Episode#33 - How to Rewire Your Life for Resilience: A 4-Pillar Framework with Steve Moby Leitch

This episode is your practical roadmap to rewire your life for resilience. I'm joined by Steve Moby Leitch, a mentor and endurance athlete who completely rebuilt his own life after hitting rock bottom as a functional addict.

Steve breaks down the simple but powerful SPRF model (Spiritual, Physical, Relational, Financial) that he used to build a new foundation from scratch. We discuss actionable daily habits, the importance of tracking your progress, and the secret to building unstoppable momentum, even when motivation fades. This isn't just theory; it's a field-tested blueprint for creating lasting change.

This practical conversation covers:
✅ The 4 Pillars you need to focus on to create a balanced, resilient life.
✅ Why you should start by going to the gym for just five minutes.
✅ How to use metrics and journaling to stay on track when motivation fades.
✅ How to move from motivation to powerful momentum.
✅ How to own your past without letting it define your new identity.

Connect with Steve: https://steve-moby-leitch.com/
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/steve-moby-leitch

#PersonalDevelopment #SelfHelp #HowTo #Resilience #Mindset #Habits #Framework

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

If you're feeling drained, exhausted, overwhelmed, or burnt out, this show is for you. And I want you to know that you're not alone. Millions of professionals are operating in a resilience deficit. On the Resilience Catalyst Show, you'll learn how to understand, rebuild, and grow the currency of resilience so you can restore your energy, think clearly under pressure, navigate conflict with confidence, and sustain your performance without burning out. I'm Joyceon, your host, friend, and resilience catalyst. Let's get started. Have you ever wondered how you could be wired for resilience? Or maybe you are not doing well in an area of your life and you're like you need to start over and you're looking, how can I start over? How can I change things? How can I become my better self? Well, today I have that conversation for you. Today we're going to talk about rewiring for resilience. And I have an amazing guest here who will show you how he has rewired for resilience. And we're going to talk about some of the things that will help you to rewire for resilience. Welcome here. My name is Joyce Didison. Today, host of the Resilience Catalyst Show. And I am so excited that you're here with us. What we do on this show is we make resilience simple. We remove the barrier to you being resilient in the nine dimensions of your life. So you're able to look at those areas of your lives without a filter and be able to say, here is where I want to develop, and here's where I want to grow, and here's what's stopping me from being my best self. So join me now as I invite Steve, our guest today, to talk about his story and how he rewired for resilience. Now, a little bit about Steve. Steve actually has a very interesting story, a very interesting personality. I mean, the guy swims oceans. Like, really, you gotta hear this for yourself. Steve, welcome to Resilience Cataly Show. How are you?

SPEAKER_02 2:26

I'm fantastic. It's so good to be here. And uh yeah, I do swim oceans. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

Steve, tell me, tell us a bit about yourself and how you come to start swimming oceans and having this amazing ministry and helping other people who are themselves struggling, trying to build their life and rewiring for resilience.

SPEAKER_02 2:53

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I um a little bit about me, I was born and raised in Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, and uh grew up in the United States in summers and Christmases. Um eventually came over here to swim for Clemson University and um dropped off the swim team freshman year and didn't swim again until about seven, maybe eight years ago. And um that was uh I was I really loved swimming, but um lost the love for it um at college and started making choices where I was I was trying to fit in with everybody else and do what everybody else was doing instead of realizing that God created me for my purpose, my story, that He was living through me. So um yeah, I I fell into this. Like when I say I fell into this uh open water channel swimming, it was not premeditated, it was not planned. It was like I went through one door and went a little further and then a little further and found myself in like hey, I just did a 30-mile swim, and that's longer than the English Channel, and it was during COVID, and I was like, well, maybe I should sign off the English Channel. So I signed off the English channel, but it was two and a half years later. I mean so now you jump forward and you're like all of a sudden I'm I'm going to Spain next week to go swim Gibraltar, the Strait of Gibraltar from Europe to Africa, the number six on the Ocean Seven tour. Um, and then I'll finish with Catalina, Catalina Island to Los Angeles in July, number seven on the Ocean Seven. And uh it's been an amazing journey. But my rock bottom moment, I uh you know, I was I was an addict, I was in the hospitality industry, functioning addict for years. Um, and I always remember um a good, good friend of Kevin Costner's who had cooked for was Tim and Tim Hocter. And Tim sat me down one time, one year that I was cooking for them. He said, Steve, you'll do anything for anyone that can help you. And I was like, Yeah, that makes total sense. Of course I do. And then it wasn't until after I got cleaned up I realized, no, that's not a good thing. I need to be doing things for people who can't help me. Um and um so there's a whole redemption process that moved into a recovery process that then moved into the resilience process. That's just a a little overview of um how it got to where I am today.

