January 24, 2025 • 32 mins
In this episode, Gia sits down with the remarkable Dr. Justin Moseley, also known as the Mindset Doctor. After a life-altering near-death experience, Dr. Justin transformed his life from a successful chiropractor to an international keynote speaker and thought leader, dedicated to helping others unlock their full potential.
Join us as Dr. Justin shares his incredible journey, the lessons learned from his accident, and how he overcame his fear of public speaking to become a two-time TEDx speaker. Discover the power of mindset, the importance of exchanging comfort for calling, and how everyone has a unique message to share with the world.
In this episode, you will learn:
- How to identify and overcome limiting beliefs that hold you back
- The significance of visualization and mental rehearsal in achieving your goals
- Practical strategies to define your vision and take actionable steps toward your next level of success
- The impact of intentional living and how small acts of kindness can create a ripple effect in the lives of others
Ready to uplevel your life? Whether you're crushing it in the corporate world or dreaming of launching your own business, this episode is filled with powerful insights to help you step into your next chapter with authentic confidence. Hit play and get ready for a dose of inspiration that’ll move you toward your next big breakthrough!
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Welcome to Your Future Starts Now, the go-to podcast for
extraordinary women who are ready to step into their next chapter with
authentic confidence. I'm your host, Gia Lacqua empowerment coach,
motivational speaker, children's book author, and girl mom. Whether
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designed for you. Your Future Starts Now is more than
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just a podcast. It's a movement, a movement towards rewriting
the rules of success for high-achieving women. Are you ready
to get unstuck and step into your next chapter? If
so, you're exactly where you need to be. Your future starts
now. Welcome to Your Future Starts Now. I'm your host,
Gia Lacqua. I want to thank you for joining us today. I am absolutely
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thrilled to welcome Dr. Justin Moseley to the show.
Dr. Justin is also known as the Mindset Doctor. He's
a highly sought-after international keynote speaker. After
surviving a near-death accident in 2018, Dr.
Justin shifted from changing lives in his clinic to
changing lives all over the world. Dr. Justin is
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a two-time TEDx speaker and host of the Mindset Doctor podcast,
and his thought leadership has been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC,
and Fox. Dr. Justin helps people master their minds,
so they can unlock their full potential, fulfill their
deepest desires, and create next level success and abundance
in their business and every area of life. Dr. Justin,
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I'm so excited to chat with you today. Thanks for being here. So
tell us, just so our listeners can get to know you a little bit better, you were
a chiropractor once upon a time. Tell us what led you to
Yes, I was a chiropractor by trade. My wife's a chiropractor as well. We
still have a clinic outside of Nashville, Tennessee. Opened our
clinic in 2012 and built a great clinic, family
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practice. We were helping lots of people, making a difference. Fast
forward to 2018 is when I had a near death accident that
completely changed the trajectory of my life. So I went on a
men's retreat and we went whitewater rafting. And we hit the
class five rapids and it was just a freak accident. Our raft tipped
over and I was sitting on the back of the raft and I got trapped underneath
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the rapid itself. And it started pushing me underwater. And
I still remember the sound of my helmet scraping down the rocks as I was being pushed
under. And the last thing I remember thinking is, I'm
not coming back up. And everything went black. And
then everything went bright white and it was the most peaceful, serene feeling
I'd ever felt. And I don't know how long I'd lost consciousness,
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but I heard a voice that said, wake up. And thankfully I did because
I came back to consciousness and I was trapped underwater, wedged between two
rocks. And I tried to push and I didn't budge.
And I kept pushing and pushing. And then thankfully my adrenaline kicked
in. And I was able to push hard enough that I broke the buckle on my
life jacket that was trapped underneath one of the rocks, floated to
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the top, gasped for breath, got swept down the river. And at
that point I was rocked. And for all of us, at some point
we questioned, like, what is the purpose of life? Like, why are we here? But
in that moment, I ask a different question. I said, why am I still here?
Because things could have been different in that moment. What if I didn't hear wake up
or what if I wasn't strong enough to break free? So I
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asked myself, why am I still here? And the thing is, I was
living my purpose. I was helping people. I was making a difference. But
I realized I was playing way too small. I knew I
could make such a bigger impact. And what I realized is I'd gotten comfortable
in life because life was good. I was helping people. We were making money.
I was traveling with my wife, doing the things I enjoyed. But I knew
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if I truly wanted to step into the calling that was on my life, I needed to
exchange my comfort for my calling. So that's
when I started processing that. And I was like, man, I just want to put out
content that helps people. And that's how I started. I kind of shifted gears.
I was like, I don't know if anybody's going to listen. I'm just going to put myself out there.
I don't know if you ever felt that. We'll see, but I
put it out there and I started the 1st of 2020. I started a Facebook group,
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January, 2020, and a thousand people joined in the first month. So
I was like, okay, people are listening. And it just kept leading to more
opportunities, speaking, leading mastermind retreats, different
coaching and those types of things. So it's been a wild ride, but
it's been a lot of fun. And now I've. Just did my second TED
talk. I did one in 2022 talking about my lessons I
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learned from my near death accident. But what I
learned from that is I started speaking all over and a lot of people would
reach out to me and like, I love what you're doing. I wish I could do that, but I'm
terrified of speaking. And I was like, wait a minute. I'm,
I was terrified for most of my life, had a tremendous fear of public speaking. So
that's what I just did. My second Ted talk on is how it overcame my fear of public
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speaking, because I believe everybody's got a message to share. And
there's a message inside of you. The world is waiting to hear. So that
was a message on my heart that I wanted to share with the world and
just crossed 177,000 views, I think.
That's incredible. What an incredible story. And thank you for sharing. I
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have so many questions. I don't know where to start. So first of all, I
mean, what a horrific experience you went through. What do you
Yeah. So I'm a believer. So I believe that was the voice of God for
me. And it was one of those, I didn't hear
an audible voice. It was one of those inner knowings, like, you know, that, you
know, like it was a wake up and it was just in
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that moment. And it was a literal wake up call for me. I heard that. It
was a wake-up call in that moment, but it was a wake-up call for my life, that
I really needed to step back and be like, Hey, what are we doing? Because for
most people, we are going through the motions of life. And
unfortunately it takes something like a near-death accident, maybe
it's a car wreck or loss of a loved one, or we hit this rock bottom
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before we actually change. The good news is you don't
need a near death accident or you don't need a rock bottom moment in order to change.
