From Stress to Strength: Harnessing Mental Power | Ep. 304

The episode explores how our mindset can often sabotage our success and health, illustrated through personal stories related to a hiring process. By understanding that stress, fear, and self-doubt negatively impact our physical well-being, listeners are encouraged to reflect on their limiting beliefs and consider actionable steps for transformation.

• Emphasis on the connection between mindset and health 
• Personal story related to hiring and interview stress 
• Philosophy of ‘expressing health’ instead of getting sick 
• How symptoms can be responses to stress and fear 
• Personal anecdotes from baseball illustrating self-sabotage 
• Discussion on the physiology of stress hormones and health 
• Encouragement to challenge limiting mindsets and beliefs

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yo, what's up, fam?
Welcome back to another episodeof the podcast.
From here on out, we'rechanging it up no more intros,
no more fluff It'll just be me,unless Coco wants to be on at
some point in the future and nomore outros either.
We're just going to make itsuper simple, super streamlined
and talk about stuff that I loveto talk about, and we're going
to start with a interestingconversation that Heather and I

(00:23):
were just having.
I literally came straightupstairs to record this.
So here's kind of what wentdown, and hopefully you'll get
some value out of this episodeand just think about some things
differently.
So some of you may know ifyou've been kind of following
along on our journey, and evenif you're brand new, it doesn't
necessarily matter but we are inthe process of hiring, like a

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bunch of people.
So we hired West back in August, we had an intern come in in
January and then we just hired anew employee who is amazing, to
come in and be our creativedirector for a new podcast that
we're launching more detailsabout that coming soon.
Um, it will have nothing to dodirectly with chiropractic, but
just bring away more value, andit will be YouTube focused.
So I share that with youbecause, as we're doing the

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hiring process, um Heather and Ireached out to our church and
we realized, like you know, wedidn't think we were going to
get that many people to applyfor this position.
And, man, we had a ton ofpeople and the coolest part
about it is that all the peoplethat we were going to
potentially hire were likereally, really, really good fit.
So it was super special andhonoring to just have so many

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people reach out that were likeinterested in working with us
and being our creative director,and what we were really looking
for is someone who would comeon and just be like a full on
part of our team and justintegrate with the family and be
part of the family and all thisstuff.
And so we found the rightperson.
But in the process of this,there was someone that we were
interviewing.
Actually, this happened threetimes and I don't think God

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makes mistakes, but it happenedthree separate times.
So I started thinking aboutsomething and it was a
conversation that came up today.
So I don't want to give awaythe details about who this
person was as much as possible,but I think it's such a powerful
learning lesson.
So here's kind of what wentdown.
We're looking for someone tohire and as we're looking for

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them, we came up, came down tothe last couple of interviews,
and there was one person inparticular who I was super
excited to interview for anumber of reasons.
Um, just somebody who I think Icould have poured into like a
lot, and anyway, it doesn'tnecessarily matter all the
details of it, but what doesmatter is that when it came time
to sit down and do theinterview, I got an email like
the night before that wasbasically saying like hey, I'm

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not feeling super well, like Idon't think I should come in, I
don't want to get everybody inthe office sick.
And if you don't know, I'm justgoing to share this with you is
my philosophy on healthcareright now and philosophy on the
body is like we don'tnecessarily like in our
household.
We are not allowed to saygetting sick.
We don't even use the word sick.
Uh, we use the word expressinghealth because we believe that
any of the symptoms that ourbody would have is actually a

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natural response to somethingthat shouldn't be there in the
first place.
So another way to say thatwould be like a stuffy nose
isn't necessarily a bad thing,it's actually a good thing.
A headache isn't necessarily abad thing, it's actually a good
thing.
A fever isn't necessarily a badthing, it's actually a good
thing.
And while not the point of thisepisode, one of the things that
I think is interesting is thatthis person, right before this
probably little bit of stressfulscenario, started expressing

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health or feeling sick, howeveryou would like to say it, and
with that I'm like okay, that'ssuper interesting.
So obviously, yeah, like notgoing to make you come into the
office if you're vomiting and Iknow that you want an interview
for this position, so like let'ssee if we can set it up again.
And so then we go like anotherweek and the same thing happens

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when it comes time for the nextround of interview.
And same person, same issue,like not feeling well again.
And I just thought it was sointeresting and I'm like man,
that's wild, like they must havea really weakened immune system
.
And Heather and I were having aconversation and she was like
you know, somebody we know saidthat this person is this.

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They're like own worst enemysometimes, and I don't know if
you can relate to that, but Ican definitely relate to being
my own worst enemy in a lot ofways.
Again, a lot of ways.
And I, you know, when I sharedthe other night we did a
workshop in our office but Ishared this concept, like when I
was playing baseball in highschool, I could be in warmups

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for a game and I knew that I wasgoing to start that game and I
could throw strike after strikeafter strike after strike.
I was the pitcher and I couldtell the catcher, like wherever
you put your mitt is where I'mgoing to throw the ball, so just
be ready for me to throw,strike after strike.
And I would have all thisconfidence and warmups Now
getting the game.
I would throw a ball and then Iwould throw another ball, and

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then I would throw another balland then I would throw another
ball and I would literally walkperson after person after person
.
I would get pulled from thegame, like in the first inning,
and I was doing great in warmup.
Person after person.
I would get pulled from thegame like in the first inning
and I was doing great in warmup.
So what happened is my mindsetwould completely wreck me and
mess me up, and I share thiswith you, that story of me,
because I don't know if you canrelate to being your own worst

