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- Lisa Dwoskin: Hello and welcome back to Life Rescue with Lisa. Thank you all so much for joining today. And don't forget, if you want to call in and have a question or a story, call in at 754-222-4413. So we have a special guest today, and I'm all decked out with my University of Miami football colors, the green and the orange. And I want to introduce Coach Mike. And before he says hello, I met him probably about a year ago when I went to watch the team playing practice at their the college. Like I was a VIP over there, and Mike got to take us on a tour, my family and I, and I fell in love with Mike's soul because we are like connected on a soulful level. Because he's very spiritual. He's all about positive mindset, exercise, health, and everything that I am. Work hard, dream big, and you will reach your goals. So I'm honored to have him here. He's going to talk about himself, but I want to say congratulations for the sports, the University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame induction. He's ⁓ an alumni and a football player and a Amazing man. Welcome to my show, Mike. Thank you. Thank you so much. What an introduction. I appreciate that a lot. Yeah, I'm Mike Rumpf, ⁓ 2001 national champ, and was a San Francisco 49er. And prior after my career was over, I ended up coaching my son's team and I went on to coach high school and I was very successful at the high school level. And the next thing you know, I'm back ⁓ here at my almomata. Coaching the cornerbacks and now I'm the director of football after my 10 years of being here. So it's been a great journey for myself. And luckily I get to I'm here with my daughter. She's a sophomore in college now. So I have a legacy daughter. And everything I can say, like it all started with the you and it's been a blessing ever since. But when I had a chance to meet you, Lisa, like like you say, like we hit it off. I gave you my famous campus tour, you and Blake. And we had a lot of things ⁓ that were in common and I admire people like yourself and I said what better way ⁓ than to get on and talk about mental health and you know give you my experiences of what I've been through as a a former student athlete. Yeah, definitely. I have so many questions for you. So the first thing I wanna talk about before we talk about you, I wanna talk about you as a child and now how you are. But Do you feel that you're a spiritual person? And before you answer, for those of you watching, because my dad thinks that when I say spiritual, and I I don't know if you know, Mike, but I had a show with Lawrence Taylor we did for like six months. It was called Change Your Game with LT. And he called me the woo-woo spiritual Mary Poppins who flies around. And my dad too, whenever I say spiritual, he's like, ⁓ God, what is What does that mean? So spiritual means that you it's not a religious thing. It's living in a state of higher consciousness, of peace, of love, of light, and just being living from your soul and not like from your human being, from your spiritual being, from the core of your inner essence. So would you say you are a spiritual person? One hundred percent. And this this is I've been I've become this person, you know, as a youngster I cared a lot about what people thought and, you know, the the views of the world, but at the end of the day, you know, I have a connection with God and I know who I am and I know when I can sense another person that's similar to me. And I've had that sense since I was very young. So I know that I'm different, but ⁓ I thrive on the fact that I'm different. So I am very spiritual. Yeah. And I love what you said about God because I wrote a couple of books and I have the podcast. I have a TV show coming out. And whenever I talk about God, some people are like, Don't talk about God and don't talk about religion. But in in a spiritual sense, God is in me, God is around me, God is everywhere. And my church is the beach. I go to the beach to pray and meditate and So I mean it's not saying like, you know, it's so religious. It's just believing in a higher power that's greater than you and having faith and hope. And that's what leads us into talking about what you and I are always talking about. These kids that you coach, and even younger kids that you coach, and we're gonna talk about like youth football, you they have to have faith. They have to have hope. They have to have something greater than themselves. So how do you instill that into them? Wow, like you said a lot there, I mean, ⁓ something b bigger than yourself is super important. And the beach is my spiritual retreat. Thank you. I'm a water sign, I'm a Scorpio, so my wife knows and my kids know. Like a day at the beach, I'm rejuvenated and I'm ready to go hard as a coach and come back and do everything exactly how it needs to be done. So ⁓ I agree with you on those things. But I think that, you know, by example, I instill that into the high school or college or little lead kids that I'm around, ⁓ I am who I am and I don't really deter from what people say about me and who I am. And I think once a kid sees that they know they it's okay to be who you are. Typically I think teenagers in the adolescent years, they're so worried about what people think. And if you can get through those years by being who you really are and