The cool thing is you can ask yourself the same question I asked myself. Why
am I still here? Because life is a gift. You didn't
have to wake up today, but you did. So if you're listening to this, you've
got air in your lungs. Your heart is beating. Ask yourself,
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why am I still here? And once you answer that question,
I love that. And so you your message is everyone has
a message to share, right? And and in
order to spread that message, you do have to put yourself out there. So talk
to us a little bit about kind of go a little bit deeper into the
everyone has a message to share and what that means to you. But also, you
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Yeah, so I think it goes back to, I know a mutual friend
of ours is Rory Vaden. There's a long time that I
didn't think I had a message to share. I looked at other people, I
was like, man, I want to share, I want to speak, I want to do what they're doing, but who
am I to share anything? But Rory has the quote that you
are perfectly positioned to serve the person you once were.
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And I love that because everybody's got a story. You can look back through your
life. There's things that you've gone through. There's challenges you've faced, obstacles
you've overcome. There's things you've been through in your life. You
can take those lessons you've learned and give those to someone else. Because
there's someone right now going through what you went through in the past and you can actually
help them by just sharing your story. So that's
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kind of where I started. I just kind of looked at, well, what have I been through and
what have I learned? What did I spend time studying? Like, how can I take all
this? I went through that for a reason. How can I use that to
Absolutely. And I think what you said is important, right? Whether you're starting on
Facebook or you're starting with a one-on-one conversation or
a small group conversation where you're you know, having an impact on people
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is important. And you and I both talk about impact in
the work that we do. In the work I do, I talk about radical prioritization
for high achieving women. And one of the pillars
of my framework is impact, right? What is
the impact you want to have? And I love that you said we're going through the
motions, because a lot of us are, you know,
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successful on the outside, but unfulfilled on
the inside. And I think purpose and impact play
an important role in helping to bridge that
gap for a lot of people. So maybe talk to us about your
Yeah, I go back to one of my earliest influences was Tony Robbins. I
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still have the book from Awaken the Giant Within I got when I was 16. And
that was for me because I struggled with lack of self-esteem and
lack of self-worth. And I found myself in the bookstore, the self-help
section. And this book just spoke to me and I read it and it changed my
life. It opened my mind to if you change your mind, you
can change your life. So for me, it's looking back
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on. He taught me two things, like people
want either growth, they want growth and contribution. So
we need to be physically growing ourselves, but we also, how
are we going to contribute to the world? I think that's where the impact
piece comes in. But what I've found is most people. They
downplay their own impact they can make. They think my purpose has
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to be some grand mother Teresa size vision, or I got to solve world
hunger or the water crisis or something like that. It
could be as little as putting a smile on someone's face today. You
could go to the gas station right now and the clerk, she's having a bad day and you can just
lift her up and put a smile on her face. That's the impact
you could make. Or it could be your kids, being able to put a
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smile on their face. We got holidays, first of
the year, all these things. There's people around you in your circle
of influence right now that you can make an impact in. The
thing is, are you intentional? And I believe we have to live
our life by intention, not by default. And too
often we're just going through the motions, living by default versus But
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if I actually looked around, there's so many opportunities to
make an impact in the lives of people around me. And the cool
thing is when you impact other people, it lifts you up. And that's one of the things
I love about it as well. It's just this energy that just kind of cycles through
Absolutely. It's funny. You just reminded me just yesterday, I was not having
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a very good morning and I went to get gas for my car. And as
I pull in the gas station that I normally go to. The attendant was,
well, I live in New Jersey, so we have attendants for gas, we're not allowed to pump
gas. He was blaring Christmas music, dancing,
very festive, so joyful. And I looked at him, I
said, wow, he's got it figured out, this guy right here, .
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Intention, purpose, you know, and he was just exuding
that and it totally changed the course of my day. So there's absolute truth
Right. And it all comes back to energy. It reminds me of a Tony Robbins
story. He talks about, you can have all the wealth in the world and be miserable, or
you can go to the projects right now and just see a mom with just this big smile
on her face, just loving on her kids. Who is happy
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in that moment? Whoever chooses to be happy. So we
can, that's the good thing about the people around us. When we open up our own
eyes, because life happens, stuff is going to happen to us.
So when we can just look at it as a blessing that life's not happening to
us, it's happening for us. And there's different levels
of that. That's usually where people start or stop. But I
believe, yes, life doesn't happen to us. It happens for us, but
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then it happens by us. And then it happens through us.
What I mean by that, by us, by our thoughts, our feelings, our
actions that we're taking, we're creating the environment around us. So
when we open up, that life isn't happening to us and all these things just
keep happening. No, it happened because of the way you've either
thinking, feeling, or acting over time, those results in
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your inner world show up in your outside world. So
more you can be consciously aware of your thoughts, how
you're feeling and how you're acting, you're going to get a different result. So
it's not happening to you. It's happening for you, happening by you.
Then it's happening through you because the things in your outer world are
not just for you. You affect everyone that comes into your sphere.
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Just like that man, the attendant helped you by blaring that music.
He was having an impact on your life. Well, that's the same thing we can do
by changing our own inner thoughts, thoughts, feelings, and actions.
We shift our environment and we shift the people around us and
Yeah, a hundred percent. And I love how you brought the thinking
and the beliefs into it because it's something I wanted to touch on. You
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talk about, in your TED Talk, you talk about, you know, you had
a fear of speaking and today you're an international speaker and
a two-time TEDx speaker. But that,
you know, that took a lot of courage and bravery, right?
And intention behind that to overcome that fear, which by the way, I
think public speaking is like the number one fear that people have.
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of all the fears. So but you brought
up something really important that I want to touch upon, which is a you
call it a childhood memory that's stuck
with you from school. Right? In the
coaching world, we talk about them as limiting beliefs, right? And
those are the scripts that we hold on to. Those are the scripts
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that we tell ourselves about who we are, about who we
are not, what we're capable of and what we're not capable of.
And so I would love your take on, you know, from your perspective,
how that childhood memory rooted itself
Absolutely. Cause our limiting beliefs are what hold us back from
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accomplishing what we'd want to accomplish. And the cool thing about it is usually
we can go back on our life and track like, where did this come from?
And for me, I went all the way back to in second grade when I had
to read in front of the class and I was stumbling over my words and the
kids started laughing at me. It anchored into my mind. You
should just be quiet. Nobody wants to hear from you. And
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I became really shy and reserved. And that followed me
through high school, got into college. I almost failed a
speech class because I had a panic attack during my speech. And
again, that further anchored into my mind, this is not for you.
You should give this up. You should never speak in public. But
I kept feeling this feeling inside of like, I've got a message to share. And
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like, I was influenced by Tony Robbins and I would see him on
stage and how he can make this impact through thousands of people. I
was like, man, I want to do that. But the fear kept holding me back.
