The Power of Perseverance - Special Episode with Lois Moget

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Ever feel like giving up? That moment when everything falls apart might be the exact turning point you need.

This special episode flips the script as Lois takes over hosting duties to interview Fabio about his philosophy on perseverance, failure, and the true meaning of success. Their intimate conversation reveals profound insights about continuing forward when life seems darkest.

Fabio introduces his powerful "satisfaction bar" theory, explaining that while our fulfillment levels may hit rock bottom during difficult times, the capacity for satisfaction never disappears completely. He vulnerably shares a pivotal moment from ten years ago when, standing alone crying in the rain, he realized that simply being alive meant still having chances to pursue his dreams. This awareness became his foundation for pushing through seemingly insurmountable challenges.

The conversation takes a thought-provoking turn when discussing the nature of true freedom. While many chase financial independence, Fabio suggests something more fundamental is required: mental freedom. "If you're rich but depressed, you didn't win," he states plainly, challenging conventional definitions of success. Money remains a valuable asset when used wisely but doesn't automatically create happiness. The most meaningful experiences often come from life's simple pleasures – barbecues with loved ones, days at the beach, and authentic connections.

Whether you're facing difficult challenges or questioning your definition of success, this birthday reflection episode offers a refreshing perspective that will inspire you to keep moving forward on your own journey. Subscribe now to join our community and let us know we're heading in the right direction to guide you toward your own success.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm on right, this, this, this Okay, and it's the
success.
The journey to success podcast.
Really After three years youchase so many times the success
podcast, success club.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
No journey to success .
Club is the community onSubstack, and then Journey to
Success is the name of mypodcast.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Wow, Journey to Success right.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
No, I can't believe that you want confirmation.
No, I'm more like yes, yes,yeah, unbelievable.
From now on, you will remember.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah, I said Journey to Success in the beginning.
I think, well, it's recorded.
Yeah, it's remember.
Yeah, I said journey to successin the beginning.
I think Well, it's recorded.
Yeah, it's recorded.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
So go on Okay.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Take two.
That's how they do.
Don't laugh through my work ofrecording.
This is my first time.
Yeah, yeah it's fine.
Okay, welcome to the Journey toSuccess podcast.
But before to go forward,please subscribe, so I know that

(01:12):
this is the right direction tolead you, to drive you, to guide
you towards your journey tosuccess.
Yeah, you guys already heard it, this is not Fabio, this is
Lois Mujet, the fiancé he'salways talking about, and today,
yeah, you can hear him on thebackground.
Today we're gonna do it alittle bit different, because
this weekend is gonna be mybirthday, and birthdays same as

(01:33):
new year.
Those are those moments whereyou reflect and that's what
we're gonna do tonight.
Fabio, our guide, ourmotivational mentor, our
beautiful fiance, husband, bestfriend, lover, everything, you
are today my guest and I want toask you how are you looking

(01:57):
back to these beautiful fivebirthdays that you had with me
until now?

Speaker 2 (02:05):
I think every year is different.
It's going to be interestingthat this year the birthday is
going to be something totallyout of your comfort zone,
because it's going to be withyour family, and yeah, usually
you don't do that.
So I'm happy that you took thisstep forward.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
yeah, totally well, I think that deserves a little
bit of explanation.
Uh, I'm a person that loves togo on vacation, on a trip for my
birthday, and this year we'renot gonna do big trips because
we have beautiful plans for nextyear big plans and then I say,
you know what?
Let's do barbecue, let's invitesome friends, let's invite some

(02:52):
family, and I've not have donethat for, I think, six or seven
years.
So, yeah, I'm excited to havethis cute community that we're
building all together and I seethat you're doing amazing things
with your podcast.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
And I'm listening to it as well, because I imagine
that you're learning a lot aswell from the things that you're
studying.
What is the biggest lesson thatyou learned until now from your
own?

Speaker 2 (03:23):
podcast.
Failure is a part of theprocess, a process towards
success that everyone wouldcatch one day if they just learn
from their mistakes.
That's the reason why I goforward with my podcast.
I want all the listeners tohave more than a chance to get

(03:48):
their dreams.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Let's give this a little bit more color.
What has been a moment whereyou felt, where you could
imagine that you could havestopped, but you didn't, and
what made you go for it?
Like you can decide a moment inyour life where you felt where
you can imagine that most peoplewould have stopped or wouldn't

(04:13):
continue, but you persevered andwent forward, and what made you
want for it?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Okay, so let's say, in this way, I imagine the life
of any human being, as if wehave a small bar on the top of
our head.
Right, let's call this barsatisfaction bar, right?
The point is that the momentthe satisfaction bar reach the

(04:48):
lowest, bottom right is themoment where people give up
because they think that it'simpossible to recover, to
fulfill this satisfaction barand it happened to me as well,
happened to everyone, to anyhuman beings, and when this
happens, people give up onanything they had in their brain

(05:13):
, in their mind, in their soul.
But the truth is that this bar,even if it's, let's say, empty
because you know you reach yourunsatisfaction level, the truth
is that it's still there.
It can still go up, always,every time it's still there.

