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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:47):
Thank you so much again, and as always say, don't ask.
Your day is asking. Your mental health is today.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
So we're gonna do exciting as a pete for so anxiety.
My guest today is a man on a mission transfer
lives uplift the world one quality sleep at a time.
With the decade of experiencing gritty the high stake world
of veteran recovery, my guest brings an unparalleled depth insight
forged through lived experiences in mental health, wellness research and

(01:14):
breath work. Alongside his team, he has raised over one
million dollars to impact charities, impactful charities like the Gallipo
Midical Research Foundation. Please welcome in, Tim thomaste.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Thanks for that warm welcome and great to be here.
Look forward to spending time with you and those who
are watching live right now.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Now, Tim, why don't you tell abody a little more
about yourself. I know we discussed a little bit. Everyody's excited.
Tim is actually ex special Forces. I'm sure some people
might want to hear a little bit about what kind
of stuff you used to do and things like that.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Sure, well, my service, I guess The only unique point
about that is in two thousand and four Australia started
this very first scheme in Australia's military history, direct recruiting
into special form. So essentially the government you wore was coming.
So and they had a budget, but no sort of
bums on seats. So they started this program that took

(02:09):
adequately screened civilians into the world of special forces. And
so I was at thirty, the oldest allowable age. So
everyone was saying, oh, you're too old, You're too old. Now.
A fun fact about me, I'm dyslexic. So I see
things in patterns. And the pattern I saw was that
this was the first time I'd actually aged. I'd never

(02:31):
been thirty before, you know, so shouldn't I be the
one deciding what I can and can't do? And I
encourage people to draw that towards them, this is the
first time you're that age, you should be the one
deciding or should you be the one deciding, you know,
what you can and can't do at that particular age group.
So with the right amount of fu I just went

(02:51):
in there, even though everyone's saying I was too old,
and you know, passing the physical tests, the mental tests,
the aptitude, all this sort of stuff, and we were
as soon as soon as sort of the first lots
of direct recruiting got through Afghanistan kicked off, had my
deployments to Afghanistan, East t Moor and Uh, it was

(03:17):
funny when we're over there. A large part of what
we used to do when we used to target the
enemy was target what we'd call the enemy center of gravity.
So if you could attack that and off center them,
essentially they'd become fatigued, that stopped thinking, and they'd be
more worried about what you're doing. And things as simple

(03:38):
as attacking their sleep were super powerful weapons of war.
Where we knew that if we could take their sleep
out for three nights, it would mess them up better
than a bullet. And you know, then then when I
when I get out of you know, the Special Forces,
I see that there's so many you know, veterans and

(03:59):
first respect and people in general just not sleeping and
there's no sort of scene enemy. So you know, when
I got out of the Special Forces, my sleep was
shot to hell. I had PTSD and I didn't know it,
but of course if you asked me, I was fine.
I was still doing a job and just drinking a lot.

(04:20):
And I made the mistake of telling a doctor that
I couldn't sleep, and then Pete, I lost six years
of my life to pharmaceuticals. You know, I didn't know
there were natural and immediate cures for poor sleep that

(04:40):
were available to me. But you don't hear about this
sort of stuff because no one's making money from it.
So I started sort of taking what I knew, and
I worked in the veteran recovery space. Now I had
no experience in this peak other than lived experience, right, Yeah,
But I had this goal of saying having forty veteran

(05:01):
lives from suicide, and that was a lifetime goal. I
didn't care if I worked the rest of my life
to do that. But the thing is that goal was
achieved within twelve months because the programs I developed, the

(05:21):
success of them was measured on how much it improved
the quality sleep of the participants. And it was such
a simple thing, but it was so powerful. And I
noticed that that if you could improve someone's sleep, it's
like this, like this heavy lead blanket comes off of
them and they just can can function fully and they know.

(05:44):
Essentially people have everything they need inside of them. But
if it's if it's weighed down by fatigue, it's really
hard to sort of to even take action. So that's
kind of been my been my sort of story of service.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
And yeah, I mean it makes it makes sense though.
I mean because doctor Leak we had on a couple
weeks ago. She was an FBI sleep extra. She works
with the FBI, and she was telling me off air
that what she does is she does the same thing
you're doing, essentially, is just making sure people are getting
better sleep, that they're better well rested, because you know,
it makes a heck of a difference. You know, if
you don't sleep a lot and then you're sleep deprived,

(06:21):
and then you get that sleep, you feel, you feel restored,
you feel like a new person because now you're not
so tired, you're not so you know, not dragging and
all this other stuff. Like you know, I work, I
work overnights, and you know, she was calling me out
on that one, and she was like, yeah, you know
that's that's a known carcinagen ANDIC I'm like, okay, well
now I feel called out at this point, like you know,
but it's like I don't sleep a lot though, and

(06:43):
you know, that was the thing, and there's days where
I have to literally just shut everything off because I'm
so like trying to do too many things at once,
and when I do sleep, I feel I feel so
much better. I notice a major difference in my mood,
you know, how I feel and everything else like that too,
you know I and a lot of times too. It's
it's makes be more pleasant to be around, because some
days I'm just a bear. Man. If I'm tired, I'm exhausted.

(07:04):
You can tell I'm exhausted. I'm like, I'm drinking coffee.
Just stay awake, and then the caffeine's kicking my anxiety
and overdrive and then I'm freaking out and it's like, yeah,
this is not working. So I don't I think people
take sleep for granted. Honestly, a lot of people are like,
oh I don't need sleep, Yeah yeah you do, Yeah
you do. You need the rest you need to do that.
I think everybody's too caught into being drawn into things
like oh I got to be on answer these messages

(07:26):
that just I like to turn my stuff, turn my
phone off, and turn everything else off and like that.
That way people, you know, only people that need to
reach me can reach me. Like my wife, you can
get to reach me. Everybody else cut them off. I'm like,
you know what, no offense. But after this time, I'm
just I'm withdrawing from it. I'm going to stay back
and just kind of do my own thing and get
some sleep because it's more important, and you know, it's

(07:46):
it's hard though. I get it though, because sometimes we're
trying to juggle to me things at once, you know.
But do you have any tips for anybody like trying
to sleep? I mean, obviously you know to to kind
of like, you know, stay away from the Phone's probably
most likely if a lot of people, because you know,
TikTok and all these other sites that get you sucked in,
you're just are doom scrolling and you're stuck in that
endless loop.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Pete. Firstly, thank you for sharing the cost of or
the impact of you not sleeping, because there's probably people
listening to this going, oh, you know, I get it,
I know what it is, and they're probably also thinking, well,
it's great that you're talking about it, but what can
we actually do? And this is where I've I never

(08:35):
wanted to be one of those people saying, oh, look,
people should sleep and then leave it at that. Everyone
knows that, how about we give them some tools? So
you know, I created a company called breath Work in Bed,
and that's exactly what we're here to do help people
do breath work in bed, because a lot of people
don't know that your body is got a certain rank

(08:57):
structure for its it's wiring. Now your breath outranks your thoughts.
So I used to be a professional fighter, and one
thing I used to do was take down guys a
lot more skillful than me, not because I was more
skillful than them, but I knew how the body rank

(09:19):
structure worked. So you can have a lot of skill
in your head, but if you can take out their lungs,
that goes to zero and this becomes the priority. And
that's that sort of highlighted in a combat sense. But
what I'm saying here is if you've ever had the
experience you're trying to sleep in your mind's not letting you.
You've got to. You've got to. You're never going to
get out of there. You've got to go higher than it,

(09:41):
which is actually in your lung So breathing sets up
is a chemical override of your neural pathways. So this
isn't meditation. Okay, I got quite frustrated with everyone saying
you just got to meditate, But I'm like, there's a
train wreck going on up here. Can't. That's thoughts, controlling thoughts.

