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236. Branden Collinsworth, Human Performance Coach · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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Speaker 1: In order to understand love, I also have to understand
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Speaker 1: what is not love. The warning label of like going
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Speaker 1: after your mission is once you declare your mission, the
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Speaker 1: entire universe will conspire to help that mission come to life.
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Speaker 1: That means sometimes it'll be challenges. That means sometimes it'll
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Speaker 1: be breakdowns. That means there'll sometimes be struggles. But when
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Speaker 1: we can look at all of those and say thank you,
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Speaker 1: that's when life, I believe, really gets magical. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Hey, everyone, Emily Abodi here.
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Speaker 3: You are listening to episode two thirty six of Hurdle,
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Speaker 3: a Wileness focus podcast. Reconnect with everyone from your favorite
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Speaker 3: athletes to top experts and industry CEOs about their highest hies,
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Speaker 3: toughest moments, and everything in between. We all go through
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Speaker 3: hurdles in life, and my goal through these discussions is
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Speaker 3: to empower you to better navigate yours and move with
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Speaker 3: intention so that you can stride towards your own big
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Speaker 3: potential and of course have some fun along the way.
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Speaker 2: For today's episode.
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Speaker 3: I am elated to bring you my conversation with Brandon Collinsworth.
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Speaker 3: He is, oh my goodness, so many things at the
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Speaker 3: top level. He's a human performance coach, He's also the
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Speaker 3: director of human Performance and Innovation at Core Power Yoga,
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Speaker 3: plus a Nike Global trainer and an all around really.
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Speaker 2: Motivational and inspirational human.
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Speaker 3: I had the good fortune to catch him when he
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Speaker 3: was here in New York City.
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Speaker 2: You want to talk about someone.
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Speaker 3: Who is constantly on the move and very rarely stateside,
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Speaker 3: and this is your guy. Brandon was in town to
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Speaker 3: celebrate the launch of a new program that he developed
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Speaker 3: for Core Power Yoga called Core Power Strength X. And
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Speaker 3: as I sit here recording this, I am just minutes
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Speaker 3: away from heading out to go take my first class and.
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Speaker 2: I cannot wait. But I digress.
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Speaker 3: Let's talk about Brandon, originally from Las Vegas, and today's
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Speaker 3: episode we talk about what it was like for him
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Speaker 3: to grow up, as he puts it, in the streets,
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Speaker 3: navigating poverty and finding movement from an early age, knowing
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Speaker 3: that his movement practice would eventually dramatically transform his life.
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Speaker 3: Brandon talks to us about what it was like to
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Speaker 3: quote unquote get everything he ever wanted, but.
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Speaker 2: Still feel unfulfilled.
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Speaker 3: And unhappy, and the big pivot and risk leap of faith,
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Speaker 3: perhaps so that he took traveling across the world to
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Speaker 3: find himself. He goes on to talk about how he
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Speaker 3: started practicing yoga and the dramatic impact that had on him,
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Speaker 3: eventually leading him to major opportunities both with Nike and
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Speaker 3: as I said at the top of this episode, Core
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Speaker 3: Power Yoga, Brandon is full of so much wisdom, so
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Speaker 3: much goodness. He has made it his life's mission to
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Speaker 3: embody love, something that we talk a lot about in
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Speaker 3: today's episode, and it's safe to say that this man
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Speaker 3: is certainly on the right track.
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Speaker 2: If you're not doing so yet.
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Speaker 2: With that, let's get to hurdling today.
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Speaker 3: I am sitting down with Brendan Collinsworth. He is a
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Speaker 3: human performance coach. She's also the head of human Performance
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Speaker 3: and Innovation at Core Power Yoga and oh my god,
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Speaker 3: I can keep going. A Nike Global trainer, he also
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Speaker 3: recently helped core Power Yoga develop their Core Power Strength
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Speaker 3: X offering the first alluring in ten years.
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Speaker 2: That's new. How are you doing.
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Speaker 1: I'm amazing, blessed to be here in beautiful NYC and
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Speaker 1: so excited to dive deep with you today.
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Speaker 3: A little different than Costa Rica where you flew in
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Speaker 3: from a.
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Speaker 4: Little bit different. Yeah, my skin's like, what's going on?
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Speaker 2: Oh my god? My skins like, what's going on? And
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Speaker 2: I've been here. This cold weather does me no favors whatsoever.
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Speaker 2: How are you feeling?
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Speaker 1: I feel incredibly blessed. Twenty twenty three feels like a
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Speaker 1: sudden ray has just emerged beyond the clouds. And I'm
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Speaker 1: in this thing I call the God Pocket. And the
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Speaker 1: God Pocket is this metaphorical place of concentrated focus where
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Speaker 1: I'm focused on everything that is true to me and
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Speaker 1: fully leaning into my potential and my purpose. I've been
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Speaker 1: in it for about six months and just been leaning
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Speaker 1: into the opportunities that are at hand, especially with this
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Speaker 1: juncture and history, especially where we are in the wellness space,
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Speaker 1: and just all the opportunity that have you know, presented themselves.
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Speaker 2: The God Pocket, it's the God Pocket.
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Speaker 3: Yoh, I love that terminology. That's awesome.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So for someone else he wants to be in
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Speaker 2: the God Pocket?
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Speaker 1: How do they get there?
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Speaker 2: How do they get there?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: So about six months ago, my mother passed away and
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Speaker 1: I needed to focus my energy in a really concentrated way.
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Speaker 1: And I was sitting with a friend and I was like,
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Speaker 1: you know what, the only way I'm going to take
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Speaker 1: all of this pain internet purposeful is to focus on
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Speaker 1: exactly what God, the Universe, my highest self, my purpose
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Speaker 1: has for me. And so I put myself in this
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Speaker 1: space of just concentrating completely on what is true to
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Speaker 1: me and what is aligned with me, and everything else
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Speaker 1: that wasn't in alignment with that to cut out. And
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Speaker 1: that's where I've been for the last six months. And
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Speaker 1: I promise you the seeds that have blossomed in those
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Speaker 1: six months has been absolutely incredible. So I stepped into
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Speaker 1: the God pocket six months ago. In twenty twenty three
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Speaker 1: is my year of the God Pocket as an experiment,
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Speaker 1: just to see what happens if I use this whole
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Speaker 1: year to focus on my goals, my mission, my heart,
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Speaker 1: and my service to see what can blossom from of that.
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Speaker 3: It seems and sounds really beautiful in practice, but hearing
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Speaker 3: you say that, I also recognize that getting to this
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Speaker 3: place where you can choose all of these things that
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Speaker 3: seem good for you can be challenging because we have
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Speaker 3: to then choose to do something which can be difficult,
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Speaker 3: which is walking away from those things that don't serve us.
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Speaker 3: Easier said than done. So, how then, does someone get
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Speaker 3: to the place where they're okay with walking away from
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Speaker 3: the things that don't serve them in favor of leveling
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Speaker 3: up to being in this better for me arena?
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Speaker 4: I love the question, and I love how deep we've
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Speaker 4: dove so quick we're in it.
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Speaker 1: So my therapist once told me that if it is
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Speaker 1: familiar to you, even though it is unhealthy, it might
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Speaker 1: be comfortable. But if it's unfamiliar to you, even though
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Speaker 1: it is healthy, it will be uncomfortable. A lot of times,
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Speaker 1: when we talk about picking up new habits or stepping
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Speaker 1: into new paradigms or stepping into new spaces, if we've
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Speaker 1: never been exposed to say healthy, it might be hard
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Speaker 1: to step into that space, or to adopt a new habit,
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Speaker 1: or step into a new paradigm, or cut that relationship out,
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Speaker 1: or step into a new friend group. I think the
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Speaker 1: key with all growth is to take that first step
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Speaker 1: and that first step usually wakes up what I call
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Speaker 1: big mo this's big momentum, and momentum takes over and
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Speaker 1: as long as we nourish those steps forward, inevitably we're
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Speaker 1: shown the way. Now, for a lot of people stepping
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Speaker 1: into twenty twenty three, they talk about they want to
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Speaker 1: change everything. I always say, like, change one thing. Earlier
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Speaker 1: we were talking about James cleartom habits, like those one
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Speaker 1: things that like making your bed in the morning, or
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Speaker 1: like hiring a therapist, you know, signing up for a
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Speaker 1: training session, or hiring a trainer. These things end up
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Speaker 1: being incredibly powerful momentum shifting things in the long run,
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Speaker 1: as long as we stick with it. So for all
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Speaker 1: those out there who are trying to really, you know,
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Speaker 1: step into a new paradigm, take that first step.
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Speaker 2: Take that first step.
