3 Words To Transform Your UNWORTHINESS Into Unstoppable Confidence | Lewis Howes
Aug 20, 2025
The discussion reveals how unworthiness can mask personal success. Lewis Howes shares his journey from a life driven by achievements to one of authentic self-acceptance. He introduces the concept of a spiritual identity contract designed to reshape core values. Listeners are guided to discover three transformative words that foster empowerment and self-love. Emotional intelligence plays a crucial role in breaking down barriers to personal growth, highlighting the importance of community in this transformative process.
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Success Masked Deep Unworthiness
Lewis Howes built success externally while feeling unlovable and unworthy inside.
He made more to fill a hole of unworthiness and felt increasingly unhappy despite accomplishments.
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A Workshop That Changed Everything
Twelve years ago Lewis attended an emotional intelligence workshop that shifted his life trajectory.
That event helped him create the School of Greatness and improve relationships and wellbeing.
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Use A Three-Word Identity Contract
Create a short spiritual identity contract of three words to rewire your self-image.
Repeat it aloud and internally whenever you doubt yourself to shift identity over time.
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"I was creating from a wound. The more I accomplished, the more I succeeded, and I just said, I need to make more to fill this hole of unworthiness." - Lewis Howes
I built a multi-million dollar empire while secretly drowning in rage and self-hatred. For years, I masked my pain behind athletic achievements and business wins, believing that another milestone, another million, another accolade would finally make me feel worthy. But twelve years ago, sitting in an emotional intelligence workshop, something cracked open. I realized I'd been living as two different people - the confident entrepreneur the world saw, and the angry, "dumb" little boy I believed myself to be inside. That day, I created what I call a spiritual identity contract: three simple words that would rewire decades of trauma and transform not just my success, but my entire relationship with myself.
The contract I'm sharing isn't some motivational poster mantra - it's a daily practice of becoming who you truly are beneath the wounds. From feeling too stupid to read in high school to writing three New York Times bestsellers. From competing to destroy others to building a platform that lifts millions. From pushing away love to attracting my soulmate. I reveal exactly how I turned anger into love, competition into passion, and the belief that I was "dumb" into deep wisdom. This isn't about positive thinking - it's about rewriting the very contract you have with yourself at the soul level.
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