Phil Daru is a world renowned 5x award winning strength coach, author, speaker, entrepreneur, creator, and family man. Daru has worked with thousands of world class athletes and coaches including 7 world champion fighters, 2x gold medalist boxer, and 4x Olympian judoka using his methods of training. Taught in over 14 countries where he’s globally recognized for his contributions to the combat sports performance world. “train the body, forge the mind, live beyond strong
📣 QUOTE: “I try to make sure that I'm living my purpose every day… Mostly it’s to glorify God.” - Phil Darua
Level 🆙 Take-Aways
🔹 Valuable Time-Stamps🔹
🕒 00:04:00 — Prayer fuels purpose
🕒 00:05:00 — Assessing mindset + body
🕒 00:08:00 — Longevity beats intensity
🕒 00:10:00 — Build the right team
🕒 00:19:00 — Know and love God
You Can Find Out more about Daru Strong and Contact Phil Here:
🌐 Visit Daru Strong Website
🔗 Phil’s LinkedIn
▶ Daru Strong YouTube
📷 Phil’s Instagram
🎵 Phil’s TikTok
🐦Phil’s X formerly Twitter
📣 QUOTE: “I try to make sure that I'm living my purpose every day… Mostly it’s to glorify God.” - Phil Darua
Level 🆙 Take-Aways
- Faith anchors the day. Start with prayer or reflection to stay grounded in purpose, humility, and service before chaos hits. 🙏
- Separate pain from signal. Treat discomfort as data — know when to push and when to adjust. 💡
- Understanding how people think is a weapon. Align training, business, and communication with how the brain actually works. 🧠
- Longevity wins. Protect your body and mind to stay in the game long enough to win it. 🛡️
- A mentor can change everything. Stay humble, coachable, and guided — and the right door will open. 🚪
- Beyond strong is internal. Emotional control, spiritual grounding, and mental endurance create real power. 🧘
- Service is strength. Be useful, help others win, and influence grows. 💪
🔹 Valuable Time-Stamps🔹
🕒 00:04:00 — Prayer fuels purpose
🕒 00:05:00 — Assessing mindset + body
🕒 00:08:00 — Longevity beats intensity
🕒 00:10:00 — Build the right team
🕒 00:19:00 — Know and love God
You Can Find Out more about Daru Strong and Contact Phil Here:
🌐 Visit Daru Strong Website
🔗 Phil’s LinkedIn
▶ Daru Strong YouTube
📷 Phil’s Instagram
🎵 Phil’s TikTok
🐦Phil’s X formerly Twitter
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Are you ready to level up?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Do you wish to live a life of options and
not obligations? You've gone to the right place. Thank you
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into your ultimate human potential.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Now let's level up with Coach Fergie.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Hey, Hey Varsity Squad, Welcome back to another powerful editions
of level up conversations with Coach Fergie with time to
Shine today Coaching. I'm your host, Scott Ferguson, blessed to
be your gap coach specialized in performance mental conditioning, working
with business leaders, entrepreneurs, entertainers, athletes see Sweden students to
help them bridge their success gap to live a life
of options and not obligations. On this platform, we're stoked
to bring you high performers who are not just chasing
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entertaining success, but redefining it through providing above and beyond service.
And Hey Varsity Squad for our knowledge nugget this week,
our coaching knowledge nugget. You know a lot of people
talk about getting tougher, pushing harder, and grinding longer, but
very few ever learned the difference between pain and signals,
and that difference determines whether you evolve or you break.
Pain is a discomfort that comes with growth, the stretch,
the burn, the fatigue, the pressure that shows up right
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before you level up. But signal is different. Signals the
body or mind delivering information. It might mean your technique
is off, your preparation was in the line, your recovery
wasn't respected, or your emotions aren't steering the wheel instead
of your standards. Pain asked are you willing? Signal asks
are you aware? I recently worked with a high performance
athlete client of mine who kept shutting himself down mid progress.
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Every time the pressure rose, he labeled it as pain
and backed off, thinking something was wrong with him. We
slowed it down and reframed it. Together, we learned to ask,
is this the pain of growth or the signal of adjustment.
Once he understood that distinction, his confidence didn't just increase,
it became earned and repeatable. He stopped treating every challenge
like danger and started treating it like data, and when
that clicked, his performance and self leaf spike. Champions don't
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ignore pain, squad, they interpret it. They don't fear signals,
They study them. They know when to push, when to pause,
and when to adjust. They stay committed without being reckless.
So here's the challenge this week for anyone listening right now,
before quitting, complete or tapping out, ask yourself and I
experience the pain required to grow or a signal designed
to guide. If you master that distinction, you don't just
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get stronger. It become smarter, more durable, and more dangerous.
And talk about dangerous. Today's guests isn't just another trainer
or motivational voice. He's one of the most influential architects
of modern combat sports performance. A five time award winning
strength coach, widely respected author, Speak Your Entrepreneur, and family
centered leader who has helped shape the physical and mental
frameworks of elite athletes around the world. He has personally
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coached thousands of competitive performers, including seven world champion fighters,
a two time Olympic gold medals and boxing, and a
four time Olympian judoka. For proving methods translate across not
just sports, but mindset, cultures and pressure environments. His systems
have been taught in more than fourteen countries, influencing coaches
and athletes at the highest levels of MMA boxing, judo
and beyond. When people in combat sports talk about evolving strength,
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intelligent conditioning, neurological runniness, emotional control, and championship durability. His
name is that is one of the first ones brought up.
