FROM BAKER TO FITNESS TRAINER What's His SECRET to Success?

Ever wondered how someone can completely switch careers and find massive success in a new field? In this episode, join host Lisa Urbanski as she delves into Hassan Maominah’s inspiring trajectory from a baker to a natural bodybuilding champion. Hassan shares his experiences in natural bodybuilding competitions and discusses his recent book on the importance of focus in life

From swapping mixing bowls for dumbbells, find out the secrets behind his remarkable transformation and the habits that helped him achieve success in the fitness industry. Get ready to be motivated and inspired by his journey!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello everyone, and welcome back to The Advisor. I am
Lisa Urbanski, co host of the show, joined today by
Hasaw Mahumina, and he is all the way in Saudi Arabia.
He stayed up real late to do the show with
us today. It is midnight there right now, and he
has a story. He has been through so much in

(00:25):
his life. He is the author of Captain Garuda, a
Tale of Bravery, Kindness and a Big Heart, which is
a paperback that you can find all over and he
looks one hundred and fifty five pounds and he spoke
about his journey, you know, on these podcasts, so if
you have not heard one, go back and listen to them.

(00:47):
They're really really informative and he shares a lot. So
two things. First of all, I want to thank our
sponsor iHeartRadio and Spreaker. We really appreciate you and without
you we would not be able to talk to Hasan today.
And secondly, I want to ask our loyal audience to
please remember to like subscribe and if you have any comments,

(01:11):
please leave them in the comments section of you know,
your favorite podcast platform so that we can address you
and get back to you. And it just makes a
show so much better. Welcome back, a san You just
got back from a bodybuilding competition. Can you tell us
how that went.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
That was one of the hardest experiences I've ever had
in my life. But wow, I'm happy with that because
I didn't waste my energy or my hard working for
nothing to be the fourth place as a natural body.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Wilder, Well, congratulations, that is such an accomplishment.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Uh, to be honest with you, they used to follow
with us a different process from regular bodybuilding competition because
in the natural bodybuilding competition usually they follow couple tests
the steroid and growth hormone by accidentally, but the main

(02:20):
test is the light detector test. Usually in the test,
after they put the devices, the ask questions you should
say truth, and questions you should say lying to make
sure you don't try to pass this example, because if
you're lying within the questions.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
You have to lie. Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
The ability for seeing that it took control and to
look saying you say the truth, like if you use
the steroid or anything like that being not possible.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
And mostly they will recover that.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Wow, so you've got a lot of detects. You said, yeah,
and then what was the bodybuilding?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
But because.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Bodybuilding competition usually after you finalize all the body look
you have to like imagine when you go in a
theater and you go like dance in stage something similar,
but you have to show the dimension of your muscles.
Is like an anatomy show something like that. Can you

(03:37):
go to medical school and see the anatomy of the
body is simile like that, but the difference depends on
each career. I used to be a sport model. Sport model,
we used to wear jeans, long gene and you have
to make poses similar to physics poses. The physic is
like it's a category in the bodybuilding but usually they

(03:59):
don't focusing the link, defocusing the upper body. Okay, interesting,
but they need more experience to how to make the show,
how to show the dimension by this way, and that
needs a lot of experience to understand the body. Answer
to me, that's why it's not that easy. But because

(04:22):
I was scared that if I stay alone in the
in the city, in that city in Dubai, maybe I
will maybe I'll get depressed, I will have problems mentality,
so I prefer to stay in hostile. Hostile is not
that expensive, like twenty dollars per night and most guests
there are amazing and.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
They prepared the food for free. They didn't charge me. Wow,
very nice.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
That's a bonus. So some have some on I welcome
back and that's an amazing accomplishment. So congratulations. Let's sten
into today's topic. I know that you wanted to talk
talk about something that you know the whole world is
into and it sees videos. Can you talk to us

(05:08):
a little bit about the negative effect that stuff like
TikTok and short videos has on the brain and why
is this a problem.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Let's back fifteen years ago, like in twenty ten, if
you want to go to the cinema, the cinema usually
has a high demand for the movies like that, and
especially like an important movie something similar like Captain America.