And that's when I realized, like, if I truly want to step into my calling, I've got to
overcome this fear. So for me, you got
to identify the fear. You got to say, where is this coming from? And then realize that's
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not who you are. That might be where you're at in this moment, but you can shift
it. You can change limiting beliefs. You can learn any skill. And
one of the best ways to do it is for me, this is what
I did. I saw myself as Tony Robbins. not
trying to be Tony Robbins. I put myself in, so
visualized him on stage. What would it be to look
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through his eyes, to feel what he feels? How
does he use his body? How does he use his words and
his inflections and all the things that he does? And I would visualize
myself doing it over and over. And that's been a big thing that
I teach on is the power of not just visualization, but
actually mental rehearsal. And the more I started doing that,
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the more I became that. The more I started to get comfortable, the
cool thing about the mind is the mind can't tell the difference between something real and
vividly imagined. So, and I don't know, you
probably dive into a lot of this stuff, but there's a couple of studies I really
like is the one they did with basketball players. And
they had three different groups to shoot free throws. Group
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one, you're going to shoot every single day for 30 days. Group
two, you're not going to touch a basketball. Group three, you're
not going to touch a basketball, but you're going to vividly imagine mentally
rehearse shooting a basketball every single day. So sit there in
your chair, close your eyes, but feel what it feels like to
hold this imaginary ball. Hear what it sounds like to
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dribble it, feel what it feels like to follow through and see
it going through the air, hear it going through the net. And they did that over
and over. End of the study, group one got
24% better. Group two, didn't get any better. But
group three, they didn't touch a basketball, but vividly imagined
it, got 23% better. Only 1% difference
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than the people that shot a basketball every single day. That's
the power of the mind. And Joe Dispenza shares a study, people
that couldn't play piano, do a one-handed piano exercise. Group
two, you're not going to touch a piano, vividly imagine it. feel
what it feels like. Group one, at the end of that study, they
actually got the same level of proficiency playing the piano. And
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the cool thing about that study, they did MRIs of their brain and
exact same parts of their brain were firing, whether they were physically playing
or just vividly imagining it. So for me, that's
been a game changer for me, is vividly imagine having
the confidence, being able to speak, seeing people
as I look out. I did this before I had my first TED talk. I saw what
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it was going to be like standing in that red circle, the lights coming
down, the buzz of the microphone. When I'm looking out, people are nodding with
me as I'm speaking. It happened exactly the way that I'd rehearsed
it in my mind so many times. A lot of people ask me, like,
were you nervous getting up there? I was like, no, because
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Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And the key is
there too. It's not visualizing, like seeing something on a movie screen. It's
actually rehearsing it with your own body. The more you can involve your
own senses. And that's where I like, see what they see, feel
what they feel, hear what they hear. The more your senses are
involved, the more real it's going to be to your body and to your own nervous system to
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be like, Oh, you've already done this. Like riding a bike. Once
you learn it, you don't unlearn it. You get the confidence. I can do this. So.
Like watching a movie, right? Where in visualizing yourself as
Yeah. Yeah. And most people, that's a good point. Most people are not even the star in
their own movie. They're playing a backup role in their life. So
you need to be the star of the show. And the more you visualize yourself
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and experience it, the more you're going to think it's real and the
Absolutely. And so, you know, along those lines, you talk about, you
empower people to exchange their comfort for
their calling. And I know you mentioned that earlier. So tell us
a little bit about what that means and how we can shift our energy
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Yeah. So a couple of powerful questions I love to get people. Number one
is what do you want? And that's the
hardest question for people to answer. A lot of times are you asking what they want?
They tell you all the things I don't want. I don't want to work these hours. I
don't want to travel here or do that or whatever the they're
not want list is. So great thing to do is write all that out.
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And then on the other side of the page, what's the opposite of that? But
get really clear. You've got to have the vision for it. Without vision,
people perish. You've got to have a vision for your life. So
step one, what do you want? And then here's the powerful question. Who
do you need to become in order to achieve that? So
I have a guy, do you know, Dan Martell? So
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I had him on my podcast. And one of the things that he talks about is
the person that you need to become to achieve your goals is
not who you are today. If you were already that person, you would have
already achieved it. So it's, we have to constantly grow. So
we need a vision that's big enough that causes us to grow. Then we
need to look at the areas of our life. Like where do we need to grow to
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become the person we need to become that can achieve that goal? So
a lot of it is just, is taking the time to get clear. What do I want? And
then who do I actually need to become? And if you set out to become
that person each and every day on the trajectory to hit your goals,
Yeah. It's such a powerful question is what do you want? I think you're right. I
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think we don't ask ourselves that question enough. Right.
Because we're so focused on the external and all the things that are coming at
us and we're sort of in reactive defensive mode. And
so for us to tune in or for someone to say to you, what do you truly
want? And I think, you know, that's true for men and women, but especially high achieving
women, working moms who are, you know, constantly giving, serving,
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you know, and they have so much on their plate. for them to pause and really
Absolutely. And I want to shift that. Let's reframe that, because I do.
I hear that a lot. And I know you hear that a lot. So it's
actually selfish if you don't put the time in, because think
about how much more. And I give props. I didn't even
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look at my mom growing up. She gave to everyone else, which
is amazing. But the more you give to yourself and figure
out what you truly want, the better you're going to serve the people around you.
I was just at an event a couple months ago now, but Marcus Lemonis
was speaking. And he asked somebody in the crowd about, about
their business. And they were like, Yeah, we're here to serve people. And
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they were like, we're, we're people over profits. And
he was like, yeah, I get that. And that's a great tagline, but it's like, you got to
shift it. You got to be profit driven, but realizing the
profit is where you make the impact in people's lives because
profit is in exchange for value. So I think it's the
same thing, getting a clear vision, especially like the moms that
you talked about getting, or the women in general, don't have to be a mom, but
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the more clear you are, the vision that you have and who you want
to become, the better you're going to serve the people around you because
Absolutely. I think that is such a powerful mindset shift. And I
couldn't agree more. But that's a
tough shift for people. And I think it also ties into the identity piece, right?
