Unleashing Personal Growth and Wellness with Wade Critides

Welcome to another inspiring episode of Strive 365, the podcast that helps you push through challenges and thrive every day. Our guest today is Wade, a wellness coach and founder of Big Dad Energy Co. Wade shares his journey and insights into the world of wellness, guiding us towards a better life mentally, physically, and spiritually.

In this episode, we explore Wade's transition from a VP in a finance firm to pursuing his passion for helping others. We discuss the mindset shifts that transformed his life and the lessons he learned along the way. Wade's story is one of resilience and determination, overcoming financial struggles and stress on his marriage. As a wellness coach, Wade shares his approach to helping clients overcome mental and physical obstacles.

He emphasizes the power of asking the right questions, setting goals, and continually striving for success. Drawing inspiration from pioneers like the Wright brothers, Wade encourages embracing our own unique journeys. We also delve into the future of the wellness industry, envisioning a world where holistic well-being and human connection take center stage. Wade highlights the importance of community and support in personal growth, along with the integration of spirituality into wellness coaching.

Throughout the episode, Wade reveals his exciting projects and goals for the future. From expanding his reach to new ventures, he is committed to making a positive impact on people's lives. Lastly, we explore what it means to Wade to strive every day and how he encourages others to do the same, emphasizing the significant role of fatherhood in personal growth and well-being. Join us for an inspiring conversation with Wade as we dive deep into his incredible journey and gain valuable insights on living a better life.

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Episode Transcript

(00:19):
Hey, welcome to another episode ofStrive three sixty five, a podcast where
we interview people to push through challengesand strive to thrive every day no matter
the odds. We're here to helpand guide you to live a better life,
whether were mentally, physically, emotionallyor spiritually. And I am your
host, Justin Arnold in the amazingrock Box studio here in Rochester, and
today we're joined with Wade. Wadeand I are good friends that we met

(00:40):
on social media. He's a wellnesscoach in front of a big debty energy
coe which you'll definitely have to checkout after this, and him and I
have some similarities both girl dads,but he has a passion for helping others
similar to me overcome obstacles improve theirmental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing.
Wade shares his own personal journey insightshere today, I'm sure, and so
join us as we explore Wade's approachto personal growth and the importance of community

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and support. So, Wade,why don't you introduce yourself to the beautiful
people listening to today's podcast. Dude, Justin, thank you so much for
having me on. I want tostart with gratitude I'm grateful to be here
share this space and time and energywith you, and proud of you for
what you've built here with Strive threesixty five. And I'm just really pumped
up to connect with your audience.I think it's gonna be free flowing conversation.

(01:27):
We'll see where it goes. Butby the end of it, like
the goal is to just move people, get them into a better energy state
to go go strive right, gothrive in their life. Yeah, we've
had some pretty like variety and incredibleguests. And you know you and I
what I attracted me to you isthe girl dad thing. And then just
living your best life, healthy,full of life. You've even had some

(01:49):
challenges along the way. And andbut real quick, why don't you tell
us about your journey becoming a wellnesscoach and then if you can dive a
little bit into you know, bigdaddy energy co Yeah, yeah, heck
yeah. So a little bit aboutmy background, my story. I grew
up in the Boston area and Iactually grew up I didn't have a lot
growing up. And when I saythat, I mean more money. I

(02:09):
had love, I had family,but we didn't have a lot. We
didn't have a lot of money,so that was always a pain point for
me. So I remember looking aroundand being like, okay, I need
to be rich when I grow up. And then I started looking around who
does that, Like Okay, thesebusinessmen have money. Okay, I got
to go to business school. SoI got to get the grades. Go

(02:30):
to business school to get the businessjob and all the things. So I
got the grades, I went tobusiness school. I actually got my master's
degree in finance. I played footballthe whole way through, so I was
always an athlete, but I didn'tknow anything about health. And we'll get
back to that. And I remember, okay, I got my master's and
finance degree. Let me go intothe working world and start making money,
right and when I get to thatplace where I'm making six figures, all

(02:53):
will be well and I'll be happyand fulfilled and everything will be perfect,
or so I thought. So Iput my head down. I climbed the
corporate ladder. I remember I gotto a I was a VP of my
finance firm, making that six figures. Like on paper, everything was great,
but inside it was like, wait, this is where I set out
to go. I'm not fulfilled,like I thought this was going to solve

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everything, and it doesn't. Youhave a good salary, you have a
good title, you have maybe nicethings and a nice apartment, but that's
not necessarily fulfillment. So I startedto seek, like what do I want?
And I started I moved to Californiaabout five years ago with my wife
or now wife, Sandy, andI started to realize that the people's lives

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I want. I started to seethem like they were living a life of
autonomy and freedom. They weren't afraidto work. They were probably working harder
than I was in my finance job. I was probably working sixty hours a
week or so. But they wereworking on something they're passionate about, and
they were working on their own time, and they had a certain level freedom
over their life. They were theCEO of their life. And I was

(04:00):
seeking that. I just didn't knowhow to do it, and so I
remember I started to just lean in. I started to instead of wake up
and go on my phone and scrollor social media or different things, or
fire put out fires, reading emails, I would start reading. I would
start listening to podcasts like this inregards to personal growth, something I could
learn started to surround myself with differentpeople online and in person, and I

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realized these people were entrepreneurs. Iwas like, I got to become an
entrepreneur. Didn't know how. AllI knew was was get the grades,
was school, was finance, wascorporate America. Like that is what I
knew, that traditional route. ButI started to look down the road and
I was like, huh, Ihave the salary and everything. I'm making
the money, but I'm working forsomeone else for their equity, for their

(04:46):
dream, their business. I'm kindof waiting for the weekend. I'm waiting
for my two weeks vacation, andI'm basically waiting till I retire. I'm
a happy guy. I wasn't oneof those people that hated what I did,
but I started to want more outof life. And I think when
you get that inkling life in thebeginning, it whispers at you in the
beginning like hey do this, Heyfollow your passion, Hey follow your gut

(05:10):
here, hey connect with that person. And then eventually if you put it
off and you don't listen long enough, and starts screaming at you. But
for me, I started to getthose whispers around probably age twenty eight,
twenty nine, just that I reallywanted to become an entrepreneur. I hired
a business coach and I was like, I just want to be an entrepreneur.
I don't know what. I don'tknow what to do, but what
do you do? I'm hiring youto help me start a business. You're

(05:32):
a coach. I guess I couldkind of do that. I like people,
I like educating and teaching and coaching. Maybe that's something I could do.
So he started to groom me tobecome basically a coach. And right
around that time, my wife issomeone who's super passionate, and she was
someone who did hate what she did. And she was a business broker in
real estate, and she always saidlike she was more of a born entrepreneur.