SPEAKER_00 5:33

Wow. Folks, you uh Steve, uh Steve has been a recovery recovery, he's been an addict, he's moved from addiction to recovery and resilience, and now he's helping other men build resilience. So, so Steve, tell us a little bit about how that started. You know, you you have this ministry now, you speak around the world, you do those in long endurance swimming. That must take a lot of energy, but we'll delve a little bit into that as to how you prepare and what keeps the fire burning. And um, there's just so much to your story that I love because it shows that it doesn't matter where you are, you can rewire for resilience. And there are many people right now in our workplaces who are uh functional addicts. It is not uncommon. We have prescription drugs, we have the highest rate of professionals on some form of substance use right in our society. We've never had this much. So speak to those individuals because they think that because they get up and go to work every day, because their spouse is still hanging around, even if it's a toxic environment, that they're doing okay. Talk to them about what actually moved you into saying, you know what, this is no way to live.

SPEAKER_02 7:02

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I my identity was all wrapped up in in, so I I didn't know at the time, but I had a SPRF model, spiritual, physical, relational, financial. And my identity was all wrapped up in achievements. Uh being a being a chef, again, flown around America to be to cook for celebrities and all this stuff. And and it looks really good. And opening a restaurant until the economy crashed and my identity crashed with it, you know, um, because I I hadn't focused on the per I hadn't made the person who could handle the business. And I've seen that so often. I mean, I see get people going into jobs, see business owners who create the business, and their whole identity is wrapped up in that, but they can't fill out why there's something missing on the inside, why they're not connecting with their spouse, why they, you know, they're short with their children all the time, you know, why they're like, I'm busy, I'm busy, I'm busy, I'm busy. You know, I've got to be grinding, grinding, grinding until the house of cards just comes down, you know, and you talk about you talk, you're saying my favorite language, prescription drugs, let me tell you, legal drug dealers are on every corner. Every corner. And legal drug dealers are in every restaurant. Fast food. You know, I mean, it is how how we got convinced of what is acceptable to eat and put in and feed our bodies, our minds, and our souls with nowadays is unbelievable over the last 30 years. The ingredients list alone is enough to like send children off the deep end. So so back up to I hit I hit rock bottom. And my rock bottom, I had uh a lady once tell me that she goes, the beauty of rock bottom is that's where you start, that's where God's the rock, and you find you start to build a new foundation. And when you fill it, build a new foundation on solid rock, right? It's not a it's not a it's not a foundation on sand. So that was really a pivotal kind of mental shift there. But I started working on my spiritual, like, why am I here? Why did God create me? Why have I done all these things? I was, you know, there's I did a lot of good things, but I I had a propensity to like only take care of me. So what who am I as as a as a as a creation? Who am I as a husband, even though I'd I'd gone through a divorce at that point? Who am I as a father? Who am I as a friend? Who am I as a business person? You know, what are all these things? So I really started leaning into that spiritual pillar. And then after that, after you know, 20 years of working in the restaurant industry, um you know, smoking and drinking and doing drugs and prescription drugs and all this, I was like, wow, I'd better take care of the physical. And I got around some guys who I was working with, um, and they were uh they were professional bodybuilders and they got me in the gym, got me working out, and I would go out and I would surf in Lake Michigan and I would swim and just when I say swim, like paddle around swim, not swim, swim. But started working on my health. You know, what am I am I drinking water every day? Am I taking vitamins? Am I you know what am I eating? You know, like am I just shoving my face full of Taco Bell or what? You know, like what am I eating? So I worked on those two pillars, and then I was like, okay, so now I feel like I'm starting to create a person that can handle relationships. So, what do relationships look like when I'm not constantly out for myself? And that was really hard. That was a hard switch, and it's still a hard switch because we're I'm I don't know about you. I could be the only person on this podcast today that will admit I'm a selfish person. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 10:55

You're not the only one. It's human nature. Our brain is designed to protect us and give us the best of everything, right? Yes.

