Episode #50: How I Became The Driver of my Own Life with Justin Phillips

The Grow2Gether Podcast

This episode of the Grow2Gether podcast is taken from our Redefine Your Twenties Series where we're joined by an entrepreneur and fellow podcaster, Justin Phillips as we discuss his journey into content creation and entrepreneurship. After having a well-established aspiration for becoming a music teacher, Justin was accepted into college and was on the way to achieve his vocational goal. However, after a realisation that this wasn’t for him, he changed his goal, leading him to a small-town grocery store job and falling into the 9-5 routine. Justin soon realised he had a driving passion for podcasting and content creation, this led to the conception of his podcast, JRP Daily. While working hard to produce a podcast every day for a year, he soon realised how to shed off negativity and people in his network that were unsupportive or bringing him down.

Currently, Justin has expanded from his days of the JRP Daily podcast to follow his calling and found his own business, JRP Creative, which offers services in video/ audio production, graphic design, photography and creative writing. Listen in to discover how Justin got to his current position by putting himself in the driver’s seat of his own life and having that core motivation to redefine his 20’s.

Some takeaways from this episode:

﹥ Don’t feel pressured to have your life figured out by 18, sometimes the best thing to do is let it all fall into place naturally to find your path. Most people when they’re 18 think they have to have their life planned and figured out. You start to realise when you’re older that people who are 40, 50 even 60 don’t have it figured out. As Justin says, you start to find out that adults are just bigger versions of kids, there's nothing magical that really happens somewhere along the line.

﹥ Be in the driver’s seat of your own life. You cannot afford to be negatively influenced by other people in your network who don’t offer genuine support. Negative people can bring you down by trying to take you away from your passions to spend time essentially doing nothing. If you really want to pursue your passion, drop the negative people in your circle that are guiding you in the wrong direction.

﹥ Have trust in yourself. If you pursue your ultimate passion, only you really know if you’re making a mistake. At a certain point, you just kind of have to trust that you're going on the right path. As Justin states, “I believe that everyone knows somewhere inside of them if they're really making mistake or not”.

﹥ Plus, much, much more!

Connect with Justin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_justinrp/

Connect with Justin through his Twitter: https://twitter.com/_justinrp

Check out JRP Creative through their website here: https://www.jrpcreative.com/

Learn more about Grow2Gether: https://www.letsgrow2gether.com

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