(10:03):
So the good thing about breath work is it is
it's immediacy. Okay. So so what I'm happy to show
you and your and your listeners is my little party trick,
how to completely relax your body in just three breaths.
The only the only caveat to this is don't be driving,
sort of be in a safe place, being a place
where you're supported.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Try not do this while you're driving a car. Please
save this spot.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
But but believe you me I, I I want people
to walk away from our engagement with something that they
can use immediately. And this is this is going to
be it. This is my little back pocket breath work thing.
And if it works for you, ask the question, how
many other people could do with, you know, relaxing their
body within three breaths. So so don't just picture yourself

(10:51):
in this situation, picture all the people you can share
this with. So if you're happy to work with me, Pete, yeah, definite,
let's go for it. So before I work with anybody,
breath work isn't hard, but it's our oldest habit, right,
and we've thought were used to breathing a certain way
and when we do anything differently, it's kind of like, oh,

(11:13):
what's going on right? And there's a bit of resistance.
So breath work is so abundantly energetic, but if we
don't receive it, if we don't let it in, it
can't go to all the places it's supposed to go.
So I asked three simple questions before we do those
three breaths. Can I ask you those questions? Fantastic, Pete,

(11:34):
Pete and those listening. Do you give full permission to
your breath to fully nourish every cell in your physical body? Yes, fantastic, Pete.
Do you give full permission to your breath to nourish
your conscious mind? Yes, fantastic. Now, Pete, do you give

(11:56):
permission for your breath, your own, very own breath, to
fully nourish your unconscious mind? Yes, fantastic. So all we're
going to do is just breathe in and out. Now,
if you did that, congratulations, you've taken your first conscious breath. Okay,

(12:19):
being aware of your simple inhale and exhale. Because mental health, Pete,
and my experience of it, it's not a mental problem,
it's a physical disconnect problem. When we're so focused out
there we've disconnected from here because here is where our
power is, underneath our own skin, and when we're connected
outside of that, we forget that. Okay, So all I'm

(12:40):
going to do is show you how to juice up
your simple inhale and exhale with a few little things
that you didn't know your body does. So this time,
when we breathe in, Pete, I want you to breathe
in more more more more more more more. So start
with an a tail. Blow it out, and I encourage
blow it out, shake it out, out, out, out, out out,
blow it out, shake it out, okay, and then breathe

(13:02):
in in in and then more and more and more
and more more. Okay, ready, yep, blow it out, shake
it out, blow that, shake it out. There's no wrong
way to do it. And then out out.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Out out out out out out out out, out out.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
Out, and then three your nose. Breathe in in in
in in in more more more more more more more
more more more more more more. Now hold it, hold
it and stretch open your chest. Stretch open your chest,
wriggle your shoulders back and forth, feel your spine opening up,
for your chest opening up, and if it feels good
let it out with a sigh.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Ah, God, that you're pretty good. I'm not gonna lie.
That felt amazing. And it's so simple though too think
about it. You're using your own body to help yourself,
and they think, like you said, you lost yourself to pharmaceuticals.
A lot of people do that. They're like, well, you know,
I can't sleep, and then the doctor's quick to give
you something that just God. You don't even think of

(13:55):
the side effects of what you're taking either, you know,
just if you sit there listen to some of these commercials,
notice how the it's always the side effects are and
it gets real low when they see the side effects
and they start listing them.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
You know.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Even some of those anti psychotic ones are like, well,
hearing voices aren't supposed to be there. I'm like, wait, wait,
hearing voices are supposed to be there. Hold up what
you know. It's funny though.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
It's a very vulnerable when people are hurting. They're very
vulnerable because it's very easy to want soupman to swoop
in and take it out with one thing, and marketers
are very good at speaking your unspoken words that's exactly
what I want, and they'll show you testimonials and stuff
like that, and when you're hurting, that becomes believable. Okay.
But the power underneath your own skin is the is

(14:39):
the ultimate disruptive technology. Okay. Breath work is the ultimate
disruptive technology because once you connect to that, a lot
of stuff outside of you becomes redundant, like most of it. Right.
So you've taken your first little breath, and we're going
to make that even better. Okay. Now, what I really
enjoy and you're doing really well, Pete, that you sort

(15:00):
of got into it and I could see, you know,
the energy that was coming through. Some people relax after
breath works, some people get energized. But whatever it is,
just just let it happen. So what I'm trying to
say right now is I get a lot of joy
from showing people the power underneath their own skin. Now,
what yourself and a lot of the other listeners probably
didn't know is in your two fingers and thumb, you've

(15:22):
got a power button. Okay, And what we're going to
do is we're going to push that power button in
when we breathe in. Okay. Now, you noticed when you
breathed in and out and then when you breathed in
more and more and more, you felt more air opening
up up here. We're going to call that your secondary

(15:43):
in haal primaries where you're normally breathing it out. Secondary
in hals, when you breathe in more. I want you
to hit those power buttons when it gets to the
secondary in hale. Okay, okay, sous, push them as hard
as you can when you get to that secondary inhal.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
So start by so you're good with that, yep, I'm ready.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
We start by blowing it out, blow it out, shake
it out, blow it out, shake it out. Have your
power buttons ready, have your power buttons already, out out out,
and then when your mouth closed, breathing in through your nose,
and then hit those power buttons. Open open more and
more and more. Lengthen it, lengthen it. Now, hold it
and wriggle your shoulders. Feel that chest opening up, Feel

(16:22):
your chest opening like a flower and the sun, feel
the warmth coming through. And then when it feels good,
let it out with a really big sigh.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Ah. Oh that feels amazing. Now that reels really good.
I'm telling you all right now that felt amazing.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Well, this is your energy pete and energy has an
intelligence all of its own, So I just encourage you
to just let it go to the places it's supposed
to go. Yeah, you know, so this is why you
know it's an active receivership. And if you're used to
sort of, you know, protecting yourself in a certain way,
you know it's it's it's hard to feel the depth

(16:58):
of this, but you're doing really well, and we're going
to juice this up even more so. If you look
at my nose here, I'm going to get close to
the camera, see how I can flare my nostrils. One
thing my coach used to taught me when I was
fighting was that before you do a combination, do a
big snort through your sinuses, because that oxygenates your brain. Now,

(17:18):
whether that's based in science or not, I don't know,
but it worked in combat. And science is now showing
that when you breathe through your nose, you create nitric oxide. Okay,
Now that's a gas that is only produced when we
breathe through our nose. Okay, So shallow breathing through your
mouth super unhealthy for a number of reasons. In fact,
if you want to die early, breathe through your mouth,

(17:40):
but breathing through your nose produce this nitric oxide, and
that's a gas that is beneficial for heart, lungs, brain, mood.
Full you know, it's a Beaso dilator. So if we
went to the chemist and you said, hey, give me
something that's good to my heart, my lungs, my brain,
my mood, how much would you pay for that? All? Right?

(18:03):
Oh yeah, okay, so this is free drugs right now.
And so what we're going to do is as we
blow it out, blow it out, shake it out, and
with our power buttons, we're going to double the speed
of the inhal and try and almost collapse your nostrils
so you can really suck it down over those sinuses. Okay.
And we're going to point that nose up at the ceiling. Okay,

(18:26):
so it's almost like you're leaning back a bit. So
this is where you have to be in a safe environment,
a supported chair. Okay, So did you want a little
demo before we do this?

Speaker 2 (18:35):
No, I think I got it. We're just going to.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yeah, and then suck it through our nose as fast
as we can and look up, lean back, hold it
and do the regal thing. Okay, okay, so blow it out,
shake it out. Loosey, goosey, blow it out, shake it out,
get rid of all your tension out out out. You'll
be surprised how much you can blow out. Then with
your power buttons.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Wrap it in.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
How through the nose looking up in in it in
feels good? Now, Just stretch and wriggle. Let that chest
open up, feel like it's opening in the sun, that
warmth coming through. And when you feel you can't stop
that sigh, let it out like.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Ah yeah, yeah, it feels amazing. Though. I mean, well, listen,
I know I do know when I because I've watched
a lot of uc here and there. You do notice
they don't breathe through their mouth. Which is a really
good point that you made, is that breathing your nose
is more beneficial because if you watch them, they're constantly
breathing through their nose, you know, you don't see them
really breathing through their mouth at all. Only sometimes when

(19:36):
the other third through in like certain actions like sh
you that little air bursts come out when they're punching
or releasing as they go kind of thing. Is there
a reason why they do that? Is that more more
power behind it, though I've always wondered that.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
Oh no, no, So the ancient sign control your breath,
control everything. Yeah, and when you're generating power and you
create a compressive force, so just you know, and if
you can speed up that sound, it actually speeds up

(20:07):
your whole fashion.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
This bag of meat is surrounded by a bag which
is your skin and your fascia. So it's not just
the muscles moving, it's your fascia. And you can you
can get that happening at a at a rapid rate
by coordinating your breath in with it, and also to
making a sound like Okay, sorry if I blew people's
ears out. Then Nikola Tesla once said, if you want

