Made for More
Made for More
Discipline, Mentality in Fitness, and Personal Growth w Bryan Pollard
Join us in this moving episode as we delve deep into the realms of personal growth, self-development, and mindset with guest Bryan Pollard. In a world that often feels chaotic and overwhelming, Bryan shares his wisdom on how to navigate life's challenges with resilience and grace.
Throughout the conversation, Bryan draws from his own experiences and expertise in meditation, fitness, and mindset cultivation to provide practical tips and profound insights for listeners seeking to embark on their own journey of self-discovery and transformation.
From the importance of daily meditation practices to the power of positive affirmations, Bryan sheds light on the tools and techniques that have helped him and countless others unlock their inner potential and lead fulfilling lives.
Whether you're a seasoned self-improvement enthusiast or someone just beginning to explore the world of personal growth, this episode offers something for everyone. Tune in as we explore the transformative power of mindset, the role of physical fitness in mental well-being, and the profound impact of embracing a growth-oriented mindset.
Get ready to be inspired, motivated, and empowered to embark on your own journey of self-discovery as we embark on this enlightening conversation with Bryan Pollard.
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Hello friends, welcome to Made For More the podcast. I'm so grateful that you are tuning in and listening Literally my favorite part of the week, when podcasts come out. I'm giddy, I'm giddy. I am just so thankful that you guys are listening and I cannot believe that we are halfway through February already. That is insane to me. I feel like this year is already flying by and this month is already flying by, which is crazy, definitely makes me want to be present and slow down and truly enjoy the day to day and make each day last as long as we can, or as long as I can.
Speaker 1:I am a lot going on, a lot going on for me Personally the next few weeks. I leave to go to Miami next week because I have my Hierarchs race in Fort Lauderdale at the end of February, so the 24th and it is a solo race that I'm doing and my goal is to qualify for Worlds with that, and I've been training hard, I've been running, I've been building my fitness and I feel really confident going into it, but you never know who's going to be there. I mean, they're literally insane athletes that do Hierarchs and yeah, so we'll see. When I did LA Hierarchs in December, I had a six-minute PR and I did 10950, but that put me in third place for my age group, which did not qualify me for Worlds. So I was looking if I can knock off because my average at DC or in LA was a 430 minute per kilometer, if I can drop it down to a 415 minute per kilometer and get a little bit faster. I'm hoping to at least get 106, like that's the goal, and win. But we shall see. We're just going to run our little hearts out and go as hard as we can and probably pass out and die after. But yeah, it'll be fine. It's just a little bit over an hour of work and you can do anything for an hour, right. But I am headed there and then I am doing DC Hierarchs doubles with Erica James, who is a Greenville relative. She owns the booty shop which I need to get her on the podcast, but we're doing doubles together. And then two weeks later I'm in Houston doing Hierarchs doubles with my friend Tim, and that's his first Hierarchs as well, and we're going to crush it and we're going to have so much fun. So lots of things coming up, lots of fitness coming up the next few weeks, which is so fun, but let's get to this podcast episode.
Speaker 1:I have chit-chatted a lot and I know that you guys are here to listen to Brian and get encouraged and get motivated, but Brian Pollard is our guest today. Incredible guy, so kind, so motivating and this was just a really great conversation. I think we could have talked forever, honestly, and it was so enjoyable to just have him on the podcast and I know that you guys are going to love it and gonna feel so motivated. So I'm always looking for more suggestions on who we should get on the podcast. So send me a text, send me a DM, call me, text me, whatever, with some recommendations, because we're gonna shoot our shot in the DMs with anyone to get them on the podcast. So, but anyways, let's get into the episode and I hope you guys enjoy it. Hi, brian, thanks for being on the pod today.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, absolutely. Before we hop in first, first and foremost, I just want to say that it's an honor to be on here today. I appreciate it. I know we've known each other for a couple months now, but Instagram, friends. For sure. I've been a fan since since day one. You always provide such extreme value, extreme knowledge. You're also positive, energetic and you have a smile that can light up any room. So thank you for allowing me to be here today. I appreciate it Seriously.
Speaker 1:Thanks for thanks for being on the podcast. Always try to find people that are very like. Obviously, sometimes being positive can not be the best thing all the time. I mean it can be. I don't know. You don't want to miss the sad emotions and like not let yourself fill the other emotions, but I like connecting with other people that are very positive and like disciplined too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, guam excited to be here. Yeah, we've been, together.
Speaker 1:Which we have a lot of mutual friends anyways, just in Austin and stuff. Ever since I started following, I'm like, oh wait, you're friends with this person and you're friends with this person. And it's like all these Instagram best friends that I have that I've never met in real life.
Speaker 2:That's the beauty of social media, and you know it's a love-hate relationship I have with social media sometimes, but it's such, I think, a great opportunity to meet people that you would have never met before, and some of my best friendships are through social media and I'm super grateful for that. But yeah, we do have a lot of mutuals, so shout out to them.
Speaker 1:Yes, I know Mikaela. I'm like Mikaela, I need to see you soon. She's like yeah, it's coming out of the bus, I'm so happy to see the ball of energy.
Speaker 2:We love her.
Speaker 1:I know so for the people that are listening, give us. I hate the question of like, tell us a little bit about yourself, but tell us a little bit about yourself, like where are you from, where are you living now and what do you do?
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely so. I am a 28 year old entrepreneur, personal trainer, residing in the great state of Texas, specifically here in Austin. I'm from a small town in Virginia, born and raised, called Amherst County. It's right outside of Lynchburg. Not many people know where that is, but it's in Central Virginia, born and raised there.