SPEAKER_02 11:03

So I uh I started like working on this like how do I message people and tell them I'm just praying for them or caring for them, and uh I don't need anything in return. And those kind of things started driving who I was inside of work. You know, that whole system kind of got put together. And uh it was it was so instrumental in like creating the man who I am today to handle the pressures that I'm handing to handling today, you know. People say, Oh, you swim, you swung from England to France, you know. Yeah, I've swung from Northern Ireland to Scotland too, and that was harder than England to France, because I was cold, cold water for twelve hours, you know. But there's nothing, and this is what I'll tell people who are stuck today. Think about the hardest thing you've gone through in life. The very, very hardest thing. The hardest thing I ever went through in life was dropping my kids off after visitation. I dropped one of my daughters at school, university last a couple weeks ago, took her back to school. And I was leaving her at school, and the flashbacks just hit me, and I just started crying. And she's like, Dad, are you okay? And I'm like, Yeah, I'm fine, I just love you so much. And it just brought back a lot of memories of every time I dropped you off after visitation. And she goes, Well, it's okay, because I love you and we're I'm gonna see you again. I'm like, I know. But that was the hardest thing I went through was dropping kids off after visitation. But I made it through that and I have a relationship with them, and I've still got air in my lungs, and I've still got the ability to help other people. So you start to go, well, if I can do that, then I can do X, Y, and Z. That is so beautiful. If I can do this hardest thing that I've been through and I'm still sitting here, yeah. Still sitting here, yeah. Then you know what? I can I can go out and I can swim a channel for someone else, or I can start a new business, or I can get on a podcast and share the fact that I'm a selfish human being.

SPEAKER_00 13:13

You know, something you said that really resonated with me. You talked about starting to work in one dimension, and I love that because that's how we work here at IWS as a conflict analyst. People were coming all wrapped up in conflict, and then we I found out that some of them were drug addicts, some of them were, and I mean functional addicts, right? They were not falling down or they may have a dose here and there, but they were right. Um, but they were they needed something to keep them going, they were struggling in nine dimensions of their life. So Marvel is more comprehensive. We do nine, we do the spiritual pillar. It is such an important pillar, and most people miss it. This is where your purpose is, your values, your vision, or your integrity, your balance. This is what keeps the house floating, right? This is the foundation. We call it the resilience anchors. If you don't have purpose and vision and belief and and courage, like hello, the battle is over if you don't hope. That's where hope and faith is. So we really talk about building these resilience, that resilience anchor, and then start building on the other pillars. You build your physical pillar, right? And you can do them in you can do them in unison. It doesn't mean you have to do one, but and then we work on the emotional, then we work on the occupational because that's where I started seeing people come in. And so most people are stuck because they think they have to do everything one time. I love that your story you said, hey, I just started going to the gym with some guys, right? That led you back to your first love of swimming, where you could now start and be doing this amazing work, helping other men who are now where you were before, or even further back to bring them. Tell us a little bit about that. I I love that story. The working with other men, your program, yes.

SPEAKER_02 15:07

Yeah, so we um, you know, we have daily habits um for every day morning of the week, spiritual, physical, relational, financial habits, and you keep points. There's 12 points every morning. Um, there's also points for going to church, there's points for serving someone else, there's points for, you know, um uh uh if you're married, you know, having a date night with your spouse, these kind of things. But it builds up like a life where you're you're moving and doing things and you can get metrics and you can be like, oh, I really didn't I haven't journaled in like four days. Why have I not journaled? Okay, well, I need to journal. So you you start tracking, and what you track, what you measure, you can you can mark, right?

