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🎧 Episode 137: Overcoming Adversity &Finding Your Spark with Kyle V. Robinson

In this episode of Evoke Greatness, Sonnie welcomes Kyle V. Robinson, a law school graduate, entrepreneur, and bestselling author. Kyle shares his incredible journey from a troubled childhood marked by abuse to becoming a successful attorney and author, embodying the essence of evoking greatness against all odds.

Kyle shares valuable insights on:

  • Overcoming a traumatic childhood and family dysfunction
  • The impact of positive male role models in shaping one's future
  • The power of self-belief and resilience in the face of adversity
  • The importance of recognizing and holding onto your inner spark
  • The process of writing and publishing a memoir about traumatic experiences
  • Navigating family relationships when sharing difficult truths

🔑 Key takeaways:

  1. Even in the darkest circumstances, there are glimmers of hope and possibility
  2. Positive mentors and role models can change the trajectory of a person's life
  3. Self-belief and perseverance can help overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles
  4. Writing about traumatic experiences can be a powerful tool for healing and self-discovery
  5. Sharing your story can help others find the courage to confront their own challenges
  6. Healing is a personal journey that may not always align with family expectations

💡 Quotes to remember: "I held onto that little spark for like, dear life and never let go." 
"Now I knew that this wasn't right. This wasn't right. But now I know I can do something about it." 
"I think it's so important to shine this light on this darkness just so it can't have that much power over you."

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Whether you're struggling with past trauma, seeking inspiration to overcome obstacles, or looking to understand the power of sharing your story, this episode offers profound insights and practical wisdom. Remember, your past doesn't dictate your future, and even the smallest spark of self-belief can ignite a journey of personal transformation and greatness.

A rising tide raises all ships, and I invite you along on this journey to Evoke Greatness!

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Speaker 1:

Welcome to Evoke Greatness. We are officially entering year three of this podcast and I am filled with so much gratitude for each and every one of you who've joined me on this incredible journey of growth and self-discovery. I'm Sunny, your host and fellow traveler on this path of personal evolution. This podcast is a sanctuary for the curious, the ambitious and the introspective. It's for those of you who, like me, are captivated by the champion mindset and driven by an insatiable hunger for growth and knowledge. Whether you're just beginning your journey or you're well along your path, you're going to find stories here that resonate with your experiences and aspirations. Over the last two years, we've shared countless stories of triumph and challenge, of resilience and transformation. We've laughed, we've reflected and we've grown together. And as we've evolved, so too has this podcast. Remember, no matter what chapter you're on in your own story, you belong here. This community we've built together is a place of support, inspiration and shared growth. Where intention goes, energy flows, and the energy you bring to this space elevates us all. So, whether you're listening while commuting, working out or enjoying your morning coffee, perhaps from one of those motivational mugs I'm so fond of, know that you're a part of something special. Thank you for being here. Thank you for your curiosity, your openness and your commitment to personal growth. As we embark on year three, I invite you to lean in, to listen deeply and to let these stories resonate with your soul. I believe that a rising tide raises all ships and I invite you along in this journey to evoke greatness.

Speaker 1:

Welcome back to another episode of Evoke Greatness. Today, we're joined by Kyle V Robinson, a man whose life story embodies the very essence of evoking greatness. Kyle's journey is an improbable tale of triumph over adversity that will leave you inspired and amazed. From enduring a troubled childhood marked by physical and emotional abuse, to navigating six tumultuous years in high school, grappling with multiple arrests and wrestling with substance abuse challenges, kyle has defied all of the odds. But here's where it gets truly remarkable.

Speaker 1:

Despite these seemingly insurmountable obstacles, kyle not only graduated from law school, but emerged as a thriving entrepreneur and best-selling author with the memoir Wandering Spark. His story is a testament to the power of resilience, self-love and the transformative impact of finding your tribe to the power of resilience, self-love and the transformative impact of finding your tribe. Kyle is here today to share his experiences, the tools that propelled him forward and the wisdom he's gained along the way His mission To help others heal, find their tribe and discover the greatness within themselves, regardless of their past. So get ready for a conversation that will challenge your preconceptions, ignite your spirit and remind you of the incredible potential that lies within each of us. Kyle, welcome to the show.

Speaker 2:

Sunny, thanks so much for having me. I'm really excited to be on the Evoke Greatness podcast, so thanks.