(05:36):
The bar never goes out.
Yeah, this line, thissatisfaction line, sometimes
it's up, sometimes it's down,but the bar it's always there.
If it's there, you have to finda way to be satisfied again,
and it's something that Ilearned during the years, it's

(05:57):
something that I really wantpeople to understand.
This concept, you know, because, as much as you, as far as you
have this bar, the truth is thatyou cannot give up all your
dreams.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
That's what I think and what is a moment?
Give me example what is themoment when you reach this, uh,
this level?

Speaker 2 (06:24):
there were different moments, of course, but I
remember 10 years ago, I was infront of the main door of a
church, it was raining, and Iwas crying, because now I don't
remember the reason, I don'tremember if I have been scammed.

(06:47):
At that time there was a bigreason, by the way, still
related to, you know, to what Ido and it was just me.
My satisfaction level was verydown at the time.

(07:07):
It was just me, my tears andthe rain.
And then I realized that itwasn't really necessary to be
sad, because I was still alive,with a dream, and the rain was
still.
The rain was still touching theground.

(07:30):
I could listen to the rain andI was breathing, breathing in,
breathing out.
As much as I felt alone and asmuch as I felt sad, the truth is
that I felt alive as well.
I was alive.

(07:50):
The moment that you realizethat you're alive is the moment
where you also realize youalways have chance to get your
dreams.
When I say to myself okay, nowwhat?
So I cry and then so I stillhave a choice to go forward or
give up.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
If I really have to choose, I go forward I think
it's beautiful that you, um,could be still grateful at the
moment like that and reflect onyourself like I'm still alive.
So that means I still have achance to to get my dream.
Um, I think we all reach thatpoint right when you life hits

(08:36):
your heart.
You kind of lose yourself, andit's that moment where you have
to step back, go back toyourself or, as my grandma
saying, when you wake up, be onemillimeter from yourself.
So be really close to yourself.
Don't be busy with the world,don't be busy with the job.

(08:57):
Be close to yourself when youwake up and understand that this
is you, you can do so manybeautiful things and, especially
in that point, don't loseyourself.
What are you most proud for atthis moment?

Speaker 2 (09:15):
uh, the more I am inside this journey and the more
I understand that it's notreally necessary to achieve your
financial freedom or sent anamount of money, but what is
necessary on your journey is toachieve a certain mental freedom

(09:39):
, and the moment you are, youknow, free with yourself is the
moment where you can enjoy, isthe moment where you can budget
with your partner and still makebeautiful vacations.
I mean, we did so manyvacations together and we're

(10:01):
still working for someone elseand we're very happy and I'm
very grateful for that.
It is something that Iunderstood, you know, especially
in the last year.
I'm sure that there are peoplewho had already mentioned
financial freedom, but who knows, maybe they are not mentally

(10:25):
free like we are, you know.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
so yeah, In fact, I was following for a while.
I was following this girl onyoutube that she want to reach
her financial freedom and shereached it and, um, she teach
the people how to invest in yourin a way that would match with
you and I found it veryinteresting to follow her

(10:52):
journey.
But years later now I went backto her page to see what she was
posting about.
Yeah, she kind of lost herself.
She's in a caravan, whichdoesn't mean that you lose
yourself, but she's really nowon the journey to find herself.
She broke up with her marriage.
Uh, she's just traveling theworld to, to, to find herself,

(11:15):
and this is part of of richness.
Richness, for me, it's not onlymoney.
Like money is not a scary thing, it's.
It really can give a lot ofopportunities and can make you
enjoy the life in a differentway.
But it's not the onlyrequirement for freedom.

(11:36):
I don't know who said that,maybe one of the listeners do.
I remember a quote that'ssaying If you're rich but
depressed, you didn't win.
You didn't win that game.
If you're rich but you'rementally also very strong,

(12:01):
that's the beautiful thing.
You can enjoy life in simpleways.
In fact, I now have a new joband I was talking yesterday with
one of the partners, like oneof the CEOs, and he was on
vacation.
But I say, hey, how was yourvacation and how are you doing?

