Iron Sharpens Iron When You Train With Others

A dull blade is not just ineffective, it is dangerous to the person holding it. That single image drives everything we talk through here: why readiness matters, why “iron sharpens iron” is more than a Bible verse, and why so many people get taken out slowly by dull awareness, dull discipline, and dull judgment.

I walk through the Living Inside Out “seven Ms” framework and how it connects purpose, relationships, mentoring, media, martial arts, health, and money into one balanced life. We also get honest about real threats that hit from multiple angles: violence in the street, metabolic disease and brain fog, anxiety and depression, toxic relationships, and spiritual compromise. The goal is not to live paranoid. The goal is to build competence so fear stops running the show.

You’ll hear a powerful story about Steve Young hitting depression while sitting behind Joe Montana and how one conversation reframed his entire outlook. From there, we talk training as a nervous system upgrade: situational awareness, stress tolerance, reaction speed, and decision clarity. We also dig into the everyday readiness basics that people avoid, like nutrition discipline and choosing sharp relationships over dull ones.

If you want practical self-defense, tactical fitness, and a stronger mindset rooted in integrity, this one is for you. Subscribe, share it with a friend who needs a reset, and leave a review with one area you are ready to sharpen next.

Transcript

SPEAKER_06 0:01

Welcome to the Living Inside Out Radio Show with John Peak.