understanding that, I think it makes it a lot easier when you become an adult. My story is so my mom passed away when I was in a c when I was ⁓ eight months years old in a car accident. So I grew up with a father and two grandmothers that were very instrumental in raising me. So I'm a little bit old fashioned, you know. I grew up with my grandma sitting on the porch and just, you know, hanging out and then I had a dad who worked a lot who was always there who cooked like three meals a day for me and I had a tremendous amount of coaches that were instrumental in bringing me to the person I am. So and that's a little bit about who I am and ⁓ I fished a lot, ⁓ getting back to the beach and to the water. I love being out in nature and nature just does something to you, right? And ⁓ so I would say with the youngsters, I encourage them to fish. If I didn't fish, I wouldn't be patient and if I wasn't patient I couldn't be a coach. So I feel like that is very instrumental ⁓ for youngsters to be out in nature and be out fishing. And then ⁓ I think it ⁓ it doesn't have to be football, but it but football does show you things that you go through in life without the consequences that life might have. So if you make a mistake, you can always go back and fix that mistake. But sometimes life doesn't allow that. So through fishing, you know, being around specific people, being who I am, and showing them the game of sports, which is a a direct ⁓ correlation of life. And you know, let's elaborate a little bit on the fishing topic. Because when I hear that, I think meditation. Because I might not be fishing, I might be doing yoga on the beach, but fishing is a form of meditation. And I know when you and I talked the last time we were sitting in those chairs right behind you, which I love that room, by the way. What is that? Like the training room? This is actually ⁓ a medieval It's a specific meeting role for the other defensive players. Yep. Yeah, like to I don't mean training. I know there's chairs everywhere in there, but like they're meeting in there to talk about the training. But it's beautiful that room. So you and I were sitting there having a meeting with Dennis, and you told me something that really resonated with me, and I love it, that you would make the players meditate or or you had to meditate. When you were playing, elaborate a little bit on that because that's what fishing is, a form of meditation. One hundred percent. So once I was a player, I read a book called ⁓ Mind Gym. And it's like Gym G Y ⁓ like basketball gym, but ⁓ and it talked about if you think about something enough, it's like it already happened. So let's say you're a baseball player and ⁓ the night before you you see this pitch and you see the pitch coming. know, one hundred times and you say I hit the ball solid, I hit the ball solid. Tomorrow when you get that pitch, it's like I've seen it already and it's a lot easier to hit. So I use that tactic and I w all I would do is ⁓ I sit down with my players and it's the key is the breathing and getting them to relax and try kinda go into that dream that dream state. And then once they get that I just talk them through basic things that are gonna be positive for them the next day. Catching the football, tackling, you know, how you gonna to punch the ball out to create a fumble. Being excited, you know, you hear the crowd, the sweat dripping down your face. I talk about all five senses. What you smell, the tailgating, the barbecue, what you hear, the band. So I get them in tune with five things that they're gonna the senses that they're gonna have, and then I just talk positive thoughts. And after that I stay quiet for about two minutes. And while they're while I'm quiet, I'm hoping that they're breathing and they're thinking about everything positive that can actually happen. So that was my like four to five minute visualization that I taught myself. I taught my high school kids and then I taught my cornerbacks when I was here. And it's something I do to this day when I train young athletes. ⁓ 'cause you work your body so hard. Everybody's in the gym. We all work out, but how can you work your mind? So I'm I've been constantly studying on better ways to work my mind and transitioning that to ⁓ a lot of athletes so they can have that advantage at a young age. Yeah. Well, you know I'm a personal trainer. So when I train my clients and I tell them, you know, you're here working out three times a week, four times a week, five times a week, what are you doing for your mind that isn't pumping iron? And they're like, ⁓ I don't know. I'm drinking wine, I'm smoking weed. I'm like, No, no, no. What are you doing for your mind? Because I believe that mine like that book. I never heard of the book, but I love the book, My Gym Gym. Because you have to you have to work on your mind more than you have to work on your body. And when I used to own my gym 20 years ago, 15 years ago, I trained a lot of athletes, like football players. LT was my client. And I trained a lot of fitness women who competed in fitness and figure. And they would have the most beautiful body, six-pack, ripped. 