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Speaker 3: So this is a simplistic segue back to you taking
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Speaker 3: your first step into movement, which I know happened long, long,
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Speaker 3: long ago. Talk to us about the catalyst for you
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Speaker 3: learning the importance of movement within your body.
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Speaker 1: All right, we're going down memory lane. We're back back
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Speaker 1: in the day. So I grew up in Las Vegas,
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Speaker 1: east side of Las Vegas, in the projects, and about
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Speaker 1: seven eight years old, I start arted to realize that
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Speaker 1: my body was a mechanism to help me find deeper
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Speaker 1: levels of happiness and joy within myself. In third grade,
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Speaker 1: I had a pe teacher who created this thing called
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Speaker 1: the Jog and Walk Stars, and we had an option
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Speaker 1: every day at lunch we could either play or we
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Speaker 1: could run laps. And the caveat was that if you
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Speaker 1: ran enough laps, you got a pizza party. And you know,
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Speaker 1: as kids, if you get a pizza party, like you're motivated.
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Speaker 1: But she told me one thing. She said that you're
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Speaker 1: inevitably going to come up against a wall. And she
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Speaker 1: said this wall is going to come in the form
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Speaker 1: of a mental block, or it might be this stinging
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Speaker 1: cramp in your stomach. She said, I promise you, if
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Speaker 1: you can push through the wall, there's something on the
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Speaker 1: other side. There's gifts on the other side of that.
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Speaker 1: So I remember about third grade fourth grade, I started
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Speaker 1: to play with the wall and I started to realize
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Speaker 1: that if I pushed hard enough, if I stayed with
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Speaker 1: it long enough, on the other side of the resistance,
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Speaker 1: there were gifts. And that became my intro into movement.
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Speaker 1: When the streets became more prevailing. And I'm fifteen, sixteen
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Speaker 1: years old, and the pull of the streets became so
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Speaker 1: much stronger. One of the things that kept me saying,
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Speaker 1: where when my friends were getting killed, when my friends
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Speaker 1: were becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol, When I'm seeing
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Speaker 1: so many people around me fall short of their dreams.
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Speaker 1: One of the things that kept me rooted and grounded
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Speaker 1: and in my body was my movement practice. So literally,
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Speaker 1: movement and my love for the burn and my love
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Speaker 1: for fitness is what pulled me out of the streets
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Speaker 1: and allowed me to converse and play with the metaphorical
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Speaker 1: resistance points in life to inevitably strengthen my spirit to
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Speaker 1: step into my purpose. And so a lot of people
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Speaker 1: step in the fitness game for esthetics. By default, step
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Speaker 1: in the fitness game because it was the only thing
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Speaker 1: I had for that would keep me alive. There was
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Speaker 1: a powerful tool for me to survive the streets.
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Speaker 3: What did it look like for you at that time?
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Speaker 3: Your movement practice.
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Speaker 1: So when I was in third fourth grade, it was
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Speaker 1: a lot of running. When I was sixteen years old,
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Speaker 1: I found I was over at a friend's house and
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Speaker 1: there was an apartment gym, and we found out that
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Speaker 1: you could get into the apartment gym without being a
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Speaker 1: resident of the apartment. We found the code somehow, and
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Speaker 1: so my first like full on practice of movement that
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Speaker 1: was consistent was I would walk five miles from my
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Speaker 1: apartment building to this other apartment gym almost every day.
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Speaker 1: And this is back when we had a CD player.
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Speaker 1: I was bumping like some old school outcasts or something
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Speaker 1: like that, walking to this apartment gym to you know,
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Speaker 1: work out. And what I started seeing is like I
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Speaker 1: started getting stronger, and then all of a sudden, like
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Speaker 1: I started feeling better. And the next thing you know,
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Speaker 1: people are looking at me and they're like, oh, bro,
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Speaker 1: you kind of swow. Can you teach me how to
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Speaker 1: like move this way? And one thing led to another,
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Speaker 1: and so finally, when I was about nineteen years old,
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Speaker 1: I became a trainer. And it started off with five
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Speaker 1: dollars sessions out of my apartment gym, and five dollar
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Speaker 1: sessions turned into ten years of internships where I'm diving
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Speaker 1: deep into everything human movement, human performance, and I loved it.
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Speaker 1: And it was just such a deep passion and that
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Speaker 1: inevitably carried me out of the streets into the skies
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Speaker 1: and my potential.
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Speaker 3: It's so impressive to hear you talk about this deep
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Speaker 3: rooted passion that you were then able to make and
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Speaker 3: flip into purpose, right, and for you to be able
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Speaker 3: to have such a head on your shoulders to know
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Speaker 3: that you weren't interested in all of the kind of
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Speaker 3: other riff raff that was going on. Did you feel
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Speaker 3: at times though, that you were pulled into that maybe
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Speaker 3: without your own agency at all.
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Speaker 1: There's been a lot of different moments in the space
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Speaker 1: of my career, which is now twenty years. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: two thousand and two is when I started the journey,
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Speaker 1: and growing up in Las Vegas, and being that my
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Speaker 1: career started in Las Vegas, there's so many different spaces
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Speaker 1: to be pulled into. One of the things that I
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Speaker 1: was gifted early on, I was working as a spa
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Speaker 1: tendant at the Wind Hotel, basically taking care of a whole
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Speaker 1: bunch of naked men coming in there, like getting their
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Speaker 1: spas in, like one of their eucalyptus scrubs and all that.
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Speaker 1: This life coach performance coach had so much swagger. His
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Speaker 1: name was Jammelle Davenport, and he came in and at
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Speaker 1: that time, he was one of the biggest human performance
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Speaker 1: slash life coaches in the game, which inevitably inspired me
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Speaker 1: to get my master's performance psychology because I wanted to
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Speaker 1: connect the body and the brain and unify a holistic
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Speaker 1: approach to the training that I was in the protocols
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Speaker 1: that I was teaching. But he told me, he said, listen, Brandon,
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Speaker 1: He's like, if you really want to be successful in
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Speaker 1: this game, you need to live by two things.
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Speaker 4: He said. First, you need to be the example. He said.
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Speaker 1: You got to walk that walk, he said, because what
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Speaker 1: you do behind closed doors will always be seen in public.
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Speaker 1: And that was one of the things that never pulled
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Speaker 1: me into any scenes, and it always kept my heart
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Speaker 1: in the right place, like, how do I serve these
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Speaker 1: people best? Well, I need to serve myself best. I
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Speaker 1: need to be when I'm preaching, and I see in
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Speaker 1: this space, especially the wellness industry, there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: talk embodyment is a different thing. Embodyment is hard and
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Speaker 1: Epitdocus says, you know, don't talk about your philosophy embody it,
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Speaker 1: And I think that's really important. And then the second
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Speaker 1: thing he told me is you can never be afraid
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Speaker 1: to help people become better than you. And that was
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Speaker 1: when I had to sit back for a minute and
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Speaker 1: think about because when you really think about it, like
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Speaker 1: people will help you, but oftentimes they'll help you get
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Speaker 1: to a certain point, but a lot of people wouldn't
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Speaker 1: help you to get so good that they would not
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Speaker 1: need you anymore. And this comes back to this concept
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Speaker 1: of like not giving man fish, but like teaching men
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Speaker 1: to fish, or teaching a person to fish so they
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Speaker 1: can eat for a lifetime. You know, they say you
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Speaker 1: give a man of phish, he eats. Once you teach
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Speaker 1: a man of fish, he eats for a lifetime. And
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Speaker 1: so those two philosophies early on in my career really
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Speaker 1: brought my focus to a place that drowned out the
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Speaker 1: outside noise and allowed me to really focus on the
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Speaker 1: mission of being in service to each and every person
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Speaker 1: that I have an opportunity to touch.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and again, like, kudos to you, because that's just
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Speaker 3: such an impressive outlook, especially when you talk about your beginnings.
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Speaker 3: You also mentioned charging at first five dollars for people
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Speaker 3: to come and work out in your apartment, Jim, not
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Speaker 3: to blow up your spot, but you ended up at
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Speaker 3: U Penn. And so how does someone go from charging
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Speaker 3: five dollars to train people in their apartment gym to
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Speaker 3: then getting to a place where arguably you're so established
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Speaker 3: perhaps that you cannot only make that kind of life jump,
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Speaker 3: but then also maybe even a FOURD that kind of
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Speaker 3: life jump.
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Speaker 1: It's incredible what is possible when the heart is in
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Speaker 1: the right place. Yeah, it's like the universe is always listening,
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Speaker 1: and when we're truly living from a space of intention
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Speaker 1: and truth, doors open up.
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Speaker 4: You know. Penn was a.