(05:55):
I'm more of a trained entrepreneur.And she wanted to find something she
was passionate about she could help peoplewhere it was in health, it was
in leadership, it was in people. And she almost not by accident.
I don't believe in accidents. Shewas seeking this opportunity and I think when
you're seeking something and seeking you andshe started this thirty day program, thirty

(06:17):
Days of Healthy Living, justin Iknow you're familiar with it. I am
as well. It's a lifestyle program, and I remember ten days in she
felt so good. She has anew energy of she's revitalized. She's waking
up, she's sleeping through the night, she's waking up on fire and so
much so. She was just sharingabout it. And I think when you're
authentic and you share your testimonial,people are attracted to that, you become

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magnetic. And there was a businessopportunity attached to it was a network marketing
company, and she started this opportunityand I remember she came home one day.
There's a good story, and wewere on vacation in San Diego.
She came home one day she goes, Babe, do you trust me?
I was like, of course Ido. She like pulls me to the
pool. This is like almost likeout of a movie scene. She goes,
do you trust me? I waslike, she goes, okay,

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I'm going to change our family's lifeforever. I was like, that's awesome,
that's amazing. How and she waslike, I want to do this
opportunity, but I want you totake a look at it, and I
want to make sure you think it'ssmart because might take a look at the
business plan and the compensation plan,all the things that was my world finance
compensation plan, business plans. Iwas like sure thing. And no one

(07:23):
had ever approached me about network marketingor anything like that before. So I
went and totally open minded. Iremember looking at it. I was like,
hey, I think this is genius. Like I think this is an
exceptional business plan. I think it'sa pure form of entrepreneurship. It's actually
probably some people may like this ornot. I think this is a pure
form of capitalism where your efforts,you're rewarded for your efforts only the amount

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of impact you can make. That'sactually the income you'll make. So she
said say no more, took itand ran with it, and I watched
her get healthier. I watch herstart to impact people. I watch her
start to lead people, and thisis something I wanted to do. Watch
her, and I was scared tojoin her for six months, but I
watched her, and six months laterI joined her. That was almost five
years ago, and it's just totallychanged our health, our life, our

(08:09):
impact. I now get to bea present, you know, I now
do that. Mainly I left thefinance world and every day I get to
wake up and kind of design myday. I get to start my day
and spend time with my daughter,dancing with her, she's eighteen months old.
Or it was getting our second inJune. But that's my kind of
long story, longer intro. Thatwasn't long at all. I just kidding.
Know. That was perfect. That'swhy I don't want to interrupt.

(08:31):
You had so many good things.That's why I was sitting here taking notes.
And if you guys ever checked thisdude out on social media, Yeah,
he's he's running around shirtless, hangingout his daughter. Similar to me,
I'm not posting as much shirtless.Maybe I should, I don't know.
People tell me I do it shouldbut I don't know. But then
I get the constructive feedback for mywife of course, but that holds you

(08:52):
back sometimes. But yeah, Ilove your energy, man. I love
what you shared there. It soundslike you guys are a good team.
You know you're And it sounds likethere's a lot of faith there within each
other and the family system, whichI wrote down. I was like,
you ever have a book, youshould name it Football, Finances and Faith,
man. But yeah, the threeouts for mister Wade. But you

(09:15):
can have that. You don't haveto give me money for it. You
just have to put me in thecredits or something. But no, but
seriously, right, be forward forsure, man, I know. But
there's a lot of that story thatwe can dive into, you know,
And I think it's cool because there'ssome similarities that I didn't realize in you
and me. And I talk aboutthis a little bit in my book about
uh, the trauma not but moreone of the things, not my initial

(09:39):
childhood trauma, but like, Idon't know if this is necessarily trauma,
but it's it's growing up in ahome. And I refer to it as
like when you're brought up in thisalmost scarcity mindset, it sounds like possibly
like you didn't have a lot,what am I going to do? And
then you saw these things similar tome that oh, they have this life
and it looks like they do thisand they got the life that I want,

(10:01):
so I need to do that thing. But then you realize with your
own experience, you get to createit and you could do whatever you want,
and you want to do something thatyou really enjoy and are passionate.
And then when you become a dad. There's where your passion is, there's
where everything is, and then youjust surrounded around like you're I don't you
didn't say this term, but itsounds like because it's very similar to me,
like my I and you could correctme if I'm wrong. I feel

(10:24):
my most important job now now it'schanged throughout my life. You know,
there's a point where my most importantjob is taking care of my parents,
but at this current moment, it'sbeing the best husband and the best kid
or best father. I am akid, the best father to my kids
possible, and then all other vehiclesare just avenues be better at that.
That doesn't mean I don't love coachingpeople. That doesn't mean I don't love

(10:46):
training. It doesn't doesn't mean Idon't love getting people to better health through
their mind, body, and gut. But it's it's all united, it's
all together. And so that's whatI heard in that story. I love
that your wife had somebody to bounceoff of, like you know, she
sounds like me, like I feellike I was. You refer to born
versus train, which maybe we candive into that here in a second,

(11:09):
but you're a trained where I feellike, I'm like your wife where more
of a born. I just didn'tknow it. I got more mature.
And why is it was cool thatshe could like lean on you be like
hey, I think this is greatand I'm just gonna go, But hey,
can you look at the analytical?Can you look at the financial?
Can you look to make sure onpaper that I'm not making the dumbest decision

(11:30):
of my life. So I justthat's incredible. That's good that you guys
are a team, and that's soso good for any relationship to hear you
know you're together for a reason,and when you can find the strings and
even the weaknesses and the feedback andall that, it becomes just better together.
So man, I just love that. But yeah, so so well,
I might know some of those peoplemight have heard that term born versus

(11:54):
trained, So you did explain thetrain version, like how you got a
coach and they trained it? Wouldyou how would somebody know if they were
born? Or how would good?Good question? I think we're you know
what what I've realized in going throughcorporate America and something beautiful about the global
pandemic we had is it kind ofexposed all this But humans we weren't made

(12:15):
to go and around in our earlytwenties, start working and go sit at
a desk and work forty hours aweek, fifty hours forty hours a week,
fifty weeks a year for forty yearsuntil we can retire in our sixties,
hopefully with enough money. I startedto look at the traditional system.
I'm like, this is broken.I went to an expensive college. Luckily

(12:35):
I had some scholarships, but likepeople come out with a ton of debt.
They then have to go to workto make sure they can pay their
debts. They sit at a desk, they don't have equity, They you
know, job these days, Ifeel like stands for just above broke,
and they work for forty years andsomething they're not passionate about, in which

(12:56):
they wait for two days the weekendout of set, and then they wait
until they're like fifty five, sixtysixty five and they can retire. And
most people don't retire with enough tolive the duration of their life, so
they then depend on their children orother people, and they become dependent.
And then it doesn't incentivize living along life either, because you're like,
I only have so much money left. So I started to look at that.

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I'm like, that is such abroken system. So that led me
towards Okay, I gotta do myown thing. But all I knew was
from a young age, I wasan athlete. I have a coach.
I'm in this system. I'm goingthrough school. I go to business school.
It's very system orient. All startas an employee. I'm an employee.
All I knew. You kind ofget funneled into that, especially here

(13:39):
in America, and it's not necessarilyour fault. I think we're all groomed
to become employees, even though Ithink we're all born actually as entrepreneurs,
and then our environment kind of shapesand molds us into employees. But I
think, you know, there's certainpeople that are just like I am unemployable.
My wife is probably one of them. She's like, I can't be
an employee. And I think it'sa people that are passionate about their risk

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takers. They're willing to go aftersomething they believe in. They're willing to
stand in their power and authenticity.And that was my wife, naturally,
and that's why she went through abunch of jobs, a bunch of different
things. Would just quit a jobshe didn't like on the spot, doesn't
care about the safety and security.She values safety and security less in her
career, then she values passion,risk taking, going for it, depending

(14:26):
on herself being her own boss versusme. I was more looking for the
safety, security, the good paycheck, all the things, and I had
to learn WHOA I want a differentlife and to have a different life,
I got to be willing to movedifferent. Jim Rohan, one of my
mentors, said, for things tochange, you have to make a change.
So I was like, I gotto make a change from employee in
corporate America to my own boss,my own equity, my own business.

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And I didn't know exactly how todo it. What I've realized through the
tangible steps of becoming a trained entrepreneur. You kind of mentioned the first one.
The only shortcut I believe there isthe success and you see and have
heard this before is mentorship is acoach is someone who's done what you're looking
to do, and you learn fromtheir failures, their mistakes and their successes.