He doesn't just train by bodies, the engineers, belief systems,
reinforces identity and alliance effort with purpose. His flash flaspopy
says everything you need to know. Train the body, forge
the mind, live, beyond strong and so cominging.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
On here my good body here. Phil Dowery had to
give him some love out here. Well, thank you for
making the trip down a little bit because you're.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Up in PSL right, yeah, Palm City area, not too far.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I was like forty five minutes. Welcome to Balm Beach here. Well,
thank you for the introduction. Yeah, man, wow, that's amazing
to get a little shine on you. Yeah, that was
good man interviews.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Brother, I wanted to hit I appreciate that you bet,
So let me ask you real quick, like like people
know you like getting champions ready, but mindset and and
physical ready. But what's one daily, non negotiable habit that
keeps you grounded and family centered prayer?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah? Yeah, multiple times throughout the day. Very cool. Yeah,
I try to.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I try to make sure that I'm living my purpose
every day. Yeah, and so I have to spend some
time in prayer. I have to make sure that I'm
doing things for the right reason. And mostly it's too
glorify God. And so that's that. That keeps me humbled,
that keeps me gracious, and keeps me grounded.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Love it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
A lot of people will kind of shy away from that,
especially kind of in combat sports until they win, and
that's the first.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Person they think, you know, So I mean nice that
you're putting it out there up front.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I mean, you know, going through difficult situations, especially like
whether you're in combat, in actual military combat in the cage,
when you go through these life threatening situations, you really
have to figure out why you're actually here, right, And
then you go, well, I need to get closer to
the first cause I need to get closer to the Creator
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because anytime, any moment life, when you take.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You Yeah, you know, it's funny that that happened with
me with regards to like being overseas in the early nights.
I don't talk about it that much, but I was
raised Southern Baptists shove down my throat like you are
a center of brimstone, all the stuff. So I walked
away from it, and I needed it right right. So
you you've trained thousands of you know, elite athletes, right,
(05:02):
including world champions, Olympians. You know what Assessing a new
athlete that's brought to you. What are your very first
physical and mental markers you evaluate for programming anything.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
So this goes apart with my my thought step framework
where I'm going to assess and evaluate what their limits are.
Sure that could be biomechanics, that could be their physical
limitations as the whole, but also want to see who
the type of person they are, right, So I'm actually
reaching out to them and we're having a conversation. I'm
going to peel back the layers and try to figure
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out exactly who I'm working with so that I could
communicate communicate appropriately.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Right. Typically, I like to run them through a big
five factor analysis.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I know about that when I heard about it Flex's podcast,
and I've read some of the stuff that you put
out line.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I think that that's that's definitely
helped me understand the type of person they are immediately,
so then now I can communicate appropriately. So some people
are very conscientious, right, they need to know the x's
and oh it's very fast. They want to ask questions,
they want to why they're doing what they're doing, so
that I have to be structured there, right, and I
have to be I'd be able to articulate why they're
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doing what they're doing and reframe the exercises so that
they understand the transferability.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Love it. If they're very open, sure, and.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
They just want to get after it, like I could
tell and you can tell me if I'm wrong. But
you're very a type dominant. Absolutely, you're open to doing
new things. You like variation, and so from that, I
like to constantly vary the exercises and I don't give
them too much direction. I just tell them what they
need to do and why they're doing it, and then
they go from there and they get after it.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
By the time they get to you at your level,
like a lot of them already have their why established, right,
So how much how many times do you kind of
go back to their why to remind them? Especially you
know DP right, like he's getting close to a championship match, right,
not just say Dustin Portie. I know you ain't going
to say his name, but Dustin Porty.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
So you know, if he's into a championship match and
he's getting closer weight cuts hard, you know, what do
you do to kind of swing them back into the
right state?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Said it right?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
There is just figuring out their why and always going
back to that. So when I first started with either
Dustin or any other fighter, I'm getting to know them
personally on a high personal level, sure, and also finding
out who's in their inner circle and why they're doing
what they're doing. And for the most part, when you
start out young kids, young fighters, you know, typically they
want to make a lot of money, they want to
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win world titles, they want to get famous. Once they
start to transition and start having a family, that changes
your name, right, So now they're fighting for their family,
they might be fighting for legacy, and so that's where
you can start to transition there why and start to
I guess, re establish why they're doing what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
And remind them this is when it gets this is it? Yeah? Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
So you know you've coached across like a bunch of
different sports, not just combat or you know combat sports, right,
but like what universal principle do you see that you
that that really never changes, right, no matter who is
in front of you.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Universal principle would be to make sure that everyone is
capable of stepping into the ring cage matts, fully prepared, right, right,
but also mitigating risk, right, making sure that they're maintaining
their level of progression and not putting them at risk
for injury.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
So that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Right, and keeping them healthy, keeping them like do you
handle all facets of there from their diet or did
they sometimes have their diet or like again because again
I years ago, I competed in bodybuilding and so I
had like opposing coach and I had a nutrition coach
and all this stuff, and then sometimes they butt heads,
yeah right and say so like they're like maintain your
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land or whatever. So how much do you actually handle ors?
It vary with each after man.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
In the beginning, it was everything I had to do
pretty much everything, you know. I had to even had
to be the mental coach as well, you know. And
now since we have a good established program and we
have other people that we can go ahead and outsource,
I do like to bring on quality weight cut guys,
the physicians, and so that it takes the load off
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my back and then we have good communication between coaches
because if that is, if that's messed up at some point,
then it's going to be hard for us to bring
that athlete to full performance.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Gotcha? Are you kind of spearheading it though? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Okay, absolutely absolutely. I mean especially with the skills coach
is a little bit different. Right, So you have your
head coach who goes over the strategy, the tactics, sure
from a skill position standpoint, Then for me, I'm handling
all the physical preparation that includes some of the psychological
sure things that they need to go through.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
So you know, high performer is also an entrepreneur, right
with yourself? How do you kind of filter opportunities so
you don't kind of dilute, you know, the purpose through
success based pressure? Because I'm sure you're getting hit from
left and right with opportunities, what stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
What do you do to really kind of stay focused
with that and grounded.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
It's funny because I have a I have an arduous
task ahead of me, right, and business doesn't stop, right,
But if you have people that you put on your team,
that allows for you to fully focus on the aspects
that you know are going to move the needle. That's
when you have to make sure that they step up
and get in charge and make sure that everything is
aligned appropriately. So you need to have a solid team
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around you in order to do that absolutely.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
And squad, do you hear that, like the solid team
to put in place. Delegation is super important you know
out there, but also having the people and the team
around you that you trust.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
So there's some everyday listeners, some casuals out there, you
know who may never step into a cage or ring
or whatnot, or Olympics for that matter, but the live
beyond strong.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I want to touch on it now and then we'll
get deeper after the break.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
But you know, what are the three fundamentals that they
can implement this week? And then we come back from break,
we're going to dive into them anymore even more this week.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I would say, first start start by doing something that's
going to move the needle for you, and it's something
that you've possibly been putting off for a while. Then
you want to create a routine. Right routine for me
creates discipline, love it man, and then effectively execute as
you go about your day by understanding the step that
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you need to take. So first thing would be to
start meaning move sure, then have a routine, then execute accordingly.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Love it So it's all planned out, laid out in
front of them. And do you got use.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Kind of apps with the people that you work with
and kind of say this or is it just kind
of text back and forth and accountability or I know
with my coaching clients it's a lot of accountability with texting.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah, right, it's a lot of communication.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
It could be text message, it could be it could
be phone calls, zoom calls, things like that. I try
to stay as connected as possible. So it's very simple, nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Crazy, Love it and squad.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
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studio today, which I'm going to flip it right over
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When we come back, we're going to dive into a
little bit of the background. Am my good friend Phil
diary here and also what he might have done did
if you win a different route?