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Speaker 1: Beautiful gift that unfolded in a way that I still
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Speaker 1: have to pinch myself at times because it was funny
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Speaker 1: coming from Vecas. I didn't even know Penn was an
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Speaker 1: Ivy League school. So I'm actually at that time, I
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Speaker 1: was interning for three years under a sports psychologist and
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Speaker 1: he was one of the University of Kansas like mindset
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Speaker 1: coaches back when University Kansas basketball was just like killing
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Speaker 1: it and back in the day. And he really introduced
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Speaker 1: me to the world of flow and mell high checks
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Speaker 1: and mill high and like flow states and human performance
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Speaker 1: and like was wild. I would do seventy plus sessions
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Speaker 1: a week under him. I'm talking about sometimes twenty plus
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Speaker 1: sessions in a day, and he would critique each one
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Speaker 1: for three years. And this dude would pay me like
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Speaker 1: ten bucks an hour. He's making so much money off me,
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Speaker 1: but he was teaching me and he drilled me for
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Speaker 1: three years. And then in that space, it opened up
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Speaker 1: a love for psychology, and so I was like, I
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Speaker 1: want to go study performance psychology or positive psychology. At
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Speaker 1: that time, there was only one program and it happened
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Speaker 1: to be like University of Pennsylvania, and me, not knowing
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Speaker 1: that it was IVY League, I'm like, oh, this is
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Speaker 1: like it T Tech, University of Phoenix. I'm just going
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Speaker 1: to apply.
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Speaker 4: And then my buddy was like bro us the IVY Leagues.
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Speaker 1: And so I spent two years on one application to
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Speaker 1: get into UPenn and I knew there was no other
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Speaker 1: colleges at grad schools that I applied to. I spent
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Speaker 1: two years sitting at a Starbucks taking all the GRI
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Speaker 1: courses on this like one program, and I applied. The
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Speaker 1: emissions date went by. I didn't hear from anybody last
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Speaker 1: but not least like a month after they closed the application,
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Speaker 1: somebody dropped out and I got that spot. Wow, that's
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Speaker 1: how I got into pen and so it was like,
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Speaker 1: how did you know that?
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Speaker 2: Did they tell you that they?
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Speaker 1: Like on the back end, it was disclosed that I
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Speaker 1: was gifted that gift. And I think it comes again
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Speaker 1: like the universe always is going to meet us where.
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Speaker 4: We show up.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes we just got to lean in and trust in,
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Speaker 1: put it all on the table and then allow for
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Speaker 1: you know, the universe to get our back fully.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that that is only a concept
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Speaker 3: that over the last couple of years, maybe really the
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Speaker 3: last year that I personally have I've really leaned into
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Speaker 3: it was It's like something as simple as me speaking
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Speaker 3: to my life coach. I said to her, I want
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Speaker 3: to strengthen my relationship with my brother, and she said, well,
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Speaker 3: where's like the common ground? And I talked to her
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Speaker 3: about how we had a history of like we both
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Speaker 3: at one point really liked to CrossFit, and so we
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Speaker 3: used to talk about CrossFit. And I was like, I
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Speaker 3: guess I got to think about what the common ground is.
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Speaker 3: And then out of nowhere, yesterday I wear a woop
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Speaker 3: regularly and my brother texts me and he says.
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Speaker 2: Do I need a whoop?
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Speaker 3: And I'm like, this is literally the universe like conspiring
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Speaker 3: for us to have something like just like low hanging
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Speaker 3: fruit to talk about regularly. And I recently got my
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Speaker 3: dad a woop, so I'm like, you could be in
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Speaker 3: our whoop group, and so he's like, I ordered it,
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Speaker 3: and so it's just it's just funny because it's something
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Speaker 3: so simple, right, It's like, I'm going to think about this.
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Speaker 3: But when I believe that it's twofold, it's you put
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Speaker 3: something out into the universe. And I also believe that
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Speaker 3: you have to be a good persona I think that
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Speaker 3: it is you do good by others and have good
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Speaker 3: intentions in this world, and then these things are going
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Speaker 3: to come back to you and it will work for you.
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Speaker 3: But regardless of if you're a good person or not,
20:02
Speaker 3: there is this baseline that like everything that is happening,
20:05
Speaker 3: whether you may perceive it as good or bad, is
20:07
Speaker 3: happening for you.
20:09
Speaker 4: Yeah.
20:09
Speaker 3: Is that definitely like a principle that you go by
20:11
Speaker 3: as well.
20:12
Speaker 4: Yeah.
20:12
Speaker 1: I mean gratitude on all days for all things in
20:16
Speaker 1: all ways, because it's either a lesson or a blessing.
20:19
Speaker 1: And I think when we meet the universe that way,
20:24
Speaker 1: the universe responds in such a powerful way. One of
20:27
Speaker 1: the quotes I always say I live by is like,
20:30
Speaker 1: stop asking how you can get, and start asking how
20:33
Speaker 1: you can give. Because when we ask how we can give,
20:36
Speaker 1: we're showing the universe, We're showing reality, We're laying down
20:40
Speaker 1: an imprint of abundance, and inevitably it comes back full force.
20:43
Speaker 1: And that's what the streets really taught me. The streets
20:45
Speaker 1: taught me to be grateful. One of the things that
20:48
Speaker 1: I say about my mother, and you know, rest in peace, Mom,
20:51
Speaker 1: is that she was the most grateful person I've ever met.
20:55
Speaker 1: It didn't matter if we didn't have no food, it
20:57
Speaker 1: didn't matter if like the lights were off, it didn't
20:59
Speaker 1: matter if we were like we.
21:01
Speaker 4: Had no heat. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
21:03
Speaker 2: Yeah.
21:03
Speaker 1: And so this was another anchor as I started to
21:06
Speaker 1: like grow and evolve in my career and step into
21:09
Speaker 1: these spaces and places in these more higher echelon circles.
21:15
Speaker 1: The one thing that I see a lack of is gratitude,
21:19
Speaker 1: because so many people are caught up in like what's next.
21:22
Speaker 1: And the one thing that I realized quickly that was
21:24
Speaker 1: a superpower if implemented on a regular basis, is gratitude.
21:28
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's so so special.
21:31
Speaker 3: And what I'm hearing you say here is that gratitude
21:33
Speaker 3: was just really instilled in you from such a young age.
21:37
Speaker 3: And to have that beautiful role model and your mother,
21:39
Speaker 3: despite the struggles maybe that you and your family navigated
21:43
Speaker 3: to come back to gratitude is truly just really it's
21:46
Speaker 3: really special.
21:47
Speaker 4: Yeah.
21:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's the gift that keeps on giving. And
21:50
Speaker 1: this is one of the reasons why Penn was so
21:52
Speaker 1: powerful was when I got there, Martin Seligman's work on
21:55
Speaker 1: gratitude was like becoming internationally known. And essentially they did
22:00
Speaker 1: a research and they found that if you just wrote
22:02
Speaker 1: down three things you're grateful for each day, you're exponentially
22:05
Speaker 1: going to be more happy over time.
22:07
Speaker 4: How easy.
22:08
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what situation you're in, doesn't matter what
22:11
Speaker 1: class you come from. If you can just get caught
22:14
Speaker 1: up in the thank you, everything else opens up.
22:17
Speaker 2: Everything else opens up.
22:18
Speaker 3: Good thing I start every workday if I sit down
22:20
Speaker 3: at this desk, the first thing I do before anything
22:22
Speaker 3: else is write down three things I'm grateful for. Well,
22:25
Speaker 3: bam bam, gid y up. Okay, So Penn transformational.
22:29
Speaker 4: Yeah.
22:30
Speaker 3: Do you know immediately upon finishing at Pen exactly what.
22:34
Speaker 2: You want to do with that education.
22:37
Speaker 1: So I'm at Penn and it was interesting because I
22:40
Speaker 1: was in a program where I would have to fly
22:43
Speaker 1: to Philly for a week a month and then I'd
22:46
Speaker 1: fly back to Vegas and I did that for a
22:47
Speaker 1: year and a half. So in Vegas at that time,
22:50
Speaker 1: I was full force focused on building out a fitness camp.
22:54
Speaker 1: Fitness camp inevitably turned into a chain of four jibs,
22:58
Speaker 1: and this is inevitably what opened up the door for
23:01
Speaker 1: me to start working with Nike. Flashback two thousand and seven,
23:06
Speaker 1: I saw the Secret for the first time, and me
23:10
Speaker 1: and my friend created a vision board based off the
23:11
Speaker 1: Secret and I put the Swoosh up on there and
23:14
Speaker 1: I started reaching out to the Swoosh And for six years,
23:18
Speaker 1: they never spoke to me. And then all of a sudden,
23:21
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, somebody from Nike was in Las Vegas and
23:27
Speaker 1: they asked who was doing innovative stuff in the human
23:30
Speaker 1: performance space and fusing mindset into the workouts. So this
23:33
Speaker 1: is how Penn all of sudden inserts and they came
23:38
Speaker 1: did a workout and that was like my entrance into Nike.