Speaker 1:

Absolutely Well. I always like to kind of dive in by learning a little bit more about my guest, and I would love for you to share a little bit about your story and that winding journey that has brought you to who you are today. I know that's a big question.

Speaker 2:

Well, I'll start it at the beginning, I guess that's where it makes the most sense. And my first memory in life, when I was only four years old, I was hanging out at my house and my mom was recently divorced. It's just me my mom, my older brother at six years old and my younger brother at three years old, or my younger sister at three years old and my older brother at six years old, and I was at four years old. And one day I'm upstairs I'm playing with my Star Wars or He-Man action figures and I hear the doorbell ring and I get really excited, because this usually doesn't happen at my house. So I run downstairs to see what's going on and as I get to the bottom of my stairs, standing before me is this six foot three tall man with like a big brown beard and like bifocal glasses. My mom, who had answered the door, went to go grab a like a glass of water or something from the kitchen. So it's just me and this intimidating figure. And I greeted him like I thought any four-year-old would greet such a man. I just made a fist and I punched him in the leg and I giggled. And what this man did was he made a fist too, and he punched a little four-year-old Kyle right in the stomach and I keeled over, I couldn't scream out because I couldn't breathe and tears were running down my face. And this man didn't apologize, didn't make sure I was okay. He just kind of just walked around me and went to the kitchen to my mom and I just scampered upstairs and that was my first meeting with the man who eventually become my stepfather, triple B or that's what my sister and I call him big bad Ben, and that's kind of how my life started. That was my first memory of life.

Speaker 2:

And things didn't get easier after that as we're getting older. And you might say well, didn't your mom do anything about this? Well, my mom was so set on having a father figure for us. She was making a lot of excuses and a lot of pretending, and so she wasn't about to have a second failed marriage on her hands and I believe she also needed the financial help as well. So she kind of held on and kind of looked the other way, and it was very important to my mom to present to everybody else that we had a nice family, a good family. So she was doing a lot of pretending and things like that, and so I pretended too because I thought that was normal. And so she made us call him dad, tell us that we loved him, and things like that, and I really thought that was normal for a large majority of my life until I got late into adulthood. And so that's how my life kind of went on. The man that she married, triple B, he joined the Navy. So we kind of moved around a lot.

Speaker 2:

I lived in Philadelphia, pennsylvania, newport, rhode Island, then back in Ohio, and by this time I'm a little bit older and I'm in high school. And that's when things kind of really took a turn for the worst, so to speak, because I really started to rebel out a lot. And in high school I started hanging out with the wrong group of friends and not say that they're to blame, but I was the wrong person too. I wasn't a good influence either, but I didn't think I deserved anything better. So I hung out with friends that called me loser and called me worthless, just like Triple B did as I was growing up. And so I got into fights. I started drinking all the time in high school, smoking weed in high school, getting into all kinds of things, and eventually things got way out of control that I got expelled from high school and so I had to repeat another year over.

Speaker 2:

And so after I had to repeat another year over, I come back and things didn't really change much at all and there was something inside me I was really frustrated about. I couldn't understand why all my friends weren't getting expelled either. They weren't getting in the same kind of trouble I was getting in, and that really frustrated me. But I didn't realize at the time they didn't have the same kind of home life that I had. But it really made me upset. So one day after I had to repeat my second junior year, I got a test back from one of my classes and I'd failed the test. And I was so upset with myself because I knew, if I just tried to, I knew I wasn't dumb, you know, and I knew, if I like just tried a little bit, that I could actually do something. I could, I could actually pass the test. I wasn't sure if I could do something, but it just frustrated me because everybody else could handle all of all the drinking and drugs that we were doing, but I couldn't do it for some reason, and so I was using the drinking and the drugs as an escape to from my home life, from triple B. I just wanted to all of that to stop and I didn't know any better. So once I got this test back and I failed it, I was just so upset at myself.

Speaker 2:

At 17 years old, I decided to go leave school at that moment in the middle of this day and I went and turned myself into drug rehab. As a 17 year old boy, little did I know. When you show up at the drug rehab center, you just can't say, hey, here I am. As a 17 year old kid, you need to be either like court ordered or your parents have to sign you in. I kind of knew that. But because my mom actually worked in the hospital where I went and turned myself in, and so she came down and turned me in and she was like very, very happy that I was actually doing this, because neither of us knew what the answers were. We didn't know why I was doing the things I was doing. We weren't about to, or she wasn't about to, admit that. Oh, it's your home life, it's, you know, your stepfather, this terrible, horrible human. And again, I didn't know. I trusted my mom implicitly, so I thought it was me and everyone was telling me I was the problem. I needed to fix myself. So I this was the only answer that I knew of, and so I did.

