The Positive Mindset Podcast

What happened to you doesn't have to become the definition of who you are.
In this mindset shift from The Positive Mindset Podcast, Henry Lawrence separates experiencing a setback from becoming the setback. This cut brings together teaching on the stories we repeat after failure and the choice to keep showing up as ourselves when the outcome is uncertain. You can feel sadness and grief without making them your whole identity. Return to the version of you that can rise, practice gratitude, and bring your light into the situation you're facing. It opens with a centering breath and closes with a champion visualization, a prayer, the rising tide and a sign-off.
In this episode:
• "You have to understand that everything is happening for you."
• "You experience through you."
• "I am more than the situation that seems to be failing."
• "This thing failed, this thing lost, and I became stronger."
• "You do not have to repeat the same thing."
• "You are experiencing those things, but you are not those things."
• "Shift it today."
• "I'm gonna be me today."
• "I am in perfect divine alignment with myself."
• "I'm going to operate in gratitude."
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About Henry Lawrence: Henry is an executive, mindset and identity coach and the host of The Positive Mindset Podcast, on air since 2020 with nearly 17 million plays.
Pulled from the full episode "How to Get Back Up: Going From Knocked Down to Standing Again" (Nov 6): https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/positive-mindset-podcast/episodes/How-to-Get-Back-Up-Going-From-Knocked-Down-to-Standing-Again-e3rmrsa
Music licensed through Epidemic Sound: “Keep Me Honest (Instrumental Version)” by Maybe; “A Step Ahead” by Experia; “Anything for You (Instrumental Version)” by Adelyn Paik; “With the Dawn” by Megan Wofford; “Rise Beyond” by Megan Wofford; “Echoes of Illumination” by Megan Wofford.

What if the thing that's falling apart in your life isn't the end? In this episode, Henry talks about real change — not the kind of New Year's plan that ends up in a drawer by February, but the kind where you look back one day and don't recognize the old version of you anymore. He walks through why you can't just add new things on top of the old you, why a new roof won't hold on a broken foundation, and why you have to take it down to the studs, deconstruct, and then rebuild with the right people, places, and things around you.
From tearing down an old identity and the habits that match it, to building on a foundation that doesn't move when everything else does, Henry talks about being equally yoked — pulling in the same direction, at a similar strength, toward the same thing — and how to lovingly let go of people who aren't pulling with you. He covers purpose, why your dream is in your DNA, and how to stop living to survive today's problems and start growing for something bigger. The episode includes breathing exercises and closes with a prayer.
In this episode:
• "What if the thing that's falling apart in your life isn't the end?"
• "You can't put a new roof on a house when the foundation is broken and expect the house to be new."
• "At some point, you have to take it down to the studs. You have to deconstruct."
• "And then, with the right people, places, and things, you rebuild."
• "I want you to see your life not as a problem to solve, but a project worth building."
• "We're gonna stop living to survive today's problems"
• "Deconstructing is when you finally stop patching and you start pulling back the drywall."
• "Instead of asking what do I want, ask who am I becoming?"
• "You're not being thrown away. You're being re-centered."
• "Being equally yoked means you're pulling in the same direction with a similar strength toward the same thing."
• "And you can love somebody and still not be yoked to them."
• "You can't hold the new hand while gripping the old one."
• "Because being equally yoked isn't just about finding the right people. It's also about being the right person to who you're yoked to."
• "It's happening because there's something more for you because you are the rising tide that lifts all ships."
Take the free Alignment Score: https://vibeabundant.com/alignment-score/
More from Henry Lawrence: https://vibeabundant.com
Follow @realhenryg on Instagram and TikTok.
About Henry Lawrence: Henry is the host of The Positive Mindset Podcast.
Join Dream University for free: https://www.skool.com/dream-university-7023

You can feel afraid, grieve what mattered, and still make room to move.
In this Afternoon Vibe from The Positive Mindset Podcast, Henry Lawrence invites you to accept what comes with change without pretending you're fearless. Say yes to the next step, release what can't come with you, and stop confusing letting go with giving up. Through the river-and-branch image, he makes room for the grief that can come with leaving the familiar. You don't have to rush past that feeling or shame yourself for it. Grief can walk beside you without deciding where you're going.
In this episode:
• "I'm okay with what comes with the change."
• "I'm afraid, but I accept it anyway."
• "I accept the change anyway."
• "God, whatever can't come with me, I release unto you."
• "The branch isn't evil. It's just familiar."
• "Letting go isn't the same as giving up."
• "You are never supposed to carry the whole transformation by yourself."
• "Letting go of comfort can feel like grief."
• "Grief is allowed to come with you."
• "That feeling is still available to you. It never left."
Take the free Alignment Score: https://vibeabundant.com/alignment-score/
Join Dream University for free: https://www.skool.com/dream-university-7023
More from Henry Lawrence: https://vibeabundant.com
Follow @realhenryg on Instagram and TikTok.
About Henry Lawrence: Henry is an executive, mindset and identity coach and the host of The Positive Mindset Podcast, on air since 2020 with nearly 17 million plays.
Pulled from the full episode "How to Actually Change Your Life: Going From Wanting Comfort to Accepting Real Change" (Nov 5): https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/positive-mindset-podcast/episodes/How-to-Actually-Change-Your-Life-Going-From-Wanting-Comfort-to-Accepting-Real-Change-e3rrvjd