23:42
Speaker 1: And so it wasn't like I had exactly the right
23:48
Speaker 1: direction with how everything was going to play out. I
23:52
Speaker 1: just continue to trust the feeling, continue to trust the vision,
23:56
Speaker 1: continue to trust this quote by Ember that says, there's
24:00
Speaker 1: nothing capricious in nature. The implanting of a desire means
24:04
Speaker 1: that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature
24:07
Speaker 1: that feels knowing that, like, these visions that I've been
24:10
Speaker 1: given are not there to tease me. I have to
24:13
Speaker 1: trust them, and as long as I do the work
24:14
Speaker 1: and show up with heart, They're going to show up somehow.
24:19
Speaker 2: Some way, somehow, some way.
24:22
Speaker 3: It's so funny because that story we were I mean,
24:25
Speaker 3: Joe was on the show recently as well, and we
24:27
Speaker 3: were talking about Joe Holder and how like he ended
24:30
Speaker 3: up at Nike. It's always like someone just happens to
24:32
Speaker 3: be around. It just happens to be someone like stumbles
24:35
Speaker 3: upon you, and it's totally one of those stars align moments.
24:39
Speaker 3: You never know who's listening, who's watching, who you're inspiring,
24:44
Speaker 3: who you're impacting, And it doesn't matter if you know
24:47
Speaker 3: you want to say like, well, no one quote unquote
24:50
Speaker 3: follows me. It doesn't matter. You walk down the hallway,
24:52
Speaker 3: you get in the elevator, and you have the opportunity
24:55
Speaker 3: to impact absolutely anyone. So you have the choice then
24:59
Speaker 3: on how you want to show up the minute that
25:01
Speaker 3: you step out the door, or maybe you don't even
25:03
Speaker 3: need to step out the door, right Like, how do
25:05
Speaker 3: you want to show up? And it goes back to
25:07
Speaker 3: what we were saying before about the concept of like
25:10
Speaker 3: who do you want to be?
25:12
Speaker 2: Who do you want to be? Start there and then
25:15
Speaker 2: act accordingly.
25:16
Speaker 4: That's a that's a bar right there.
25:18
Speaker 3: It's a bar quote quote Bam, you start these four
25:22
Speaker 3: gyms and ultimately someone from Nike finds you. How does
25:28
Speaker 3: that mix things up for you once that happens.
25:31
Speaker 1: So the gyms were an incredible journey. It started with one.
25:35
Speaker 1: One grew to two, two, grew to us opening up
25:39
Speaker 1: a wellness space at Zappo's headquarters in Las Vegas, and
25:43
Speaker 1: it just continued to blossom. And I did a couple
25:47
Speaker 1: of things. One vice is unchecked when success comes, will
25:55
Speaker 1: only bring them right back to the surface. So there's
25:59
Speaker 1: there's a a quote that one of my mentors told me.
26:02
Speaker 1: He says, don't wait to be successful to act successful.
26:05
Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, all the success started coming in,
26:08
Speaker 1: and also it started to really show me where I
26:12
Speaker 1: still needed a lot of deep work. And what that
26:16
Speaker 1: did is it opened up the doors for me to
26:18
Speaker 1: really start to go deeper, which inevitably led me to yoga.
26:23
Speaker 1: So twenty twelve to twenty sixteen, Gym's opened up. Twenty fifteen,
26:29
Speaker 1: we win Business of the Year, Mind Body Bold Business
26:32
Speaker 1: of the Year, twenty fourteen, signed a Nike. Everything is
26:36
Speaker 1: like just blowing up. I'm traveling, I'm training. The life
26:42
Speaker 1: that I once thought, the life that I once dreamed of,
26:46
Speaker 1: is now in the palm of my hands, or I
26:49
Speaker 1: thought that I wanted. And I realized sitting on the
26:54
Speaker 1: balcony of my condo one day in twenty sixteen, that
27:01
Speaker 1: I was still kind of empty inside, Like I spent
27:06
Speaker 1: all these years focusing on building the dream, becoming like
27:10
Speaker 1: this top trainer, working with like the top brands, traveling
27:14
Speaker 1: the world, making money and all that, but I still
27:17
Speaker 1: felt off. And that's what opened the doors up for
27:19
Speaker 1: me to go to Bali and I stepped into a
27:21
Speaker 1: yoga class. And once I stepped into that yoga class,
27:24
Speaker 1: I actually the yoga teacher came up to me after
27:26
Speaker 1: the class and said that I have no idea what's
27:29
Speaker 1: going on on my inside, and that I need to
27:31
Speaker 1: focus in and tune in, and that yoga could be
27:34
Speaker 1: that pathway.
27:34
Speaker 4: And so that was the.
27:37
Speaker 1: Opening for me to step into the yoga space, which
27:41
Speaker 1: inevitably led me to walking away from my gyms and
27:44
Speaker 1: studying abroad and living abroad and traveling to go deeper
27:49
Speaker 1: into that deep desire to find inner wealth rather than
27:53
Speaker 1: outer wealth.
27:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's when you get to that moment when you
28:00
Speaker 3: I have everything I want, but I still feel empty.
28:04
Speaker 3: Can you describe what that realization felt like for you?
28:09
Speaker 2: Was it scary?
28:11
Speaker 1: It was not only scary, it was like it was
28:13
Speaker 1: an existential crisis on.
28:16
Speaker 4: The highest level. All those years.
28:18
Speaker 1: I was told, like, you get this, you get that,
28:21
Speaker 1: and then you're going to be happy. And those are
28:23
Speaker 1: the road maps that all of my vision boards and
28:25
Speaker 1: my dreams and even my visions led me to imagine
28:30
Speaker 1: some kid from the streets now owns one of the
28:32
Speaker 1: top gyms in Vegas. Now he's traveling the world. Now
28:37
Speaker 1: all these things are in play, and I'm sitting on
28:39
Speaker 1: my balcony and I'm just like, I don't feel any
28:43
Speaker 1: different than when I was on the streets. That was
28:45
Speaker 1: a really big aha moment for me that something wasn't right.
28:50
Speaker 1: I remember, in fact, I had about two hundred pairs
28:53
Speaker 1: of nikes at that time, when I used to not
28:55
Speaker 1: even be able TOFD nikes.
28:57
Speaker 4: And so.
29:00
Speaker 1: That moment right there is scary because two things happen,
29:05
Speaker 1: like Young Santiago and the Alchemists as he's working in
29:09
Speaker 1: the crystal shop. You either go on the journey or
29:12
Speaker 1: you don't. And so I took the leap. And in
29:15
Speaker 1: taking the leap, I always say, if I would have
29:18
Speaker 1: known it would have been as hard as it has been,
29:20
Speaker 1: I would never have taken the leap. But I'm so
29:22
Speaker 1: grateful that I took the leap because it was crazy
29:25
Speaker 1: to walk away from societal validation towards something that people
29:30
Speaker 1: had no idea about.
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Speaker 3: to it. I have to ask, because you said that
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32:56
Speaker 3: for you?
32:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, so a lot of you know, growing up in poverty,
33:01
Speaker 1: it's like post traumatic stress the streets. Although it wouldn't
33:05
Speaker 1: never be claimed like that. When we have people who
33:07
Speaker 1: are served in the military, there's a lot of resources,
33:10
Speaker 1: but when you grow up in the streets, it's kind
33:12
Speaker 1: of like, uh, yeah, they should have done better, they
33:14
Speaker 1: should have known better. We're not given mental health tools,
33:19
Speaker 1: we're not given resources. This is why a lot of
33:21
Speaker 1: people slip into drugs and vices and women or whatever
33:25
Speaker 1: that may be. And so me come in full circle
33:29
Speaker 1: and then having money, I realized that there was still
33:32
Speaker 1: deep levels of depression, there were deep levels of anxiety,
33:36
Speaker 1: There were deep levels of me trying to fill wounds
33:39
Speaker 1: through spending a lot of money and not having a
33:41
Speaker 1: healthy relationship with money. There was all types of anxious
33:46
Speaker 1: avoidant attachment styles. There was codependency, there was savior complexes.
33:51
Speaker 1: There was all these things that started surfacing more and
33:54
Speaker 1: more the more quote unquote societally validated.
33:58
Speaker 4: I became.