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Speaker 1 (13:40):
Hey, thank you so much, Steve.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I can't wait to have you in for one of
our last episodes of the year. So me and Steve
Austin are going to kind of dive into what's really
happening here in the Palm Beach market. But again, very
blessed to have him as our sponsor and phil So
have you seen the movie Back to the Future?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
All right, I can't believe it's forty years old. Let's
hear it, right, So let's go back to the Double Dues.
Two year old fella, what knowledge You're not going to
let you drop on him? But not so much should
change anything because your freaking journey is awesome, right, But
to maybe help him shorten the learning curve or blast
through maybe.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
A little bit more all day. So twenty two was
a was a it was a year, it was right.
So open up my first gym at twenty two. Wow, Okay,
And I was a professional fighter, and I really didn't
know if I wanted to take the coaching route full
on because I was just still trying to climb up
the ranks as an athlete. Right to open up the gym,
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and I ended up, you know, bringing in twelve members.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
One who was ended up being my wife. Wow, and
she ended up being your wife.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Ended up being yea, yeah, it wasn't my wife yet, right,
and ended up being my wife.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
And we grew that very fast. I went from twelve
members to like fifty members just when you were twenty two,
twenty two years ago. Yeah, so fad hustle muscle earlier man.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Very very early. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
And I, like I said, still actively trying to compete. Sure,
And I think that I would say this now, is
to stay patient, you know, and not try to put
too much on my plate at once, right. And I
still do this to this day.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Right.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I talked to Tyler over here, and I tell them,
like Listen, we got to make sure that we're focused
on the main thing. And again I'll go back to it,
keeping the main thing the main thing for a sustainable
amount of time, so that you can hone in on
the craft and so that you're not getting thrown in
so many different directions.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Right, he's got a couple of the savages here in
studio right now. Busts to meet them here just a
couple of minutes ago. They make you look good, brother,
not that you don't.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Appreciate, but that's that's the goal, man, that's the goal.
That's awesome. The definitely definitely have the they're more intelligent
than me.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
So we start working with an athlete, what is some
of your secret sauce? Then that maybe because everyone of
them has blind spots, right, so what what is.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Your kind of secret sauce?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
You don't mind sharing some of it that you know
helps them shine a light on that blind spot.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Well, it first starts with the assessment, right, and then
once I go through that, they can actually physically see
what's going on and feel exactly why they're doing what
they're doing. Once I pointed out sometimes you just go
through movements and you just go well, I'm just moving
when I point out a certain dysfunction or in asymmetry
and then they see it in real time or I
can play it back for them, getting that statistical data
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or objective indicator to showcase what's going wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Then they're like, oh, wow, I didn't know I had
this problem, right, And so.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Then we start to figure out a plan of action
to fix it.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
It can get going on that.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
So how about, like, maybe if you're just starting to
work with them, is there any any good question that
you wish they would ask you but never do before
you get started?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
One question I actually ask them so that I can
get an understanding is what has worked well in the
past with other coaches and what hasn't right? Because once
I can identify that, I can be a better coach
for them. Sure, so I want to see exactly, you know,
what was the best thing that happened for you at
the coach right and how did they coach you right?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And how did they coach you wrong? Sure? And so
that I can eliminate that issue. So who's your break?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Like, I mean for you to get to work with
legit World champions, I mean, Dustin Johanna, I mean, come on,
like there, there's that's the kind of.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
A cream of the crop. Who's too? But who was
your break? Who is that? Just like man, your phone
start blowing up?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Honestly, it was when I started to drive down to
American Top Team, right, make my an hour and a
half trip?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Is that when they're in Coconut Creek like in that?
It was? No, it was, it was, It was right before.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
So remember I was a fighter for American Top Team,
for Dean Thomas yep, for a long time being good guy. Yeah,
that's prov though. Also I did Dean's you know what's
so funny about that funny story? He was doing comedy.
We didn't even know he was doing it right, and
he was still fighting, so we would we would Obviously
we were sparring partners too, right, so we would help
him get ready for fights. And Dean had about five pros,
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me being one of them, right that he brought up
on his own imports sing Lucy. So he'd drive us
down to Coconut Creek and then he'd leave us there
and then go do improv at West pom right literally
due we didn't.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Know where he went.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I take improv just for coaching. I did some improv
with him. Right, Yeah, I showed up there. We have
a guest like teacher today Thomas. I'm like, broma, yeah, yeah,
it was actually kind of cool. I ran with him
that without a doubt. Very good dude. So he gave
me that break.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
He one he got me into m m A because
I was going to box after after college, when I
got done playing football, I was gonna box. I was
gonna go up to Zo and I saw him in
ports thing Lucy. He's like, listen, MMA, is the ticket.
Make sure that you can get down to one fifty five.