What feels familiar can still be the thing keeping your next chapter too small.
In this mindset shift from The Positive Mindset Podcast, Henry Lawrence helps you look honestly at the comfort you've been trying to keep untouched. Familiar doesn't always feel good, and wanting a new outcome inside the same habits and conditions can keep you gripping a container that's too small. This isn't an instruction to quit your job or leave a relationship. It's a call to notice what you're holding on to, release the demand to control every step, and make room for a different way forward. It begins with an I am breath and ends with a prayer for guidance through change.
In this episode:
• "Comfort is not always pleasant."
• "Sometimes, comfort is miserable."
• "That's not a character flaw. That's being human."
• "Faith is required. And faith is scary."
• "Something has to move."
• "The container is too small for what you're asking to put into it."
• "I'm saying be honest about the cup."
• "Because you can't receive something new while gripping everything old with both hands."
• "I wanted growth with a guarantee."
• "Because control is another form of comfort."
Take the free Alignment Score: https://vibeabundant.com/alignment-score/
Join Dream University for free: https://www.skool.com/dream-university-7023
More from Henry Lawrence: https://vibeabundant.com
Follow @realhenryg on Instagram and TikTok.
About Henry Lawrence: Henry is an executive, mindset and identity coach and the host of The Positive Mindset Podcast, on air since 2020 with nearly 17 million plays.
Pulled from the full episode "How to Actually Change Your Life: Going From Wanting Comfort to Accepting Real Change" (Nov 5): https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/positive-mindset-podcast/episodes/How-to-Actually-Change-Your-Life-Going-From-Wanting-Comfort-to-Accepting-Real-Change-e3rrvjd
Music licensed through Epidemic Sound: “Keep Me Honest (Instrumental Version)” by Maybe; “A Step Ahead” by Experia; “Anything for You (Instrumental Version)” by Adelyn Paik; “With the Dawn” by Megan Wofford; “Rise Beyond” by Megan Wofford; “Echoes of Illumination” by Megan Wofford.

What if you don't need a direction right now — you need a perspective? In this episode, Henry sits down with you in a hard season of heartbreak, financial pressure, and loss, and talks through what it feels like when the world was one way a moment ago and now it's all upside down. He shares why you can still have a perspective even when there is no clear next step, and why the higher view is not that you'll get the outcome you want, but that this is forming a deeper, bigger version of you.
From letting go of control to seeing what's been removed as a gift, Henry explores faith, purpose, and the idea that everything is happening for you — not for the house, the job, or the relationship, but for the person you're becoming. You'll hear him talk about becoming an asset instead of trying to drive every result, about things that feel like they're taking you off course actually refining you, and about being the hero whose origin story is made through something. The episode includes breathing exercises and opens and closes with a prayer.
In this episode:
• "I don't have a direction right now in certain things in my life. I don't. But I can always have a perspective."
• "It's like the world was different just a moment ago and now it's all upside down."
• "It's that all this is happening for me."
• "You didn't come here to win the world."
• "You came here to find a deeper, bigger, higher version of yourself, because that is what you take with you."
• "You may not get the results you want on the other end, but you can find and become a different you on the other end."
• "Law of attraction is not the God. It's who you are, what's in you."
• "I'm giving up the control."
• "And things might happen that you feel are taking you away from your goal, but in reality it's refining you."
• "Deep down, we all know that this is all borrowed."
• "That all the things that seem to be fading away is so that I can glow."
• "You're the hero that was made through something."
• "I believe in you too much for you to fail."
• "So have faith and become the rising tide that lifts all ships."
Take the free Alignment Score: https://vibeabundant.com/alignment-score/
More from Henry Lawrence: https://vibeabundant.com
Follow @realhenryg on Instagram and TikTok.
About Henry Lawrence: Henry is the host of The Positive Mindset Podcast.
Join Dream University for free: https://www.skool.com/dream-university-7023