Speaker 2:After college I moved to LA, so I moved to Austin via LA. I was in LA for four years and then been in Austin here for about three years. And you know a little bit about myself is you know I'm a personal trainer and you know I believe that people do their best based on what they think is available, and so it's just really become my passion and my purpose just to help people research your potential by really seeing that full potential, greater than what they can imagine on their own. And so that's kind of what drives me and drives my force, and kind of the quote unquote mission statement behind my business. And then I also threw the entrepreneur piece in there as well, because we are cooking up and this is not many people know this, but we're cooking up a.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you heard it here first Cooking up a little software for the fitness industry that I think is really going to revolutionize it, especially for entrepreneurs and for trainers alike. So I'm excited. I can't give too many more details about that as it's very in the in the very early stages, but a lot of exciting and great things going on here in a Brian's life, so.
Speaker 1:I love it, and you do real estate as well, right.
Speaker 2:I do real estate, yep, and you know I've always have a foot in real estate. I actually under contract with a house right now with one of my clients and you know got into that about a year and a half ago and, like I said, I'll always have a foot in real estate. I love real estate, but I'm definitely more passionate about the investment side versus the actual being an agent side, and I think that I can provide more value to you know, the marketplace and to the world through fitness, more than I can as a real estate agent. So that's kind of where the trends is you can.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can definitely tell that you're passionate about the fitness side of things, also that the gym that you train at in Austin looks sick.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll give them a plug. Shout out to the league up in Cedar Park. And yeah, coach, there are some group classes and it's incredible. Terry and Ashley are the owners. They live in Houston, they're dope, they're amazing. They love people and our mission with the gym is love people well and I think they do a great job of leading that. Shout out to Corey as well. He's the head coach there, which I know is a mutual of ours as well. He's done a great job with opening the gym and putting the right people in the right places. So, again, super grateful to be a part of that opportunity.
Speaker 1:Yeah, every time that you share something about it, I'm like oh, I have FEMO. Like that gym looks awesome.
Speaker 2:It's amazing. I mean, we are absolutely cooking up in there.
Speaker 1:So if you're in the Austin area come see us. Did you? Did you play any sports or anything growing up like? Have you always? Because I've seen your transformation on Instagram, which, if people are listening like I will link all of his stuff in the description and you can look at it. But you've had quite the transformation from. I mean, you've put on a lot of muscles.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah it's, it's. It's been quite the journey. You know I've played sports.
Speaker 2:Definitely growing up I was the big baseball guy. Hopped into football in high school because I was just playing baseball. They asked me to play football and so freshman year I played football and that's kind of when I was introduced really to weightlifting and the gym and and all that good stuff and played football, baseball and ran track my senior year, just so I could say that I was a three sport athlete and then ended up getting hurt my junior year playing football. So that kind of washed that opportunity for a future career and sports out, which again, I'm okay with that. I like the way that my life ended up and you know, went to college, dabbled in the gym for a little while, definitely fell off towards the end and then that's when, kind of I would say after I moved to LA and we can probably get into this in a little bit, but that's when the about six years, six years ago, it's really when fitness took a, took a front seat in my life. So, yeah, it's been quite a journey.
Speaker 1:Like I mean obviously a small town in Virginia. I don't know your East Coast boy did like why. Why'd you move to LA? That's I mean. I know everyone is probably like what are you doing?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm from a little small town. I was raised on a farm, I mean it was.
Speaker 2:I was a country boy at heart, for sure Texas is very fitting, then I would say Austin is a great happy medium for me and and I'm very happy here it's it's a little bit of the best at both worlds. So I actually I moved to LA for a girl, my college girlfriend. I graduated college and then ended up in LA for her. So that's how I ended up there. Wasn't on the docket for sure. I was actually supposed to move to Phoenix, arizona, with a high school friend and so it was my birthday, I graduated my birthday's in June. I graduated, I went out to LA like on the way to move to Phoenix, and then I just never left. I never left LA. I loved it, I fell in love with it and so, yeah, I ended up there for four years. It was like a four year birthday celebration. It felt like Wow.
Speaker 1:So it was worth it to move for love For your season.
Speaker 2:It was a great chapter of life for sure. A lot of lessons, a lot of hardships for sure. But yeah, I mean I wouldn't change a thing in this world, So-.
Speaker 1:What a season. That's cool. I could say that you did that and I mean, I think everything kind of shapes out how it's supposed to.
Speaker 2:So yeah, it taught me a lot and without that part of life I don't think I would be where I'm at now and just getting back into the transformation. I mean, I was hit it on the wrong path like a full steam ahead just in the wrong direction in life and I got lost in the sauce, to put it In that way. I just got lost in the sauce in LA. And fitness is really kind of what redirected my course to get me back on track and that was kind of like my stronghold that I attached to and I knew that it was something I was somewhat familiar with and if I could get that aspect of my life going in the right direction, I felt like a lot of the other stuff could follow. So I'm grateful for the gym, for fitness, for my workout, friends in LA shout out to my friend Jordan and that really set the path to becoming a better person for sure and I don't know if you want to get into that, but we will eventually for sure.
Speaker 1:We can still talk about it, cause I'm like I am such an open book with things. So I mean, if you are like I am, so down to chat about it, cause I'm sure that people can relate and I do, like I am curious too. Did you the pressure, did you feel a lot of pressure in LA to like get involved in certain things or to look a certain way or to act a certain way?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean the pressure was insurmountable almost. I mean I'm coming from a town Like we got one traffic circle and a food line. I mean it doesn't really matter, like you just wear whatever to the grocery store and then you go to LA and it's like you were in design or just to just to go get your mail, and so it was a lot of pressure. It was a lot of pressure. I ended up in a group, a friend group, and they were, they had some infusion, they had some influence using that term lightly, but they had some influence. And you know, it's just always you, just the first question people ask you in LA. It's not how are you doing, it's not what's your name, it's what do you do. And so, from the very beginning, it's just like this pressure to put on this facade of like you're somebody bigger than you really are, and that's how the city operated. And, yeah, I just got.