33:59
Speaker 1: Luckily I had and have the I've always had the
34:07
Speaker 1: deep desire to excavate what doesn't feel right, and so
34:13
Speaker 1: I always say, it's like it took eighteen years for
34:18
Speaker 1: me to become like an overnight healed story, Like it
34:23
Speaker 1: was a lot of excavation, and so all of that
34:26
Speaker 1: stuff came up, and it came up full force, and
34:29
Speaker 1: I had to really sit with it and deal with it.
34:31
Speaker 1: And this is also one of the reasons why when
34:33
Speaker 1: I sat on that balcony that day, I was like,
34:34
Speaker 1: why do I feel so off? And so twenty sixteen
34:39
Speaker 1: when I walked away, put everything in storage, moved to Bali, Indonesia,
34:44
Speaker 1: and since then I've lived in Bali, Hawaii, Thai, lamp
34:47
Speaker 1: At Eru, and you know, it been on the journey.
34:50
Speaker 1: I would say that it took after that twenty sixteen
34:53
Speaker 1: to probably twenty twenty one that I was able to
34:59
Speaker 1: do enough deep introspection and work and have enough space
35:03
Speaker 1: to actually like put those things to rest or either
35:08
Speaker 1: transmute those things into personal power or as a means
35:12
Speaker 1: to like really harness my purpose. So it's been a
35:14
Speaker 1: lot of deep work. You know, they say that if
35:17
Speaker 1: a flower is not blooming, you don't change the flower,
35:19
Speaker 1: you change the environment. And so I was inevitably in
35:22
Speaker 1: a space where I was not blooming anymore. So I
35:25
Speaker 1: had to change the soil that I was in, and
35:27
Speaker 1: that revolved me going on this journey to expand my
35:32
Speaker 1: perspective beyond the Western mind and a lot of When
35:40
Speaker 1: I took the leap, I was like, I'm going to
35:42
Speaker 1: lose everything I did. I lost my gym, I got
35:45
Speaker 1: sued for six hundred and fifty thousand dollars plus, and
35:49
Speaker 1: I thought I was going to lose all my connects
35:51
Speaker 1: with like you know, the Swoosh Nike, with all the
35:55
Speaker 1: stuff that I built. And it was funny about a
35:59
Speaker 1: year and a half later, I'm still in the space
36:02
Speaker 1: with all of these you know, companies and a lot
36:06
Speaker 1: of old clients. And what happened is they started becoming
36:09
Speaker 1: really interested in like what I was doing overseas, and
36:14
Speaker 1: so I put together some proposals and started to like
36:19
Speaker 1: plan my attack on how I could actually start sharing
36:21
Speaker 1: some of the wisdom from the East with the West.
36:25
Speaker 1: And so twenty seventeen twenty eighteen is when we really
36:27
Speaker 1: started to, like for me to bring yoga back into
36:31
Speaker 1: the communities and into the brands that I was working
36:33
Speaker 1: for working with before that, And all of a sudden,
36:35
Speaker 1: all these doors opened up that were beyond my vision board.
36:40
Speaker 1: It was like the vision board was like the first level,
36:43
Speaker 1: and then there was beyond the vision board. And I
36:45
Speaker 1: love to say, like, what if the limit to your
36:47
Speaker 1: sky was just the beginning of your universe? So like
36:51
Speaker 1: for me, what I my grandest imagination was actually just
36:56
Speaker 1: the beginning for like what guy I have for me? Yeah,
36:59
Speaker 1: that's been the last three to four years, is just
37:02
Speaker 1: being in that space.
37:03
Speaker 4: You know.
37:03
Speaker 1: I've lived abroad since twenty sixteen, and I've worked in
37:09
Speaker 1: the West yea, And so I go to the east,
37:13
Speaker 1: I go to the south. I haven't been up north yet,
37:15
Speaker 1: but I want to go up this a little cold
37:17
Speaker 1: up there. But and then I bring these insights and
37:23
Speaker 1: teachings back to the West.
37:24
Speaker 4: And what is interesting is people.
37:28
Speaker 1: Sometimes ask me, like what's your motivation or like how
37:32
Speaker 1: did you really like find your truth or your teachings. Honestly,
37:38
Speaker 1: it's selfishly been a twenty plus. You're healing journey for me,
37:42
Speaker 1: and all I'm doing is sharing what has worked for
37:46
Speaker 1: me as I've healed myself from being a broken human
37:49
Speaker 1: from the situation I grew up in to a more
37:53
Speaker 1: whole human.
37:54
Speaker 2: You're doing my job for me.
37:56
Speaker 3: People sometimes ask me, I'm like, okay, please keep going.
37:59
Speaker 3: What else do they ask you? What would you say
38:01
Speaker 3: that your purpose is love?
38:05
Speaker 2: Just love?
38:05
Speaker 4: Love? Love is my mission?
38:07
Speaker 2: Yeah?
38:08
Speaker 1: I was in Brazil and shout out to my former
38:11
Speaker 1: partner Alex soul Sister incredible Yogi.
38:15
Speaker 4: She broke up with me.
38:18
Speaker 1: And we were talking and this was this was like
38:23
Speaker 1: about a year endo my yoga journey, and she was
38:27
Speaker 1: she was saying like, you're always on your mission, but
38:30
Speaker 1: nobody knows what your mission is and you never have
38:33
Speaker 1: time for love. And so it put me in this
38:37
Speaker 1: introspective state and I was just like, all right, Well,
38:39
Speaker 1: what what really matters at the end of the day,
38:43
Speaker 1: what do we all want? Like, wherever you go in
38:46
Speaker 1: the world doesn't matter where you go. What is it
38:50
Speaker 1: we all want? It doesn't matter what class you come from,
38:53
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how much money you got in your bank account.
38:55
Speaker 1: And the truth is love, love it, Love is it.
38:58
Speaker 1: And I was told that if your mission is not
39:02
Speaker 1: so big that you'll probably never achieve it, it's not
39:04
Speaker 1: big enough. And so when I declare love is my mission,
39:08
Speaker 1: it was like the universe was like, oh, oh, this
39:10
Speaker 1: is your mission. Through everything at me to be like,
39:14
Speaker 1: maybe I should not have that as my mission, but
39:17
Speaker 1: that's that's truly my purpose. That's truly my mission is
39:20
Speaker 1: to understand love, love for myself, love for other people,
39:26
Speaker 1: love for this planet, and love. It just says anchoring
39:33
Speaker 1: energy that moves this world, you know, Muhammad A. Lisa's
39:37
Speaker 1: service to others is the rent we pay for our
39:40
Speaker 1: time here on earth. May Angelo says, people are going
39:43
Speaker 1: to forget what we said, people are going to forget
39:44
Speaker 1: what we did, but they'll never forget how we made
39:46
Speaker 1: them feel. The general thread I feel that legacies are
39:51
Speaker 1: made from that. Truly, last is love. That's the ripple
39:57
Speaker 1: and that I want to be a part of. And
39:58
Speaker 1: if I can just play once small piece in that,
40:02
Speaker 1: that's that's enough for me.
40:05
Speaker 3: You mentioned that when you made the pivot into doing
40:10
Speaker 3: more yoga and incorporating yoga into your practice and bringing
40:13
Speaker 3: these teachings from West to East, that a lot of
40:17
Speaker 3: doors opened for you, including a pivot or a shift
40:22
Speaker 3: perhaps in the work that you had been doing at
40:24
Speaker 3: the time with Nike. How does it feel for you
40:27
Speaker 3: to be a person of color in a space that
40:31
Speaker 3: conventionally may not be doused with a lot of color.
40:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a great question.
40:39
Speaker 1: So in the West it's not as ethnically diverse.
40:45
Speaker 4: You go to the East.
40:47
Speaker 1: You know, my time in India, it's all color out there, right.
40:52
Speaker 1: But when I talk about or when we speak of
40:55
Speaker 1: like the shoulders of the giants that were standing on
40:58
Speaker 1: from an ancestry stamp, I feel that it is my responsibility
41:04
Speaker 1: and duty with the opportunity that I have as a
41:06
Speaker 1: black man in two thousand and two, to be able
41:09
Speaker 1: to travel the world the way I travel, I take
41:13
Speaker 1: it very seriously and I move with an urgency because
41:19
Speaker 1: not only am I so fortunate and blessed to be
41:22
Speaker 1: able to travel and to go to Peru and Bali
41:25
Speaker 1: in India, but we're also reclaiming so many lost teachings
41:30
Speaker 1: that we've lost just from years of fear and division,
41:36
Speaker 1: and you know, people not being in a line with love,
41:42
Speaker 1: and so there's a deep responsibility that I feel I have,
41:49
Speaker 1: and I.
41:52
Speaker 4: Just want to share the.
