuck by lying to ourselves [22:35]
Kute describes how your negative feelings are gifts [24:05]
Kute shares the story of how he developed the courage to live his own life [26:19]
Sometimes the real challenges show up when you find your purpose [27:41]
Kute claims that life is actively trying to express itself through us [29:39]
Tom discusses intuition and empathy, poetry and logic [31:46]
Kute describes the process of unwinding the lies we tell ourselves [35:11]
Kute advocates giving everything you have to the moment [36:40]
Kute shares his story of how he turned down the best offer he ever got [41:15]
Kute shares the impact he wants to have on the world [48:02]
QUOTES:
“Who are you really? Are you this body? This body, every seven years, changes. Every seven years the cells change, they regenerate. So literally after seven years you have a totally different body. So are you just this body?” [18:00]
“If we want to be free we have to be willing to be ruthlessly, compassionately honest with ourselves.” [23:23]
“Many times we go to God or whatever we believe and we pray, ‘God help me!’ And God says, ‘Go tell the truth. Don’t come to me. Go tell the truth!” [23:36]

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56 min
March 09 Marie Forleo on Why Even Your Failures Are Just Opportunities to Learn
Marie Forleo, author of “Everything is Figure-Outable”, is on a mission to help you succeed in life and in business. And that means showing everyone how to challenge their most deeply-held beliefs, and how to approach every situation as a learning opportunity. On this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, Marie Forleo explains the relationship between action and clarity, how to tell the difference between fear and intuition, and why you always have to start before you’re ready.
SHOW NOTES:
What does it mean to say everything is figure-outable? [2:13]
Marie describes why it was so important for her to write her book [9:21]
Marie advocates that every single person has immense personal power [10:45]
Marie describes watching her parents divorce over money [13:05]
Marie explains how to change deeply-held beliefs [16:46]
Marie and Tom discuss the only belief that matters [20:48]
Marie and Tom discuss what changed their beliefs about everything being figure-outable [24:00]
Marie explains how to face a hard truth when it comes from an enemy [26:31]
Marie describes how she uses negative emotions as fuel [29:51]
Marie explains why you have to start before you’re ready [31:57]
Marie explains the quote “failure is just an event, not a characteristic” [35:19]
Marie describes her relationship to fear [37:44]
Marie explains how to understand the difference between fear and intuition [40:41]
Marie describes the dangers of groupthink in self-development circles [44:00]
Marie details how to listen to your own body and intuition [45:32]
Marie explains that clarity comes from action and engagement, not thought [47:00]
Marie picks her favorite quote from her book [50:20]
Marie shares the impact she hopes her book has [52:42]
QUOTES:
“Try it before you deny it.” [11:45]
“Beliefs are a choice and every choice can be changed.” [17:49]
“Starting before you’re ready is one of the greatest secrets to kick your butt out of procrastination and into a world of growth.” [35:00]
“I win or I learn, but I never lose.” [36:03]

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1 hr
March 05 Nick Santonastasso on How to Get Whole, No Matter How Broken You Are
Nick Santonastasso was born with no legs and one arm. And he absolutely refuses to make excuses. He became a varsity wrestler, a social media sensation, and wrote the book that perfectly describes his mindset, “Victim to Victor.” On this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, Nick Santonastasso describes how his mindset is his superpower, how he deals with failure, and how he balances ego and confidence.
SHOW NOTES:
Nick talks about how his parents raised him [2:52]
Nick describes his process for figuring out his body and fitness [4:22]
Nick talks about being in full victim-mode in middle and high school [7:24]
Nick explains how his mindset became his superpower [14:20]
Nick explains how failure and getting beat up helped him out [15:30]
Nick talks about how the lessons he learned in wrestling applied to life [20:27]
Nick describes why the biggest disability is a bad mindset [24:22]
Nick describes how his value system has changed [26:46]
Nick explains how he balances ego and confidence [29:37]
What is the path to confidence? [32:05]
Nick describes what he does when he doesn’t follow through on his commitments [35:24]
Nick shares his experience with prosthetics [36:38]
Nick shares the impact he wants to have on the world [41:00]
QUOTES:
“As long as I try my best, as long as I attempt it, that’s not really failing.” [14:55]
“If I was gonna lose, I was gonna lose like a champion.” [16:29]
“People can see me on the street and be like, ‘Wow, look how disabled that guy is.’ And I’m like, pfft. Have you seen your mindset? Have you seen the way you operate? Have you seen the way you react to situations, that you’re pissed off in traffic? You think the world happens TO you. I’m not disabled. You’re handicapped.” [26:03]