Speaker 2:I got lost in the sauce. I was with the wrong people doing the wrong things. I was drinking more than I should. I was partying every weekend, I was out in the clubs and, like I was 21 years old, I had never been to a club Like we went out to Buffalo Wild Wings in Virginia on all Friday nights, like I'm going to Warwick and One Oak and Hyde and there's celebrities and I'm with you know, all these, you know big name rappers, french and the weekend and all these guys and think on these after parties and I mean it's just, it was a real life movie. And, you know, it's taking a step back and kind of looking at myself now Like I'm wondering how I still have any friends, cause I definitely got too big for my purchase and I was, you know, I let my ego get involved and I'm like I thought I was this, I thought I was that and it got to the point where it was just eating me up. You know, I was out every weekend. I was, you know, doing things that I definitely regret. I ruined my relationship, you know, and it's, and we started to spiral downhill and it was just like it became a point in time where like enough was enough.
Speaker 2:And I think that what happens with a lot of people is like your why becomes bigger than the excuses, and I was always making excuses as to why I'm doing this or why I'm living this lifestyle, or why I can't get better, or why I don't want to get better, or whatever the case may be. It was just always an excuse, right, and just one day, one night after going out, it's just like a series of events that happened and it was like I was like dude, I just can't keep living like this. This is not how I was raised. This is not, morally, who I am. This is not the values that I have that my parents were so hard to instill in me. I was like this is it.
Speaker 2:And so the only thing I knew how to do is get back in the gym and, like I said, I think that was my stronghold, that's what it was familiar to me and that's what I could just really hang on to and start progressing in life, and hopefully the other things can follow. And so in that picture that you were referring to earlier, you know I woke up and I took a selfie. It was on Snapchat, I don't even know if people still use that, but I had it back then and in the catch it said day one, and I was like this is the day that I'm gonna make a change. And yeah, that was about six years ago and it's been a wavy road, or a curvy road, if you will. It hasn't been up in straight arrow, that's for sure, but you know it's every day. We're just working to become a little bit better.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you for sharing that about the LA and like, whether people live in LA or whether they like live in a small downtown in South Carolina.
Speaker 1:If you're listening, I think there's a lot of pressure to look a certain way and act a certain way. And, like you said, with finding your identity and what you do, like I struggle with that. People are like, hey, like you know, who are you? I'm a nutritionist, I like work out, I do all these things and it's like no, like, who are you? Like at your core, who are you? And it's so easy to get lost from that and I think it takes things like that obviously with you. I think everyone listening has had a pivotal moment in their life where it kind of redirects them back to like okay, wait, like what is going on, like who are you, what are you doing, and it kind of humbles you and takes you back of. You know, this is my core values, this is who I wanna be in this life that I'm living, or this thing that I'm portraying. That I am is not me or who I wanna be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I appreciate it. I think you made a comment or a post or story the other day and I hope I'm not confused with somebody else, but it was like you know, we have this vision of who we want to be and we have to today, act tall, breathe, be that person that we want our future self to be, and not wait until we get there to be that person. If that makes sense, is that? What did you say? Something like that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's because I remember we talked about it after. But yes, that is so true. And I think, like with how our brain works and I don't wanna talk too much because I don't wanna let you talk but with how our brain works, the things and habits that we've always done, like we have neural connections inside of our brain that like-.
Speaker 2:How are we gonna get into?
Speaker 1:this. It's a habit, right Like you not working out, you overeating, you speaking really poorly about yourself, you having no self-confidence, like if you've believed that about yourself for years that becomes safe in your brain. Even if it's actually self-sabotage or the worst thing possible for you, your brain knows that it's safe. So anytime that, like you're trying to change habits, or even like, for LA, an example, you staying in on a Friday night when everyone's going out, your brain is like wait, what are you doing? Like this isn't normally what you do and it kind of makes it seem unsafe. And so, like when you can start to recognize that and start to see yourself in a different way, like that's when things really change.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you couldn't have said it any more beautiful. I mean, that's really what it is. And we basically set this program. It's our program. We program ourselves right, and we get addicted to these emotions. And I was having this conversation with somebody the other day and it's like you know that this is not good for you, but you were addicted to the emotion that it brings to you, right? And then you just continue on this hamster world of, like, putting yourself in this situation and you gotta break the habit of being yourself. And that's when you start creating a new reality for yourself. And it starts with today, acting and being the person that you want your future self to be. And it's a journey, for sure, but one day, one step at a time, and you can be on the right track.
Speaker 1:Yeah, shout out to Joe. Dismantza for the book. Breaking Out of being Yourself A little longer about there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we can get into that later. I mean that's what really revolutionized my life. I mean I am. Yeah, it's been a game changer.
Speaker 1:But it really has and, like you said, when we're doing things or like coming back to these things even if we know it's not good for us, I think that shows up in life and like fitness, or it shows up in people's lives, in relationships, is a big one, is like. I mean you think about a toxic relationship like the push and pull of that right, like your brain's addicted to that. So it can be the same thing with food or habits. And the first step obviously like is awareness. But in the book Joe Dismantza talks about you think, you do and then you become.
Speaker 1:So, it starts with that initial thought of what you're thinking and naturally, eventually, like your brain, will start to do and become what those subconscious thoughts.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, and the piece around this is really like is meditation, and that's becoming that literally means to become familiar with and, to your point, it's becoming conscious of your unconscious thoughts. And we can sit on this topic for a minute, about the book and about meditation, if you want to, I do want to ask you about meditation, because with the book, that is the one thing I'm having so much resistance around it.