SPEAKER_00 15:51

Exactly. You can only fix what you measure. People don't realize that it's very, very easy because most people, I mean, I was a coach before I created the model and the program because a simple task like journaling, you go back and you reflect, this is where you know, this is what I did, this is how I felt when I did this. Okay, why am I not doing it now? Let me go back. I want to feel that way again, right? So we don't need to go outside ourselves to get some kind of substance to keep us going. We need to look at what's working well, and sometimes it's hard to remember all the time. Uh, and I love that piece.

SPEAKER_02 16:25

And the substance, you know, the substance is just trying to fill a hole. Of course. And I always I always say, like, okay, so instead of trying to quit something, start something. Exactly. You know what I'm saying? It's a new so a new habit. So, like, I love January 1st. I love the enthusiasm of everyone, I love the motivation, and I'm not the guy who's ever gonna prove I'm like, let's go, let's go, let's go. But I'm also the guy who's like around once the motivation wears off, and is like, yeah, this is boring. This is not easy. I've been getting up at 4 30 every morning for about, I don't know, nine years now. And you know, I'm 52 this year. I you know, I'd like to sleep in. Last year I went through a spell where for three months, every morning was a mental battle getting out of bed. I remember talking to my friends, I was like, I am just like having to fight myself to get up. But I did it. And I did it. You did.

SPEAKER_00 17:22

Every day is one more. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:24

Yeah, and I always say this. I say I always say, start with the smallest thing you can start with. So instead of saying I'm gonna lose 30 pounds this month, which is really out of your control, um, say I'm going to have a healthy lifestyle this month. So that means I'm going to start going to the gym. Don't go for an hour and beat yourself up. Just go to the gym, check in, walk around, walk for five minutes, do something, leave. But do it at the same time every day. And then add five minutes the next week. Add another five minutes, add another five minutes, add another. And you start to just like a toddler learns how to roll over, pull themselves up, taught we've got a couple grandchildren right now who are doing the orangutan, and it's like really cute. Um but they you start to just get momentum, and momentum is better than motivation. Yes, momentum will take you further and further and further until you've gone so far down the rabbit hole you're like, how do I have a documentary on Amazon? How do I have a book? How do I about to go swim by Six Ocean Seven? How do I have four grandchildren and you know, still do all these things with six children, blended family? Like, how? I was an addict 15 years ago. I was done. You know, and it was just momentum, baby steps, baby steps, baby steps. Yes, and I love it. Watch people do it. You know, so tell us who let me just say one thing. The guys in our mentorship homes, they're all like number one or number two at work right now. Because we've been working on relationships for the last year.

SPEAKER_00 19:18

It's exciting. Tell me what the name tells tell our audience what the name of the program is, the mentorship program, how many houses you have, what your goal is. I think it's really interesting story for people to see how you have rewired for resilience, but also now you are helping others rewire and be great at work. That is just a beautiful story. Tell us a little bit more.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

So we have Rise and Tides Mentorship Ministry. We started with one home just over two years ago. We did a second home that I learned very, very quickly of what not to do. That home imploded and we had guys relapse. So then I put a board together and we started board training and really designing everything I did for the last second year of the house. Like, what am I doing? How do we move people into this? So rising tides, we're now working on our second home, and I've just started mentoring the three men two weeks ago who are gonna move in in the middle of May. So I now have an onboarding process instead of just moving them in, you know, like really connecting, so I'm I'm moving and walking with them. Um but really it's it's you know, you get through rehab, biblical rehab, you get through transition, and then you get out in the and you're you're kind of by yourself. There's nothing after that. Or there is, and you have to share a bedroom. You know, and it's like, well, let's give some dignity back to these men with a little bit more freedom, but so some accountability. Just like I have a lot of accountability. I have a bride, I have six children, and four grandchildren. So a lot and two son-in-laws and a daughter-in-law. That's a lot of accountability. You know what I'm saying? So we like to get these men, get them into home, they have their own room, they live together, but they we meet with them every week. We have text messages.

SPEAKER_00 21:17

But they live in a shared housing, but they have their own room, they have their own personal space, they share kitchen, laundry, and common area. Perfect.

SPEAKER_02 21:27

Everything's fully furnished, all the bills are loaded into one, so they budget every week. So it's one bill you don't have to stress out about eating gonna go up or down. You know, like we try and think about all the things that can hit somebody's nervous system and create the smoothest runway as possible.