(05:43):
Avengures these movies. If you bought the tickets and you
didn't continue the film, mostly we'll call him an idiot.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Why because at that time.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
People live to focus more than any other time. I
know maybe a lot of people they used to come
from Z generation, but at least they can focus and
they can be productive. After fifteen years, we got afficiently
alpha genation. Alpha genation means to speak, swapping for the videos.

(06:15):
Sweeping make you efficiently not to focus. And when we
make format videos and shorts, there are some requirements you
have to cross more than one hundred percent if the
video format least than thirty seconds to be a successful video.
And unfortunately, to explain that most people are sweeping, and

(06:38):
especially TikTok, if your videos two percent or two or
four percent complete the video, that means it's a successful
video because most of them are just sweeping, sweeping all
the time.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
And this is the.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Bad thing about using these reels because it teaches us
not to focus in one thing. Unfortunately, we are living
in a genation, this generation most people when they want
to do something, they don't continue. Maybe before they used
to not to continue, but at least much better than

(07:18):
these days. These days is really terrible because when you
watch the shorts like in TikTok, the reels in Instagram
or in Facebook, or even in the shorts in YouTube,
when you make too much sweeping, it makes the same
side effect of the plus eighteen movies for the kids
or any one person. So it's effects for the front

(07:41):
side of the brain and unfortunately make our ability for
focusing less. When I discovered this, how do we discover
this problem? Because most of the time when I move
to Dubai, I don't have charger. There's no place for
charging because I'm in the mid through in the public transportation.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
So what should I do.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
I have to switch off the phone and move like
that because no one, no one gonna call me. It's
it's okay better to move without a mobile. After I
stopped using the mobile for two days, finally I can't
have good sleep. I sleep like eight hours complete. I
could believe that just because they stopped shorts. And after

(08:20):
I back to Saudi, I prohab the shorts for my
kids not allowed. If you want to watch YouTube, watchful
format videos. And then I start switching my my my
habits from watching shorts to listen to some podcasts. Imagine
I started learning two languages in the same time, Thai

(08:43):
language and Greek language, and I start talking a little bit,
but it's fast than usual, like yeah, so milna hassan.
It's uncommon to to know that from in less than
one hour. It's un usual, but I start to recognize
it and start to recognizing the letters because I switch

(09:05):
my mentality for something better. Plus, and also if sometimes
after I discovered this problem. I switch my habits for
going sometimes coffee shops if I don't if I finish
the gym, I don't have any physical physical activity. I
switched to board games, cafes, try to work in puzzles,

(09:29):
play chess.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
I have someone to play with them.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
So it makes me able to sleep better and to
get tired because I focus my mentality for something much
better and doesn't make anxiety.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, I think there's also yeah, totally, but there's bad
frequency that also comes from your cell phone, so you're
not supposed to have it near you at night time,
so watching videos, but the bright lights also keeps you awake.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
That's why I decide sometimes because I have my YouTube
premium membership, when I want to listen to video, I
just just switch the phone and I keep listening.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
But because I have some membership with audio books or
audio apps books, decide to use it more than the
YouTube because most of the videos in the YouTube is
not like before, It's just waste of time. There's no
a value in the contents, nothing like that. And even

(10:42):
a lot of famous influencers on YouTube, they stop producing
some good contents unfortunately, and they don't even with the
people talk about the value and something. They don't shape
this help, they don't give full data, they don't review

(11:03):
one hundred times offficunately doing opportunely famous people.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Right, yeah, so what do you suggest that we do?

Speaker 2 (11:13):
And that's why it looks like that's why I decide
to switch my YouTube channel to podcast and try to
help my short audience to switch them to my podcast.
And that's why I decide to make us a full
full changing for that because I believe if I keep
producing shorts, it will be bad for my audience. I

(11:35):
don't want to continue like that. I don't want to
help them, and so I stopped that. Maximum I can
put some posts or yels in Instagram.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
That's the maximum. Wow.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
So just to do something, let's to do something for
marketing related like that.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
That's it right, right?