Speaker 1:Like I am struggling and I saw your post the other day of that you had meditated or something and I wanted to ask you about that. But for me it's one of those things like I know I need to do and I should do it. I have resist that's my one like one thing that I have resistance around. So I want to ask you about that and like how you got into that and if you struggled with it at all.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yes, so I mean we can definitely touch on this meditation in peace a little bit. And you know, I'll just preface this by this has been a change in my life in like the last four months, and so I'm definitely no expert, I definitely don't have it figured out.
Speaker 2:All I can do is just give you guys what I have learned in this short amount of time and kind of my perspective of it all, and I remember, you know I think we all get to. Well, let me back up a little bit. Before I even got into meditation, I didn't ever really want to look into it because I was like, no, not meditating, this is some like woo stuff, not really into it. I was very close-minded, right, and I think a lot of people can relate to that. But you know, I think it would come to a point in our life where we start asking ourselves these questions like what would it be like if X, y, z, or what if I was this person living in this reality? Or what if things were a little bit different? Or am I living up to my, my true potential?
Speaker 2:And you know, I think Running a little bit kind of pushed me to that and I made that comment earlier, like we People only do their best on what they think is available to them, and this book is kind of helped me open up my mind to See and more possibilities that are available to me, right, and so my biggest Perspective change, you know, with meditation, is this, and this is what I tell my friends all the time and this is really what I've learned from the book is that we have to.
Speaker 2:You know, for the last like 28 years of my life, I've always looked to these external goals or achievements or or finish lines that I wanted to reach right, and I always told myself, okay, when I reach this, then I will be happy, right, and so the perspective change for me has been okay, well, rather than being happy when I get there, if I can be happy. Now Things start to change and I'll give you an example. People, they don't want a million dollars, they want what they think a million dollars, or they want what they think how a million dollars will make them feel.
Speaker 2:Yeah does that make sense? Yeah, so people don't want a million dollars, they want the feeling that they think a million dollars can make them feel right. And so you Know, through this book and through meditation, like that was really a light bulb moment for me. So if we can really Take that feeling, that we think that whatever that is whether that's a million dollars, or Finding that husband, or finding that wife, or running that sub three marathon or whatever the case may be whatever that External thing is that we think it's gonna bring this this feeling of happiness and joy, if we can take that feeling, bring it to the internal now, to the present moment, then that's when the game changes, because it takes the pressure off of always Chasing after that goal right, and that's when you can start Really creating a. You know, and forgive me if I'm getting too deep on this, but this is where I love all.
Speaker 1:Like a service level, all the window. Give us all the deep stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, this is, this is when we really just start, you know, no longer chasing after those things, and and we start start attracting and and I'm gonna circle all this back to the meditation piece, because I know that's what you which you, were asking about. But this has just been so important to me because, for the longest time and I don't know how to like Precise enough like we just always have these, like when I have this, then I will be happy, right, and it's like I've always been grateful. You know, I serve an amazing God. I'm super blessed at having incredible life, like I've always been grateful. You know, I write my, my gratitude in my journal, but it was like a missing piece that I was like I Wasn't like deep, deep down, inherently like super grateful. You know, I was always waiting for this external thing. And let me tell you, like, if you're waiting until you hit a goal to be happy, you hit that goal and then, guess what, the goalpost moves a little bit further and then you're just always chasing, you're always chasing, you're always chasing.
Speaker 2:And we have to get to a point where, okay, I'm genuinely grateful and happy despite that external thing, and then I'm no longer chasing that and then the Opportunities just start to flow and that's just really what you know, it's been happening for me over the last Four months and it eliminates the pressure that we put, put in our lives and we can kind of just have room to breathe and think it a new life. But I think the question is is like how do we find that internal gratitude? And this is where the meditation piece comes in. Okay, and To me, how I think of meditating and what's really helped me is is Meditating allows for us to get super present, right like, and the life that we live with social media and you know, all of our training and all of our friends and all of our trips and all of everybody texting us, needed us and all this Kind of stuff going on in life. How often do we get really present?
Speaker 1:Yeah, never, and let's see my time for it right, just really present.
Speaker 2:And so when we're meditating, when I meditate, you know, I look to get really present because a lot of times, like you know, those thoughts and emotions that you were talking about that really control our lives. They're only Controlling our lives because of a past trauma, right, stay with me, a past trauma that we've had influences a future, gives us anxiety about future, anticipation, right, which then influences us subconsciously In the present when we're making a decision or we're having these feelings. And so if we can get super present, right, and then eliminate the past trauma right, which is fueling a future, anxiety right.
Speaker 2:Then we can have a clean slate to really think through life and start creating this reality that we want, because we're no longer Influenced by our past trauma or the anxiety of the future. And that, for me, is meditation. Right, because we're super present. We're not thinking about. I'll give you an example. Let's say you're about to walk into a Sales meeting okay, and Before you walk in the door you start to get super nervous. You're you're rid it with anxiety and fear because Three years ago you had a sales meeting that you bombed. And so now you're thinking about that sales meeting three years ago. Okay. That's giving you subconsciously anxiety for the future meeting that you're about to walk into, and now that's affecting you presently as you're about to walk into this meeting. So what do you think is gonna happen when you walk into this meeting?
