Near Death To New Life & The Purpose Of Hope With Justin Moseley
Download MP31st is just realizing, ask yourself that question. Why am I still here? Because the problem is a lot of people wait for a near death accident or a rock bottom moment or the loss of a loved one before they start to question life. And you don't need a near death accident. You don't need a rock bottom moment in order to change.
Justin Moseley:You can ask yourself that question. Why am I still here? Because life is a gift. You didn't have to wake up today, but you did. So if you're listening to this podcast, there's air in your lungs, your heart is beating, you are here for a reason.
Justin Moseley:You woke up today for a purpose. So ask yourself, why am I still here? And as you start to get clarity on that, and then you just go and take a step, one step forward every single day, this is why I'm here. This is my purpose in life. Everything starts to change.
Paul Nottoli:Believe the Hope podcast. I am here with doctor Justin Mosley, the a k a the mindset doctor. And if you don't know Justin, he's a high after international And after surviving a near death experience in 2,000 doctor Justin shifted from changing lives in his clinic to changing lives all over the world. Doctor Justin is a 2 time TEDx speaker and host of the Mindset Doctor podcast, and he's a and has on ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX. Doctor Justin people master their minds so they can get out of their own way and step into their power and become the highest version of themselves to unlock their full potential.
Paul Nottoli:So, and you just hit a milestone on one of your TED Talks that were over 50,000 views, so congrats on that. That's awesome that it keeps growing, and, people are resonating with your message. And, yeah. That's awesome.
Justin Moseley:Yeah. Thanks for having me. I'm excited for this conversation.
Paul Nottoli:I figured, obviously, as a mindset coach, there's some hope involved when you're talking to people and helping them feel inspired and getting out of their own way. So I wanted to get Yeah. I wanted to get you on to talk, and get your expertise on this topic for sure. So my first question with anybody is because everyone has different and, is what does hope mean to them personally?
Justin Moseley:I think hope is a seed of belief. Like, even if you can't see it, or even if you think something is unattainable, there's a seed of belief that if possible, I think that's where hope lies. And I think that's one of the hardest things for people, is people lose hope because they lack belief. They lack belief in themselves. They see all the things people around them can accomplish, and they don't think it's for them.
Justin Moseley:They may want to achieve it, but there's more doubt than there is belief. So I think hope is a mixture of you need that seed of belief that it's possible, and let that belief grow. And this mixture of faith and hope can make a lot of things happen.
Paul Nottoli:Just from your experience, I know that, as years ago, you had an Internet accident. So I would like to hear more about that, because I'm sure there's times probably after that experience where there wasn't a lot of hope, and and you had to dive yourself and mindset, everything that you are now, and coaching through your your clients, etcetera.
Justin Moseley:Right. And there's a lot of lessons around that. So I'm a chiropractor by trade. My wife's a chiropractor as well. We've got a practice outside of Nashville, Tennessee here.
Justin Moseley:And we started our practice in 2012, built a great family practice for helping people, making a difference. And then in 2018, I went on a Mids retreat, and we went white water rafting. And it was just a freak accident. We hit the class 5 rapids, and I was sitting on the back of the raft, and our raft tipped over, and I got trapped underneath the rapid itself. And it just started pushing me underwater, and I still remember the sound of my helmet scraping down the rocks as I was getting pushed under.
Justin Moseley:And the last thing I remember thinking is, I'm not coming back up. And then everything went black, and everything went bright white, and it was the most peaceful, serene feeling I'd ever felt. And I lost consciousness. And I don't know how long it lasted, but I heard a voice that said wake up. And thankfully, I did because I came back to consciousness, and I was trapped underwater wedged between 2 rocks.
Justin Moseley:And I tried to push, and I didn't budge. And I kept pushing and pushing. Nothing was happening. And then thankfully, my adrenaline kicked in. And I was able to push hard enough.
