00:00:02.337 --> 00:00:05.637

Reginald D: Welcome to Real Talk with Reginald D. I'm your host, Reginald D.

00:00:06.137 --> 00:00:11.277

Reginald D: On today's episode, I have Kevin Lowe. Kevin is an inspirational speaker and

00:00:11.277 --> 00:00:15.797

Reginald D: host of Great Grace and Inspiration Podcast. Welcome to the show, Kevin.

00:00:16.717 --> 00:00:19.377

Kevin Lowe: Oh, man, I'm excited to be here. Thank you for having me, man.

00:00:20.037 --> 00:00:25.137

Reginald D: Absolutely. Absolutely. So, Kevin, can you share a little bit about your background

00:00:25.137 --> 00:00:27.217

Reginald D: or where you grew up and share your story?

00:00:28.177 --> 00:00:34.297

Kevin Lowe: Yeah, absolutely. So I have been blessed to be born and raised in the same town that I live in now.

00:00:34.557 --> 00:00:36.577

Kevin Lowe: And so that is Ormond Beach, Florida.

00:00:36.857 --> 00:00:40.197

Kevin Lowe: Our little bit more well-known neighbor is Daytona Beach. So basically,

00:00:40.237 --> 00:00:42.457

Kevin Lowe: you wouldn't know if you entered one city or the other.

00:00:42.757 --> 00:00:46.817

Kevin Lowe: And, you know, man, I was blessed to grow up here, a small town,

00:00:47.037 --> 00:00:52.077

Kevin Lowe: which, I mean, now our town's getting way too big, and it's kind of ruining the small town feel.

00:00:52.077 --> 00:00:57.697

Kevin Lowe: But I had a great childhood growing up, was real into riding dirt bikes,

00:00:57.697 --> 00:01:02.557

Kevin Lowe: was my biggest hobby, kind of turned into my biggest passion all as a child.

00:01:03.387 --> 00:01:06.707

Kevin Lowe: And other than that, I mean, it was one of those childhoods,

00:01:06.707 --> 00:01:10.407

Kevin Lowe: you know, back before, like, the kids today who they, like, never leave the house.

00:01:10.587 --> 00:01:15.047

Kevin Lowe: Like, we were always outside. It was outside, you know, riding dirt bikes,

00:01:15.247 --> 00:01:19.767

Kevin Lowe: playing games, out in the woods, you know, all that crazy stuff that now,

00:01:19.907 --> 00:01:24.367

Kevin Lowe: like, you know, we think it was crazy that our parents allowed us to do the stuff that we did.

00:01:25.967 --> 00:01:32.007

Kevin Lowe: And childhood was great. And then, you know, coming up to my teenage years,

00:01:32.327 --> 00:01:38.247

Kevin Lowe: kind of two big moments that I would say kind of encompassed my teenage years.

00:01:38.367 --> 00:01:40.687

Kevin Lowe: And the first was turning 16.

00:01:40.907 --> 00:01:45.387

Kevin Lowe: That's always a pretty big year for most teenagers. And for me, it was huge.

00:01:45.607 --> 00:01:50.407

Kevin Lowe: I got literally my dream truck. So I had grown up always hearing the stories

00:01:50.407 --> 00:01:53.447

Kevin Lowe: about the truck that my dad got for his 16th birthday.

00:01:54.107 --> 00:01:59.087

Kevin Lowe: And it was an old, I think, I forget what year, but Ford F-150,

00:01:59.087 --> 00:02:01.907

Kevin Lowe: and he had it raised with big mud tires and all that.

00:02:01.967 --> 00:02:06.327

Kevin Lowe: And so I knew I wanted that same type of truck when I turned 16.

00:02:06.567 --> 00:02:12.487

Kevin Lowe: And sure enough, man, one day I was driving with my mom to the grocery store,

00:02:12.567 --> 00:02:18.227

Kevin Lowe: to Publix, and there on the side of old Dixie Highway sat my dream truck with

00:02:18.227 --> 00:02:19.627

Kevin Lowe: a for sale side of the window.

00:02:20.207 --> 00:02:29.527

Kevin Lowe: And it was a forest green Ford F-150 raised with big, huge 38-inch TSL Super Swamper mud tires.

00:02:29.987 --> 00:02:34.607

Kevin Lowe: And I just knew, like, it was the only time in my life I've experienced love

00:02:34.607 --> 00:02:37.727

Kevin Lowe: at first sight. And it was with that truck.

00:02:37.947 --> 00:02:41.227

Kevin Lowe: And so anyways, getting that truck was incredible.

00:02:41.507 --> 00:02:45.047

Kevin Lowe: It was the first time in my life that I had, like, pure and utter freedom. them.

00:02:45.187 --> 00:02:49.687

Kevin Lowe: Just driving down the highway, windows down, country music blaring,

00:02:49.987 --> 00:02:52.687

Kevin Lowe: had the big CB whipping, tenna whipping in the wind.

00:02:52.847 --> 00:02:55.647

Kevin Lowe: And of course the big loud hum of those mud tires.

00:02:56.027 --> 00:03:01.247

Kevin Lowe: And man, I loved it. Oh my gosh. I loved it. And unfortunately I only got to drive it for one year.

00:03:01.974 --> 00:03:09.014

Kevin Lowe: Um, because, uh, roughly a year after my 16th birthday, I would find myself

00:03:09.014 --> 00:03:14.494

Kevin Lowe: in my start of my junior year of high school and junior year started out amazing.

00:03:14.834 --> 00:03:19.434

Kevin Lowe: You know, I was a kid who hated school. I always said that every year I would

00:03:19.434 --> 00:03:23.154

Kevin Lowe: pray that I would get the flu so that I could get to stay home.

00:03:23.534 --> 00:03:30.614

Kevin Lowe: And finally come sophomore year, junior year, suddenly school wasn't the worst

00:03:30.614 --> 00:03:31.834

Kevin Lowe: thing that ever happened to me.

00:03:31.974 --> 00:03:35.054

Kevin Lowe: I finally had found, like, a really awesome group of friends,

00:03:35.054 --> 00:03:38.534

Kevin Lowe: and so life was going really good for a teenager.

00:03:38.994 --> 00:03:42.254

Kevin Lowe: Then I always say that it was going great until it wasn't.

00:03:42.574 --> 00:03:49.174

Kevin Lowe: And at the same time here, my junior year of high school, I had been having

00:03:49.174 --> 00:03:54.434

Kevin Lowe: some health issues that had really been plaguing me for almost my entire childhood.

00:03:54.714 --> 00:03:59.174

Kevin Lowe: Things like migraine headaches, things like being so thirsty.

00:03:59.174 --> 00:04:02.234

Kevin Lowe: My mom would tell the doctor, she's like, you don't understand.

00:04:02.234 --> 00:04:05.114

Kevin Lowe: He drinks more than any human you've ever seen.

00:04:05.494 --> 00:04:10.354

Kevin Lowe: To the fact that at 17 years old, I still hadn't gone through puberty.