41:55
Speaker 1: Tools with as many people as possible. One of the
41:59
Speaker 1: books that just inspire me so much I've read it
42:01
Speaker 1: for the second time is The Narrative of a Slave
42:03
Speaker 1: by Frederick Douglas, and he talks about the fact that,
42:06
Speaker 1: like once upon a time, it was illegal to even
42:10
Speaker 1: teach slaves to read, and the fact that you know,
42:15
Speaker 1: we have access to the world's information now and all
42:19
Speaker 1: the mystery schools are unlocked, and literally the click of
42:22
Speaker 1: a button, we can tap into any type of esoteric teaching,
42:26
Speaker 1: from yoga to tai chi to martial arts. It would
42:29
Speaker 1: be a disservice to not to take full advantage of it.
42:35
Speaker 1: My grandma, and it's a whole different story, but I
42:38
Speaker 1: met my father for the first time when I was
42:39
Speaker 1: twenty seven years old, and meeting him and then meeting
42:43
Speaker 1: my grandma. My grandma was actually one of the first
42:45
Speaker 1: black nurses in Vegas, and she used to have to
42:48
Speaker 1: go through the colored entrance at the hospital.
42:52
Speaker 4: And so.
42:54
Speaker 1: Even sitting here having this conversation with you, coming in
42:56
Speaker 1: from Costa Rica, I'm very well, honor, and know that
43:01
Speaker 1: I'm so blessed to be able to do that, and
43:04
Speaker 1: I take this opportunity very serious.
43:08
Speaker 2: Thank you.
43:09
Speaker 3: I also think that this resonates with the concept that
43:15
Speaker 3: in order oftentimes on the show, I'm speaking with women,
43:18
Speaker 3: but I do dabble with a male guest from time
43:20
Speaker 3: to time, and you know, we say often like, in
43:23
Speaker 3: order to be her, you need to see her. And
43:25
Speaker 3: so for you to be in this place for other
43:29
Speaker 3: individuals of color who may not have felt represented in
43:33
Speaker 3: their practice previously, to be able to look to you
43:35
Speaker 3: and learn from you is also a beautiful opportunity. So
43:39
Speaker 3: as much as you are grateful for this opportunity, there
43:42
Speaker 3: are without a doubt people that are grateful for you,
43:45
Speaker 3: which is just a really awesome thing.
43:48
Speaker 4: Thank you, of course.
43:49
Speaker 3: And so this all comes back now, as I said
43:52
Speaker 3: at the top, to this latest venture that you have
43:56
Speaker 3: with Core Power Yoga.
43:59
Speaker 2: How did that come to be?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, shout out to Core Power Yoga. Such an amazing
44:04
Speaker 1: innovative company. And it's been just an honor to align
44:09
Speaker 1: with a brand that truly is galvanizing love through movement
44:15
Speaker 1: but through their philosophy. And so two last year, twenty
44:20
Speaker 1: twenty two, I got a message in the default inbox
44:28
Speaker 1: on Instagram, like the one that you almost never see,
44:30
Speaker 1: the one.
44:31
Speaker 2: That you forget exactly yeah, yeah, yeah, yes.
44:33
Speaker 4: And it was Sarah Choi.
44:36
Speaker 1: She's a CMO slash COO over at Core Power Yoga,
44:39
Speaker 1: and she was like, Hey, what are your thoughts about
44:43
Speaker 1: doing a keynote on love for our company? All hands
44:48
Speaker 1: and we started some conversations and then the doors opened
44:53
Speaker 1: up and I was given the opportunity to do a
44:55
Speaker 1: keynote on love, which almost didn't happen because it was
44:59
Speaker 1: a week after mother Past. But one of the things
45:02
Speaker 1: that I wanted to do last year, and this is
45:04
Speaker 1: why I entered the God Pocket quote unquote, was I
45:07
Speaker 1: wanted to honor her, and so I went ahead and
45:10
Speaker 1: I did this keynote, and the keynote opened up some
45:13
Speaker 1: doors for me to come out to Denver. And then
45:16
Speaker 1: when I was in Denver, they started, you know, they
45:19
Speaker 1: brought me into their new class format. And being that
45:23
Speaker 1: I've been in the sports performance space but also you know,
45:26
Speaker 1: a thousand hours of yoga and been deep into yoga
45:29
Speaker 1: space for a long time, I was able to like
45:32
Speaker 1: offer a unique perspective that really like gelled with the
45:37
Speaker 1: current creation that they were creating, and so it went
45:39
Speaker 1: from literally an Instagram DM to like me collaborating in
45:44
Speaker 1: a really deep way in the last four months really
45:46
Speaker 1: helping Core Power Yoga create Core Power Strength X as
45:50
Speaker 1: their first new class offering in ten years as a
45:55
Speaker 1: way to help people truly strengthen their mind, body, spirit
46:01
Speaker 1: and to like further push their mission forward, which is
46:06
Speaker 1: to empower love from the inside out. And so it's
46:09
Speaker 1: been incredible to just dive back into the corporate space
46:15
Speaker 1: in a way that is heart open and in a
46:19
Speaker 1: way that infuses all the things I love, which is mindset, strength, breadth, intention,
46:25
Speaker 1: And it's felt like just a beautiful, beautiful relationship that
46:30
Speaker 1: we've been able to like cultivate over the last you know,
46:34
Speaker 1: six months now, but four months in deep project mode
46:36
Speaker 1: and to be able to, like now in twenty twenty three,
46:40
Speaker 1: offer this new class format to the world as a
46:42
Speaker 1: mechanism for people to really like build strength on the mat,
46:46
Speaker 1: but also build strength off the mat, to like be
46:49
Speaker 1: stronger in their lives, to be stronger in their relationships,
46:52
Speaker 1: to be stronger in their why and their purpose.
46:55
Speaker 4: I'm all about it. It's just it gets me so excited.
46:58
Speaker 2: How do you get stronger in your purpose?
47:02
Speaker 1: It's a great question. So I'm going to give you
47:06
Speaker 1: a couple answers. Oh, I love, I love multiple plas struggle.
47:12
Speaker 1: The struggle makes us, makes us stronger. I always ask
47:17
Speaker 1: my clients, can you love yourself enough to struggle a
47:21
Speaker 1: lot of times we want to bypass the struggle because
47:25
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel good. Self love asks us to give
47:30
Speaker 1: ourselves what we need, not always what we want. What
47:34
Speaker 1: we want feels good. I was just at a cafe
47:36
Speaker 1: down the way and I wanted this donut so bad.
47:40
Speaker 1: It felt good, but it wasn't what I needed. Now,
47:43
Speaker 1: the struggle was real, and I had a If you
47:45
Speaker 1: look on my Instagram, there's some donuts right now.
47:47
Speaker 4: I just took a picture.
47:50
Speaker 1: So allowing ourselves, loving ourselves enough to struggle, what a
47:54
Speaker 1: beautiful metaphor. Like in the gym on the map, there's
47:59
Speaker 1: going to be it's where we struggle, where you're met
48:02
Speaker 1: with that metaphorical resistance point. And the longer we can
48:06
Speaker 1: stay at what my mentor, doctor Guadanoli says is the
48:09
Speaker 1: edge of stretch, the more potential is activated. So just
48:15
Speaker 1: to break it down for you, there's this thing called
48:17
Speaker 1: challenge points theory, and doctor Gudanoli says that you have
48:20
Speaker 1: the comfort zone, you have the panic zone, and you
48:23
Speaker 1: have the stretch zone. You go too deep in the
48:25
Speaker 1: panic zone, it's all bad. Stay in the comfort zone,
48:27
Speaker 1: nothing changes. But the closer you can get to the
48:30
Speaker 1: edge of stretch, that's the line that divides the panic
48:34
Speaker 1: zone and the stretch zone. That's the magic spot across
48:37
Speaker 1: the board. And so for people who are really trying
48:40
Speaker 1: to like build strength, giving themselves that opportunity to struggle.
48:47
Speaker 1: The other thing, and I'll pull this from just my
48:50
Speaker 1: time at PEN, what they have found is the more
48:52
Speaker 1: we focus on our strengths, the less our weaknesses become apparent.
48:57
Speaker 4: And this is like.
48:58
Speaker 1: Pretty revolutionary in schooling and in teaching and education, and
49:02
Speaker 1: even in corporate culture. A lot of times we want
49:04
Speaker 1: to focus on what's wrong with us instead of what's
49:07
Speaker 1: right with us. And so for like as a foundation,
49:12
Speaker 1: allowing oneself to struggle, but then also getting really clear
49:15
Speaker 1: on what one's strengths are and leaning into those, allowing
49:19
Speaker 1: those strengths to become stronger, inevitably are going to start
49:22
Speaker 1: to offset those preconceived weaknesses. Or possible actual weaknesses. And
49:28
Speaker 1: then thirdly, I think that the most important thing to
49:30
Speaker 1: really build potent strong strength is to have a team
49:35
Speaker 1: around you. When we look at the greatest achievers of
49:38
Speaker 1: our time, they never did it alone. You look at
49:41
Speaker 1: Lebron James, he has an entire team. You look at
49:43
Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali, an entire team, Serena Williams an entire team.