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That's probably the only shortcut. Beyondthat, it's just the reps.
It's the same thing as the gym. It's the same thing as everything else.
It's like you got to go outthere into the marketplace, put yourself
out there, do the do.The earlier you can learn people, sales
and marketing, the better. Irealized that's a thing an entrepreneurship. You
learn those things. Those are invaluableskills because they're transferable anywhere. But for

(15:35):
me, I sucked as an entrepreneurto start out. I remember the day
I became a full time entrepreneur.I was double dipping for a bit.
I was working my finance job duringthe day, and I would work East
coast hours on the West coast,so I'd be up super early, working
by five, and usually off byfour, and then I'd moonlight working my
passion project with my wife, workingthis business with my wife for health and
wellness business. It's basically we're healthcoaches and business coach, the same thing

(15:58):
you do justin and I remember itwas so grateful that I was getting to
both of those opportunities and two incomesand all the things. And then I
remember just getting so annoyed with myjob, my finance job, and I
stopped being grateful for it. AndI swear within two weeks it was gone
where I was writing my way out. They needed me, I didn't necessarily

(16:18):
need them. And I remember wedid an opportunity video for our business and
it was passionate. It was fire, honestly, and my wife put it
on LinkedIn and she's like, babe, can you like this so it spreads
more? And I didn't know howLinkedIn worked. I was like, sure,
I like it. My whole network. I worked kind of the Wall
Street world. Wall Street, ourinvestment bankers, our investors, lawyers,

(16:38):
everyone sees it, sends it tomy CEO and company. They called me
the next day it's a Monday,or they called me on Monday and they're
like, this is HR. I'mlike, we don't have HR. They're
like, I know, but thisis important. You are terminated immediately.
You got to turn in your laptop, all the things. So I got
fired. Rug pulled out from underme on the spot. And I wasn't
ready for that a gift. Itwas a gift, and I wasn't.

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I didn't feel ready. But here'swhat I realized. I wanted to become
an entrepreneur and I was standing onthat cliff on the edge, and to
become an entrepreneur, you just gotto jump. You got to take a
leap of faith. It'll never makeperfect sense, it'll never be this perfect
transition or segue. You have tobe willing to jump. I got pushed.
Most people like jump. I justgot pushed. And what's happens if
you get pushed or you jump?At first, you're free falling. You

(17:26):
your gut goes through your mouth.You get super scared. You're free falling,
you're hitting rocks on the way down, you're getting bruised and battered because
you don't really know what you're doingyet. You're getting rejected all the things.
But eventually, if you stick withit and you keep learning, then
you stay around those mentors and thosepeople, and you stay with it and
you believe, and you have thefaith, and you have the belief in
yourself. Eventually your wings start tospread. And at first it's awkward and

(17:49):
you're like flying, but you looklike a new new bird trying to fly,
and it's awkward. But eventually yousoar. And that couldn't take six
months. It can take a year. It usually takes much longer, five
years, ten years into your journey. But that's why I realized I got
pushed. Most people jump but you'llhave that moment decision. And I realize
it just took that experience, thoseexercise, those reps. The first day,

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I was like, babe, Ijust got fired out. What do
I do all day? How doI be an entrepreneur? She's like,
yes, I've been waiting for thismoment. And I was like employee mindset,
which is like clock in, clockout, do your job, do
it well enough not to get fired. She's like, no, that's out
it like there's no hours. Yougot it. This is lifestyle. You
work it into your lifestyle. You'repassionate about it. You do the highest,

(18:36):
you know, most effective activities.But you just got to get out
there and do the do and you'regonna learn just from being out there in
the marketplace. So that's how kindof I was trained. There's a lot
more to it, No, Imean that's kind of the mo No.
Like it's funny like the you know, I've known you for a little while
now and these the similarities are poppingup again. So the passion, you
know that that was me. Youknow, I felt passion for my career,

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and you'll hear the similarities. I'llgive this brief version because we're here
for you, and it's it's whenI started realizing my passion. But I
was working for an industry as likea trainer, a coach, nutritionist,
but I was limited, Like Iwas feeling the ceiling and the walls,
like we're limiting me to the capacityto just impact people. It wasn't even

(19:18):
a money thing. It was justI felt limited. And when I would
try to push or even politely askor hey like no, no, we
don't do that. No, no, no, Like I was feeling limited
when I feel in life we shouldbe limitless if we're especially we're just literally
in a healthy, positive, optimisticway, trying to help as many people
as possible. And I could godown a rabbit hole here of where I

(19:42):
felt the limits. But there werejust limits on not only what I could
do, to how many people Icould help. Like I was like,
oh, you're you're tapping out.You can only help what but I physically
and mentally can handle it. Ohwe don't do that, Oh you can't
do that movement or like even downto the movements to the actual advice I
I was giving. So and that'swas like, man, I got a

(20:03):
break free and it was my wife. That encouraged me, but like you,
another thing popped up. I likehad one foot in, still working,
trying to start this business, butthere was that fear. And I
didn't get fired, but it wasa little bit I got kicked. I
was told that if I did notgive all my clients that I'm currently working
with, whether it's in the hyor outside. Oh, I just said

(20:25):
the business. You didn't hear thatto the place I was working for,
to the place that I was workingfor, Thank you, Scott. If
I didn't give my entire list ofclients that I would just have to we
would have to separate. That wasthe terminology use And I was like,

(20:45):
why would I even do that?That just sounds like it's like a I
am patient privileged. So I justessentially was like I'm gone then, So
it was kind of like I gotkicked and then and I look back,
and in that moment, I didn'trealize every time I made an uphill battle
and came out successful and moved anotherlayer in success in my life, I

(21:07):
always had to be kicked. Andso I'm a believer in a higher power,
and I was like, man,God's always got to kick me in
my butt ye, Like I've realizedthat he's literally and so I know when
the kick is coming just to takeit because I'm moving up and onward.
And so that is a very similarthing. So like you got pushed,
I got pushed and it was agift I didn't realize at the time.

(21:29):
I believe I got a little upsetand my wife and I sat down.
This is a great opportunity. AndI love how you gave an employee mindset
versus entrepreneur mindset. And it doesn'tmean anything's wrong with people working. My
wife works for somebody. But alsowhat I noticed with my wife working for
somebody, she switched from the newsto her new career. She has not
necessarily an entrepreneur, but she hasmore of a She has a great employer

(21:51):
who's given her that freedom mindset tolike try new things, do different stuff,
use your creative spirits, not reallyset limits. If this is going
to help everyone involved, and Iwant and I encourage people, whether you're
an entrepreneur or if you're not,Definitely get a side hustle if you're not,
but if you're not, if there'sthings that you could do like he's

(22:12):
talking about that could help the companyhelp other people. Don't be limited by
it. You're here on this planetto serve and help at a capacity,
and that could be anything like Scottas our producer here. He's doing an
amazing thing helping voices be heard allover the world by providing this amazing studio
here. And I'm not just sayingthat to plug him and given problems.