SPEAKER_00 21:48

Yeah, so you're preventing relapse, you're provide you're providing all of the supports to keep them focused until they're strong enough to start managing life again on their own.

SPEAKER_02 21:58

Well, they are managing. In their lives. It's these are actually homes for life. They wanting to stay till the day they die in the home. Our board has worked it out that we will keep that home all the way through.

SPEAKER_00 22:15

What if they have spouses? What are the what what about the ones in relationships?

SPEAKER_02 22:19

We don't see we don't have anything for that yet. Okay. We're doing single, we're doing single men. Okay. So that single men don't become isolated. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

So these single men can leave later on and go on and get their own build their own life and their own family. But what you're providing is single men support and mentorship so they can now move into the rhythm of life after addiction. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. So what's your goal? Tell us a little bit about what your vision, what do you see happening with this mentorship program? How what what's the big dream?

SPEAKER_02 22:56

Um, so I I don't know. I'm kind of a fall down the rabbit hole. What God opens the door, he opens the door. Um He's been placing on my heart for us to have 30 homes, three to four bedrooms, so roughly 90 to 100 men. Um and within the next five years, and but all of those men are mentoring other men. Beautiful story. So if there's if there's if there's let's say 90 men in mentorship in our mentorship homes, and we've got people mentoring them, then they are in turn mentoring others 90 others. And that is that that is that discipleship model that changed my life. Beautiful. Someone stepped into the gap with me, and his name was Mike Bowden, and he changed my life by just pointing me to Christ, pointing me to Christ, pointing me to Christ. And um, and that that's what that's what we're constantly wanting to do.

SPEAKER_00 23:59

This is such a beautiful story because for those people who think I can do it alone, I I don't need anybody. That is just fallacy. We all need somebody. That's why mentorship and coaching is so valuable. Because when you don't have enough energy to believe in yourself, your mentor, your coach can believe in you enough until you have strength enough to grab that belief from them and run with it. And I think that's where most people get stuck. They want to do it all on their own, they want to do it inside whether it's in their career, whether it's in their work, whether it's in their marriage, whether it's going through getting out of recovery. What do you do? The friends you had are living the same life, you can go back to them. So it's a beautiful process of showing how that coaching, that mentorship support works to help you to start getting that belief. And even your own testimony of someone stepping along and pointing you in the right direction is a beautiful testimony of how we can be there for others as they rewire for resilience because it's it's hard to rewire for resilience on your own. You need the social network, you need the support, you need the environment, all of those pieces. And I started off telling you about our nine dimensions. So we do the spiritual, social, emotional, we do the occupational, intellectual, we do environmental, financial, physical, and interpersonal. So the interpersonal is that relational piece because we need all of those elements to rewire. If you rewire just one part, well, you can't you can't drive a car and just two wheels, you need all four, you need all four working.

SPEAKER_02 25:40

Yeah, I love that. Yeah. Um you need about the thing about resilience is it's not something like if you've if you've been addicted. So I I told my guys after two years, I'm like, so when someone asks you, are you a recovering addict? What did you say? And you say, Yeah. They say, I also said, Yeah, I'm a recovering addict. So no, no, you're recovered. It's been two years. That's in the back window. That was your that's your old identity. Your new identity is I am a child of God, created for purpose. Absolutely, a new man in Christ. Absolutely. Move into a new identity. And uh so I love talking to him about that. But also, you know, mentorship and resilience. Like, here's the thing when you can admit that your life's not perfect, like I've got a 17-year-old son who lives a mile and a half away with my farmer, and I've seen him twice in it'll be three years in August. He's really pulled away from me, and it hurts because of the choices I made in the past. And um, he made a move last week to to apologize and move back, but he's kind of pulling back again, and it's this process, but I'm able to share that with the guys and say, Look, I'm 15 years into this thing, I'm recovered. There's no going back. I know, like Neo, what's down that road. I'm not going down that road. But that doesn't mean I'm not gonna go through hard things.

