You Be You

You Be You Plot Summary

Introduction

I remember the first time I felt completely out of sync with my life. On paper, everything looked perfect – the prestigious job, the beautiful apartment, the social calendar filled with events. Yet inside, I felt hollow, like I was playing a role in someone else's story. That moment of disconnect was actually the beginning of something beautiful: the journey back to myself. Perhaps you've felt something similar – that quiet voice inside suggesting there's more to life than following prescribed paths that don't truly resonate with your soul. In our hyperconnected world where external validation often overshadows inner wisdom, many of us lose touch with our authentic selves. We become experts at meeting others' expectations while our true purpose and passions remain buried beneath layers of conditioning. This journey explores how to strip away those limitations and rediscover your authentic light. Through a powerful three-part transformation process, you'll learn to detox your life of what doesn't serve you, crush the limitations holding you back, and ultimately own your unique brilliance. When you align with your true self, everything shifts – your relationships deepen, your work becomes meaningful, and you experience a profound sense of fulfillment that ripples outward, positively impacting everyone around you.

Chapter 1: The Journey to Self-Discovery and Authentic Purpose

Drew Canole's personal transformation began in a moment of profound clarity beside the ocean in Tampa Bay. Despite running a successful financial services company, he found himself physically and emotionally drained – 40 pounds overweight, engaging in weekend drinking to escape his reality, and feeling disconnected from his true self. The material success he'd achieved – the cars, the watches, the house – failed to fill the void left by his traumatic childhood with his biological father. This emptiness led to a pivotal realization: he wanted to start over, to inspire people, and to discover his life's true purpose. With remarkable clarity, Drew understood that his calling involved health and transformation, helping others create positive mindset shifts within frameworks of faith and spirituality. Despite having built a thriving business, he knew he needed to leave it all behind. He set an intention to generate $70,000 in 30 days to fund his transition and committed to making his past pain his future mission. Drew's story illuminates the disconnect many of us experience between external success and internal fulfillment. We chase societal definitions of achievement while ignoring our soul's deepest desires. This pattern often stems from childhood conditioning, whether from parental expectations, educational systems, or societal pressures that override our authentic selves. By adulthood, many of us have forgotten who we truly are, building identities around pleasing others rather than honoring our inner light. The solution isn't simply setting new goals but undertaking a personal transformation journey that strips away limiting expectations. This journey begins with commitment – not the casual kind we make with New Year's resolutions, but a profound shift throughout every level of consciousness that transforms how we show up in the world. When we commit to authenticity with complete conviction, the universe responds by opening pathways we never imagined possible, attracting experiences that resonate with our true frequency. This transformation isn't just about personal happiness; it's about sharing your unique gifts with the world. As Marianne Williamson wrote, "It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us." Embracing your authentic self means taking full responsibility for your life, establishing boundaries, and potentially making dramatic changes in relationships, career, or location. While challenging, this journey leads to a life of integrity, purpose, and profound connection with your true essence.

Chapter 2: Detoxing Your Life: Commitment, Purpose, and Body

Zach, an Ohio family man, came to Fitlife.tv with a familiar struggle – he was 110 pounds overweight despite being full of love and joy. But his relationship with food was complicated. Growing up, his grandparents rewarded good behavior with sweets, and his parents soothed his emotional upsets with food instead of emotional support. These childhood experiences created a deep association between food and love. As an adult and father, Zach continued this pattern, providing unhealthy foods to please his children and eating the same way himself. Through conversations with Drew, Zach recognized a profound limiting belief: to be liked, even by his family, he had to give them everything they wanted. This people-pleasing tendency extended to food choices, creating fear that eating differently would lead to rejection. This revelation helped Zach replace his limiting belief with a more positive declaration: "The more I treat myself with love, the more I'm loved by others." This shift transformed not only his body but his entire family dynamic. Over the next year, Zach lost 100 pounds, his family became healthier, and his business doubled in revenue. Similarly, Drew's own transformation began with a single glass of green juice. Though initially skeptical about drinking what looked like "swamp water," that one decision triggered a cascade of positive changes. The nutrients from that juice provided immediate clarity and energy, setting him on a path toward physical and mental transformation. For Drew, juicing became liquid light – a direct connection to the sun's energy transformed into pure nutrition by plants through photosynthesis. The body serves as a critical entry point for transformation because it provides concrete, measurable steps toward change. While spiritual or mental changes might feel abstract, choosing a salad over fast food delivers immediate, tangible feedback to every cell in your body. This physical foundation supports mental clarity and spiritual growth, creating space for your authentic self to emerge and thrive. Drew offers a simple three-day body preparation protocol to jumpstart transformation: begin each morning with warm lemon water (with optional additions like honey, apple cider vinegar, or cayenne), add a nutrient-dense green juice as a mid-morning snack, and replace one heavy meal with a salad. These small yet powerful steps begin reprogramming your body from within, setting the stage for deeper transformation. The journey toward authenticity requires harmony between body, mind, and spirit. When you honor your physical vessel with proper nutrition and movement, you create the foundation needed for your true light to shine through. This isn't about perfection but progress – making daily choices that align with your deeper purpose rather than momentary pleasures.