(22:33):
It's just a fact, like tobe able to have this studio. So
knowing what you have and the giftsthat you have, this guy is amazing
here. You have your gifts.So I just think that was an incredible
story even and shared some incredible stuff. And I hopefully the people that are
listening realize, you know, youare only limited by your own mindset.
You're only limited by what you believeyour capacity. And I believe everyone that's

(22:55):
listening to this has unfathomable, unimaginablecapacity to do amazing things on this planet.
Well, let's switch gears here fora second. You're cool with that,
So I want you to share becausewe always want to dive into like
challenges and overcoming them, and youhave a little bit, But is there
anything particular challenging in your life You'vebeen able to deal with and push through

(23:17):
that you love to share on herethat you think listeners would really find value
in. Yeah, I think youknow. Social media is a funny place
where you can look on social mediaand you just have these assumptions about people's
lives. And my wife and I'vebeen able to be successful in entrepreneurship.
But what I realize, even comingback to the beginning, I still struggle

(23:40):
with scarcity, money block issues whereI think the more money makes the world
go round, like it's not neededfor happiness, but we do need in
this day and age, and youcan do a lot with them. You
can make a big impact with it. And so I realized I want to
go. I want to go bea multimillionaire, but I have these money
blocks and it's from my child andI think a lot of things. What

(24:00):
I realized, especially now is adad very important. Like the first seven
years is that imprint period of ahuman being's life and a lot of our
personality in different ways, in theways we look at life is shaped in
that. So I realized I haveto unwind like childhood trauma about some money
blocks. That's one of my bigthings. Another one is gosh, right

(24:22):
now. My wife and I havesuch a great foundation. We've known each
other since childhood, since birth.We have this like Disney love story all
the things. Our parents were bestfriends pregnant with us, and we were
babies playing as best friends, andwe came together as adults totally fell in
love like ten years ago, therest of his three And so everyone looks
outside looking in, there's like,oh my gosh, they're amazing this amazing

(24:45):
marriage and relationship. They're probably happyall the time, Like no, oh
my gosh, We've had so muchstress in our life. Recently, we've
moved from California to Colorado, whichwe chose to do, but moving is
super stressful. And then we hireda no pair from Switzerland. You got
super tip for childcare because we bothwork from home. We work together.
We realize are the best version ofus for our daughter and soon to be

(25:07):
we're doing June. Our second isus growing, is us going after our
passions, is us working and thingswe're passionate about. Is us also being
present with our kids. So we'reused to some level of help and childcare,
and I realized people who get nohelp are literally superhuman parents. It's
insane. So we've had like nochild care the past month. So it's
been like this insane thing, andit's put a ton of stress on our

(25:30):
marriage, and it's put a tonof stress on our intimate life. And
so that is always my number one, even before the kids, because my
wife and I realize we got tobe good, to be the best versions
of us and show what a good, healthy, strong, loving relationship is,
so we can be good to thekids and they can see more as
caught than taught right. And sowe've had struggles recently like just connecting and

(25:55):
in our intimate life and in ourpersonal life together, and we're like,
oh my gosh, we're putting everythingelse before our marriage. So what I
realize is there's ebbs and flows inlife. There's seasons, there's chapters like
the world that goes, you know, summer, fall, winter, spring.
There's that in business. There's thatin your marriage, There's that in
relationships. And so we've been inthis wintertime. We're coming into spring,

(26:17):
which we're excited about and we're welcominga new life in but everyone deals with
trauma, and there's big trauma andlittle trauma. There's losing a loved one.
We've probably all lost someone close tous. There's little things like these
little things you don't realize, likeif you're talking about money in front of
your kids and you're like, oh, we can't afford that, or money
doesn't grow on trees, that's littletrauma. But that's what I have in

(26:40):
my childhood, and so you know, challenges I've dealt with are around money
blocks in we're in our marriage andrelationship, which I'm We're committed to our
love, and I think marriage andlove is really a verb, right,
It's something you have to consistently workat. It's not like you fall in
love and then you get married onthe big day and then you just never
have to work at it again.It's like a constant work in progress.

(27:03):
Like anything, you've got to showup for it. So I feel very
blessed and fortunate I was born.I think I was gifted with a very
positive spirit. So I always lookat the bright side of everything. It's
just who I am, It's howI'm wired. So when I reflect on
failures and trauma, I more lookat it as like those were learning lessons
I grew from it. But Ithink we've all dealt with trauma in different

(27:25):
ways. And it's there, likeyou said, our creator put that there
to help shape us to make someimpact or have some gift or passion in
our life. Yeah, and Iagree, like different seasons and that you
said, and then what it's caughthas taught you know, you've probably heard
the other version of it is likeyour kids see my see your kids see
more by what you do than whatyou say, or learn more about what

(27:49):
you what they see than what yousay. And and I'm a believer in
that. And you know, meand my wife talk about the same things,
you know, as far as youknow. And it's challenge, right,
Like you want to be these goodimages of a relationship because you know
that they'll mirror it. In fact, you know, I saw my parents.
You know this similar verbiage. Andthis is no dis on my parents.

(28:11):
They only are a product of theirown environment. So we can't afford
that, Like we didn't take alot of vacations. And I talked a
little bit about this in my bootbecause I look at everything as an opportunity.
You're either growing or you're learning,or you're winning. You know,
you're either winning or you're growing,And so you know, I took that
as you know, I'm not gonnalet whatever my income looks like not take

(28:33):
vacations. So we've taken them.In fact, we ended up getting a
camper a year and a half ago, and like now we take an abundant
amount of like weekend getaways and havemore trips than in one year than I
did as an entire childhood. Again, no this on my parents. You
know, it was a great learningtool and the words that we use,
and so I'm with you there themoney blocks, it's been like it's been

(28:55):
my entire adulthood that I've had towork through that. In fact, I
joke, but it's reality. Ijoked that my parents had like six jobs
between the two of them, butit was fact they were high paid master's
degree educators with their children. Oftheir parents went through the depression, you

(29:15):
know, they went through World WarTwo. So in fact, my grandfather
was in World War two and sothat was what they're brought up. So
I look back on that and sothat's where their mindset developed from. So
I want people to also realize wherethey came from. And you can have
to really work hard to change it, but you have the possibility, just
got to have the awareness of it. So for me, it was very
similar in that that, like,you know, I heard my parents and

(29:37):
they were like this, that wecouldn't afford this and and food, and
so it was always about creating thatenvironment in my home and and using that
verbiage and and and finding different waysto navigated and so even with a relationship,
because money can be an ultimate stressorso I would see my parents fight.
My parents never got divorced, butI'm sure, well you all that

(29:57):
they would threaten it. I'm gonnaleave here, scream and yell. So
like that's something you know, justbecause I was witnessed to it, I
didn't want to make that in myhouse. And again and no fault of
theirs, but it's all learning lessonsand it's things that in our house to
really teach. So I love thatyou brought that up, and it's just
it's really important because it's things thatwe have to work on. Oh,
the six jobs between the two ofus. So early on, I was

(30:19):
after college. This is what Iwas gonna say. I was a restaurant
manager and I was making really goodmoney as a single guy at age like
twenty two, twenty three managing thisbig restaurant within a franchise, and I
was high up in the food chainat twenty two when most of these managers,
I think we're in the like forties, fifties and sixties, and I,

(30:41):
for some reason, I felt theneed that I had to work two
other jobs. I was literally Iwas working at the Buckle. I don't
even remember that store. I wasworking at this restaurant that I was managing.
And then I also got a jobat gold Gym because I was like
love fitness and health, and Igot a minor in like this fitness movement
thing and I was like, oh, I wanted to lease do it.
So it's like I didn't need allthat. But guess what, I was

(31:03):
making a lot of money, especiallyfor a single person, but I was
always broke. So it took mea while to realize that everything is mindset.
When I switched that, it wasamazing how my bank account started looking
healthier, my life, the opportunities, and it's still work in progress.
I'm sure it is with you,and that's why you talked about gratitude.
I loved how we started this podcast. That's a stepping stone and just doing

(31:23):
little things and checking yourself. Somethingthat I started recently that I'll share with
you is I had to turn itoff and that's how I was thinking about
it. So on my phone,I don't know if you can see this,
I set different alarms and it sayswhat am I thinking? And how
do I feel? And it getsme to pause. And I brought this
up recently and I wanted to bringit up again because I didn't really dive
into it. And so what thatdoes is it gets me to stop,