I looked at him like he was crazy. I weighed
about two hundred and five pounds. Yea, I haven't been
one fifty five since middle school. So I'm like, there's
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no way. Right Then I went down to Coconut Creek
and I saw Thiaco Alvez and I said, yeah, probably
make it down here.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, I said yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
So I asked you this in the audi one time,
at some place where you and I spoke together.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
But how do you want your dash? Remember that little
line in between your incarnation date and your expiration date,
your life date and death date. How do we want
our da remember, because I want the audience out there
to hear it.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
I just want to be known for being able to
live my purpose and help others achieve success.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Right, what is your why.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Really at the end of the day is to know
and love God, love it first and foremost, and then
knowing my purpose through the talent that He's given me,
and then executing the skills that around that talent to
help others achieve success that ultimately helps meet achieve success
of it.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
And I get asked that a lot in interviews and stuff,
and it just it came to me one day and
I said, to be useful.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, that's it. I can be useful and I.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Can make connections for people, help people out. Everything just
comes full circles, right.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
You know, So what do you think people might misunderstand
the most about Phil?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
You see me every time I walk into a room
and people say, oh, he might be a mean guy. Right,
he might be a tough guy. I'm a sweetheart man.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
You know that you were bringing someone to God that
Saturday when we were hanging out at Joe's place and
the kid was he was broken, like he came talked
to Jordan, and Jordan and I Bolsa. I think you know,
he talked to Phil and you stayed with him for
like forty five minutes and everybody was clamoring for your time.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
So that's mad. Props to you, brother, that's awesome. Brought
into God that day. And he's starting to do They
say he's in the gym, he's killing it, and you're staking, Yeah,
he's a good kid. Yeah, yeah. So what are three
things Phil can't live without? Oh? My family, all right, well, god,
my family, sure. And chicken wings. I'm a chicken wing snob.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I would say a burger like a good burger because
anywhere I go to travel, I'm like, the first food
I want is a burger, no matter where I'm at, right,
no matter where I'm at, Australia.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Has a good burgers. By the way, they had good
it was uh Melbourne, Melbourne really okay in the military because.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
You can't go wrong with If you you mess up
a burger, there's something wrong with the whole country.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I had some of the best times in the military
in Perth and Sydney, Australia.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Those are some good times. Yeah, it was good. It
was very liberal. You know, I might not want to
go back, just kidding. So what is Feel's definition of
a life well lived? A life well lived is living
through purpose. Like I said, I'll go back to that.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Yeah, a life well lived is having joy in the
things that I do with the people that I want
to be with, and in the pursuit of happiness through
the joy that I've.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Created it in my life.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
And the one thing, Squad that he said he created
the joy. He didn't wait for somebody to kind of
come in and create.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
It for you.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
You're living your your purpose, You're living your why and
like pretty much an everyday basis.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Right. Absolutely, I have to. You have to otherwise I
won't feel whole. Right, So we're gonna take you through
our leveling up light and around. There's some questions.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I'm sure you and I have talked about them, you know,
some of these fifteen twenty minutes before, but today you
got five seconds with no explanations.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I promise you they can all be answered that way
one second, or I should say one word answers That works.
It works for me.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
So let's level up, man. So what's the one of
the what's the best leveling up advice you've ever received?
Stay disciplined, share one of your personal habits that contributes
to your success. Stay disciplined, discipline.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
So you see me kind of walk down the street,
I'm like, looks like I'm in my doldrums a little bit,
and something's bothering me other than the good book. What
book might you hand me that's really kind of shifted
your mind or a human nature?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Love it great? Who's that that's green? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I said, go glad well, But then I was like,
I knew it started with a JA lost most kindly
used emoji when you text out of the the.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Machine arm, it's it's strong arm the machine one. Love it?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Uh, nicknames, growing up, concrete, concrete, love it. Any hidden
talent and or superpower that you have that nobody knows
about until now.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I can make people laugh. You love it? You wouldn't
think that Chess, Checkers, Monopoly, Oh Chess headline for your life.
Go beyond strong love it. Buying any superstitions, especially being
around all those sporties.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Never I don't either, really to be honest with a
lot of my my athletes, but it's same socks and
all go to ice cream flavor chocolate.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
All right, there's a sandwich called the Concrete Daru build
that sandwich. What are we eating?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
It's going to be turkey, cheddary cheese, shredded lettuce, boil
and vinegar.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Super love It, favorite charity and an organization like to
give your time in or money to Right now Team
RWB Love It And that's what we're going to dig
into in just a second after you answer, what's the
best decade of music? Sixties, seventies, eighties or nineties?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
That's a good. Yeah, that's hard, depends on this. Let's go,
Let's go nineties. I grew up in the nineties. Okay, yeah,
fifty three. I grew up in the eighties. But like
every single all of those decades has something for it
does for me, though. That's a hard one. So tell
us about this rock walk. You're doing one hundred miles.
Where's the start?
Speaker 4 (24:24):
So it starts in Cocoa Beach, right, and we're gonna
end in Jensen Beach. Okay, So I'm gonna go straight
down A one to a Yep. We have an RV,
so we're gonna be well taken care of. We have
full medical staff. We're gonna do a documentary on it.
Mulligan Brothers are going to help out with interviews. Yeah,
who is a good guy. We've had conversations. Awesome, great
guy he's got He's got a crazy story too with it.
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He actually did two hundred and fifty miles wow with
the actually yeah twos with fifty miles with two hundred
and twenty five pounds on his back or something like that.
Something crazy, but it was, you know, for a good
cause and for me, my goal is to raise funds
for the military veterans. You guys, the goal I've had.