Justin Moseley:I broke one of the buckles on my life jacket that was trapped underneath one of the rocks, floated to the top, gasped for breath, got swept down the river. Man, at that point, I was rocked. Like, what just happened? And we all question our purpose in life at some point. Why am I here?
Justin Moseley:What's the purpose to all of this? But in that moment, I asked a different question. I said, why am I still here? Because things could have been different in that moment. What if I didn't hear wake up?
Justin Moseley:Or what if I wasn't strong enough to break free? So I asked myself, why am I still here? And what I realized is I'd gotten comfortable in life because things were good. I was living my purpose. I was helping people.
Justin Moseley:I was making a difference. Great relationship with my wife. We would travel, and we had a good life, But I realized I was playing way too small. And if I truly wanted to step into the calling that was on my life, I need to exchange my comfort for my calling. So that's when I started looking back at my life, and I was like, what were some of the things that helped us be successful?
Justin Moseley:And it was a lot of the work I did on myself, mindset, leadership, personal development, things that I'd studied, mentors that I've had. So at that point, I kind of shifted gears. I was like, I just want to put out content that helps people. So I started putting out a lot of videos on it. And I started a Facebook group the 1st of 2020, just putting myself out there.
Justin Moseley:I don't know if you ever felt this. I was like, I don't know if anybody's gonna listen. I'm just gonna put this out.
Paul Nottoli:And It feels safe sometimes.
Justin Moseley:Yeah. Right. Yeah. You you never know. It's like, I'm just gonna put it out there, see what resonates.
Justin Moseley:And a 1,000 people showed up into my Facebook group in the 1st month. So I was like, okay. People are listening. And then I just kept putting out more and more, and it led to me be able to speak all over the country and led to my first TED Talk was in 2022. I talked about lessons I learned from my near death experience.
Justin Moseley:And then, fast forward a couple of years later, I keep speaking more, and then people would reach out and be like, man, I love what you're doing. I wish I could do that. It just comes so natural to you. And I was like, no. Speaking was not natural.
Justin Moseley:For most of my life, I was terrified. So I actually shared this past TED Talk was on how I overcame my fear of public speaking. Because I was to the point I almost failed a speech class in college because I had a panic attack during my speech. So my whole message now is everyone's got a story to tell. So I wanna help people overcome the fear so they can share their message with the world.
Paul Nottoli:How do you help people maintain the hope or get out of that comfort to find their to find their calling, to find that higher purpose?
Justin Moseley:Yeah. 1st is just realizing ask yourself that question. Why am I still here? Because the problem is a lot of people wait for a near death accident or a rock bottom moment or the loss of a loved one before they start to question life. And you don't need a near death accident.
Justin Moseley:You don't need a rock bottom moment in order to change. Now, you can ask yourself that question. Why am I still here? Because life is a gift. You didn't have to wake up today, but you did.
Justin Moseley:So if you're listening to this podcast, there's air in your lungs, your heart is beating, you are here for a reason. You woke up today for a purpose. So ask yourself, why am I still here? And as you start to get clarity on that, and then you just go and take a step, one step forward every single day, this is why I'm here, this is my purpose in life, everything starts to change. But an issue that people have a lot of times is they think I have to have this grand Mother Teresa size vision for my life.
Justin Moseley:I've gotta solve world hunger, all the no. Maybe your purpose today is to go put a smile on someone's face. If you're a chiropractor, maybe it's just somebody's having a bad day, and you turn their power on with an adjustment, and you just make them laugh today. Maybe that's the purpose for today. It doesn't have to be something grand, and that's why we we minimize the stuff that we do because we see what others do.
Justin Moseley:But you gotta realize, you're in front of people every single day. There's an opportunity to make a difference. If you're looking for those opportunities, you'll find them.
Paul Nottoli:It's funny to mention that because this is, these have all been very similar things. The small things that we can do on a daily basis, I was just actually interviewing my brother yesterday, and, I wanted to do this, and he said the very same thing. It's like, how do I show up when I wake up in the morning? How do I show up when my wife comes down the stairs? How do I show up when my kids wake up?
