Samantha Lynn Peters is a powerhouse professional who seamlessly combines her expertise with a passion for empowering women in business and wellness. Known for her resilience and ability to turn adversity into strength, Samantha has become a leading advocate for personal growth, emotional intelligence, and mentorship. Her work spans across multiple ventures, including a podcast and ebook, where she shares her journey and inspires others to unlock their potentialIn this episode, Samantha shares her inspiring journey from a challenging upbringing to becoming a powerful advocate for women. She talks about overcoming adversity, the importance of emotional intelligence, and her commitment to personal growth. We also dive into her work empowering women and her passion for health and wellness. Takeaways: Overcoming challenges leads to greater opportunities. Adversity can be transformed into strength and resilience. Emotional intelligence enhances leadership and decision-making. Sound Bites: "You create your own reality by stopping negative thoughts and rewiring your brain to think positively.β βExperience is losing and struggling. Wisdom is knowing what to avoid and how to improve.β Connect & Discover Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samanthalynnpeters Website: https://www.lightupyourlife.org Podcast: http://www.lightupyourlife.org Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@samanthalynnpeters Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@light_up_your_life Free Ebook: https://www.lightupyourlife.org/happiness-ebook ππ’πππ’πͺ π π π’π‘: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mick-unplugged/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mickunplugged/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mickunplugged/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIPaMel-Fb4zQmCSZDPHu4A LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mickhunt/ Website: https://www.mickhuntofficial.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: Who is Samantha Lynn Peters and what is her journey?
Welcome back to another exciting episode of Mic Unplugged, and our guest today is a dynamic professional who has seamlessly blended her expertise in law with a commitment to uplifting women in business. Her journey is a testament to resilience, vision, and the power of pursuing one's passions.
Get ready for an engaging conversation with the remarkable, the fearless, the charismatic, one of my closest friends in the world, Ms. Samantha Lynn Peters. Samantha, how are you doing today, dear?
I'm amazing. Thank you so much for having me. It's such a pleasure.
I am honored to have you on. What's crazy is that we met for the first time, like October of last year, at an event in LA. And we've been like besties since then.
I know. It's been amazing being in contact with you. And I find going to these events, you never know who you can meet. You never know what relationship you can cultivate. So it's been awesome.
Yeah, I truly think it's the testament to not just networking, right? I think people go to a lot of events, but really going selflessly with the intent of getting to know the right people, having the right conversations with people, because you never know where that goes. And like I said, I mean, Samantha and I got to know each other in October.
And I would say the power of networking, the power of Instagram, because we probably are talking and Sending each other inspiration and motivation through Instagram and all that. But how has that been an impact of your life, Samantha? Because I think you truly are the example of, you know, going to networking events purposely, right?
Seeking the right people, making the right connections, but then doing what you do really well, which is following through and delivering on those meetings and on those conversations.
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Chapter 2: How did Samantha overcome her difficult upbringing?
Chapter 3: How can networking transform your life?
And I would say the power of networking, the power of Instagram, because we probably are talking and Sending each other inspiration and motivation through Instagram and all that. But how has that been an impact of your life, Samantha? Because I think you truly are the example of, you know, going to networking events purposely, right?
Seeking the right people, making the right connections, but then doing what you do really well, which is following through and delivering on those meetings and on those conversations.
Yeah, that's a great question. It's honestly transformed my life. I didn't have any external mentors growing up. I grew up in a really toxic environment. So I got into personal development at a really early age. And I'm sure all of you have heard that you are the five people you surround yourself with. So I'm like, I need to get in rooms with people who think bigger than me.
people who want to see me succeed, people who, and one of my coaches always tells me this, is like, you want to learn from people who have what you want, but more importantly, who have been where you are. And I find all of these networking events, a lot of people have been through so much adversity. They've been through so many different challenges, but they were able to overcome them.
And it's just really inspiring learning from all these people and getting to connect with them. So it's absolutely transformed my life.
Wholeheartedly. And, you know, you talked about, you know, not growing up in the best situation, the best environment, overcoming adversity. And, you know, you and I have talked not specifically about that because we kind of told each other, let's wait for the podcast so that I can actually hear the story for the first time. So I know who you are today, right? Very dynamic person.
But let's go back. Let's talk about what's defined and giving you the core values that you have today. So when you talk about the adversity that you had growing up, like Let's define that a little bit.