5% body fat for men, 10% for women. But guess what? They hated themselves. They had no self love, no self-worth, no self-esteem, and they never worked in their minds. So I'm like, okay, breathe, meditate, yoga, and and we were talking about like getting into a better spiritual place. And you also said something that I do on my first day of training clients. I make them write in a journal because now they're connecting their mind with their soul. And then when we would work out, we would connect the mind with the muscle. So you're like so far advanced of the average coaches who are just focused on the body. Now, do you think the coaches nowadays are more bringing in the the mental exercising into the practice? I think that the direction of football period all ⁓ at all at levels are getting a lot better at understanding that. I can unders I can remember a time when it was kind of frowned upon like therapists. Like I'm not going to a therapist, you like I'm not weird. I'm not crazy. But now it's it's more ⁓ s it's it's more okay it's okay now to go and do those things and it was frowned upon in the past. And the journaling part, I actually read article that NFL players are starting to ⁓ they're opening up them to let them journal and write down their feelings and you know how things went and how they can change things if they could. But like you said, if you just think of stuff, it's almost like you see a a bird in the clouds, right? And the clouds cover the bird, now the bird's gone. That's how you think. But if you write it down, there's something that connects, like you say, to your soul. And I would like I have a house now. I've been there, my wife and I and my kids, we've been there about five years and We did affirmations. We wrote down, we will own a house in 2021. We wrote it 50 times. And then we really believed in it. And we were taught like, yeah, when we get our house, when we do this, we were renting, you know, for years we rented a house, but we bought our second house through affirmations and writing it down. And I had stickers on my wall where every morning I saw something that reminded me that it was gonna come. Now, yeah, you got to put the work in, but I was able to put the work in more because of what I wrote. And what I saw and what I taught. So it's just ⁓ I think you gotta it w as I grow, I'm so hungry for being educated on things and I think my mind is growing. And along with that my body's growing and my soul is growing too. It's not just muscles growing, you know. So I try to instill that in other people. Muscles in your mind and your soul and it's the the law of attraction. So when it that's all you're talking about. Have you I'm sure you've read the book, The Secret, or heard about the book. Yes. The secret, the movie. Okay. So if you haven't read the book or seen the documentary film, the book I recommend better. Much better. And in there they have a the blank check. Like right here up on my wall. You can't see it because I can't turn the camera, but it's Life Rescue TV show with Lisa. I have Tyler Perry on there. Or win-free, all the stations that I wanted to work with, and my family, my TV show. It's like the visionary board. So in the book, they have the check, and you write the amount of the check, just like you with the house. So when we wake up in the morning, and this is so important that you guys teach your football players, and I wish the schools all over the world would teach kids, young kids, when you wake up in the morning. Sometimes all of us feel bad. I did a video the other day about feeling sad and that it's okay to be like that. But then turn it around and swit flip that switch in your mind. Think positive, read affirmations, surround yourself with positive people, exercise, feed your body good nutrition. Like it's so important because that energetic vibe attracts your tribe. And then you're drawn, those people are drawn to you. And the toxic people fall away. And I love that you're bringing this into the football because that's gonna make them so much better as students and as athletes. Yes. And you can football is such a up and down sport, you know, you have your days and you wanna be as consistent as possible. But I think when you can tie into your feelings, which is not normal for a lot of players, right? A lot of these kids were raised by grandmothers or raised by a single mom. and they don't know how to tie into their feelings. Or maybe they way are way more too emotional than normal. But when you want to be consistent, I think the journaling and understanding who you are makes it a lot easier to present yourself. And to your point, I think as well as that energy, you can sense like when you know yourself, you can sense somebody that's not a good person by their energy when they come around a lot better. But if you don't know who you are and you don't know your own energy, how can you pr predict what what somebody else's c what else somebody else has coming out of them. So I always say it starts with you and building those things up and your circle and your people around you, you'll see who they really are because you understand yourself that much better. Yeah. No, I love that so much. So tell me a little bit about I t I heard I'm sorry to hear about your mom. I didn't know about that. Yeah. But so you grew up, did you start playing football in high school or in elementary school or Or what? I started just you got a a hall of fam walking through the back, so ⁓ I'm in his office actually right now. So ⁓ so what you know, yeah, she she passed when I was an infant, so