00:04:10.574 --> 00:04:13.794

Kevin Lowe: I hadn't begun growing. I was only five foot three.

00:04:14.214 --> 00:04:17.734

Kevin Lowe: And the doctor always just kept telling, you know, us that, oh,

00:04:17.794 --> 00:04:20.854

Kevin Lowe: I'm just a late bloomer. You know, give it some time.

00:04:21.394 --> 00:04:25.654

Kevin Lowe: And so finally it took my mom and my grandmother, my nana.

00:04:25.974 --> 00:04:31.054

Kevin Lowe: Both of them finally kind of said enough is enough. And they got me into a different doctor.

00:04:31.594 --> 00:04:36.474

Kevin Lowe: And that's when the ball started rolling. And so while life,

00:04:36.754 --> 00:04:43.954

Kevin Lowe: as I said, was going great at school and with my friends, I got the results of an MRI back.

00:04:44.254 --> 00:04:46.334

Kevin Lowe: And those results changed everything.

00:04:47.034 --> 00:04:49.034

Kevin Lowe: We found out that I had a brain tumor.

00:04:50.174 --> 00:04:54.134

Kevin Lowe: Now, thankfully, the type of brain tumor I had was non-cancerous,

00:04:54.274 --> 00:04:59.454

Kevin Lowe: but it was large. They compared it to the size of a plum, basically right in

00:04:59.454 --> 00:05:04.994

Kevin Lowe: the center of my head, and they literally gave me six months to live if this tumor wasn't removed.

00:05:05.554 --> 00:05:10.194

Kevin Lowe: It had completely encased the pituitary gland, was in the crosshairs of the

00:05:10.194 --> 00:05:13.714

Kevin Lowe: optic nerve, and had begun pressing against the carotid artery.

00:05:14.695 --> 00:05:22.195

Kevin Lowe: And so as devastating and scary as this news was, the leading pediatric neurosurgeon

00:05:22.195 --> 00:05:25.455

Kevin Lowe: was literally an hour from my home over in Orlando, Florida.

00:05:25.635 --> 00:05:29.295

Kevin Lowe: He was the leading doctor in the entire country. His name is Dr.

00:05:29.475 --> 00:05:31.875

Kevin Lowe: Eric Trumbull. He is my hero today.

00:05:32.535 --> 00:05:35.595

Kevin Lowe: And he assured us everything was going to be perfectly fine.

00:05:35.595 --> 00:05:37.575

Kevin Lowe: He's like, I do these surgeries all the time.

00:05:37.995 --> 00:05:44.415

Kevin Lowe: And so sure enough, I went into surgery October 28, 2003, with that very mindset.

00:05:45.455 --> 00:05:49.375

Kevin Lowe: I knew I was going to be out of school for about a month. Doctor told me I had

00:05:49.375 --> 00:05:53.135

Kevin Lowe: to stay off of my four-wheeler for six months, which I thought was a little

00:05:53.135 --> 00:05:55.575

Kevin Lowe: bit unreasonable, but I was willing to work with him.

00:05:56.575 --> 00:06:01.375

Kevin Lowe: And anyways, that was my mindset. It was a speed bump that was happening in my life.

00:06:01.555 --> 00:06:09.455

Kevin Lowe: And instead, that day marked the end of a life as I knew it and the beginning of a new life.

00:06:09.655 --> 00:06:14.255

Kevin Lowe: And that is because I came out of that surgery to be left completely blind.

00:06:15.135 --> 00:06:19.975

Reginald D: Wow. Wow. Did they say that was one of the risks doing the surgery?

00:06:20.755 --> 00:06:25.575

Kevin Lowe: Yeah. So when we met with the doctor the first time and we went over the surgery

00:06:25.575 --> 00:06:28.475

Kevin Lowe: that we were going to have and the type of surgery,

00:06:28.635 --> 00:06:31.855

Kevin Lowe: they literally the tumor was so large that they were literally going to have

00:06:31.855 --> 00:06:37.635

Kevin Lowe: to cut my skull basically and kind of like remove the front quadrant of my skull

00:06:37.635 --> 00:06:41.435

Kevin Lowe: and kind of lift up the brain and get to this tumor.

00:06:41.435 --> 00:06:45.435

Kevin Lowe: And so there were all kind of crazy risks involved.

00:06:47.315 --> 00:06:52.795

Kevin Lowe: But ironically, looking back now, it's very ironic because the one that stood

00:06:52.795 --> 00:06:58.095

Kevin Lowe: out the most to me was the very last thing the doctor said, is he said that

00:06:58.095 --> 00:07:00.515

Kevin Lowe: there's a 1% possibility of going blind.

00:07:01.755 --> 00:07:04.815

Kevin Lowe: It was the last thing he said.

00:07:05.835 --> 00:07:10.815

Kevin Lowe: And it was not even in the equation. No one even thought of it.

00:07:10.815 --> 00:07:16.795

Kevin Lowe: It was a 1% possibility, and yet I was the 1%.

00:07:16.795 --> 00:07:22.195

Reginald D: Wow. Wow. Man, you are a remarkable man.

00:07:24.335 --> 00:07:27.795

Reginald D: Things like that, man. That's got to be a lot to deal with, man.

00:07:27.915 --> 00:07:31.575

Reginald D: You think about you going in to get one thing done, trying to get your life

00:07:31.575 --> 00:07:35.055

Reginald D: saved, and then the next thing you know, you come out and then you're blind.

00:07:35.255 --> 00:07:36.355

Reginald D: It's like, man, that's tough.

00:07:37.300 --> 00:07:44.760

Kevin Lowe: Yeah, it, it, it, um, without a shadow of doubt has been the closest thing to

00:07:44.760 --> 00:07:46.360

Kevin Lowe: what I would call hell on earth.

00:07:46.620 --> 00:07:52.880

Kevin Lowe: Um, because when I, you know, say that I became blind, I, I became completely blind.

00:07:53.080 --> 00:07:57.860

Kevin Lowe: Now, I didn't know this before going blind that most people who are blind,

00:07:57.880 --> 00:08:02.480

Kevin Lowe: they still have some degree of sight, some degree of light perception where

00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:06.060

Kevin Lowe: again, I was that 1% where I became completely blind.

00:08:06.460 --> 00:08:11.540

Kevin Lowe: But the fact is that on top of that, I had to deal with this,

00:08:11.880 --> 00:08:17.680

Kevin Lowe: all these other medical issues that I still deal with today because of the brain

00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:19.940

Kevin Lowe: tumor killing off the pituitary gland.

00:08:20.100 --> 00:08:24.160

Kevin Lowe: And so the pituitary controls all of your body's hormones.

00:08:24.400 --> 00:08:31.140

Kevin Lowe: And so now my body, I have to rely on medications to replace what the brain,

00:08:31.540 --> 00:08:34.940

Kevin Lowe: the body should be doing naturally, Which I always say, I mean,

00:08:35.020 --> 00:08:36.080

Kevin Lowe: thank goodness for medicines.