SPEAKER_00 27:11

Absolutely. You know that is so important, Steve. I think this is a point we need to emphasize for our audience. Most people think that when you recover, the consequences of the choices you make will live with you for the rest of your life. So you need strength to face that and not fall back. The strength to say, that's the consequences of who I used to be, but now it's visiting me. But I'm a stronger person. I can do, and that's what you just said. It's like this this is the consequence of the man I used to be, affecting this relationship, affecting this son. And I have to face that and acknowledge that's the consequences. So, yes, I'm forgiven. Yes, I've moved on, yes, I've recovered, but the consequences are always going to be there. I just need to move every day into recognizing that that's the past. I am not going back there because I don't want to repeat that. I love it, love it.

SPEAKER_02 28:11

Yeah, and the big part about that is too like that's how you become unbreakable. You know, your new creation in Christ. But you also become resilient by owning your past. Yes. Being accountable. The more you own it, the more you own it, the more you own it, the more you own it, the more you own it. You just then you start to because I I'll tell you what, there's no one more powerful than someone who's recovered in Christ from addiction. Like, I love those people.

SPEAKER_03 28:40

Um, because you know what? You can we worship different.

SPEAKER_02 28:47

We serve different, we think different. There is not a box you're gonna put me in because I put myself in a box for way too long, you know. And um, I just I just think there's so much strength in those who are ready to recover, want to recover, are recovering, and are stepping from redemption to recovery into resilience. Like when you step through that pipeline, you find that purpose and you just go.

SPEAKER_00 29:14

You do, and you know what it's like on the other side, so you don't want to go back there. And too often people fall back into addiction, not because they really want to, it's because they don't have the structure to move forward, and they have not developed the emotional self-mastery to identify the consequences, own it, and say, that's what I used to do, this is the damage I have done, I don't want to do anymore. So the the that that self-mastery to not be broken by the past, but to recognize it and learn from it and grow from it, that growth mindset to say, This is the damage I I created in that old self, but now with my new self, I still have to own it without being broken. And and that's where I find sometimes the fragility uh can be a setback in when we talk about rewiring, it's that new person, it's that it's it's that transformation into the new you. Because when we look at the single loop, double loop, but uh the uh agri's work in single loop, double loop, and triple loop learning, you know, single loop is like there's a problem, let's fix it. Double loop is like, oh, how did this problem happen? We go into you know, the triple loop, and we say, Who do I need to become? This is where the transformation happens, right? Who do I need to become to address this, to see this, and as a result of this, how can I be my next best self? And I think that's what you're showing with that rewiring for resilience is we're not going to stay in the same mindset, blaming myself, feeling sorry for myself, needing something just to get over the pain, but really say this is painful, but it's past its past consequences that I don't want to repeat. I recognize the pain, and even your story you share of crying with your daughter and be able to articulate I remember the damage that I caused, I remember the pain that it caused me. I'm so glad to be here now, not causing any more pain. That's beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 31:27

Yeah, I think there's a lot of um a lot of choices are made by all of us because it's familiar. We understand the we understand the outcome. But when we can get um addicted to faith that is an unpredictable outcome, which is like I just want to walk in faith, I want to move into this new, I don't know how it's gonna work out. I actually have no clue how this is gonna work out, but I'm gonna stick to this process regardless, and grow and grow and grow. And but there, you know, there's times when you're like, was it easier when I knew what the outcome was gonna be?

SPEAKER_01 32:16

Did you really even know? Did you really even do we ever ever know? But you convinced yourself you did.

SPEAKER_00 32:23

Exactly. We're just fooling ourselves into thinking we know. We really don't know. We never ever know. We it's all those false belief and assumptions we make, right?

SPEAKER_02 32:32

You know, the only thing that was uh guaranteed was you know, you'd you'd numb the pain and the problem be there. Exactly, exactly. So um, yeah, I think there's a huge case for um getting inquisitive of what life can be.

SPEAKER_00 32:52

Being curious for life, yes, absolutely. So, Steve, someone is looking right now, they love your story. Where can they get in touch with you? They want to learn more. How can they get a hold of you?