Speaker 1:You're gonna be anxious, you're gonna be anxious.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's, the links come up exactly, and so it's important for us to Get super present. So then we're not influenced by the anxiety of the future or the trauma of the past and we have a clean slate to really just start creating the reality that we want for ourselves. And you know, meditation is is a practice right, and it's very, very hard to get still and quiet and present enough with ourselves to not Really just let our mind wander off right. Is that what you're struggling with?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it's. Have you ever thought about being a life coach? I feel like I just got like All right, I'm gonna go meditate as soon as we get all. But that was like so beautifully said, though, how you said that and very relatable. I think the hardest thing is one feeling like I don't have time to do it, which is the biggest lie that I'm telling myself, because Look at my screen time, you know what I mean. Like yeah, you have time to do it, and then just the. I Think there's fear sometimes around sitting like with your thoughts for me, even like running without headphones, I make myself do that but like it's hard because you have to just Sit with your thoughts and be present, not distract yourself with music.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's, and it's, it's, it's a practice, right, and it's it. I mean, I am definitely, because I'll find myself meditating and then my mind starts to wander and then I'm like, oh, I gotta bring it back, but it's really like there's no like right or wrong way to do it, but it's just just really becoming familiar with those unconscious thoughts. And it is scary, right, it's really scary because we never really sit down with our thoughts and actually Acknowledge them, acknowledge these feelings that we have, like. But when you start to Acknowledge these feelings and these unconscious thoughts that are really just driving our lives, right, these addictive feelings that we have in our lives, that the that you were alluding to earlier, that are controlling our lives, we could really start to realize these. That's when we can start to take control of these, right, because right now they're controlling our lives, these thoughts, these feelings, these emotions, they're controlling, they're, they're driving, they're in the driving's driver seat. But if we can consciously become aware of these unconscious thoughts that are driving our lives, then we can start the process of becoming a master of them.
Speaker 2:Okay, and that's just a label labeling them, acknowledging that that's just what they are, they're just feelings, right, and then we can put them in the correct categories.
Speaker 2:But it also brings us back to, like, you know, if we're super present, then you, you know, it brings us back to that clean slate.
Speaker 2:Then we can really just start creating our reality.
Speaker 2:And that's kind of where the spaces that I'm in now, like I've always felt, you know, growing up, like if I was just this way, you know, if I just had what he had, if I just had what she had, then things would be different, right, but that's just, that's just because Some past trauma in my childhood probably made me feel like I wasn't, you know, I was inadequate, which is now subconsciously feeling, you know, my present thoughts and emotions, subconsciously, that I'm not even really aware of because I haven't taken the time to really sit down and get quiet and look at, look at myself, you know, in my mental mirror and say, you know what I don't think, that that's that feeling and emotion is actually true, right?
Speaker 2:Okay, so let me get that one out of here, right? And then we start finding these Up. So you know unconscious feelings and thoughts and, like you know what that's not really true, that's not really true. And then we get them out the way and then we can start creating, like you know, our new reality for ourselves, and that's really kind of how we break the habit of being ourselves and and start becoming the master of our thoughts and emotions.
Speaker 1:That was amazing. You just like said that so beautifully, but in a very that made sense.
Speaker 1:I did, like you made it, broke it down so easy, but also in a way that's very relatable, because I think, like I said, a lot of people have resistance toward meditation. And could you think, like right when you, why, when we wake up in the morning, like we are stimulated all day, like right when we wake up, why right when we wake up to when we go to bed? And I don't know the way that you explained it is very it makes sense in a way of like I just like visualize like a Wipeboard in my head of like all these things that are coming, coming in and then just like wiping them off.
Speaker 2:And then you got a, you got a clean slate and then you just start. Then you just start creating right, because you are what you are, you are where you are and you are who you are because of what you believe about yourself. And if you don't take the time to really understand what you believe yours about yourself, these unconscious thoughts that are really fueling your, your thoughts and emotions about yourself, you don't take the time to look at that whiteboard and then erase that and start really programming into your mind what you really are, like how we talked about, how, if you want to be this certain person, you got to be them today, right, yeah, we don't. If we don't take the time to really, you know, change how we believe about her, the things that we believe about ourselves, how can we change at all?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, and.
Speaker 2:It's a, it's a journey and it's just so fascinating to me because our mind is just so powerful. We just really just don't take the time and we just get caught up in this loop of life and, like you said, we get so stimulated. The moment we wake up we start scrolling and you know, as soon as we start going, the first thing we see is is we get in that comparison trap and they were like, oh my god, I wish I was this person, I wish I was like this, I wish I looked like her, I wish I looked like him. And then that's just feeling these so consciously in our mind that we're just not good enough, that we'd never be good enough. And then if we don't take the time to kind of start reprogramming that brain and that mind and that subconscious, to Telling ourselves a different story, you're not gonna change.
Speaker 1:Well, we could end the podcast there. That was like that was it. Thank you for sharing that.
Speaker 2:Thank you for letting me share.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and again, I mean, it sounds like that book has just been incredible for you, so I will. I will definitely, I'll link it so everyone can Get on the train. I think when we have resistance around something, that means that's like we need to do it more. The more resistance we have, the more that we need to do it, and so I'm gonna walk the walk today. Walk the talk.
Speaker 2:If it's five minutes, if it's ten minutes, right, and you know, I think I think it also goes hand-in-hand with like visualization, and so I know that you know you do a lot of races with high rocks.
Speaker 2:You know, if a Michaela runs a lot of marathons, I like to run marathons now too, and I think, of you know, a visualization piece is a good part of that. I was, I was talking to a friend. She's like, she's like basically a CEO of this, like amazing company, and she's reading this book and it's talking about, like you know, the visualization piece of it and If we can get to a point where we are like and I learned this back when I was in 10th grade, I was playing this tournament and my, my baseball coach, she was like I want everybody to go out to right field, I want you to lay down, I want you to close your eyes and I want you used to visualize you making that diving catch, you hitting that home run, whatever the case may be, and so I'm like you think it's stupid so stupid and then I, I promise you and I was, I played center field and I'm laying down in this grass with you know a bunch of you know teenagers where we just think this is the dumbest thing.