The Seven Ms For Life

Iron Sharpens Iron Explained

Steve Young And Perspective Shifts

Brotherhood Beats Isolation

Sponsor Messages

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Welcome back to Living Inside Out Radio. I'm your host, John Peake. Thank you for joining us on Patriot Talk or Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Today's show is about Iron Sharpens Iron, Readiness in a Dangerous World. Now, the Living Inside Out ecosystem is really about seven categories, what I call my seven M's, the seven most important categories that we should be training, hopefully from a younger age, rather than learning by the school of hard knocks and putting it together much later. But learning in the seven most important categories, which are ministry, your belief system, your calling, your purpose, marriage, every relationship, nurturing intelligently to provide the best possible relationships in your life as possible, and managing the difficult relationships responsibly, mentoring, giving and receiving, knowledge for growth, media, guarding what goes into your eyes and ears and what comes out of your mouth. Martial arts, being dangerous but choosing peace. Using martial arts to strengthen your ability to protect our way of life. In other words, the Constitution of the United States, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, because it's being compromised every day somewhere. There's also a health and wellness aspect. There's a huge confidence boost that comes with training and being dangerous but choosing peace. It's a virtue to be able to choose peace when you are dangerous rather than choosing peace because you're weak. Muscle, looking good, feeling good, being healthy, longevity, bone density, organ function, nutrition, a lot going on in every category, as you can tell. And then last but not least, money. Money's not the root of all evil. The love of money is the root of all evil. And proportionally, everything we do needs to have that balancing aspect of it using good wisdom to discernment. So this principle sharpening is necessary for survival. So, in other words, this idea of iron sharpens iron is a biblical principle from 2717, which says, as iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. You know, iron doesn't sharpen itself, it requires friction, pressure, contact, resistance. And without sharpening, iron becomes dull, weak, and dangerous to its owner. We're living in a time where dull people face sharp dangers. Now let's talk about the reality of danger in the modern world. So danger exists at multiple levels national threats, international threats, terrorist sleeper cells, hostile actors, criminal threats, robbery, assault, home invasion, health threats, metabolic disease, obesity, inflammation, psychological threats, anxiety, depression, stress, and spiritual threats, deception, temptation, compromise. And most people are not destroyed suddenly, they're destroyed slowly through dullness, dull awareness, dull discipline, dull judgment. So I was watching a video this morning during breakfast, and it was uh it was a great little show with Steve Young, the NFL quarterback who played 15 seasons in the NFL as a Hall of Famer, and he was uh backup quarterback at this time for Joe Montana, and he was just suffering, just miserable. He said it was, you know, full-blown depression. And he flew out to see his brother, and his he's telling his brother his story, and his brother's like, you know, Steve, man, you know, I'm supporting my family on peanut butter and jelly. I'm in med school, and I I know what suffering is, man. From my perspective, your life looks pretty good. And so it didn't help much for Steve. So he went back home and he happened to uh cross path with a gentleman that was known for helping people to level up. He invested in great people by investing in companies that had great fundamentals. And his specialty was helping people to have the right perspective. And Steve told him he asked Steve, how you doing? And Steve was feeling pretty vulnerable, and he just told the truth, man. All these things about feeling like he wasn't contributing, like wasn't able to contribute, he wasn't ready, he was just depressed, his life was in shambles, he felt like. And so the guy's asking him, Well, aren't you under um you're a backup quarterback, right, for Joe Montana? Yeah. He goes, Well, if you were to ask Joe for, you know, tips and mentoring to help you get better at your game, you think he would do that? He goes, Oh yeah, absolutely. Well, what about your coach? Does your coach contribute? Is he supporting you? Oh yeah, man, he's an amazing coach. I mean, he's all about hydration and you know, nutrition and rest and and putting the key managing your life, you know. And when I'm listening to that, I'm going, he's all about the 7Ms, is what I'm hearing. Uh but anyway, and then what about the owner of the team? Does he give you what you need? He goes, Oh yeah, man, he looks at his players as partners in his team, not just hired hirelings, you know. He goes, Okay, well, I hear that you're miserable and I see what you're talking about, and I can really feel your experience as you tell me. But it seems to me that you have all the tools you need to be. And I would say that out of all the stories I've heard in the past year, yours is the most ready to conquer. But you have to ask yourself, are you gonna be about being the best you can be? And Steve was shocked. He's like, all of a sudden he had this epiphany that you know he was victimizing himself. He was being the victim. All his problems were created by himself, his perception. And so that's a real big part of our understanding of where we're at and how we can get out of those, digging those holes. That most of the time, many times they're because of our own decisions. Yeah, we have to deal with difficult people. We all know that. And we're oftentimes doing things in our life that we don't necessarily want to do. They're part of our obligation as men and women, as adulting. It's called adulting for a reason. It's not kitty playtime. You know, you you have to, you know, pony up and pay the price and make good decisions. And if you're if you've got good vision and you've got good mentoring and you've got some clarity of thought, you can create a life that's extraordinary. You can create a life full of passion. But it starts one day at a time looking in the mirror, being honest with yourself. But there is this real big benefit, and that's that iron sharpens iron principle. You're not alone, man. You don't have to do it by yourself. At Defend Fit Tactical, we talk a lot about these things during training as it's appropriate. And then oftentimes after training, we have, you know, some group discussion or one-on-one with people. It's really, you know, able