(31:48):
and I gets me to analyze amI thinking happy, good thoughts? And
if not, let's switch it andthen what am I thinking? Like it's
amazing that we're so busy physically andmentally, our minds can be really busy.
We'd also have to think about whatdo we actually like thinking and where
is our mind going? Because thatcontrols everything, as you've touched on several
times already, and I know that'sfor your philosophy. So that right there,

(32:10):
having automatic time or check ins.But your dad, so, what
was an accident? Cool thing?But again, like you, I don't
really believe in accidents. My kidshave been witnessed of the alarm asking questions
and now anytime it goes off,they're actually like friendly fighting. Let's put
it like that. I want togo first. I want to go first,
and they're shutting off. And soit's really cool, especially when you
can be filled within a child's imaginationof whether they're dreaming or thinking or where

(32:36):
their mindset's at. Because it's prettycool when you got a unicorn hockey player
model daughter and her extravagant imagination andthen my son who literally wants to donate
millions to these different organizations while alsowriting a ferrari playing professional hockey and whatever
else it comes to his mind.So I just wanted to share that with

(32:58):
you too in the audiencing because Ibrought briefly brought up in like a minute
in the last podcast. I waslike, I wanted to. This was
a great opportunity to bring it upagain, man, So take that.
I love that. Yeah, yeah, I love that. And it's so
cool to see your kids and heartheir dreams because like we are born limitless,
kids are limitless. They're thinking.And I love what you touched on
the mindset. I truly believe ifyou can see it in your mind,

(33:20):
you can hold it in your hand, right like everything starts with a thought.
Every the human mind, outside ofGod, outside of the creator,
the human mind is the most powerfulthing in the universe, right, It's
something. Think about it. Therewas no airplanes however, many years ago
before the Wright brothers discovered it.Now we can just fly across the world

(33:42):
in jets and planes, like wehave these machines that propel us across the
world. That started as a thoughtin someone's mind. There was no evidence
of it other than birds flying.And it starts as a thought. The
chair you may be sitting in orthe car you're driving in right now,
like began as a thought. Sothe human mind and what it conceives and
believes it can achieve, it canliterally bring into a physical manifestation. It's

(34:06):
absolutely incredible and justin what you werementioning. Our life is a product of
the story we continuously tell ourselves.And ninety percent of our thoughts are repetitive.
We don't often have new thoughts everysingle day. They're like the similar
thoughts. And eighty percent of thoughtsare negative. I forget what study that
was in, but it's like,wow, that's a lot of compounding negativity.

(34:29):
My bills, Oh my job.Oh, my wife's getting on my
nerves. Oh, this and that. So how can we rewire that?
How can we rewrite that? Wherenaturally our brains are are formed to keep
us away from danger, and nowwe live in a society there's not as
many dangers and threats to our lifein the acute manner right like right away,
and so this compounding negative negativity doesn'tserve us. And so things like

(34:53):
you where you set these alarms tojust disrupt maybe the normal thought process and
be like, oh, hold on, I'm training myself in my brain to
get still and get reflective right here. I think what I've realized, because
I'm like a go go go type, a driven personality, my biggest gains

(35:15):
are actually in the periods of stillness. And I think what I've realized now
later on in life in adulthood,it took me thirty some odd years to
realize that, but that I needto find stillness. I need to find
alone time with myself or with God, whatever your beliefs are, to kind

(35:35):
of listen to those whispers of lifeto listen to because with those hunches,
those intuitions, God speaking to you, whatever it is, because that's where
you're going to find the goal.That's where you're going to find your purpose.
I think humans we're on this perpetualjourney trying to find our highest self
and what's our purpose and all thethings, and we find it only in

(35:57):
stillness. We find it in listeningand tapping in and tune into ourselves,
to our creator, to what yourbeliefs are. And that has been the
biggest thing for me. And soI love that you set these reminders to
like rewrite your narrative and ask yourselfand get reflective and maybe get still and
get quiet. Well, you're usinga term, but I like how you
You've brought up whispers at least twicenow, and I love that term.

(36:20):
I use it in the body,like our body whispers, then it talks
and it screams, you know,and pain, and people ignore the whispers
and the talks, and then waittill it screams, then want to blame
whatever externally. Yeah, but Ilove how you're using whispers because if we're
so busy minded or busy physically orcontinually even using the word busy when we're
not really busy, so we saythat we're busy to ignore or void or

(36:45):
procrastinate on some whatever is in ourlife. Then our mind and everything else
becomes busy, and then we justfind something to be busy, whatever that
might be. It might be somethinghealthy, it might not be something healthy.
It might be turned into you workingout for three hours instead of forty
five minutes. It might into youscrolling on the phone for half an hour.
But I love how you say whispers, because that's really the best,

(37:06):
if not the only way, butdefinitely the best way to be able to
hear our thoughts, to hear.I mean, my best and creative stuff
has happened in the weirdest times,the shower, driving with no I tend
to drive with no radio on.I used to be the guy that always
had to listen to music, andI love music, and even someone is

(37:28):
really really hard. But I'm theguy that listening, like, listens to
the whispers now while I'm driving.I'm gonna use that term. I never
use it in this realm, butI love you said that because even some
of my best meditative practices like goinginto the woods really deep meditating and listening
to whispers, And for those oflistening like that's that's gold right there.

(37:50):
My book ideas like ideas within mybooks training business, you know, ways
to work through confrontation or fights thatI've gotten with my wife, or moments
that I've had that I'm not toohappy about with my kids, and like
spending that time even in good momentmoments. So from personally professionally, you
take time to hear the whispers andI love that. I absolutely love that.

(38:15):
Maybe I'll come up with a subtitleto your original tidy ear of book,
but you know, money mind blocksto listen to the whispers or something.
But that's some great tools. Solet's shift a little bit more.
So. We've talked about you beinga coach. I'm sure some people really
want to hear. We talked aboutyour life, We've talked about your amazing
family. How do you approach clientsovercoming you know, whether it be the

(38:37):
physical or the mental that you workfor. It could be your health,
clients, could be your business,could be both. So how do you
approach that, especially the mental intoday's day and age. That's a good
question. And what I realized,everyone's an individual and everyone's different. Now,
there are some similar patterns and strategiesand that's what you kind of study
to see how to transform and howto help someone change their life. But

(39:00):
that that's really the key. WhatI've realized as a coach, I realized
I wanted to be a mentor.Hey I'm gonna tell you what to do.
As a trainer, you're more ofa mentor mentor, right like,
hey, here's what to do.Do this. I know more than you
because I'm research and trained and allthis stuff in this. Educate on it.
I've done it, I've lived it. Do this. A coach is
more. I realize. You askquestions and the goal is actually to get

(39:23):
the client or the individual to comeup with their answer, and that ends
up being the right answer. Butwhat I realize is in coaching people really
getting to know and understand them,whether it's in health or business. Let's
just use business. Let's say theyare like me, they're in a job
is say Corporate America that they didn'twant to be in. And I coming
back to your point, the worldneeds entrepreneurs and the world needs employees.