Speaker 1 (11:55):
So articles podcasts are what do you suggest that people do?

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Uh for the podcast?

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Like before I remember somebody said if you spend like,
uh one hour in the road for going and come
back listening to some podcasts like learning languages anything you
like it, you within ten years you will be like
a PhD learner.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
M hm.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
He was right because you have to focus when you
focus listening, because he was talking about and advice some
people when they listen to music in the in the radio,
on the on the in the car, sometimes they're listening
to but some songs make like drama songs like that,
and when you go to work, you will get less

(12:51):
motivated or not able to think or thinking too much badly.
Or when you watch a series but a serious about
a drama, something like hurting, cheating, love, love love, when
you go to the work, you get in a bad
emotional So sometimes you need to make switching for some

(13:11):
habits and to put watching this kind of series or
this kind of music in another time.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
I want to tell us a little bit about your book, Hassan.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
When I tried to decide to make my book for
the first time, it was in twenty twenty three, that's
once in July. About the book, I thought, maybe it
will never be complete and to be just an idea
like that. But every bad moments I get habits. It

(13:51):
makes me thinking, seriously, I should finish the book, and
I try to make some script, to do some tiny
of the project, to think about it until it was
complete by December. Oh by September, sorry September two, September
twenty three.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
September.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
The book mostly teach us to focus about an important
part in life. That you don't need to be the
superman in your life by having a power or making
something look fancy to make the people tell you your hero.
You can't do something normal, like if you see some

(14:36):
people on YouTube they make like cakes and became a
heroes because just focusing about making cakes and videos. But
people love that and they have a cookbook like that
and so many things like that. So I believe just
we need to take care about what we love. That's it.
Like in the story, he's just a bigger man, the

(14:59):
bigger The bread in Indonesia is something fancy. So when
you give it for the orphans after the extra bread
not sold out, of course you're gonna they look at
the bread like something fancy, like something Ynny from the
sky skyrocket, because it's not accessible for everyone. While it's

(15:22):
available everywhere, but for orphans, it's like from another universe.
That's why it was valuable. Sometimes I don't like to
donate for a lot of churches because the money, the
use of orphans as a face to collect money. But
they don't give them anything. And what they give them
is like like people in prison, and it's something really

(15:45):
really bad. They don't respect the childhood of the kids.
What they call it eating orphans money. And that's why
in this story it has a different side.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Ye.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
And if you want, like example, an example to help
our friends, you can give them something make them smile,
doesn't cost anything, and that's it. People don't need the money.
People need something, but they cannot explain because too much
negative environment around them. That's it, that's what they need.

(16:23):
That's why when you see a lot of motivation videos
on YouTube become successful, because most people living in a
negative site and they want to get out from that life.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
And I hope for everyone to get that. I hope.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
So how your book is helping people?

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Right?

Speaker 2 (16:41):
I wish that I didn't check the sales book because
like in June, they're gonna tell me Charlotte the sales report,
and I hope it makes some good sales. I hope
because the message is really important for me to reach everyone,
very important message.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Where can our listeners find you? And where can they
buy the book?

Speaker 2 (17:06):
They can buy the book in most websites like Amazon, Nobel, Walmart,
all the famous bookstores in online and offline.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Where can we find.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
You for me?

Speaker 2 (17:29):
They can find me in Captain Grude Fitness dot Jim
doofree dot com. That's my official website if anyone want
to get the training training programs I provide, like for
only one hundred and thirty five dollars one year training
program including support, a psychology support by our social media platform,

(17:54):
like what's.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
Up like that?

