Amberly Lago [00:00:00]: Okay, this is big, y’all. The Unstoppable Success Summit is almost here. April 30th. It’s coming up quick and the VIP is officially sold out. And that tells me something powerful, that women are ready to rise and level up. So if you’re ready to expand your influence, increase your impact and income, and lead with purpose, this room is for you. Come get the momentum Get clarity, make connections, and learn next-level strategies. So general admission tickets are still available, but spots are limited, and once they’re gone, they’re gone. Amberly Lago [00:00:36]: So don’t wait, get in the room, claim your seat, and let’s be unstoppable together. go.amberlylagoe.com USS2026. Again, it is go.amberlylagoe.com USS2026. /uss2026. I will see you in Irving, Texas. And now on to the show. Welcome to the Amberly Lago Show, where grit, grace, and joy connect you to unstoppable success. I am so excited. Amberly Lago [00:01:12]: Like, it is an honor to be talking To you? Hal Elrod [00:01:18]: Oh my gosh. Amberly Lago [00:01:21]: You are one of my favorite authors. Aww. Like, seriously life-changing authors to be on the show. Thank you so much. In fact, I just gifted your book to one of my clients who’s going through a cancer surgery right now as we speak. And your story is just amazing and all that you teach, but your mission and all that you do is so inspiring. So, hey, you listening in, know that this is my— like, I am so honored to be here with Hal Elrod. If you are in a dark place, if you are struggling, this is the episode that you need to hear right now. Amberly Lago [00:02:18]: So I’m glad that you’re here listening. So Hal, thank you so much for being here. You are like, holy moly, bestselling author a million times over, keynote speaker across the globe. You have a society of Miracle Morning people that rely on you and you’ve created a movement. And so thank you for being here with us today. Hal Elrod [00:02:48]: You are welcome, Amberly. That might be the warmest welcome I have ever received. So thank you so much. I really, I receive it. It was very heartfelt. You’re very heartfelt. I appreciate you and thank you so much. Amberly Lago [00:02:59]: Oh my gosh. Well, I’ve been listening. So I, yes, of course I bought your book. Yes, of course I bought the book, but I’ve been listening to it. On my daily— yeah, I love it. And so I highly recommend, if you’re like, oh, I don’t read books, whatever, listen to this book because it is life-changing. I know that I just needed a little shift in me because I know I got a good life. I’m— I’ve over come a lot, but I needed a shift in my mindset and even the practices that I do every day. Amberly Lago [00:03:49]: And so that’s why I was so intentional about listening to your book. But so other people know exactly what we’re coming from. And I know you’ve told your story a million times over. But I think people need to know exactly what you have gone through because, I mean, you’ve cheated death twice. Yeah, if not more. And you know what I was thinking about you? My husband tells me, you know what, God keeps just spitting you back out. You know what? I think God can say the same about you. God just keeps spitting you back out because he’s got a different purpose for you. Amberly Lago [00:04:40]: So can you tell us a little bit about where you were to leading millions to where you are now? Hal Elrod [00:04:48]: Yeah, Amberly, thank you for that. And I’m actually, I’ll start somewhere that I’ve only been starting in recent years. I used to not share this part of my story. And I, it wasn’t until I was in a therapy session that they helped me connect the dots. And the part of the story I’m talking about is when I was 8 years old, I I woke up on a Saturday morning to the sound of my mother screaming across the hall, God, my baby, my baby, please don’t take my baby. And I ran across the hall into the bedroom, and on my parents’ bed, my 18-month-old baby sister Amery was laying on the bed, and my mom was pushing on her chest and blowing into her mouth and trying to perform CPR and resuscitate her. And that morning, um, my sister, passed away and we thought, I thought she, the ambulance came and took her and my mom and dad away. I went over to a friend’s house and I thought, oh, it’ll be okay. Hal Elrod [00:05:38]: The ambulance is here. They’re going to save the day. Well, I think knowing what I know now, she was already gone. And within 6 months of my mother being absolutely devastated, she founded a support group for parents who had lost young children. And, you know, I look at it now as she turned her pain into purpose. She found a way to serve other people. And so that really, although at the time I never, I didn’t, I didn’t comprehend all of that. Fast forward 12 years later and I was driving home after giving a speech at a Cutco sales conference and my car was