Why You Need To Follow Your Intuition | Lisa Bilyeu EP 800

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:10I'm all for biology. I think that's very powerful. But there are those moments, right? Those intuitions. Like when you have a baby, there's like a woman's intuition. Like we're giving so many things in order to be able to protect the baby. And yet with business, like I have learned to start to listen to my intuition just the same. It's like, I think intuition has to be trained. I don't think it's just like, oh, you've got intuition. It's fine. You're amazing. You know everything. It's like, no, no, we learn intuition as we get older. That look, that one time that one person gave me a look ended bad.

0:40Your body remembers. You'll feel it, yeah, of course. Anytime I feel that fear of like, oh, you're about to enter a space that you don't know, I just reassure myself, it's like, oh, it's day one. It's day one. Give yourself the grace to know anything you try is day one. We do it at college, right? I bet you did it at practice. Like the first time you picked up the football, you weren't thinking that you were going to be the best quarterback in the world, right? Right? It's like, oh, I've got to learn how to freaking throw the ball. So that's what I do. Just day one, anytime I feel the fear over anything new, Lewis, anything.

1:13I have these mantras. I have these tactics. I have these tools. Everything I put in the book, it's like, okay, Lisa, you've got radical confidence. Radical confidence means that even with the fear, you're going to move forward. But you need to practice. You have to go in with a mindset that you're going to learn and have a game plan. And then when you fall on your face, get back up. Like that is my superpower. I wish I could be amazing at things, but I'm not. So I remind myself my superpower is I'm the person that gets back up. I really thought when we're successful, when we're rich, everything's going to be okay.

1:46Because you look at successful, wealthy people and you're like, at least for me, it can't speak for other people. I admire them. Oh, my God. Look at that watch. Like, look at that thing, right? Like, oh, my God. That car, the house. Yeah, I'm going to feel great when I have it. So because you think that about that person, you think that's how you're going to feel when you get there. So I'm going to take you back. Tom and I were still sharing the same Ford Focus with the hole in the exhaust when Quest was announced as a billion-dollar company. So everyone thinks you're wealthy, but we literally had, you know, Tom's salary and that was it.

2:19We go to sell a very small portion of Quest. So it's a small percent, so you're still taking massive ownership over it, but it was still a hell of a lot of money. So we didn't want to talk about it. We didn't tell anybody that we were trying to sell a bit because you never know what's going to happen. So one day we hear rumors that today is going to be the day. That the money comes in. Yes. Like there's a wire transfer of this much money. Our Ford Focus is still sitting in the drive. Right. And we hear these rumors from our finances that the money is about to come in. So we're working in our makeshift garage gym.

2:49And in between revs, Tom's like, all right, babe, refresh, refresh. No, nothing yet. So we're like, don't do this. Refresh, refresh. and literally one button refresh boom your life changes and in that moment i was like and so we hugged we took a couple of selfies and then what did we do lewis we got back up and went back to work yeah so we were chasing money we said stop chasing money now let's chase something that's actually predicated on passion desire and value add that was quest nutrition so we flipped our mindsets we stopped chasing money and in the effort of stop chasing money it led to us creating money but because of we'd already developed a mission we'd already developed our why we knew why we were getting out of bed every day that didn't change just because our bank account did even though at this point i had 40 employees underneath me 10 000 square foot literally went from shipping bars in my on my living room floor to that and imposter syndrome was is that my husband and his business partners earned the money and i was a good help in the grind when things are hard and you're asking yourself, what the hell are we doing this all for?

3:55Like, why? Tom and I would drive around Beverly Hills in our crappy car and we would, like, point out all the houses we would buy. And we were like, I like this style. No, no, no, I like this style. And then eventually, the money comes to our account and we actually can buy the house that we're, like, the roads that we're touring. It's like the biggest dream come true. I'd had 15 years of gut issues. I was ignoring them, ignoring them, ignoring them. I was priding myself on the grind. I wasn't priding myself on the self-care. So for years and years, I was getting sicker and sicker because I wasn't replenishing my gut.

4:28I had a very unhealthy relationship with food. So I wasn't having fat. I wasn't eating carbs. I thought I had to be as skinny as possible. So all this unhealthy relationship, I was getting sick because I was working a lot. I wasn't replenishing. And so I was getting a lot of antibiotics. And so for like years and years and years, I was taking three to four, five times a year antibiotics. and I really think it got to the point where I'd pushed myself into the ground and the bubbly and the alcohol, I think it was just that moment. Wow. And I think, and literally, from then, it felt like it erupted.

5:03I didn't tell Tom, because of course I'm trying to be strong. Sure. So I'm like, babe, I'll be back in a second. I run to the bathroom and I literally cannot, I'm like, what the hell is happening to me? My gut is in like such disarray. But my husband's so excited for it. So of course, of course, what do I tell myself? Just push through it. Right. Don't tell him. Push through. It's a celebration. And I was like, all right, if I just get straight into the swimming pool, then I'll be able to hide my pain. Oh, man. So I get out. I'm, like, trying to pretend. I'm, like, rushing into the swimming pool.

5:32And just the water pressure was too unbearable. And that's when I'm like, babe, I don't know what's wrong. That was six years ago. Wow. Six years ago. I'm still on my journey of healing my gut. Wow. Just to give perspective to everybody. But how can that moment be the best thing that's ever happened to me? Number one, I took ownership. I did it to my gut. I was the one that had a bad relationship with food. I was the one that was taking the antibiotics. And for so long, I was like, it's the doctor's thoughts. It's the expert's thoughts. It's that person's thoughts. Taking ownership over my health changed everything, not just for my health, but in the way that I see business, in the way that I see my relationship.

6:14Now, every time something goes wrong, the very first thing I ask myself is, how can I take ownership over this? How is this my own doing? So that changed my whole health. That changed my business. Every time now something goes wrong in the business, whether it's an employee that has royally screwed up, I literally, before I say anything, it's like, what's my ownership in this? Yeah, yeah. Like, I don't know how I would think about success if that hadn't happened to me. I don't know how I would think about money if that didn't happen to me.

6:49I am so excited for you to finish the rest of your day strong. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to click the link in the description and it will take you to the full episode of my other show, The School of Greatness. Make sure to come back tomorrow for another episode of The Daily Motivation Show.