to give and receive, you know. So this biblical principle is, you know, God designs sharpening through brotherhood and sisterhood. Ecclesiastes 4 12 says, though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefoldfold cord is not quickly broken. In other words, isolation produces vulnerability. Sharpening produces readiness. This is why soldiers train together, why athletes train together, why disciples walk with Jesus daily. You know, sharpening is relational by design. So don't be alone out there. Don't think you're alone. You're not alone. You can always call and I'll take your call, 713-252-5836, man, John Peake. And at Defend Fit Tactical Fitness, this is what we do. We build each other up. So there's a physiological truth. Now, sharpening changes the brain and body. So when you train properly, reaction speed increases, stress tolerance increases, confidence increases, hormonal balance improves, your decision making improves, your whole nervous system becomes calibrated for reality. Now the untrained nervous system it freezes, it overreacts or underreacts. The trained nervous uh system acts, and especially well trained, it acts proportional to the situation. And this applies equally to physical threats, emotional stress response, spiritual resistance. You're not alone. So you know, this idea of iron sharpened iron is so powerful. You know, Defend Fit we're sharpening on multiple levels. So we do strength training, tactical training, firearms proficiency, reaction drills, krav magai, boxing, muay, brasin jujitsu, modern arnice, which is a Filipino empty hand stick knife. Um, you know, all of it requires situational awareness, and there's a lot of relational uh sharpening, a brotherhood. I call it uh a family of warriors because we have lots of women here that train too. And let me tell you, man, some of these women are really, really good. It's such a great satisfaction to have men or women come in and have zero skills. And a lot of times people are introverts that have no skills, they haven't played sports, they haven't done those kind of things that, you know, typical of athletes that are tend to be more engaging in physical uh feats just by design. And then there's all that relational ship, you know, relational, you know, training that goes on. Um, even if you're an introvert, you tend to come out of that a little bit during your training, certainly, and then you have to interact as a team. So interacting with other people on the mat, there's nothing more satisfying than taking somebody that has no skills and making them a warrior. And an analogy of that is you know, taking somebody that's figuratively uh vegetarian and making them a meat eater. And that's a powerful thing for them. They oftentimes, and look at our Google reviews, you know, for DefendFit. You'll be uh pleasantly surprised to see that you know it's not all about the money. There's not a bunch, I don't think I have not a single review uh that talks about money because we don't lock you into contracts, we don't make you pay to get out of it. You can start and stop as you wish, and uh yeah, I pay the price of that. You know, my uh financial mentor says, you know, over the the course of the last 30 years, it's probably costing me about$750,000 letting people out of contracts, but I can live with myself. I'm not a slave to money, and so I'm not in love with money, I'm in love with people, and I'm in love with Jesus. And so he's driving that. What kind of testimony would it be for me to have my integrity compromise over money? Or for that matter, you know, there's a story about why I started my own training school as in the first place, and that's because I saw a lot of compromise. Compromise in the business where people were unfairly taking advantage of people financially ownership, and then I've seen instructors with real egos, sometimes full-blown narcissists, and certainly can be even bipolar. I've seen a lot of unsafe culture on the mat where they're not controlling safety aspects, and then I've seen compromise integrity between uh instructors and females, men and women. So, you know, there's all kinds of uh battles that go on uh in our lives. Well, they're no different in any organization either, whether it's work, school, you know, your hobbies, you're gonna have potential, even churches, you know, that in fact maybe more specifically churches, because of the nature of, you know, a church is a hospital for sick people. And there are a lot of sick people, including the ones in church. And and uh, but you know, the whole idea is you're going there to uh level up, get out of that. In fact, and uh if you leave if you read uh even if you're not a believer, man, reading the word can give you a lot of insight. So one of my neighbors who's an atheist actually says he reads he reads Proverbs all the time, daily. Wow, really? He goes, I said, just for the wisdom, huh? He goes, absolutely, man, there's a lot of great wisdom and other stories in the Bible. And so Luke 418 actually talks about this aspect of why Jesus came, what was his mission, what was his purpose. I mean, my first of the seven M's is ministry, which is about purpose, calling. Certainly there's a lot of aspects that you could talk about inside that ministry category, just like every category. It's very multidimensional. But he says in Luke 418, he explains why he came, what his mission was. So go look that up. He's reading, um, quoting actually Isaiah, the book of Isaiah from the Old Testament, that was a prophecy 600 years before his appearing, and he quotes Isaiah 61. Read that too, and then it'll be the same thing. It's basically in Luke, it's italicizing in red because he's quoting from Isaiah, and it's Jesus talking, so it's in red. So, you know, taking in good coaching, there's no more there's no better coaching, man, than the word of God, for sure. In fact, the word of God's in Hebrews 4 12, it says uh the word of God is alive and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit and bone and marrow, and is a revealer of the intents of the heart. So it speaks to you. It tells stories, and there's a lot of great stories about bad people, the wrong way to do it, and there's a lot of there's fewer stories about great people doing things well. So it kind of gives you an idea of the world we live in. There's a lot more bad going on than there is good, generally speaking, even if it's just bad thoughts. Many times they don't manifest, thank God, that uh not all our thoughts manifest, but certainly you are what you think. So having the mind of Christ is a big bonus, training under stress for these things, spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, uh, as well as uh financially. So this is the Living Inside Out Radio Show, and uh we'll be right back after this brief commercial.

