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Speaker 1 (00:09):
you're listening to
the love movement with your
hosts britney and brian johnston.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We're starting a
movement centered around love to
help raise the vibration ofthis beautiful planet.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
That's your vibe.
Hang out with us as we chatabout many topics all centered
around three main pillars Lovingyourself, loving each other and
loving the planet.
So if you're ready, let's jumpin here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Okay, welcome to the
Love Movement episode nine.
I'm super stoked today to havemy buddy, Dan Archibald, on the
podcast.
So Dan is.
I think he's the first person Ithought of.
So, when we started, when wesomehow got this podcast going
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and I'm like, hey, we get tointerview people, I was like Dan
Archibald instantly, and so I'mgoing to tell you a little bit
about Dan.
So Dan lives on PE pei, so he'seast coast of canada.
We're on the west coast ofcanada, so he's living on the on
the other island.
Um, he's originally from texasbut he's got jamaican roots, so
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you know, he's this like superchill dude, right.
Uh, he's got a beautiful family, uh, wife christine, uh,
daughter pri Priya and his sonMerrick, and he's a fitness
coach.
So he's got his own studio.
It's called the Den and I thinkit's just outside your window,
there in your backyard, right.
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So Dan has worked with a lot ofpro athletes, some of which you
know I'm not going to drop anynames, but he's trained some big
names.
He works with a lot of youth.
He's trained people from alldifferent ranges, all different
ages and all different abilities, and he volunteers a ton of his
time.
So this past summer he'sactually presented with the
first ever Ernie Heckbert Award,and this goes to someone who
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shows a lifelong passion forfitness and the fitness
community, and when I seen thathe got that award.
I was like man.
No other person deserves thatmore than him.
So the reason I wanted to haveDan on the episode and the
reason he was the first person Ithought of is just how he is
with his family and how hecarries himself in the world.
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He's very, very well respectedand well liked by everybody.
He's very, very well respected,um, and well liked by by
everybody.
He's very loving, uh superpassionate about what he
believes in.
Um and when, when he speaks, hespeaks with such a deep wisdom
and grace from like a place ofno judgment.
Um, his words are insanelyimpactful.
So you got to live up to thattoday, okay, dan are insanely
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impactful, so you got to live upto that today.
Okay, dan, no pressure, nopressure.
Wow.
What I love is he's always ifyou, if you're on his social,
which we'll share his socialsocials later, if he's cool with
that, but he's always.
He's always displaying how muchgratitude he has for life and
his day and all the littlethings, and when you read his
post you just like can't helpbut but feel good.
Um, so bro is just an absoluteblast to be around and he's
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overall gem of a human and I'mreally grateful that I can call
you a friend.
So welcome to the love movement, dan.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Well, thank you guys
for having me.
Wow, I do not know if I canlive up to that intro man.
If you just be you, me.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Wow, I do not know if
I can live up to that intro you
just be you, no pressure.
You just be you and we'll getexactly what we need here.
So I want to go a few differentways with this.
I want to talk a little bitabout your family.
I want to talk about fitnessand just kind of how it relates
to living a life of love andgratitude.
So let's talk about fitness.
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So you're the king of the denand so how'd you get into
fitness and how has you know,love for yourself or love for
others played a role in in that?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well, I kind of
missed as short as possible.
I got into fitness because myolder brother was into fitness
and we're only two and a halfyears apart, but he was my hero
growing up.
I clearly want to do everythingbig brother did and he got into
fitness super early and I justkind of followed into his
footsteps.
And that's where my initialstart into fitness came from.
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And then it just blossomed intomy own passion and it just
became something that I fell inlove with.
And it was just blossomed intomy own passion and it just
became something that I fell inlove with and it was just been a
part of my life ever since.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Love that Do you feel
like, as it's evolved over the
years?
Like, has there been a level of, I guess, trying to weave love
into, into fitness?
Like, is it people you know,people that are fit?
Do you feel like there's thatlevel of like self-love, because
why are there people that don'tcare about fitness, like I?
This is just a thing I think of, but I'm curious what your
stance is on that.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Okay, that's very
broad.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yes, take that
wherever you want.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I feel like it's I
likened onto like having
children, and we discipline ourchildren because we love them.
It's not a lack of love for ourkids why we discipline, why we
tell them no, why we haveconsequences for their actions.
It's not because we hate them.
It's not easy.
You would know both parents.
Sometimes it's a lot easier tojust let it go and be like I'm
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not disciplined.
This is like let it fly.
But you know that your childwill be better off in the future
by how you raise them now.
So you do the hard things, youhave the hard conversations.
You say no, you you try andline up things as best as you
know how it's for them, becauseyou know that it's not just
about you and your comfort levelin the house right now, that
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eventually, when they are agingand growing out, that you know
that that's going to follow themfor the rest of their lives and
that's going to be ingrained inthem.
And that's why I look atfitness is now like it's evolved
in my mind, because a youngerguy was just like my brother's
huge and jacked and he's awesomeand I want to be like him and I
want to work out too too.
I didn't always love it thatway, but I loved it more and
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more when I when I realized thatthis is something that I want
for me, this is something that Iwant for later on in life.
And it's always evolving.
My love for fitness is everevolving and changing and moving
and it's one of those thingswhere I just like I see people.
I had my kids late in life.
I'm 44 years old and my oldestis eight and my youngest is four
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.
So I didn't have my kids youngand I don't want to be that guy
who's 50 that can't get out ofhis chair and play with his kids
because he's out of shape andwalking upstairs is hard and you
know that kind of thing.
So it's definitely changed.
I still like to go beast modeand I still like to go hard in
the paint and I still train hard, but it's not the same drive.
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It's not because I want to lookpretty.
It's definitely because I wantto do this for as long as
possible and hopefully be aroundand be healthy for my grandkids
when they come.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I love that you said
that, because I've been feeling
this too with myself.
I don't know if it's like athing around 40 where suddenly
it becomes less for vain reasonswhy you're working out and more
for just health, like exactlywhat you said being able to walk
up the stairs and get out ofbed and do the things.
And same with us having Martylater in life and now living on
Vancouver Island.
There's all these hikes Like Iwant to be able to do these
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hikes with him when he's in histwenties and not be like sorry,
I can't go, my knees hurt orwhatever.
So like working out comes froma different place of of me
loving myself enough and lovingmy son enough and Brian enough
that I want to take care ofmyself.
You would always say what JimRohn said.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well, I, yeah.
So Jim Rohn, one of my favoritequotes I heard he's like you
take care of you for me and I'lltake care of me for you.
So it takes.
So it's not like a selfishthing.
You're doing it for someoneelse because you love them,
because you want to be aroundlonger, like just think about
you know when, as we get older,do you want to be the sick
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person that the other person hasto take care of?
Are you gonna, you know, leavethis planet early because you
haven't taken care of yourself,and now you've left the other
person lonely, like without you?
So it's just like one of thosethings where you take care of
yourself and love yourselfbecause you're we want to be
there for the other person.
You want to show up as yourpast.
Right, that's kind of how Iyeah, I look at it, yeah 100.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I had this
conversation with a client
yesterday.
We were joking around and I waslike christine finds this
morbid, but I was like I hopeone day, whether I'm 90 or
something, that she scurries outto the gym to find me and I'm
keeled over, dead on thedeadlift rack because I was in
the deadlift and I peaced out.
She's like that's more of it.
I was like I don't want it tobe where I'm in the bed and I
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can't wipe my own bum.
I'm going to be, I'm goingaround doing life, and then I
was just gone.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And he's grinding
right to the bitter end.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
To the bitter end,
and that was it.
When I was done, I was like Idon't throw shade at anybody
that's in those situations.
It's tough, right, to watchpeople in wheelchairs or have
very limited mobility, but everyfiber of my being desperately
does not want that, because I dosee 90-year-old people still
going for 10K walks every day,which is crazy right, like
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that's nuts, that I want thatLike, and I just want to go.
I don't want to be forgettingwho I am, or not knowing my
family or or all the things thatcome along, that they're
actually finding more and morecorrelation between Alzheimer's
and your and your health.
And it's not just oh, you justget it, because you get it, it's
because of the practices andthings that you do while you're
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alive that bring these things on.
So I've become way moreintentional with those things,
with those things in mind, thanjust like, oh, I want big
muscles.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Right, yeah, exactly.
Or as a girl like I just wantto be skinny as ever, you know,
it's like for such differentreasons as you age.
Now this is my next question.
Some people think, like ifthey've never been fit their
whole life, maybe they're 50 or60, 70.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Is it ever too late
to start on that journey of
fitness?
Never, never too late.
I've had people start in theirlate forties and fifties and
some of the crazy videos youmight see me posting are 52 year
old lady deadlifting 300 poundsI see, and it's like like wow,
yeah yeah, and it's just likewhat?
and it's just like this.