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When we tie our value and our worth to
something outside of ourselves. For many of us, it's a job. It's
Yeah, I went through that myself. Yeah. Cause I was a chiropractor by
trade and I physically could not do my job. I blew my
shoulder out and I was actually adjusting people. My shoulder would go out the
back. I'll pop it back in and keep adjusting. Cause like, man, I'm
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here to help these people. But it got to the point I couldn't even lift my arm. And
so I had to stop adjusting and I got had
stem cell done on it. Thankfully it healed me up, but there was a period of
time there because I was, I, my identity was a chiropractor. I'm
an amazing chiropractor. And now I can't do it. What
am I going to do? And I realized in that period that
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chiropractic is not who I am. That's just what I do. And
that allowed me to go deeper and be like, who am I? I'm a person that's
called to make a positive impact in the lives of others. Chiropractic
was just a vehicle of doing that. So it gave myself permission to
say, hey, there's other ways I can make an impact. So
same thing with anyone listening. If you've identified with who you are in
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your job or your role as a parent or spouse or all those
things, those are labels we've given ourselves. What's
the deeper meaning? For me, the impact, like we were talking
about, how can I do that on a larger scale and not be labeled
Yes. And I mean, you're it's a perfect example of
that personal transformation. Right. And I love how, you
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know, you have all this background, experience, education that
you've invested. But that doesn't mean you had to throw it
out the window. Right. You just built on that foundation that
Absolutely. Yeah. And I was able to, and it kind of came full circle because
the more I started putting myself out there and just trying to help other people, other
chiropractors started reaching out to me and they were like, Hey man, I'm struggling with
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my business. And the cool thing, I'm sure you see this with the people you
work with, especially if they're business owners. It's usually
not a business problem. It wasn't their systems or procedures. It
was all their level of mindset and personal development that was
holding them back. So once they got out of their own way, their
systems and procedures started to work. And I was actually able
to give back to the chiropractic profession because I was one of
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them. Like I had been through it, I'd lived it. And then I kind of helped them get
unlocked and then their business would take off. So that's the cool thing
is, and one of my mentors told me a long time ago, I was like, businesses don't
have problems. Businesses have people and people have problems. So
that's usually the hardest part is dealing with the people around you. But
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All the other variables and people, but yeah, I mean, for
sure, whether you're just starting out in your career, whether you're transitioning, whether
you're a C-suite level executive, that's why so many C-suites have coaches,
That's a great point. So, Dr. Justin, you talk about
next level success. I would love to know what
that means and, you know, Maybe how can
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Yeah, great question. And it's, it's changed even recently for
me, because I've always been a big vision guy. I want to help people, I want to make a difference. And
then, I don't remember where I heard it, but somebody was talking about, it
could have been Dan Martell, but he was like, you want a mentor that's just
a few steps ahead of you. Like right now, I wouldn't reach
out to Elon Musk and ask him to help me with my business because
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he's thinking so far ahead of me. Whatever advice he would give me
would just. I wouldn't be able to comprehend it because it's too far
ahead. That's true. Yeah. Maybe by next year, that's going
to be a different conversation. But he's like, as of right now, you
want to get mentors that are just a couple steps ahead of you because
they could, they just lived it. They just went through it and they can
help you. So I think next level success. Yes.
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It's great to have the big vision, but just break it down. What's the next
thing that I can do? And who do I need to become? Because you gotta be clear.
What can I do, but who do I need to become? And then look for
the people around you. That's why I love connecting with cool people like
this through a podcast. It's like build your network of people who
can encourage you, inspire you to actually make it happen. Cause
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the problem is a lot of people have the people around them that are telling them why they
can't do it. And a lot of people ask me like, well, if I set goals,
should I tell people about it? And I believe you should.
And you shouldn't, if you tell the wrong people, they'll tell you why you can't do it.
But if you tell the right people, they will actually encourage you, inspire you.
They'll actually help you reach your goal. So I
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think it starts with back to that vision, but looking at what's
the next thing. What are the next three steps on
the way to step 20? How can I get here? And
then once you get there, it might require new mentors, new
coaches, a new group around you. But if we can keep moving forward,
it goes back to that growth and contribution. We're going to
be growing, there's going to be more resources that we can contribute to
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Yeah, I think that's so powerful and makes
so much sense. And then so we talk about success and defining and
redefining success on this podcast. Tell us how
you define success for yourself today and maybe how that's shifted or evolved
Yeah, I think it's for me, it's really being able to do what I want, when
I want, with who I want. And I think in the past it
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was, if you get a certain title, if you make a certain amount of money, you
do those things. But really, I mean, I think it's one
being able to enjoy your own life. The things don't matter if you're not happy. The
things don't matter if the people around you are unhappy. So I think it's finding
the joy and the peace in the day to day and then having the freedom to
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Amazing. And I would love to know, can you share maybe a practical
exercise, or I know you've shared so much wisdom and insight already, but any
other mindset shifts that you want listeners to take away
Oh, good question. Because I think a mindset shift for people, one,
we've all heard about morning routines, and I believe morning routines are great. A
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morning routine sets up your day, but it's your evening routine that
sets up your life. So before you fall asleep,
I want you to get a clear vision of what you want, and I want you to create
a scene in your mind of you actually, as it's already
happened, you're already living it. I did this before my
TED talk the first time, seeing myself already as a TEDx
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speaker. Like I'd already been there so many times in my mind, because
as you sleep, your subconscious mind begins to process that.
So I've actually got a free giveaway. It's called my baseball
technique, which actually teaches you how to program your subconscious mind before
you fall asleep, because I think that's such an important time. And
as you start to do that, you can start to use that
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in other areas of your life to attract more success, abundance, relationships,
whatever you want to do. But I think the shift there is the
morning routine sets up your day, but the evening routine sets up your
life. So if you start focusing on what you're putting into your mind before you fall
I love that. That is incredible advice. And I definitely
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agree with you there because I think the morning routine is
a great way to set up your day, but the bedtime routine is really where
you're focused on the broad strokes, right? You're thinking more strategically about
Yeah. And then the cool thing about it is as you fall asleep, then
your brain's going to process it. And that's the cool thing about
if you look back to Leonardo da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin, they
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took naps during the day because they weren't trying to consciously solve
their problems. When we're consciously thinking through it, we're in the high
beta brainwaves. When we can slow down into our alpha brainwaves
and even lower into theta, that's when we can get the creative juices flowing.
So they would have problems that they were trying to solve. They would get themselves in
a relaxed state, almost to the point of sleep. And then sometimes even
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take a nap and then they would wake up with the idea solved. So
that's the cool thing about, about the mind and how it works. So we got to calm
Incredible. And I love it. It's true. The creativity comes out and you start thinking
Amazing. Dr. Justin, this has been so amazing. Where can our listeners
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learn more about you, the work that you do? Where can they listen to your TED Talks and
Yeah, so the baseball technique you can get, so
drjustinmosley.com. I've got a lot of free resources there. I think
just drjustinmosley.com slash links. My
TED Talks are also there too, but you can just go to YouTube and just put
in Justin Moseley TED Talk and they'll both come up. Uh,
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most recent one, I would love your support on that. It's yeah. Like I said, reached
177,000. Let's keep it going, man. If it reached a million people around the world, I get nothing for
people watching my talk, but knowing I got to impact people and
the cool thing, the first one I did, there's a comment on there that. Because
I talked a lot about purpose and the lessons I learned from my near-death accident. Somebody
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put a comment that said, my nine-year-old daughter listened to your talk and
said she wants to wake up with a purpose. So I was like, how cool is
that? The impact you can make through a platform like that. So I would
love support on my latest TED Talk, How I Overcame My
Fear of Public Speaking. And I think that can help anyone, whether you're
a conference speaker or not. I think there's stuff in there for anyone. So that
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or Instagram at Dr. Justin Moseley. I'm very active
Perfect. So much valuable advice. I want to thank you for being here, for sharing your
story, your insights, and your expertise. This has been an incredible conversation.