Speaker 2:

I went to drug rehab and that was actually safe for a moment as a 17 year old, because I'm away from my bad influence, friends, I'm away from triple b, and so it was kind of nice to wrap all that you know, be in a safe place without all that chaos going on around me. But because I had to do that, I had to repeat another year of high school. So by the time I get back to high school, I'm in my sixth year of high school, and again I should also say something me like failing out of high school. And again I should also say something me like failing out of high school, me going to drug rehab. It's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy, because triple B was always telling me you're worthless, you can't do anything, and so I'm starting to think a little bit of myself. So maybe I am, maybe I'm not that great, you know, maybe, maybe I am a loser, and so everything I'm doing is like just reinforcing his beliefs in me and it's kind of being injected in me a little bit, but there's still a little spark inside me.

Speaker 2:

I didn't want this kind of life, but when I came back to school for my sixth year, two amazing things actually happened. One is that they stuck me into something called in-school suspension. That's where you just sit in the classroom, you're not allowed to speak, you're not allowed to leave, and they bring all your work to you, all your schoolwork to you. What you are allowed to do is talk to the in-school suspension teacher. And the in-school suspension teacher there his name was Mr Brady and Mr Brady actually I got to know him pretty well because I was in there all the time and he actually talked to me about my schoolwork, talked to me about my life. He's the first male role model that actually took me inside. And he said you know what male role model actually took me inside? And he said you know what, if you apply yourself, you can do something. And no joke, I was blown away that this man took the time to tell me that I'm worth something, because no other male role model ever had done that in my life. And I thought all men were just like triple B grown up. I thought all men were just angry at me and I just thought that's the way life was. I thought that was completely normal, until this teacher, who did he wasn't doing anything special, he was just. He saw something in me that I didn't even see in myself, that you could actually do something with your life. And not that I really did anything about it at that moment, I was just so blown away, but a seed was planted at that moment. You know, maybe if I do believe in myself, good things will happen, and I was just so happy that he took the time to do that for me, and so that was a huge thing actually happening when I look back on my life.

Speaker 2:

And then the second amazing thing that happened to me I got arrested again. But I would say that's amazing. But what happened was by the time I'm in my sixth year of high school, I'm like 18 going on, 19 now, and so I can't get in any trouble, or else I'm going to go. I'm going to get in serious, I'm going to go to serious jail. Before it was like fighting and things like that I would, or skateboarding I was getting arrested for, but if I got in trouble now I was going to get obviously go to real jail, and so I was definitely terrified of this. So I was trying to keep my nose down, just wanted to complete my sixth year of high school and just get out of it.

Speaker 2:

And then one day I'm leaving school and there's some kid who wanted to fight me. Some kid I was, I'm sure I was running my mouth and he wanted to fight me and I did not want to fight him because I didn't want to get in trouble. And so this kid's screaming my name, looking for me outside of school, and he finds me and I tell him listen, I don't want to have anything to do with this, I don fight you, nothing like that. And he starts coming after me and I start running away from him, just running around in a circle, and before I know it there's a crowd of like 100, 150 kids around us screaming fight, fight, fight. And I'm just running around trying to get away from him and before I know it I'm grabbed out of the crowd and it's a police officer and I'm arrested.

Speaker 2:

I'm arrested for assault, disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, and I'm in serious trouble now and even though no punches were thrown, nothing had happened. But the police officer didn't believe me. So I have to go to court and my mom, who had gotten me a lawyer when I was juvenile before for getting in trouble, she wouldn't get a lawyer from me this time because she didn't believe that I hadn't done anything wrong. I mean to her credit, obviously that my track record didn't speak to me not doing anything wrong, but I knew in my heart that I didn't do anything wrong and so what I decided to do was fine, you don't want to give me an attorney, I'm going to represent myself.

Speaker 2:

And so the day of court comes, it's me sitting in the defendant's chair, my mom's in the gallery behind me, then the prosecutor next to me, the judge and the bailiffs in there as well, and then you have the arresting officer, who's the only witness, and the court starts and the prosecutor starts asking the police officer what happened that day? He goes do you see the person that was involved in the assault? And the police officer points me out and the prosecutor asks a few more questions and then the judge goes Kyle, it's your turn. Do you want to ask any questions? And in my mind, very confident, I'm like yes, of course I want to ask some questions, but when I start speaking, my voice is shaking, I'm scared.