It doesn't make sense to them,like I just started this a
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couple years ago, three, four,five years ago like how am I
able to do this?
I'm stronger.
They often tell me like 50 yearold me would absolutely beat
the snot out of 30, and I lovethat.
I was just like, yeah, you'reright, it's like I feel better
and move better and I'm like 50year old me would absolutely
beat the snot out of 30 year oldme, and I love that.
I was just like, yeah, you'reright, it's like I feel better
and move better and I'm strongerthan I've ever been in my life,
and I love that.
Going to me and coming to theden, that hasn't been just, oh,
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you have to do these things.
You have to be super strong anddeadlift heavy.
I have people that have nointerest in any of that stuff,
but they still come to mebecause they want just.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I want to be fitter,
I want to be healthier, I want
to be.
I just want to.
I want to be happier.
Yeah, so you've created apretty amazing community there
at uh, in in the den, I see youpost all the time.
You got a whole bunch ofdifferent groups of people.
How has community played animpact on on your clients and
just how the overall vibe ofeveryone there, like how do they
feed off each other?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
It's incredible.
One of my favorite things to dois before one of my big classes
is to walk into the room and goover and just putter in the
corner and set up the camerabecause I usually have it live
streamed to a couple otherpeople who can't be present of
the camera because I usuallyhave it live streamed to a
couple other people who can't bepresent and just to sit there
and listen and listen behind meand just hear the chatter and
them laughing and exchangingstories of their life and just
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interacting.
And what are you doing laterthis week or how was your
weekend?
Or are we getting together forthis?
And I love that.
It makes me feel like these aremy cubs, like this is my family
, like these are my people, andI love seeing them just interact
and integrate.
And people from totallydifferent walks of life just
like coming together and in theden, it's all, it doesn't matter
, right, it's all, it's just one, we're.
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We're the lion's den and I justlove.
I love that that's so special.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
community is
everything, and I think when
people sign up for things likethat, like what they're doing
with fitness, they don't realizewhat they're signing up for,
whether it's that or a businessor whatever, like I feel like
that's similar to what I do too.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, I think just
being around people that are
different and being able tobuild relationships with them, I
think it just gives you a senseof like we're all different but
we're all actually the same andit just it takes walls down,
even outside of the gym right.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Well, it takes walls
down and puts you on a different
level and I don't mean adifferent level is then higher
than someone else a differentlevel of understanding that I
don't have to compete with you.
I can encourage you and we canencourage each other, and I can
celebrate your successes withoutfeeling bad about the fact that
, well, I can't pull as heavy asyou or maybe or maybe I haven't
lost as much weight as you are.
I don't look like you, itdoesn't matter Like.
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I hear them all encouragingeach other and it's like when
you find that level ofpositivity and you can probably
see it in Arbonne, when I seeChristine interacting with
people of all different levelsand never once have I heard her
throw shade.
Like I live with her.
I hear the worst than the bestand I don't hear her throw shade
at people who are doing betterthan her or have more or
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whatever.
It's just encouragement comingand going.
And the people that she hasconnected closest to, like Katie
Carter and Laura Murphy andKate, are the people that
radiate that positivity.
You that radiate thatpositivity back and forth that
you can connect without, whenyou've learned to connect with
people and learn to be inspiredby them and not be envious of
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them.
Your life gets better, yoursituation gets better.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Isn't that in itself
a way to like raise the
vibration on the planet?
Is just like cheering eachother on, being there for each
other and, yeah, yeah, not beinglike jealous and envious and
just almost trying to putsomeone down because you don't
have what they have.
Mel robbins said this quoteyears ago.
She was like you can't bejealous of something you don't
want, and so maybe that's where,like in our community, within
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arbonne, where christine and Iare, which is how you guys met
on an incentive trip, um, backin the day.
You know, that's, I think, theinside joke that will never die,
it's the best.
but I just feel like, yeah, wecreate that community that is
just like a rising tide liftsall boats and no one's in
competition with each other, andthat's why we can all have our
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own levels of success, and likewe're all in different seasons
of life.
You know know, like Christine'sover there rocking the kitchen,
like my gosh, if I could dohalf the things your wife could
do in the kitchen, you'd behappy.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I'm slowly watching
my wife turn into Laura Ingalls
every time I turn around.
I'm like you are one step awayfrom bloomers in a little
flowery dress.
I'm like.
I love it she'll come in likeI'm saying I'm planting garlic
this week.
I'm like, are you now?
I'm gonna come home and find agoat one day.
I'm like so we're doing goatsnow are we?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I've always wanted to
go.
Goat is in my future, for suregoats grabbing goats.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Do you want to talk
about?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
um this?
Um, I do.
But while we're on this topic,okay, what was the topic we were
just talking about?
I don't remember.
We're talking about a lot oftopics, um oh yeah so having a
community, yeah, so a lot ofpeople, if okay, here's where I
want to go with this.
How does it?
How does this help your, yourmental health?
(15:22):
So, having a community ofpeople versus trying to go
through life by yourself, do youthink, um, mental health is is
affected by having this?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
of course it is okay,
of course it is.
We got to see it actuallydisplayed firsthand through
covid, when people wereliterally cut off from their
communities, what it did to them, true and we take it for
granted because we're soconnected through our phones and
so connected through everythingthat we just take it for
granted what personal contactactually does for the human body
, what it means, why I'm notgoing to sit here and say I'm so
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special with my fitness andstuff.
Why do people still come andsee me face to face?
They could literally ask me fora program and do it on their
own.
One of the main reasons isaccountability.
They know that if they pay forit and they are coming, that
they're going to come and showup.
And another one I've had somany people tell me for their
mental health.
They come in because they wantthat conversation, they want to
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interact with me, they want tofeed off of me or release things
off of me or release things.
And when you talk aboutcommunity on a whole, when
people try to isolate themselves, and sometimes that's caused by
different things in their life,right, like people that they've
trusted have hurt them, andthen they get closed off and
different things that happen intheir life that can seriously
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affect them.
So not everybody's just oh,you're just crazy, you're
closing yourself off.
There's things that literallymake people do these things
right and experiences, but it'snot healthy and I look forward
to it.
I genuinely look forward to myMondays when I know I get to
start all over again and seedifferent people and mine is
such rapid fire that by the timeI get to lunchtime, that's my
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lunch hour alone.
It's mentally exhausting in agood way, but still mentally
exhausting because I've seen thefirst six hours of my day have
been six different people or sixdifferent groups, and I'm
interacting and pouring intoeach one and my interactions are
genuine.
And I get to the lunch I'm like, okay, I did a little bit of a
break and then I dive back inand I get fulfilled, too, from
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from people too.
It's not all just people.
I always say people always sayyou're like a physical
hairdresser.
I come in and dump all myproblems on you while I'm doing
my squats and I'm like, yeah,but I take from people too.
I glean so much from theseindividuals that pour into me as
much as I'm pouring into themthat it's been an amazing
experience.
But yes, community, huge foryour mental health, and it's
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definitely been.
One of the things that hasdriven me to keep being
passionate about my business isthat I get to.
I know I'm connected to peopleand when I get messages and I'm
not trying to brag, honestly themessages that mean the most to
me are not that, hey, I lost theweight.
Or hey, look at my new PR arethe messages I got from my mom,
who was like you literally savedmy daughter's life.
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We've taken her topsychiatrists, psychologists,
we've had her on meds.
The one thing that made achange in her life was coming
and spending time with you and Iwill pay anything to keep her
coming and being in your companyand doing whatever it is you
guys do in that gym.
It's the first thing I've seenactually work.
You guys do in that gym is thefirst thing I've seen actually
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work.
And I've gotten a few messageslike that from parents that are
like I don't understand why youhave such a connection, but you
do, please, and thank you somuch for working with my child
and connecting with my.
I just I really don't want tosound like I'm bragging on
myself, but I've gotten so manyof these messages that I save.
I screenshot them and save themin a folder in my phone where I
look back and I can readthrough those and every time I
feel like it's a bit much or I'mgetting tired.
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I read through those and I'mlike the things that you're
doing, archibald, does matter,and they're the things that I'll
never post on Facebook, likelook at this message or whatever
.
Right, but it's for me, it, butit's for me.
It's encouraging to me to keepdriving and to keep my character
strong and to keep pouring intomy community.
Sorry, that was long-winded,brian.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I love that.
I have chills.
That was so good.
That's amazing, you know what'sfunny that you brought that up.
Well, first of all, can I askhow old would these kids be that
you're working with?
What would be the age?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Anywhere from 14 to
18.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Okay, working with
like what would be the age?
Um, anywhere from 14 to 18.
Okay, because there's a hugeand I don't know if it's related
to covid and the lack ofconnection, like you were
talking about that.
That age bracket is reallystruggling and I just had a
conversation with this with afriend recently and I'm just
like I feel so desperate, like Iwant to help this friend's
daughter, basically, and how howcould I do that?