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enemy, but in that baseballsituation, I was my own worst
enemy where, as I worried moreabout messing up, as I was more
fearful that I was going to suckor that I was more fearful that
I was going to throw anotherball, it's exactly what happened
.
The more I worried, the worse Igot, and I see this play out so
many times.
But it's such a good physicalexample to talk about.
This interview is like thisperson maybe actually was their

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own worst enemy, where it's likethey had so much fear and so
much worry and so much doubtabout themselves that it ended
up manifesting in a physicallike feeling like they're ill,
feeling like they're not well.
And the question will be why?
Well, we know that when we havethe physiology, when our brains
start to think that something isscary, it releases stress

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hormones, cortisol, adrenaline,norepinephrine.
You've heard me talk about thisa lot, but one of the things
that happens when we releasecortisol specifically is we
actually put sugar into thebloodstream.
And if we put sugar into thebloodstream, then what'll happen
is we actually pause our immuneresponse, so like we pause our
body's ability to fight offbacteria and viruses, et cetera,
and it's an ingenious design ofwhy our body does it this way,

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and it actually does it this wayto keep us safe and protected.
We want to use that energy.
Instead of creating white bloodcells and fighting off
infection, we want to use it tobe able to fight or run away.
So if we don't have theresources available to work on
our immune system and focus onour immune system in a
parasympathetic state, obviouslywhat's going to happen is we're

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going to succumb to these, likeillnesses, if you will, when
really it's just opportunistic.
Bacteria or viruses are goingto overcome the system as soon
as the system gets weak enoughfor that to happen.
And which is again why I sayexpressing health instead of
getting sick, because it's yourbody's ability to try to fight
off the bacteria and viruses inthe first place.
So, neither here nor there, justlike in baseball, when I would

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throw balls and walk and thenget pulled out of the first
inning, I see this time and timeagain, where people become
their own worst enemy, and theirown worst enemy just like I was
by the thoughts that we think,and the more that we worry, and
the more that we stress, and themore that we fear and the more
that we doubt ourselves and themore that we have insecurity and
the more that we don't thinkthat we're good enough, and the

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more that we compare ourselvesto other people and the more
that we stop focusing onourselves and start looking
externally for validation andlike all the things.
That list could go on and onand on and on.
It literally triggers stressresponses within our system, and
those stress responses,triggered long enough, will
literally cause us to have thesesymptoms of illness.
And so when I see it andHeather and I were talking about

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it it's like, oh my gosh, Igotta record a podcast on this,
because I think it's critical tounderstand the concept that we
can be our own worst enemy.
And oftentimes, like literally99% of the time, from what I see
in my practice is that peoplewho come in with injuries,
people who come in with ailments, people who come in with

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difficulties, people who come inwith whatever they're coming in
with, it's often tied up toemotional states in the way that
they're thinking.
And the coolest part about whatwe're doing is that, when we're
moving joints of the spine, allwe're doing is affecting that
balance of the stress system, ofthe sympathetic system and of
the parasympathetic, or thehealing system in the body, and
we're affecting the brain.

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And so my encouragement for youon this episode if you haven't
been around us or you haven'thung out with us long enough is
to start thinking about yourmindset, like I have plenty of
workshops, I have done plenty ofworkshops, I have done plenty
of workshops.
I teach plenty of people how tobreak these patterns within
their nervous system.
But my encouragement for you onthis episode would literally
just be to start to considerthat your mindset is going to

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allow your body to express it incertain ways.
And if you deny that and you'renot willing to actually start
to look at your mindset, thenyou're probably sabotaging
yourself in ways that you don'teven imagine.
And this gets down to the pointin the heart of the matter is
this is that every single personwas designed to be successful.
The way that we think, the waythat we interpret our external

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world, the way that we interpretour life circumstances is a
direct result of our brainfunction, and that brain
function is weakened by thosestress hormones that I talked
about cortisol, adrenaline,norepinephrine.
So if we have a poor mindset,if we have bad thoughts about
life.
If we're constantly worriedthat we're not good enough or
we're not going to do goodenough and we stress and we get
scared, like this scenario,you're going to express less

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than vitality in your life.
Like my baseball scenario,you're going to express less
than what we would considersuccess.
And so, my friends, this is thechallenge I have for you on
this episode is to look at wherein your life do you feel like
you're having limited mindset,limiting beliefs, fear, anxiety,
uncertainty.
And then what's one step youcan do to start to break those

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patterns?
And what I can tell you fromwhat I've seen, from the
thousands and thousands ofpeople that I've worked with
inside of my office, is that assoon as you can start to break
those patterns of stress, offear, of worry, of anxiety, what
will happen subconsciously isyour body's physiology will
organize itself around a successphysiology.
Maybe on the next episode I'llgo into what that success

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physiology looks like in thestructures of the brain, but for
this episode I'm not going todo it.
So, my friends, that's all Igot for you on this week is like
, just consider that you mightbe your own worst enemy and your
subconscious is either workingfor you or working against you
based on what you program itwith.
Just like I shared the story ofthis person who we were
potentially interviewing, of mystory in baseball and so many of

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the things that I've seeninside of my life with practice
members specifically, so hopeyou got some value out of it.
I'll come at you again nextweek.
I love you, I appreciate you,peace.