(20:32):
to understand the universe, think frequency, vibration and resonance. Okay,
So when you make it, chip or when we you know,
I invited people to make a sigh, Okay, that's a resonance. Okay,
that's creating energy, that's releasing blockages. Okay. And when and
when it says you know, understand the universe, it's think frequency,

(20:54):
vibration and resonance. It's actually this universe here underneath their
own skin. Okay. We we are a universe under here, okay,
and breath is the easiest gateway to get into that.
So what I want people to take, and we're going
to do this one more time because that secondary inhile, Pete,

(21:15):
I call that the breath of possibility. Okay. Now, now,
look what happens to my structure when things when things,
when I got shit in my head and the world
becomes hard, Look what happens to me is like the
weight of the world on my shoulders. I'm hunched over. Okay.
So proper breathing gives you proper alignment. So we're not

(21:36):
just getting more energy from more oxygen, Pete, We're getting
more energy from more alignment. In the way that your
brain is an electrical generator. Our nerves are like cables,
but they're like squishy garden hoses. So you know, if
you step on your garden hose or kink the garden hose,
there's no water running through. That's what it's like with
our nerves and our strength of energy. So when we're aligned,

(21:58):
when we're upright, when we breathing properly, we've got more
strength and power. Okay. And they found that when I
work with the British Special forces that every degree your
frame is out, you lose between eight and twelve percent strength. Okay,
so you might be able to carry one hundred kilos,
if your alignment's one degree out, then you can only

(22:20):
carry eighty eight to ninety two kilos. You know. That's
that's how much power difference there is. So breath work
is you know, it's about feeling good, but there's a
massive power and performance side to this. So I encourage
people this little power button. Okay, when you start getting

(22:43):
shit in your head, and you might have heard the
term rumination, where you get one little bit of shit
in your head, you focus on it and that two
percent becomes four, four percent becomes eight, sixteen thirty two,
and it takes over your whole head. Pinch your fingers
together and take that breath. Okay, kick that shit out
of your head. So and I visualize snorting air through

(23:03):
my sinus is to blow that blockage out of my head.
Does that make sense?

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Just think for a second, right now, Just just have
your fingers ready and like suck air through your nose
like you're trying to pull it into your brain and
dispel a thought. So just just try that now, Okay,
that real snort through the nose. That's you getting your

(23:29):
power back, that's you getting into this moment. That's you
oxgenating in neural pathways, chemical override. Okay. And when people
ask me how often should I breathe? I'm like, well,
when I couldn't self regulate and I was on pharmaceuticals,
I had pills, not just in my medicine cabinet, I
had it by my bed, in my car, in the
fruit bowl, in the cupboard, because I was always trying

(23:51):
to self regulate, but I couldn't do it for myself.
So this little breath work technique, okay, is something that
you can access whenever, however, as much as you need.
And I'm going to show you this breath of possibility

(24:12):
to create also the breath of peace. Now, this one
is super powerful and energetic, and again you do need
to be in a safe environment. So when you're kicking
around in public, breath of possibility, but this breath of peace,
you want to be either seated or laying down, okay,
because this one really creates a wonderful sensation of rest

(24:32):
inside of you. So all we're going to be doing,
Pete is breathing in and wriggling, but we're going to
hold it and we're going to move it from our
upper middle down to our lower So we're going to
put our hands on our bellies, okay, and we're going
to push it down low into our belly. So just
practice right now, hands on your belly, push your belly

(24:54):
button out, and feel like there's a bubble of air
down there, right Because in your lower third, your lungs,
that's where you're you have the best gas exchange because
that's where the most blood is. So when I'm working
with athletes, I'll show them how to breathe this way
to dissolve lactic acid, so they could oxygen dissolves lactic acid.

(25:14):
So in between sets, you breathe a certain way to
accelerate more rapidly. But you and me sitting down right now,
this extra oxygenation you will feel why it's called the
breath of peace. Okay. So it's going to be just
like the breath of possibility. Bring it in, hold it in,
shake it, and then wrigle it down low, hands down low,
push it down low, and then we're gonna squeeze it

(25:36):
down low, and we're gonna let it out with it
like just like let it bleed out like a cat's
kind of hiss. Well the whole time we're pushing it
down low. You cool with that? Yeah, makes sense, right,
and I encourage everyone to do this at home, but again,
do it in a safe place. This is super potent.
And if you can crack this for you, how many
other people out there are looking for peace, you could

(25:57):
be the one that actually introduces them to the most
powerful thing they never knew they had underneath their own skin. Okay,
this is these are the stakes we're playing for. And
I'm glad this is in digital format because in one
hundred years time, people are going to need this. Okay,
so have your power buttons ready. Blow it out, shake
it out, blow it out, shake it out. Just loosey, goosey,

(26:18):
blow it out, shake it out, out out out out
out out out out out. And then when you're ready,
mouth close, snort through the nose, really rapidly, hit those
power buttons. Open open, open, open, open the chest, lean back. Okay,
good now, hold it now, hands on your belly, let
your head fall forward, Let your head fall forward. Push
it down, low, push it down low, feel it down low,

(26:39):
feel it down low. Very good. Now let it out
with that as long as possible, long as possible, long
as possible, long as possible, and then just sit with that,
you know, let that energy go where it's supposed to go.
It's got an intelligence of its own if it needs
to go into your shoulder, your head, your face, your

(27:02):
lower back, wherever that is. This is your energy and
it's there to help you, and it knows you.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yeah, I feel amazing. That feels great though. I mean,
if you let them that have and trade this seat,
you're definitely gonna tray. This is really it's something else.
The feeling you get is just, you know, like you said,
you need to feel relaxed, You feel enerchainic. I just
feel real, just at ease. You know. I came in,
you know, kind of a little stiff. After this, I'm
feeling really good now. I feel those shoulders loosen up.

(27:28):
Everything else is feeling really good.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
You know, Pete's going to be two more times, is
it okay? Each time your body gets more and more receptive.
Oh kind of like that was amazing more please, that
was amazing, more pleased. So we're just gonna do that
two more times, and I'll be right here with you.
We'll guide you through it. So blow it out, shake
it out, blow it out, shake it out out out
out out out, just feel feel your power buttons ready,

(27:50):
Feel your power buttons ready. And then when you're ready,
breathing in, looking up, stretching, open, open, open, very good, open. Now,
wriggle your shoulders. Wriggle your shoulders, hold it, hold it,
and then just hands on your belly, hands on your belly,
push it down low, push it down low, let your
head for forward, push it down low, and then let
it out super slow as you can. Press it down low,

(28:13):
like compressed air, coming out out out out out, out,
out out as much as you can. Let that integrate.
Just shake your body a bit, let it integrate. And
on this last one, we're going to delightfully exhale ou
out out out out out, and this one's going to
be extra long in high with your power buttons ready,

(28:35):
breathing in, hit those power buttons, raise your chin, raise
your chest. Oh my gosh, that feels amazing to feel
that oxygen pushing around the place inside of you. Now
holding your breath and let everything relax forward, But let
everything relax forward. Hands on your belly, hands on your belly.
Push it extra low, extra low low low, compress it,

(28:57):
compress it and then let it out with a try
and make that extra long exile.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Oh that feels amazing. They're read at home that the
sinx is just breathing this. Oh, it is just breathing.
It's just the way you're doing things. It's the feeling
you get is amazing, Like that overwhelming feeling you washes
over you, that you just feel so calm as you
feel like everything just kind of going away and anything
else like that. It's it's a real great feeling for
me now. Like Tim said, though, it could be different

(29:32):
for other people though, how you feel like you can
feel a little tired or whatever else. You know, it
may be a different experience, which that's great because we're
all different individuals, so we're experiencing different ways. But it's
feeling great so far for me.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Well, what breath work does. It removes anything from in
the way of you feeling your physical body. So if
some people after doing this, they might, oh, actually I
could go to sleep right now, which is perfect. Some
people after doing this, Oh I've got a bunch of
energy to do stuff. Whatever's and like I said, mental

(30:09):
health isn't mental health in my experience, it's physical disconnect.
The more I'm out focusing on the outside things, the
less connected I am to my body. And I can
have all sorts of crazy stuff going on here, but
I'm not listening to it because I'm so focused out there.
And this world loves to have you focused out here,
because that's how they essentially tell us we're not enough.