I didn't even fitness didn'teven cross my mind, like
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movement.
Brian always says movement ismedicine 100%.
You know, with you having a badback, I have a bad back, Like we
know.
When we don't move our bodies,we feel like I don't know about
you, but I feel like I'm 80.
Same here, yeah, and I justthat.
Never even crossed my mind toeven think of that, but I feel
like that's huge, dan, and thatobviously gives you purpose and
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fulfillment and so much morethan, like you said, the PRs and
the weight lost, like you'regiving people their life.
That's a huge honor.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Well, I feel like
through the conversation that
they come in, it's awkward.
It's like who's this big blackguy and okay, and they're quiet
and I act.
I don't know, when I talk topeople, you'd probably you will.
Same way I act with you guys.
It's like I'm loud andbelligerent and just like blah,
blah, blah, blah.
It's like we should be morequiet and I'm just like laughing
at my own jokes better aboutthemselves and I'm celebrating
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their stuff.
And then all of a sudden,randomly, we're talking about
stuff and something slips outfrom there and I'm like, yeah,
and then just it's so organicthat it's never forced and it's
just things can spiral andpinwheel from there.
And it's like you know, andit's just also me being
intentional with keeping abreastof current stuff.
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So when they bring up an artistor something, I know who it is.
Like I'm old and I get it and Itell them all this time I'm an
old man, but I know who.
Like what's going on with theKardashians and Travis Godden?
Like I, I keep abreast of theissues.
Once something pops up like I,you know what I mean.
Like I can actually be actuallyhalf relevant to what the
conversation is.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I can actually half
relevant to what the
conversation is.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I can count on you to
send me any real about justin
bieber or?
kardashian, so I thank you forthat, but I feel like they feel
they feel heard, right, yeah,like they can say something.
And it's not like we're talkingabout my stuff in my gym.
It's like I have superherostuff plastered all over.
It's like my gym looks like a14 year old decorated it and
it's like it's me and I don'tcare if you like it or not.
There's going to be Supermanover here and some superhero
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stuff over here and some.
This is just a randomsmattering of stuff.
It doesn't look like it's ahigh class, high end performance
gym and it's just I don't know.
Yeah, it's me, it's me and it'snot me trying to be like I'm
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trying to show them I'm hip andyoung.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I'm not hip and I'm
definitely not young, but I can
still relate and connect withthem on on that level, just that
I am aware of the stuff you'regoing off with or, and I feel
like you're so right, yeah, likenothing replaces human
connection.
Um, and I think people kind ofgot a little bit I don't know
social, more social anxietyduring the pandemic, for for
sure, when we just were isolated.
I even felt that in myselfbetween having you know our son
and the postpartum business andbeing in that season of life
where people just weren'ttogether.
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Yes, you could gather onlineand do things like that, but
just nothing replaces humanconnection.
I had an event here at my houselast night and I just I
couldn't even go to sleep and Iwoke up early and I couldn't go
back to sleep.
And I woke up early and Icouldn't go back to sleep
because I'm in so much gratitudefor the connections, the
community, the people likesharing space, sharing energy.
I'm not that excited when I doZooms.
I'm grateful that we can be onZoom and talk island to island
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across Canada, but would Irather see you in person on an
incentive trip, like we usuallysee you at?
Yes, because then we can hangout and like that energy.
That's why we love you.
That's why we love you.
That's why, like you were thefirst person, brian thought of
my friend Lindley.
She always says, you know ifTaylor Swift I'll use because
she's relevant with her concertsright now.
But it's like, would you rathergo to the Taylor Swift concert
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if you're a Swifty or just belike, no, I'm good, I'll watch
it on TV?
Of course you'd go.
So I feel like there's always,no matter what we've gone
through, no matter the level ofsocial anxiety you believe that
you have, you'll always feelgood when you get around other
human beings and share space andshare energy.
And that's probably part ofyour superpower, because I feel
like people just feel like thatwhen they're in your presence
and you're able to make thatlevel of an impact on these
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young kids that they'll takewith them for the rest of their
life.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Like.
That's everything.
I think a really good lesson isthat is when you, when you show
up with your true, authenticself, it gives other people
permission to be them their true, authentic self.
Because if you're showing upand you're not being you, the
other person isn't going to bethem and no one's getting the
full version of anyone and theworld is just blah, so true yeah
, yeah, and I, I 100 believethat and that's so true.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Yeah, yeah, and I, I
a hundred percent believe that
and that's why I made thecomment before and I've said it
before in posts.
Um, if you don't genuinely careabout people, maybe fitness
isn't the right Avenue, or beinga fitness trainer isn't the
right Avenue.
It's like why would you go intochildcare if you don't like
kids?
Why would you go into nursingor doctor If you don't like
people?
If you don't like kids, whywould you go into nursing or
doctor if you don't like people?
If you don't have a genuineheart for it?
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I mean you can think like thisis a good way to make money, but
if you don't really have agenuine love for it, you
shouldn't.
And my thing is, it's peoplefirst and fitness.
So if you come in for fitnessand you're clearly just been
crying in your car, we're goingto talk, are you OK?
I just didn't car.
We're going to talk, are youokay?
I genuinely care about you,like you're one of my people.
What is going on?
And sometimes it takes a good30 minutes before we even lift a
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single weight.
Sometimes a single weight's noteven lifted, but at that time
that's what they needed, becauseI genuinely care and it's not
well, let me act like this so Ican get this, so I can make
money.
It's I genuinely love and careabout the people that I work
with and I think it has given methe majority of my success.
People might say I can tell youhonestly, 100% beyond a shadow
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of a doubt, the majority of mysuccess has come from everyday
folk that I've worked with, notfrom working with the captain of
the Maple Leafs that helped,but from other people going and
other parents, like that parentthat wrote me and telling other
parents I don't care, send yourkid to dan.
I have drummed up so much morebusiness from parents and other
people sending people my waythan I've ever gotten from.
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Oh my goodness, he trains thecaptain the maple leaf like it's
.
It's crazy and I would havenever thought that 15 years ago
right, because that wasobviously a massive deal like
training him.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
So yeah, you said you
have a really big servant's
heart.
Yeah, and I think anyone whohas the people that have the
most impact in the in this world, they they chase service before
money, but money usuallyfollows as a result of just of
just serving it's part of whatour mentor taught us years ago.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
he always would say
like everybody is out chasing
money.
But yeah, you have the equationbackwards Chase the service how
to help people and naturallymoney will chase you instead of
you chasing it.
Because then it's like you'respending your whole life chasing
money and still feeling likeout of alignment and like you're
not even doing something that'sgiving you value or meaning.
You know, because people mightthink on the surface oh, I sell
Arbonne.
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I barely talked about theproducts last night at this
event.
Like I talk about the people,the community, the culture, the
energy and some of the messagesI got after that event too.
It's like, oh my God, how do Ihave these incredible people in
my life?
And it's because I'm chasingservice, not just like what can
I sell?
I don't even care if I sellanything, you know, just like
you might not lift a weight witha client If they're having a
hard day, you're having aconversation with them.
(26:45):
It's like what do they need?
How is it about them?
I love that.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Uh, let's talk about
your daughter.
Priya is always in the gym withyou working out.
She's eight and, yeah, she'seight, and she's been doing it
for years.
Good, yeah, she's eight.
Like, how do you think youthink?
Uh, parents, like kids, arealways watching.
They're always no matter whatyou think, they're always
watching, they're alwayslistening, they're always
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repeating things that we say.
Our mindsets are going intothem.
Um, I feel like how you are asa dad, as a husband, um, it's,
it's just an, it's an energy,and you can feel it when you
talk about your family, when youread your posts and you see
your messages.
How does that, how does how youcarry yourself, work into your
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kids, I guess?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
It's everything.
Priya started fitness becauseof COVID and when I had to get
booted out of the gym and camehome and she'd always talked
about it and done little sillythings here and there.
But when I started doing thelives on Facebook every night,
so when COVID originally startedI was like I didn't care.
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I was like I'm not going tocharge money, I'm not going to
have a private group.
This is going to be openfitness classes on my actual
facebook page and whoever wantsto join in.
People told me that sometimesthey just joined in just to sit
and watch and to look at otherpeople type in.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
yeah, I've done it
guilty, guilty as charged, but I
don't want to work out andpeople felt connected.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Right, they could
still connect and go into
comments and still like connect.
And she used to come and sit onthe staff and her little she
had this little tutu that shewould wear all the time.
And then one day she's like,can I do it with you?
And I was like, absolutely.
And so she got her little onepound dumbbells one evening and
she was sitting there beside medoing it while I was doing the
live and it's never changed.
And then it turned into well,I'm in my garage now.
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It's just like, can I come outand work with you?
And I was like, yes, you can,and she'd come out and do the
classes.