You know, my father was in a military, was in
the Navy, my grandfather was in the navy, My great
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great grandfather was in the army.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
And then I also work with some of my gods too.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
It's well sure, and so what I wanted to do
is just raise awareness, get them back into civilian life
the appropriate way, and teamworder be our WB is helping
with that. So Red, White, and Blue, I'm the first
civilian that they've ever done at donations type of drive
with That's awesome. So I'm very honored, blessed, gracious.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
For going to the right people right this money because again,
your military brother, I've been asked and it just kind.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Of yeah, well that's why we know you wouldn't get
involved anything.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Yeah, well that's why we wanted to vet them out
appropriately and and so they are top notch veteran owned operated,
you know. So I think that for us, I'm going
to be utilizing my own body, my own fortitude to
drive and gain awareness for these military.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Veteran put yourself through the pain, to embrace the struggle
shows and suffering. Baby, So I've been really into that
kind of too, and durance. Yeah, absolutely, Squad, I want
you to go to time to shigne today dot com
slash daru, d a r you d a r you. Yeah,
time to sign today dot com slash dharu. I'm gonna
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have his donation page at that page. So and again
you can give as little as you want, as much
as you want. And we're in Palm Beach, Squad, let's
get out there and give. This is for my fellow veterans.
It's for the people out there that have this country's back,
and I really want you to kind of lean into it.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
So get out there and donate. And thank you so
much for coming on. Brother.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Thank you to Steve Austin, my sponsor, Brian Mudd, my producer,
the rest of the squad. I got my videographer Aaron today.
Awesome Aubrey Christie, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Squad. Absolutely love your ducks. Love a luck
Are you ready to level up?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Do you wish to live a life of options and
not obligations? You've gone to the right place. Thank you
for stopping on by to hear knowledge nuggets from Coach
Fergie and his top tier guest to help you lean
into your ultimate human potential.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Now let's level up with Coach Fergie.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Hey, Hey Varsity Squad, Welcome back to another powerful editions
of level up conversations with Coach Fergie with time to
Shine today Coaching. I'm your host, Scott Ferguson, blessed to
be your gap coach specialized in performance mental conditioning, working
with business leaders, entrepreneurs, entertainers, athletes see Sweden students to
help them bridge their success gap to live a life
of options and not obligations. On this platform, we're stoked
to bring you high performers who are not just chasing
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entertaining success, but redefining it through providing above and beyond service.
And Hey Varsity Squad for our knowledge nugget this week,
our coaching knowledge nugget. You know a lot of people
talk about getting tougher, pushing harder, and grinding longer, but
very few ever learned the difference between pain and signals,
and that difference determines whether you evolve or you break.
Pain is a discomfort that comes with growth, the stretch,
the burn, the fatigue, the pressure that shows up right
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before you level up. But signal is different. Signals the
body or mind delivering information. It might mean your technique
is off, your preparation was in the line, your recovery
wasn't respected, or your emotions aren't steering the wheel instead
of your standards. Pain asked are you willing? Signal asks
are you aware? I recently worked with a high performance
athlete client of mine who kept shutting himself down mid progress.
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Every time the pressure rose, he labeled it as pain
and backed off, thinking something was wrong with him. We
slowed it down and reframed it. Together, we learned to ask,
is this the pain of growth or the signal of adjustment.
Once he understood that distinction, his confidence didn't just increase,
it became earned and repeatable. He stopped treating every challenge
like danger and started treating it like data, and when
that clicked, his performance and self leaf spike. Champions don't
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ignore pain, squad, they interpret it. They don't fear signals,
They study them. They know when to push, when to pause,
and when to adjust. They stay committed without being reckless.
So here's the challenge this week for anyone listening right now,
before quitting, complete or tapping out, ask yourself and I
experience the pain required to grow or a signal designed
to guide. If you master that distinction, you don't just
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get stronger. It become smarter, more durable, and more dangerous.
And talk about dangerous. Today's guests isn't just another trainer
or motivational voice. He's one of the most influential architects
of modern combat sports performance. A five time award winning
strength coach, widely respected author, Speak Your Entrepreneur, and family
centered leader who has helped shape the physical and mental
frameworks of elite athletes around the world. He has personally
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coached thousands of competitive performers, including seven world champion fighters,
a two time Olympic gold medals and boxing, and a
four time Olympian judoka. For proving methods translate across not
just sports, but mindset, cultures and pressure environments. His systems
have been taught in more than fourteen countries, influencing coaches
and athletes at the highest levels of MMA boxing, judo
and beyond. When people in combat sports talk about evolving strength,
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intelligent conditioning, neurological runniness, emotional control, and championship durability. His
name is that is one of the first ones brought up.
He doesn't just train by bodies, the engineers, belief systems,
reinforces identity and alliance effort with purpose. His flash flaspopy
says everything you need to know. Train the body, forge
the mind, live, beyond strong and so cominging.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
On here my good body here. Phil Dowery had to
give him some love out here. Well, thank you for
making the trip down a little bit because you're.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Up in PSL right, yeah, Palm City area, not too far.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I was like forty five minutes. Welcome to Balm Beach here. Well,
thank you for the introduction. Yeah, man, wow, that's amazing
to get a little shine on you. Yeah, that was
good man interviews.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Brother, I wanted to hit I appreciate that you bet,
So let me ask you real quick, like like people
know you like getting champions ready, but mindset and and
physical ready. But what's one daily, non negotiable habit that
keeps you grounded and family centered prayer?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah? Yeah, multiple times throughout the day. Very cool. Yeah,
I try to.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I try to make sure that I'm living my purpose
every day. Yeah, and so I have to spend some
time in prayer. I have to make sure that I'm
doing things for the right reason. And mostly it's too
glorify God. And so that's that. That keeps me humbled,
that keeps me gracious, and keeps me grounded.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Love it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
A lot of people will kind of shy away from that,
especially kind of in combat sports until they win, and
that's the first.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Person they think, you know, So I mean nice that
you're putting it out there up front.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I mean, you know, going through difficult situations, especially like
whether you're in combat, in actual military combat in the cage,
when you go through these life threatening situations, you really
have to figure out why you're actually here, right, And
then you go, well, I need to get closer to
the first cause I need to get closer to the Creator
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because anytime, any moment life, when you take.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You Yeah, you know, it's funny that that happened with
me with regards to like being overseas in the early nights.
