YOU Are Your Greatest Asset | Eric Thomas

Welcome back everyone to the School of Greatness. Very excited about our guest. If you want to succeed as bad as you wanna breathe, then you'll be successful. We've got E. T, the hip hop preacher, in the house. My man, welcome back. It's been a while. It's been a minute. Oh, it's yeah. I I gotta say this. Congratulations, man. You know, I was saying when I was talking to you, it's, like, ten years ago. Mhmm. You know? And I I remember because you were like, E. I want you on the show, and I hadn't really started doing podcasting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that was, like, one of the first podcast. And I was like, but my mother, my, godmother was dying of cancer. And so I was like, man, I can't leave and go, but I definitely wanna and you were gracious enough. Like, where you at? Eat? I was like, Embassy Suites. I like drove out there. I was like, you know, I'm still in Ontario. Yeah. Get it. And, man, just to see your evolution, you know, over the years. And, like I said, it was a lot of us that started during that time frame Mhmm. And to see kinda where you are today and you survived the resilience Yeah, man. Bouncing back, getting bigger, stronger, and better. Right. Like you're ready to go back to sports. Let's go, baby. Let's go. Yeah. So congrats, Bear. I've seen that, I mean, I I can't name all the people, but Kobe. I've seen Uh-huh. My girl Tab on the show, you know, and just to see all the people you had. Of course, I watch the show and learn from it. So, man, congratulations. Thankful. Appreciate it. Congratulations. Appreciate it. I'm excited about this because I I feel like you haven't been out there a lot. You've been doing a lot of your own stuff for a while. So I'm excited because Yeah. There's probably a lot of people who don't know your full story Yeah. Because you used to tell it a lot ten and five years ago. Beginning. So I kinda wanna reintroduce you Okay. To the world. Yeah. And I feel like the world is at a such a unique place right now as we go into 2025. Yeah. And it almost feels like there needs to be a massive mindset shift for everyone to take back ownership of their life Absolutely. To take the full responsibility of their life, to not rely on other people to give them opportunities, but to go own their own opportunities by creating and having a clear vision. Yeah. And there's a few things that I wanna talk about that you would've that I've seen you share some incredible strategies around mindset. I'm gonna dive into in a second. Yeah. But for those who don't know, you were at one point living wholess. Yeah. You know, a long time ago. Yeah. People probably don't even …