(39:46):
It needs both. It can't havejust entrepreneurs the world would be nuts,
and it can't have just employees.You need everything. The key is like
working in something that you feel likeyou're making an impact and you can at
least be passionate about or maybe you'rean employee and you do the but you
work on your passion project and yourgifts outside of work time and it might
make you a lot of money orit might make you no money. The

(40:07):
key is like really tuning into yourgifts. But back to let's say it's
someone who wants to become an entrepreneurand start their own business. It's what
I realized is really getting to knowthem. It's goett to know their personality.
It's getting to know their story.It's getting to know maybe their trauma
or their blocks, their mindset blocks, and it's asking the right questions and
it's really getting down to why theywant to do it, what they want

(40:30):
and why they want it. Andthen what it comes down to is that
person like making a decision. Irealized there's a few key components, especially
when I look at entrepreneurs are successfulpeople. There was a point in time
where there was a decision made,a decision to hire the coach, or
a decision to leave the job,or a decision to do whatever it is
get healthy. And so it comesdown to a decision and So when you're

(40:52):
rooted in your decision and rooted inyour why, then it's just the reps,
right, and it's just consistency,but it's really persistence says I will
do this until I succeed. Iwill stay on the health program until I
get where I want to be.I will keep working making the sales calls,

(41:14):
networking, meeting with people until Isucceed. And then it's funny you
succeed or get to that point andthen you're like, but wait, there's
a bigger version of me out there. Okay, here's the next mountain I
gotta climb. But what you realize, everything it starts and ends in the
mind, whether it's health, whetherit's business, whether it's marriage, Like
it really starts and ends in ourmind. So it's really everything in coaching

(41:37):
is really mindset coaching. And thereis of course mentorship, like some Warren
Buffett could mentor me and I'd belike, hey, I'd ask some questions
and he just give me answers onhow to build wealth. Right, But
he's probably a really good coach too. A great coach asks the right questions
and inspires you where it's this intrinsicpassion, these intrinsic answers that come from

(41:58):
within, like no, I wantto do that. I want to do
that, and so that's kind ofhow I approach it. But I've realized
now having coached gosh, hundreds andhundreds of people in different ways, there's
not one way to do it.I try and figure out those perfect systems
that everyone can use to change theirlife and achieve greatness. But I've realized

(42:19):
that it is personal and it's gettingto know that person is using the tools
the coaches have to help them changetheir life, but you're just really linking
arms with them. You're guiding them, but they're doing the work. And
when that client takes one hundred percentresponsibility over their success, their health,
their marriage, whatever it is,that's when their life begins to change.
And that's what I love to seethe most. You realize I want to

(42:40):
become a multimillionaire, I'm going tohave to impact a lot a lot of
people in big ways to do that. And when you lead with that service
like the money will come. Yeah. It's so interesting how things are so
similar, Like you mentioned the uniquepersonal approach and same thing and as you
know, as a health coach toyour fitness coach or business coach. And

(43:01):
it's really to build that relationship.It's to get to know them. I
mean from a movement practice. Uh, as I work with people, Yes,
you know, there's there's certain waysI want them to move better and
to ultimately feel better and then thereforethey'll live better. Uh. The idea
is, you know, there's thingsthat they want to come in wanting to
do. You know, maybe it'slosing weight. Maybe it's a guy that

(43:21):
wants to build massive arms. ButI got to give them a little bit
of what they want, but whatthey need in combination and same idea.
Like, so you have a business. You know, this guy wants to
build this and make a certain amountand and and then you and then they
get there. But it's just likefitness and business. You get there and
you set new goals. So somebodyloses the weight or builds the muscle.
It's not like you just stop.You know, this is a lifelong practice

(43:45):
and and and then you set newgoals. And I think that's what no,
I really believe. I imagine that'swhat puts people in a plateau or
holds them back or limits them isyou know uh, they hit they hit
their initial goal. Oh that theynever maybe thought they would really hit so
quickly or whenever they hit it,and then they don't know how to set

(44:07):
new ones. And that's also wherea coach or it can really come in
by asking great questions and guiding andnavigating and things like that. So you
continue to continually want help yourself,help your family, help more people,
whatever your line work, and justbe more of a service to this planet.
So I love that, and Iforgot to benge some earlier. I

(44:28):
loved how you brought up the RightBrothers. I believe there's such an interesting
one because they were actually in competition, they didn't know it and they didn't
care about it. With this,I can't even remember the nine as nine
and you got to go to theaudit and everyone knows the Right Brothers.
People don't know the guys that werebeing paid tons of money by the government
to make the first airplane. TheRight Brothers just had an idea and had
a passion and they were like whatfarmers and just wanted to do this thing

(44:51):
and they did it. And sothat's just a great story too. As
far as you know obstacles, youknow they didn't set any they didn't believe
they had any. They just hadthis idea and they wanted to do it.
And they weren't in a rush either. They wanted in a rush.
They just this was they wanted todo. And I believe sometimes, especially
in this fast paced world, wethink we have to be the first,
we have to get it out first. And my wife's former career news it

(45:15):
was like the thing that we were. We had the we had the news
story first, we reported it first. But you realize is if you have
the first, but your information ishorrible or wrong, then that's worse than
just being second. And me andmy wife talked about no one really actually
noticed. No one was like,Yay, this channel was first, in
this channel second. And it's thesame thing in business. You know,

(45:36):
you can improve upon things and andmake things better and and so just keep
that in mind as you're creating inthis world. So continue into this.
As far as the health and wellness, you know, I always when iever
I have people like yourself on here, because we have a ride. It's
not always people in the wellness industry. Uh, what do you see and
envision the future? I mean,there's all kinds of things going on,

(45:59):
especially technical. We got AI.I mean, I've seen coaches post ais
taking over the programming world and everythingelse. There's no need for people like
you and me, you know.But where do you see the future of
the wellness industry and the role itwill play in our interesting society. That's
a great question. I think there'ssuch advancement in technology, which can be

(46:22):
such a good thing, but atthe end of the day, like humans
need connection. That's why we populatemostly in cities or suburbs, and we're
together, and like we need humanconnection. The human soul needs to connect
to others, and so I don'tthink that can ever be replaced. However,
I do see us moving away fromhuman connection and moving towards technology and

(46:45):
AI. And usually what happens isit's cyclical right where it eventually gets we're
so out of alignment that big thingshappen in the world, natural or not,
and we kind of we find ourway back to homeostasis or to that
human connection. We will always becreatures like that need each other. And

(47:07):
so there's nothing nothing can replace thathuman to human connection, especially in person.
Nothing can replace a robot, can'treplace a trainer, like a robot
can't. They can give you thehealth stuff, but it's like you have
to connect on a soul level.You have to connect on a spiritual level
to really make change. And soI do kind of see us moving further

(47:30):
and further away from our health.And I think things happen in the world
like global pandemics to shock us,to cause us to like reflect, like
there was a lot of silver liningslike positives in the global pandemic. There's
a lot of negatives. For sure, there was lives loss. I have
compassion for every every bad thing thathappened with well, the most recent global

(47:52):
pandemic, but it also brought ustogether. It brought us. What happened
is it shook and it rattled usup to our core and to our soul.
And a lot of people are like, I don't want to do this
job forever. I want to workfrom home. I want to be around
my family. Hold up, Ineed to focus on my health. Like
you start to really, oh mygosh, I appreciate human connection. In

(48:13):
laws come on over like I was. I was. I wasn't seeing people
for a while, all these differentthings. So what I think is I
do see us moving further into AIand technology and all these things, and
that is a blessing. It's acurse too, And the curse side of
it. I think when we getfar enough there and away from our alignment
with each other as humans and asa species and as community, it's going

(48:37):
to come full circle back to that. I don't know how or when,
but that's kind of what I see, because nothing can truly replace that.
I think nothing can. I alsosee it with our food, like in
America. I'm almost disgusted. Itpisses me off. I won't go down
that rabbit hole of like what isallowed in our foods, the standard American
diet, what is preached by quoteunquote educators on food. It's absolutely terrible