Speaker 2:

Eventually I get up enough nerve and I started asking police officer questions and I say, well, where were you when you first saw this alleged altercation, this alleged assault? He said, oh, I was sitting in my police cruiser. I was like, well, how far away was your police cruiser from where we were at? He goes, oh, about a hundred yards. And I go well, what did you see? And he said, well, I saw about 150 kids surrounded you and this other gentleman assaulting each other. And I go. So you're telling me, from a hundred yards away, sitting in your police cruiser, through 150 kids, you saw me assault somebody else. He goes. Well, I can't definitively say that for sure. And that was it.

Speaker 2:

The judge said not guilty, the case was dismissed and a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders because I had this belief in myself. And it worked out. And what Mr Brady told me before just that year, that if I do believe in myself, good things will happen. So that was another amazing thing that actually I follow what I, you know my truth, that if I really buckle down and do that and believe in myself and present my case, I did eventually graduate high school, like you said, after six years with 1.046 GPA and I think my class rank was like 346 out of 349. And so right out of high school. Evidently I had college was not on my mind whatsoever, but I'm out of high school. So that was a big weight off of my shoulders, I guess, so to speak, but I was very go ahead.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, when you so much happened right in that, in that period of time, in some of the most formative years of your life, there's there's programming going on right Of when someone tells you something long enough you start to believe it.

Speaker 1:

There's the experience of being in a situation that you've not really seen the outside of since you're four years old to believe that this is just how life is like, this is normal, right, and so I want to dig into a couple of those points. But I think so many people oftentimes feel so trapped in their circumstances, right, like there is no way out, it is what it is they're resigned to, feeling like this is just what life is going to be. But I think that there are those opportunities, those glimmers of hope and possibility that can get sprinkled in. And do you think if those two circumstances that you just described around the teacher who actually gave you a different view as to what this male figure could do and be and show up like, and then that circumstance whereby him believing in you and telling you to believe in yourself, you kind of stood your ground on what would create a law career for you? But do you think if you hadn't recognized the glimmer in those two things do you think your life would have taken the course that it has?

Speaker 2:

No, I don't think it would. I think I might have found my footing later on, maybe, but I guarantee you probably would have taken a different course. I might've just, you know, got another job, not become an attorney, or it would have taken me a long time to realize you know what men were supposed to be like. They were supposed to be kind and good and like uplifting.

Speaker 2:

So you know, and it's hard to you know, go back and say what if or what if, but it's, I don't think I would be where I'm at right now because you know obviously you for the saying, you can connect the dots going back how everything worked out. I think eventually and we talked about this later I might have. But no, it's weird because I say I had another mentor later on, but I don't know if I would have found that mentor if it wasn't for the things that happened to me in high school. So because I pursued the legal career and I found this great mentor, so I think I I want to tell myself I might've found my footing, but I think it would have taken a lot longer and I'd probably be a very different person right now if that was the case, yeah, and I just think there's.

Speaker 1:

So sometimes we're not in a place mentally, physically, emotionally to see those glimmers of hope or possibility that are sometimes just like they're covered up by a lot of stuff, but they're there, and so I think that it's just the importance to me in people hearing that there are those glimmers. It's a matter of being in a space to actually recognize them and then lean into them.

Speaker 2:

Right. Well, I think I had this little spark inside me and it was just beaten down and I needed Mr Brady to recognize that. No, it's still in you. You just need to push it out there and believe in yourself. So what I recommend people, what I did, what I really think got me through everything. I held onto that little spark for dear life and never let go that I could be something, I can do something with my life instead of Because it did get buried way down there and if Mr Brady wouldn't have talked to me about it, I don't think I'm not sure if I would have been able to uncover it. So I'm not sure you know what I mean. So it's, it's just amazing. But once he saw that I and I started to believe it. I held onto that and I never let go.

Speaker 1:

Yeah Well, and you know, as as we think about the importance of self-love, and that's something that, with an upbringing like you had, there wasn't a regular opportunity of all of this showing you the path to self-love, it was something that, again, like you said, you were pretty beaten down and feeling resigned or feeling like geez, is this what life really is? And so when you think about self-love, for those who've never experienced it it can seem like a super abstract thought or concept or idea. How did you learn the process, or how did you go through the process of learning to love yourself when you had triple B telling you you weren't worthy?