SPEAKER_02 33:06

Yeah, so um I was very blessed when our first granddaughter came along March 17th, three years ago. Eden. They made my grandpa name Moby after the book Moby Dick, because you know, it was better Moby. I'm glad it was Moby and not the latter, right? But so I took my middle name out and put Steve Moby Leach because I'm the swimmer. And there is only one Steve Moby Leach on the entire intraweb, internet, if whatever you want to call it. Um, so I'm really easy to find, but Steve Mobyleeach.com, the Arbor website, my new website's actually going live. Um, but you can find me easily on Facebook, Instagram, uh LinkedIn. Um if you want coaching, if you want prayer, if you just want someone to pray with you, shoot me a message. I will absolutely pray with you. Um if you're needing connected to somebody in your in your in your area, I'll look up, I'll make calls, I'll see what we can do to to find out who's in that area. But don't think that you have to stay stuck.

SPEAKER_00 34:14

Yes, or alone. Not that you're alone, right? That person alone, they're not in your corner, right?

SPEAKER_02 34:19

You're not alone. Yeah. You're not alone. I mean, even when I'm middle of the ocean, like in a couple weeks, I'm gonna be in the middle of the ocean again. And I won't be alone because my wife's on the boat. We've got Herschel filming. Uh we've got the pilot. I actually got two other guys who are swimming the same time as me on this one. But you know, you're you're just never alone, so don't don't be fooled for that lie. Well, Steve Mobile.

SPEAKER_00 34:45

Steve, I I wanna I want to to I I'm gonna be the advocate for the person who's there to say, Yes, you can be alone. I am alone right now. I have nobody, I feel like I'm alone. What would you say to that person right now?

SPEAKER_02 35:00

The bravest thing you can do is to reach out. And you know, it's gonna be really brave. And if you truly feel like you want to find that one person that you know that you can call.

SPEAKER_03 35:11

And if you don't have that person, message me. Literally message me. I will pray with you, I'll talk with you, and we will get you connected somehow. But it's gonna take guts. And I do know that there's people who feel alone. I have I tell you what, I have been in rooms of hundreds of people and felt completely alone.

SPEAKER_00 35:41

Yeah, it's an epidemic, you know, and it's the lie of the enemy.

SPEAKER_02 35:47

So it is the lie of the enemy.

SPEAKER_00 35:50

We have to come to that, right? With action, reaching out. I love that. Steve, thank you so much for being here. What is your last message to to the audience? So you've told us where we can find you. Tell us a little bit about your your next swim coming up. When is it? Where can we see it? And uh, is there a way for people to follow it on social media? Like, what is going on? Tell us the the juicy details.

SPEAKER_02 36:16

Yeah, the juicy details. We fly to Spain next Wednesday, so we'll be in um Malaga, Spain for Good Friday. On Easter Sunday, we're gonna be in Gibraltar, and then sometime after Easter Sunday, um, we'll be swimming from Europe to Africa to um basically Spain to Morocco. And uh I have a WhatsApp, so if you find me on um, I'll be posting it on my Facebook page, be posting on LinkedIn. Again, Steve Moby Leach, real easy to find. But here's my message God created you for a purpose, do not miss it. Is my one of my dad's favorite lines. I have completely plagiarized it. I put it on the front of my book as a testament to him, and I just believe that when you find out why you are created, and you realize that he only created one of you, then you can stamp it to purpose.

SPEAKER_00 37:13

So amazing, amazing. Oh excited, yes, excited. I want to wish you well on your swim. I know it takes a lot of stamina and a lot of preparation mentally, of course, and spiritually to and physically to get you going, but it takes that whole person. Um, I you know, send in lots of uh positive goodwill, uh, may reach your goals and be successful and keep doing what you're doing. Uh, let's stay in touch. And those of you who are watching, thank you for being here. This is the Resilience Catalyst Show, and we make resilience real, practical, and attainable. So, Steve, thank you for being here, and thank you for watching. Stay tuned for the next episode, and we'll see you then. As you go back into your work and life, remember that success and sustainable performance don't come from pushing harder, it comes from building capacity. Your resilience can be rebuilt, strengthened, and sustained, but it takes one intentional step at a time. Thank you for spending this time with me on the Resilience Catalyst Show. I'm Joyce Davidson, your host, your friend. Until next time, take care of your energy and your resilience.