**About The Guest(s):**
Jake Kauffman is a transformation coach and spiritual mentor. He helps individuals unlock their potential and guides them in overcoming their limiting beliefs and patterns. Jake is the author of the book "Let Love In: The Pain Stops When the Truth Starts."

**Summary:**
Jake Kauffman discusses the importance of addressing past pain and trauma in order to unlock one's full potential. He explains that our beliefs and patterns are shaped by our past experiences and that these beliefs dictate our thoughts, actions, and results. Jake emphasizes the need to confront and reconcile our pain in order to find true fulfillment and contentment. He also highlights the role of spirituality and a higher purpose in sustaining personal growth and transformation.

**Key Takeaways:**

• Our beliefs shape our thoughts, actions, and results. If we want to change our results, we need to address our underlying beliefs.
• Success and achievement can be addictive and driven by a fear of disappointment or a need to prove oneself.
• True transformation requires unbecoming and unlearning, rather than simply acquiring new knowledge or skills.
• Reconciling past pain is essential for finding peace, contentment, and fulfillment.
• A relationship with a higher power and a higher purpose can provide sustainable fuel for personal growth and success.

**Quotes:**

• "The pattern always reveals the problem."
• "We suffer to get well, we lose it to find it, we give it away to keep it, we die to live."
• "Our primary task should not be to seek after success, but to seek after and find all of the barriers within us that stand against it."
• "Grace creates the void that grace alone can fill."
• "We don't achieve our way to our full potential, we die our way there."

**Chapters**(0:00:00) Jake Kauffman talks about failure being the doorway to success.(0:01:31) Trevor Houston asks Jake about his journey into coaching and mentoring.(0:02:00) Jake explains how patterns reveal our deepest beliefs.(0:03:01) Jake discusses the impact of unconscious beliefs on our results.(0:04:29) Trevor shares his experience of overcompensating for feeling worthless.(0:07:33) Jake discusses the impact of excessive trauma on underachievers.(0:11:01) Jake emphasizes the importance of unbecoming and unlearning for transformation.(0:12:31) Trevor expresses his need to address past trauma for personal growth.(0:17:11) Successful entrepreneurs often struggle with unhappiness and unfulfillment.(0:20:24) Success can be an adaptation to avoid pain and insecurities.(0:23:34) Tom Brady's drive stemmed from not wanting to disappoint others.(0:26:37) Achieving success can lead to an empty feeling the next day.(0:32:22) Unexpressed flight response and signs of trauma.(0:34:24) The unconscious motivation behind conscious desires for impact.(0:36:56) The distinction between uncovering and undoing trauma.(0:39:02) The impact of childhood beliefs on adult behavior.(0:40:21) Rewiring beliefs to overcome childhood trauma.(0:46:36) Grace creates and fills the void for sustainable motivation.(0:50:09) Suffering is the price to pay for reaching full potential.(0:52:51) Book: "Let Love In" - threshold for receiving success/love.(0:53:55) Pushing away what exceeds our threshold for safety.(0:57:42) Embracing the tension of paradox and both-and conversations.(0:58:47) Responding to hate with empathy and grace.(1:02:43) Turning haters into raving fans through attention and love.

**Additional Resources**

👉 LinkedIn e-book: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://online.flippingbook.com/view/714118097/⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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👉 Trevor Houston is a licensed financial professional offering insurance/financial products through various carriers. For more info visit ⁠http://cpwstrategies.com⁠

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