The Story You Keep Telling Yourself Is the Problem

About this episode

This episode explores the connection between personal identity and business success through the lens of a guest's weight loss journey.

What does losing 200 pounds have to do with your real estate business? More than you think. In this episode of the Take It and Run podcast, we sit down with a very special guest — Merrill Jencks — who dropped over 200 pounds, leg presses 540 pounds, and hasn't focused on weight loss for nearly three years. But the number on the scale? That's not the story. The real story is identity. Mindset. And the narratives we tell ourselves about who we are — in the gym, in marriage, and on the phones. M...

People in this episode

Guest: Merrill Jencks

Topics covered

• identity
• mindset
• narratives
• weight loss
• real estate

Keywords

• self-improvement
• entrepreneurship
• personal story

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