118. Christopher Stoikos : Overcoming an Identity Crisis

Published: Aug. 23, 2021, 8 a.m.

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Christopher Stoikos is the founder of Viral Response, a production company that helps write viral video scripts for clients by leading with love. He previously was the founder + CEO of Beard Club which he helped grow to $50M in sales before exiting.

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Topics :

  • Learning to control where he exerts his energy
  • Challenges of finding his identity after leaving Beard Club / losing his beard and becoming a father / husband
  • Everyone deals with childhood traumas
  • Importance of setting boundaries
  • Plant medicine changed his perspective of life + the world (Magic mushrooms, Peyote & Wachuma)
  • \\u201cSlow is smooth and smooth is fast\\u201d
  • Vulnerability built stronger love with his wife Katherine
  • Greatest lesson he\\u2019s learned from Dan Bilzerian
  • What he\\u2019s learned about success
  • Launching Viral Response to help brands story tell by leading with love
  • Christopher freestyles on the spot
  • First step to reaching our inner potential : Do not let money derail you from your devine path
  • Challenge for the listeners : Do what lights you up most first

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Connect with Christopher!

Instagram : @CStoikos17

Website : ViralResponse.ca

Spotify : Christopher Stoikos

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Adi Shakti Mantra:

The Adi Shakti Mantra tunes one into the frequency of the Divine Mother, and to the primal protective, generating energy. It is said that chanting it eliminates fears and fulfills desires.

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With one hand over your heart, chant the mantra like a song, 9 times, with sincere loving energy, with the intention: to attract my divine life partner into my reality.\\xa0

Mantra

Adi Shakti, Adi Shakti, Adi Shakti, Namo Namo

Sarab Shakti, Sarab Shakti, Sarab Shakti, Namo Namo

Pritham Bhagvati, Pritham Bhagvati, Pritham Bhagvati, Namo Namo

Kundalini Mata Shakti, Mata Shakti, Namo Namo

Meaning

I bow to (or call on) the primal power.

I bow to (or call on) the all encompassing power and energy.

I bow to (or call on) that through which God creates.

I bow to (or call on) the creative power of the Kundalini, the Divine Mother Power.

Link:\\xa0https://spiritvoyage.com/mantra/adi-shakti/

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The actual Poem that Catherine wrote Christopher: (include in bio of episode)\\xa0

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He held so much light

You knew it scared him

Embracing fear as his friend and enemy

He became a skilled dancer in the fight

Navigating waves of emotionality

Self-sabotage could induce a dim

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But that was just temporarily

Until his next moment of insight

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How could he transform the dark?

If he could not face his own shadows

Society reflecting his pain

Could he handle the responsibility of fame?

Drinking, smoking, eating was not his version of fun

For a simple life in the meadows

Feet on the earth, gazing into the sun

Was how he dreamed of leaving his mark

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Transcending generational anger

The urge to fuck women

And hit another million dollar marker\\xa0

"I\'ll let you know tomorrow" was his new answer

With a beard with fragments of gold

And eyes that sparkled like Sapphire

The truth was obvious

To this planet, his role was precious

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Show credits :\\xa0

The spiritual teacher that taught me the quote, Slow is Smooth and smooth is fast: Alexander Dunlop

The spiritual teacher that learned all

About Money Is Love from: Barbara Wilder\\xa0\\xa0

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