49:48
Speaker 1: We get to build a team around of objective, heart
49:53
Speaker 1: centric individuals that are all rooting for us to be
49:58
Speaker 1: our best. And what is team look like. Maybe it's
50:01
Speaker 1: just some really good friends, or maybe it's a therapist,
50:04
Speaker 1: a life coach, a nutritionist, a trainer. It's really about
50:08
Speaker 1: asking yourself what do you need to amplify your strengthen
50:14
Speaker 1: your potential to the highest level possible. And it also
50:17
Speaker 1: in the same vein of like building our team, it's
50:22
Speaker 1: also about also cutting the players that no longer serve us.
50:25
Speaker 1: See you Yeah, And I put people in three categories, noses, anchors,
50:29
Speaker 1: and lifelines. Noises are people that energetically strangle you out.
50:34
Speaker 1: Anchors are people that weigh you down, and lifelines are
50:36
Speaker 1: people that build you up.
50:38
Speaker 4: And in a time and.
50:39
Speaker 1: Place where we don't have a lot of time, and
50:41
Speaker 1: our potential is asking us to truly step into it.
50:44
Speaker 1: Lifelines are only.
50:48
Speaker 3: This is like a full circle moment from the beginning
50:50
Speaker 3: of our chat when we were kind of insinuating or
50:53
Speaker 3: talking about how you get away from the anchors, right,
50:55
Speaker 3: Because sometimes it can feel as though we have such
50:59
Speaker 3: a strong tie or devotion maybe to individuals who don't
51:04
Speaker 3: serve us or don't act as a lifeline when we
51:07
Speaker 3: need them the most, right, And that can truly be
51:11
Speaker 3: a challenging thing to do.
51:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, to step away, it can be really really hard.
51:17
Speaker 2: Yeah.
51:18
Speaker 1: And I think the key, the cornerstone, the master key
51:24
Speaker 1: of it all, is self worth. When we really start
51:28
Speaker 1: to see ourselves as worth something, and we start to
51:30
Speaker 1: treat ourselves as valuable, we start to really advocate for ourselves.
51:35
Speaker 1: We start to stop the things that are holding us back,
51:38
Speaker 1: We start to cut out the people that no longer
51:41
Speaker 1: serve us, We start to open up the doors that
51:44
Speaker 1: inevitably strengthen our being. And that's where it really begins
51:51
Speaker 1: to get magical, because the truth is, we've all been
51:54
Speaker 1: gifted these one of the kind expressions that we are
51:57
Speaker 1: and I think the goal of us being here is
51:59
Speaker 1: to like fall in love with what it is we are,
52:02
Speaker 1: and the sooner we fall in love with what it
52:04
Speaker 1: is we are, we can really get on to like
52:06
Speaker 1: celebrating this this crazy I call it likeful wasca, I said, ayahuasca,
52:13
Speaker 1: the psychedelic experience of love that we've been gifted.
52:17
Speaker 3: It's also when you fall in love who it is
52:20
Speaker 3: that you are, and you celebrate who you are, you
52:22
Speaker 3: become better advocating for yourself like you said, and also
52:27
Speaker 3: exercising your boundaries, like it doesn't become such a maybe
52:32
Speaker 3: internal battle or struggle to ask yourself if you should
52:36
Speaker 3: stay true to what it is that you want. Maybe
52:38
Speaker 3: when you're in a situation that's beckoning for you to flex.
52:42
Speaker 3: It could be as simple as maybe I don't know,
52:44
Speaker 3: being out on a date and one person. Maybe your
52:48
Speaker 3: date wants you to stay for longer, but you know
52:50
Speaker 3: you have a commitment in the morning.
52:52
Speaker 2: Well, when you honor.
52:53
Speaker 3: What it is that you want and who it is
52:56
Speaker 3: that you are, you don't feel so maybe guilty or
52:59
Speaker 3: have hazard about like no, I'm out yeah, and you
53:02
Speaker 3: understand that the people that are for you will support
53:05
Speaker 3: you and the things that support you being the best
53:08
Speaker 3: version of yourself. But again it takes kind of reps
53:13
Speaker 3: to get to that place. It's like, how does how
53:15
Speaker 3: does the muscle strengthen? Like you give it something to
53:17
Speaker 3: push up against? Like how does our will strengthen? You
53:20
Speaker 3: give it something to push up against? Yeah, And so
53:23
Speaker 3: to get to that place where you feel comfortable, more
53:26
Speaker 3: comfortable than perhaps previously exercising your boundaries, that is also
53:31
Speaker 3: you getting one step closer to being in this place
53:34
Speaker 3: that we're talking about being life celebration right.
53:36
Speaker 4: Absolutely for sure.
53:38
Speaker 1: And this is why like movement is so powerful because
53:44
Speaker 1: beyond the body, like if we even talk about it
53:46
Speaker 1: from like a yoga standpoint, they actually say, we have
53:49
Speaker 1: five bodies. You have the physical body, the mental body,
53:54
Speaker 1: the energetic body, the wisdom body, and the bliss body.
53:56
Speaker 1: And the physical body is the access point through the
53:59
Speaker 1: soma into the rest of those bodies. And it's like
54:02
Speaker 1: the struggle that we can create through a curated environment
54:09
Speaker 1: like a workout class, like going on a run, like
54:14
Speaker 1: martial arts, these all build the strength and fortitudes who
54:19
Speaker 1: inevitably begin to stand stronger in our boundaries where we
54:24
Speaker 1: then say, or there's a quote by my brother Mark Groves.
54:28
Speaker 1: He says walls keep people out, but boundaries show people
54:32
Speaker 1: where the door is. And also that nobody that truly
54:36
Speaker 1: loves you will ever get mad at you for loving yourself.
54:40
Speaker 1: And so this is the work. And then yoga. My
54:45
Speaker 1: master teacher, Sri dar Bameitro would say, do the sodna
54:49
Speaker 1: unlock the cities. So the sodna is intentional practice, and
54:53
Speaker 1: the cities are the gift when we show up and.
54:55
Speaker 4: Do the work.
54:57
Speaker 1: The work works, but you got to do the work,
55:00
Speaker 1: and inevitably it up levels our ability to create environments
55:04
Speaker 1: for ourselves that are truly harmonious rather than something that
55:07
Speaker 1: is going to continue to loop us into, like lower
55:11
Speaker 1: levels of our expression.
55:14
Speaker 3: When you look in the mirror, what do you see
55:16
Speaker 3: looking back at you?
55:18
Speaker 4: Love period? Yeah?
55:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I could say like milk chocolate brother
55:25
Speaker 1: that some swagger.
55:27
Speaker 4: But.
55:29
Speaker 3: Man, I mean when I look in the mirror, I
55:33
Speaker 3: see all that I've become, but I also see my
55:37
Speaker 3: younger self.
55:38
Speaker 2: Yeah that is one hundred percent.
55:39
Speaker 3: When I see what I look in the mirror, I
55:41
Speaker 3: see how far I've come by looking at her, and
55:46
Speaker 3: also my potential on the other side of that. And
55:52
Speaker 3: it's interesting to hear that what excites you, what your
55:57
Speaker 3: purpose is, what you see all three of those to
56:00
Speaker 3: be the same, with the emphasis that you understand there's
56:04
Speaker 3: still more to embody under that category, right, because to
56:10
Speaker 3: some they may hear that and think like, well, if
56:14
Speaker 3: you're already here, what happens next?
56:17
Speaker 2: So what happens next?
56:19
Speaker 1: It's a process of blossoming and of becoming. Yeah, and
56:23
Speaker 1: I spoke about this recently that the orange or the orange,
56:31
Speaker 1: the full expression of the orange tree, doesn't look at
56:34
Speaker 1: the seed as inferior. It knows that the entire process
56:40
Speaker 1: from seed to orange was necessary. And I feel like
56:43
Speaker 1: we are all in a process of blossoming and of becoming.
56:46
Speaker 1: So there's no destination. And that was the existential crisis
56:50
Speaker 1: I had when I was sitting in my condo in Vegas.
56:52
Speaker 1: Was I had a destination. I thought when I got
56:56
Speaker 1: XYZ and was this level of body fat and this
57:01
Speaker 1: level of success, I was going to be happy. And
57:04
Speaker 1: I missed out on so many of the beautiful moments
57:06
Speaker 1: on the way to that journey. I got to that
57:08
Speaker 1: space and I wasn't even fulfilled. And so it's an expanding,
57:14
Speaker 1: it's a it's an evolution, it's a blossoming of.