(48:58):
advice. Like we need to getback to our roots, back to mother
Nature, back to what comes fromthe earth, back to those staples,
those foundations of health movement. There'sthere's things. Yeah, there's a quote
in a movie and I can't rememberit says nature will always find a way.
Right. Maybe it's a scary,but in fact, now that I

(49:19):
think about it, I think it'sthat movie with yeah, Jurassic Park.
Yeah, there you go. Ibelieve there was some similarity in a movie
with Mark Wahlberg too. I can'tremember the name of that one. There's
an m Night Shyamalan where the treesstarted killing it to happen. Yeah,
see same idea. And while thoseare restriction there, there's fact to it.
I believe like things will come backand even if it's forced. Right,

(49:42):
you know, these are tools,you know, AI and stuff like
this. Me and Scott and I'vetalked about it, but it's with anything,
the old everything in moderation. Usethem as tools, like a cell
phone can be a great tool.You and I connected via Instagram like you
and I are. I would considerfriends now that live in different states,
which wouldn't have been possible without technology. But it's being mindful and going back

(50:07):
to the whispers and quieting things andjust spending some time away from it and
just being aware. Oh maybe Iwas a little on it, maybe ignored
my child, and just be okay, don't meet yourself up. Just be
aware of it and use these thingsas tools. But come back to nature.
And that's why people are profiting offof Heck, there's places in this
country and I know and others thatare literally charging to take people barefoot into

(50:32):
the woods lots of money, asif they don't know how because of what's
called grounding, like it's some newscience. But it's always been here.
I've been doing it since I waslike, we all did it as kids,
right, Like we ran around barefootand we didn't think, hey,
this is great and we're all likedoing these things. But it's just we've
found benefit in being in the sunand with our friends and playing and talking.

(50:57):
And it'll come back to that.But we need to be aware,
and I believe it is starting to. But I believe there's a split in
society, you know, where peopleare going farther down the dark rabbit hole
of this and becoming so much connectedto the machine that are becoming a machine
themselves, and then you have theother who there might be a middle one
that uses the technology. I considermyself maybe in the middle, where like

(51:19):
I'm this hippie dude who's playing barefootwith my kids outdoors, but also can
see benefits in technology to connect withthe humor. I'm not completely living in
a tepee. I've no technology andhunting and gathering my own food, but
I literally had the nutrition conversation withone of my clients today, Like we
were talking to he loves dairy,loves and you and I can go down
a rabbit hole on dairy alone,at least americanized dairy. But he loves

(51:44):
just handfuls of cheese basically, andhe's like, I tried the plant base
and I was like, well,that actually might be worse for you.
When we talked about, like,look at the ingredient profile of what they
call vegan. They've just marketed theAmerican market because there's this whole vegan market,
but there's more. If you goto the cheese, the natural just
cheese, like in Wigman's here,you'll just see cheese. But yeah,

(52:04):
we could talk about the processing goingon that, but when you go to
the vegan cheese, it's like ahundred ingredients. I was like, so
he's like, that was worse onmy gut. Yeah, so we could
go down a rabbit hole on this. But the idea is you mentioned it,
you know, keep it to isessentially what I say, and what
it sounds like you say is keepit as real as possible. We touched
on in the beginning, like theimportance of gut health and before we wrap

(52:24):
it up, We probably should diveinto that because, like you know,
we talked heavily on mental and wedo on this podcast and our mind and
where we're at. But let's connectthe dots because we haven't really talked about
it, and I haven't talked indepth on a podcast on just the gut
microbiome connection to the brain and howimportant it is. And we're not trying

(52:45):
to tell you guys that all eatthis way and the other way is gonna
ruin you because my wife loves friesand she'll turn the podcast off right now
if I said, never eat friesagain. So let's be honest, real
and raw right now about the gutmicrobiome, gut health as it connects to
the brain, and what people canreally do today to help them and how
it's going to help them strive everysingle day. Yeah, the gut health,

(53:07):
I've realized more and more. AndI'm not a scientist. I'm not
going to spew all the facts onit. I'll spew a few, but
what I realized, and like yousaid, it is moderation and it is
balance. I go out and havebeers and a burger with the bries with
the boys sometimes ninety I live bya ninety ten principle. Ninety percent of
the time, I'm dialed in,super clean, super healthy, ten percent,

(53:28):
I'll do whatever the heck I want. But what I've realized is the
gut. You guys have probably heardit is a second brain, right,
there's more and more research and eightsterotones and serotonin is that happiness hormone where
what makes us feel happy is createin our gut, and so creating a
prosperous, good, healthy environment downthere is very important. And the standard

(53:50):
American diet and all the things andthe processed food and things like gluten and
not to say that never have glutenagain, but things like gluten it causes
inflammation in the gut, and inflammationis the root of all disease. Everything
you put in your mouth and evenon your body is getting you closer to
disease or fueling you. And sowhen you start to look at its fuel,
the human body is incredible. Itcan live off you eating Chick fil

(54:13):
a three times a day every dayfor a while. Now you're gonna cause
metabolic chaos everywhere in your body,and you're gonna die of something, and
you're gonna get autoimmune and diabetes andall these different diseases, but it can
live pretty long with Chick fil a, which is insane because it's like a
fried piece of terrible raised chicken withindustrial seed oils wrapped in gluten. And

(54:35):
so that's like the one of theworst things you could have. It tastes
delicious, but the human body weeat that stuff because we're like, oh,
I'm fine, I'm doing fine.But it's more the compound effect,
right, and everything that is literallypoisoning your body and poisoning your gut versus
if you're fueling it with I eattons of meat. I have like a
paleo type type diet, but Ilike to call it lifestyle. But you

(54:59):
know, you're supposed to have twentyto thirty different variety of plants in your
diet to keep your microbiome and allthose healthy organisms functioning and healthy. Almost
no one does that, especially herein America. And so what's important these
days is getting those those green superfoodsand the powders, or getting the probiotics
or the prebiox and digestive enzymes.The best thing you can do is get

(55:22):
it from whole foods. But weneed to supplement this day and age because
of the lack of nutrients and alot of the foods that we're eating today.
Yeah, I mean this was twentyyears ago that maat man Wait no,
probably yeah, maybe somewhere. Itwas definitely the latter part of college.
So I graduated in two thousand andthree to get people an idea.

(55:45):
And I know, I look goodfor forty two. I love it.
It's the gut microbiome. No,but I read an article that blew my
mind, and I don't really feelpeople were talking about at least I wasn't
aware of it. And even Itook this in school classes and nutrition,
basic nutrition and movement, and Iwas like, it basically said a ton

(56:07):
of stuff. But the biggest takeawayfor me that I want to bring up
here was broccoli, which is consideredlike a super food at the time twenty
years ago. Now everything's a superfood, right. I think anything that's as
real as you can get and asclean as you get as a superfood,
it's gonna be good for you.But broccoli, the superfood nowadays, is
so green and so beautiful when youget it from the grocery store. And

(56:30):
it talked about that, and againthis is dating this article. A lot's
even gotten worse and changed since then. Of how the broccoli of today compared
to like the broccoli of the nineteenforties, fifties and prior is I believe
was less than thirty six percent nutritionvalue, meaning you're getting like almost you're

(56:55):
getting more than you know, likesixty percent less nutrients in broccoli just so
it can be prettier. And thisgoes from the water to the soil and
we go down that, and ittalked about all this, and again this
article is twenty years ago, andI know things only got worse, so
it's maybe like twenty five percent orwhatever. So he talked about supplementation and
that's why you also want to lookfor quality. And that's stuff that where