Paul Nottoli:How do I show up to my staff, etcetera, as he's going throughout his day? And, yeah, this is to just make someone smile that day because you don't know what they're going through. They may be lacking they may be even going to a region of, what people have said that the opposite of hope is complete hopelessness or despair. They may be going in that because they don't feel like anybody's listening or hearing them or they haven't found their purpose, which is another thing that gets brought up a lot. And so, yeah, I, yeah, take you went from a death experience, and were you wow, I'm lucky to be alive, and just went every but you were I mean, your life was still good.
Paul Nottoli:You went back and everything, but you found you're like, I need to change. I need to I need to step and you took every little detail every day to just keep showing up. And, yeah and stuff play play a huge role as well.
Justin Moseley:For sure. And I think you mentioned it earlier, the comfort zone. I think it goes back to that. So that's what I shared on my first TED Talk was how to step out of that comfort zone. Because when you step out of the comfort zone, it's not easy.
Justin Moseley:The and I I showed, the concentric circles here. So you got your comfort zone. When you step out of the comfort zone, you step into the fear zone. And that's when the fear, the worry, the doubt, the voices in your head saying, you can't do this. You're not good enough.
Justin Moseley:You're not smart enough. You're not worthy enough. All those voices in our head start to show up. But if you can push through, and a big one a great place to start is just doing positive affirmations. Because I tell people, you've got to speak louder than the voices in your head.
Justin Moseley:You've got a a subconscious program, a tape playing in your own head of all the things that you've done wrong in the past and why stuff won't work out. But you need to get a vision of where you wanna go and then affirm that it's possible. And then when you can push through the fear zone, then you hit the growth zone. And that's where things actually get tough. Because how does a muscle grow?
Justin Moseley:It needs resistance. You gotta lift weights. You gotta get heavier and heavier resistance in order for that muscle to grow. Well, that happens in life. We get put up against resistance, and a lot of people can't handle the resistance.
Justin Moseley:They shrink back into the comfort zone where it's safe. But if you keep pushing through, every every form of resistance you overcome, you get stronger. And then you go from the growth zone into the flow zone. And the flow zone is where the magic happens. That's where things that used to be hard come really easy to you.
Justin Moseley:And you're just in the state of flow, and things life's just flowing to you. And then from there, you get into the legacy zone. That's the legacy you're here to leave. The results are no longer about you. What can I accomplish?
Justin Moseley:Or what can I do? It's what is the legacy I can leave? Because one of the powerful questions that came from my near death accident, because I had to be real with myself. I was like, it could have everything could have ended right there in that moment. So I asked myself, is this the legacy I want to leave?
Justin Moseley:If it all ends right now, is this the legacy you want to leave? And the answer was no. And it still drives me to this day, because I don't want to get to the end of my life and realize I could have done more. I could have helped more people. I could have made a bigger impact.
Justin Moseley:So that drives me every single day. I'm looking for an opportunity to help people and make an impact in their lives. Because I look at it, I'm on bonus time now. So if there's any soccer fans, soccer is, like, one of the weirdest sports with how they keep score. There's a time limit, but at the end of the time limit, there's bonus time, where only the referee knows how much bonus time is left.
Justin Moseley:So I think that's kind of, like, our time here on earth. We're all in this bonus time. We don't know when it's gonna end, so we better live each day fully. And not about us, not here, just a self serving life. How can we make a difference in someone else's life?
Justin Moseley:When you live like that, there's a magic that starts to happen.
Paul Nottoli:Okay. As you're in those different zones, it feels like it's almost a dynamic play where you feel like sometimes you're in that you're rushing through the flow and into the legacy zone, and then other times, it's like, oh, I'm back to being in the work and the suck I call it the embrace the suck phase where everything is just seems hard. Maybe that's just because owning a business or just being a, just different things in life. But I think
Justin Moseley:Yep. Well, so that's a good point.