And now she does the classesevery single class, like she was
in class last night and shejust always comes in and asks
permission, daddy, am I allowedto come out?
And I'm like, yes, you,merrick's not the same.
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Merrick actually doesn't ask oranything and he has no interest
.
He loves to play and run aroundand he loves going to the gym
with Christine and just runningcircles and doing stuff.
So if it's going to happen withhim, it's going to happen as
organically as it did with Priya, because Priya was just.
I want that.
So for her birthday I boughther a little pink barbell and
her own little clips and she wasso excited, like I got my own
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barbell what an example to setlike she would never do that if
she didn't see you doing it allthe time.
No, no and I realized that and Ijust I'm forever thankful for
the community that I also havethat.
Once he's in there, I'll turnover and I talk about the murmur
and like puttering in thecorner and listening to people
behind me, and I'll hear herasking them and talking to them
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like a grown woman, like well,how was your weekend and what
are you up to?
And they're asking herquestions and she's having these
little conversations with herfriends and she's like, yeah,
sherry said this, or Courtneysaid this, or Katrina said this.
I didn't see Katrina last nightand I was like you know you're
eight and these women are like40.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I may probably love
that too, like I just think
that's so.
That's so cool.
What a good example, oh youwant to talk.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
You want to talk
about.
My heart swelling is listeningto then cheer her on and
randomly in class like you gotit for you and they're like
cheering her on and she's doingher thing like it's.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
That was like my
heart every time it makes you
wonder what she's going to endup like doing or being because
that, if that's such an interest, for at such a young age, like,
who knows, raising a littleolympian of some kind there yeah
, who knows.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
And then again same
breath.
She's always like followingchristina around in the kitchen
and I was like, are you going tobe a little house in the
prairie?
Are you, you going to beOlympian crazy.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I don't know, I love
that.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Let's talk about
nutrition a little bit.
How do you view nutrition?
And just like loving, throwinglove to your own body?
There's a lot of junk food outthere.
There's a lot of.
It's Halloween today.
Yeah, today's Halloween.
There's a lot of.
There's a lot of junk food outthere.
There's a lot of it's Halloween.
There's a there's a lot of,yeah, today's Halloween.
There's a lot of choices andyou know, when I go grocery
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shopping and I look at someone'scart, I don't want to judge,
but I can see like, okay, well,but you're judging, that person
is not making the best choicesfrom themselves.
So maybe there's you know,maybe they just don't love
themselves as much as theyshould, they don't realize this
amazing body that they'recarrying around and they're not
serving it.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
They're treating it
like a garbage can.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yeah, and it's.
It's sad to see everyone can.
You know they can do their ownthing, but I know for me.
I know what I want to put in mybody.
You know 98% of the time I'mgoing to treat it well body.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
You know 98 of the
time I'm gonna treat it well.
I I 100 agree with you, brian,but I sympathize with both sides
because I am a foodie at heart.
I am.
I am a genuine, deep love forfood and flavors and all the bad
stuff.
So the weight when I home I'mpretty, pretty disciplined
because I'm home, I mean my 30second commute to the office and
back.
I'm not driving pastrestaurants and stuff we don't
eat out.
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We cook and eat at home.
All of our meat is locallysourced, grass fed from a local
farmer.
We actually will get half a cowand use only that meat we don't
buy from the grocery stores.
Same thing with our vegetablesare from local farm.
We actually will get half a cowand use only that meat we don't
buy from the grocery stores.
Same thing with our vegetablesare from local farms.
We're very lucky that it's asmall enough area that we can
have access to all of this stuffLess pesticides, less things in
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the meat, like we know exactlywhat we're putting into our
bodies is so important to us.
But my wife will Christine willtell you every single time she
like we'll get to a resort andshe'll be like Dan.
I'm like woman.
I know I'm going to feelhorrible, but I'm going to eat
everything at that buffet.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I am, so you and I
got judgy pants over here.
Who's trying not to judge me?
He's judging because he wouldnot eat the shit at the buffet
that I'm going to eat.
You're going to eat, so like,thank you for saying that.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Good question that
I'm going to eat.
You're going to eat, so like.
Thank you for saying that Goodquestion.
There's a reason why my bodyfat is exponentially higher than
Brian's.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Oh my gosh, it's like
we were just in Costa Rica and
I go around with my plate atthis amazing buffet and I'm like
banana raisins, nuts, a littlebit of eggs and maybe a
mangosteen I think was something.
It was like a couple littlethings.
I'm like I don't want any ofthat other stuff because I just
don't want to feel like craptoday.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
I know and I'd pass
by and I'd boop you on the nose
and tell you you're cute, andthen I'd go to Brittany and be
like let's get that pastry overthere and I'm like yeah.
On the next side of trip we'llsit together and Christine and
Brian get healthy meals and Ifeel half guilty because of my
wife's Crohn's.
She doesn't have that option.
Right, she has zero.
She bites you.
She does not have that optionLike she will absolutely feel
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like garbage within seconds ofeating that stuff.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
That's probably the
difference, Brian.
I feel like you're on the vergeof like having like something
like that.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
You actually really
feel crappy.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I can eat it and just
and just feel tired, like I
feel fine, my guts are fine.
Yeah, I just shouldn't debatethat same here.
I'm just lethargic, like I findmyself, like I'm usually a
night owl at home and when we'reon vacation, that's like seven,
eight o'clock and I'm like oh,like what is happening, because,
yeah, some people have healthissues, like christine, where
they simply cannot do that, orlike I mean you weren't
diagnosed celiac, but I feellike you kind of were at some
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point or I don't know at onepoint.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, gluten really
affected me and then you just
knew, like, okay, well, if thataffects me, I'm not going to eat
that.
But some people will literallyget a diagnosis and go and eat
fast food right, right.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
That's this, that's
um, that's that ties right into
to big pharma.
Don't open this.
Can with me?
I feel like we need to open thiscan but, like, when you talk
about like people, just like andI, I understand there there's
two different ways doctors goabout it.
When you go into a doctor'soffice and it's like I'm going
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to make money from this becausethese are the people that are
feeding me, so I'm going towrite you these prescriptions.
And then there's doctors thatgenuinely care, but they know
that you're not going to care,so it's like I'm not going to
fight with you over this andhave you coming back worse and
worse here.
Just take these pills, takethese prescriptions.
Like I feel like both are justkind of washing their hands, but
one's like definitelyfinancially motivated and the
other one is like I know I cantell you that you're killing
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yourself doing this and you'renot going to listen, so you may
as well just take these meds andtry and combat it as best as
possible, because you're notgoing to make that lifestyle
change, and I understand it.
Like, because you have peoplewho are like you need to make
some life changes and I'vetalked to people like that and
they're changed nothing.
I refuse to change anything.
I'm going to eat what I wantand live how I want to live,
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even though they know they feellike absolute garbage and that
they're slowly killingthemselves, and I feel like I
don't want to make excuses, butI also don't want to be cold
hearted.
So when I'm talking to a newclient, I was like I understand,
I'm a foodie, you think it'seasy for me You're looking at me
(36:18):
.
Well, it's easy for you.
It is not easy for me.
Working out is easy for me.
I love it.
I like feed off it, I lookforward to it, I get excited for
it.
Not eating the things that Iwant to eat is not fun.
I enjoy what I do eat.
I enjoy the healthy foods I putin my body, love it, but I also
love me some junk.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
And the fact that I
don't have access to it.
You can make some unhealthythings actually pretty healthy
and taste pretty good.
These days doesn't all have tobe you can.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Yeah, that's, that's
at home.
Like if you ever watch me inthe morning, I'll get up and
I'll have.
This is literally what I do inthe mornings.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
First thing I get up
in the morning, come downstairs
5 am this is a question Iactually was gonna ask you, so
let's, let's hear it, so let'sgo.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
I go greens, gut
health, mushroom glass of water
down that and I wait like 15minutes.
Putter around wash dishes, dolaundry.
Yes, I do the laundry anddishes in my house.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Good for you.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
And then I set up and
I was like, okay, then I take
my pre-workout and fizz.
I put them together, I put thepre-workout and the fizz
together in a glass and I downthat and out the door.
There's no food in my system atthis point, it's just the
greens and the fizz.
I get about a couple workoutsin, usually the first one with
the first client, the second onearound 9, and then around 10 am
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I have my shake.
My Arbonne shake will havecoconut water, two scoops of the
Arbonne powder, gokshudu powder, which is a mushroom, fenugreek
I'm drawing a blank now moringapowder, just some things for
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antioxidants and things to helpsupport like naturally support
your testosterone and things forme, and I'll have those in
there.
Glucosamine and, uh, collagen.
That's my shake for the knee.
Shake it up, down it yep, andthen I'm back out.
Um, when I come back in at noonvery heavy carnivore where it's
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like I'll grab a package of likethe grass-fed ground beef and
I'll have.