Thank you. And of course you can visit my website at gialacqua.com, reach out
on Instagram at gialacqua. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and leave a
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Welcome to Your Future Starts Now, the go-to podcast for
extraordinary women who are ready to step into their next chapter with
authentic confidence. I'm your host, Gia Lacqua empowerment coach,
motivational speaker, children's book author, and girl mom. Whether
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just a podcast. It's a movement, a movement towards rewriting
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to get unstuck and step into your next chapter? If
so, you're exactly where you need to be. Your future starts
now. Welcome to Your Future Starts Now. I'm your host,
Gia Lacqua. I want to thank you for joining us today. I am absolutely
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thrilled to welcome Dr. Justin Moseley to the show.
Dr. Justin is also known as the Mindset Doctor. He's
a highly sought-after international keynote speaker. After
surviving a near-death accident in 2018, Dr.
Justin shifted from changing lives in his clinic to
changing lives all over the world. Dr. Justin is
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a two-time TEDx speaker and host of the Mindset Doctor podcast,
and his thought leadership has been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC,
and Fox. Dr. Justin helps people master their minds,
so they can unlock their full potential, fulfill their
deepest desires, and create next level success and abundance
in their business and every area of life. Dr. Justin,
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I'm so excited to chat with you today. Thanks for being here. So
tell us, just so our listeners can get to know you a little bit better, you were
a chiropractor once upon a time. Tell us what led you to
Yes, I was a chiropractor by trade. My wife's a chiropractor as well. We
still have a clinic outside of Nashville, Tennessee. Opened our
clinic in 2012 and built a great clinic, family
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practice. We were helping lots of people, making a difference. Fast
forward to 2018 is when I had a near death accident that
completely changed the trajectory of my life. So I went on a
men's retreat and we went whitewater rafting. And we hit the
class five rapids and it was just a freak accident. Our raft tipped
over and I was sitting on the back of the raft and I got trapped underneath
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the rapid itself. And it started pushing me underwater. And
I still remember the sound of my helmet scraping down the rocks as I was being pushed
under. And the last thing I remember thinking is, I'm
not coming back up. And everything went black. And
then everything went bright white and it was the most peaceful, serene feeling
I'd ever felt. And I don't know how long I'd lost consciousness,
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but I heard a voice that said, wake up. And thankfully I did because
I came back to consciousness and I was trapped underwater, wedged between two
rocks. And I tried to push and I didn't budge.
And I kept pushing and pushing. And then thankfully my adrenaline kicked
in. And I was able to push hard enough that I broke the buckle on my
life jacket that was trapped underneath one of the rocks, floated to
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the top, gasped for breath, got swept down the river. And at
that point I was rocked. And for all of us, at some point
we questioned, like, what is the purpose of life? Like, why are we here? But
in that moment, I ask a different question. I said, why am I still here?
Because things could have been different in that moment. What if I didn't hear wake up
or what if I wasn't strong enough to break free? So I
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asked myself, why am I still here? And the thing is, I was
living my purpose. I was helping people. I was making a difference. But
I realized I was playing way too small. I knew I
could make such a bigger impact. And what I realized is I'd gotten comfortable
in life because life was good. I was helping people. We were making money.
I was traveling with my wife, doing the things I enjoyed. But I knew
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if I truly wanted to step into the calling that was on my life, I needed to
exchange my comfort for my calling. So that's
when I started processing that. And I was like, man, I just want to put out
content that helps people. And that's how I started. I kind of shifted gears.
I was like, I don't know if anybody's going to listen. I'm just going to put myself out there.
I don't know if you ever felt that. We'll see, but I
put it out there and I started the 1st of 2020. I started a Facebook group,
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January, 2020, and a thousand people joined in the first month. So
I was like, okay, people are listening. And it just kept leading to more
opportunities, speaking, leading mastermind retreats, different
coaching and those types of things. So it's been a wild ride, but
it's been a lot of fun. And now I've. Just did my second TED
talk. I did one in 2022 talking about my lessons I
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learned from my near death accident. But what I
learned from that is I started speaking all over and a lot of people would
reach out to me and like, I love what you're doing. I wish I could do that, but I'm
terrified of speaking. And I was like, wait a minute. I'm,
I was terrified for most of my life, had a tremendous fear of public speaking. So
that's what I just did. My second Ted talk on is how it overcame my fear of public
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speaking, because I believe everybody's got a message to share. And
there's a message inside of you. The world is waiting to hear. So that
was a message on my heart that I wanted to share with the world and
just crossed 177,000 views, I think.
That's incredible. What an incredible story. And thank you for sharing. I
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have so many questions. I don't know where to start. So first of all, I
mean, what a horrific experience you went through. What do you
Yeah. So I'm a believer. So I believe that was the voice of God for
me. And it was one of those, I didn't hear
an audible voice. It was one of those inner knowings, like, you know, that, you
know, like it was a wake up and it was just in
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that moment. And it was a literal wake up call for me. I heard that. It
was a wake-up call in that moment, but it was a wake-up call for my life, that
I really needed to step back and be like, Hey, what are we doing? Because for
most people, we are going through the motions of life. And
unfortunately it takes something like a near-death accident, maybe
it's a car wreck or loss of a loved one, or we hit this rock bottom
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before we actually change. The good news is you don't
need a near death accident or you don't need a rock bottom moment in order to change.
The cool thing is you can ask yourself the same question I asked myself. Why
am I still here? Because life is a gift. You didn't
have to wake up today, but you did. So if you're listening to this, you've
got air in your lungs. Your heart is beating. Ask yourself,
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why am I still here? And once you answer that question,
I love that. And so you your message is everyone has
a message to share, right? And and in
order to spread that message, you do have to put yourself out there. So talk
to us a little bit about kind of go a little bit deeper into the
everyone has a message to share and what that means to you. But also, you
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Yeah, so I think it goes back to, I know a mutual friend
of ours is Rory Vaden. There's a long time that I
didn't think I had a message to share. I looked at other people, I
was like, man, I want to share, I want to speak, I want to do what they're doing, but who
am I to share anything? But Rory has the quote that you
are perfectly positioned to serve the person you once were.