00:08:36.420 --> 00:08:41.820

Kevin Lowe: But the truth is, I mean, they are a poor alternative to what God designed us to do naturally.

00:08:41.820 --> 00:08:50.020

Kevin Lowe: And so as the years would go on, and especially many years later and where I sit today,

00:08:50.420 --> 00:08:55.900

Kevin Lowe: I can actually tell you that in terms of a quote like disability,

00:08:55.900 --> 00:09:01.800

Kevin Lowe: I've actually come to understand that being labeled as a panhypo pit,

00:09:02.180 --> 00:09:07.240

Kevin Lowe: having no pituitary function is actually a far greater disability than even being blind.

00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:11.140

Kevin Lowe: A lot of people can't believe that. They don't realize it.

00:09:11.260 --> 00:09:17.420

Kevin Lowe: But I say, I'm like, as much as becoming blind has been absolutely horrible,

00:09:17.420 --> 00:09:21.780

Kevin Lowe: I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

00:09:21.980 --> 00:09:24.680

Kevin Lowe: It has stolen so much from me.

00:09:26.060 --> 00:09:31.300

Kevin Lowe: At the same time, I have tools that I can overcome it.

00:09:32.220 --> 00:09:35.820

Kevin Lowe: As opposed to the other medical issue. You know, I always say,

00:09:35.940 --> 00:09:38.940

Kevin Lowe: I mean, when I wake up one day and

00:09:38.940 --> 00:09:43.520

Kevin Lowe: my body has zero energy, it's all the effort I can do to lift up my arm.

00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:47.380

Kevin Lowe: There's nothing you can do to overcome that, but just to wait it out.

00:09:47.860 --> 00:09:52.520

Kevin Lowe: And so that is another aspect that I came out of that surgery with,

00:09:52.520 --> 00:09:58.360

Kevin Lowe: with not only becoming blind, but with this other new medical issue that we

00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:01.200

Kevin Lowe: had no idea the impact it would have on my life.

00:10:02.911 --> 00:10:06.411

Reginald D: Wow, that's incredible, because out of all things you've been through and all

00:10:06.411 --> 00:10:12.431

Reginald D: things you go through, you know, you kept pushing and you started the great

00:10:12.431 --> 00:10:15.551

Reginald D: grace and inspiration of podcasts. Can you tell us a little bit about that?

00:10:16.411 --> 00:10:21.451

Kevin Lowe: Yeah, yeah. So the podcast podcast came a long time later. You know,

00:10:21.571 --> 00:10:27.051

Kevin Lowe: for the first 10 years after becoming blind, I say that was a period of learning

00:10:27.051 --> 00:10:29.991

Kevin Lowe: how to love life again, even though I couldn't see it.

00:10:30.511 --> 00:10:35.651

Kevin Lowe: And so I did go back to school for the start of my senior year.

00:10:35.651 --> 00:10:38.771

Kevin Lowe: So I was out of school the entire rest of my junior year.

00:10:38.991 --> 00:10:43.811

Kevin Lowe: I made it back to school for the start of my senior year, in which I only went

00:10:43.811 --> 00:10:48.051

Kevin Lowe: to school just for one class a day. And then the rest I did at home.

00:10:48.231 --> 00:10:51.411

Kevin Lowe: My mom would drop me off at my Nana and Papa's every morning.

00:10:51.771 --> 00:10:55.951

Kevin Lowe: And I had teachers who came, who taught me my school subjects,

00:10:55.991 --> 00:10:59.791

Kevin Lowe: who taught me how to do what I called at the time blind stuff.

00:10:59.991 --> 00:11:04.371

Kevin Lowe: Which I wasn't too enthused about, like learning Braille and how to use a talking

00:11:04.371 --> 00:11:05.971

Kevin Lowe: computer and all this stuff.

00:11:06.271 --> 00:11:11.711

Kevin Lowe: And so I ended up, though, I still graduated with my class.

00:11:11.751 --> 00:11:18.771

Kevin Lowe: That was a huge goal that for some reason, which now I can only know that it

00:11:18.771 --> 00:11:21.031

Kevin Lowe: was God who instilled that goal in me.

00:11:21.131 --> 00:11:25.711

Kevin Lowe: Because as I said, I was a kid who would rather be sick with the flu than go to school.

00:11:25.891 --> 00:11:31.411

Kevin Lowe: And yet now I go blind. I'm doing all this stuff. And yet the one thing I keep

00:11:31.411 --> 00:11:33.991

Kevin Lowe: saying is I just want to be able to graduate with my class.

00:11:34.671 --> 00:11:39.731

Kevin Lowe: And so I did. I graduated with my class in 2005. And I.

00:11:40.388 --> 00:11:43.848

Kevin Lowe: Then, like I said, that was, you know, basically a year later,

00:11:44.068 --> 00:11:51.648

Kevin Lowe: go through the next nine years of literally just both surviving through so many

00:11:51.648 --> 00:11:54.368

Kevin Lowe: different medical issues that I kept dealing with to, again,

00:11:54.808 --> 00:11:57.848

Kevin Lowe: learning how to love this life again, even though I couldn't see it.

00:11:57.848 --> 00:12:01.728

Kevin Lowe: And it took a really, really long time.

00:12:02.068 --> 00:12:07.168

Kevin Lowe: Up until, honestly, about 2013, so basically 10 years later,

00:12:07.508 --> 00:12:13.228

Kevin Lowe: I had finally gotten an internship. Well, I'll back up real quick.

00:12:13.388 --> 00:12:17.848

Kevin Lowe: I got signed up with a program through our local Center for the Visually Impaired,

00:12:18.048 --> 00:12:21.428

Kevin Lowe: CVI, and they did a job readiness program.

00:12:21.628 --> 00:12:25.908

Kevin Lowe: And at the end of this little three-month-long program, they would set you up

00:12:25.908 --> 00:12:27.948

Kevin Lowe: with an internship wherever you wanted.

00:12:28.268 --> 00:12:33.668

Kevin Lowe: And so the two areas that I was interested at the time were travel and radio.

00:12:33.988 --> 00:12:39.248

Kevin Lowe: And so lo and behold, I literally did an internship on our local AM radio station.

00:12:39.508 --> 00:12:42.448

Kevin Lowe: And then I also interned at a local travel agency.

00:12:42.988 --> 00:12:47.748

Kevin Lowe: At the end of those internships, neither one was willing to hire me.

00:12:47.848 --> 00:12:52.748

Kevin Lowe: And so I was kind of back to square one until I learned about,

00:12:52.948 --> 00:12:55.108

Kevin Lowe: hey, you know what? I can start my own business.

00:12:55.328 --> 00:13:00.328

Kevin Lowe: And so I opened the doors to Better Days Travel in January 2013.

00:13:01.268 --> 00:13:06.748

Kevin Lowe: And I would run and operate a travel agency, booking everything from cruises

00:13:06.748 --> 00:13:12.968

Kevin Lowe: to honeymoons to, you know, to all-inclusive resorts to all kinds of amazing trips for people.