I don't r really remember my mom. But my sisters and my ⁓ my sister and my grandmothers, they really taught me who she was and I get that people are like that knew her, they're like, Man, you're just like her. You know, you have so many things in common. But ⁓ yeah, it's It's a unique thing. But I can tell you, like, that's my spirit that's around me. You know, I know for sure I wouldn't be where I am if it wasn't for her. And so funny story, like, as an eight year old, I always ⁓ I played football for the first time. And I never forget in my neighborhood there were a lot of single moms, and those were my teammates. There wasn't a lot of dads. I was only with the dad, but my dad wasn't there because he was always working. So I'm that player that's there with no support and they these guys got the moms and kissing little Bobby, I love you, you're gonna play good today, good luck. And that angered me. That angered me. So I'm like, I'm gonna knock little Bobby out. Like every chance I get, I'm gonna try to hit this kid and make him look bad in front of his mom because my mom wasn't there. But Lisa, that's how I channeled my energy. You know, that energy of anger was channeled through a game of football. And to this day, like the reason I became such a physical football player started as that angry little eight year old. So I was able to channel, you know, my energy into a game and that this game has made me, you know, one of the top players ⁓ and to pl to play college football and I was blessed to go to the NFL because of that inner those inner things that I was dealing with. And it didn't hit me till later, going to a therapist that I figured out like that's exactly what I did. And it it's funny, like it happened to me, but it took somebody else to let me know, remind me like this is why you are who who you are. So ⁓ through through those things I learned a lot about the channel. Yeah. Yes. And I try to tell you you learn that? I I learned that and I try to tell other kids like chat like you know, channel that. I know you're going through a lot. I know you got this going on. Football's a beautiful sport. Like I like I said when I started, it it's a direct correlation with life, you know. You're gonna get b bumps and bruises, but you gotta continue to push through. And I think that what I went through in my example of what I did as an eight year old, ⁓ a lot of people people can ⁓ that resonates with a lot of people. So, ⁓ yeah, that's that's kinda the story of what happened with my mom and you know, I have a tattoo of her here and ⁓ you have a tattoo of her? Yeah, I don't have a lot of tattoos, but I got her face, my mom's face here. And ⁓ she's always with yeah, when I was getting drafted, they did a big art. Huh? No, no, I'm sure she's so proud of you. ⁓ man, yeah. ⁓ yeah, it's it's ⁓ it's been a tremendous journey, you know, and like I said, she's always there. I prayed to her before every single game and As I finish as soon as I say amen, this calmness will come over my body. I c it could be one hundred thousand fans. It could be for the second round of the playoffs playing against the Giants. But that calmness came over me and I knew I could just go out there and just give it all I got and without any like nervousness. So ⁓ it's she's somebody who's been with me and I think that is like I said, the reason I am who I am right now today is because of my mom Patricia. And you were about to say they wrote an article about you? Yeah, so when I was ⁓ coming out of ⁓ they did a little bit of article on on me and it was it wasn't that story I just share with you, you know. That's not a s that's a story that I'm I'm I'm I'm writing a book right now and I wanna put that in there, but that's something that unless you really know me, don't know that's how I was as an eight year old. But they did a story about my mom passing and I know I got, you know, somebody looking over me and It was just the right touch, you know, leading to my professional career. ⁓ I think it was the Miami Herald did did a really nice article and they showed my tattoo in there. So it very it was very unique. But ⁓ I can't take away from my dad, like. Yeah, my my dad, single father, like I say, he can cook, he can fix anything. He's like Bob Vila, ⁓ super smart and all of us, my brothers and sisters, we're all like a tight nick family. So he did a tremendous job. Like I say, working thirty, like thirty eight years with Bell South. Since I've known my dad, he's been working. And now he's finally retired. But to see an example of a man that worked his butt off and then came home and cooked and raised me as the way I am. So he is he gets a tr and then to go through what he went through as a as a father and, you know, to deal with that with a newborn son. So ⁓ a tremendous amount of respect and love for for ⁓ my dad and that's a big reason I am who I am as well. No, and I love like the point w I wanna get across to our viewers that are watching is no matter what life dishes you and whatever you have to go through, because we all go through trials and tribulations, some much worse than others, but whatever it is that life throws at you, you need to take the ball and run with it because you can't lie down on the ground and poor poor me and you know give up. You have to keep going and and I love your stories because you turn around