Paul Nottoli:Yeah. Like your family is, like, you're like, oh, I'm taking care of my family. I'm providing. I'm in a good zone. I'm in my legacy zone, but then other times, it's almost like a dynamic where other things are, maybe you're working for health and that's when they embrace the suck phase type of
Justin Moseley:thing. Yeah. And there's always a new level of comfort zone. So as you push through and you get in this new flow zone and legacy zone, well, we don't just stay here because either you're growing or you're dying. So we get into that zone, and then we start to look at, okay, what's next for us?
Justin Moseley:What can we accomplish? And in order to accomplish that next thing, we get boxed into a new comfort zone. We're like, okay, if I wanna go and have achieve this next level, I gotta start over and work out of this comfort zone, through that fear zone, and through the growth zone all over again to go to a new level.
Paul Nottoli:Through those zones, and they're working on their hope and their purpose. How are they how does one help spread, more positivity and community and in their own community as also into the world? How is it?
Justin Moseley:Yeah. When it comes to purpose, like, I don't think people find their purpose. I think their purpose finds them. I think as we're going through life, one of the best things to do, and I shared this in in the TED Talk that I just did, a buddy of mine, he's a mentor, he said, you are perfectly positioned to serve the person you once were. So think about that.
Justin Moseley:There's things you've been through in your life. There's lessons you've learned. There's obstacles you've faced, challenges you've overcome. You can take the lessons you've learned and speak those into other people. Because right now, somebody's going through something you went through in the past.
Justin Moseley:You mentioned being a business owner. There's ups and downs of business and challenges and staff you gotta hire and all the things that go with that. There's other people dealing with that kind of stuff too. So you can actually speak life into them by just taking the own lessons you've been through in your life. So I think when it comes to purpose, it's starting there.
Justin Moseley:It's what have I been through? So that's what happened with me. And this whole mindset doctor thing came from me looking back in my own life. Like, what am I passionate about? Well, I read my first Tony Robbins book when I was 16.
Justin Moseley:And that came because I struggled with self doubt, insecurity, lack lack of self confidence, and self worth. And I found myself in a bookstore, and I found Awaken the Giant Within, which is like a 600 page book from Tony Robbins. And I read it, and it really opened my mind to, if you change your mind, you can change your life. You don't have to settle. You can continue to grow.
Justin Moseley:And it led me to people like Jim Rohn, who talked about, if you want more, you've got to become more. And Zig Ziglar, you can get anything you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. So I was just feeding my mind constantly. And since for over 10 years now, I've been reading a 100 books a year. Just because I'm passionate about consuming knowledge.
Justin Moseley:And I got to a point, it was like, I wanna take what I've learned and give that to other people. So same thing for you in your life. Look at the things that you're passionate about, and the challenges you face, and the obstacles you've overcome, and say, how can I use my experience to help someone else? I think that's the beginning of finding your purpose, because you didn't go through this life by coincidence. Like, you went through this for a reason.
Justin Moseley:How can you take what you've learned and help someone else?
Paul Nottoli:Your your version of hope or your your thought of hope is faith that better for you on the other side. How does one maintain the hope and the faith that there's something better, but also have the realization of where they're at and the work needed to be done to go through that, to reach that?
Justin Moseley:Yeah. One of the things I like to tell people is to borrow other people's belief. So one, you need to get around other people that can speak life into you. Because a lot of times we get in our own bubble and we have the doubts, the fears, the worries, but we don't see the strengths that we have, the talents, the abilities. And if you're around the right people, then they can speak life into you.
Justin Moseley:And just that little it's like a seed that's planted in your mind. And if it can start to grow, you'll start to become more confident. You'll start to have more belief. And then I like to bring this to to kids. Like, think about if anybody that has kids that's listening, your kids think you can do anything.
Justin Moseley:They think you're the superhero. They can do everything. What if you believed in yourself as much as they believe in you? Or think about your mentors or coaches or people that you look up to. If they were in your situation, you're like, yes, they could solve this easily because you believe in them.