00:13:13.108 --> 00:13:16.908

Kevin Lowe: I did that for the next seven years up until 2020.

00:13:17.448 --> 00:13:22.628

Kevin Lowe: And of course, we all know what happened in 2020, which was not so great for travel.

00:13:22.628 --> 00:13:27.968

Kevin Lowe: And so when we were in the midst of 2020, height of the pandemic,

00:13:28.328 --> 00:13:32.768

Kevin Lowe: my travel agency had all but had every trip on the books canceled,

00:13:33.308 --> 00:13:36.868

Kevin Lowe: literally was going to be my best year ever turned to the worst year ever.

00:13:37.552 --> 00:13:44.892

Kevin Lowe: And we're sitting at home in quarantine, and I decide to start a YouTube channel,

00:13:45.172 --> 00:13:49.872

Kevin Lowe: something I had been thinking about for a long time. And so I got excited. This is my opportunity.

00:13:50.252 --> 00:13:54.652

Kevin Lowe: I start ordering stuff off of Amazon, and then it hit me one day.

00:13:54.652 --> 00:13:57.772

Kevin Lowe: It was literally like the light bulb moment.

00:13:57.952 --> 00:14:01.572

Kevin Lowe: The light bulb finally lit off for the blind guy. And it was,

00:14:01.732 --> 00:14:07.352

Kevin Lowe: if you don't have somebody here to film you, you're not going to be able to do this by yourself.

00:14:08.112 --> 00:14:13.532

Kevin Lowe: And if there's one thing I've learned is that the less you can rely on others, the better off you are.

00:14:14.072 --> 00:14:18.252

Kevin Lowe: And so I realized at that moment, I was like, why didn't I think about this

00:14:18.252 --> 00:14:20.752

Kevin Lowe: before I started ordering all this equipment?

00:14:21.032 --> 00:14:24.532

Kevin Lowe: I mean, I can't do this on my own. I have to have somebody here.

00:14:25.132 --> 00:14:29.092

Kevin Lowe: And so that's when my sister said, well, why don't you do a podcast?

00:14:29.992 --> 00:14:33.172

Kevin Lowe: And my response, of course, was what the heck is a podcast?

00:14:34.412 --> 00:14:38.232

Kevin Lowe: And lo and behold, I start listening to podcasts. And then I start listening

00:14:38.232 --> 00:14:40.072

Kevin Lowe: to podcasts about how to start a podcast.

00:14:40.832 --> 00:14:44.852

Kevin Lowe: And I'm like, oh, my gosh. I'm like, I found my jam. I'm like the world of audio.

00:14:45.092 --> 00:14:49.092

Kevin Lowe: I'm like, God designed me for podcasting, the world of audio.

00:14:49.352 --> 00:14:55.292

Kevin Lowe: And so I dove in headfirst. And the podcast, if you go all the way back to episode

00:14:55.292 --> 00:14:58.412

Kevin Lowe: one, which I would encourage you not to do because it sounds terrible.

00:14:58.412 --> 00:15:01.512

Kevin Lowe: It was actually called at the time it was

00:15:01.512 --> 00:15:06.292

Kevin Lowe: the lowdown on life and travel so the lowdown a little play on my last name

00:15:06.292 --> 00:15:11.492

Kevin Lowe: of low and so i talked about travel because at the time i still thought i was

00:15:11.492 --> 00:15:16.252

Kevin Lowe: going to be a travel agent and so i was talking about travel i started interviewing

00:15:16.252 --> 00:15:21.272

Kevin Lowe: different suppliers with the different you know cruise companies and tour agencies and,

00:15:21.763 --> 00:15:25.823

Kevin Lowe: And then, you know, man, I always say that the podcast, I mean,

00:15:25.903 --> 00:15:27.743

Kevin Lowe: it was rough starting out.

00:15:27.883 --> 00:15:31.303

Kevin Lowe: I mean, it's way more work than anybody can imagine doing a podcast.

00:15:31.623 --> 00:15:37.803

Kevin Lowe: And yet, all of a sudden, I realized the podcast was kind of taking over my life.

00:15:38.243 --> 00:15:44.863

Kevin Lowe: I was starting to get into interviews with people not about travel, but about just life.

00:15:45.083 --> 00:15:47.663

Kevin Lowe: And I was realizing that I was loving it.

00:15:48.243 --> 00:15:54.223

Kevin Lowe: And I can remember so distinctly, so many times being in the midst of an interview

00:15:54.223 --> 00:15:57.883

Kevin Lowe: and literally just saying a prayer right then.

00:15:58.483 --> 00:16:03.083

Kevin Lowe: Silently thanking God for putting me right here and saying, God,

00:16:03.223 --> 00:16:04.603

Kevin Lowe: I don't know where this is going.

00:16:04.603 --> 00:16:08.263

Kevin Lowe: I don't know where it's leading, what you want, but I know it feels right.

00:16:08.263 --> 00:16:10.123

Kevin Lowe: And I thank you for putting me here.

00:16:10.683 --> 00:16:15.643

Kevin Lowe: And so sure enough, I never went back into travel. I didn't know what I was

00:16:15.643 --> 00:16:20.043

Kevin Lowe: going to do to make money, but I knew the podcasting thing was where I wanted to go.

00:16:20.263 --> 00:16:27.283

Kevin Lowe: And so two rebrands later, so we went from the lowdown on life and travel to

00:16:27.283 --> 00:16:29.243

Kevin Lowe: then the lowdown with Kevin Lowe.

00:16:29.483 --> 00:16:33.443

Kevin Lowe: And then finally to what it is today of grit, grace, and inspiration.

00:16:34.123 --> 00:16:38.783

Kevin Lowe: And I mean, this year is five years that I've been doing it, which is crazy.

00:16:39.103 --> 00:16:45.083

Kevin Lowe: And I love it, man. And the podcast has been probably one of the greatest things

00:16:45.083 --> 00:16:50.483

Kevin Lowe: that's ever happened to me for the simple fact that I've learned in life that

00:16:50.483 --> 00:16:55.223

Kevin Lowe: some of the greatest things that we can ever do are the experiences we have

00:16:55.223 --> 00:16:57.123

Kevin Lowe: and the relationships we create.

00:16:57.843 --> 00:17:02.783

Kevin Lowe: And getting to sit down on a podcast and interview somebody from on the other

00:17:02.783 --> 00:17:07.183

Kevin Lowe: side of the world, I get to check off both those boxes. I get to meet somebody

00:17:07.183 --> 00:17:10.163

Kevin Lowe: and I get to have an experience at the same time.

00:17:10.743 --> 00:17:13.943

Reginald D: That's awesome because when you know something is real and it's from God,

00:17:14.443 --> 00:17:19.083

Reginald D: sometimes he always shifts you to another direction, just like he did with you on the podcast.