Speaker 2:But I'm like, let me try it and I'm visualizing a ball hitting the gap and I go make a diving catch and what do you know, it happens and I make the catch and I think it's just so relatable Whether we're walking into a sales meeting, whether we're walking into the high rocks race, a marathon. If we could just visualize every turn, every step, every Every rep and see ourselves succeeding in that, it's, it's very powerful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's, it does sound. I've fun fact, I played center field too, so we're Fascinating. Got a good arm.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It really is like the more that I've learned about visualization and just the belief about something. It made me realize like I wish I would have incorporated these things more, like through college softball, of Visualizing myself being successful rather than being like, okay, if she throws a rise ball, I know I'm gonna swing and I'm gonna strike out, like you know what I mean. Like it just it's so crazy. So I yeah, I'm glad we got on this topic. I sent Brian for people listening, like I like to send some questions over and this was not on the list of questions, but this was like that was so great going into that, because it's something that every single person can relate to and I think you know, obviously, like people in the fitness industry and in the fitness space, we all struggle and we all have things that we need to work on.
Speaker 2:But I think, just putting it out there and making it, yeah, I mean, and I would say, even for the people that are, like you know, that are looking for changes in their life, right, like, really start to visualize who that is, that you want to be, and like I think one of the questions that you have for me, not to get to get, not to get ahead, but it's, like you, you know, for people that find it challenging to stay motivated with their fitness routine.
Speaker 2:It's like, yeah, like I have a couple Points on that, but let's talk really what it's. A counter like this is like you have to visualize that success for you. Like if you just trying to wake up and wing it, it's not gonna, it's not gonna happen. Right, you have to. We have to really almost identify as a person that you want to be and I know we keep going back to this, but if you want to change in your life, you're not gonna get there by Not having the belief that you can get there, and I think a good way to build that belief is just visualize yourself In the success of already reaching that goal that you have.
Speaker 1:It's one of those things like you bake it till you make it a most of like. If you, I mean, it's the same thing as if you walk in a room like you Deserve to be there, everyone is gonna think that you deserve to be there. But if you walk in a room with your head down and Like I hope no one looks at me, it's gonna give off that energy and it's going to attract, improve that thought to be right, right. So I think it's the same thing of like showing up with our Discipline, with nutrition and with our fitness and health as well. So I agree, okay, okay, I want to talk about you a little bit and kind of what you're doing.
Speaker 1:If you're good with that.
Speaker 2:Let's go your life.
Speaker 1:I do have a question, since we're kind of on the deep topic Do you struggle with being in Austin and like trying to being in the fitness industry and Like trying to grow it following on social media? Like do you struggle with the comparison trap because I feel like there's a lot of fitness people in Austin and Not that everyone's doing the same thing, but it's very similar like do you struggle with that at all? Are you trying to find your own Kind of niche in that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a great question and I would definitely say I used to, absolutely used to, but not so much anymore. And it's funny you asked because I was actually talking to my really good friend, derek, about this the other day and I call him. I said you know what, bro, like I Know that I am in the right space in life and that I am walking in my purpose, in my passion, because I no longer compare myself to anyone else out there and and I say that humbly because I'm not better, I'm not smarter, you know I'm not, you know I'm not the best trainer out there, whatever the case may be, but I know every morning I wake up that I am giving a hundred ten percent effort in this life to not only better myself but better those around me, and that's all I can do and it's it's shout out, it's support to every other trainer, influencer, fitness guru in Austin, texas and around the world. Like I'm supporting you guys, I'm supporting anybody who makes an effort to help someone else get better. But I don't see any competition and you know I'm not comparing myself to anybody.
Speaker 2:I'm very comfortable and confident and the and the lane that I'm in and I think that it ebbs and flows, and you know I'm, you know I think I'm still narrowing down my niche and in this, that and the other, but I've just become addicted to this journey, in this process and and I'm happy with where I'm at. So not anymore, I will say, though. I Will say, though, that I did when I was in real estate and I was doing that full-time. I will say that I absolutely had that comparison trap for sure. I was looking to every other realtor.
Speaker 1:In.
Speaker 2:Austin and on Instagram I was like dang, I wish I could be like them. Let me try to copy them and I think there's some benefit in like, not recreating the wheel, you know, like yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, if you look at things on Instagram, everyone's posting same stuff, like right, like someone's having this, like major, the lights really weird on. I think. Like major, just break through, like, oh, this is how you eat, this is how you like.
Speaker 2:Everywhere we're all doing the same stuff for sure, for sure, and I think there's definitely benefit in, like you know, copy paste and make it your own for sure from, like, a business and marketing standpoint. But if you do it with the Attaching your like, your self-value to it, that's where it gets messy. If you're like dang, I wish I was like this person I feel like I'm not even worthy enough because I'm not like this person. That's where, that's where the slippery slope is. But I'm at right now. I don't this. Yeah, I'm. I look at my. That's some dope content. I'm gonna copy you for sure, but I like, I like what I'm doing too.
Speaker 1:So I love it so with your. I want to talk about your newest endeavor, recently announced on Instagram. Once it's out there, that means you have to do it, so yeah that's a big thing to put it out there. I just another podcast with my friend Jack and we were talking. It's like if you want to be held accountable, tell people and like put it on Instagram of like, hey, I'm gonna do this.
Speaker 2:But let me say something real quick. I saw you, he commented you post and I went and stalked the same. That guy is a freak Nature.
Speaker 1:Shoutouts like literally, I mean, I'm not kidding probably that like the fittest part, like I mean training. He you have to listen to the podcast, but he did a bodybuilding show, iron man Hybrid sport and a powerlifting competition all in the same month, on the same month, like the summer. But yeah, so you're talking about that. But you said that you're gonna run 12 marathons in 12 months. Yeah, let's hear about that, are you? Is it like that's? Like that's expensive running? Is it an expensive sport?
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, 12 marathons in 12 months and Really like. The reasoning behind it is, you know, running as hard. Running a marathon is hard and running one Running a marathon every single month for 12 months, it's probably gonna be one of the most mentally and physically challenging things that I've ever done, and that's why I'm doing it. I Think that there's a lot of benefits to running and I'm addicted to it, and we can. You know I don't want to take up all our time.