Justin Moseley:But what if you believed in yourself as much as you believe in them? So one, we gotta start believing in ourselves more, and a great way to do that is surround ourselves with people, not the people that are gonna bring us down and tell us why we can't do it, that they can speak all the ways that we can do it. And as we start to believe that, we borrowed their belief, And the more we borrow their belief, the more it becomes our own belief. Because that belief strengthens, the more we're able we're able to accomplish.
Paul Nottoli:And and another episode of that, Super Bowl came up, and they turn off all the lights before the halftime show, and they're setting everything up. And then there's, like, oh, someone turns on their phone, or there's a they're they hold a light up, and then the next thing you know, it's this section's lit up, and this section's lit up, and then all of a sudden, there's everything the giant stage, and all these fireworks, and everything's going off, and everything's lit up even though all the lights are still off, but you can see everything that's right in front of you. And whether it's spreading in the community or having those type of people around you, each little light that comes on gives you vision, more clarity. It gives you, believe a little bit more in that. You also mentioned that there's some a little bit of a naive or delusion, not naive and delusional way, but a little bit of naive that that offer that you can accomplish it when no one else believes in you is actually helpful because
Justin Moseley:you
Paul Nottoli:just need those one piece that are seeking that life into you or that light into you to have even though you're like, man, I want $500 someday, and I I have $20 in my bank account right now because I just paid rent. You know? So Right. There's but there's that belief that, oh, I'm I I you have the confidence, the belief that because someone's speaking that into you, that you're going to be that person someday, and you're working everything into that to be that someday. And, Yeah.
Paul Nottoli:It can seem daunting, but I that's the way I visualize it as a stadium being just lit up one section at a time with just small little lights. Right.
Justin Moseley:Yeah. And speaking of lighting up, it makes me think of that BJ Palmer quote. And he said, it's better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Because we can curse the darkness and think about how bad things are, or we can light a candle and be a light to the world. And then as it goes to the community, what if we lit candles in other people, and we just lit a bunch of candles just like the stadium, then all of a sudden, it go from a completely dark stadium to now you can see everything if enough people turn on their light.
Justin Moseley:So I like to, 1, turn on my own light, but then help other people turn on theirs.
Paul Nottoli:Sean did that quote when I was, doing the interview with them. Sean
Justin Moseley:Yeah.
Paul Nottoli:Mentored one of our mentors and coaches,
Justin Moseley:that were doing Yeah. And that's another thing too. It's it's get around mentors and coaches. Because, let's say, if you wanna make $10,000,000, but you need to find people that have done it before and look at what the path is like and count the cost. Am I willing to sacrifice and go through what it takes to accomplish that?
Justin Moseley:And if the answer is yes, then, okay, what's the model? How can I do that? It goes back to Tony Robbins. Success leaves clues. You don't have to reinvent the wheel.
Justin Moseley:Find people that are doing it and let them show you the way. And I like to call it writing a check to go faster. There's a coach or a mentor that I can pay, that can show me the way, that'll take me from a to b a lot faster than I can on myself without me having to learn the lessons or lose the money and do all the things. I'm willing to write a check to go faster to invest in myself to achieve it a lot quicker.
Paul Nottoli:Yeah. Back as people are seeing this. People will all you always ask you, how did you achieve x? But rarely do they ask you what were all the things and lessons you learned, and all the headaches, and downfall. That's right.
Paul Nottoli:And the times you wanted to give up, going through that process to get where you to the to that next level, as you're moving through into those different zones you talked about earlier. Yeah. And, I mean, that's one of the reasons why I know you have your podcast. It's one of the reason why we started this podcast is because one more avenue of someone getting a positive message in some way, shape, or form that we put out into the world. I feel like in a I hope this becomes a large, large, podcast someday.