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48 min
March 02 Doug Bopst on How to Completely Turn Your Life Around
How does someone rebuild from the depths of failure, self-inflicted harm, and feelings of worthlessness? Doug Bopst knows all about hitting rock bottom. But sitting in jail, a miserable addict, overweight and locked in a victim mindset, he found a mentor in a cellmate who got him into fitness. On this week’s episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, watch as elite fitness coach Doug Bopst shares his story of resurrection and redemption.
SHOW NOTES:
Doug talks about rebuilding from a sense of total worthlessness [2:57]
Doug explains how important it is that someone believes in you [5:56]
Doug describes the process by which he learned to take responsibility [8:45]
Doug explains how seeing progress changes your outlook [11:31]
Doug describes how important faith is [12:29]
Doug talks about how, at first, channeling anger was effective in fitness [16:16]
Doug illustrates his continuing need for mentorship [19:24]
Doug describes his spiritual journey and why he went on it in the first place [21:58]
Doug advocates focusing on your process instead of immediate results [25:15]
Doug explains why he is hard on his clients [27:07]
Doug describes self-compassion, gratitude and affirmation [28:56]
Doug advocates focusing on what you can control day-to-day [30:53]
Doug describes his daily routine and time management [33:08]
Doug explains how to change the behaviors that you attach to emotions [34:15]
Doug talks about how to deal with bullying [37:43]
Doug shares what he would tell his younger self if he could [38:55]
Doug shares the impact he wants to have on the world [41:03]
QUOTES:
“You can either be a man or you can be a bitch.” [10:41]
“I literally feel like I died in jail and was reborn.” [15:37]
“You have to fail to grow stronger. You have to fail to run faster.” [19:12]

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46 min
February 26 Colin O'Brady on How to Become Decisive In the Face of Paralyzing Fear
How does a regular person with fears and doubts go from abject failure to breaking world records? Colin O’Brady suffered a critical injury so bad that a doctor told him he would probably never walk properly again. So, he climbed Mount Everest. And he became the first person to do what was thought impossible--cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
On this week’s episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, watch as Colin O’Brady explains how he deals with fears, doubts, and competitiveness, and how he uses objectivity about it all to his advantage.
SHOW NOTES:
Colin explains what inspires him to take extreme risks [2:42]
Colin describes the connection between being an artist and an athlete [4:30]
Colin talks about how his self-narrative kept him going [7:51]
Colin describes his relationship to fear [13:32]
Colin defines the most important skill he needed to cross Antarctica alone [18:30]
Colin describes the real experience of meditation [20:33]
Colin explains why he doesn’t have a negative interpretation of his experiences [27:00]
Colin illustrates his own competitive drive and how he cultivates it [35:00]
Colin describes his conception of death [42:00]
Colin shares the impact he wants to have on the world [49:00]
QUOTES:
“We are the story we tell ourselves.” [8:16]
“My biggest fear is bottoming out at that plateau of comfortable complacency.” [46:30]
“The fear is not death specifically. The curiosity is how can I live my life so that I’m...not hedging so much against death that I don’t fully live.” [47:26]