the hurt, the pain, the anger, and you put it into something positive that brings you to where you have become today. I love that. Now, how did you become a coach at ⁓ So prior to being here at ⁓ I was at American Heritage and ⁓ I was the head coach there for about three years and Luckily I had tremendous amount of talent, had really good assistant coaches, I had a good administration that really believed in me. And I won two state championships in three years. Actually, if you look at I won a track championship as well. So I won like three state championships, two football, one track in three years. I went thirty-nine and six as a head coach and I brought them their first championship. So I had a tremendous amount of success. And right along the time I lost my last game. my my last year at American Heritage, Mark Rick was getting hired here as the head coach of the football team. And him being alum and myself being an alum, I reached out to congratulate him on the new job. He ⁓ told me to come in so we can catch up. And the next time we met up, it was an interview and I became the corners coach in twenty sixteen at my alma mater, which was like a huge d dream come true, being I was a corner here and now I'm coaching the corners. And ⁓ After that, like I say, I went into recruiting under the Manny Diaz ⁓ era and I've been in recruiting ever since. Now, when I was being in here, I was like, you know, this is different. ⁓ it's not the same as being a coach, but I can honestly tell you that I've I've seen my career go to a whole nother level level now that I'm in recruiting. If I wasn't in recruiting, I I might not have met you, you know. But now I'm hands on with the donors, I'm hands on with the alums, I'm hands-on with everybody at the university. I created something called a campus tour, which we didn't have, where I get on my golf cart and I show you the history of the University of Miami. Not just football, the history of the Dooley Dorms, the history of George Merritt who developed this whole community, the history of the the the library. So I studied what I kinda already knew, I studied more. And now when a parent comes here, instead of just learning about football, they learn about the one hundred and one year history of our university and the city of Coral Gables and what we've been through in the past one hundred years. So I created a niche for myself and it's it's went to a whole nother level since I came into recruiting. You know, I gotta tell you and don't take this the wrong way. It's funny. You're I'm gonna make you laugh, but What I love so much about you're so humble and you're so down to earth. Like you met my dad. My dad wears my baseball cap from my gym, metamorphosi jeans and sneakers. You think he's a construction worker and he's done very well for himself. Well, you remind me of that personality because you took us on the tour and I'm sorry to say I don't know a lot about football. I knew L T and let me just I I keep bringing up L T because so many memories. He came in the gym and everyone's like, ⁓ my god, it's L T, it's L T C. I never knew he was. Mario Christobal and I went to drama class together, college together. I didn't even know he was a University of Miami football player coach, I'm sorry to say, till like two years after. Anyway, the funny thing is, is that I thought you were like the tour guide. I didn't know that you were like the amazing football player, that you were a coach or the recruiter coach. And then and you were giving us the most amazing tour because you were educating. And I'm like, he must be a professor here or something. And then when now that I've read about you and studied about you and got to know you, and then you had that whole induction into the sports hall of fame, I was like, wow. You're so awesome and humble and down to earth. Thank you. And that's the people that I love, you know? Thank you. It's I'm just telling you, those grandmothers, being raised in that grandmother, that'll keep you humble. And I had two really good ones. And ⁓ my passion jumps out, you know. I like every time I get a tour, it could be a five star, it could be the biggest donor we ever had, or it could be a custodian. Like my passion is gonna jump out because I love this. Yeah, I love this and I'm a man bef I'm I'm a man before I'm a football guy. You know, a lot of people you see a lot of athletes, they can't get over the fact that, you know, I'm a player, like I'm a football player. And you see those guys like fifty ⁓ ten years from now they're retired, but they're still wearing their ⁓ number twenty two chain and like come on, bro, like that stage is gone, right? Get over that. Like you dwell on it, but at the same time, like I'm not that same person. So even when I was a first round pick I was a f I was a man before I was a football player. You know, weird enough, when I was in San Francisco, I wanted to be a a tour guide or a cap driver. That was my bucket list. I'm I'm a top NFL player. ⁓ I'm you know, first round pick, everybody, you know, loves me, but in my heart, like I'm like, I would love to go around and teach people about the bay and learn about this. People are like, are you crazy? I'm like, it's just in me. That's what I want to do. And here I years ago, years later. I'm doing my tours. So like I tell I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be