The Excelsior Health Podcast
This is the podcast for busy professionals and parents who are battling weight gain, high stress, and a drop of self confidence.
We take the confusing, complicated, and overwhelming parts of fitness and give you simple but effective strategies and tactics so you can learn how to priortize strength training, healthy habits, and a positive enviornment into your lifestyle.
Our goal is to help you transform your health one episode at a time!
The Excelsior Health Podcast
47. 10 Lessons from 10 Years of Coaching & Life Transformation (Part 1)
🚨 This is Part 1 of a two-part episode.
What does a decade of coaching, leadership, failure, growth, and transformation really teach you?
In this powerful and deeply personal episode, Coach Cory Fernandez, owner of Training for Warriors Mississauga, shares the first half of 10 foundational life lessons he’s learned after 10 years in business and thousands of client transformations.
Originally delivered as the opening message at TFW Sauga’s Core Values Awards Banquet, this episode reflects on the principles that shaped Cory’s coaching philosophy—and helped hundreds of busy parents and professionals transform their health, confidence, and standards.
💡 In This Episode (Part 1), You’ll Learn:
• Why growth requires discomfort—and comfort keeps you stuck
• How the meaning you attach to challenges shapes your future
• Why repetition is the true path to mastery in fitness and life
• How confidence is built by keeping promises to yourself
• Why pursuing excellence is exhausting—but worth it
This episode sets the foundation for Part 2, where Cory continues breaking down the remaining lessons and how to apply them to your health, career, and personal life.
👉 Watch Part 2 next to complete the full 10-lesson framework.
👉 If this episode resonated, share it with someone committed to growth.
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⏱️ Chapters (6 Total):
00:00:00 – Introduction & 10-Year Reflection
00:05:00 – Lesson #1: Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
00:11:30 – Lesson #2: The Meaning You Attach Shapes Your Life
00:17:00 – Lesson #3: Repetition Is the Mother of Skill
00:22:00 – Lesson #4: Confidence Comes from Self-Trust
00:27:00 – Lesson #5: Excellence Is Exhausting (And Worth It)
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