I don't talk about it that much, but I was
raised Southern Baptists shove down my throat like you are
a center of brimstone, all the stuff. So I walked
away from it, and I needed it right right. So
you you've trained thousands of you know, elite athletes, right,
(05:02):
including world champions, Olympians. You know what Assessing a new
athlete that's brought to you. What are your very first
physical and mental markers you evaluate for programming anything.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
So this goes apart with my my thought step framework
where I'm going to assess and evaluate what their limits are.
Sure that could be biomechanics, that could be their physical
limitations as the whole, but also want to see who
the type of person they are, right, So I'm actually
reaching out to them and we're having a conversation. I'm
going to peel back the layers and try to figure
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out exactly who I'm working with so that I could
communicate communicate appropriately.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Right. Typically, I like to run them through a big
five factor analysis.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I know about that when I heard about it Flex's podcast,
and I've read some of the stuff that you put
out line.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I think that that's that's definitely
helped me understand the type of person they are immediately,
so then now I can communicate appropriately. So some people
are very conscientious, right, they need to know the x's
and oh it's very fast. They want to ask questions,
they want to why they're doing what they're doing, so
that I have to be structured there, right, and I
have to be I'd be able to articulate why they're
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doing what they're doing and reframe the exercises so that
they understand the transferability.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Love it. If they're very open, sure, and.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
They just want to get after it, like I could
tell and you can tell me if I'm wrong. But
you're very a type dominant. Absolutely, you're open to doing
new things. You like variation, and so from that, I
like to constantly vary the exercises and I don't give
them too much direction. I just tell them what they
need to do and why they're doing it, and then
they go from there and they get after it.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
By the time they get to you at your level,
like a lot of them already have their why established, right,
So how much how many times do you kind of
go back to their why to remind them? Especially you
know DP right, like he's getting close to a championship match, right,
not just say Dustin Portie. I know you ain't going
to say his name, but Dustin Porty.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
So you know, if he's into a championship match and
he's getting closer weight cuts hard, you know, what do
you do to kind of swing them back into the
right state?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Said it right?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
There is just figuring out their why and always going
back to that. So when I first started with either
Dustin or any other fighter, I'm getting to know them
personally on a high personal level, sure, and also finding
out who's in their inner circle and why they're doing
what they're doing. And for the most part, when you
start out young kids, young fighters, you know, typically they
want to make a lot of money, they want to
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win world titles, they want to get famous. Once they
start to transition and start having a family, that changes
your name, right, So now they're fighting for their family,
they might be fighting for legacy, and so that's where
you can start to transition there why and start to
I guess, re establish why they're doing what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
And remind them this is when it gets this is it? Yeah? Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
So you know you've coached across like a bunch of
different sports, not just combat or you know combat sports, right,
but like what universal principle do you see that you
that that really never changes, right, no matter who is
in front of you.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Universal principle would be to make sure that everyone is
capable of stepping into the ring cage matts, fully prepared, right, right,
but also mitigating risk, right, making sure that they're maintaining
their level of progression and not putting them at risk
for injury.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
So that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Right, and keeping them healthy, keeping them like do you
handle all facets of there from their diet or did
they sometimes have their diet or like again because again
I years ago, I competed in bodybuilding and so I
had like opposing coach and I had a nutrition coach
and all this stuff, and then sometimes they butt heads,
yeah right and say so like they're like maintain your
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land or whatever. So how much do you actually handle ors?
It vary with each after man.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
In the beginning, it was everything I had to do
pretty much everything, you know. I had to even had
to be the mental coach as well, you know. And
now since we have a good established program and we
have other people that we can go ahead and outsource,
I do like to bring on quality weight cut guys,
the physicians, and so that it takes the load off
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my back and then we have good communication between coaches
because if that is, if that's messed up at some point,
then it's going to be hard for us to bring
that athlete to full performance.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Gotcha? Are you kind of spearheading it though? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Okay, absolutely absolutely. I mean especially with the skills coach
is a little bit different. Right, So you have your
head coach who goes over the strategy, the tactics, sure
from a skill position standpoint, Then for me, I'm handling
all the physical preparation that includes some of the psychological
sure things that they need to go through.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
So you know, high performer is also an entrepreneur, right
with yourself? How do you kind of filter opportunities so
you don't kind of dilute, you know, the purpose through
success based pressure? Because I'm sure you're getting hit from
left and right with opportunities, what stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
What do you do to really kind of stay focused
with that and grounded.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
It's funny because I have a I have an arduous
task ahead of me, right, and business doesn't stop, right,
But if you have people that you put on your team,
that allows for you to fully focus on the aspects
that you know are going to move the needle. That's
when you have to make sure that they step up
and get in charge and make sure that everything is
aligned appropriately. So you need to have a solid team
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around you in order to do that absolutely.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
And squad, do you hear that, like the solid team
to put in place. Delegation is super important you know
out there, but also having the people and the team
around you that you trust.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
So there's some everyday listeners, some casuals out there, you
know who may never step into a cage or ring
or whatnot, or Olympics for that matter, but the live
beyond strong.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I want to touch on it now and then we'll
get deeper after the break.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
But you know, what are the three fundamentals that they
can implement this week? And then we come back from break,
we're going to dive into them anymore even more this week.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I would say, first start start by doing something that's
going to move the needle for you, and it's something
that you've possibly been putting off for a while. Then
you want to create a routine. Right routine for me
creates discipline, love it man, and then effectively execute as
you go about your day by understanding the step that
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you need to take. So first thing would be to
start meaning move sure, then have a routine, then execute accordingly.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Love it So it's all planned out, laid out in
front of them. And do you got use.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Kind of apps with the people that you work with
and kind of say this or is it just kind
of text back and forth and accountability or I know
with my coaching clients it's a lot of accountability with texting.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah, right, it's a lot of communication.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
It could be text message, it could be it could
be phone calls, zoom calls, things like that. I try
to stay as connected as possible. So it's very simple, nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Crazy, Love it and squad.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
We're going to send it to why it's actually in
studio today, which I'm going to flip it right over
to him, Steve Austin. I'm blessed to have him as
our sponsor from Rise Mortgage, the Dynamic team over there.
When we come back, we're going to dive into a
little bit of the background. Am my good friend Phil
diary here and also what he might have done did
if you win a different route?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Steve pig Jol, Thanks Scott.
