Lewis Howes

You have an amazing book, Becoming the One, that has taken over the world by storm.

An amazing community at Rising Women.

And you have this really interesting story that I started to read more about where you were in and out of foster care for a while.

Is that right?

Up until you were 16, I think.

You grew up without a father.

And your mother was also kind of having some challenges.

So it felt like an intermittent mother kind of off and on.

How does someone who grows up in foster care, has to work multiple jobs at 16 to survive, and doesn't really have the mother that maybe they desired, how does someone turn out healthy, conscious, and in a loving, committed relationship with a beautiful child?

How does that happen?

When did you know this?

How old were you?

How did you, I mean, so you knew that, like in your core, you knew that you were loved, even though your father wasn't around, your mother was off and on, and you were in foster care.

You still knew it.

But I mean, how old were you when you started to understand how to have compassion for your mom?

Okay, yeah.

Yeah.

But it took a while.

Oh yeah.

So you weren't like, I'm 12 and I need my mom to be there for me and I have compassion that she's emotionally unstable in this moment or suffering.