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I actually started thinking that to having good health and love. I really Terri: That’s 90% of what

avoid the pain, I was going to need believe that forgiveness is essenti al. happened to me in writing this
to take my life. book. I was shocked. I realized,
Brian: Sometimes we don’t “Wow, I beat myself up a lot. I’m

And in my book, About to Break, I forgive because we hold grudges, angry, I’m resentf ul, I feel guilty, I
tell the story and how I’ve overcome someti mes for a very long ti me. feel embarrassed, I feel shame, I feel
that. I still have the disease; however, How do you let go and forgive? self-hate.”

I’ve learned to manage it.
Terri: I created a process that I Before you forgive anyone else, take
Brian: That’s a perfect segue teach in About to Break, and it’s the process in About to Break and
because I want to talk about your very simple, eff ortless, and easy. It’s do this on yourself. That’s where
book next. Did you decide to write worked for over 100 people, and it healing begins.
the book because that happened? works for me.
Brian: If anyone wants to be a part

Terri: About five years ago, I went And as you go through the process, of your tribe or get your book, how
through all kinds of things in my you’re releasing all of those can they fi nd you?
business, my life, my health, and I things. Even if someone has done
really felt like I was about to break. something that I don’t think is right, Terri: They can go to
I couldn’t tolerate the pain, and I or I hold a grudge or have anger heartpreneur.com or they can go to

couldn’t tolerate the frustration. against myself or a situation or an aboutt obreakbook.com

illness, I have found the path to

I had gotten into a situation with true forgiveness to letti ng it all go. Brian: Thank you, Terri, for being

somebody and I had treated him It works, it’s simple, and easy to put such a fantasti c guest.
badly and, therefore, I was upset to use.
with myself. It was the lowest point Terri Levine is the chief Heartpreneur
of my life, and I remember constantly Brian: A lot of people don’t seem and mentoring expert at Heartpreneur,

writing in my journal, “I’m about to to love themselves enough. It can LLC. When she was frustrated with
break, I’m about to break, I’m about cause us to really hold back, right? how she saw businesses treating

to break.” prospects, customers, employees,
Terri: 100%. It became really clear and vendors, she decided to shift
Several years back, I shared this to me that forgiveness had to start
with a few of my clients and I said with me forgiving myself. Once I did the business mindset and create a

I had written a book teaching a that, I could forgive others. I’m so community of authentic people who

process that I taught myself about much more self-loving, and I treat are disrupting how professionals
true forgiveness. And that’s how my body and my mind so much communicate, sell, and market their
I’ve been successful. And 100 of my more compassionately now. companies.
clients said, “Teach it.” So, I taught it
to them. After I did, they said, “You Brian: Forgiveness is more about She’s owned eight very diff erent

have to write this in a book because closure for yourself than it is about businesses and turn them all into
this will help everyone.” And that’s validati on from them, isn’t it? multimillion-dollar successes. She’s

why I released the book. helped over 5,000 business owners in
Terri: 100%. When you go through 239 industries grow their companies
Brian: Forgiveness is so the forgiveness process in the book, while keeping CEOs true to themselves

foundational to experiencing you don’t have to share it with the and their values.
freedom, isn’t it? other person. They may have even
left their physical body. I did that with

Terri: I found that when I truly my parents who had transiti oned She has a Ph.D. in Organizational
discovered forgiveness, I created a long ti me ago. You do it because Behavior. She’s a master consultant

self-love, freedom, compassion, and you will understand oneness, more and Master Certified Guerrilla

liberation. Not only have I earned self-love, and you will have a bett er Marketing and trainer and coach, and

more income and become healthier, quality of life yourself. she’s traveled the whole world as a

my relationships are much deeper, keynote speaker. She’s authored over

much richer, and much better. And Brian: What if the person you really 40 books and has been quoted in over
both John Hopkins and Mayo Clinic need to forgive is yourself? 1,500 publications.

say that forgiveness is the basis of
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