(12:21):
But where were you?
Also Like last time you went toMilan?
So I was like, no, probably hewent to another big European
city and he said, no, we wereone week off.
My wife, the children and westayed here in the Netherlands.
And he was kind of downplayingit.
He said, yeah, we just did verysimple things.

(12:42):
We went to the beach one dayand we had a barbecue one day.
And then I looked at him kindof with a wink way.
I say, let's be honest, thoselittle small things, they're the
things, what it's all about,you know.
And also today we were lookingsome Kardashian and they had a

(13:08):
kind of trip in Italy that wehave done already five times,
you know.
Yes, the pool is a little bitbigger and the house is a little
bit bigger, but the feeling andthe look of the house and the
authenticness of the house wasthings that we already
experiencing.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
No, I agree, but also about the money itself.
I believe in money.
Money is an asset and if youknow how to use it, of course
they're going to give you moretime, more vacations, more
opportunity, more ways to invest, to invest connection,

(13:52):
especially Wealth people have,in my opinion, a different
mindset than medium-averagepeople like us.
They just have it.
It's not wrong or right orpositive or negative, it's just
a fact, you know.
And, of course, the moment youhave money, money, the moment

(14:14):
you have this asset, is themoment where you can make also
different type of connection, isthe moment where you can
fulfill yourself with differentthings than you had.
But not because of the moneyitself.
Money is just an asset.
Maybe I'm repeating myselfagain and again, it's not
because of the money itselfMoney is just an asset.
Maybe I'm repeating myselfagain and again, it's not

(14:36):
because of the money itself, butwhen you know how you can
adjust the assets, then you alsoknow how to adjust in a good
way, your life as well.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
I have a loycy question.
If you could be as smart as AI,for well, let's say one day,
but one day is a lot.
You can learn too much as an ai.
But let's say one day, whatwould be?
Which skills would you, uh,learn straight away?

Speaker 2 (15:12):
this.
This doesn't work with me.
It doesn't work with me becauseI I believe in uh, strangle and
mistakes and I believe that aperson can learn mostly uh with
it.
I don't believe in the easy way, because it doesn't shape you

(15:34):
into a second version ofyourself.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
It doesn't mean that after five minutes you know
everything.
It depends what you're asking.
Okay, tell me about you, me.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, give me an example.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Well, there are certain books that I really like
, like Atomic Habits and RichDad, poor Dad.
So I would at least put asummary of both of them in my
brain, because somehow I canwatch movies, I can read books
and certain things stick with me, but also a lot of things I
just forget again.

(16:07):
So I would automatically umyeah, if I read the book again,
I would be like, oh, this issuch a good book, meanwhile I
already read it before.
You know what I would alsolearn if we're talking about
books?
I would learn myself some veryclassic Italian recipes, to
surprise you.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Because it's not only about this.
I also want to up some otherskills, because it's not only
about this, I also want to upsome other skills and I think I
would learn myself sometechniques for the pottery right
now, because that's very much achallenge and the first time
I'm doing pottery now for Ithink almost a year at this
point and that's the first timethat I First time, first since a

(16:52):
long time that I feel like I'mdoing something completely new,
like learning how to ride abicycle.
And it's hard, guys, it's, it's.
You really feel like a child,that in the beginning you're
like why does this?
Clay doesn't do what I think itshould do, but after a while
it's very, very relaxing hobby.

(17:13):
So if you were ever thinking Ishould do pottery, this is your
cue try it out, do some pottery.
So I would also definitelygoogle how to make the pottery
grow or make like a good vase orsomething.
That would be great.
Well, fabio, this was just ashort little loisy takes over

(17:35):
podcast.
Yeah right who knows, maybewe're gonna save it you better
save it.
This is my first podcast, okay,okay, like from here on we're
gonna see how I'm gonna grow inyour footsteps, all right, like

(17:57):
a little Spider-Man.
Yeah, only you know this joke.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Well, now you have to close it.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
It's the closer.
Guys, guys, girls.
Thank you so much for listeningto this first Loisy Takes Over
podcast Journey to success.
I hope you're doing great, Ihope you're focusing on your
goals, hope you reach them andhope you're learning a lot from
every step that you're making.

(18:27):
Keep standing up, keep fightingfor what you're doing and if
you like this and you would liketo see if I ever take over
again, please subscribe and havea good evening, night or
morning, but at least have agood day.
Goodbye, cheers, cheers.