Chapter 3: Crushing Limitations: Embracing Fears and Overcoming Conditioning

In the middle of any transformation journey comes what Drew calls "the mess" – that difficult stage where initial excitement wears off, doubts creep in, and everything feels chaotic. This is precisely when many people give up. But this discomfort isn't a sign of failure; it's evidence you're on the right path. The key is developing self-compassion and understanding that this messiness is a necessary part of growth. Sheree's story powerfully illustrates how trauma can become fuel for transformation. When Drew met Sheree at the gym years ago, she was working as a holistic health coach helping people heal from autoimmune disease. Her path to this work began with profound trauma – she had been raped at age 19 and remained silent about it for four years. The pain she held inside created disease in her body, which she dealt with for nine years. Rather than remaining a victim, Sheree transformed her pain into purpose, returning to school to study holistic health to heal herself and help others. When Sheree shared her experience with Drew, he asked what had given her the drive to move through her pain so gracefully. Her answer was simple: purpose. She became determined to get better and share her experiences openly because she believed they happened for a reason – the universe had delivered her true purpose through pain. Today, she's an integral part of the Fitlife.tv and Organifi mission, and her journey serves as a powerful reminder that our deepest wounds can become our greatest gifts. Fear represents another significant limitation on our journey. Whether it's fear of our own light, fear of change, fear of asking for help, or even fear of death, these emotions keep us playing small rather than expanding into our authentic selves. Bonnie's story demonstrates how fears can hold us back in unexpected ways. As a talented professional, she was afraid to make more money than her husband because she didn't want him to feel "less of a man" or think she didn't need him anymore. These fears stemmed from childhood conditioning – her father had constantly emphasized that providing was "the man's job." Through honest conversations with her husband John, Bonnie expressed her fears and explained their origins. To her surprise, John was incredibly supportive of her career growth. She went for the promotion, got it, and began thriving in both her professional and personal life. Her story shows that when we face our fears with honesty and vulnerability, we often discover they were illusions holding us back from our true potential. The journey to authenticity requires us to recognize that our limitations exist only in our minds. They stem from conditioning – expectations and roles placed upon us by parents, teachers, and society. By identifying these limiting beliefs and understanding their origins, we can begin to dismantle them and create new pathways toward freedom. The process isn't easy, but with compassion and commitment, these limitations can be transformed into fuel for positive change.

Chapter 4: Owning Your Awesome: Soul Mapping and Building Momentum

Have you ever experienced moments when time seemed to stand still, when you were so completely absorbed in an activity that everything else faded away? Athletes call it being "in the zone," artists refer to it as being "inspired," and psychologists name it "flow state." This experience represents your authentic self in action – your unique light flowing through you effortlessly, creating a sense of purpose and profound satisfaction. Soul mapping is a powerful technique for accessing this state regularly. It begins with understanding that your purpose transcends linear time – it existed before you were born and will continue after your physical form releases your spirit. Your ideal life already exists, and soul mapping helps you access it through vision casting – a practice of creating clear, detailed visions of your desired reality with the intention of bringing them to life. Drew shares how vision casting transformed his own life. As a teenager in Michigan, he noticed successful people in movies and television always had classical music playing. So he'd drive around his hometown in his Isuzu, listening to Beethoven, pretending he was driving a Rolls-Royce. This simple routine heightened his state of flow and intention, allowing him to imagine more for his life. Similarly, a mentor suggested Drew buy his morning coffee at the Ritz-Carlton instead of Starbucks to immerse himself in the wealthy environment he aspired to create. These seemingly small changes shifted his perspective and opened his mind to greater possibilities. The practice of segment intending further supports this transformation by bringing intentionality to everyday moments. Instead of letting your commute frustrate you, you might use that time for education through podcasts, problem-solving, or meditation. By consciously directing your energy throughout the day, you create an upward spiral where each area of life supports and enhances the others. Dreams offer another pathway to intuitive guidance. By recording them in a journal and asking questions of your dreaming self before sleep, you establish a link between your waking and sleeping consciousness. This practice helps you access parts of your brain normally unavailable during waking hours, providing insights and guidance for your journey. Regular meditation strengthens this connection to your authentic self by settling the surface noise of your mind. Think of your busy thoughts as waves on a windy day, making it impossible to see what lies beneath. Meditation calms those waves, allowing access to deeper currents of wisdom and intuition. With consistent practice, your thought process begins to change, leaving you calmer, more centered, and more connected to your true purpose. Building momentum requires embracing missteps as part of the journey. Rather than seeing setbacks as failures, recognize them as valuable lessons that help redirect your path. Each challenge provides information and experience that propels you forward with greater wisdom. By becoming your own biggest fan and celebrating even small victories, you create positive momentum that carries you through difficult moments and accelerates your transformation.