I'm gonna have my I'ma I'm gonna be in there with my sounds, I'm gonna have my sage going. ⁓ like I'm gonna be where you are right now. So I I'm telling you, it's in me. My brother's like the most natural. My brother's the same way. My brother's the most natural. This guy's growing fruit in his backyard and vegetables and holistic. And I'm like, I wanna be that, you know, but like I can't right now, but in time I'm gonna be that guy. It happens in divine timing. That's what happened to me. So we're almost out of time. And I know you have a couple questions for me. So shoot, what are they? Okay. Okay, okay. Lisa question. So how do you think that social media ⁓ and these days have affected ⁓ the younger generation's mental health? ⁓ terrible, terrible, terrible. Not just the younger generation. What about The adults, what about couples, relationships, husband and wife, all the nudity, all the like, you know, ⁓ it's disgusting. I I and I'm not a prude woman at all, but I mean, come on, it's fake book, not Facebook. It's fake bullshit is what it is. Yeah. And no doubt I I'm raising an eleven year old and my two older kids are twenty and twenty one. When we go to dinner, it's like I don't care how old you are, put your damn phone away. Even my father, Brian, Blake, everyone. I I I have to say I use social media because I need to with the entertainment and TV and media. But you know what? I do my thing, I get off. I there's been a lot of times in my career w when I'm in bikinis and I did fitness modeling where men would send me disgusting things and I'm like, no, I'm on here to make a living, send positivity to people and get off. So it it's good for certain things, but for the young generation, no, I think it's so sad. And I think it's increased the suicidal rates because if they don't get likes, if they don't and the editing and the ⁓ my lord, people are not even looking how they look in real life. It's crazy. So okay, I that was my intention. I agree. Yeah. I agree on it. You know, if if you look at it, it's such a you're not being where your feet are, you know, and social media is built so that it keeps your attention. Like I find myself sometimes ⁓ working and I'm getting things done. And then social media, like break, you know, hey Ped, look at me. What about this? You know, so it takes you from being who you were where you are and In a world where like I say I'm trying do more journaling and reflecting and meditation, it's very hard to do those things because like I say, social media is constantly pulling me away from those things. So I try to have that time with myself or my family, like, hey, put your phone down and let's just spend an hour and let's just talk or let's have dinner and no phones, you know, let's have a meeting. So I I'm constantly ⁓ trying to fight against it and it does have its positive ⁓ things, you know, but And er if you look at it, everything is like eight second increments. You don't really like everything you have you have a specific amount of time to keep pitch people's attention in real life now because of social media. Nobody really sits up and watches thirty minute day, you know, they need to have the the breakdown of it and get it in like eight second increments. So yeah, it is it is tough and it has this positive, but I think it's it's taken away from but what do we do? You know, like We gotta adapt, you know, like I'm a person where okay, everybody ⁓ why are you doing AI? AI so bad, but I have to learn about AI so I can be better with what I'm doing, you know, at the same time. So is it bad? Yes, but do we have to keep up with what's going on? Yeah, because if not, w our businesses will be left behind, you know? So I get it. Everything else, everything in moderation, like exercise, everything has to be balanced, alcohol, whatever it is. We just gotta be you know, have it balanced. Okay, what's the second question? That that was gonna be my second I only got three. That was my second question. Like, ⁓ how do you, you know, have your what is how do you have your what's your mental time consistent of when it's just you and you? And I kinda know your answer, I'll tell you mine, but what sh what do you do to like have that time with for yourself? Meditate. Well ⁓ yoga I if I don't do my yoga classes three to four times a week, I'm a different person. And it used to be weight training, like spinning. It was spinning like a maniac and then running and then lifting. Now that I'm a little bit older, now it's ⁓ you know, yoga, namaste, meditation. I love it and without it, I I don't know how I would cope with life. Shame here. Yeah, my mine is ⁓ I get forty five minutes to an hour in that gym and the beauty of that is there's no social media. I'm not on my phone except for the music. But if you think about it, in this world, when do you have you and you, right? There's always a call, there's always a text, there's always a meeting, there's always a social media. So I look at that forty five minutes as the only time in the day when it's just myself. So is that close to you know, that's close to meditation and so and I do do my meditation ⁓ but what I've been trying to do is reflect like Where did I come from? What have I been through? Okay, where am I at right now? And then where am I gonna be in the future? So I'm constantly trying to that does something to me