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Episode 54

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5th Jun 2019

54. Matt Lebris - Controlling How The World Perceives You

In this episode, Lance and Matt Lebris discuss the power of developing your personal brand, by owning and dictating the way you are perceived. They talk about climbing up the ladder of success and how to handle newfound success and failures along the way. Matt emphasizes that in order to impact the world, you must first start by changing what’s within yourself so that you can fully deliver positivity to others around you.

Matt LeBris is a branding expert, public speaker, and currently serves as the content coordinator for Daymond John’s consulting firm, The Shark Group. He is the podcast host of Decoding Success, which is geared towards decoding the game-changing habits, characteristics, and beliefs of some of the world’s most successful individuals from various fields. In this episode, Matt discusses his personal battle of adversity, having failed out of college, coping with divorce, and witnessing his mom battle cancer.

Matt tells listeners: “Acceptance. We can’t go back into the past. We don’t have time machines. Accept what happened to you or accept what is happening to you. How you perceive that event that you’re going through is what determines the outcome.”


In this episode, you will learn:

  • The power of choice 
  • Seeing the value of building legacy versus currency
  • Knowing how to connect and communicate
  • How to impact people’s lives while fueling your passion


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About University of Adversity Podcast

Learn how to overcome failure and tragedy, while becoming your best self with the University of Adversity podcast. Join your host Lance Essihos as he interviews successful individuals that have fought the hard battles to overcome life’s obstacles. Lance started the University of Adversity podcast after overcoming his own adversities shared in episode 01. 


Join him and thousands of other entrepreneurs in learning how to use Adversity as a fuel to ignite your inner flame and live the life you have always desired. Tune in weekly for a dose of positivity, strength, and real-life practical advice to achieve your life goals.

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University of Adversity
Welcome to University of Adversity, a podcast where we explore the human experience of overcoming obstacles and achieving personal growth through real-life stories of accomplished individuals. From professional athletes to NY Times bestselling authors, celebrities, spiritual leaders, doctors, scientists, and billionaires, we bring you a diverse range of perspectives on the challenges and triumphs of adversity. Each episode is designed to provide listeners with inspiration, motivation, and practical tools to help them navigate through difficult times. We cover a wide range of topics related to mental health, personal development, self-improvement and resilience building, offering expert insights and actionable advice. Join us as we discover how to overcome adversity, cope with stress, and achieve your goals on this journey of self-discovery and personal growth, highlighting the stories of the everyday heroes among us.

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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.