Stephen Lovegrove On Overcoming Adversity, Life Coaching, And Goalsetting

<p>Stephen is nicknamed “America’s Life Coach”. His own discovery and building of self-awareness led him to the field of coaching others. Now he is one of the most powerful coaches in the world. </p><p>Beyond working with clients he creates incredible content and shares free information that can help anyone reinvent their life.</p><p>We talked for a while about growing up in a cult, breaking free to build his own future, goal setting and what it takes to be a successful life coach.</p><p><strong>Overcoming Adversity Growing Up In A Cult</strong></p><p>Stephen shared the incredibly challenging life experience he had growing up in a religious cult. It was tough because he was faced with internal conflict at twelve years old as he was learning what it meant to be gay. </p><p>But even more challenging, is what it meant to be gay within this religious context.</p><p>It’s an understatement to say that he environment he was growing up in was not at all supportive. In fact this led to him being kicked out of his childhood home.</p><p>He shares about this challenging period in life where coming out to friends and family did not feel like it was in the realm of possibility at the time. </p><p>One of the cool moments of our chat was Stephen sharing how all of us have things that we just intrinsically feel are impossible. We should explore those often because in all likelihood they are possible. </p><p><strong>Living A Life Of Compassion</strong></p><p>Stephen is not against specific people or groups of people. He is against the idea that we must put people at odds with each other based on ideology. </p><p>If people believe things differently from you, it does not mean they are wrong. It doesn’t not make them evil, and it does not mean something is wrong with them</p><p>We talked about this idea of being much more compassionate. Not necessarily accepting the things that people do. But understanding that people don’t just choose to be a certain way.  </p><p>Everything a person is choosing makes sense, on some level, in their