Yeah, so I grew up in a really toxic upbringing. My father is an alcoholic. He was heavy into Oxycontin, so that completely destroys your frontal lobe and your decision-making factors. And I find before I felt like I was a victim to my circumstance, but I really realized and I did so much inner work to realize that he's hurting so much inside and hurt people hurt people.
And so I looked at it from a different lens. And I looked at him as a little boy being hurt by his parents and being abused and growing up in that environment. And unfortunately, he projected all of his pain, all of his insecurities on his children. And obviously, I got the brunt of it.
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Chapter 4: What are generational curses and how can they be broken?
What was that like for you? Like, how did that shape like friendships and the things that most kids got to do or wanted to do that maybe you didn't do or you had to shelter that from other people, too?
Yeah, that's an amazing question. And I feel like I had so much shame around my house and where I grew up. My parents both smoked and I cannot stand cigarettes to this day. And my father and my mother are, they like to hoard things. So I would always be the one cleaning up the house and trying to make it look amazing if I had anyone over. But
To be honest, I've never even had this conversation with anyone. But I would always go to my friend's house. I would always make some excuse. We would always go over there. I was very embarrassed to go to have anyone come over. And it's still hard for me going to my parents' house, seeing the way that they live. And it's really sad. But again, it gives me a lot of compassion.
And I find myself, too, in my adulthood, because a lot of the generational traumas that you go throughβ there's trauma responses that you have to work through. And I realized that I'm bringing that into my adulthood. So, I mean, I love my place. It looks beautiful, but I still find myself going to other people's houses because that's how I grew up.
And yeah, I would say I had a lot of shame around that. And it was always going over other people's places.
You took that shame, you took the neglect that you felt like you had, right? You turned it into power. So how did you take that? Or not even how did you take it? You didn't let that become who you are. You didn't let that define you. So for the viewers and listeners, right? What was the next step for Samantha?
So talk about the things that you've done, like from education to the empowerment that you were so vastly involved in. Like, how did you go from, I'm taking this and turning it into a power and here's what I'm going to do.
Yeah, I think one of my mentors, Ed Milad, he talks about being the one in your family to break all of generational curses. And I know this goes into my because as well, but I wanted to be the complete opposite of how I grew up. I mean, I wanted to be the complete opposite of alcohol and drugs and that scarcity, that victim mindset, the disease. So
I feed my body with the things that I need to feed my body with. I seek outside mentors who have what I want, and it's been hard. I think the hardest part for me was analyzing my thoughts and knowing that you create your own reality. I think it's a hard perspective because society doesn't teach that your thoughts precede what happens in your external circumstances and not the other way around.
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Chapter 5: Why is emotional intelligence crucial for leaders?
It became a passion when I actually started network marketing and I grew my team to be pretty large. And then I started doing individual one-on-one sessions with all of the girls on my team. And I really got to know their stories. I got to know their why or their because. And it really helped. And I grew up, I have my master's degree in educational leadership.
And I used to be a teacher for over 10 years. So I think it's just that nurturing in me and wanting to help people get better. And so it really developed, I would say, network marketing. And it made me have the confidence and the belief in myself that I can help other women. And I don't have to be defined by the past.
So that's where it really stemmed from when I started my business network marketing about five years ago.
Amazing. So, you know, I've known you for a while. I just learned something new about you that we have in common, too. So I have a master's in leadership. So my focus was organizational leadership. And then I got another focus of executive leadership. So, you know, leadership is my jam. So I'm going to ask you, where do you see leaders failing the most today?
I think it comes down to, I actually had this conversation earlier in our meeting, emotional intelligence and being able to regulate your emotional state. I find so many people let outside circumstances and validation and what people think about them and what people say about them define their character and who they are. But
You have to realize that you have complete control over your emotional state. And you can say, am I going to let that define me? Am I going to let that upset me? Or am I going to rise above it? And not have to take that into account and hold firm to your values and who you are. And I don't want anyone to be able to bring me down or make me feel upset because I hold that power to resist that.
So I really do feel like it comes. You don't want your highs to get too high and your lows to get too low. You want to have that even keel because I actually watched a video about this. If you're a leader and people are looking up to you, your emotional state is, they're called neuro neurons. So they're feeling that energy too. And they start to cultivate that from within. So
I think that is one of the most important things in leadership. And I think a lot of people are failing with that today. I do see that a lot.
