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14th Jun 2021

Mastering Your Ego Through Shadow Work w/Alex Nelson EP 317

Alex returns for the second time to the University of Adversity, talking about mastering the ego, shadow work and personal growth through healing. Alex Nelson, born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is an entrepreneur, life transformation coach, retreat facilitator, and the host of the Through The Veil podcast. After selling his asphalt business in early 2017, he embarked upon a journey that led him through various corporate management jobs, finally landing in my current role as a full time personal coach and transformational experience specialist. He spent the last 7 years working closely with coaching clients, after being cured of alcoholism himself. Alex specialises in ceremonial work, healing retreats and plant medicine experiences. 

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: 

  • 03:42 The transformation in Alex’s medicine journey 
  • 06:45 Why plant medicine as Alex’s preferred choice
  • 10:35 What is the ego and how it serves us
  • 23:29 The process and power of shadow work
  • 29:15 How to know when we are healed and ready for a relationship
  • 50:50 Alex’s journey to Ecuador
  • 1:25:57 Understanding visions and learning how to navigate their meaning

🥇WHAT IS THE MOST VALUABLE LESSON ADVERSITY HAS TAUGHT YOU?🥇

Alex says, “The ego is like a team of horses that drives the carriage of your mind. Whether those horses are wild or trained will determine how it drives you.”

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Connect with Lance: 

● 📱 Connect with Lance on Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn. 

● 📺 Subscribe to the University of Adversity Youtube Channel 

● 📧 Email Lance at lance@universityofadversitypodcast.com

  • 📖 Pre-order Mastering Adversity Book here

About University of Adversity Podcast

Learn how to shift your perspective on adversity by understanding that although adversity may feel like your worst enemy, it is actually your greatest ally. My mission is to connect with unique and inspiring individuals and showcase their journey and what they have gone through in order to become successful in their lives. Tune in twice a week with Lance Essihos for your gold-filled lesson of inspiration, resilience, and bravery. Don’t forget to subscribe!

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University of Adversity
Real stories and tools to help you grow through adversity, burnout, and reinvention.
University of Adversity is a show about the moments that change us — especially the ones we didn’t ask for.

I’m Lance Essihos, and I sit down with athletes, bestselling authors, doctors, entrepreneurs, spiritual teachers, and everyday warriors to have real conversations about adversity — the kind that strips away the surface and forces us to face who we really are.

We go deep into the mindset shifts, emotional breakthroughs, and practical tools that helped them rebuild. Not just to survive, but to come back stronger, clearer, and more aligned.

This isn’t motivation.
It’s what happens after the breakdown, when you’re trying to put the pieces back together and make it mean something.

If you’re in a season of uncertainty, burnout, or reinvention — this show is here to walk with you.

We don’t just talk about getting through the hard times.
We talk about who you become because of them.

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Lance Essihos

As an experienced veteran with adversity, Lance has faced some of life's most difficult challenges. Grinding his way through the hockey ranks to traveling the world as a bartender. Through his personal battle with drugs and alcohol for well over a decade, the tragic loss of his brother to suicide followed by the great loss of his father to cancer only a year later, Lance realized he had hit rock bottom. In the darkest of days, he made a promise to himself that he would create a new life, one that would make an impact and inspire the masses, leaving the world in a better place than he found it. Lance has made it his mission to facilitate the message of positive change through adversity and encourage people to see the light through the darkness of life's worst moments.