hit head on by a drunk driver at 70 miles per hour. Hal Elrod [00:06:16]: My car spun off the drunk driver and the car behind me crashed into my driver’s side door, into the left side of my body at 70 miles per hour and broke 11 of my bones instantaneously. My leg. Broke in two pieces. My femur bone broke in half. My pelvis broke in three places. My arm, behind my bicep muscle, my humerus bone broke in half. My elbow was shattered. My ear was almost completely severed. Hal Elrod [00:06:40]: My eye socket was shattered. And the top of my skull was sliced open by the ceiling buckling in. And I began to lose a lot of blood, and I bled to death. And the first cheating of death that. Amberly Lago [00:06:51]: You talked about— and by the way, I have looked at those The scene of that accident when you were, if y’all go to his website and look at that, I, it’s a miracle that you are alive. Like I look at that scene and I’m like, how is he even alive in that? And so, yes, I have to say like, yeah, I’m blown away that all that you’ve overcome, but go ahead. Go ahead. Hal Elrod [00:07:25]: Well, yeah. And, and you’re referring to the, yeah, we, I’ve got pictures of the car accident or the car itself, which is, looks like half of a car. It’s kind of missing one side. It’s not missing though. It was just smashed into my body. And then there’s a picture of me, you know, in a coma hooked up to life support, uh, that I’m glad my dad took cuz it was an important moment, you know, to capture. And the, when I came out of a coma 6 days later, my heart had stopped for 6 minutes on the side of the freeway and they revived me on a, a helicopter and airlifted me to the hospital.. And when I came out of a coma 6 days later, I had flatlined twice during the coma. Hal Elrod [00:07:57]: So 3 times total that my heart had stopped. And I came out of the coma to face this unimaginable reality. And I had to face— I’m— the doctors say I’m never going to walk again. I have 11 broken bones. I have permanent brain damage. My body has horrific scarring from all of the damage on the side. And at 20 years old, that was really hard news to hear. But as I share in the book, it’s what I now call emotional invincibility, which is this ability where I realized I can’t change that I was in a car accident. Hal Elrod [00:08:25]: Event. So there’s no point in wishing that it didn’t happen. There’s no point in feeling sorry for myself. There’s no point in wishing that the past were different. The only logical choice I had was to completely accept my reality exactly as it was, to be totally at peace with it, and then be optimistic and positive about what was possible. And 2 weeks after I came out of the coma, 3 weeks after the crash, when I was found dead at the scene, The doctors came into the routine X-rays and they said, we don’t know how to explain this, pal, but your body is healing rapidly. And you’re actually, I know we said you’re never going to walk again, but if you’re up for it, uh, we think you can take your first step today in therapy. And even for me, who was optimistic, I was thinking I was a year off from that, not 3 weeks from the crash. Hal Elrod [00:09:08]: And so I took my first step and the rest is kind of history. And if you look back at my mom losing my sister, or I should say our whole family losing my sister, Amery. And my mom turning pain into purpose. My dad also turned pain into purpose. He started raising money for the hospital that cared for my sister. And, uh, and for me, the question in the hospital was, how can I use this experience to help other people? And I started brainstorming a book. Uh, I started my speaking career just 6 weeks after I got out of the hospital. I spoke at my high school, and that was— that laid the foundation for what is, you know, now it’s the Miracle Morning is my life’s work.. Hal Elrod [00:09:46]: But that was where it was like, okay, I believe that everything happens for a reason, but it’s our responsibility to choose the reasons, to choose the most empowering reasons for the most difficult circumstances that we face in our lives. And because of that, I became an author, I became a speaker, and I just kind of looked at every challenge I face as an opportunity for me to learn, grow, and become better. And then help other people by sharing what I learn, how I grow, and what they can do to overcome their. Amberly Lago [00:10:17]: Challenges in their life. Your story is amazing and all that you’ve overcome and how you chose to see the good in those awful, horrible circumstances. But I know I have a lot of listeners out there, especially listeners that deal with complex regional pain syndrome, nerve disease that I was diagnosed with as well, and they wake up another day and it’s like Groundhog Day, and it’s another day of extreme, like excruciating pain, like pain beyond measure. How can they apply some of these