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And I love that because everybody's got a story. You can look back through your
life. There's things that you've gone through. There's challenges you've faced, obstacles
you've overcome. There's things you've been through in your life. You
can take those lessons you've learned and give those to someone else. Because
there's someone right now going through what you went through in the past and you can actually
help them by just sharing your story. So that's
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kind of where I started. I just kind of looked at, well, what have I been through and
what have I learned? What did I spend time studying? Like, how can I take all
this? I went through that for a reason. How can I use that to
Absolutely. And I think what you said is important, right? Whether you're starting on
Facebook or you're starting with a one-on-one conversation or
a small group conversation where you're you know, having an impact on people
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is important. And you and I both talk about impact in
the work that we do. In the work I do, I talk about radical prioritization
for high achieving women. And one of the pillars
of my framework is impact, right? What is
the impact you want to have? And I love that you said we're going through the
motions, because a lot of us are, you know,
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successful on the outside, but unfulfilled on
the inside. And I think purpose and impact play
an important role in helping to bridge that
gap for a lot of people. So maybe talk to us about your
Yeah, I go back to one of my earliest influences was Tony Robbins. I
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still have the book from Awaken the Giant Within I got when I was 16. And
that was for me because I struggled with lack of self-esteem and
lack of self-worth. And I found myself in the bookstore, the self-help
section. And this book just spoke to me and I read it and it changed my
life. It opened my mind to if you change your mind, you
can change your life. So for me, it's looking back
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on. He taught me two things, like people
want either growth, they want growth and contribution. So
we need to be physically growing ourselves, but we also, how
are we going to contribute to the world? I think that's where the impact
piece comes in. But what I've found is most people. They
downplay their own impact they can make. They think my purpose has
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to be some grand mother Teresa size vision, or I got to solve world
hunger or the water crisis or something like that. It
could be as little as putting a smile on someone's face today. You
could go to the gas station right now and the clerk, she's having a bad day and you can just
lift her up and put a smile on her face. That's the impact
you could make. Or it could be your kids, being able to put a
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smile on their face. We got holidays, first of
the year, all these things. There's people around you in your circle
of influence right now that you can make an impact in. The
thing is, are you intentional? And I believe we have to live
our life by intention, not by default. And too
often we're just going through the motions, living by default versus But
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if I actually looked around, there's so many opportunities to
make an impact in the lives of people around me. And the cool
thing is when you impact other people, it lifts you up. And that's one of the things
I love about it as well. It's just this energy that just kind of cycles through
Absolutely. It's funny. You just reminded me just yesterday, I was not having
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a very good morning and I went to get gas for my car. And as
I pull in the gas station that I normally go to. The attendant was,
well, I live in New Jersey, so we have attendants for gas, we're not allowed to pump
gas. He was blaring Christmas music, dancing,
very festive, so joyful. And I looked at him, I
said, wow, he's got it figured out, this guy right here, .
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Intention, purpose, you know, and he was just exuding
that and it totally changed the course of my day. So there's absolute truth
Right. And it all comes back to energy. It reminds me of a Tony Robbins
story. He talks about, you can have all the wealth in the world and be miserable, or
you can go to the projects right now and just see a mom with just this big smile
on her face, just loving on her kids. Who is happy
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in that moment? Whoever chooses to be happy. So we
can, that's the good thing about the people around us. When we open up our own
eyes, because life happens, stuff is going to happen to us.
So when we can just look at it as a blessing that life's not happening to
us, it's happening for us. And there's different levels
of that. That's usually where people start or stop. But I
believe, yes, life doesn't happen to us. It happens for us, but
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then it happens by us. And then it happens through us.
What I mean by that, by us, by our thoughts, our feelings, our
actions that we're taking, we're creating the environment around us. So
when we open up, that life isn't happening to us and all these things just
keep happening. No, it happened because of the way you've either
thinking, feeling, or acting over time, those results in
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your inner world show up in your outside world. So
more you can be consciously aware of your thoughts, how
you're feeling and how you're acting, you're going to get a different result. So
it's not happening to you. It's happening for you, happening by you.
Then it's happening through you because the things in your outer world are
not just for you. You affect everyone that comes into your sphere.
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Just like that man, the attendant helped you by blaring that music.
He was having an impact on your life. Well, that's the same thing we can do
by changing our own inner thoughts, thoughts, feelings, and actions.
We shift our environment and we shift the people around us and
Yeah, a hundred percent. And I love how you brought the thinking
and the beliefs into it because it's something I wanted to touch on. You
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talk about, in your TED Talk, you talk about, you know, you had
a fear of speaking and today you're an international speaker and
a two-time TEDx speaker. But that,
you know, that took a lot of courage and bravery, right?
And intention behind that to overcome that fear, which by the way, I
think public speaking is like the number one fear that people have.
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of all the fears. So but you brought
up something really important that I want to touch upon, which is a you
call it a childhood memory that's stuck
with you from school. Right? In the
coaching world, we talk about them as limiting beliefs, right? And
those are the scripts that we hold on to. Those are the scripts
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that we tell ourselves about who we are, about who we
are not, what we're capable of and what we're not capable of.
And so I would love your take on, you know, from your perspective,
how that childhood memory rooted itself
Absolutely. Cause our limiting beliefs are what hold us back from
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accomplishing what we'd want to accomplish. And the cool thing about it is usually
we can go back on our life and track like, where did this come from?
And for me, I went all the way back to in second grade when I had
to read in front of the class and I was stumbling over my words and the
kids started laughing at me. It anchored into my mind. You
should just be quiet. Nobody wants to hear from you. And
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I became really shy and reserved. And that followed me
through high school, got into college. I almost failed a
speech class because I had a panic attack during my speech. And
again, that further anchored into my mind, this is not for you.
You should give this up. You should never speak in public. But
I kept feeling this feeling inside of like, I've got a message to share. And
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like, I was influenced by Tony Robbins and I would see him on
stage and how he can make this impact through thousands of people. I
was like, man, I want to do that. But the fear kept holding me back.