(57:16):
him and I connected on, likethe we're in similar supplements, we're using
similar products, and it's all comesdown to that because it's like you want
stuff that can be in places,you know, like Canada and places in
Australia that's heavily vetted, like forexample, the company that we're connected with
bands I call me if I mightbe wrong, but over like fifteen hundred

(57:39):
different things they banned from it.We're in America, we're not really getting
rid of it because of a profitthing. Back to dairy. I'll give
you an example. Whenever I goto Canada. We go to Canada a
lot, like Toronto, or evenjust right over, I'll have ice cream
every time. There's this place.I forget the name was like Holy Jesus
ice cream or something. It's it'samazing, and I'll get it because it

(58:01):
does nothing to me, like Ihave no appendix. Dairy blows me up
in America, but over there,I can eat ice cream, I can
drink milk and be just fine.Because of their standards around the dairy,
it's a much cleaner product. Andso again back to the whispering you need
to. I'll go even down tojust what you eat to how you're eating

(58:22):
it. There's benefits in cooking,there's even benefits in gardening and finding.
And I know, if you're likeme, man, that's not efficient.
I'm an efficient king. I considermyself the efficient king. And I know
these may not sound like it,but it goes back to a famous quote
from a book that many of youprobably know. They're listening to podcasts,
and it's discipline equals freedom, andit really does. And I'm discipline on

(58:45):
a Sunday, and I spend timewith my kids and we all cook together
for two hours, our entire lunchand dinners for the week, and that
that that solves a lot of ourproblems. With that discipline, we're freedom.
So we know we're cooking, youknow, we garden together. When
you get a team of people,if you're in a family and you have
kids and you have a partner.Now if you're a single mother with one
child or a single father with onechild, I get it. It's a

(59:07):
challenge and I would love to haveyou on this podcast if you are trying
to overcome and strive this. Butback to it. If you have more
than yourself in the house, that'sa team right there, and find a
way to navigate that. I justheard a couple of my friend of mine
where he's always done the cooking,the shopping. He's a lot like me.
But and this is someone in myhouse where he for the long time,

(59:28):
but now he's coming up with therecipes and his wife's actually doing the
shopping now and then they're co cooking, and now they've got a ton more
time in their week. You know, So there are ways if you quiet
the mind to kind of navigate andfigure these things out within your life.
Because we're all different, we're allunique, so maybe some of these things,
but hopefully you can take away someof the things that we've talked on

(59:51):
here today and get some key takeaways. Man, him and I could talk.
I have another list of questions,but we need to start wrapping up
here, and so I would lovebefore before we ask all the instagrams and
how people can contact you. Man, you have daughters. I know how
important that is. I have daughtersand and so can you. You know,

(01:00:13):
what's what's some exciting products you haveworking on? Is one thing I
want to know. But what's aunicorn size dream, whether it be personally
professionally, that that that you haveon your mind and and on your heart
that you'd love to see before yourlast breath or in the near field.
Oh my gosh, that's just sucha good one. I have daughters.
I do want to say first,Yeah, you asked me about big dad

(01:00:35):
energy. I'm such a proud dad. Like becoming a dad, it shifts
your identity, your legacy, shifts, everything shifts in your life, your
priorities, your passions, your purposeshift a bit and that becomes a big
part of it hopefully. And soI created this brand called Big Dad Energy
for me because I wanted to wearmy pride on my chest. I create
some fun dad swag, but it'smore a movement and to empower dads and

(01:00:59):
fops because we know how important thefather role is in the household and to
be the strong, like provider whateverthat the traditional father, but also to
be compassionate, loving, caring,build a strong love and foundation in your
marriage. Let your kids see that. Build strong connection with your kids,

(01:01:20):
like be there for them, bea part of it, be present and
be go hunt the meat, butalso come home and be loving too.
And I think that's super important.So I create Big Dad Energy and that's
that's just around empowering proud dads.And we do some men's retreats and there's
some fun dad swag and more stuffto come. I just launched it.
But that's that where you kind ofswag's pretty cool. I'll back them up.

(01:01:42):
I've seen some of it is prettyneat. You should go check it
out. Yeah yeah, And whereit's like you really rocket, You're like,
I'm a proud dad, I'm thedad who wears my daughter on my
chest to the park and all thethings, But damn a unicorn God size
for yourself, your family personally,for myself, my family in my life.

(01:02:02):
That is such an amazing question.Got to marinate on. I think
a few things come to mind.One, my wife and I love story.
This isn't like god size, butwhatever, but it's it is incredible,
and so many people ask about it. I want to like find the
right producer and be like, let'sget this made into a movie because I
think it can inspire a lot ofpeople, because there's ups and downs,

(01:02:23):
but beyond that, you know,one thing that's always been a pain point
for me is that at some point, it's not in the near future,
but I'd love to get into thenutrition the education system like schooling system and
really focus on on health, onnutrition, and on the mindset, all
the stuff we talked about this podcastright starting to get it into mainstream education

(01:02:46):
where at a young age we're inceptingthat that educational system and incepting the minds
of young kids to understand, likelife, what we learn in school like
is almost irrelevant. It's more therelationships, the social all that stuff.
But like learning tools to live anamazing life, Like what if they taught

(01:03:06):
think and Grow Rich the book inschool or things like that like success principles
and Nutrician nutrition has been a bigthing for me. So that's like the
god size goal infiltrate the school systemwith this education on the personal growth and
the nutrition and all these things toreally live your best life. Yeah,
and I'll piggyback on that. Man, I didn't realize as a kid,
but whenever I walk into my kids'schools, I'm like, no, wonder,

(01:03:32):
Yeah, they're like brick, They'relike, no different, So I
can honestly, I've been in jail, by the way, I've also worked
in commissary in prison and in schools, and that outside the bars weren't different.
A lot of brick, not alot of windows, very like alarms

(01:03:54):
go here. And I was itwas, it was. It was weird.
And as an adult going back tothese so I'll piggyback on everything you
said there and add we need toopen this up. It's hard to have
a free thinking mind when you feelboxed and closed in within a desk and
in a classroom in a building.No wonder why you know, We could

(01:04:16):
blame technology all day long on theirposture, but it's also in the mind.
So when you put people in thisbox, inside a box, inside
another box, no wonder why kidsare walking around this. We can sit
here and blame technology, but there'smore to it than that. As always,
I believe and started to get meon a passionate rage there, but
I'm on top of this. I'mnot just what we're teaching them, but

(01:04:39):
how and where we're teaching. SoI believe that's a great place to in
there. Man, I would loveto talk to you more, especially we
didn't dive totally into the father role, but I believe there was a ton
of things to help people strive.Was there anything else before we knock off
here real quick that you want toprovide these listeners to help them strive?
Through sixty five great great quesh.We covered so much. I know we

(01:05:00):
could do it Joe Rogan length podcast, but we won't. I think it's
just back to that, like,really, we were all born with gifts,
right, and we were born withGod size unicorn sized goals and dreams
and all these things. And getstill go listen to that, go tap
into that, because yeah, ifyou're feeling stuck or unfulfilled in your life,

(01:05:21):
it's because you're not living out yoursoul's purpose. And that is success,
I believe in life, right Like, go find what that is,
what you're meant to do, whatyour gifts, what your soul wants to
do, and go do it.And it doesn't mean you need to make
a ton of money doing it,although I believe when you lead with passion
and lead with if you would dosomething for free, I think you can

(01:05:43):
make a lot of money doing itbecause you're just gonna lead with authenticity and
passion. But listen to those whispers, back to the whispers, listen to
your gut and your heart, andjust go for it. Yeah, if
you build it, they will come. They bill my story about that another
movie quote there. So hey,thanks everyone for tuning in to another episode
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