(30:36):
And if I'm not enough, I need something more, so
I'll pay for it. And who's going to buy more crap?
Someone who knows their value and knows how to add
value to themselves and people around them. And someone who
doesn't know their value and then believes that when you say,
you can't be complete unless you've got a pair of
sneakers or a particular or however many amounts of something

(30:58):
that is seemingly important. And and like I said, breath
is the ultimate disruptive technology because if you start looking around, Pitt,
you'll start seeing this whole economy is based on us
not knowing our power.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, you know you're not wrong. Think
about it, like you know, all those energy drink people,
they thrive on the people that aren't sleeping they're like, yeah, listen, here,
buy my drink. It's got more caffeine, you know. And
some people are caffeine sensitive don't even know it. Man,
they start drinking those things, you know. I think there's
one girl I worked with. She was drinking like three
of them in a night. I was like, dude, I
don't know if should be consuming all that. That's a
lot of you know, a lot of caffeine in there.

(31:33):
You don't know what they're putting in those things. Oh no,
I'll be fine. One day she just went completely berserk.
I'm like, I told you, like, like, too much of
that shit's going to be bad for you, Like, you know,
like coffee, I'll do in limited bits if I, you know,
need a little pick me up or something. I get real,
I go real easy with it because then you know,
we all know what caffeine does. You're anxiety allcast your
anxiety start picking up, you know, and and things like

(31:54):
that too. So it's I get it. I've been there.
I've been a slave to the energy drinks before I didn't.
I was a younger kid. When I was younger, I
decided to do something stupid, you know, the Starbucks frappuccino things.
I decided one day I was gonna have seven of them. Well, guys,
let me tell you that experiment didn't end well for me.
I was twitching. I was twitching then what I think?
I was like back and forth. It's like I could

(32:14):
have stop moving. They're like, are you okay? No, No,
I'm doing fine. I mean great good, Like like the
like the proverbial EIGHTYHD person would be, you know, like
that character would just be completely just shooting stuff off.
So what's going on? How you doing? Randal?

Speaker 3 (32:28):
Did I say a Candel Randall? Was he next military?

Speaker 2 (32:32):
I'm not too sure Randall?

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Oh? Randall? Right? Is that Canel Randall? Rds?

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah? I wonder if that is too We'll see what
he says. But yeah, you know I had made that
a mistake. I didn't you know, I didn't know anything.
I was young. I thought I just kept drinking them
and I stayed up all. You know. I thought it'd
be funny. I was like I just kept going, and
eventually it was just like I just couldn't stop moving.
I had so much caffeine's thriving into my body. I
was just my hands were twitching, my feet he says
he's doing okay, Randall, are you a colonel by chance?

(32:58):
That was Tim's question to you, Bud. But you know,
I I thought that was a great idea on my part.
I was like, you know, uh, yeah, that was a
great experiment not to do again, you know, but it's
he says, the rink is CSA. I'm not sure what
that is either.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
We love their acronyms. I'm not sure if.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Renda, what's that? What's that? What's the CSA for us? Random?
I'm sorry, man, I'm not too keen on the acronyms either,
But yeah, you're not wrong though. Think about it, like
like think about when people go as CNTI or shark ting.
They're trying to fix a problem somebody has, and that's
what the product. That's how those products are so successful.
It's like you have to fill avoid in somebody's life

(33:42):
where it fits something they need basically, you know, and
you're just kind of like trying to fill that void
with this useless crap A lot of times that people
don't need and there's some stuff is just like you know,
a s CNN TV had a whole section and like
our pharmacies walking he said Confederate. What's up, Tyler? How
are you doing?

Speaker 3 (34:02):
Brother Tyler?

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Tyler's actually the host of the Best Damp podcast. I
was on his podcast on Saturday. It was really great
Tim at the end you linked up with him for sure.
But yeah, you know, but you're not wrong. But think
about a case like you said that the way marketing
works is you have to sell to somebody that needs something, like, hey,
you really need this for this reason. Why do you
think fast food's so successful? Think about it. You know,
it fills that boy to people that don't have time

(34:27):
to make food or whatever their reason they come up with, Well,
I can't make nothing, Just go get something from them.
They'll have it ready for in seconds, not realizing the
crap that goes into all that stuff and all the
extra stuff they add into it and things like that too,
and then you become a slave to it. And it's like,
you know, then that documentary was that supersided me where
the guy came out was eating nothing McDonald's for like
thirty days. It was like he's eating it every single

(34:47):
and you can watch him going through the most miserable
time of his life. But it's it's scary. Thing is
that people are actually going to doing that though he
was just putting it on a magnified scale because now
everybody sees it everywhere. But he said that though that
several there are people but actually that's their diet. Though,
was like, Dan, it's just horrible to watch.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
I was trying to explain to myself how would I
explain Western society when I was in deployed in Afghanistan.
I said, how would I explain Western society to an Afghany?
And I'm like, well, essentially, the Western world is a
consumer society. We all kind of know this, but we
have to understand that the gravity of that because the
goal of a consumer society is to have us consume.

(35:30):
And that's pretty scary because if you look at it,
whether it's by designer default, if you had two groups
of people, one didn't know their value, was always told
they could only be happy if they had certain things,
and then another group knew how to generate their value
could create their own happiness. Who would buy Who would
firstly believe crap that was stupid and who would buy

(35:52):
crap that wasn't serving them?

Speaker 4 (35:55):
Yeah, that's true though, since it's were knee high, so
there's so many things that we just we just we
do we don't even know we're doing, you know, and
and and and my sort of peace of the wellness
pie is.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
It amazes me, like everyone you me, everyone listening has
a body, and it amazes me how little we muld
you know.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah, yeah, And it's funny though, what are the Afghany
city though? When you told them that you're explaining Western
how the how you explained our side of the world
to them, they're probably look at it. You're like, what.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
This wasn't a conversation I had with the Afghanis. It
was okay, this was this was in my mind. And
literally within that conversation I was picturing because a lot
of times on deployment, you're board, right, So I had
these conversations in my head and I was picturing, you know,
these two guys setting up an i D you know,
senior Taliban guys setting up an ID. And there's this

(36:57):
teenager they're trying to teach and he's on his phone.
He's can disengage and and and they're giving him crap so,
you know, get off that Western piece of equipment. And
then he's like, okay, so how many people you're gonna
kill with this id he says of if we're lucky,
maybe two. And then he's like, well, the kid's like,
well look at this. If you really want to be

(37:18):
a terrorist and do a good job. Look how many
Americans die from heart disease each year, you know, millions.
And then these two guys that are laying the idea go, ah,
we're going to open a fast food takeaway place.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
But that's think about it.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
I'm going to kill more people, you know.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
You think about it, thinking about how many how many
were you McDonald's aways said, I always sold over fourteen
billion burgers or you know what. I'm making a statement
like that. But it's at the same time, it's like
you don't know what they're putting in that stuff, you know,
and it's it's horrible man. And people are like, oh,
I can't eat better. I'm like, you can't. Actually it doesn't.
It takes less time to make a lot of this
stuff than you realize. You go to the store and
get the actual ingredients yourself. One, it's more fun because

(37:59):
then you can teeter to your taste. And plus you're
learning a life skill. You're learning how to take care
of yourself versus we're lying on somebody else who doesn't
care about you, that's just trying to feed you whatever
they can give you, you know. And it's just like there's
always that question of what the hell is in this
that you're eating? You know, you start eating and looking
at it and you're like, oh, this doesn't seem right.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
You know.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
It's like, oh, this is also a chicken patty. But
then part there's parts of this patty, Well, well what
parts am I eating now? Because this patty is not
not really chicken anymore. We're now we're eating something that's
come together, you know. And then what was it? They said?
The McDonald's nuggets that oh my god, I am a
slave to and I resist at all costs. But they're
just so good. But it's like they're made up the
miss minced chicken parts is what they're basically sans you are.

(38:37):
So it's like a paste, you know, and people are
eating this and not realizing the effects it does have
in their mental health. Case when you don't eat right,
a lot of times that'll screw at your head too,
is that you're not eating right, you know, and you
feel sluggish and all these other things like that. You know,
you're just adding to the more your misery, you know,
and we all know misery loves companies, so everybody gets
hooked on this stuff once they get you hooked.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
You know.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Sodas, especially tim man, are so hard to get rid of.
Like I tried to kick SODA's and I've done a
really great job a bit. I found things to replace them,
but I'll have one once in a while, because even
I'm diabetic, I shouldn't even have that stuff. But I
drink a lot more water though, But I found those
little water enhancer things are really helpful too. It's like
you get the flavor, but you're not getting the you're
not getting all the sugar they're adding from all that
other stuff too.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
Yeah, I mean what you're speaking to there is people
tend to trade quality for convenience. You know. It's easy
to say that from the top down. But because so
many people are so disconnected from their body and so
focused on something else, they end up being time poor.
So they're like, oh, body's hungry, throw something in there.