tools to help them just start to move the needle in the right direction? Hal Elrod [00:11:06]: Yeah, there’s two things that come to mind. One is acceptance, the power of radical acceptance, because that for me was really the— that was the key that unlocked the door to being at peace was, oh, I can’t change my current reality. So the only logical, intelligent choice I have, if I want to actually be happy, be at peace, enjoy my life, is I have to accept my reality exactly as it is. And I learned later through reading Eckhart Tolle, I learned and this is an important concept to understand, that resistance to reality is the source of all of our emotional pain. Oh, that’s good. I’ll say it again, but I’ll flip it around. The source of all of our emotional pain is self-created, and it is self-created by our resistance to our reality. In other words, it’s our wishing and wanting that reality were different than it is that causes our emotional pain.. Hal Elrod [00:12:00]: And that doesn’t mean that we don’t take action to, you know, if we can improve something moving forward, great, that’s great. But reacceptance of our current reality in this moment as it is. And here’s an example of how that is true. If you take two different people, right, Amberly, so two people that have the exact same circumstance in their life. Now, it could be a chronic disease, it could be losing a loved one, right? So it’s a permanent thing. That person’s never coming back. And person number 1, you say, how are you dealing with this? They go, I wish it didn’t happen. It is not fair. Hal Elrod [00:12:32]: I wish my life were different. I’m so miserable. It, I just can’t accept reality, right? I can’t accept this is my life was not supposed to be this way. And to the degree that they resist reality determines the degree of emotional pain that we create for ourselves. Now you go, go talk to person number 2 and they’re enduring the exact same adversity, pain, struggle, you name it, and you say, hey, are you suffering also? Are you wishing this didn’t happen? And they go, well, no, what’s the point of wishing that my reality were different? That, that’s just delusional. This is my reality. So I’m choosing to be at peace with what I can’t change. So I can therefore have the ability to choose to be grateful and joyful and focus on the things in my life that I do love, and I do feel good about. Hal Elrod [00:13:22]: So two different people enduring the exact same experience— adversity, challenge, tragedy, chronic illness. Person number one resists reality and is therefore creating all sorts of inner turmoil and emotional pain. Person number two completely accepts reality, and they are— they’re not happy about it. They’re not— they wouldn’t choose it, but they’re at peace. And peace is far more rooted and unchangeable than happiness. Happiness is an emotion. You can be happy one minute, now you’re upset. But when you live your state, your life in a state of unconditional acceptance of your reality, you are forever at peace. Amberly Lago [00:13:58]: Mic drop on that moment right there. That is so incredible. Yes. I’ve got people that ask me, and I’m curious if people ask you this as well. People ask me, well, do you wish you could take it all back, your motorcycle accident and the 34 surgeries? And I don’t live my life in a place of I wish it were different. And I, I’m in a place of this is what it is and I’m going to do whatever’s best for to live the most joyous life. So have you had people ask you, do you wish you could take your accident back? Hal Elrod [00:14:48]: Of course. Amberly Lago [00:14:49]: Yeah, absolutely. Hal Elrod [00:14:50]: Do you really? Oh, I get asked that question. Um, but I don’t, I, I, I, I view my accident as the best thing that ever happened to me, or I should say one of them, you know, I could argue my children, I would, put above that, but the premise being that I went, this is the belief, is that the greater the adversity, the greater the opportunity for us to learn, grow, become better, and impact other people. That’s my belief. And you look at anyone who is, you know, has achieved or impacted a lot of people, and it’s most of those people, they had to overcome major struggle to turn around and then lend their hand, you know, put out their hand and help the people that are going through what they went through similarly. As much as it was painful, you know, this is a lesson I try to teach my kids, and I’ll give you a real-life example that literally happened yesterday. One of my kids is going through something real challenging with some friends. She had a real challenging experience with some friends a few months back, and it’s been kind of ongoing. Not bullying, but kind of like that. Hal Elrod [00:15:55]: And yesterday we were on a run, and I said, hey, so what happened with these plans that you were going to make with this one