00:17:19.343 --> 00:17:22.723

Reginald D: You went in and was talking about one thing, just sort of shifting.

00:17:23.003 --> 00:17:26.263

Reginald D: It wasn't because of you, it was because God had his hands on you.

00:17:26.363 --> 00:17:27.643

Reginald D: And that's very amazing.

00:17:28.263 --> 00:17:31.503

Reginald D: So what pushed you to become a motivational voice to the world?

00:17:33.323 --> 00:17:37.923

Kevin Lowe: So, again, I'm trying to figure out what I want to do, you know,

00:17:38.043 --> 00:17:42.183

Kevin Lowe: as far as work, trying to make money, you know, in relation to the podcast.

00:17:42.183 --> 00:17:45.943

Kevin Lowe: And so I got into coaching, doing life coaching.

00:17:46.043 --> 00:17:49.443

Kevin Lowe: And so I was doing that for a while. I still do that on occasion.

00:17:50.462 --> 00:17:57.142

Kevin Lowe: But really, man, my desire, I mean, I want to help people, but I want to just inspire people.

00:17:57.282 --> 00:18:00.642

Kevin Lowe: I love to light people up. I love to get people excited about life.

00:18:00.842 --> 00:18:06.842

Kevin Lowe: I love to just get people motivated in this way of overcoming their own challenges

00:18:06.842 --> 00:18:10.002

Kevin Lowe: and, you know, turning those obstacles into opportunities.

00:18:10.002 --> 00:18:14.842

Kevin Lowe: And so somebody finally said, they're like, Kevin, you should really start getting

00:18:14.842 --> 00:18:20.062

Kevin Lowe: into doing more public speaking. And that's what led me into this realm of,

00:18:20.062 --> 00:18:23.962

Kevin Lowe: you know, inspirational and motivational public speaking is through that.

00:18:24.162 --> 00:18:26.642

Kevin Lowe: Again, another just kind of natural progression.

00:18:26.962 --> 00:18:31.762

Kevin Lowe: As I said, man, I didn't know where this journey was going to take me.

00:18:31.922 --> 00:18:35.422

Kevin Lowe: I honestly still don't know where exactly I'm supposed to end up.

00:18:35.722 --> 00:18:41.322

Kevin Lowe: But I realized that when you know you're on the right path in life is when it

00:18:41.322 --> 00:18:47.902

Kevin Lowe: just feels effortless. I said, you know, my seven years as a travel agent, man, I worked it.

00:18:48.122 --> 00:18:51.082

Kevin Lowe: I mean, I loved it, but I worked it.

00:18:51.422 --> 00:18:54.962

Kevin Lowe: And it was constantly paddling upstream.

00:18:55.522 --> 00:19:00.222

Kevin Lowe: When I started this podcast and started getting into coaching and the public

00:19:00.222 --> 00:19:05.082

Kevin Lowe: speaking, the stream has felt effortless. I've been going downstream.

00:19:05.662 --> 00:19:09.662

Kevin Lowe: I'm just literally not paddling. I'm floating on my back going down the stream.

00:19:09.662 --> 00:19:13.282

Kevin Lowe: I'm not sure where the heck it's leading, but I know it feels right.

00:19:13.282 --> 00:19:17.562

Kevin Lowe: So I know I'm just going to keep on following it and trusting God that he's

00:19:17.562 --> 00:19:20.622

Kevin Lowe: taking me to somewhere that he knows I need to be.

00:19:21.082 --> 00:19:26.042

Reginald D: You hit that right on the head. So how did you develop the mindset to keep pushing

00:19:26.042 --> 00:19:27.542

Reginald D: forward despite your obstacles?

00:19:27.762 --> 00:19:31.062

Reginald D: Because for you to be doing all the stuff you're doing and the circumstances

00:19:31.062 --> 00:19:34.962

Reginald D: that you went through and you keep pushing, man, it's crazy to me.

00:19:35.082 --> 00:19:36.182

Reginald D: It's amazing. It's amazing.

00:19:36.698 --> 00:19:43.018

Kevin Lowe: Um, you know, I, I would love to, to, maybe I would love to say,

00:19:43.138 --> 00:19:46.558

Kevin Lowe: you know, that, you know, oh man, it's just cause I did this and that I'm,

00:19:46.638 --> 00:19:48.158

Kevin Lowe: you know, I, I'm so great.

00:19:48.438 --> 00:19:55.758

Kevin Lowe: The honest truth is, is God 110% is that I believe in all my heart that God

00:19:55.758 --> 00:20:01.578

Kevin Lowe: designed me to be a person because he knew what was going to happen when I turned 17.

00:20:02.178 --> 00:20:09.578

Kevin Lowe: He blessed me with a natural glass half full, if not overflowing type personality.

00:20:10.218 --> 00:20:14.538

Kevin Lowe: His hands were at work from the beginning because he knew what was going to

00:20:14.538 --> 00:20:16.998

Kevin Lowe: happen on October 28th, 2003.

00:20:17.518 --> 00:20:22.658

Kevin Lowe: And he knew that I would be a person who would be able to take what happened

00:20:22.658 --> 00:20:28.978

Kevin Lowe: to me and use it for good and give him all the glory and use this as a testimony

00:20:28.978 --> 00:20:31.458

Kevin Lowe: to hopefully touch other people's lives.

00:20:31.578 --> 00:20:38.018

Kevin Lowe: And so that's how I've been able to do it, is a combination of the fact of just

00:20:38.018 --> 00:20:40.778

Kevin Lowe: the person that God made me to be, and then,

00:20:40.938 --> 00:20:45.078

Kevin Lowe: of course, leaning on the two pillars of my life that have gotten me through

00:20:45.078 --> 00:20:47.258

Kevin Lowe: the darkest moments over the past,

00:20:47.478 --> 00:20:49.618

Kevin Lowe: oh, gosh, what has it been,

00:20:49.978 --> 00:20:53.418

Kevin Lowe: coming up on 22 years, has been my faith in my family.

00:20:54.358 --> 00:21:01.118

Kevin Lowe: I always say that after I went blind, I would lay in bed every single night,

00:21:01.158 --> 00:21:05.498

Kevin Lowe: and I would cry myself to sleep, sobbing into my pillow,

00:21:06.118 --> 00:21:12.498

Kevin Lowe: begging, pleading, screaming at God to please just stop this,

00:21:12.658 --> 00:21:15.398

Kevin Lowe: to please let me wake up and be able to see again.

00:21:16.398 --> 00:21:21.398

Kevin Lowe: And yet every morning I'd wake up and I'd see the same thing that I did when my eyes were closed.

00:21:23.878 --> 00:21:31.338

Kevin Lowe: And I can tell you that I would also pray at times that I just wish God would

00:21:31.338 --> 00:21:36.018

Kevin Lowe: give me the courage, the strength to just kill myself.

00:21:36.458 --> 00:21:40.078

Kevin Lowe: Because I knew if I was in heaven, I'd be able to see again and all this would be gone.