(39:43):
I won't be hungry that I can keep doing what
I'm doing. And they don't seeing that this whole like
the fast food industry has done a lot of work
in what can get your brain addicted to certain things? Yeah,
you know, and yeah, I see. You know.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
That's a really good point too. By the way, I
know you're talking.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
You know, it's it's, it's, it's, it's, it's there. Two.
Let me say it another way. When I was living
out of balance, I didn't know why, but I had
to drink half a cart and a grog before I
spoke to my then wife. Okay, and I say then wife,
not ex wife, because I stand for a positive future
in that relationship. And I was using alcohol to essentially

(40:32):
give me comfort and a sense of connection, and and
it did for a short period, but it was a
bit like a bit like me being broke and then
a loan shark gives me a loan, but I've got
to pay it back extra the next week. But I'm
still broke, so I've got to get another loan. And
you're sort of going further and further into what I

(40:53):
call energy debt, and a lot of people. The way
I encourage people to see their energy is energy is
like money. How you invest it is how you get.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
It back exactly.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
And if you want to find out who you are
as a person. It's not a particularly mystical thing. Just
observe the things that you invest energy into and the
return you get. Now, you know, some people could invest
ten dollars into playing guitar. Let's say I'm not a
guitar player, but some people if they invested the time
playing guitar ten dollars in, gives them one hundred dollars back. Okay,

(41:31):
that little breath work exercise we did. That cost a
bit of energy to do that, but I'd like to think,
you know, it might have cost two dollars, but you
got twenty dollars back.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Yeah, you got heah.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
So if you know, just like you've got a shares portfolio,
and you wouldn't just be throwing into money into a
into an asset that was just taking from you. Treat
your own energy like an energy investment portfolio. You know.
Notice the things that you do with your body that
really return you a massive could be working out, could
be breathing, could be yogat, could be running, whatever it is.

(42:05):
And also observe the foods you eat that you invest
into that you get a return from. Observe the people
that are in your life that you invest into that,
you get a really good return from Yeah, and once
you get that downpacked, Pete, all of a sudden, what
I want for myself and all my clients is to

(42:26):
live like energetic millionaires.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
Energetic millionaires means that you are operating from a position
of strength and any interaction you have throughout the day.
Because I've been that guy who only had a dollar
fifty and someone's taken seventy five cents and that was
a massive withdrawal because comparatively it was and I chased
that seventy five cents because that was wrong and I'm right,

(42:50):
and I spent years and I completely forgot the fact
that I could make another million dollars the next day.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
Yeah, yeah, makes sense. I mean makes sense though. You
know I like to say too. You know, I tell
you to invest in yourself, you know, take care of
yourself better.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
You know.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
The food thing I think is the big thing about it.
It's like people don't understan that's where you get your
energym it's food. Don't be putting crap in and expecting
good things to come out, because you're gonna get crap out,
you know. And it's the same thing you know, with
the way you breede too, Like the breath work, it's
so easy to do. It's like you don't need a
magic pillicure at all. All we were doing is in
our own bodies and breadth to basically release that stress

(43:27):
and everything else that you're dealing with, you know. And
and it's great that you know, breath work in bed
exists because it's it's so easy for people to do.
It fills that void, but then it doesn't include all
the big farm winning. At this point, we take them
away from that. We put them in control their own
bodies and give them that self so that power entitlement.
You know, they're like, oh, now I can do it

(43:47):
on my own. I don't need somebody else to do
it for me, you know. And I think little by
little they'll build that confidence and basically you know, feel like,
you know, they can do it more and they don't
need somebody else and start adapting that idea to stop
letting everybody's control what they do and control their own
but their own manifest their own destiny basically.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
Essentially, yeah, yeah, Well, Chinese one thousands of years has
been saying first the body than the mind. You get
your body right then the mind kind of sorts itself out.
And the way I kind of see it is I
sort of see our bodies as the radio. This body
here is just the radio, okay, but who I am
is the signal. Yeah, and you know this body can

(44:29):
can pass, but I'm still going to be around. But
what I can do in this body is divide my
actions up into two lots. One thing that tunes me
into who I really am and things that tune me out. Now,
a lot of people get lost in the radio itself. Okay,
that's why the gyms are full of mirrors. They want
you to only look at what you can see, not

(44:49):
what you can't see. In fact, I believe that's how
they they make their money. Because if all you're doing it,
the only reason you're improving this radio is for it
to look a certain you've completely missed the point and
it's a very low energy return just doing it for
your body. So if you picture picture, there's two people
on a treadmill. One of them's do only there because

(45:12):
they're not happy with their bum all right. The other person,
every step they take is saying I value this body
of mind. Every step I take is getting everything I
really want closer and closer. And I can tell you
now that that sort of headspace when you when you
can trade your expectations for affirmations. So when I'm when

(45:34):
I'm consulting with anybody and they're starting a physical discipline,
I say, forget about the weight, forget about the measurements.
Don't think shape, think state, energetic state. You may or
may not get the shape you want, but you can
get an energetic state today. Understanding that you're affirming your
value when you do move your body, and you're creating

(45:58):
that energetic portfolio which you can act access today. You
can be a better person today because you've invested in yourself,
which kind of leads me to my next biohack. I mean,
breath work is awesome, and that's the foundation that connects
us to ourselves. But I asked people to consider the
possibility Pete that if we're connected inside ourselves, that's only

(46:19):
half the connection. We're actually meant to connect with others,
you know, and it shows you got double the dope. Mean,
when you're working out with somebody else or doing anything
with somebody else, you've doubled the amount of energy in
that space. But generosity is such a powerful thing that
it can often be done wrong and then it's something

(46:40):
that you never do again. So what nobody knew, Pete
was when I was doing all this work with the
veterans and saving all these veteran lives within a year,
nobody knew that every six or seven weeks, I had
to write myself off drunk for three days because I
was being very generous with my energy, but I was
giving of my self. I wasn't giving of my abundance. Yeah,

(47:03):
and that's a And what I noticed was if I could,
if I was just at one hundred percent and I
gave someone ten percent away, there was a part of
me that said, you know, I'm down to ninety percent,
you better do something with that ten percent, you know,
And I'd have attachments, expectations. But I noticed the big
change in me I noticed was if I invest in

(47:24):
me and I make five hundred percent for the first part,
you know, invest in me to start with, create five
hundred percent, then I can give away twenty percent a
day and people can love it, hate it, tell me
to f off. It doesn't matter. And once you once
you get the grasp of that, once you get in
touch with something so much greater than what can be
taken from you. You can be generous and truly giving consistently,

(47:46):
and generosity is the ultimate internal biohack. The amount of
good dope means serotonin it creates in you, the amount
of chemicals it creates in other people, and the amount
of chemicals that creates in people of observing that act
of generosity. So so, generosity is very much a part

(48:07):
of your wellness. And I don't like using overused terms
like empowerment, but when you're fully powerful, then it's quite
a natural thing to be generous because you've gotten. You've
gotten so much, You've tapped into the source, and it's
it's a you've noticed. It's a very powerful thing to

(48:28):
connect to others.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
Yeah, oh yeah, it's amazing. I get. I get to
connect the people every day on the show, every time
I hit record, every time something comes, it's always a
new connection I'm making with new people. And it feels
great because then after that I tell them, I tell
other people about the experience. Well, hey, yeah, really this person,
you know, like I was telling you, I was telling
some people that I was going to have an interview
with you, and told them a little bit about you,
and the one guy just shocked me. He was like,

(48:51):
oh man, I'm ready to hear that. Oh yeah, there'd
be some awesome there, and say, yeah, you know, he's
doing these things with breath work, and so what's und like.
We'll stay tuned, you'll find out when he comes out
and we'll talk and you can have a better understanding
like that, you know. And he was so excited, you know,
to hear and he's you know, and I just I
tell peop about the show all the time. I'm only
sharing it with other people, and other people you would
never even know if you just went based on looks
like everyone else does, you would never know. These people