And that's when I realized, like, if I truly want to step into my calling, I've got to
overcome this fear. So for me, you got
to identify the fear. You got to say, where is this coming from? And then realize that's
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not who you are. That might be where you're at in this moment, but you can shift
it. You can change limiting beliefs. You can learn any skill. And
one of the best ways to do it is for me, this is what
I did. I saw myself as Tony Robbins. not
trying to be Tony Robbins. I put myself in, so
visualized him on stage. What would it be to look
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through his eyes, to feel what he feels? How
does he use his body? How does he use his words and
his inflections and all the things that he does? And I would visualize
myself doing it over and over. And that's been a big thing that
I teach on is the power of not just visualization, but
actually mental rehearsal. And the more I started doing that,
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the more I became that. The more I started to get comfortable, the
cool thing about the mind is the mind can't tell the difference between something real and
vividly imagined. So, and I don't know, you
probably dive into a lot of this stuff, but there's a couple of studies I really
like is the one they did with basketball players. And
they had three different groups to shoot free throws. Group
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one, you're going to shoot every single day for 30 days. Group
two, you're not going to touch a basketball. Group three, you're
not going to touch a basketball, but you're going to vividly imagine mentally
rehearse shooting a basketball every single day. So sit there in
your chair, close your eyes, but feel what it feels like to
hold this imaginary ball. Hear what it sounds like to
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dribble it, feel what it feels like to follow through and see
it going through the air, hear it going through the net. And they did that over
and over. End of the study, group one got
24% better. Group two, didn't get any better. But
group three, they didn't touch a basketball, but vividly imagined
it, got 23% better. Only 1% difference
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than the people that shot a basketball every single day. That's
the power of the mind. And Joe Dispenza shares a study, people
that couldn't play piano, do a one-handed piano exercise. Group
two, you're not going to touch a piano, vividly imagine it. feel
what it feels like. Group one, at the end of that study, they
actually got the same level of proficiency playing the piano. And
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the cool thing about that study, they did MRIs of their brain and
exact same parts of their brain were firing, whether they were physically playing
or just vividly imagining it. So for me, that's
been a game changer for me, is vividly imagine having
the confidence, being able to speak, seeing people
as I look out. I did this before I had my first TED talk. I saw what
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it was going to be like standing in that red circle, the lights coming
down, the buzz of the microphone. When I'm looking out, people are nodding with
me as I'm speaking. It happened exactly the way that I'd rehearsed
it in my mind so many times. A lot of people ask me, like,
were you nervous getting up there? I was like, no, because
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Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And the key is
there too. It's not visualizing, like seeing something on a movie screen. It's
actually rehearsing it with your own body. The more you can involve your
own senses. And that's where I like, see what they see, feel
what they feel, hear what they hear. The more your senses are
involved, the more real it's going to be to your body and to your own nervous system to
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be like, Oh, you've already done this. Like riding a bike. Once
you learn it, you don't unlearn it. You get the confidence. I can do this. So.
Like watching a movie, right? Where in visualizing yourself as
Yeah. Yeah. And most people, that's a good point. Most people are not even the star in
their own movie. They're playing a backup role in their life. So
you need to be the star of the show. And the more you visualize yourself
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and experience it, the more you're going to think it's real and the
Absolutely. And so, you know, along those lines, you talk about, you
empower people to exchange their comfort for
their calling. And I know you mentioned that earlier. So tell us
a little bit about what that means and how we can shift our energy
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Yeah. So a couple of powerful questions I love to get people. Number one
is what do you want? And that's the
hardest question for people to answer. A lot of times are you asking what they want?
They tell you all the things I don't want. I don't want to work these hours. I
don't want to travel here or do that or whatever the they're
not want list is. So great thing to do is write all that out.
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And then on the other side of the page, what's the opposite of that? But
get really clear. You've got to have the vision for it. Without vision,
people perish. You've got to have a vision for your life. So
step one, what do you want? And then here's the powerful question. Who
do you need to become in order to achieve that? So
I have a guy, do you know, Dan Martell? So
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I had him on my podcast. And one of the things that he talks about is
the person that you need to become to achieve your goals is
not who you are today. If you were already that person, you would have
already achieved it. So it's, we have to constantly grow. So
we need a vision that's big enough that causes us to grow. Then we
need to look at the areas of our life. Like where do we need to grow to
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become the person we need to become that can achieve that goal? So
a lot of it is just, is taking the time to get clear. What do I want? And
then who do I actually need to become? And if you set out to become
that person each and every day on the trajectory to hit your goals,
Yeah. It's such a powerful question is what do you want? I think you're right. I
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think we don't ask ourselves that question enough. Right.
Because we're so focused on the external and all the things that are coming at
us and we're sort of in reactive defensive mode. And
so for us to tune in or for someone to say to you, what do you truly
want? And I think, you know, that's true for men and women, but especially high achieving
women, working moms who are, you know, constantly giving, serving,
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you know, and they have so much on their plate. for them to pause and really
Absolutely. And I want to shift that. Let's reframe that, because I do.
I hear that a lot. And I know you hear that a lot. So it's
actually selfish if you don't put the time in, because think
about how much more. And I give props. I didn't even
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look at my mom growing up. She gave to everyone else, which
is amazing. But the more you give to yourself and figure
out what you truly want, the better you're going to serve the people around you.
I was just at an event a couple months ago now, but Marcus Lemonis
was speaking. And he asked somebody in the crowd about, about
their business. And they were like, Yeah, we're here to serve people. And
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they were like, we're, we're people over profits. And
he was like, yeah, I get that. And that's a great tagline, but it's like, you got to
shift it. You got to be profit driven, but realizing the
profit is where you make the impact in people's lives because
profit is in exchange for value. So I think it's the
same thing, getting a clear vision, especially like the moms that
you talked about getting, or the women in general, don't have to be a mom, but
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the more clear you are, the vision that you have and who you want
to become, the better you're going to serve the people around you because
Absolutely. I think that is such a powerful mindset shift. And I
couldn't agree more. But that's a
tough shift for people. And I think it also ties into the identity piece, right?