00:21:41.378 --> 00:21:44.478

Kevin Lowe: But it never went further than just that prayer.

00:21:45.458 --> 00:21:48.698

Kevin Lowe: Because then, of course, my mind would always turn to my family.

00:21:49.338 --> 00:21:52.538

Kevin Lowe: I think about my mom and my dad and my sister, my grandparents,

00:21:52.578 --> 00:21:54.898

Kevin Lowe: and they were struggling too.

00:21:55.038 --> 00:21:58.578

Kevin Lowe: I always say what happened to me didn't just happen to me. It happened to an entire family.

00:21:59.198 --> 00:22:03.518

Kevin Lowe: And if I was to kill myself, what would that do to them?

00:22:04.218 --> 00:22:09.998

Kevin Lowe: And so I always say that it's through my faith and because of my family that I'm here today.

00:22:11.078 --> 00:22:14.958

Reginald D: Yeah, I can tell that faith played a major role in your journey.

00:22:16.110 --> 00:22:16.590

Kevin Lowe: Yes.

00:22:17.030 --> 00:22:21.510

Reginald D: So let me ask you this, Kevin. What advice would you give someone that's struggling

00:22:21.510 --> 00:22:23.050

Reginald D: with unexpected life changes?

00:22:23.230 --> 00:22:25.990

Reginald D: You know, it's something bad just happened out of the blue and they weren't

00:22:25.990 --> 00:22:27.830

Reginald D: expecting it. And then they're trying to deal with it.

00:22:28.270 --> 00:22:33.090

Kevin Lowe: I say the first thing and the most important thing is to give yourself grace,

00:22:33.090 --> 00:22:34.590

Kevin Lowe: to give yourself a break.

00:22:35.030 --> 00:22:38.730

Kevin Lowe: You're going to have people around you who are going to have their own opinions

00:22:38.730 --> 00:22:44.190

Kevin Lowe: and thoughts on what you should be doing, where you should be at in your journey.

00:22:44.190 --> 00:22:48.970

Kevin Lowe: But the fact is true is the only person who really knows is you.

00:22:49.310 --> 00:22:54.810

Kevin Lowe: And so I would encourage you to just give yourself a break and to let yourself

00:22:54.810 --> 00:22:57.710

Kevin Lowe: understand that what I've just gone through is a lot.

00:22:57.890 --> 00:23:01.330

Kevin Lowe: And it's okay to be sad. It's okay to be upset.

00:23:01.630 --> 00:23:07.110

Kevin Lowe: It's okay to not be out into the world pushing forward, making all these other

00:23:07.110 --> 00:23:10.990

Kevin Lowe: people's expectations come true. No, it's just up to you.

00:23:12.450 --> 00:23:18.170

Kevin Lowe: But realize that at some point in time, you're going to come to a point when

00:23:18.170 --> 00:23:19.330

Kevin Lowe: you're ready to move forward.

00:23:19.770 --> 00:23:27.570

Kevin Lowe: And so depending upon, of course, what the obstacle is, is don't hesitate to reach out to get help.

00:23:27.990 --> 00:23:33.670

Kevin Lowe: And sometimes, honestly, the best help you can get is just from the people you're closest with.

00:23:34.010 --> 00:23:38.350

Kevin Lowe: I mean, yeah, the experts, they're great. They help, but your family,

00:23:38.490 --> 00:23:42.910

Kevin Lowe: your friends, the people who you can just lean on for that moral support,

00:23:42.910 --> 00:23:45.150

Kevin Lowe: they're the people who truly matter.

00:23:45.390 --> 00:23:49.930

Kevin Lowe: And so if you can find that support system, you're going to be that much better

00:23:49.930 --> 00:23:51.930

Kevin Lowe: off as you continue on the journey.

00:23:52.830 --> 00:23:56.990

Reginald D: Absolutely. When you have tough days, what keeps you motivated to show up and

00:23:56.990 --> 00:23:58.390

Reginald D: continue to inspire others?

00:23:58.390 --> 00:24:04.810

Kevin Lowe: My biggest thing, honestly, is my dream for...

00:24:06.631 --> 00:24:12.991

Kevin Lowe: For something more, for something bigger. I'm constantly chasing after wanting

00:24:12.991 --> 00:24:14.871

Kevin Lowe: to make a bigger impact in the world.

00:24:15.131 --> 00:24:20.791

Kevin Lowe: You know, I know without a shadow of a doubt that what happened to me happened for a reason.

00:24:21.551 --> 00:24:28.471

Kevin Lowe: And I want to be sure that when I get to heaven, that God can look at me and

00:24:28.471 --> 00:24:30.471

Kevin Lowe: pat me on the shoulder and say, Kevin, you did it.

00:24:30.911 --> 00:24:35.491

Kevin Lowe: You did exactly what I wanted you to do with what happened to you.

00:24:36.031 --> 00:24:38.691

Kevin Lowe: And so for me, that's what it is, man.

00:24:38.911 --> 00:24:44.571

Kevin Lowe: I just, I look at the world we live in today, and I look at all the people who

00:24:44.571 --> 00:24:49.231

Kevin Lowe: are hurting in one way, shape, or form from so many different things.

00:24:49.871 --> 00:24:56.291

Kevin Lowe: And yeah, look at me. I'm a guy who went blind. I'm a guy who has these complex medical issues.

00:24:57.231 --> 00:25:02.951

Kevin Lowe: And yeah, all I want to do is just to make today a little bit better for someone

00:25:02.951 --> 00:25:07.791

Kevin Lowe: else. If I can make somebody smile or laugh or think about things a little bit

00:25:07.791 --> 00:25:10.031

Kevin Lowe: different, I mean, that's what I want to do.

00:25:10.151 --> 00:25:13.331

Kevin Lowe: And that's honestly, that's just what drives me.

00:25:13.611 --> 00:25:18.411

Kevin Lowe: It gives me fuel in the morning is to wake up and days when maybe I don't feel

00:25:18.411 --> 00:25:19.531

Kevin Lowe: like recording a podcast.

00:25:20.291 --> 00:25:23.611

Kevin Lowe: But I always say, I think about that person on the other side of the world.

00:25:24.852 --> 00:25:29.812

Kevin Lowe: Who I'll never meet and I'll never hear from, yet something I say reaches them,

00:25:29.952 --> 00:25:34.292

Kevin Lowe: and it gives them that little spark to just keep going one more day.

00:25:34.932 --> 00:25:37.252

Kevin Lowe: Like, that's the kind of stuff that drives me forward.

00:25:38.032 --> 00:25:41.692

Reginald D: Yeah, you and I have a lot in common, because at the end of the day,

00:25:41.952 --> 00:25:45.532

Reginald D: out of all the stuff we do and how we try to inspire people,

00:25:46.032 --> 00:25:50.052

Reginald D: when it's all said and done, we just want to hear God say, well done,

00:25:50.152 --> 00:25:51.212

Reginald D: my good and faithful servant.

00:25:51.992 --> 00:25:53.612

Kevin Lowe: Yes, yes. Yes.

