It's The Bearded Man 118. Christopher Stoikos : Overcoming an Identity Crisis
Christopher Stoikos is the founder of Viral Response, a production company that helps write viral video scripts for clients by leading with love. He previously was the founder + CEO of Beard Club which he helped grow to $50M in sales before exiting.
Topics :
- Learning to control where he exerts his energy
- Challenges of finding his identity after leaving Beard Club / losing his beard and becoming a father / husband
- Everyone deals with childhood traumas
- Importance of setting boundaries
- Plant medicine changed his perspective of life + the world (Magic mushrooms, Peyote & Wachuma)
- “Slow is smooth and smooth is fast”
- Vulnerability built stronger love with his wife Katherine
- Greatest lesson he’s learned from Dan Bilzerian
- What he’s learned about success
- Launching Viral Response to help brands story tell by leading with love
- Christopher freestyles on the spot
- First step to reaching our inner potential : Do not let money derail you from your devine path
- Challenge for the listeners : Do what lights you up most first
Connect with Christopher!
Instagram : @CStoikos17
Website : ViralResponse.ca
Spotify : Christopher Stoikos
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Adi Shakti Mantra:
The Adi Shakti Mantra tunes one into the frequency of the Divine Mother, and to the primal protective, generating energy. It is said that chanting it eliminates fears and fulfills desires.
Instructions:
With one hand over your heart, chant the mantra like a song, 9 times, with sincere loving energy, with the intention: to attract my divine life partner into my reality.
Mantra
Adi Shakti, Adi Shakti, Adi Shakti, Namo Namo
Sarab Shakti, Sarab Shakti, Sarab Shakti, Namo Namo
Pritham Bhagvati, Pritham Bhagvati, Pritham Bhagvati, Namo Namo
Kundalini Mata Shakti, Mata Shakti, Namo Namo
Meaning
I bow to (or call on) the primal power.
I bow to (or call on) the all encompassing power and energy.
I bow to (or call on) that through which God creates.
I bow to (or call on) the creative power of the Kundalini, the Divine Mother Power.
Link: https://spiritvoyage.
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The actual Poem that Catherine wrote Christopher: (include in bio of episode)
He held so much light
You knew it scared him
Embracing fear as his friend and enemy
He became a skilled dancer in the fight
Navigating waves of emotionality
Self-sabotage could induce a dim
But that was just temporarily
Until his next moment of insight
How could he transform the dark?
If he could not face his own shadows
Society reflecting his pain
Could he handle the responsibility of fame?
Drinking, smoking, eating was not his version of fun
For a simple life in the meadows
Feet on the earth, gazing into the sun
Was how he dreamed of leaving his mark
Transcending generational anger
The urge to fuck women
And hit another million dollar marker
"I'll let you know tomorrow" was his new answer
With a beard with fragments of gold
And eyes that sparkled like Sapphire
The truth was obvious
To this planet, his role was precious
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Show credits :
The spiritual teacher that taught me the quote, Slow is Smooth and smooth is fast: Alexander Dunlop
The spiritual teacher that learned all
About Money Is Love from: Barbara Wilder