Bob Goff: What It Feels Like to Be You Right Now

About this episode

Bob Goff joins Miles Adcox to discuss emotional patterns, friendship, and personal transformation in a candid conversation.

Stuck in the same emotional patterns? Onsite's Living Centered Program is a five-day intensive that helps you slow down, go deeper, and do the inner work that changes things. Learn more at experienceonsite.com What if the most meaningful thing you ever did wasn't whatmade you famous, but who you showed up for when nobody was watching? What if the key to getting unstuck isn't adding more to yourlife, but having the courage to quit something on a Thursday? Bob Goff — NYT bestselling author, founder of Love Does, andhonorary consul to Uganda — joins Miles Adcox for one of the most honest conversations in Human School history. These two have traveled conflict zones together, worked with San Quentin, and called each other in the gutted middle-of-the-night moments real friendships are made of. Bob opens up about walking away from law, stepping back fromspeaking, and handing over the nonprofit, he literally wrote the book on. He shares the four lies he tells himself daily and why naming them changed everything. He tells the story of Kabi — a Ugandan witch doctor convicted of child sacrifice — whom Bob prosecuted, befriended on death row, and watched transform an entire prison. They go…

People in this episode

Host: Miles Adcox

Guest: Bob Goff

Topics covered

• emotional patterns
• friendship
• self-awareness
• personal growth
• loneliness
• transformation

Keywords

• Bob Goff
• emotional patterns
• friendship
• self-awareness
• loneliness
• transformation
• Living Centered Program
• Love Does

Sponsors

Onsite

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Love Does

Places: Uganda, San Quentin

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