00:25:53.752 --> 00:25:55.392

Reginald D: At the end of the day, that's the mission.

00:25:56.572 --> 00:25:57.612

Kevin Lowe: Yes, absolutely.

00:25:58.312 --> 00:26:02.172

Reginald D: So someone's dealing with doubt. You know, a lot of people, you know,

00:26:02.232 --> 00:26:05.392

Reginald D: can't get ahead in life because of doubt.

00:26:05.792 --> 00:26:08.512

Reginald D: What's the one truth you always remind yourself of?

00:26:09.312 --> 00:26:18.632

Kevin Lowe: Oh, man. We are all so much more capable, able, and deserving of,

00:26:18.792 --> 00:26:23.672

Kevin Lowe: I believe, having all that we want in this life. We can doubt that it will ever come true.

00:26:23.972 --> 00:26:27.892

Kevin Lowe: But if we get stuck into living in doubt, then, yeah, you know what?

00:26:27.952 --> 00:26:30.652

Kevin Lowe: We're probably not going to live out our fullest potential.

00:26:30.752 --> 00:26:33.092

Kevin Lowe: We're probably not going to show up as our best.

00:26:33.652 --> 00:26:37.712

Kevin Lowe: Because, I mean, if you think about it, when the team takes the field at the

00:26:37.712 --> 00:26:42.292

Kevin Lowe: Super Bowl, if they have any doubt in their mind that they're going to win,

00:26:43.132 --> 00:26:44.612

Kevin Lowe: no, they're probably not going to win.

00:26:44.732 --> 00:26:48.132

Kevin Lowe: If they're doubting their ability, they're not going to catch the ball.

00:26:48.312 --> 00:26:50.632

Kevin Lowe: They're not going to show up as their best.

00:26:50.932 --> 00:26:56.852

Kevin Lowe: And so I understand that for some people, it's not as easy as it is for me.

00:26:57.092 --> 00:27:00.432

Kevin Lowe: I get I'm a glass half full kind of guy.

00:27:00.692 --> 00:27:04.632

Kevin Lowe: I understand there's people who view it as half empty. It's just part of them.

00:27:04.812 --> 00:27:08.632

Kevin Lowe: And so I understand that they might have to work at it a little bit harder than

00:27:08.632 --> 00:27:14.492

Kevin Lowe: I do to not have doubt in their abilities, not have doubt in something better.

00:27:15.012 --> 00:27:23.472

Kevin Lowe: But for myself, I mean, life is really tough. And if I can't have hope and believe

00:27:23.472 --> 00:27:28.232

Kevin Lowe: that there's something better waiting for me tomorrow, I'm going to have a chance to win.

00:27:29.155 --> 00:27:34.275

Kevin Lowe: Well, then what a sad life that is to live. And so I would encourage anybody

00:27:34.275 --> 00:27:39.575

Kevin Lowe: who's dealing with doubt, who's doubtful of what tomorrow will hold,

00:27:39.955 --> 00:27:43.115

Kevin Lowe: just to try changing up your mindset.

00:27:43.575 --> 00:27:45.395

Kevin Lowe: Try to think of the positive.

00:27:45.995 --> 00:27:50.635

Kevin Lowe: What if? What if it all works out? What if it all comes together?

00:27:51.395 --> 00:27:54.695

Kevin Lowe: And I have to believe at some point it all will.

00:27:55.415 --> 00:27:58.895

Reginald D: It will. It will. And that is so, so true.

00:27:59.155 --> 00:28:03.015

Reginald D: And one thing I love about you, I love the vision that you have.

00:28:03.175 --> 00:28:08.555

Reginald D: You know, some people in the world that has their eyesight, but they're still blind.

00:28:09.335 --> 00:28:09.895

Kevin Lowe: Yes.

00:28:10.295 --> 00:28:15.435

Reginald D: You know, and for you to say, you know, when you end out or you have moments

00:28:15.435 --> 00:28:21.175

Reginald D: of doubt, think about the one chance you have for things to go the right way.

00:28:21.835 --> 00:28:27.095

Reginald D: Yes you know just think about there is a chance that this thing can work but

00:28:27.095 --> 00:28:30.035

Reginald D: you just got to have faith and believe in yourself and believe in god too

00:28:31.355 --> 00:28:33.735

Kevin Lowe: Absolutely absolutely so.

00:28:33.735 --> 00:28:37.755

Reginald D: What's next for kevin lowe getting the upcoming projects or goals you're excited about

00:28:37.755 --> 00:28:44.015

Kevin Lowe: Oh man my my biggest goal right now is honestly to start getting on more stages

00:28:44.015 --> 00:28:48.755

Kevin Lowe: i've been working with an awesome coach helping me with my speaking business

00:28:48.755 --> 00:28:56.495

Kevin Lowe: and so that is my biggest goal right now is obviously podcast continues pumping out episodes.

00:28:56.935 --> 00:29:00.015

Kevin Lowe: I just love that way too much to ever think about stopping.

00:29:00.315 --> 00:29:05.375

Kevin Lowe: But yeah, the biggest goal right now for me is to grow that inspirational speaking

00:29:05.375 --> 00:29:08.755

Kevin Lowe: business, getting on more stages, impacting more lives.

00:29:08.955 --> 00:29:13.995

Kevin Lowe: And honestly, I mean, just getting to live out this life.

00:29:14.655 --> 00:29:20.455

Kevin Lowe: Every year, it's January, we all have big visions and hopes and yeah,

00:29:20.475 --> 00:29:22.375

Kevin Lowe: I'll be the first to tell you, a lot of times,

00:29:22.615 --> 00:29:28.855

Kevin Lowe: come December 31st, yeah, the year didn't go as glorious and amazing as I had

00:29:28.855 --> 00:29:30.435

Kevin Lowe: thought and planned and hoped,

00:29:30.475 --> 00:29:37.635

Kevin Lowe: but again, I have hope and I have a vision for a better tomorrow and so right

00:29:37.635 --> 00:29:40.075

Kevin Lowe: now my plan, my goal is yeah,

00:29:40.375 --> 00:29:44.515

Kevin Lowe: that come the end of 2025, I'm going to be able to look back and say wow,

00:29:44.915 --> 00:29:46.395

Kevin Lowe: that was one heck of a year.

00:29:46.955 --> 00:29:51.055

Reginald D: Yes, absolutely. I like that. That goal, I think you built for it.

00:29:51.895 --> 00:29:53.155

Kevin Lowe: Yeah, thank you.

00:29:53.335 --> 00:29:56.475

Reginald D: Yeah, you are. I was kind of nervous. I thought you was going to tell me you

00:29:56.475 --> 00:29:58.715

Reginald D: were going to drive four-wheelers, but...

00:30:02.155 --> 00:30:05.755

Reginald D: But the goals you got, that's perfect right there. Stay right there.

00:30:08.735 --> 00:30:11.195

Kevin Lowe: Absolutely. Yes, yes. We'll stay off of the four-wheeler.