friend for Halloween, but the other one, You weren’t sure if it’d be a good mix. She goes, I decided to invite both of them. I said, oh, I said, that’s so great. I’m so glad to hear that. What changed your mind? She goes, I just realized, dad, that the pain that I went through of not being included with, you know, this friend group, I don’t ever want to cause anyone else that pain and I want to include them. And I said, sweetheart, number one, I’m so proud of you. But number two, I said, I want you to look at this silver lining. You went through pain for a few months and now it changed who you will be for the rest of your life because you chose to find the purpose in your pain. Hal Elrod [00:16:40]: And so that to me, that’s a, it’s a miniature example, but it’s like she is now a better version of herself because she made it through the pain with a positive proactive mindset. Uh, I won’t take, you know, I won’t take too much credit, but I definitely was trying to, you know, steer her toward that. And by the way, when I was steering her in the moment, she’s like, Dad, shut up. You don’t understand. You don’t— I don’t want to hear it. Yada, yada, yada. Amberly Lago [00:17:01]: Right. Hal Elrod [00:17:01]: But, but she was hearing it. She was getting it. And eventually, once the pain kind of subsided, then she found the purpose. And now she will be an inclusive human being that will impact who knows how many other people in a positive way because she found purpose in the. Amberly Lago [00:17:18]: Pain that she endured. Yes. But you know what? It’s because of the amazing dad that you are. And I love that in even in your bio, you say family, and like, you’re a family-first kind of a dad, and that you take your family with you on all these speaking engagements that you go on, which I just, I love that because it can be a lot going and traveling and doing so much for speaking engagements. But I have to say, I was very intrigued with the speaking engagement that you took your son on, that, uh. Hal Elrod [00:18:10]: Y’All went skydiving. Yeah, yeah. So I was speaking at Advisors Excel in Las Vegas, and I took my son Halston. It was the first, uh, speaking engagement I ever took him on. And I think he was probably, I don’t know, maybe 8, 7, 8 years old. My wife encouraged me. Yes, go ahead, take him. So we, we, uh, we go to the Matt Franco magic show, uh, the night before. Hal Elrod [00:18:29]: And at the end of the show, he, Matt Franco calls up a volunteer from the audience and he picks my son out of the, you know, hundreds and hundreds of people in his audience. It was so cool. And my son’s a pretty shy guy. My son goes up. And, uh, again, he’s, I think he’s 6, 7, 8 years old. And Matt Franco says, hey, how, you know, what are you doing in Vegas? He said, my dad took me here. And he said, oh yeah, what have you guys done? Anything fun so far? And he said, yeah, yesterday we went skydiving. And, uh, and the musician Matt Franco, who won America’s Got Talent, he goes, wait, how old are you? And, you know, again, I forget my son was 7, 8. Hal Elrod [00:19:04]: Wait, you went, you, you went skydiving? You jumped out of an airplane yesterday at 7 years old? And I yell from the audience. We went ziplining, which is a far cry from skydiving. But anyway, so I did, I did open up my speech the next morning by telling that story, which you can watch that online. That whole speech is on YouTube. Amberly Lago [00:19:24]: Well, you have a huge YouTube following, by the way. Follow him on YouTube, but also all the things that you offer. So in your book, and I don’t expect for you to get into all these things right now, But if you could give us like a Cliff Notes version of your SAVERS, because I also love your Slumber in your book too, which that’s one of the reasons I shared your book with one of my clients. But can you give us some tips real quick about how people can start to change their life? Hal Elrod [00:20:05]: And feel better immediately? I will, Amberly, and I’m going to weave into this answer as I share the SAVERS, and I can mention the SLUMBERS as well. Uh, but I’m gonna weave into this the second part of my answer to your question, which is if someone is in chronic illness, how can the Miracle Morning help them? So the SAVERS are the 6 practices of the Miracle Morning. And, and to be really clear, the Miracle Morning is a very specific morning routine that can be done in as little as 6 minutes or as long as 60 minutes, or really, of course, as long as you want. You could take you can do all morning if you want. The premise of it is I took the 6 most timeless proven personal development practices that the world’s most successful people across all walks of life have sworn by for centuries. So this isn’t new stuff. It’s not like take an ice bath and sit in the sauna. It’s the SAVERS is the acronym S-A-V-E-R-S. Hal Elrod [00:20:57]: The first S is for silence. So it’s starting your day with peaceful silence, whether that’s prayer, or meditation or breathwork, but it’s lowering your cortisol, calming your nervous system, gaining clarity, opening your mind up to the wisdom of God or higher consciousness or your subconscious, whatever you want to call it. So that’s the S in SABERS of silence. The A is for affirmations, and not the way we’ve been taught in these goofy, like, lie to yourself and tell yourself you’re wealthy if you’re not, or tell yourself you’re a money magnet and money is going to flow into your life. The way affirmations have been taught are very counterproductive. In the book, I teach them in a very practical, actionable way that is rooted in truth, that is designed to reinforce the reasons that you’re committed to doing the things that you need to do to achieve the goals that you want to achieve in your life. The V in SAVERS is for visualization. And in the same way that world-class athletes visualize themselves performing at their best, we can do the same, whether it’s on a Saturday morning visualizing greeting our spouse and our kids in a loving, playful state, or whether it’s a Monday morning and we’re visualizing greeting our clients or entering in the office with confidence and love and, you know, and, and, and, uh, in a spirit of service and productivity. Hal Elrod [00:22:15]: The E in SAVERS is for exercise. Doesn’t mean you have to go to the gym in the morning, but it’s moving your body. Even 60 seconds of jumping jacks can completely transform your mental, emotional, and physical state. Getting blood and oxygen to your brain, giving you more mental clarity, more physical energy, and releasing endorphins that make you feel better in as little as 60 seconds. Mm-hmm. The R in SAVERS is for reading, and we are all one book away from transforming our lives. Of course, we’re talking about The Miracle Morning as one of those books right now. Um, but I have a personal self-imposed rule that I’m not allowed to read a personal growth or, um, business book. Hal Elrod [00:22:53]: Until I’ve read a book on family, meaning parenting or marriage. It’s my personal reminder that my family is number one in my life and being a dad and a husband are my, my top, you know, they’re tied for my number one and number two role. Um, and, uh, and I learned something new every day that I can share, apply to being a good husband or being a good father. And then the sixth of the SAVERS is for scribing. And I always joke, that’s a fancy word for journaling, but the J would’ve made the acronym awkward, right? So scribing is a fancy word for writing. And every day I do, there’s a 3-step process that I teach in the book. And very quickly, step 1 is write down anything that you’re stressed about or worried about. And by writing it in your journal, you create separation and get it outta your subconscious. Hal Elrod [00:23:38]: And you now have a conscious separation of, okay, these are the things I’m worried and stressed about, and they’re now safe in my journal and I can revisit them. Process them, address them when the time is right, but I no longer have to keep them in the back of my mind all day long. They’re safely tucked in the journal. Number 2, write down what you’re grateful for. Put your hand on your heart, feel that deep heartfelt gratitude. And then number 3, write down which actions that you need to take and when to follow through with the things that you’re committed to in your life. Those are the 6 SAVERS, and I’ll, I’ll tie a bow on this in terms of these practices. Again, I didn’t invent any of these., but any one of these will change your life. Hal Elrod [00:24:18]: When you do all 6 of them, you create miracles. You create results that are so profound and that happen so quickly, you can hardly even believe it. And, you know, don’t take my word for it. There are millions of people around the world that have read The Miracle Morning. It’s in 100 countries, it’s in 42 languages, and The Miracle Morning changes people’s lives in these really universal ways because it doesn’t matter what your goal is, if it’s to lose weight or be happier or, improve your marriage or be a better parent or grow your business or make more money. How you start your day sets the tone, the context, and the direction for how you live the rest of your day. So when you win the morning, you set yourself up to win the day and create a winning life. And that’s why the Miracle Morning is so universally beneficial for literally any person on the planet based on whatever you want to target your Miracle Morning and your savers towards. Amberly Lago [00:25:12]: Amen. Mic drop on that. Yes, yes, yes. That is amazing. I couldn’t agree any more. Before we go, we’re running out of time, and I appreciate you sharing so much value with us right now. I was scrolling through your