Speaker 1:I get a healthy addiction.
Speaker 2:That's like an healthy addiction yeah but I think I think there's just so much benefit into to doing hard things, and For me, I wanted to set a goal this year that was scary to me but that I know that setting not only setting, but accomplishing would create an unstoppable belief in myself. That would impact me, my life and my business moving forward. And I thought this was the goal that could do it, because I mean, I've run one marathon last year and then I was like, well, let me just go all in and run one every month this year, and just I know that at the end of the year when I look back and I'm like, okay, well, I set a goal that's 365 days long and I completed it every step of the way. That's just going to create an unstoppable belief in myself that I can pretty much do anything. I put my mind to moving forward in life, and so that's why I set this goal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how are you? So? I know you did your first one and you ran it just like through Austin. Are you planning just to do like some of them, like that, or do you have any races or anything planned?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so if there's anyone on here that wants to sponsor me, I would love that. I would like to do an official one. Yeah, For the last remaining 11 months. I actually tried to sign up for Houston Marathon in late December, but it was full and so I was like all right, well, let me just get the first one done in Austin, but just kind of to give an idea of the ones I am running. So for February, I'm running the Austin Marathon.
Speaker 1:When is that one? In February.
Speaker 2:The 18th.
Speaker 1:Okay. Do you think your body will be recovered? Because you just it's what. Today's the 24th of January I'm ready, I'm ready. Okay, you are, I'm ready, okay 100% I'll run it this weekend.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm going to go to Virginia Beach the Sam Rock Race. I'm trying to get my family out, that kind of hometown race. Yeah, april, eugene, oregon. I know a bunch of people are running that one.
Speaker 1:Wait, when is that April?
Speaker 2:Yeah, april it's 28th, I think.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:May. The summer is ambiguous right now. Okay, September, Denver. Okay, I haven't written down on my other phone that I didn't bring to me, but I have a few more.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so they are going to be expensive. I think that you know my goal is to put together a marketing package just to give everybody the behind the scenes. Put together a marketing package, send it out to as many brands that can think of and hopefully pick up a few sponsorships to kind of sponsor the journey along the way, because I think it will be something cool that I plan to document along the way, and so if anybody wants to donate, Shout out to Elb.
Speaker 1:We'll put his GoFundMe.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly Are you?
Speaker 1:how are you periodizing it? Like, are you just making sure that your fitness is staying where it needs to stay? Are you adding in, like every two weeks, a long run or a zone two run, like? What are you doing with that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I've been on a 20 week training plan in preparation for the Austin Marathon, which is in week 17. So this kind of starts to change the training a little bit. But I will definitely prioritize like more speed workouts now and the interim between Marathons, kind of depending on how close they are to each other, Probably won't be getting over like 15 to 18 miles in between them. But it's really just comes down to nutrition, which I'll probably have to hire you on that piece moving forward, because I feel unbelievable you know I was. I ran my first one, I don't know that was this past Saturday.
Speaker 1:I guess, yeah, like last week right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this past weekend, I mean I was just, I was extremely strong through 20 and then, just, you know, hit a wall, do the dehydration. But it was comforting because I know that's an easy fix. I just need to do it Right.
Speaker 1:Like imagine how much better you'll feel when you're actually like yolled and hydrated.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, but yeah, I feel great. So the goal is just to stay healthy, make sure I'm feeling and eating enough and keep hitting it in the gym, and you know, I think with me it's, it's. Can my body keep up? Because I know that my mind can, and so I think a lot of times my mind is just way stronger than my body, and so we just have to make sure that we're fueling and recovering correctly. And there's a girl that's been running a marathon out of Denver every day for like the last year, so I think I can do one a month.
Speaker 1:Okay, so it's physically possible.
Speaker 2:It's physically possible. Yeah, it's physically possible, but most people are.
Speaker 1:You said that your mental stronger than your physical. Most people are like opposite, right, Like your mental gives out way before your physical does.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's a good trait to have.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm very, very grateful. But I mean like your friend, I mean he's a freak of nature. You know, this is guy called cowboy. He did 50 Iron Man's in 50 days and 50 different states, and so cowboy the Iron. Cowboy, I don't know, james yeah. Yeah, probably yeah, he's a.
Speaker 1:Okay yeah, iron Cowboy older guy.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, and who that is?
Speaker 2:I mean just an absolute yeah. And so I just like doing really hard things, and the harder it is the more, the more fun it is for me and I think it's almost a form of therapy, to be honest. So I'm just, yeah, just riding this wave. So we'll see. Check back in December and see why I'm not. Yeah, We'll do a follow up.
Speaker 1:Are you? Is Brian okay? How is he feeling? Is he like a freak athlete now?
Speaker 2:Right away?
Speaker 1:Okay, let's see. So with how do you, outside of fitness, like, how do you especially being in Austin too how do you find that balance between prioritizing your fitness and your health but then also having a social life, or do you hang out with people that like go out all the time? Like how do you find that?
Speaker 2:balance. Yeah, I think when it comes to like fitness or the gym, like if it's something that you're serious about, you have to schedule it. I mean, it should be a non-negotiable, it should be on your calendar, it should be just like a meeting and for me, like I have my four training running days and it's, it's just. They're there, like it's I'm not scheduling anything on top of them, like this is what it is. So I think it's important to schedule it. I also think it's important to be a part of a community or have an accountability partner. My friend Derek and I we've been training together on days that I want to run it's he's not letting me make that excuse and vice versa. And then I think it's also important to to like have goals that you want to reach, and I think that increases the motivation a little bit.