00:30:14.230 --> 00:30:16.510

Kevin Lowe: Yeah, but Kevin, man.

00:30:17.350 --> 00:30:22.870

Reginald D: God, man, I just, I'm just overwhelmed with you and the way your heart is, man.

00:30:22.950 --> 00:30:25.770

Reginald D: The world needs more people like you. I mean, absolutely, man.

00:30:26.050 --> 00:30:30.370

Reginald D: I mean, if we had more people like you, I mean, what a difference this world would be,

00:30:30.590 --> 00:30:36.630

Kevin Lowe: You know? Oh, man, thank you so much. That means the world to me.

00:30:36.830 --> 00:30:41.230

Kevin Lowe: It just goes back to what we've talked about today is, you know,

00:30:41.410 --> 00:30:45.410

Kevin Lowe: I have to be in some ways, and I know this may sound crazy,

00:30:45.710 --> 00:30:51.750

Kevin Lowe: but grateful that God chose me to be the one, that he chose me to be the one

00:30:51.750 --> 00:30:57.650

Kevin Lowe: to go through all of this, to go through this struggle for the simple fact of

00:30:57.650 --> 00:30:59.510

Kevin Lowe: getting to be a help to somebody else.

00:31:00.230 --> 00:31:05.950

Kevin Lowe: And that's what it's all about to me. It's just being able to light up somebody

00:31:05.950 --> 00:31:09.190

Kevin Lowe: else's day to make their life a little bit easier.

00:31:10.550 --> 00:31:17.130

Reginald D: Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. And I need to ask you this question because I feel

00:31:17.130 --> 00:31:18.490

Reginald D: God pulling me on this one.

00:31:19.450 --> 00:31:26.190

Reginald D: If someone is feeling stuck or unmotivated today, what's one action step that

00:31:26.190 --> 00:31:29.190

Reginald D: they can take right now to shift their mindset?

00:31:30.650 --> 00:31:39.190

Kevin Lowe: Oh, wow. I think the biggest thing is you have to have a bigger vision for what

00:31:39.190 --> 00:31:42.010

Kevin Lowe: you want out of life. Don't think little.

00:31:42.690 --> 00:31:45.530

Kevin Lowe: Don't put any limitations on it.

00:31:45.810 --> 00:31:52.450

Kevin Lowe: But you have to have something big in your mind that gives you a reason to keep going.

00:31:52.910 --> 00:31:55.970

Kevin Lowe: Because if we just going to keep going without any destination,

00:31:55.970 --> 00:31:58.870

Kevin Lowe: I mean, it's kind of like setting off on a road trip.

00:31:58.870 --> 00:32:02.370

Kevin Lowe: You're all packed you got the snacks loaded down the luggage but

00:32:02.370 --> 00:32:06.330

Kevin Lowe: you don't have a clue where you're going where are you gonna go probably nowhere

00:32:06.330 --> 00:32:10.030

Kevin Lowe: you're gonna go in circles well i can't help but feel like it's the same thing

00:32:10.030 --> 00:32:16.710

Kevin Lowe: in life for myself i mean i have a vision i have a vision of me on stages i

00:32:16.710 --> 00:32:22.030

Kevin Lowe: have a vision of me you know in a snowy cabin up in the mountains of colorado.

00:32:22.998 --> 00:32:27.018

Kevin Lowe: All these different little visions that keep me driving forward.

00:32:27.558 --> 00:32:32.638

Kevin Lowe: And I would encourage you for the first and most important step is to get clear

00:32:32.638 --> 00:32:34.038

Kevin Lowe: on what you want out of life.

00:32:34.558 --> 00:32:38.278

Kevin Lowe: Get clear of who you want to be, what you want to be known for.

00:32:38.838 --> 00:32:42.678

Kevin Lowe: Or maybe it's just as simple as, what do you want?

00:32:42.998 --> 00:32:50.258

Kevin Lowe: Is it a bank account that has a few more commas in it? Is it a little bit less stress?

00:32:50.998 --> 00:32:56.098

Kevin Lowe: Whatever it is, get clear on it. Understand that it's possible.

00:32:56.658 --> 00:33:02.398

Kevin Lowe: Maybe it seems far-fetched right now, but I promise you, you're only a couple

00:33:02.398 --> 00:33:04.038

Kevin Lowe: of steps away from making it happen.

00:33:04.418 --> 00:33:06.678

Kevin Lowe: You just have to start moving forward.

00:33:07.338 --> 00:33:13.058

Reginald D: Well said. Well said. So last thing, Kevin, where can the Melissa's connect

00:33:13.058 --> 00:33:15.538

Reginald D: with you and support your work and listen to your podcast?

00:33:16.478 --> 00:33:20.598

Kevin Lowe: Absolutely. So I think the best place to go is head on over to my website,

00:33:20.798 --> 00:33:23.698

Kevin Lowe: which is gritgraceinspiration.com.

00:33:23.978 --> 00:33:29.798

Kevin Lowe: And right there from the website, gritgraceinspiration.com, you can listen to

00:33:29.798 --> 00:33:32.838

Kevin Lowe: my podcast. It comes out every Tuesday and Thursday.

00:33:33.258 --> 00:33:39.178

Kevin Lowe: And you can also get on my email list, which I send out a weekly newsletter

00:33:39.178 --> 00:33:41.778

Kevin Lowe: every Friday called Where Grit Meets Grace.

00:33:41.898 --> 00:33:45.538

Kevin Lowe: So you can sign up for that right there. And like I said, I mean,

00:33:45.678 --> 00:33:49.718

Kevin Lowe: if you're somebody who possibly is part of an organization, association,

00:33:50.018 --> 00:33:54.718

Kevin Lowe: ever looking for speakers, you can find out more information into what I can offer as a speaker.

00:33:55.018 --> 00:33:58.498

Kevin Lowe: So all of it is right there on the website. It's kind of a central hub.

00:33:58.998 --> 00:34:02.358

Reginald D: There you have it. There you have it. Kevin Lowe. Kevin, man,

00:34:02.558 --> 00:34:06.678

Reginald D: I really, really appreciate you taking the time out to get on the podcast with

00:34:06.678 --> 00:34:08.798

Reginald D: me. I really, really admire your story.

00:34:08.958 --> 00:34:13.158

Reginald D: I really admire you as a person you are and the person you are becoming.

00:34:14.618 --> 00:34:18.198

Kevin Lowe: Oh, man, that means so much to me. Thank you so much.

00:34:18.318 --> 00:34:23.338

Kevin Lowe: It has been an absolute joy and pleasure to be here today. You've made my day, man. Thank you.

00:34:23.858 --> 00:34:28.318

Reginald D: Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you for tuning in to Real Talk with Regina D.

00:34:28.638 --> 00:34:34.018

Reginald D: If you enjoyed listening to Real Talk with Regina D, please rate and review on Apple Podcasts.

00:34:34.160 --> 00:34:40.028

<Music>