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Speaker 1 (13:40):
Hey, thank you so much, Steve.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I can't wait to have you in for one of
our last episodes of the year. So me and Steve
Austin are going to kind of dive into what's really
happening here in the Palm Beach market. But again, very
blessed to have him as our sponsor and phil So
have you seen the movie Back to the Future?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
All right, I can't believe it's forty years old. Let's
hear it, right, So let's go back to the Double Dues.
Two year old fella, what knowledge You're not going to
let you drop on him? But not so much should
change anything because your freaking journey is awesome, right, But
to maybe help him shorten the learning curve or blast
through maybe.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
A little bit more all day. So twenty two was
a was a it was a year, it was right.
So open up my first gym at twenty two. Wow, Okay,
And I was a professional fighter, and I really didn't
know if I wanted to take the coaching route full
on because I was just still trying to climb up
the ranks as an athlete. Right to open up the gym,
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and I ended up, you know, bringing in twelve members.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
One who was ended up being my wife. Wow, and
she ended up being your wife.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Ended up being yea, yeah, it wasn't my wife yet, right,
and ended up being my wife.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
And we grew that very fast. I went from twelve
members to like fifty members just when you were twenty two,
twenty two years ago. Yeah, so fad hustle muscle earlier man.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Very very early. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
And I, like I said, still actively trying to compete. Sure,
And I think that I would say this now, is
to stay patient, you know, and not try to put
too much on my plate at once, right. And I
still do this to this day.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Right.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I talked to Tyler over here, and I tell them,
like Listen, we got to make sure that we're focused
on the main thing. And again I'll go back to it,
keeping the main thing the main thing for a sustainable
amount of time, so that you can hone in on
the craft and so that you're not getting thrown in
so many different directions.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Right, he's got a couple of the savages here in
studio right now. Busts to meet them here just a
couple of minutes ago. They make you look good, brother,
not that you don't.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Appreciate, but that's that's the goal, man, that's the goal.
That's awesome. The definitely definitely have the they're more intelligent
than me.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
So we start working with an athlete, what is some
of your secret sauce? Then that maybe because everyone of
them has blind spots, right, so what what is.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Your kind of secret sauce?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
You don't mind sharing some of it that you know
helps them shine a light on that blind spot.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Well, it first starts with the assessment, right, and then
once I go through that, they can actually physically see
what's going on and feel exactly why they're doing what
they're doing. Once I pointed out sometimes you just go
through movements and you just go well, I'm just moving
when I point out a certain dysfunction or in asymmetry
and then they see it in real time or I
can play it back for them, getting that statistical data
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or objective indicator to showcase what's going wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Then they're like, oh, wow, I didn't know I had
this problem, right, And so.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Then we start to figure out a plan of action
to fix it.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
It can get going on that.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
So how about, like, maybe if you're just starting to
work with them, is there any any good question that
you wish they would ask you but never do before
you get started?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
One question I actually ask them so that I can
get an understanding is what has worked well in the
past with other coaches and what hasn't right? Because once
I can identify that, I can be a better coach
for them. Sure, so I want to see exactly, you know,
what was the best thing that happened for you at
the coach right and how did they coach you right?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And how did they coach you wrong? Sure? And so
that I can eliminate that issue. So who's your break?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Like, I mean for you to get to work with
legit World champions, I mean, Dustin Johanna, I mean, come on,
like there, there's that's the kind of.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
A cream of the crop. Who's too? But who was
your break? Who is that? Just like man, your phone
start blowing up?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Honestly, it was when I started to drive down to
American Top Team, right, make my an hour and a
half trip?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Is that when they're in Coconut Creek like in that?
It was? No, it was, it was, It was right before.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
So remember I was a fighter for American Top Team,
for Dean Thomas yep, for a long time being good guy. Yeah,
that's prov though. Also I did Dean's you know what's
so funny about that funny story? He was doing comedy.
We didn't even know he was doing it right, and
he was still fighting, so we would we would Obviously
we were sparring partners too, right, so we would help
him get ready for fights. And Dean had about five pros,
(17:58):
me being one of them, right that he brought up
on his own imports sing Lucy. So he'd drive us
down to Coconut Creek and then he'd leave us there
and then go do improv at West pom right literally
due we didn't.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Know where he went.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I take improv just for coaching. I did some improv
with him. Right, Yeah, I showed up there. We have
a guest like teacher today Thomas. I'm like, broma, yeah, yeah,
it was actually kind of cool. I ran with him
that without a doubt. Very good dude. So he gave
me that break.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
He one he got me into m m A because
I was going to box after after college, when I
got done playing football, I was gonna box. I was
gonna go up to Zo and I saw him in
ports thing Lucy. He's like, listen, MMA, is the ticket.
Make sure that you can get down to one fifty five.