So we agree, which is why we're besties, right? Like without even having this conversation offline and we have so many conversations, like we're in so much alignment there because to me, emotional intelligence for leaders, and I would even say society too, like that's the biggest drawback that I see with most people is We don't have to have immediate response.
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Chapter 6: How does Samantha maintain her health and wellness?
So I saw that growing up and I firmly believe that your environment does shape your thoughts and your thoughts. When you're thinking negatively, that is putting cortisol in your body and it's running through you. And it's toxic. It's acidic. So I had to really do a lot of work in wellness and know that what you put in your body, you become.
And so if you're constantly eating sugar or carbs or things that are really unhealthy and processed, you're going to feel horrible. I don't know about you, but I eat something and I realize, okay, is this giving me energy? Or is this making you feel sluggish? And do I have brain fog from it? So if you want optimal performance,
performance you need to be eating things that are very healthy for you and I think just growing up and seeing the disease in my family and my grandmother passing away from Alzheimer's I'm doing everything in my power to figure out ways to anti-age figure out ways to just optimize my health and wellness and so it's been a big part of my journey wow
That's awesome. So you do that. You do a lot in beauty as well, too. Like where did this thing for Samantha being? I'm going to do I'm not going to say any and everything because you don't do any and everything. But I almost feel like you have your hand like you have a lot of moving parts. You have a lot of things that are always going on. When did that become a part of you?
I think it's always been a part of me. I've always been so fascinated about life and people and different things. And so when I find a topic I'm fascinated about, I do so much research and I'm constantly reading. I'm constantly listening to podcasts and getting mentored. So I don't know. I think life is so exciting. And when I find something that interests me, I like to dive in more to it.
So I have a lot of passions, I would say.
I love it. Another thing I want to unplug is you and I both have this passion on the power of mentors and mentorship. And I think a lot of time people either they don't know how to seek advice, guidance, help, or their ego gets in the way. Right. So how important has mentorship been for you in shaping who you are?
It's been everything. I mean, I think the most valuable asset is yourself and investing in you. I know a lot of people take their money and invest it in cars and outside circumstances and things. But ultimately, you bring yourself everywhere you go. So I'm constantly seeking mentors to help me what I went through and to understand that, like I mentioned before, it doesn't have to define me. And
The knowledge that they know and for them to get where they are, it's just, it's incredible. And so I seek mentors all the time. I know that you're also mentoring us too. And I mentioned this previously, but you need to find someone who's been where you are and who has what you want.
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Chapter 7: What role does mentorship play in personal growth?
Very cool. Very cool. Again, you do a lot of things. You do a lot of things really, really well. So I applaud you for that. And, you know, again, the commonalities that we have, you also have a podcast, right? And so one of my best friends, Daniel Song, says, Mick, everybody should have a podcast. I don't agree with that. I think everybody should be a part of a podcast, right?
I think communication skills and the ability to tell your story definitely makes sense. What made you and Alexa, what made you guys start your podcast? What was day one? Like, I want to start a podcast because, what was that?
So we talked a lot about different mentors. I wanted to provide my audience with the people, the guests, the tools, the skills that helped them become successful. And I wanted to provide that knowledge to our audience base. And so I think a lot of it is giving back what I've learned and the connections I make and the relationships that I've cultivated. And I
I know some really amazing people, so it's great to be able to interview them and then have them share their wisdom. And my hope is that my audience can listen to the podcast and take an actionable step towards making their life become better. And then I also think it has to do with I was always terrified of public speaking growing up.
And I know that in order to overcome anything, you have to put yourself through it. So... This was also something that wasn't easy for me. And the more that you practice, the more that you interview people or interview, it's going to build up that muscle and that confidence. So I would definitely say those are the two main reasons why we started our podcast today.
And what's been the most amazing thing since you've been in the podcast journey? Like if you were to go back and say, wow, without the podcast, this probably wouldn't have happened. What would that be?
So many things I've been invited to. We were just talking before we recorded the podcast. I was invited to Trent Shelton's birthday because I had him as a guest on my podcast. I was invited to Secret Knock where I got to meet so many incredible people. And so you never know what opportunities can come from
opening up putting yourself out there and starting something and I know that if I've never started this it would have been constantly on my mind and I don't want to go through life thinking what if what if I started that what would happen so It's just been amazing. The people that I'm able to meet in the relationships, I think is the biggest piece that I was able to cultivate.
And I mean, everyone we brought on is just so smart in their different ways. And it's just fascinating to be able to connect with everyone.
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