I'll grill it up.
Half goes to the kids, I gethalf a pound to myself.
I'll pair that with a couple ofeggs and maybe some sweet
potato.
That's lunch and then I'm goodto go.
Evening is sometimes what Icook, and sometimes whatever
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Christina would have cooked forthe kids Sometimes like
sourdough pizza or shepherd'spie or whatever she's
experimenting with that daychili or stuff and then I do
that.
Um, I'm also a big snacker, sothat's probably also why I'm not
as shredded as brian that Ilove to eat throughout the
evenings.
I'm that dude that I'll eatperfect up to about nine o'clock
(38:50):
and then between the hours ofnine and midnight I can put me
away some calories.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
I'm so glad I'm not
alone.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Yeah, it's like I
could eat.
So it's like I transform likeDr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and I'll
just rip through covers andconsume calories.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
I really have to hold
myself back.
He's a snacker.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Yeah, I'm a big
snacker, but also I'm an big
snacker, but I'm also I'm anidle snacker.
If I'm bored, I'm like, oh,let's watch this show.
What kind of cycle watches theshow and doesn't have someone to
snack on?
exactly how so as much as asmuch as this is like, or I tell
people so I identify with themand tell people I get it.
(39:30):
This is not just me beingpretentious, like, just eat
healthy, I get it.
You are addicted to the thingsthat you're addicted to, like we
have been sold things in oursociety and whether you want to
call the food industry and bigpharma, and when you watch about
funding and where they'regetting their money from and
who's funding what and who'slike, there's a whole whole
that's a whole different podcastto uncover of what's actually
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going on with that stuff.
But so, in light of that, I doget it and I'm sympathetic
towards it because I understand,because when I go home to Texas
and I know that none of thestuff I'm going to be good, I'm
going to be calling your brotherlike Merry Christmas with a
Chick-fil-A sandwich.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Chick-fil-A the best
oh that's good though.
I think having that compassionfor your clients, though, makes
sense, because I just even feelmore like heard from you than
you, because he's so judgy withthe food like, and I'm like you
where I just like it's like.
I say to him well, I guess it'sbecause I'm a girl and I have
hormones like you.
(40:29):
Don't get it.
Like, I want the gravy.
Can I just have a bun like, anactual bun with the gravy, like
at every Thanksgiving, easter,christmas, like I don't care for
three meals a year, Mr PuppyPants.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
But what helps me
throughout the year, brian, is
the fact that, because Christinedoes have Crohn's and because,
like Merrick has sensitivities,merrick takes after his mom.
Priya has iron belly like herdad's, you can have whatever,
but because Christine is theprimary provider with the food
in the house, like there's nojunk in the house, so during the
back and forth, it's likethroughout the week, I feel good
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.
I also know that I'm workingout three, four times a day.
Half my workouts are liftingincredibly heavy weights and
like bludgeoning my body todeath.
The other half are highintensity where I'm like pushing
my cardio and I know that if Ieat bad fuel, that is, it's
going to absolutely affect thatand it's going to I'm going to
feel like garbage.
Yeah, so my 90 10 rule isprobably 90 good fuel and then
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the 10 on the weekend.
Every now and again I'lldeviate, but throughout the my
general I just understand that,at 44 years old and to keep
myself feeling how I do, thatthese are the things I have to
do.
Back when I was 41 and we werein Texas, I had my testosterone
tested because I'd never had ittested before and it came back
and I don't remember the exactnumbers, but the lady behind
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there was reading it out to me.
She's like you have thetestosterone levels of a healthy
25 year old male, wow.
And I was like, thank you.
I turned to Christine.
Of course, yeah, I'm like, oh,she knows.
Seriously, it comes from allthe working out and spiking my
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testosterone levels, naturallythrough working out and through
how I eat, and my system runsextremely well.
I've never been on anyprescription medications, except
for isolated incidents likewhen I had surgery on my knee or
anything.
So I don't have anythingprescription medicines in my
closet and I used to think thisis just whatever.
And then when I started askingpeople, I realized that 90% of
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everybody walking around is onprescription 40, who's 40 plus
for something, for somethingblood pressure or heart or
something.
And I'm like, oh so I'm theoddball that doesn't have to
take meds.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
We're also oddballs.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Yeah we are.
I heard a very, very sadstatistic from just a health
practitioner that I know fromSaskatchewan and she said that
they're trained in likepharmaceutical sales reps.
Apparently the goal, the goal,is five by 50.
They want everybody on fivemedications by the time they're
50.
And again it's like moneydriven.
Let's stop masking everythingwith a drug and start doing
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things that you can helpyourself with, like eating
healthy 90% of the time andmoving your body.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
But to all your
listeners, google it.
You just Google chronicdiseases.
What percentage of chronicdisease is preventable through
diet and exercise?
And Harvard studies and otherstudies will come back, but no
matter the study it's either.
The lowest I've seen is 70%.
The highest I've seen is 90.
It's preventable.
So literally 70% to 90% of thestuff that people are going to
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hospitals for chronic diseasesanyway are preventable through
diet and lifestyle.
And it's not even you have tobeast mode like Dan and eat like
Brian.
It's literally walk four timesa week for 15 minutes and don't
eat pure crap.
24 seven.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Yeah, literally.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
That was another one
of my questions I had is like
what is um the minimum that youdo a day, or people should be
doing a day, like if they'rejust for time what what can
someone do if they're just likehey, I got 20 minutes today.
Um, what should I be doing toyou know, In terms of movement,
In terms of movement, just tolike love my body a little bit?
Speaker 3 (44:20):
Right, calisthenics.
So if you have 20 minutes andthe best you can do is go for a
walk, go for a walk.
Go outside, cold, hot, whateverI hate the cold, but go go
outside, get some pressure intoyour lungs and walk.
If you are able to squats,push-ups, hip hinge, there's hip
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hinge, there's squats andthere's push pull.
So those are your basicmovements.
Every pushing movement worksyour chest, shoulders and
triceps.
Every pulling motion worksbiceps and back.
Squatting hits your quads,hamstrings and glutes and h
hamstrings and glutes, andhinging hits hamstrings and
glutes.
But those are the most basicthings that you're going to need
through life.
Sitting down on a toilet,standing up, reaching for things
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, pulling things Like those,like four basic movements are
needed for just longevity andquality of life.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
I don't want to live
long.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
I want to live
quality when my quality of life.
I don't want to live long, Iwant to live quality when my
quality of life is done.
I want to be done too.
I don't want to be like I said.
I said if I can't want my ownarse, I want out you know it's
funny.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
In in japan a lot of
their tables are on the ground.
They're this far off the groundso they're getting up and down
like 40 times a day.
And there's people that are 90years old.
They're getting on the groundlike no big big deal Cause
that's their every day you everseen them like in the Asian
culture.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
They just squat right
down like a baby and they just
like sitting on the side of theroad and that deep squat and
you're like I do that everymorning.
Every morning I'll like sitthere and I'll like squat deep
because even with my bad kneesand both surgically
reconstructed I still have thatrange of motion where I can sit
like pretty much like an oldAsian guy.
Me too, man, I pop in there andI just kind of hold it for a
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few minutes and then okay, justto keep that range of motion and
that mobility.
I don't ever want it to be aliability and I can't help
certain things.
My knees are never going to be100 like I correct them, um, but
I know people see the videosand they're like that's not true
.
I was like no, I'm just verycontrolled with what I do and
I'll do what I can with what Igot and that's what I encourage
people when they come to me.
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It's like you don't have to doall the things you see everybody
else doing.
You may not be able to dodeadlifts because you're back.
You may not be able to dodeadlifts because you're back.
You may not be able to do X, Y,Z.
I will find what you can do andwe will do that to the best of
your ability and we will get youmoving and maybe down the road.
Your body will be healthyenough to do the other stuff
Maybe not, but do what you canwith what you got.
I always say that Do what youcan with what you got.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Write that one down.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
That's so true, so
what I do like a minimum every
day.
I do 50 push-ups, I'll do somesit-ups.
I got, you know, chin-up bardownstairs, so if I'm going past
it I'll just go crank out like10, 15 pull-ups or chin-ups.
I just try to do like not everyday I can do a big workout, I
can't.
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I'm not always able to go ridethe bike, so I want to do
something.
So I started always able to goride the bike, so I want to do
something.
So I started doing like yearsand years and years ago I
started doing something I didn'tknow it was called neat, which
is non-exercise athleticthermogenesis, which is just
things that you do during yourday that might raise your heart
rate a little bit, get themuscles moving, but you're not
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going out of your way to like doan exercise.
So if I'm going up the stairs,I'm not just going up the stairs
, I'm like running, springing upthe stairs.