Speaker 2:But there's not much. You know, I don't know if this is the answer you want. There's not much balance for me. This is my life, this is who I am. I have no desire to go out to drink, to do drugs, to party. I'm just, that's just not me anymore. And I've lived that life and the feeling that I get from where I'm at now is greater than any drug I've done.
Speaker 2:So there's not a there's not a huge balance. I'll wake up, I'll work, I'll work out, I'll go to sleep and repeat and I am extremely addicted to personal development the progress that I'm seeing in my life and becoming the most optimized version of myself, and so I don't think it has to be as extreme as me. I actually probably think it shouldn't be for a lot of people and so in that case I would say, like you know, it's I treated almost like you you did when you were a little kid, like you got to eat your vegetables first and then have your dessert, and so make sure that you're getting and the things that you need to get in. And then, you know, this is what I tell my clients, like if we have a killer week. Like go enjoy your weekend, but also keep in mind, like don't let that weekend negate everything you did the week before, and I hope that helps. That was a great answer.
Speaker 1:I like I did a podcast the other day and someone asked me about balance and I'm like I hate. Like I hate the word balance because I think a lot of times it's using it as an excuse for people to just do whatever the heck they want and like kind of throw things out the window. But then again it's like you do, you know, have to have a balance, but it's okay. I'm the same way as you Like I hate eating out, I don't like drinking, I don't like saying out late, I would rather wake up early. But it's like it's okay because I value how I feel in those moments more than like having a late night. And, like you said, setting the boundaries, putting it in your calendar.
Speaker 1:Like it is a meeting which I posted about on my story the other day and actually ended up deleting it because I had some people. I had someone reply. I say like well, not all of us can like work out for two hours a day. I'm like you missed the whole point of the story. Like, even if it's a 10 minute walk or a 30 minute workout, like schedule it.
Speaker 2:But again like if we go back and look at their habits in life. Like you know, like we have enough time, but yeah, yeah, that gets me a little fired up.
Speaker 1:I was like I am too anxious about this, I'm just going to delete it. But yes, scheduling in your calendar is huge. And again, like I mean obviously you're not married, don't have any kids, I'm not married, don't have any kids. Like, our lives are going to look completely different than someone who is a mom or is a dad.
Speaker 2:So it's like whatever you're, whatever you can commit to, that's what you should do, 100% 100% and I think, yeah, like you said, like it, we're kind of the anomalies a little bit. You don't have to have like I have a client, he's like bro, I want my workouts to be like 45 minutes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's all they should be message for people and I'm like all right, here we go, we, we go in, he goes, he does like you know, depending on like he just had a two week, a two week business trip and so I created like legit like 35 minute workouts, dumbbells only, and they were super effective and I was like, all right, just go hit this, you know, kind of. You know, we talked through educating like as far as like nutrition wise especially when he's has nights out for business dinners and stuff like that how to eat, the you know breakfast and lunch so you can enjoy your dinner and stuff like that, and it's it's. I think people just aren't like super educated in that in a disrespectful way, I think it's just, you know, I was just thinking like just the disparity and like health education in the country is like we just don't really and I'm getting way off topic, but you know, I think people just don't know what they don't know.
Speaker 2:And there's a lot of like assumptions with around the fitness and they see people like us spending all day in the gym and think that's what they have to do to get results, and that's not the case.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree, that was, that was great, that's fine. Kind of wrapping up, where would you or what's okay one? I'm curious, just because I, like I think about this question a lot what is your last meal on earth Like? If you could choose, what would you choose?
Speaker 2:Wow, last meal on earth. That's a great question.
Speaker 1:Like I think about this daily.
Speaker 2:Can I have a buffet? Yeah, like favorite meal.
Speaker 1:If you're like I am just going all in, I don't care about calories, I don't care about how I feel, what's your favorite?
Speaker 2:Low key, like I'm probably having some like fire sushi.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I like sushi a lot.
Speaker 1:That's good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe a burger too.
Speaker 1:Okay, sushi and burger Got it Okay.
Speaker 2:What's yours, I'm curious.
Speaker 1:Mine is oh God, Wow, I'm going to want a burger now. A burger, a thick burger with an egg on it.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I'm just a bacon right now. You like bacon?
Speaker 1:Bacon, egg mayonnaise, a little bit of 钙 vac. J'ai une seconda àTii nie d' viktigt Gemeine de HA, about like 70% cooked, so it's like still a little gooey with ice cream on top.
Speaker 2:Wow, that makes me want to rethink my my last meal.
Speaker 1:You have to think on it, you have to circle back on it.
Speaker 2:I think I'm gonna copy that minus the minutes.
Speaker 1:OK, last thing, girl, last question what would you like? What's some encouragement that you can leave people with that are listening? I mean, obviously, like this was an incredible episode. I know that we kind of like got off topic, but there really was no topic and I think we talked about this for a reason.
Speaker 2:So Absolutely yeah, just a little encouragement or anything that can leave with anyone listening or still listening. It's just. Number one is get more curious. I think for me, like for the longest time, I was just caught up in my echo chamber and very close-minded, like this is the way that I'm viewing life and this is the only way to view life. And if you don't agree with me, then don't talk to me. And you know I've just really taken it upon as I get older, just to get more curious. There's just so the mind is just so powerful and there's so there's just such opportunity in changing your perspective or at least opening your perspective up to what else is out there. So number one is get more curious. And then you know, the last thing I'll leave on is just, you know, leave people better than you found them.
Speaker 1:I love that. I love it. Great, great words of encouragement. Well, we are all excited to keep up with your 12 marathons this year, Praying for just an injury-free year so you can actually do it. And then everyone listening thank you guys for listening. I will link everything in the description where you can find Brian and cheer him on. And if anyone from like Nike or A6 or Soccany or Brooks is like listening, send him a pair of shoes.
Speaker 2:Love that Appreciate it. Thank you all, stay blessed.