book, and what I landed on was the RESTERS. Oh yeah. Amberly Lago [00:25:38]: That’s what I landed on. So can you talk about the RESTERS? Hal Elrod [00:25:43]: Yeah. Well, yeah. Amberly Lago [00:25:43]: And in the— well, the SAVER. Hal Elrod [00:25:45]: Okay. Okay. The SLUMBERS and the RESTERS. Amberly Lago [00:25:47]: Right. Hal Elrod [00:25:47]: So, so to be fair, the RESTERS was an acronym. Amberly Lago [00:25:50]: Yeah. Hal Elrod [00:25:51]: Can you talk about all of it? Of the Miracle Morning community. Uh, he wrote this RESTERS acronym in the, um, in the Miracle Morning community, which is a Facebook group with 60, sorry, 360,000 people. Amberly Lago [00:26:05]: Okay. Hal Elrod [00:26:05]: Okay. Yeah. Amberly Lago [00:26:06]: So he shared that. You can see my page turned and I’m like, I need to know about the SLUMBERS. Hal Elrod [00:26:15]: Yes. Yeah. The SLUMBERS. The SLUMBERS is my version. So I gave him credit in the book for the rest of Earth and I shared what they are, but they just didn’t fit for me because some of them were already things I was doing. Some of them I didn’t do. And so I looked at my evening routine and I looked for an acronym that would, you know, make it memorable. And we came up with slumbers. Amberly Lago [00:26:35]: That was for, for me. Well, I love the slumbers and that the slumbers is actually what I shared and why I bought your book for my, my friend who’s going through a hard time with cancer right now. Hal Elrod [00:26:52]: I have so many people I know that are going through cancer right now, Amberly. Amberly Lago [00:26:57]: I, I, I mean, and, and your book. Is just such testimony and inspiration for them to get through that. So thank you for writing it. But yeah, if you don’t, can you. Hal Elrod [00:27:11]: Give us, do you have time to give us? Amberly Lago [00:27:15]: Absolutely. Okay. Hal Elrod [00:27:15]: So, so the, the S in slumbers is stop, stop eating 3 to 4 hours, 2 to 4 hours before bed. And the reason is it takes us 2 to 4 hours to digest a meal. 2 if it’s, you know, if it’s, you know, light food. But if it’s like a big steak or fried food, it can take up to 4 hours. So the idea is that if you eat before bed, if you eat too close to bed, even 30 minutes, even an hour, potentially you are digesting food while you are sleeping and your body is not getting the rest it needs to repair and rejuvenate. And so for me, I eat dinner by 6 PM., and then I go to bed around 9:00 PM. So I get at least 3 hours, uh, to fully digest my food. And then that way you don’t wake up feeling like you were hit by a truck in the morning. Hal Elrod [00:28:00]: So that’s the S in slumbers. The L is let go of stressful thoughts. That’s easier said than done, but in the book, I walk you through a very specific process on how I flip the switch. And I realize that at bedtime, there’s no value in ruminating over things that I can’t control in that moment. My only objective, it is singular. It is to prepare my mind, body, and nervous system for that restful, rejuvenative sleep that we just spoken about. The U is for, in SLUMBERS, is for use sleep supplements as needed. There was a 6-month period when I was on, I also had cancer at age 37, and I went through 700 hours of chemotherapy. Hal Elrod [00:28:37]: And toward the tail end of my chemotherapy, I was not sleeping. I was sleeping 2 to 4 hours a night for 6 months, and I was I was suicidal. I was delusional. My brain was not working. And so, I relentlessly pursued figuring out how to get myself to sleep again. So, if you’re listening right now and you struggle with sleep, in the book, I share my personal sleep supplement regimen that took me— I bought every sleep supplement off of Amazon and tried all of them, and it took me 6 months to find a solution that I was able to, and not only just the supplements, but also the other things I talk about in The Slumbers, like letting go of the stressful thoughts, but I was able to finally sleep. So I share that supplement regimen in the book. Amberly Lago [00:29:25]: Yeah. And also, I mean, look, I could talk to you for like 24 hours because of the detail of everything that you’ve gone through. I mean, because you didn’t just survive life once. It was like you survived cancer too, chemo and everything else. I mean, they’re, they’re, it’s, it’s amazing. So I will definitely make sure to send this to people for that reason as well. Hal Elrod [00:29:57]: Yeah, I appreciate that. I encourage everybody to watch the Miracle Morning movie. You can watch it free on YouTube or you can rent it on Amazon Prime. It is a 90-minute feature film. It’s a full-length documentary, and it starts out— it took us 6 years to film. It features Mel Robbins, author of the Let Them Theory. She’s in the film. Lewis Howes, Brendon Burchard, Robin Sharma, Leila Ali. Hal Elrod [00:30:20]: I mean, it’s just got these amazing, brilliant