You know, if I'm in the kitchenmaking dinner, I might be
sitting there or standing theredoing stuff and I'm doing, um,
uh, like calf raises, leg raisesjust standing there, just doing
, just doing little things allday.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
He's like I'm gonna
have a shower and suddenly he's
doing 50 push-ups.
First it's like I have to.
I need, like okay, my workoutclothes, I need to get my
pre-workout, I need to have anhour, and then my mindset is
like a lot of time, so I donothing.
So like the fact that you dothat and you always try to get
me some something's better thannothing.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
Yeah, it's like if
we're going to get groceries,
100 instead of.
Instead of carrying thegroceries like this, I'll carry
them in a position where mymuscles are flexed and I'm going
to get a burn just walking tothe car.
Just stupid little things allthroughout the day.
Park, far away, walk fartheryeah.
I'll park far away.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
Never takes an
escalator or an elevator.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
It's just all these
little things and there's more
things than that, but it's not.
I just do them now withoutthinking, and it's just part of
my day and I get exercise injust like that.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
That's more feasible
than what I do.
Brian, that is more feasibleand more realistic and more
feasible than what I do.
Not everybody's going to comeinto the gym and want to pick up
500 pounds.
I take pride in that that I'mthat strong.
I'm a strong dude, bro.
But it is more feasible whenI'm talking to people in a daily
balance, like when I read thestatistic and I might get this
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wrong.
So you could again Google mighthave to fact check me that
going for a walk for 15 minutesthree to four times a week
lowers your rate of heartdisease by 40% 40% with 45
minutes of work in a week.
Are you kidding me?
That is how how much we arecraving movement.
That just going for a walk for15 minutes three to four times a
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week lowers your rate of heartdisease and heart risk that much
, that is insane.
So you add that up with justdoing okay.
Well, what if I did five days aweek in a 20-minute workout?
Oh my word, the statistics arecrazy.
Like it changes so much.
Your mobility improves and yourheart improves and your lung
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capacity for your lungs canimprove.
It's crazy how little it takesto get a lot, and not everybody
wants to look like the frontcover of men's health or women's
health and not everybody iscompeting for something.
I deal with a lot of athletes sowhen I'm talking to your
average person and they'regetting down on themselves and
I've had people come in.
I've had some of my clientscome in and they're just like,
oh, I'm just like.
Oh, look at me.
And they like, pinch yourlittle roll or something.
(50:00):
I'm like, okay, you're 50, tellme how many of your friends
look like you and can do whatyou do?
And they're just kind of smartand I'm like that's right, zero,
zero.
I was like if you go out to afight with your other 50 year
old lady friends, you'd killthem all.
And they're just like go laugh.
And I was like bodies be flying.
And I was like but my pointbeing is that we get so
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hyper-focused, we're focused onjust being the best self, and
like we're such we're, we're ourown worst critics and we forget
sometimes to stop.
I'm like this with myself too.
I've had times where I'm justlike, okay, I'm in bulking
season, like right now I'm inbulking season, I'm lifting
super heavy, I'm eating a lot ofcalories, I'm loving this
season right now.
And then, if we go somewhere,though, but if we're ever on the
beach, if we were in costa rica, I'd be telling christina like,
(50:42):
tell, tell them, I'm anaccountant, I look good for an
accountant.
Like, don't tell them, I'm notrainer, but so that's.
I mean, we're so hard onourselves but it's not just
about the aesthetic and it'slike doing things like what
you're doing, brian, and I seeyour family going for hikes and
just the fresh air and being innature and grounding and going
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and walking and circulation.
Do you know how many peoplelike are my age at 44 to 50 that
make old man noise when theyget up?
You know exactly what I'mtalking about yeah, yeah.
It's just, it's like I don'twant to be that person, I want
to keep movement.
So my goal isn't to get peopleto be beast mode, my goal is to
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get people just move, becausethe more you do that stuff, I've
actually had more than a few ofmy clients come back and say I
was able to come off thismedication and they took me off
of this.
And I'm like just throughmoving and watching a little bit
what you eat, like didn't eventake away all their treats, just
like maybe stop this, maybestop that and move a little bit
more, and all of a suddenlife-changing, like complete
(51:51):
life change, without just alittle bit and I feel like
everybody should just try it.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
Like, if you're gonna
live a whole life grunting to
get off the couch and, you know,feeling not as good as you can
feel, just try implementing someof these things that maybe
you've heard on this podcastalready for like 30 days and see
if it makes a difference,because otherwise you're just
going to keep living the rest ofyour life like the way you
think it has to be, which itdoesn't have to be like that.
You know some people that arelike I have a lot of friends
right now, for whatever reason,they're in their 60s and some I
(52:19):
just feel like they're so youngat heart.
It's their mindset, it's howthey move their body.
Like I'm in my brain, I'm likethere's no way you're in your
60s.
But then the next person can bejust like they think they're so
old, they don't, you know, theydon't move because they're just
getting so old and it's likehow, how is this a mindset thing
, like what is happening here?
Speaker 3 (52:40):
And I think I think
it is.
I think it is because when Ireal the funniest part to me is
that I don't think I look young.
I don't do very much for myface and I have my wrinkles and
I don't.
I don't think I look like ayoung man.
But I'll be working with someof these kids and they'll be
talking to me about somethingand then I'll mention my age and
I'm like, ah, stop this, I getoff my case, I'm 44.
And they'll be like what?
(53:00):
And they start laughing.
They're like, no, I'm like,yeah, I'm 44.
They're like, no, I'm like,yeah, I'm 44.
And they're like, well, how olddo you think I was?
I was like I don't know midthirties and I started laughing
and I realized that A I haveyoung kids, so it just so, if
their parents are my age, theyexpect my kids to be their age,
so that makes me look younger.
B their parents or their dadsdo not move and look like I do.
(53:24):
So their parents or their dadsdo not move and look like I do.
So automatically.
It's just like you don't looklike your dad, your dad, my
dad's, your age, you guys do notlook the same.
And my energy and just likealways teasing them and joking
around and just being like Iguess like a kid on cocaine, I
don't know, but it's just like Iwas like.
I was like I should probablygrow up at some point, but I
(53:44):
don't, I don't want to, you'reyoung.
I was like I should probablygrow up at some point, but I
don't want to.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
No, you're young
spirit, alive, like I, just yeah
, that's what I think, whateverybody loves about you, and I
think we get the same commentsoften.
Speaker 2 (53:53):
Oh, all the time.
Speaker 3 (53:54):
Yeah, I think people,
they get older and they think
they should act different, butin reality there's still a
little kid inside all of us thatwants to get out and play and,
you know, express themselves.
I'm really good at that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, you are, but that's whywe connected.
(54:15):
It was just like I think weneed to be besties.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Like the movie
brothers, like we just become
best friends.
That was awesome.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
I love when you guys
see was like someone else is
gonna do.
Speaker 1 (54:28):
I love when you guys
see each other in the flesh.
I'm like get the camera outit's big bro hug coming up.
They love it.
Speaker 3 (54:33):
Oh, it's so good it's
all new like mash a day,
because who does mash a dayhappen.
I was like oh, he likesfoolishness, does he?
That's my guy, he's aboutfoolishness I'm about
foolishness.
Speaker 2 (54:44):
I can be serious, but
I also like to like to have fun
.
There's just uh, I feel it justbrings a life is too short a
youthfulness, a lightness to toeverything, and I think other
people feed off the energy.
You know when, when you actlike that so just positive vibes
.
So with you, like you alwayshave this positive vibe about
(55:05):
you.
How always have this likeessence about you.
How always have this likeessence of gratitude about you
all the time.
What inspires that?
Speaker 3 (55:12):
honestly, um, a large
part of this.
My faith, um, uh, I'm abeliever, I'm a christian.
I put my faith in christ.
I believe in jesus, I literallybelieve in what his word says,
and when you actually believethose things and you understand
that you're given so much inlife.
I've gone through some wildstuff, like we've talked, and I
(55:35):
know your stories is wild.
You have no reason to be ashappy as you are.
Either of you, neither of youhave any reason to be as joyful
and sweet and loving as you are.
You have every excuse in theworld to be bitter.
People.
Right, you really do, and youhave to show you've chosen joy
and that's why, when it comes tosomething like love, I choose
(55:57):
love.
Love is not always a euphoricfeeling.
I think we equate so much ofthat because Hollywood tells us
that's what love is, thateuphoric, like Twitter-pated
feeling, and that's part of itand I love that.
My wife can still make my heartflutter and whatever.
But through the grind timeswhen everything is just heavy
and hard, I know I've chosen tolove her and she's chosen to
(56:17):
love me.
And because of that choice andbecause my allegiance is to God
and God has told me that I'm tolove my wife more than myself.
That is what I do and I can pulljoy from that, like I, I.
I.
I pull so much joy that when Iget up in the morning and I'm
dragging and I'm thinking aboutstuff and I'm like, okay, it's
5.00 AM and I go down and I waslike I don't clean the kitchen
(56:39):
because I know she's going togive me a shout out on Instagram
.
