Episode Summary
In this episode, we discuss the pursuit of happiness & why achieving fulfillment in life comes from embracing challenges. Are you constantly feeling like you are a hamster on a wheel? Going through the motions of life in constant pursuit of validation from outside factors that are not within your control? If that resonates with you, you are not alone and it’s something many people experience while attempting to survive & thrive. In this podcast episode, you can expect some life lessons and information on how to adjust your mindset to tackle the obstacles you are facing in a way that will help you put things in the proper perspective. I have learned that the key to finding happiness and fulfillment comes from having gratitude & living in the moment. Moreover, by putting less priority on things and outside factors outside of your control, you can live life on your own terms and filled with purpose.
The Pursuit of Happiness
Embracing Challenges Podcast
The Obstacle Is The Way

We are stuck, stymied, frustrated. But it needn’t be this way. There is a formula for success that’s been followed by the icons of history—from John D. Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs—a formula that let them turn obstacles into opportunities. Faced with impossible situations, they found the astounding triumphs we all seek.
The Obstacle Is The Way reveals that formula for the first time—and shows us how we can turn our own adversity into an advantage.
The book was included in Gear Patrol’s “10 Best Books of Summer,” and named one of Entrepreneur Magazine‘s must-read holiday books.
Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter

For the first time, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson opens up about his amazing comeback—from tragic personal loss to thriving businessman and cable’s highest-paid executive—in this unique self-help guide, his first since his blockbuster New York Times bestseller The 50th Law.
In his early twenties Curtis Jackson, known as 50 Cent rose to the heights of fame and power in the cutthroat music business. A decade ago the multi-platinum selling rap artist decided to pivot. His ability to adapt to change was demonstrated when he became the executive producer and star of Power, a high-octane, gripping crime drama centered around a drug kingpin’s family. The series quickly became “appointment” television, leading to Jackson inking a four-year, $150 million contract with the Starz network—the most lucrative deal in premium cable history.
Now, in his most personal book, Jackson shakes up the self-help category with his unique, cutting-edge lessons and hard-earned advice on embracing change. Where The 50th Law tells readers “fear nothing and you shall succeed,” Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter builds on this message, combining it with Jackson’s street smarts and hard-learned corporate savvy to help readers successfully achieve their own comeback—and to learn to flow with the changes that disrupt their own lives.
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