JJ Virgin on The Mindset That Creates Miracles with Lewis Howes

She said a community survey surprised her: people didn’t blame lack of tactics, but rather feeling “not good enough” or “not worthy.” Her conclusion was that strategies for health (or business, relationships, finances) fail when they’re trying to solve a mindset problem.

She recounted the hospital telling them her son’s survival and recovery odds were extremely low, and her family choosing to focus on the possibility rather than the probability of failure. She framed this as choosing abundance over scarcity: hearing “there’s a chance” instead of “it’s almost impossible.”

She described managing who had access to her son and refusing negative prognoses in the room, while repeatedly telling him he would be “110%.” She later shared that her son said he heard her voice and decided to live.

She said she couldn’t pause her major book launch while her son was in a coma, because the financial consequences would be severe, and she needed resources for his long-term recovery. She described sitting beside him in the hospital doing launch work while staying present for him.

She argued brain healing can continue long after injury and described multiple approaches her son used, including high-dose fish oil, progesterone, neurofeedback, and intrathecal stem cells. She also suggested head injuries may be overlooked and connected to mood and mental health issues.