Speaker 2:

Right.

Speaker 2:

Well, and not only that, on top of that, my mom is telling me that this is what love is, this is how fathers are supposed to be, you know. And so I think that's the way love is supposed to be. And it wasn't. Until we can fast forward way down the road, I really thought I was going throughout my whole life thinking this way love was supposed to be. Because even as an adult, like in college, my mom, I had to, like my mom would made me call triple B and tell him, like on on father's day and say happy father's day and things like that. Just, you know, put the guilt trip on me and I didn't know anything was wrong with that. I mean, I didn't enjoy it, but I was like, oh, I'm doing it for my mom, you know, and it makes her happy, and like I guess this is what it's kind of supposed to be.

Speaker 2:

And it wasn't until way down the road, when I first started writing my book. So when I first started writing my book, I was just going to write about, you know, overcoming. You know overcoming six years in high school. You know overcoming, you know, challenges I had in college and things like that, and get you know, and passing the bar exam, and I was just going to talk about like overcoming and persevering, but then when I thought about it, I was like let me start at the beginning here. What is my first memory? And then my first memory was when I was four years old, and then that's when I started writing it and it hadn't hit me, sonny, and I swear until then, until I first started writing the book what kind of childhood that I had.

Speaker 2:

And that was an amazing. It wasn't an amazing moment because, you know, tears are coming down, but this is what I started writing about. But it was a great moment because now I knew that this wasn't right. This wasn't right, but now I know I can do something about it. Now I can start on the journey of healing and loving myself, you know, and healing my inner child and things like that. So it was actually a great thing that I actually started writing and talking about all of these things, because I didn't realize any of this and I wasn't until I really put it down on paper, and so that's when it really started to start for me really loving myself is at that moment when I just recognized what had happened to me, because then now I knew now I can go forward instead of me just being a messed up kid that made some bumps in the road and gotten fights and things like that. Now I kind of knew why I did the things I was doing and now I can move forward from there. That makes sense.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and and in your book. Just show the book here in your book. And this is such a man. This is a really meaningful picture here. When you, when you, read this story it is. It's a an emotional and a powerful walk through your journey, and I'm someone who, when I read a book that I really enjoy and that really speaks to me, it's like a movie playing out in my mind as I read it. It's almost like you're there with the person going through it, and so I'm curious around what gave you the courage to write this story and what did the process look like going through this? Because I think about a couple of different things. Right, I think about this had to have been really hard from a familial perspective.

Speaker 1:

Oh, for sure To work through this and get it down on paper and then put this out. What did that look like, what that process look like for you?

Speaker 2:

look like what that process look like for you. Well, first I'll talk about the why I wrote it. Well, right, I wrote it. I just want to talk about overcoming and, you know, talking about like your past doesn't dictate your future. But I wasn't going to talk about like my trauma at home Cause again, I didn't realize that.

Speaker 2:

And then, once I did that and once I put that on paper and the way I wrote the story just to digress a little bit is I I don't enjoy sitting there writing, and so what I had to do is I was like okay, kyle, you're going to sit down for two hours every day, or like 20,000 words, and you're not getting up until you get that done, no matter what. And so every day I did that, and that's the only reason I was able to write all of that down, because I wouldn't. You know, I don't get these creative sparks like, oh, I'm just going to write a little bit safe, I didn't set a time and a place in how much I was going to do or I wouldn't get it done. There's some quote from some writer that she was like yeah, it's crazy, I only write when I feel creative. Somehow it's at 8 am every single morning when I sit down at the desk. And so I kind of did that and I read a lot of books about writing, if you're familiar with Steven Pressfield, the war of art, and that really got me through it and how to fight the resistance and things like that. So that's the only reason how I wrote the book.

Speaker 2:

And then I was like okay, so now you have all of this drama or these stories in here. How are you going to present this to you? Know, first I wanted to, you know, share it with my family. So I told my brother and my sister, who have been through the same thing I had, and I was like I don't know how they're going to react. You know what I mean. Before I put it out there, I was like you know, you guys are involved in this. So I I sent them the manuscript and they both read it and they both called me and they're like wow, like they weren't happy. You know, they weren't happy about it. But there was like that's exactly what happened, which was nice because it was validation, not that I was making it up, but like that it was that bad of growing up. And they were just like yes, this is exactly what was going on, and I'm so glad that you put this down, because now, now they can start on the journey to heal as well. So I think that was really important for me, to get their blessing, so to speak.