57:18
Speaker 4: Where we are.
57:19
Speaker 1: Over time, that continues to blossom and continues to show
57:22
Speaker 1: us new shades of who it is we are. I
57:26
Speaker 1: think it's important to have a mission. I think a
57:28
Speaker 1: mission directs us. It brings our focus towards things that
57:34
Speaker 1: are in alignment with that mission. So whatever a person's
57:37
Speaker 1: mission is, like, have a mission, mission and intention is
57:41
Speaker 1: the same thing. But when we're moving intentionally, it attunes
57:45
Speaker 1: us in a way that is much more aligned than
57:49
Speaker 1: when we don't have that. And I feel like I've
57:55
Speaker 1: arrived to today and tomorrow I'm going to be a
57:59
Speaker 1: different person. Try I'll arrive into that moment, and this
58:03
Speaker 1: adventure that we are on called life is going to
58:06
Speaker 1: continue to expand and show me different facets of that mission.
58:11
Speaker 1: One thing that's crazy about love being my mission is
58:14
Speaker 1: and what I've learned is in order to understand love,
58:18
Speaker 1: I also have to understand what is not love. And
58:21
Speaker 1: the universe has been dealing that up on a silver
58:25
Speaker 1: platter to me for the last three to four years,
58:28
Speaker 1: full force.
58:29
Speaker 4: And so.
58:31
Speaker 1: I guess the warning label of like going after your
58:34
Speaker 1: mission is like once you declare your mission, the entire
58:38
Speaker 1: universe will conspire to help that mission come to life,
58:42
Speaker 1: you know, quoting Paolo Goyelo, And that means sometimes it'll
58:47
Speaker 1: be challenges. I mean sometimes it'll be breakdowns. That means
58:50
Speaker 1: they'll sometimes be struggles. But when we can look at
58:52
Speaker 1: all of those and say thank you, that's when life,
58:54
Speaker 1: I believe, really gets magical.
58:56
Speaker 3: I could ask you what excites you right now, but
58:58
Speaker 3: I feel like you're just going to say love, fatherhood.
59:02
Speaker 2: Okay, talk to me about.
59:03
Speaker 1: Fatherhood another aspect of love. Yeah. So my mother passing
59:11
Speaker 1: away was an initiation. She was one of my best friends.
59:15
Speaker 1: It was the first person really really close to me
59:17
Speaker 1: that passed away. It was one of the most beautiful
59:20
Speaker 1: experiences of my life, and it taught me so much.
59:24
Speaker 1: It was like, oh, this is one of life's master
59:27
Speaker 1: classes that you cannot sign up for. There's no degree
59:32
Speaker 1: that comes from this, but this was so potent. I
59:38
Speaker 1: feel like death and birth are two of life's most
59:42
Speaker 1: potent teachers. And so a lot of people have asked
59:45
Speaker 1: me as of late, what am I most excited about,
59:47
Speaker 1: And what I'm most excited about is the journey in
59:50
Speaker 1: the fatherhood and the journey into like taking all my
59:53
Speaker 1: teachings and officially like bestowing them onto the next generation.
59:58
Speaker 1: They say that it takes three generations to break out
1:00:01
Speaker 1: of poverty. In the poverty mindset, my mother was the
1:00:03
Speaker 1: first generation. I'm the second, so to officially break the
1:00:07
Speaker 1: cycle of poverty in my family chain is everything to me.
1:00:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really special. How does that idea make you feel?
1:00:15
Speaker 1: Oh, it's incredible, It's incredible. But I do still have
1:00:18
Speaker 1: some homies back in the streets that I'm gonna when
1:00:20
Speaker 1: I do have children, they're gonna go like visit them
1:00:22
Speaker 1: for a weekend, so they like make sure they have
1:00:24
Speaker 1: a little bit of street swag and they're not completely like.
1:00:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm so happy that we were able to
1:00:30
Speaker 2: make this happen.
1:00:31
Speaker 3: Yes, when you have an opportunity right now, knowing what
1:00:34
Speaker 3: you know at this point, to offer yourself a piece
1:00:38
Speaker 3: of advice. Let's go back when you thought you had
1:00:41
Speaker 3: everything that you could ever want.
1:00:42
Speaker 2: You thought that you were.
1:00:43
Speaker 3: At the place that was supposed to be what success
1:00:45
Speaker 3: felt like and looked like, and you realize that you
1:00:48
Speaker 3: were coming up empty. You have an opportunity to tell
1:00:50
Speaker 3: him something right now during that Hurtle moment. What do
1:00:53
Speaker 3: you tell him?
1:00:54
Speaker 1: I say, Brandon, you're beautiful, and you get to love
1:01:00
Speaker 1: yourself now as you are. You don't need to become
1:01:03
Speaker 1: anything else. You don't need to change a thing about you.
1:01:07
Speaker 1: You're perfect the way you are, imperfectly beautiful, and trust
1:01:12
Speaker 1: that everything will work out. And if I could like
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Speaker 1: the anxiety, the challenges, the levels of like not feeling
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Speaker 1: worthy for so long took a toll, and so like
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Speaker 1: where I am now sitting in a place of really
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Speaker 1: deep self appreciation and worth, I feel that.
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Speaker 4: That's the advice I would give that.
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Speaker 3: Dude, How do the hurdlers follow along with you? How
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Speaker 3: do they keep up with you? Give us the deats?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So, first and foremost for anybody who's trying to
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Speaker 1: take the new Core Power Strength X class. Officially it
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Speaker 1: is out nationwide and it is forty five minutes of
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Speaker 1: heart thumping, exhilarating, mindful movement and strength that can be
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Speaker 1: access to your local Core Power yoga. So highly recommend
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Speaker 1: you all try out this new class. Let me know
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Speaker 1: what you think. I'm super super active on Instagram. That's
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Speaker 1: my living journal. I would say. People think I'm putting
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Speaker 1: quotes up to them. It's usually me teaching myself. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: ipen myself up and also I am one of the
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Speaker 1: founding experts of an app called mind it is. It's
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Speaker 1: the first ever emotion social network that focuses on emotional pathos.
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Speaker 1: And this is for those that are really trying to
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Speaker 1: dive deeper. I have one hundred and eighty plus lectures
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Speaker 1: and I do two live classes every week. And then
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Speaker 1: for those that are looking to dive deeper into the
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Speaker 1: space of service and humanitarian work. Each year I host
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Speaker 1: it a curated right of passage from the jungles of
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Speaker 1: the Amazon to the Andes that takes leaders deep into service,
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Speaker 1: deep into connection, deep into the magic of Pachi Mama.
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Speaker 4: And also.
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Speaker 2: There you can find him nowhere.
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Speaker 1: And also lastly, yeah, my classes have been up on
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Speaker 1: the Nike NTC app for quite some time, so if
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Speaker 1: you want to also do some yoga classes with me there,
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Speaker 1: feel free to drop in. More importantly than that, each
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Speaker 1: one of you all matter. Remember that each one of
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Speaker 1: you all make this world a better place, and continue
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Speaker 1: to be the change. Continue to shine your light, continue
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Speaker 1: to share your truth, and continue to remember that you
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Speaker 1: are a gift to this world. So trust it, tune
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Speaker 1: in and trust that you're here for a reason. Trust
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Speaker 1: your purpose, trust your why, and most importantly, trust your heart.
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Speaker 2: Tune in.
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Speaker 3: Does this mean you're also on Netflix now?
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Speaker 4: See?
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Speaker 3: So you can find him around every corner in every place.
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Speaker 3: I'm so excited. I also just a side note before
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Speaker 3: I just wrap this up. I whenever I travel without
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Speaker 3: a doubt, if I'm going to go work out, it's
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Speaker 3: out of core power because I know it's going to
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Speaker 3: be good.
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Speaker 2: I feel like you.
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Speaker 3: Don't know much like when you're in different cities, but
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Speaker 3: when you're in a different city and you're like looking
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Speaker 3: for a good workout, you can guarantee that if there's
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Speaker 3: a core power, like you know exactly what you're going
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Speaker 3: to get and it's going to be great.
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Speaker 1: That's I mean, it's the biggest yoga brand right in
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Speaker 1: the game, and it's you know exactly what you're going
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Speaker 1: to get from restorative all the way up to now
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Speaker 1: core power, strength, EGS. So like the whole buffet, a
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Speaker 1: lot of options, options? Are there a lot of options? All?
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Speaker 3: Right? Well, you know the drill. I'm over at Emily
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Speaker 3: Body at Hurdle Podcast. Another Hurdle Conquered. Catch you guys
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Speaker 3: next time.