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57 min
February 23 Self-made Man Explains How You Must Think to Win | Everette Taylor
Before you conclude that circumstances prevent you from success, you might want to listen to what Everette Taylor has to say. Here is a man who was homeless, who first learned business from drug dealers, and who then started multiple multi-million dollar companies. He is now one of the most successful and recognized entrepreneurs under 30. How did he get there? On this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, Everette Taylor shows how you can learn anything you want to learn if you are willing to truly listen to people and then put in the work.
SHOW NOTES:
Relentless is Everette’s favorite word [3:05]
Everette tells the story of being homeless and losing everything [4:39]
Embracing reality means actually finding a solution [6:51]
Everette and Tom discuss learning entrepreneurship from hustlers and drug dealers [8:04]
Tom asks Everette why the same poverty that breaks other people propelled him [14:11]
Everette explains why he needed to see entrepreneurs who looked like him [17:11]
Everette talks about the importance of emotional intelligence [19:00]
Everette advocates that you can learn anything you want to learn [20:59]
Everette says helping people is his deepest motivation [22:30]
Everette and Tom discuss what to say to someone who hasn’t found their passion [25:08]
Everette advocates really understanding your target audience [26:53]
Everette and Tom discuss the love of learning [30:00]
Everette describes one change people could make that would have the most impact [35:30]
QUOTES:
“It’s one thing being homeless. It’s another thing having everything taken away from you.” [5:10]
“My supplier, that was the first COO that I ever met. Being a drug dealer is like being a Chief Operating Officer.” [11:45]
“There’s a lot of drug dealers. There’s not a lot of drug dealers who are making real money. It takes a certain je ne sais quoi to get to a point where you’re the boss.” [13:47]

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46 min
February 19 Trent Shelton on Feeling Fear or Anxiety
Former NFL wide receiver and current champion influencer Trent Shelton spends his life helping people become the best possible version of themselves. In this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, Trent shares deeply personal stories from his own life, his own fears and his own failures. But he doesn’t stop there. He explains how you can use your fears, your failures and your life experiences to live (not find) your true purpose.
SHOW NOTES:
Trent describes being an introvert who becomes a renowned public speaker [2:32]
Trent talks about being scared to speak in front of 5,000 people [4:00]
Trent and Tom discuss using manipulative techniques on themselves [6:25]
Why it’s important to move towards things that scare you [8:20]
Trent explains the championship mindset and why you have to want it for yourself [9:09]
Trent wanted to be a professional football player at six years old [12:07]
Should you help people build their desire? [13:08]
What really matters? [15:47]
Trent explains how he helps people face reality [17:39]
Trent discusses vulnerability and authenticity [19:07]
Trent explains exactly what he thinks fear is [21:07]
How do people identify their purpose? [24:19]
Trent illuminates the difference between what you want and where you thrive [26:17]
Suppression leads to depression [28:10]
Trent shares how he deals with his mother’s cancer [29:40]
Trent talks about gratitude [32:20]
Trent discusses self-care [34:02]
Trent shares the impact that he wants to have on the world [38:00]
QUOTES:
“If you’re nervous, if you’re scared, you’re too into yourself.” [7:47]
“The foundation of all strength is pain.” [9:05]
“I used to have a fear of not succeeding. My fear now is succeeding at the wrong things.” [16:52]
“Sometimes “I need help” is the most powerful thing that you can say.” [18:22]

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46 min
February 16 John Assaraf on How to Upgrade Your Mindset in 46 Minutes
John Assaraf is a successful serial entrepreneur with 5 multi-million dollar companies to his name. He is also a New York Times bestselling author, a behavioral & mindset expert. He’s also been interviewed by Larry King, Ellen and Anderson Cooper.
SHOW NOTES:
Why he committed crimes as a youth and how he found a mentor [2:42]
How one man changed John Assaraf’s life in one minute [3:39]
The difference between being interested and committed [4:23]
The power of forgiveness and family [9:38]
Why John Assaraf believes in using “crap boards”, accomplishment boards, vision boards [12:36]
The power of goal setting vs goal achievement & the difference between the law of attraction and the law of GOYA [16:02]
The power of focusing on progress instead of perfection [17:14]
The neurochemistry of goal achievement [20:31]
Why people don’t do what they know they should, and what happens when they do [21:54]
Your ‘story’ defines who you are… and why you need to change it [24:20]
Why self-talk is so critical to your success, happiness and goal achievement [27:38]
Why fear is a “go signal” for John Assaraf [28:55]
Take 6 deep breaths to get the Einstein part of your brain engaged + control the lizard brain [31:14]
Why we are biologically wired to hate change and you need to consciously create habits [38: 47]
The three boards - vision board, accomplish board, crap board [40:39]

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52 min