188: Moving From Your Survival Path to Your Soul Path with Caleb Campbell (Former NFL player & West Point graduate)

If you're an achiever or find that you're endlessly striving for, well, something greater, then you know the path isn't full of clarity.

It certainly wasn't for today's guest, Caleb Campbell. Caleb is a West Point graduate, former Army officer, and former NFL linebacker. But he was always followed by a sense of not being enough.

At first, he turned his sense of not being enough into fuel. This actually worked pretty well: He achieved his dream of making the NFL, becoming the second ever draft pick from West Point, and even being called "America's Athlete" on ESPN after being the first player to serve and play concurrently.

But achieving his dreams didn't fix the disconnection he felt internally.  In fact, it made his emotions leak out in strange and counterproductive ways.

And so, he decided to leave the NFL and become a janitor in a mental health facility in Canada. During the five years he spent getting free therapy there, he made a seismic shift:

He moved from his survival path and instead started walking down his soul path. He argues this is something that every man secretly yearns for, but we don't know how to interpret the signs, especially when the path isn't clear.

If this resonates with you as much as it did for me, you're in for an absolute treat in this episode as Caleb and I discuss:

Why a mid-life crisis is an invitation to a mid-life reinvention

How to sync back into the "original knowing" that your body felt when you were still in the womb (and why this lights up your soul's path)

What to do after realizing that what got you to the point you're at today can't get you to where you want to go (and how to embrace "unstriving" instead)

And more, including…

How to participate with the ongoing energetic evolution of your life (and why your natural instinct to fight against it leads you astray) (2:50)