The Growth Hub

Ideas, tools, support and inspiration to realize your goals, purpose and potential, No Matter What

Are the People Around you By Design or Default?

Choose relationships out of design, not default. Your relationships—both personal and professional—should fuel your future, not just exist out of habit. Surround yourself with people who challenge, inspire, and elevate you, rather than those who keep you stagnant.

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Misogis: The Life-Changing Practice of Doing What Feels Impossible

Our limiting beliefs will hold us back, until we prove them wrong. And the best way to break free from them is through physical challenges (Misogis) that push us beyond what we think is possible. By proving to ourselves through action that we are capable of more, we redefine our boundaries and unlock greater potential.

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Define Your Future—Before the World Does

Developing a vision and associated goals of where you’re going is necessary to be on the path towards them. Without a defined vision, the world will shape it for you, leading to unfulfilled outcomes. We can take ownership of our future with a vision that has clarity and purpose.

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“I Don’t Know” Isn’t a Problem, If…

“I don’t know” will default into retreating or relying on outdated strategies and approaches. Instead, anchoring on self-awareness provides a stable foundation for growth amid uncertainty. With a clear sense of who you are, who your team is, and what your organization really stands for, future unknowns are less daunting and become opportunities for proactive exploration instead of passive resignation. 

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The Exact Formula I Use to Turn Hard Things into Growth

Stepping outside our comfort zones is often celebrated as the key to growth, but simply facing challenges doesn't guarantee transformation. Real growth demands intentionality—it requires a deliberate approach to how we engage with and learn from our experiences.

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Why You Need to Change, First…

 To shift our results and the world around us – whether it's people, environments, or organizations—we must first transform ourselves. By shifting our mindset, emotions, and perspectives, we unlock the ability to create a ripple effect of broader impact. Personal growth is the foundation of broader change. When we can shift ourselves, we have access to shifting everything around us. 

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Why you Need to Break Something Before you Build

If we’re not actively breaking limiting beliefs – we’re stuck with them. Taking on seemingly impossible challenges together builds stronger bonds and unlocks the hidden potential in all of us. The process reveals how we can show up for ourselves, show up for others and ultimately overcome whatever hurdles life presents even in the face of challenges and adversity.

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People before Progress

There is no achievement in isolation. Nobody does it alone. If you want to perpetuate progress, create sustainable achievement — you need to sustain a collective. You don’t only need goals. Or willpower. You need this rich tapestry of people in all aspects of life. That’s what propels you forward — that’s what creates achievement.

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The way out is through. And the way through is trust.

Growth is not just a function of better strategy, more grit, and harder work. It’s a function of the real work: the uncomfortable work to let go of what we already know and trust that there’s something greater on the other side. A cultivated belief that we can depart from the status quo – about ourselves, our teams, our companies – and realize our potential beyond it.

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Your Safe Space isn’t Enough

Developing real psychological safety doesn't mean staying in a static, comfortable bubble. It means developing the resilience and flexibility to handle more diverse and challenging scenarios. The once formidable becomes the familiar. We don’t become more psychologically safe by avoiding or denying the things that make us uncomfortable. But rather including, embracing and expanding beyond that discomfort.

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Breaking the Confidence Misconception

Confidence is a deep self-trust. A cultivated belief that no matter what happens, we know who we are to navigate it. It gives us the internal strength to confront anything we’re presented with. Circumstantial confidence, derived from status, money, relationships or anything externally will yield a fragile, false confidence at best.

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