when I reflect on those things and it helped me build up for my future. So th that's kinda, you know, my mental getaway. And last but not least, ⁓ something that I'm trying to fight with because ⁓ I s like I say, I saw my dad work every day, never miss work. I was always perfect per perfect attendance in high school. And how do you feel about mental days? Like they say you should take a certain amount of mental days from work and you know, just just be just do your own thing outside of that. How how important are those days? And is that something that you think people need? Yes, for sure. Like I'm a workaholic, I'm a type A personality, and I have ten things going on, and you know I'm taking on another thing with you guys that we're gonna talk about in a second. But I think it's so important. Now, do I schedule a mental day in my life? I don't, but what I do is I listen, I've learned what you just said about self-reflection and your workout. I call it like stillness. When you're able to be still and you're journaling and you're breathing and you're meditating and you're self-reflecting, you raise your consciousness to a higher level where You know yourself, so you listen to your body, and when your body, mind, and spirit tells you, Hey, ⁓ to me, Lisa, enough, it's time, shut it down. And let me tell you, I am an expert at going into my room with my candles, with my meditation music, or even Netflix to watch something, and I just shut off the outside world. And I just do whatever is good for me, a massage, a bubble bath, walking in nature. You were talking about nature. Whatever it is that fuels your soul, you need to do and that is more important than going to the gym and working out every day and being with your family and working. Yes, mental health and giving yourself time, super important. Gotcha. Well You s you answered all three of my little questions and ⁓ I appreciate that. ⁓ you you're amazing. Yeah, yeah. I I I just hope there's more to come, Lisa. Like I say, I know we got some stuff coming for the you between ⁓ you and the us and the University of Miami, but this was something that I needed. You know, a lot of people feel like we do this ⁓ for other people, but I need to talk like this sometime. So I really appreciate you taking in and ⁓ Listening to what I have to say and I hope it helps. If it can help one person, I hope that that can all happen. Yes. Thank you so much. And before we say goodbye, I want you to do me a favor. Uncross your legs and your arms. Put them down on your we're gonna do a grounding for one minute, grounding meditation. You're gonna put your hands down and we're gonna do this for all of you watching. So just close your eyes. Palms down. You can either touch the ground if you're sitting on the ground, chair, the grass, the beach, wherever you are. And you're going to breathe in as deep as you can, four to five seconds. Breathe in. Then you're going to hold your breath a couple seconds. And then exhale seven or eight seconds as fully as you can. Gonna do that two more times and just think about peace, love, and light. So breathe in. And then exhale, hold your breath, and then exhale And then one more time, just connect with Mother Earth, grounding, centering, balancing, breathing in. Hold your breath and then exhaling out. And then open your eyes. So that was just a little meditation to ground you, to center you, to balance you. And I have to say, Mike, I thought you were a great person before this interview, but we haven't really shared a lot of time together. You are amazing, and you are so much higher in the consciousness awareness than you even know. And the fact that you're giving this to your players and to the people around you and here, and you're a tough football player, but you're a an emotionally vulnerable man who's open to this healing and peace and love and light. So I'm gonna say to you namaste, which means my soul recognizes your soul, and we're all one in this collective universe. And I'm getting chills, which means truth from spirit. So thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you, Lisa. No problem. And for those of you watching, if they want to reach out to you, where do they find you? you can reach me on Instagram. My Instagram is ⁓ coach underscore rumph. That's coach underscore r you ⁓ p h. And ⁓ you can always email me at ⁓ dot J dot rumph at univers at Miami dot EDU ⁓ dot J dot rumph at Miami EDU and you know, come to the games, man. We're we're the canes are gonna be great this year. ⁓ it's gonna be a great atmosphere. There's no better place to be and Just bring that good energy 'cause at the end of the day, that's all we need, you know. ⁓ this school has meant a lot to me, but this is only the beginning right now. So I know a lot more positive things are coming here. So Namaste. Thank you, Lisa. Yes, and I agree. And go Keynes. And thank you all for joining. And remember if you want to reach out to me and comment about this podcast or share it or like it or Say something to one of us, call me at 754-222-4413. Like this video, share it, comment on it, and go to the football games and get ready. Because the Dawaskin Foundation and the ⁓ football team are coming up with something big, new, and exciting. And we'll tell you next time about that. So thank you, Mike. Have a beautiful day. Thank you all for joining. Bye. Bye.