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Which we use it? I mean which we use it?
Not our platform? Which we use it? My mistake.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Wow, that's that's awesome. So people can go to your
website and they can find the services that you provide
and they can sign up for your program exactly.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
It includes four programs or for things in the program,
a work up plannetation plan, and one year support services
and one year follow up weekly for only one hundred
and thirty five dollars, no any additional fees.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Can you tell us some success stories that you've had
from clients.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
To be honest with you, I did not have any
clients until now. I never like okay, okay, because yeah,
because one of my biggest mistakes that when I used
the social media for marketing, I used to use the
shot because absolutely the shorts people want to reach the website.

(18:56):
They each but they don't continue because most of them
are not serious. That's why it's really hard to close
the sales in shorts. And that's why I need to
rethink or the channel or reginate the channel to be
a podcast.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
That's why I didn't want that.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yes, but unfortunately no closing. But I believe while people
love it get the benefit, it's enough. It's enough for me,
no worries about that. I don't care about monetization YouTube
like that. Only care about what I will provide for
the people. That's the most valuable thing for me. Like

(19:41):
the same thing when I want to switch to podcast,
because I don't want people get heard from the short
effects of the side effect of short videos, and that's
why I try to switch to the podcast. And I
need to text. I'll text time a lot of time.
But with hard working I can make like losing my weight,
things to be patient.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
So what is your goal for people? You said you
want to help the people, So why what do you
want to help them with?

Speaker 2 (20:11):
The first thing, before I remember, there was songs say
give your best, let God do the rest. Just give
your best or something you love it, do it by
the right way and the God will continue. Before for me,

(20:31):
I didn't expect to reach the fourth place. I was
maybe expecting you any something like.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
Eighth stinned like that.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
But from the eighth place to the fourth place was unexpected.
But officially it wasn't enough to get pro card. That's
why I was crying when I get out, because one
step to pro card the almost But everybody said to me,
losing one seventy one kids or one of the fifty
five pounds is enough to be a gold middal. That's

(21:01):
why it's fine for me. I don't care if I
if I want, but to see my result is enough.
Like it's better to see a results with some reducing
marketing exams in high school, better than to see full
mark and no personality person because most people who have

(21:26):
full marketing schools, they don't have personality because their parents
punish them for any tiny mistake they make it because
they want them to get that to the top of schools.
But when they try to continue school, even scholarship, even
non scholarship, they not accepted because the personalty is bad
or not. It's not bad, but we can see it's

(21:49):
not qualify for something big like her to be independent persons.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Officiately, I think he did a great job.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
There's a lot of discipline that you have to have
to do a bodybuilding competition and you did it, and
you followed the meal plan and showing up and getting
that done. Not a lot of people can say that
they did that. So yeah, we really want to say congratulations.
And regarding the TikTok episodes and the videos, they are

(22:21):
a lot of people get lost in them and they
spend a lot of time watching those videos. And I
agree with you, we have to stop that. We have
to start getting outside more, spending time in nature and
doing things like that. Right, those are healthier habits that
we can develop. And what powerful information to share with

(22:42):
your children so that they can, you know, not spend
their time on their cell phones and watching those videos.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
So, you know, prefer the shorts to scam people because
most of them are not serious and easy to scam
them for something to get them money. Think about the
bad especially prefer TikTok and Instagram most favorite platform source cameras.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
The worst thing about that? Yeah, well I.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Don't know about that, but I do know that there
are people out there that are using social media in
the wrong way, and it's it's you got to look
for the signs and uh yeah, just strive to be
good people. M All right, Well, thank you so much
a song, thank you for staying up late and for

(23:34):
talking to us about your experience and about the videos.
Is there any last minute things that you want to
leave our audience with today?

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Uh, just one last thing, one last word. I hope
to see you and Chela and Nick for the next
season because I had that good experience with you guys
with it with my audience, and I'm glad to see
you Charlotte for another season. But so I'll try to

(24:04):
talk about something much with her and something matching people.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
Indeed, in life, I try to do white best.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Amazing. Well, you're doing a great job. Thank you so
much for being here.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
MC cassie. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Amazing, and thank you to our audience. If again, if
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