Lewis Howes: A Big Man With a Dark Secret and Heart of Gold

刘易斯·豪斯:一个有着黑暗秘密和黄金心的大个子

Good Life Project

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2014-12-10

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I'm rarely stunned. But this was one of those times... Lewis Howes is a radiant, towering hulk of a human being. Driven, energized, magnetic and successful. I've known Lewis for a number of years now and consider him a good friend. When he came to me earlier this year to share a dark, incredibly-painful secret from his childhood, I was floored. Did not see it coming. He'd been living with the pain and deep trauma of sexual abuse for decades. At the hands of another man, though he was just a boy. When he told me, a few months after, that he wanted to "go public" in an effort to help others who'd been through the same thing, I was hesitant. I didn't know how people might take it, or mis-attribute any unfounded motivations. But he was determined to make it happen and asking me to help guide the conversation. I knew how important it would be to create a "safe container," so I said yes. The conversation that unfolded was incredibly raw, real, vulnerable and powerful on so many levels. He recently shared it with his community, and now I'm sharing it with you. Please feel free to share this heartfelt conversation with anyone you think might find support or connection. Please also visit Lewis website and original post, where you can share your thoughts with him directly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • I've known Louis Howes for probably the better part of five years now, and I consider him a pretty good friend.

  • I thought I knew him pretty well, too, and I still do.

  • But when he came to me last year to share something, share something that had been weighing deeply on his heart, deeply in his head and his soul since he was a small child, a deep secret, I was stunned, absolutely stunned.

  • This was one of those moments where you ask yourself, wow, do we really ever talk about anything real?

  • A little bit later, Lewis came to me and said he wanted to share what he shared with me publicly.

  • And he asked if I would sit down with him and if we would record a conversation.

  • He had shared it with a number of different friends, and he felt like his experience, what happened to him when he was a small child was something that he wanted to bring public to help other people who may have endured something similar.

  • I was hesitant because I didn't know how people would receive it, but I agreed.

  • And what unfolded, I think, was a pretty powerful conversation.

  • Lewis shared that conversation with his own community a couple of months back, and I'm going to share it with you guys today because I think it's an important conversation.

  • Here's Lewis house.

  • I'm Jonathan Fields.

  • This is good life project.

  • What is up, guys?

  • Lewis Howes here.

  • And today I am with my good friend Jonathan Fields, and I asked him to come on to facilitate this podcast, this episode, because I wanted to completely open up to you guys about an experience that I had.

  • And I wanted to have him on here to really facilitate and support me in navigating this conversation.

  • And I think it's really important for me to have someone like Jonathan that I trust and that I feel comfortable with so that I can talk to about this subject that we're about to uncover.

  • So thanks for coming on.

  • Yeah, I mean, thank you for inviting me on.