(49:13):
were so interested in what I had to say. They
were like, oh, I look. The one guy kept coming
out with me, and he came into me the other day.
In fact, I saw him. He say, hey, man, I'm
enjoying the show, and I totally forgot that he had
said he was going to listen, you know, and then
he reminded me. I was like, I'm glad. I'm so
glad you're enjoying. It's like, I'm like, how far are you?
And he's like, well, I started from the beginning I'm like, well,
get ready for a ride, because it gets interesting, you know,
when you get to a certain epic couple episodes in

(49:34):
the first half of the year, you know, when we
get to a certain point, you'll find that, you know,
right at the beginning of the year, we had an
interesting moment happen, and I was telling him a little
bit about it too, you know, and things like that,
but he was he was so enthralled to go check
it out. And the other people too, are so amazed.
They're like, oh, you do a podcast. Every time I
tell you about it, they're like, you do a podcast.
I'm like, yeah, I'm doing a podcast instead of here,
this is what it is. And when you tell them,

(49:54):
it's fun to watch their response, okay, because with mental
health you don't you get interesting respons you know, and
it's a generational thing. Some of the other generations are
just like, yeah, whatever, you know. And I could get
that though, because if you look at what it was
like then, it really wasn't that important to them. They
didn't know as much as we know now now that
now some of the other ones in between where my
age range are, you know, in the forties to you know, thirties,

(50:16):
right that range. They all are very interested now because
now it's a big thing to people. You know, it's like,
you know, all this awareness and people and you know,
and I tell him exactly what I do, and tell
him I talked to I've talked to everybody. I don't
leave any space open. I talked to every musicians. I
talk to artists, authors, you know, anybody I can get
that wants to come join the conversation. I try to
bring them in because I think everybody has an opinion,

(50:36):
and everybody's opinion is valued by me. I want to
hear what your thoughts are, so you know, we we
can get the idea of what people you know think
and it's nice when you get younger people involved too,
because there's a young guy that works on the show
with me. He does the audio, and I had never
even known that he was that important. He thought it was.
He was so behind it because I told him what
I was doing, and he loves it. He goes out
there and tells everyone, Yeah, I'm working with this guy.

(50:57):
He's working on this podcast. He does mental health stuff
this and it's it's interesting to see people's responses though,
because a lot of them are like, really, like, what
do you talk about? And I tell them what the
name of the shows? Like, oh, so is it about
anxiety that makes me laugh every single time? I'm like,
why do you assume it's automatically anxiety is the only
thing we talk about. I'm like, we talk about everything here.
I don't think there's ever a subject I've ever said

(51:17):
no to, except for maybe two people, but they got
a little too blurry between the lines of what they
wanted to talk about. I'm like, yeah, you might want
to clear that message up and come back and talk
to me, because I'm here to create safe space for
people to come talk about these things. Have so it's
great people as yourself, come on, teach new tools, have
people share their stories and feel empowered by those stories,
and tell you know, because the story means a lot
to everybody. You know. Sometimes you never know that how

(51:39):
well aligned you are with somebody else. You know, like
my guests this morning and I we had a lot
in common with things that he was saying, And it
is so interesting because I've never met these people. Reminds you,
I know, I don't meet with people prior because I
feel like, you know, I want to know I want
to get to know them why we're alive, because it's
more genuine when you're having a conversation because you learned digs.
I didn't even know you were a pro fighter at
when you were a fighter. At one point you just

(51:59):
told I was like, get out. That's awesome. You know
things like that too. You know, it's so great the
things you find out when you start talking to people
and you're just having a conversation. So it's been great though,
you know, getting to know you and everything too. I
love what you're doing, man, I really do. Like I said,
it was great. I got a chance to listen to
your book too, guys, and he tied. Tim had sent
to the book to me ahead of time. I was
listening to it in the car and it was great.

(52:21):
It was nice little things driving home work because there's
some days I'm just ready to lose my steam, man,
and it was helpful for me just to relax after
a long night come home, because I think that's the
hardest part of shutting my brain down. Like you pointed out,
it's hard for you to shut the brains down when
you're trying to go to bed, and for me, I
work nights, so I come home and some days I'll
record and then I'll go to bed after that, and
it's that part of when I get done, it's like, okay, well, Pete,

(52:41):
now it's time to go to sleep. And Pete's brain's like, no, no,
we don't think so my body's like, let's go to bed.
We're tired, man. My brain's like, hey, no, let's go.
Let's take off. Man, we still go. We invincible. No,
we not invincible, We're not. I love unfortunately.

Speaker 3 (52:56):
I love it, pet And I'm interested what your journey
being like. You've you've shared with other people's experience of you.
How's it been on your side of things? If you
were to speak truthfully in the deepest sense, what's been
your your experience under your own skin.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
From the beginning to where I'm now, I could just
tell you now it's the evolution of Pete. I discovered
more about myself that I didn't know. You know, for
so many years, I thought I knew who I was.
But now that I'm going down this path and I'm
engaging with other people, I start to learn a little
bits about myself and different things, you know, like I'm
energy sensitive. I never knew that until until I met

(53:35):
somebody else that had explained what it was. I was
this phenomenon I was feeling. I couldn't explain, and you know,
and then I discovered, you know, mmm paths. So I
take on a lot of people's emotions too, and things
like that too. But these people teach me things how
to protect myself and things like that too, you know.
And I've I started mental health. Now I'm moving towards
energy healing is a big subject for myself personally, where

(53:56):
I go to like energy healing, things like that, checking
all these unnatural cures and things. And at first I
didn't know any of this stuff, you know, And this
is a journey of self discovery, Like I'm learning so
much about myself as I go, and I'm meeting all
these great people along the way.

Speaker 3 (54:07):
You know.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
There's a woman that has a film that's coming out
about mental health. Her named Stephanie Aycock. The movie is
called Bloom. So what it is is basically a different
aspect to look at mental health. And when I met her,
I had no idea about this movie. But when she
told me about I'm so behind it. I talk to
everybody about it, and she loves it. Though that I'm
out there talking to people about it because I'm like, man,

(54:28):
this is so cool, you know, And had I not
done the show, I would never met anybody like that.
I've never met her. I've met Melanie's the one that
told her and beyond Energy, and you know, I've met
people reacing like Mars Hendrick. He he's an artist, but
he also does healing as well too, and things like
that too, And we just all these engaging conversations. Man,
you take away all these great little nuggets truth, you know,
and I start learning more about myself and you know,

(54:49):
and I feel like a lot of times the universe
is putting these people in my past. So anybody I
come in contact with, I have a good feeling about
beforehand because I have a really good sense of energy.
It's how's weird to people when I tell them that,
Like when I'm messaging somebody back and forth, if i
feel like I'm just not feeling it or I have
a strange feeling, I feel like this just a conversation
just isn't going to work for us. I unfortunately pass.

(55:11):
And I've done that for a few people and they're
very respectfully understandable about it. You know, things like that too.
But in the beginning, I was just taking on whatever.
Now it's like, I'm really thinking about what guests I'm
taking on. Like when people message me to be on
the show, I'm really analyzing what you're saying because I
have a message and it's just you know, I want
to promote mental health, wellness in general, you know, no
matter how it is you take it in therapy, energy, healing, breathwork,

(55:35):
all these different things that people bring to the table.
And it's great when I get people to come on
that share these different experiences. I want to connect people
that way. So not only that, am I it's a
journey's sell discovery. I am connecting people with other people
like yourself, Tim that are doing these great things and
you know, giving them the resources and things like that too,
you know, because all my friends and my podcasting are
joke with me and they call me the master networker

(55:56):
because I'm always connecting different people with each other and
things like that, because I'm always sharing different things like
oh yeah, hey, yeah, have you heard of this person
or have you heard that person? Oh man, you got
to meet this great person. So every time my interviews end,
I usually go in that group, and I'll tell them, hey, listen,
I just interviewed this person. This is a little bit
about them. What do y'all think? And then see if
anybody else is interested, you know, in the same thing.
Or there's other shows that are not inside my little group.

(56:18):
I still reach out to that. I know, like you know,
a bunch of different podcasters. I reach out to the mom.
I'm like, hey, listen, you got to check this person out.
This fits right into some stuff you talked about, you know.
And it's great because then you go and you'll have
a great experience with them. And then that's because I'm
the one that connected you guys together. And I feel
even better because it's like, oh great, I brought these
guys together. We had a great conversation, and it just
keeps going, getting contagious and everything else.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
Oh, I can say that you're the energetic mor to
between the bricks, right, And I do want to speak
to that point of human connection. Well, people say, oh,
we're all connected, But the way I kind of see it, Pete,
is we're all living on the sign energetic grid. Yeah, okay,
and you're aware of the grid, the grid spaces, you're

(57:01):
aware of is relative to your own energy level. Usually,
if you've got low energy level, you don't have a
lot of awareness. But if you have a high energy level,
and I'm not talking you know, coffee or red well,
I'm talking about you know, energetic depth and resonance inside yourself,
how connected to your own body you are essentially and
which ironically then leads to powerful connections outside of yourself.