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When we tie our value and our worth to
something outside of ourselves. For many of us, it's a job. It's
Yeah, I went through that myself. Yeah. Cause I was a chiropractor by
trade and I physically could not do my job. I blew my
shoulder out and I was actually adjusting people. My shoulder would go out the
back. I'll pop it back in and keep adjusting. Cause like, man, I'm
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here to help these people. But it got to the point I couldn't even lift my arm. And
so I had to stop adjusting and I got had
stem cell done on it. Thankfully it healed me up, but there was a period of
time there because I was, I, my identity was a chiropractor. I'm
an amazing chiropractor. And now I can't do it. What
am I going to do? And I realized in that period that
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chiropractic is not who I am. That's just what I do. And
that allowed me to go deeper and be like, who am I? I'm a person that's
called to make a positive impact in the lives of others. Chiropractic
was just a vehicle of doing that. So it gave myself permission to
say, hey, there's other ways I can make an impact. So
same thing with anyone listening. If you've identified with who you are in
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your job or your role as a parent or spouse or all those
things, those are labels we've given ourselves. What's
the deeper meaning? For me, the impact, like we were talking
about, how can I do that on a larger scale and not be labeled
Yes. And I mean, you're it's a perfect example of
that personal transformation. Right. And I love how, you
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know, you have all this background, experience, education that
you've invested. But that doesn't mean you had to throw it
out the window. Right. You just built on that foundation that
Absolutely. Yeah. And I was able to, and it kind of came full circle because
the more I started putting myself out there and just trying to help other people, other
chiropractors started reaching out to me and they were like, Hey man, I'm struggling with
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my business. And the cool thing, I'm sure you see this with the people you
work with, especially if they're business owners. It's usually
not a business problem. It wasn't their systems or procedures. It
was all their level of mindset and personal development that was
holding them back. So once they got out of their own way, their
systems and procedures started to work. And I was actually able
to give back to the chiropractic profession because I was one of
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them. Like I had been through it, I'd lived it. And then I kind of helped them get
unlocked and then their business would take off. So that's the cool thing
is, and one of my mentors told me a long time ago, I was like, businesses don't
have problems. Businesses have people and people have problems. So
that's usually the hardest part is dealing with the people around you. But
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All the other variables and people, but yeah, I mean, for
sure, whether you're just starting out in your career, whether you're transitioning, whether
you're a C-suite level executive, that's why so many C-suites have coaches,
That's a great point. So, Dr. Justin, you talk about
next level success. I would love to know what
that means and, you know, Maybe how can
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Yeah, great question. And it's, it's changed even recently for
me, because I've always been a big vision guy. I want to help people, I want to make a difference. And
then, I don't remember where I heard it, but somebody was talking about, it
could have been Dan Martell, but he was like, you want a mentor that's just
a few steps ahead of you. Like right now, I wouldn't reach
out to Elon Musk and ask him to help me with my business because
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he's thinking so far ahead of me. Whatever advice he would give me
would just. I wouldn't be able to comprehend it because it's too far
ahead. That's true. Yeah. Maybe by next year, that's going
to be a different conversation. But he's like, as of right now, you
want to get mentors that are just a couple steps ahead of you because
they could, they just lived it. They just went through it and they can
help you. So I think next level success. Yes.
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It's great to have the big vision, but just break it down. What's the next
thing that I can do? And who do I need to become? Because you gotta be clear.
What can I do, but who do I need to become? And then look for
the people around you. That's why I love connecting with cool people like
this through a podcast. It's like build your network of people who
can encourage you, inspire you to actually make it happen. Cause
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the problem is a lot of people have the people around them that are telling them why they
can't do it. And a lot of people ask me like, well, if I set goals,
should I tell people about it? And I believe you should.
And you shouldn't, if you tell the wrong people, they'll tell you why you can't do it.
But if you tell the right people, they will actually encourage you, inspire you.
They'll actually help you reach your goal. So I
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think it starts with back to that vision, but looking at what's
the next thing. What are the next three steps on
the way to step 20? How can I get here? And
then once you get there, it might require new mentors, new
coaches, a new group around you. But if we can keep moving forward,
it goes back to that growth and contribution. We're going to
be growing, there's going to be more resources that we can contribute to
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Yeah, I think that's so powerful and makes
so much sense. And then so we talk about success and defining and
redefining success on this podcast. Tell us how
you define success for yourself today and maybe how that's shifted or evolved
Yeah, I think it's for me, it's really being able to do what I want, when
I want, with who I want. And I think in the past it
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was, if you get a certain title, if you make a certain amount of money, you
do those things. But really, I mean, I think it's one
being able to enjoy your own life. The things don't matter if you're not happy. The
things don't matter if the people around you are unhappy. So I think it's finding
the joy and the peace in the day to day and then having the freedom to
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Amazing. And I would love to know, can you share maybe a practical
exercise, or I know you've shared so much wisdom and insight already, but any
other mindset shifts that you want listeners to take away
Oh, good question. Because I think a mindset shift for people, one,
we've all heard about morning routines, and I believe morning routines are great. A
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morning routine sets up your day, but it's your evening routine that
sets up your life. So before you fall asleep,
I want you to get a clear vision of what you want, and I want you to create
a scene in your mind of you actually, as it's already
happened, you're already living it. I did this before my
TED talk the first time, seeing myself already as a TEDx
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speaker. Like I'd already been there so many times in my mind, because
as you sleep, your subconscious mind begins to process that.
So I've actually got a free giveaway. It's called my baseball
technique, which actually teaches you how to program your subconscious mind before
you fall asleep, because I think that's such an important time. And
as you start to do that, you can start to use that
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in other areas of your life to attract more success, abundance, relationships,
whatever you want to do. But I think the shift there is the
morning routine sets up your day, but the evening routine sets up your
life. So if you start focusing on what you're putting into your mind before you fall
I love that. That is incredible advice. And I definitely
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agree with you there because I think the morning routine is
a great way to set up your day, but the bedtime routine is really where
you're focused on the broad strokes, right? You're thinking more strategically about
Yeah. And then the cool thing about it is as you fall asleep, then
your brain's going to process it. And that's the cool thing about
if you look back to Leonardo da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin, they
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took naps during the day because they weren't trying to consciously solve
their problems. When we're consciously thinking through it, we're in the high
beta brainwaves. When we can slow down into our alpha brainwaves
and even lower into theta, that's when we can get the creative juices flowing.
So they would have problems that they were trying to solve. They would get themselves in
a relaxed state, almost to the point of sleep. And then sometimes even
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take a nap and then they would wake up with the idea solved. So
that's the cool thing about, about the mind and how it works. So we got to calm
Incredible. And I love it. It's true. The creativity comes out and you start thinking
Amazing. Dr. Justin, this has been so amazing. Where can our listeners
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learn more about you, the work that you do? Where can they listen to your TED Talks and
Yeah, so the baseball technique you can get, so
drjustinmosley.com. I've got a lot of free resources there. I think
just drjustinmosley.com slash links. My
TED Talks are also there too, but you can just go to YouTube and just put
in Justin Moseley TED Talk and they'll both come up. Uh,
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most recent one, I would love your support on that. It's yeah. Like I said, reached
177,000. Let's keep it going, man. If it reached a million people around the world, I get nothing for
people watching my talk, but knowing I got to impact people and
the cool thing, the first one I did, there's a comment on there that. Because
I talked a lot about purpose and the lessons I learned from my near-death accident. Somebody
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put a comment that said, my nine-year-old daughter listened to your talk and
said she wants to wake up with a purpose. So I was like, how cool is
that? The impact you can make through a platform like that. So I would
love support on my latest TED Talk, How I Overcame My
Fear of Public Speaking. And I think that can help anyone, whether you're
a conference speaker or not. I think there's stuff in there for anyone. So that
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or Instagram at Dr. Justin Moseley. I'm very active
Perfect. So much valuable advice. I want to thank you for being here, for sharing your
story, your insights, and your expertise. This has been an incredible conversation.
Thank you. And of course you can visit my website at gialacqua.com, reach out
on Instagram at gialacqua. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and leave a
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