Chapter 5: Connecting to Source: Forgiveness, Trust, and Universal Oneness

The final stage of transformation involves tapping into Source – that unified light that shines through each of us, connecting us in oneness. Some call it God; others use different names. Whatever label resonates with you, this connection to something greater than yourself provides the foundation for living your authentic purpose with confidence and joy. Jackie's story beautifully illustrates this connection. After losing her husband Gordon to cancer after 20 years together, Jackie was heartbroken. The last months of his life were devastating as she watched this once strong, independent man become unable to care for himself. Though not religious, Jackie had always believed in something bigger than herself. Through her grief journey, she made a profound choice to "invite in Source" and trust that everything in her path had meaning in life and death. When Drew asked where her drive to keep going in such a beautiful and positive way came from, Jackie's answer was simple yet profound: "It's a choice." This reflects a fundamental truth about transformation – while circumstances may feel overwhelming, we always retain the power to choose our response. When we decide to surrender the false idea that we must do everything alone or that we're hopelessly destined to a certain life forever, a light comes on – our light – because in that moment, we're communicating with Source and saying, "I'm ready to rise!" Trusting the process represents another essential aspect of connecting to Source. How much energy do we waste trying to control everything in our lives? Surrendering to the process doesn't mean sitting back passively; it means tuning into universal signals and making decisions that align with your deeper commitments. This creates space for more good to unfold and provides a calmness that comes from knowing you're supported. Forgiveness completes this connection, freeing you from the prison of shame, guilt, anger, and anxiety. This includes forgiving yourself for everything – not because what happened was right or wrong, but because releasing these emotions creates space for your authentic light to shine. With each memory that surfaces, practice saying, "Thank you for your role in my experience. I release you. I am free." This ritual helps break the ties to painful memories and creates a clean slate for new experiences. When you fully connect to Source, you recognize that your transformation isn't just about personal happiness but about lifting up everyone around you. Each time you choose your authentic self, you give others permission to do the same. In this way, personal transformation becomes the foundation for collective evolution, creating a revolution of love and togetherness that can transform the world.

Summary

The journey to authenticity unfolds as a sacred pilgrimage back to our true selves – not to become someone new, but to remember who we've always been beneath layers of conditioning and limitation. Drew Canole's transformation from a successful yet unfulfilled businessman to a purpose-driven catalyst for change illustrates that our greatest struggles often contain the seeds of our deepest calling. When we commit to this journey with unwavering intention, detox our bodies and minds of what no longer serves us, face our fears with courage, and embrace our unique brilliance, we access a wellspring of energy and purpose that elevates every aspect of our lives. The most profound insight from this journey is that transformation is never solely personal. When we choose to live from our authentic light, we create ripples that extend far beyond ourselves. Our willingness to be vulnerable, to share our gifts without apology, and to stand firmly in our truth gives others silent permission to do the same. This creates a powerful alchemy where individual healing contributes to collective evolution. As we release the tribalism and fear-based thinking that divides humanity, we recognize that taking care of ourselves means taking care of each other – that we truly are, as Drew reminds us, "in this together, now and forever, through all times and all dimensions, for the betterment of this shared life." The revolution begins not with changing the world, but with the courageous choice to be unapologetically, brilliantly you.

About Author

Loading...

Drew Canole

Read more