Alex Terranova: Living a happy and fulfilled life through authenticity

Alex Terranova: Living a happy and fulfilled life through authenticity.    Joining me on the show today is Alex Terranova. Alex is a personal performance coach, author and podcast host.  He’s interviewed over 150 of the world’s highest performing leaders, innovators and successful leaders.  NBC, Fox, Good Morning, La la land and The University of Adversity Podcast are some of the top media outlets that Alex has had the pleasure of featuring in.    Alex’s Journey into Self-discovery Born and raised in LA, Alex moved to live in New York for a small part of his life.  With a background in hospitality and a thirst for entrepreneurship, Alex was in his twenties and earlier thirties able to open and run 15 restaurants across seven different states in the US. He was definitely living the good life. But despite having achieved so much at a mere age of 32, Alex felt empty and unfulfilled.  All his life, Alex chased after the dream life advertised by society. He ate well, went to the gym, chased after pretty girls, drank good whiskey, made a ton of money, but still felt unhappy with the person he had become.  That is when the life discovery journey began for him.  Over the past 6 years, Alex tore down the fake world he was living and created a new life that he loves and is grateful for. And now helps others do the same as their personal coach. Alex helps people discover who they really are through tearing down old belief systems and stepping out of their comfort zones.    In today’s show. We discuss authenticity and why being inauthentic is the reason so many people are depressed and unfulfilled.  Society has conditioned us to live in a certain way in order to be considered as normal and successful. This is the core reason behind so many people living pretend lives to fit in with everyone else.    Stay tuned and get tips and hacks on how you too can live an authentic and fulfilled life, by your own standards.    Timestamps 01:04 Alex’s background info 02:21 About Ryan’s book. Fictional Authenticity 05:28 Why fear and worry are an obstacle to living an authentic life. 07:55 How Alex’s life changed once he started being authentic 10:13 How Alex supports his clients to live an authentic life. 11:31 Alex’s best experiences helping his clients.  16:55 Growing business through freedom   Quotes.  You are whatever you believe you are. So if you want things to be different, you must first acknowledge that you are different.    There’s a degree of authenticity, some people are more authentic than others but no one is completely authentic. For example, we are all conditioned to be a certain way for certain people.    Children are a beautiful representation of who we once were before we started being conditioned through learning new patterns and behaviours.   Because we worry too much about the future, we tend to abandon the life we want to live and start living an inauthentic life. The fear is what prevents us from doing the authentic things that we love.   You can't change anybody else. But what you can do is change yourself. You can transform you into the person that you want to be.   Connect with Alex Terranova.  Website - https://www.thedreammason.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/inspirationalalex/  Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dreammason-podcast/id1324731000?mt=2