Turning Your Pain Into Your Purpose - with Billy Schwer

In this episode, I’m going the distance with former British, Commonwealth, European, and World Boxing champion, Billy Schwer. 

Billy speaks about the difficulties of his boxing journey and the lessons he learned from getting to the top of his profession and then losing it all. In this candid interview, Billy talks openly about his struggle to transition from a sportsman into the business world as he felt like he no longer had an identity after retiring from the sport that he had dedicated so much of his life to. 

From the brink of suicide, Billy started to discover his true life’s purpose as he embarked on a crazy journey of self-discovery where he learnt how to turn the pain of his past into the purpose behind his future.

Now a motivational speaker, author and an elite performance coach living his best life, this conversation is as energetic as 12 rounds in the boxing ring as Billy and I go deep down the rabbit hole of consciousness, MDMA therapy and everything in between.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Wealth and the material possessions we gain through a successful life are not the metric we should judge ourselves upon, but simply a metric.
Trust in yourself and keep pushing yourself. Failure is the courage to pursue what it is you really want. Every setback is a learning experience.
Billy’s whole life has been founded upon the drive to prove his worth, and to show the world that he is strong enough to take anything on. This is a belief that he tries to instil now into those he coaches.
Time and perspective have allowed Billy to realise that he spent the first part of his life fighting and pushing himself in order to achieve his goals. It is only when he reached them, that he came to the understanding that the journey itself was the important part.

BEST MOMENTS

‘It's about inner peace. In order to do my mission, that starts from within'

'I'm on a mission - the transformation of the middle-aged man'

'I believe there's always a reason why we do the things we do'

'I decided that no one was ever going to beat me, dominate me, hurt me or get on top of me ever again'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

On A Mission - https://omny.fm/shows/on-a-mission  

Billy Schwer - https://www.billyschwer.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/EllieMckay