(57:21):
But the point I'm trying to make here is if
you if you picture people sort of on this grid
and we're feeling each other a lot more than we
probably know. And if people doubt me on that because
I've had a lot, I've got a lot of military mates,

(57:41):
you know, really, you know, manly men are tim You're
full of shit? What's this energetic grid? And I'm like, well, okay,
you feel that energetic grid when someone close to you dies. Yeah, okay,
because those golden visible strands that you were feeling at
any given time, when they get severed, that's when most
people feel that connection. So if you're working off this

(58:05):
is a premise if you feel it when someone's physically
removed from the grid. Conversely, your benefit if someone's physically improved.
Now we can't see it with their eyes. Like you've
spoken on a few things, how you've been surprised about
how beneficial your work's been to people around you and
you just didn't know. You're just doing what you do.

(58:27):
And I have a faith that helps me helps me
know that when we get to the other side, you're
going to say, we're going to be shown our lives
as we saw it through our own eyes, and then
we're going to be shown our lives as we didn't
see it. So not just a linear set of events.

(58:48):
We're going to see how that impacted others than others
and others, and it just kept on creating this incredible
sort of butterfly effect, one event affecting so many other things.
But I think that the compass that we can run
off is when something feels right, when something feels aligned,
when something feels good, when something's bringing more love, more peace,

(59:08):
more joy into your life. That is the point where
you're creating the most powerful ripples, and you don't have
to worry about it. This is just the energetic field
doing the work. Those ripples are then flying onto others.
You're just aligned with something that's bringing you all these
awesome things and it's nice to see it from time
to time, but I've noticed, if you're really going to

(59:30):
be a healer in this world, you can't do it
for any kind of thanks, because if you're a healer,
not a marketer. Okay, and we spoke about this earlier.
It's not until I had a chronic injury that I
realized that the world we live in isn't the world.
It is an age of information. It's an age of marketing.

(59:52):
First six page of Google marketers, right, and marketers are
good at speaking the words that you want to hear,
promising power, giving you a but years will go by,
dollars will leave your pocket, and people end up blaming themselves.
And I've had so many people come to me saying, look,
I tried to get help to help hit and help.
In fact it made it worse. So I'm never going
to get help again, all right. But what a healer

(01:00:12):
will do is firstly, know that they're human. Their energy
is not enough for two people, but they've got a
They've mastered a connection to something super powerful, and that
might have taken them ten years to create that mastery,
but they can introduce other people in far less time,
and once you've gotten introduced to the source. You don't

(01:00:36):
need resales. And what I've observed and you may observe
this too. You might introduce one hundred people to something
powerful who really need it, and maybe only one or
two of them will go, oh, you know what, thank you,
because most people when they connect them to the power,
oh great. I was never in the darkness. I've always
been in the light. So the point I'm trying to

(01:00:57):
make you is do it because it's an affirmation of
who you are. Yeah, it's super important. Otherwise, you know,
I used to burn myself out because I had expectations,
you know, on people to you know, I've done this,
You've got to do that. No, I'm doing this because
this is this is who I am, this is what
I do.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
Yeah, that's actually a conversation that happened when I started this.
It was you know, oh, I don't think you should
you should wait. No, this is what I'm going to do.
This is what I want to do, you know. And
I stood by it so far, and it was the
greatest decision ever because like this show took off instantly.
Like when I pitched the concept out there, I got
offered by a podcast netbor to join them, so that

(01:01:38):
came into play, and then the show booked out to
the end of the year within like a week. I
was like, this is insane, Like these I didn't realize
how powerful this conversation is going to be. And then
I'm like, well, you know, let me ask. And I
asked them if I could do a three pm slode
and they're like, yeah, yeah, why not. There's nobody there, sure,
why not go in and fill the gap wherever you'd like.
You know. The actually told me I could go as
live as much as I wanted to, but end of

(01:02:01):
the year again, so come come November, though, I'm telling
people I'm booked out to July of twenty twenty five,
you know, and that's just Monday. This isn't like where
I add the extra days and where I started picking
up other you know, adding more interviews to the mix
and everything else. It was just Monday, one concept. One
day a week. I had two shows, you know, both
would be live and people be able to watch and

(01:02:21):
you know, have a conversation and in fight people real people,
people like yourself, different, different people all over the place.
And the idea was to bring everyone together through just
this one conversation. Now, had I known what was going
to happen at the beginning of the air, that this
thing was going to explode, I you know what I
told you, So I was still not believing it because
I was like, this is so so surreal, Like people
want to talk to me just about these things. And

(01:02:42):
then you know, random people I don't know come up
to me and say, hey, listen, I like what you're doing.
I heard, or people message me too and go, hey, listen,
I listen to your show. I got something I think
that's perfect. And it's great when you hear that because
people are listening to it. It's like, well, hey, you're
listening to this, all right, awesome. You know. Hell, even
my own family members tim I didn't even know half
of them were listening to it. They're like, yeah, we
listen to your show. We think what you're doing is
really great. You're doing a good job. And it's like

(01:03:04):
y'all talking to me, like, you know, like deal with
imposter syndrome a lot of times when it came to
early on. Now I'm having better, I'm better at accepting
it a little bit better now. But it's just it's
just so real when you hear people say that, hey,
you're doing a great thing. But to me, all I'm
doing is I'm just having a great conversation. I not
only am I learning something, but people that are listening
get to learn things too along the way, you know.
And then that whole question about who's Pete. Because all

(01:03:27):
my interviews I base them on my guests. I don't
worry about me, but somebody else had asked me that question.
She hosts a podcast called Humanity two point oh. She
said to me at the end of it, She's like, Pete,
we didn't talk about you at all. I'm like, I know,
this wasn't about me. This is about you, you know.
And it's like, but little by little did I start
released telling people about my story, you know. And at
the same time, it's I'm healing because I'm it's easier

(01:03:49):
for me to share more details of things that have
led up to where I'm at now, you know. And
I'm going to write my own book though actually I'm
working in a memoir. It's called The Voice of the Voiceless,
you know. Basically, the idea is that all all these
people needed a space, and I'm created this space for them,
and all it is is because I was interested in
this topic and when I went for it, I just
went for it. You know, just open the door to
the conversation, and then we've had great conversations. So now,

(01:04:13):
you know, it's like, you know, these people that didn't
have a place, they didn't have a spot where they
can feel like they could talk. You know, because we
see all these celebrities talk all these all these other things. Okay, great,
but we're the regular joes like myself and other people.
Where can we share our stories? We look around, there's
none really there. You have doctors, You have all these
doctors doing all these things, all these different podcasts. You know,
hats off to them, But what about the people that

(01:04:34):
are the bread and butter this country that just basically
do everything. You know, when any country you go to,
all the people, the little people in the world, we're
their space to talk. So this this is basically what
it is. Open this up to anybody to join the conversation.
Like I said, I very rarely ever say no to
someone unless I feel like your your message is muddled,
because we you know, the whole idea is that we're
here to talk about a subject that clearly is an issue.

(01:04:55):
You know, no longer should we start shoving this under
the rug and say it doesn't exist, because it clearly
exists and strongly exists. Ever since COVID came out, you know,
people have magnified it. They did it magnified, But I'm like, well,
did it really or did it really just open the
door to people realize that they had a lot more
issues than they realized they had, you know, and they
started coming to the surface because when you're isolated, you know,

(01:05:17):
all these things start coming out about yourself and you
find out all these new things. You know, And since
ever since then, it's just been a great conversation. Now,
we've had some most shit moments in the show, Like
we've had people talk about some subjects that have just
really dug deep on people. I think suicide edition was
the one had the most response. We had a guy
come on the show. He was sitting here talking to us.
About thirty minutes in. He started talking about how his

(01:05:37):
plan that morning was he had the gun in his
hand at the edge of the bed and he was
considering taking his own life because he was teeter tottering
because he was so choked up about his friend. You
know he had lost his life the same way. I
don't know if it was the same exactly, but he
hit unfortunately, you know, suicide was a dead for his
friend too, and his friend had everything going for him,
you know. And that brought out up the big conversation.