authors and influencers in the film. But the craziest part about the movie was 2 years into filming, I was diagnosed with this rare, aggressive form of cancer. It’s called acute lymphoblastic leukemia. My heart was failing, my lungs were failing, and my kidneys were failing. And the doctors gave me 1 to 2 weeks to live if I didn’t start chemotherapy. Uh, I called our director who was, you know, making the film, and I said, Nick— and he’s a friend of mine— I said, you’ll never believe this. I’m in the hospital, my organs are failing, I’ve got this aggressive cancer, and I have to start chemo tomorrow. The movie is on hold. Hal Elrod [00:30:57]: And after we talked for a little while, he said, Hal, I hope you don’t take this the wrong way, but I don’t think the movie should be on hold. In fact, this is the movie. We were sharing how the Miracle Morning was changing people’s lives, and now I think we should film you beating cancer, how you integrate the Miracle Morning into that process so that we can inspire millions of people to overcome their health challenges or whatever else. And I said, let me talk to my wife. I don’t think we were planning on filming the the most difficult time in our life. But when you’re watching the Miracle Morning movie, it’s about 57 minutes in, I think, when I have a selfie video on my cell phone that I never knew would be in the movie. It was just recording it for my friends and family to tell them that something was wrong and the doctors were trying to figure out what it was and to please pray for me. And the last 30 minutes of the movie are me fighting for my life and integrating the Miracle Morning. Hal Elrod [00:31:50]: And it’s very personal. It’s a very intimate kind of look into my journey. But again, if you are, you know, whether you read the book, the movie is, to me, it’s like, that’s a great place to start. Like, if you order the book on Amazon and you’re waiting for it to come, go to YouTube or Amazon Prime and watch the Miracle Morning movie. Amberly Lago [00:32:08]: And I think you’ll really be glad that you did. Thank you so much for the work that you do. And for people to know what’s next coming up for you, because I will definitely have your website, the, the link for the movie and your books in the show notes and everything else. But is there anything that you want people to know right now that they can go to right now to be. Hal Elrod [00:32:37]: Able to connect with you? Yeah, I’m glad you asked because I almost forgot this and I would have forgot had you not said it the way you did. This is my newest book that is coming out in December. It’s available for pre-order right now. Yeah, look, even surprising you. Um, The Miracle Morning After 50: A Proven Path to Joy, Vitality, and Purpose for Aging Adults. So the reason this book came to be, this was not my idea. Dwayne J. Clark, he is the founder of Aegis Living, which is one of the most well-respected senior living facilities in America. Hal Elrod [00:33:07]: He reached out to me, I think it’s been 3 or 4 years ago now. It’s been a, it’s been a long journey for he and I to get this book done. We just both, I had other priorities and, and, and so It, um, basically he reached out and said, Hal, I’m in my 60s. A friend gave me your book, The Miracle Morning. It has completely changed my life. And he said, I care for people, you know, in their 60s, 70s, 80s. And he said, people lose purpose in the, their, as they get older. And he said, I believe that The Miracle Morning could change their, that demographic’s life in the second half of their life. Hal Elrod [00:33:41]: He and I poured everything into co-authoring The Miracle Morning After 50. And again, it’s on anywhere books are sold. Amberly Lago [00:33:47]: You can preorder it right now. The link is in the show notes. Hal, thank you so much for being on the show. Y’all follow him on Instagram. Thank you for tuning in. Hal, thank you so much for being here. Hal Elrod [00:34:03]: Amberly, thank you. You’re welcome. And Amberly, make sure you email me your address and I will send you a signed copy of The Miracle Morning After 50. That’s the least I could do as a thank you for how generous you’ve been today. Amberly Lago [00:34:14]: Are you kidding? No, I’m gonna buy it because I buy a copy of all of my friends who have books. I buy a copy of their books because you know what? It’s a lot that goes into being an author. Hal Elrod [00:34:27]: So let’s— well, look, do this. Send— email me your address. I’m gonna send you a signed copy, and then you can buy a book and then gift that one to somebody else for Christmas. Amberly Lago [00:34:36]: I will do that. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And thank you for tuning in to the show. I appreciate you being here and because you’re listening, it’s made this show a top 1% podcast. Thank you, and we’ll see you next week.