I clean the kitchen Cause I'mlike she's going to come down
and get the red kids ready forschool, so I want it spotless,
so she doesn't have to come downand worry about anything and I
can bounce out.
And it's a great, it's an actof love and every day I choose
that I can do small things toshow my wife I love her, besides
telling her I love her andgiving her a kiss or giving my
(57:00):
kids kisses and hugs, which I doevery single day drives Priya
nuts now because she doesn'tlike kisses anymore, merrick
loves them.
Don't say that.
I know, I know it breaks myheart like it's disgusting, but
Mary's all like America's daddy.
But I get to show them everyday like how I treat their mom,
(57:21):
like when they see like theynever hear me disrespect her,
call her names, snap at her,grumpy with her.
They've seen us havedisagreements like every single
couple will have, but they'venever seen me be disrespectful
in that and they know that theone thing that they can do to
get daddy upset is to disrespectmom.
It's like daddy doesn'tdisrespect you and you're not
(57:43):
disrespecting her either.
And they know that that's not aline you cross.
But that's how I was raised inmy house.
The cardinal rule the worstthing you could do is disrespect
mom, because daddy would losehis mind and it was like you.
Never.
That woman does so much for youand we never understood when we
were younger just how much.
And you look back now and we'relike, oh my gosh, she was
(58:06):
insane like the stuff she did.
And I understand now why it waslike you, never, ever, and
that's.
I realized that.
That's why I treat Christinethe way I do.
And so when you guys aremodeling this lifestyle for
Martin, he's going to be such anamazing human being and,
through all the frustrations andthe growing pains and being a
parent which is tough like, hesees genuine love between you.
(58:27):
And then he sees you interactwith all your girlfriends and
you don't think he sits thereand watches that daddy's always
coming and serving and lookingafter mommy with those things
and has a serving heart for hiswife.
It's not about like I don'twant the boys to think I'm a
simp or whatever.
I could care less.
That woman is my girl and she'shaving a nice evening with her.
I'm going to go and I'm goingto make the drinks and the
(58:48):
snacks and serve and show my sonthis is how you take care, this
is how you take care of yourpeople, this is how you be a man
and look after your people andthat's going to stick with him
and I want my son to see thatand I want my daughter to see
that.
That this is how you treat soany other guy that comes with
anything less they're going tohave to deal with black up, but
(59:10):
also you're going to know that Ideserve better than this.
My daddy never did that to mymom and my daddy never treated
me that way.
So I'm not accepting any ofthis foolishness and I'm praying
and hoping that she makes gooddecisions in that way, because
I'll go to jail.
No, but that's a long-windedanswer.
(59:32):
I'm sorry that's verylong-winded, but that's.
It's just everyday choosing joy.
It's everyday choosing joy.
And there's things that happen,like last year this time.
I can remember coming back fromthe Bahamas and heading straight
to Texas because my dad wassick and I did not know that
that was going to be the last Iever saw of him and that he was
going to pass away.
And then I look back at COVIDand everybody losing their minds
(59:53):
about how hard it was and uspeacing out for six months and
going and spending time.
I did not know that thosemoments were going to be the
last moments my kids had qualitytime with their grandparents.
I didn't know, but we lived inthat moment and we accepted it,
and it was one of those thingsthat I could have been upset.
I could have complained everyday Excuse me, I could have
(01:00:17):
complained every day, but Ichose to show my kids we're
happy, we're with family, wechoose joy, we choose happiness.
I feel like it affected theirmental health that they didn't
have all the heaviness a lot oftheir friends had back this way
and I feel like the way wemodeled our lives around that
and, like I said, how I treattheir mom, it always baffles me
(01:00:38):
when couples don't realize thatkids are not stupid and they
know that that's supposed to bethe most important person in
your life and you treat her likegarbage.
Everything else is fake, likeif that's how you treat your my
mom, your wife, then everythingelse is fake, every everything
else is fake.
And kids are also great forkeeping you in check because
(01:01:00):
when other people come aroundthey will not lie to you, right,
daddy?
told mommy this it was like,right, kids is the note builder?
Yeah, but I just I just in mymind.
Sometimes it's a practice youhave to give yourself and you
just like working out everysingle day is not yeah, I love
(01:01:21):
it, but I know I'm gonna feelbetter after every single day is
not like happiness and likejumping to the roof and whatever
.
But I also know that findingjoy in those moments and
sometimes it's 90%, whateverI'll find that 10% and hang on
to it and that's what I willfocus on and that's how I start
my day.
And I said to Christine theother day she was saying
(01:01:41):
something to me like are yougoing to the dentist?
I was like, yeah, my toothhurts.
And she's like, did it juststart hurting?
I was like, no, it's been for amonth, it's like a month.
And I was like, yeah, it's likeI didn't know.
And I was like I didn't sayanything.
I was like I should have gone abit more smart, been a little
bit smarter and gone.
But I was like I just don't, Idon't complain, I can focus on
little things.
There's always aches, pains,financial stuff, like there's
(01:02:02):
always something to complainabout, and some people find
those things and choose to focuson that and it robs their joy.
And some people find the goodand choose to focus on that, and
even when you have periods ofyour life where you're going
through stuff.
One of my favorite Bible versesI don't have the actual verse
with me, but I remember thewords and it says pain and
(01:02:22):
suffering may endure through thenight, but joy comes in the
morning.
And it says pain and sufferingmay endure through the night,
but joy comes in the morning,and I have that implanted on my
heart.
Joy morning always comes,nights, terrifying sometimes and
hard and tough to deal with.
You just got to hang on untilthe morning because joy comes in
the morning.
The sun always rises and I livethat and that's why I love
sunrises.
Every morning I'm there with mylittle camera, like I like my
(01:02:45):
100 are.
Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
I see so many
sunrises Every morning.
I'm there with my little camera.
I 100% see so many sunrises inPEI.
I could send you sunset on theWest Coast.
Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
But I love it.
That to me, is like look atthere, that's joy, that's
happiness, that sings to my soul.
And I didn't mean to get allphilosophical, but that's
literally honestly how I look atit, because my life is not
perfect and there's things thatI wish was better, whether it's
physically or financially orwhatever.
But my life is good and I havemuch to be happy about and I
(01:03:16):
have good people in my life andthat's why I think I gravitate
towards people like you.
I meet a ton of people andthere's a lot of people in my
circle, but my inner circle isvery, very, very tight and I
don't just say this, but there'svery few people I lend my extra
time to.
I will give bread to whoeverneeds bread, but to the people
that I consider my closest, thatI want to spend time with, that
(01:03:37):
I yearn to spend time with.
That I want to have in mycircle is very, very tight and
it's not based off status or oh,you're famous, want you in my
circle, or oh, you have money,so I want you in my circle.
I know people one of my closestfriends, actually, I just found
out handles ryan reynolds money,so he was talking to me about
(01:03:58):
meeting with him and stuff and Iwas like you think you'd
mentioned this to me before andjust like kind of chuckled and
like had golf with morgan wallenthe other day and like like
this guy is connected.
But I asked him one time I'mlike you have had so much
success in your life and you'vedone so much and I'm like you're
worth ridiculous amounts of thepeople you're connected to is
like why are you still messingwith me?
(01:04:19):
And he says the people that Iknow are genuine are the people
like he tells us to me and it'syou're one of the good ones,
brother, and to me that's abetter compliment than anything
anybody could give to me that,that you could tell me something
like that.
And I was like, okay, well,you're a good one too, because
it I've met a ton of people thathave money there just for lack
of a better term assholes, and Ihave nothing.
(01:04:40):
I I haven't, I don't care, Idon't care.
Like you have money.
Good for you, good for you,buddy Bye.
And I think the beauty of alsohaving my studio is that I can
control my vibe.
I can control the energy that'sin there.
So, as much as it's like sixdays a week, a lot of hours, I
can control who's in there andwho's taking from my time, who
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my kids are on.
My kids pop out all the time tosee people and I have full
control over that.
My kids pop out all the time tosee people and I have full
control over that.
So, all in all, whether it'sthe passing of my dad or people
being sick or a toothache orwhatever, I have so much good.
I will never focus on thatstuff and rant about that kind
of stuff.
I will always appreciate whatI've been given and we all go
(01:05:21):
through hard stuff every lastone of us but we also all have
the choice to fight through it,have good people in our circle
who we can reach out to, who canhelp us and I said my faith and
my family and friends and I'mgood, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
If.
Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
I never eclipse where
I'm at financially right now.
I'm good.
I live the rest of my lifebecause I'm happy.
Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
Oh, that's so
powerful, dan, and like it just
goes to show that everything isa choice.
It's a choice to see how youview things, and you can either
be the victim or you can findthe gratitude and the joy.
I love everything that you said.
Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
There's always, as
Napoleon Hill said, a seed of
equivalent advantage in everyadversity.
So, no matter what is going on,there's always something good
you can find out of it.
Even if it's a small thing,there's always something good to
be found, 100%.
Speaker 1 (01:06:08):
And I feel like
that's a definite way.
Everything you just describedis like a way to love yourself,
to love each other and honestlyto love the planet, like just
having that.
Imagine if more people in theworld thought that way and
looked at life through that lensthat you do, how much you would
raise that vibration of theplanet.
Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
Yeah, you're raising
the vibration of the people in
your circle, the people thathave access to you, a hundred
percent.
That's why I wanted you on here, because, uh, we need you to
raise the vibration of everyonethat we know too.
So I love it.
Yeah, thank you for coming onhere.
Um, I don't know if I have anyother questions, maybe what?
What can someone do on a dailybasis maybe you answered this
somewhat to to show love andappreciation and raise vibration
(01:06:50):
around, and what's like acouple little things someone
could do find one thing you cando for someone else and do it.
Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
Um, it is so simple,
but the joy you get from
watching someone's expressiongenuinely change and smile is
it's like there's no, there's nomatch for it.
Even something small doesn'thave to cost money, doesn't have
to.
But when you do something forsomeone else and it's almost
selfish that you know I'msitting there, I love Christmas
(01:07:19):
and I love when someone opensthe gift and they're just like
and they love it, and you knowthey love it Is that not the
best feeling, isn't it just like?
Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
oh.
Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
Now think about doing
that on a daily basis.
I literally will pick up myphone in the morning when I go
out to the gym and take mypicture of my sunrise or
whatever, and then I'll justfind one random person to write
and like, hey, I was justthinking of you, hope your day
is going well, love you, man,peace or piss bumps or something
(01:07:50):
like that.
Send it off and I'd be like youwere thinking of me.
Oh, my gosh, this is the bestmessage.
I needed that this morning andto get that back, and it's
completely random and I'm likeyou were thinking of me.
We haven't talked in a fewweeks.
Like what?
And it's just little thingslike that, like stupid things,
like being in a store and seeingmarty mcfly and being like I'm
getting that for my boy.
Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
He loves that he
wanted to actually he's like.
I want to see my marty mcflylittle statue it's so true
because when you sent that, Iwas like, oh my gosh, like he
saw, this didn't just like senda pic and say this is sweet,
like you got it and sent it tous.
I couldn't believe that it'sstill having an image I mean
Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
so impact.
I love that and that's what Imean.
So something small a note,something that doesn't have
anything to do with you, thatyou're actually just giving it
to someone else.
Or I saw what you did.
Or liking someone's picture andtelling them like that's
amazing or just whatever, justsomething you would be fine with
.
The more you give us, the moreyou get.
Like I said, it's like thatfeeling on Christmas watching
someone flip out over something.
(01:08:46):
You got them and you know it'sgenuine.
You can have that little bit ofthat feeling almost every
single day.
Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
And it'll raise your
vibration.
Speaker 3 (01:08:53):
It doesn't cost you
anything.
Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
It doesn't cost you
anything, not a thing.
It's like a flame doesn't loseanything by lighting another
candle.
Right, it's the same.
Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
Right, 100%, 100%,
100 percent that's so yeah that
would be the one thing that youcould do and it takes no time 20
seconds, I mean.
We can get on there once.
Cat videos all day long orbeaver videos and I'm guilty
because I do love you somestupid videos.
But in between that, justsending someone some
(01:09:20):
encouragement or knowing thatsomeone's going through a hard
time, and just like saying likehey, I'm just thinking of you,
man, like stay strong and justlet's.
It's just I don't know.
There's something when someonesends me that message that makes
me like you were thinking of me.
I have a friend here that he'sa good 15 years older than me,
but he'll send me random stufflike that all the time.
(01:09:40):
It's like I passed by yourproperty today instead of lights
on in your gym, and it broughtme joy to know that you're in
there helping someone right now.
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
And.
Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
I'm just welling up
inside.
I'm just like if he thought it.
But he took the time.
He could have just been likethat's awesome and kept on his
way and I would have nevergotten the joy of his moment.
And he got the joy of it likehuh, but he chose to share it
with me and then I got tobenefit from it and it made my
(01:10:11):
day and I think so many times wehave those things where we
could tell someone that, orsomeone you walks in.
I was like you do something withyour hair.
That looks awesome, love it.
Okay, grab the weights.
And I passed by and you canjust tell it like like yeah,
you're looking good.
Or like hitting one of the guys, the guys would come in like
boy, I tell you've been reallynew.
Grab an arm like boy, you'regetting beefy.
And just like, just little bitsyou can give to people, just
like you're trying and you'reworking and you think that no
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one notices you and you're goingthrough life like and you think
that no one's and someone justgives you a little tiny and you
have no idea it could be acompliment that they just like
yeah, I know, I'm awesome, go ontheir business, or it could
mean the world to them.
And you don't know, but you justspread enough of those seeds
because something's going tocatch.
All right, something is goingto catch.
Not every seed blooms into amassive tree, but something's
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going to catch.
You spread enough of thoseseeds around, something's going
to bloom and you're going to getsomething beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
That's amazing.
You know those little thingsthat I've been doing.
I wish people happy birthdayall the time on Facebook, but I
don't send them just like ontheir wall.
I'll literally message them.
I'll send them a funny GIF andlike hope you have a super, epic
, amazing day, like somethinglike that.
But it's personal.
I look forward to your messages.
Every year it's always a newGIF every year.
(01:11:21):
I look forward to it.
You're on my Facebook.
You probably got a message fromme, so there's that.
And then the last couple weeksI started thinking of, uh,
somebody just just like you said, like a random message, and I I
would think about this personfor like a week and I was like,
why don't I just send them amessage?
So I sent a few people thesedifferent messages and they
reply.
They're like oh my god, thankyou so much for that.
Like that was amazing.
I was like, oh easy, it was soeasy.
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And then, and then like ifyou're out at like a grocery
store or something and someone'shelping you, and so I was just
saying thank you, I try to say Iappreciate you, man, or I
appreciate you so much, or youknow something like that, and it
just makes them feel like felt.
Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
You've always been so
good at acknowledging people
too and like, yeah, I think whatdoes rita davenport say?
Everybody has an invisible signon their forehead that says
make me feel important, make mefeel special, try to smile at
people I like that.
I like that we think thethoughts all the time but like
do you say the thing you'rethinking?
That could just really brightensomeone's day but even to your
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own spouse.
Speaker 3 (01:12:22):
How many times do I
pass by and I'm thinking oh,
she's looking good today andjust don't say anything?
And I was like why wouldn't Igo over and tell her she looked
good?
Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
today like yeah man
even just like walk through the
kitchen a little slap on the asslike hey, I see all that.
Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
That's.
That is sign language at thehighest level.
Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
My friend, you're
speaking black language right
there that palm to booty is thebest compliment you can get from
a brother you guys kill me oh,man, uh, I just want to say how
much I appreciate you taking thetime to come on here and share
some of your, your love for life, with everyone.
Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
And, uh, just I
appreciate you I think a lot of
listeners are going to get somuch from this episode and just
implement even the little thingsthat you've shared, whether
it's through fitness andnutrition or how you can, you
know, spread love in the daylike it's going to help a lot of
people, so thank you for beinghere and having this convo any
any last uh thoughts you want toleave a listener, or or they
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can connect with you maybe Justthrough social media.
Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
I'm sure Brian will
toss up my shoulders on there,
brian and Brittany, but I wasactually pumped to do this with
you guys because I have so muchrespect for both of you and I
don't fake stuff.
I can't fake like, oh, I can'twait to see you.
I don't have those connectionswith other people.
Why is it that, from day one,puerto Rico, what?
(01:13:53):
10, over 10 years ago, 12 yearsnow, there's 20.
Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Long time ago.
Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
Long time ago that
it's still that genuine, because
I don't have time forfoolishness and, like I said,
even if you're not in my innercircle, if you need my help, I
will pour from my bucket.
But I look at it this way Ihave a well that I want to pour
into people and I will alwayspour into as many people as I
can, but I'm very careful who Ilet dip into my well, because
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one drop can poison the entirething.
So y'all are in my well.
I'll just say that like I knownothing, but goodness has added
to that well to be poured backout to other people.
So I was actually reallyhonored that you asked me to be
on here and then it was just anawesome opportunity to have a
conversation with people that Ilove talking with anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:14:38):
So yeah, I agree, I
love that.
I appreciate you so much.
Thank you for being here, dan,and for all of your kind words
and wisdom.
Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
It was so good, yeah
all right, everybody, go out
there and spread some love.
Connect with dan.
Tell him how, uh, how you've,uh, how dan has impacted you.
Shoot him a message, tell himit'll fill, it'll fill up his
bucket a message yeah all right,stay awesome everybody later.