(01:05:58):
Just because everybody looks like that have everything going from
doesn't mean they don't have problems going on behind there
in their head. You know, what's going on upstairs, you know?
And well, and the other word too is.

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
There you go. There is a massive cost to not
understanding what's going on inside a person, okay, because it's
it's we get mistakenly, We mistakenly think and this is
this is this has been my observation. We mistakenly think
that the pain's the problem. Okay. And what I found

(01:06:32):
is that it doesn't matter if the pain's physical or emotional.
It'll get to a certain intensity or duration where that
transforms without the person even knowing it into loneliness, isolation.
I'm the only one going through it. And you mentioned
this before. Connection For me, we're as powerful as we
are connected to ourselves, connected to people around us. Bring

(01:06:54):
it on, right, But if I'm disconnected from other people,
disconnected from myself. I'm looking for a way out because
this is painful. Life is pain and my energy levels
are thinking and if I could just speak to and again,
this was critical to understand you know this, This goal
I had of you know, helping people, you know, not suicide,

(01:07:19):
was understanding that breaking the isolation is one of the
most critical factors to the healing journey. So someone realizing
that they're not alone in this. And and what I
would have is, you know what you're doing right now,

(01:07:41):
We're having people share their stories. And then what I've
noticed with pain and isolation, we have words we want
to say, but we can't say them, and they become
like rocks around our heart, and it's like it's really
hard to feel anything. And life becomes really hard when
you when you've got all these rock around your heart

(01:08:02):
because you can't connect with anybody, and if anyone tries
to get close to you, they bang up against the rocks.
They don't want to do that too many times. Yeah,
And eventually people start looking into the future and going, look,
here's what I know. I know I'm in pain. I
know all these rocks around my heart are causing pain
to others and if I look into my future, I
can't see anything changing. And that's an honest assessment. Yeah,

(01:08:24):
and then they say, well, I know what I'll do.
I'll relieve the pain for me. I'll relieve the pain
to you. I'm going to do everyone a favor if
I remove myself from this situation. So suicide comes up
like this really great option for people that are really hurting.
I famally find a way to make it better, you know,
and blokes are all about I got to solve this problem.

(01:08:46):
You know, I'm obviously the problem. I'm going to solve it,
and so simply sharing your journey through that particular pain,
like my way into this was the veterans space. But
whether it's breast cancer or you know whatever, it is
the golden question to ask, Pete is when you're really hurting,

(01:09:09):
asked this question, and this is what changed everything for me. Honestly,
how many other people do you think are in this
same situation right now?

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
Okay, it could be five, ten, ten thousand. I figured,
you know where I was. I was trying to get
help in a medical system that didn't seem to understand
or even care, And I'm about to do something really dramatic.
But then I said, look, how many other people are

(01:09:41):
in this same situation? And that's what I saw in Pete.
I saw, I figured at least a million, and I
encourage people, whatever you're going through, how many other people
give it a real number, at least a million, right,
And so I saw five hundred thousand to my left,
five hundred thousand to my right, and they were all
earnestly willing me on, saying, Tim, if you can find

(01:10:02):
a way forward for you, you can find a way
forward for us. You know, all we need as normal
human beings, all we need to know is to see
another normal human showing us it's possible, and then possibly
giving us a few options we didn't know about, you know.
And that's when when you connect to those people, you

(01:10:23):
don't just break your isolation. You start seeing that I'm
no longer you know, one in a million, I'm a
million in one.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:32):
So if I can make one inch, even if it's
just an inch of progress, I'm making a million inches
of progress. You know. If I make that appointment, if
I seek that healer, if I if I look after
my own physical body, that's a million people benefiting from
this moment. You know, if all I had to do
was do a twenty minute walk, you know, I felt
like shit for the first ten minute walking, but then

(01:10:54):
really good for the last ten minute walking, everything in
my life is better. And having the knowledge that your
value to other people isn't so much what you do,
it's what you've gone through, you know. And all humans

(01:11:17):
need is to have their isolation broken knowing another regular
human that has gotten through that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11:23):
And if I'm speaking of veterans I speak, I use
very plain language. I say, listen, you might not think
you're special, but I bet you've been through some shit, okay,
And it's our job to turn that shit into fertilizer.
And the stinkiest shit makes the best fertilizer. And you
know it might take you a week, a month, a
decade to make that transformation, but that's the amount of

(01:11:45):
time you're going to save others. And imagine the power
in that one conversation with you saving someone ten years.
And once you sort of flip that script and really
see those people and see that, you know, all you
have to do is make an inch, and you've already
made a million inches. I don't know how far that
is but the point is our power comes from our connection,

(01:12:12):
ye connection, ourselves and others, and the ultimate form of
disconnection is thinking that we're doing others a favor by
removing ourselves.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
Yeah. No, I think it couldn't be said any better.
I think you're one hundredercent correct. You know, I really do.
And you know I don't really have anything else say
after that. I think you said all it could be
said on that one man. That was great, that was powerful.
I loved it. That was awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:12:36):
So all right, I need a lesson to learn either.
Like I was literally about to kill a man in
twenty eleven April, I'd reach rock bottom and my family
was falling apart. Head was all over the place. And
then I'm told, oh, you've got to see a psychologist,
And that made no sense. I'm like, why do I
want to see some stranger I don't trust? Yeah, And
so anyway, I go there and this guy just wasn't incompetent.

(01:12:57):
He was apathetic. And I'll tell him all that I
saw in service in Afghanistan. And then then he's like, oh,
you think it's a problem with your mum and dad?
The whole room froze, right, and I saw his glass frame,
psychology degree behind him, and I'm like, this guy needs

(01:13:17):
to be removed because he is saying he's a healer. Yeah,
but he's actually hurting people. So in my state of disconnect,
it made a lot of sense to remove this guy.
And there's not a goddamn nick thing this guy could
have done to stop me, because I got a certain
skill set and I get out of my chair to
do it. Okay, But it was at that moment we're
I'm about to kill this guy, that I felt this

(01:13:39):
hand on my chest and words to the effect of
red flagged him. You know, you're the toughest guy, you know,
and you're struggling in this medical system that doesn't understand
and doesn't care. You know how many other people are
in this same situation. And when I sat back in
my chair, that's when I saw those millions of people
left and right of me, you know. And if you're
you know, willing me on saying, Tim, you've got to

(01:14:00):
find a way forward for you so you can. And
so I'm just going to pull people through the lens here.
If you're getting anything from what I'm sharing here, Pete,
well you were there next to me willing me on
back in twenty eleven, because when we actually see this
perspective at some point in the future, there's going to
be people saying, you know, we are so glad that

(01:14:23):
back in twenty twenty five you made certain decisions to
keep moving forward because you've helped us move forward, you know,
with so much you know, ease and grace.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
Yeah, it's very true, very true. Well, guys, we're going
to start wrapping up this episode of Tim Pete Versus. Say, Tim,
thank you so much for coming. Man. I really enjoyed
this conversation. Is great. I loved having you for sure, Man.
Can you do you want to let people know where
they can find you? What's the best way say they
want to get ahold of Tim? What's the best way
to get ahold of Tim?

Speaker 3 (01:14:52):
Very easy? Three words. Breath work in bed. If you
want to good night's sleep tonight, simply download the breath
Working Bed app. It is super simple, and yeah, turn
your bed into a cloud as you go to sleep,
but also turn it into a trampoline in the morning. Morning.
Breath work before you get out of bed is an

(01:15:13):
absolute game changer, so please reach out. Breath Work in Bed.
But like I said, you can. If you've got a phone, smartphone, Android,
you can download the app, tell it when you want
to sleep, and then it just falls out of your
phone whenever you want it. There's there's no charge to
use it for the first twenty eight days. And if

(01:15:36):
I always think that if you care about people, you
care about how they sleep, if you and conversely, if
you want to destroy someone, destroy their sleep. So so
you know, I really encourage everybody here to really tap
into the power of their own sleep, because you know,
most people are busy enough, they're working hard enough, they're
trying to squeeze the life out of the conscious waking hours.

(01:15:58):
But if we can improve the un conscious hours, that's
like improving the soil from which everything grows. So I'm
really excited for people to tap into their own sovereign power.
You know, the high tech thing isn't the breath working
bad app. It's you discovering just how amazing you know
your breath is.

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
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for this episode of Peter sonxiety. You know, I'm Pete anxiety.
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