Paul Nottoli:But at the end of the day, if it's only helping a 100 people, it's still helping that's a 100 people that are gonna do that spread more light into the world that we didn't have before.
Justin Moseley:Yeah. And a couple of things right there come up for me. One is that other BJ Palmer quote that I actually shared in my TED Talk was, you never know how far reaching something you may think, say, or do today can affect the lives of 1,000,000 tomorrow. So that's where I'm glad you started the podcast because you're speaking life, and you never know whose life it's gonna change. And then the other thing that came up, a friend of mine, he's got a podcast that's had over 10,000,000 downloads.
Justin Moseley:So you know the podcast world. Like, that's that's huge.
Paul Nottoli:That's a lot.
Justin Moseley:He's, like, 5th 50,000 downloads a month. But and people see the highlight reel. They see, like, man, that's amazing. What they didn't see is 9 months in, he was getting, like, 50 total downloads a month. Not 50,000, 50 total.
Justin Moseley:And he was questioning. He was, like, nobody's listening. Is this worth me continuing to do this? I'm 9 months in. It's not really gaining traction.
Justin Moseley:And he said he got an email from a guy in Japan. And the guy said, because of your podcast, I didn't take my own life. And he said, from that moment on, he's like, I don't care if one person's showing up or 50,000 people are showing up. I'm gonna keep showing up and speak to that one person. So that's how powerful platforms like this can be.
Justin Moseley:You never know who's listening. You never know the impact that you can make.
Paul Nottoli:Else that you like to discuss any insights that we haven't covered?
Justin Moseley:I think one is just letting people know you are enough. It's great to have goals and ambitions. I think we should have that. That keeps us pushing forward. But you are enough exactly the way you are.
Justin Moseley:You don't have to be someone else. You are perfectly designed for a purpose, by a purpose. Like, there's a reason you were here. So go back to that question. Ask yourself, why am I still here?
Justin Moseley:I said before, you life's a gift. You didn't have to wake up today. So we can we can get a true answer of why am I still here. And it's okay. People get caught up on thinking, if I think of my purpose, it's my purpose for the rest of my life.
Justin Moseley:I know. Maybe it's a purpose for the season. Maybe it's for this week or this month or the rest of this year. But find something that's why you are still here. And as you continue to grow, there's gonna be new opportunities and new challenges, new obstacles you face.
Justin Moseley:A new purpose will develop. But ask yourself, why am I still here?
Paul Nottoli:With you, learn more about having a stronger mindset, building that purpose and clarity in their life.
Justin Moseley:I have the mindset doctor podcast, so check it out wherever you listen to your podcast. And check out my YouTube, not my YouTube, check my my TED talk on YouTube. So just go to YouTube, put in Justin Mosley TED Talk, and the one that I just did will come up. It's how I overcame my fear of public speaking. And whether you have the fear or not, I've had a lot of people that are I've got friends that speak all over the country as well, and they learn stuff from my talk that they're applying as well.
Justin Moseley:But my whole purpose of that is to help people share their message with the world. Because I believe, you listening, you've got a story to tell. There's a message inside of you the world is waiting to hear. So check out my TED Talk on YouTube or follow me on Instagram at doctor Justin Mosley, or you can go to doctor justinmosley.com. And mind shift links.com, I've got a bunch of free resources there as well.
Justin Moseley:But, yeah. If anything that I said resonated, let me know. Let Paul know. We do this because we wanna make a difference. So if anything that we said helped you made a positive impact in your life, let us know.
Justin Moseley:We'd love to hear about
Paul Nottoli:Yeah. I don't really have anything to add to that. That was a perfect perfect, ending to everything. And, yeah, I appreciate your time today. I know you've been traveling around, speaking and interview or recording your podcast, so I appreciate you taking your time out of your busy schedule to be here today and share your insights and spread more positivity, healing, and joy to the world.
Justin Moseley:Absolutely, man. Thanks for having me.
Paul Nottoli:This time, we'll bring you another episode of the Believe the Hope podcast.
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