I looked at him like he was crazy. I weighed
about two hundred and five pounds. Yea, I haven't been
one fifty five since middle school. So I'm like, there's
(18:46):
no way. Right Then I went down to Coconut Creek
and I saw Thiaco Alvez and I said, yeah, probably
make it down here.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, I said yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
So I asked you this in the audi one time,
at some place where you and I spoke together.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
But how do you want your dash? Remember that little
line in between your incarnation date and your expiration date,
your life date and death date. How do we want
our da remember, because I want the audience out there
to hear it.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
I just want to be known for being able to
live my purpose and help others achieve success.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Right, what is your why.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Really at the end of the day is to know
and love God, love it first and foremost, and then
knowing my purpose through the talent that He's given me,
and then executing the skills that around that talent to
help others achieve success that ultimately helps meet achieve success
of it.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
And I get asked that a lot in interviews and stuff,
and it just it came to me one day and
I said, to be useful.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, that's it. I can be useful and I.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Can make connections for people, help people out. Everything just
comes full circles, right.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
You know, So what do you think people might misunderstand
the most about Phil?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
You see me every time I walk into a room
and people say, oh, he might be a mean guy. Right,
he might be a tough guy. I'm a sweetheart man.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
You know that you were bringing someone to God that
Saturday when we were hanging out at Joe's place and
the kid was he was broken, like he came talked
to Jordan, and Jordan and I Bolsa. I think you know,
he talked to Phil and you stayed with him for
like forty five minutes and everybody was clamoring for your time.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
So that's mad. Props to you, brother, that's awesome. Brought
into God that day. And he's starting to do They
say he's in the gym, he's killing it, and you're staking, Yeah,
he's a good kid. Yeah, yeah. So what are three
things Phil can't live without? Oh? My family, all right, well, god,
my family, sure. And chicken wings. I'm a chicken wing snob.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I would say a burger like a good burger because
anywhere I go to travel, I'm like, the first food
I want is a burger, no matter where I'm at, right,
no matter where I'm at, Australia.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Has a good burgers. By the way, they had good
it was uh Melbourne, Melbourne really okay in the military because.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
You can't go wrong with If you you mess up
a burger, there's something wrong with the whole country.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I had some of the best times in the military
in Perth and Sydney, Australia.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Those are some good times. Yeah, it was good. It
was very liberal. You know, I might not want to
go back, just kidding. So what is Feel's definition of
a life well lived? A life well lived is living
through purpose. Like I said, I'll go back to that.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Yeah, a life well lived is having joy in the
things that I do with the people that I want
to be with, and in the pursuit of happiness through
the joy that I've.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Created it in my life.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
And the one thing, Squad that he said he created
the joy. He didn't wait for somebody to kind of
come in and create.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
It for you.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
You're living your your purpose, You're living your why and
like pretty much an everyday basis.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Right. Absolutely, I have to. You have to otherwise I
won't feel whole. Right, So we're gonna take you through
our leveling up light and around. There's some questions.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I'm sure you and I have talked about them, you know,
some of these fifteen twenty minutes before, but today you
got five seconds with no explanations.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I promise you they can all be answered that way
one second, or I should say one word answers That works.
It works for me.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
So let's level up, man. So what's the one of
the what's the best leveling up advice you've ever received?
Stay disciplined, share one of your personal habits that contributes
to your success. Stay disciplined, discipline.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
So you see me kind of walk down the street,
I'm like, looks like I'm in my doldrums a little bit,
and something's bothering me other than the good book. What
book might you hand me that's really kind of shifted
your mind or a human nature?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Love it great? Who's that that's green? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I said, go glad well, But then I was like,
I knew it started with a JA lost most kindly
used emoji when you text out of the the.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Machine arm, it's it's strong arm the machine one. Love it?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Uh, nicknames, growing up, concrete, concrete, love it. Any hidden
talent and or superpower that you have that nobody knows
about until now.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I can make people laugh. You love it? You wouldn't
think that Chess, Checkers, Monopoly, Oh Chess headline for your life.
Go beyond strong love it. Buying any superstitions, especially being
around all those sporties.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Never I don't either, really to be honest with a
lot of my my athletes, but it's same socks and
all go to ice cream flavor chocolate.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
All right, there's a sandwich called the Concrete Daru build
that sandwich. What are we eating?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
It's going to be turkey, cheddary cheese, shredded lettuce, boil
and vinegar.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Super love It, favorite charity and an organization like to
give your time in or money to Right now Team
RWB Love It And that's what we're going to dig
into in just a second after you answer, what's the
best decade of music? Sixties, seventies, eighties or nineties?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
That's a good. Yeah, that's hard, depends on this. Let's go,
Let's go nineties. I grew up in the nineties. Okay, yeah,
fifty three. I grew up in the eighties. But like
every single all of those decades has something for it
does for me, though. That's a hard one. So tell
us about this rock walk. You're doing one hundred miles.
Where's the start?
Speaker 4 (24:24):
So it starts in Cocoa Beach, right, and we're gonna
end in Jensen Beach. Okay, So I'm gonna go straight
down A one to a Yep. We have an RV,
so we're gonna be well taken care of. We have
full medical staff. We're gonna do a documentary on it.
Mulligan Brothers are going to help out with interviews. Yeah,
who is a good guy. We've had conversations. Awesome, great
guy he's got He's got a crazy story too with it.
(24:45):
He actually did two hundred and fifty miles wow with
the actually yeah twos with fifty miles with two hundred
and twenty five pounds on his back or something like that.
Something crazy, but it was, you know, for a good
cause and for me, my goal is to raise funds
for the military veterans. You guys, the goal I've had.
You know, my father was in a military, was in
the Navy, my grandfather was in the navy, My great
(25:05):
great grandfather was in the army.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
And then I also work with some of my gods too.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
It's well sure, and so what I wanted to do
is just raise awareness, get them back into civilian life
the appropriate way, and teamworder be our WB is helping
with that. So Red, White, and Blue, I'm the first
civilian that they've ever done at donations type of drive
with That's awesome. So I'm very honored, blessed, gracious.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
For going to the right people right this money because again,
your military brother, I've been asked and it just kind.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Of yeah, well that's why we know you wouldn't get
involved anything.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Yeah, well that's why we wanted to vet them out
appropriately and and so they are top notch veteran owned operated,
you know. So I think that for us, I'm going
to be utilizing my own body, my own fortitude to
drive and gain awareness for these military.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Veteran put yourself through the pain, to embrace the struggle
shows and suffering. Baby, So I've been really into that
kind of too, and durance. Yeah, absolutely, Squad, I want
you to go to time to shigne today dot com
slash daru, d a r you d a r you. Yeah,
time to sign today dot com slash dharu. I'm gonna
(26:19):
have his donation page at that page. So and again
you can give as little as you want, as much
as you want. And we're in Palm Beach, Squad, let's
get out there and give. This is for my fellow veterans.
It's for the people out there that have this country's back,
and I really want you to kind of lean into it.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
So get out there and donate. And thank you so
much for coming on. Brother.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Thank you to Steve Austin, my sponsor, Brian Mudd, my producer,
the rest of the squad. I got my videographer Aaron today.
Awesome Aubrey Christie, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Squad. Absolutely love your ducks. Love a luck
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