Speaker 2:

But then, once I published it, I knew I had to sit down with my mom and just to let your listeners know, my mom is still married to this gentleman today and so it's very, very difficult. She's holding onto this for dear life. And just to say a little bit of that, I can have empathy for my mom. I love my mom very much, but I can't change her. I can control how she's going to react. I have to focus on, you know, honoring myself and healing myself before I can go to anybody else, because that is just weigh me down and just and she's so stuck on the fact that you know that she's not going to again give up on this marriage, I suppose. But think that she holds on.

Speaker 2:

So when I told her about it, she, you know she got very upset about it and you know she, you know she admitted some mistakes.

Speaker 2:

You know things weren't the best, but she also held on.

Speaker 2:

This is what she held on to was like well, you had some good parts of childhood, you know, some things were okay and that's what she kind of like holds on to, and so I really thought that the book was going to be like a healing journey for her too.

Speaker 2:

But she kind of she likes to pretend that everything's okay, she doesn't want to face a lot of things, and so, like I said, I have to focus on me, healing me and moving forward with that, and not that I don't talk. I still talk to my mom, like she does some work for me, for my company and so. But I mean, obviously things are different now that you know I put this book out there, but I thought it was very important for me, for my healing journey selfishly. And also once I put it out there too, I heard from so many other people's like, wow, this happened to me as well, so that's kind of how it went with my family and things like that. So I don't even think my mom read it. I know triple, I'm pretty sure he hasn't read it. But again, they they just kind of pretend that like this doesn't exist and we're going to exist in another world where this isn't going on.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, I was curious about that just because it's hard and when you have that, when you want to put that kind of ideal family picture out there, it's really hard to peel back that kind of perfect picture that you want to display to get to the real raw stuff. But I can only imagine how much you writing this book has helped other people have the courage to do the work to kind of unpack their stories and find the resilience come out on the other side of it better for you know, because I think we can. Either we have two choices right. We can choose that things have happened to us or happened for us, and not that anyone's story who's gone through terrible things. You know it's not like this positive thing that happened for you, but there's something in it. There are those things that you can pull out of it where you tap into the resilience and you tap into the strength to say how can I have experienced this and I still get to grow and live my life, and in a healthy manner?

Speaker 2:

Sure, yeah, and you can also say the way you look at it. You could say, yeah, there was a terrible thing that happened to you or happened to me. But also, if I didn't recognize what was going on and work to heal, it was just weighing me down and I and yes, it was very scary putting this out there, and it still is. You know, scary putting this out there. I'm not going to say people say, oh, once you put it out there, everything is better on the other side. Yeah, it is.

Speaker 2:

But it's not like happy go lucky. You know it's still scary. You know, sharing your story and telling you things that happened to you. But also, I think it's so important to shine this light on this darkness, just so it can't have that much power over you. I didn't realize how much power this thing had over me when I was pretending just like I was following my mom's footsteps, pretending that this wasn't happening, pretending that this wasn't weighing me down. So once I kind of broke that, then it was on the healing journey, so to speak. But yeah, it's still scary every day. But the other way is much, much worse, where you know it's just wearing down on you and you're just trying to pretend oh, that's not bad, you know, that's not going to bother you, that's not going to have an impact on you, which it will for sure.

Speaker 1:

Okay, you guys know the routine. This is where I hit the pause button. You're going to want to come back next week for part two of Kyle's journey. He is going to talk about finding your tribe and mentorship, what his journey of forgiveness has looked like, both for himself and for others, and some of the tools he has used to help him navigate all the things that he's been through and really set him up for the most successful path forward. You are not going to want to miss it. See you again next week. Successful path forward. You are not going to want to miss it. See you again next week.

Speaker 1:

Thank you so much for listening and for being here on this journey with me. I hope you'll stick around. If you liked this episode, it would mean the world for me if you would rate and review the podcast or share it with someone you know. Many need to hear this message. I love to hear from you all and want you to know that you can leave me a voicemail directly. If you go to my website, evokegreatnesscom, and go to the contact me tab, you'll just hit the big old orange button and record your message. I love the feedback and comments that I've been getting, so please keep them coming. I'll leave you with the wise words of author Robin Sharma Greatness comes by doing a few small and smart things each and every day. It comes from taking little steps consistently. It comes from making a few small chips against everything in your professional and personal life that is ordinary, so that a day eventually arrives when all that's left is the extraordinary.

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