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Training Replaces Panic With Action

Nutrition And Metabolic Readiness

Relationships That Sharpen Or Dull

Media Money And Mentorship

Sponsor Messages

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Welcome back to Living Inside Out Radio. A dull blade is dangerous, not to the enemy, but to the one holding it. God designed you to be sharp, and sharpening requires contact. So this next segment we're going to talk about the enemies. Physical, biological, and relational threats. So the reality is that threats exist on multiple fronts. Most people prepare for none of them. Threat categories include a violent threat, a metabolic threat, a psychological threat, relational threat, spiritual threat, and all five can destroy your life. So the violent threat, training physically replaces panic and action with action. So the untrained mind freezes and the trained mind executes. The better your training, the higher quality your training, the more frequent your training, the more depth it has, the better your trained mind can execute it. So we have a motto that says, keep it simple, smart, but not too simple. You know, Einstein said it like this Albert Einstein said, make it as simple as possible, not simpler. But I like keep it simple, smart because I grew up hearing keep it simple, stupid is a common phrase for you know, like just get to the simplest aspect of thinking about it and fix it as easy as possible. Look for the simple stuff first, don't overcomplicate things, and don't get carried out, carried away by thinking all these possibilities. Look for the simplest thing, and that's most likely it. So the untrained mind freezes the trained mind execute. You know, at DefendFit, we develop situational awareness, reaction time, controlled aggression, decision clarity, and confidence is not arrogance. Confidence is competence. Competence is very attractive. If you've ever been around a strong person, strong in their mind, strong in their spirit, with their great integrity and wisdom and discernment, then strong in their body, man. It's just a very attractive thing to see somebody walking like that in their life, you know, walking out and living this humble and compassionate, but yet confident. And sometimes, you know, it's hard to put your finger on what it is about that person that appeals to you. But usually you can figure it out, especially the older you get, you start zeroing in on these kind of things quickly. And hopefully you can level up and bring your family into the living inside out mindset and train in the 7M's. Come train at Defend Fit. Bring your whole family. We have lots of family training here, and it's a powerful place to live out relational building, right? So you're around good people. For some reason, the bad people don't stick around here. You know, sometimes they're around for a little while, but it's once they expose themselves and you call them out with you know with care, in love, wanting them to be the best version of themselves. And if they can't get on board, then most of the time they'll just leave themselves. It's very rare I have to ask somebody to leave or maybe become a private student instead of a group class student. But it does happen. So let's talk about the biological threat because poor nutrition weakens everything. It causes brain fog, hormonal imbalance, fatigue, depression, chronic disease. But good nutrition sharpens your mental clarity, it gives you m better energy, better recovery, even emotional stability. So at DefendFit Tactical, we emphasize discipline fueling of the body because your brain is biological. It's not as complicated as you might think on the nutrition side. And sometimes it's just a matter of getting over that unwillingness to start the process of change. But it is really important to look at the science and think about eating from a standpoint of I'm eating to fuel my body, my mind, my life. And not just I'm, you know, eating because it tastes good, I'm eating because it's time to eat, or I'm eating because I'm getting together with some people. And I'll just have, you know, what's on the menu without as much thought about the contents of your macros, your protein, carbs, and fat. And there's really five numbers around that category that you should be looking at pretty hard and understanding the depth of it and the impact of it. And that's protein, carb, fat, total calories in water. And if you track those for a little while, I think you'll be surprised at perhaps how many calories you're taking, or maybe how few, which You really see how many calories you're taking in. Maybe you're not taking in near enough. Maybe you're losing muscle mass. Maybe you're putting on too much fat. Maybe you've got your pre-diabetic and your skinny fat. You know, where you don't have much muscle content, but you've got flab. And so all that is changeable, man. You don't have to live like that. And most of the limitations that we put on ourselves are reversible, especially around nutrition and exercise. And then bringing in the whole psychological, physiological, spiritual blend is really where the secret is, man. It's really where the secret is for transformation, is blending spirit, mind, and body. So the relational threat are super serious, man. They uh can undo uh many of your other elevated categories. They can you can make yourself sick being in a bad relationship, having so much stress, you can ruin job opportunities because of the external threats, relational stress you bring to work, or vice versa, bringing those from work to home. So wrong relationships dull you. And scripture clearly warns this. In 1 Corinthians 15 33, it says, bad company corrupts good character. Relationships either sharpen you or dull you. So sharpening relationships, here's some very bullet points, if you will. Sharpening relationships tell you truth, they challenge you at times, they strengthen you, and while dulling relationships enable weakness, they encourage compromise, and they drain your energy. So at DefendFit, we uh really support this idea of creating and sharpening relationships. And it's amazing how many extraordinary people have come through here over the years and from all walks of life, from all different backgrounds, countries, creeds, religions. I mean, it's quite amazing. Super cool blessing is to be uh, you know, develop relationships that are high quality. And sometimes we're just um a little lazy about nurturing good relationships. Maybe we have a little uh anxiety around that, especially when it enters the social domain where you're like planning something outside of a purpose like work or a hobby. But you know, you can have social aspects in those environments and they can be what they are and and be enriching. You don't necessarily have to do something um away from those uh environments. But certainly when you start adding those really different environments, like what I call worlds colliding, like my training people get together with my music people, or my music people get together with my church people, or my church people get together with my surfing people, or whatever hobbies you have, you know, and you cross pollinate these um these people that are now trying something new with people that you know exist in these other these other areas that you know and you can introduce people. I've had some people, you know, cross-pollinate like that and become great friends, uh, which is amazing and good for everybody. So when you surround yourself with sharpened people, you become sharpened. When you surround yourself with dull people, you become dull. It's really important to wrap your head around what that means and how you can continue to level up, how you can continue to support the growth, and it starts with your spiritual base and continues to elevate through your mental emotional capacity into all relationships. If you're married, it's certainly gonna affect your marriage. And if you're not, it's gonna affect your other relationships you have, and you wanted to strengthen that. If you have a mentor, then you're miles ahead. And you can have mentors in various categories, and you can also, when you acquire enough skill and understanding, become a mentor, and that's rewarding in itself, just helping people to grow. You can level up as a mentor, level up in your own weakened category through the media. I'm always looking at YouTube channels that are educational and informative, some of them just for pleasure, but rarely am I on TikTok, you know, for example, you know, dulling my brain. Uh in China they actually don't allow their people to watch TikTok that we see, even though it came from China. TikTok was developed from China, and they feed the rest of the world, especially America, content to dull you down, to reduce your focus, to keep you uh d to develop a a shorter and shorter attention span. And their version of TikTok is all about STEM, it's all about educating their people. And, you know, it's uh it's an indoctrination. So be careful with the media. Use it powerfully and guard against the detrimental effects, whether it's media, whether it's you know your marriage or the marriage category relationally, and be careful what churches you join. Be careful what martial arts schools and gyms you join, because there's a poison culture in some of these places, and then understanding the the balance on the muscle side so that you're I mean on the money side so that you're supporting, you know, the future and your ability to meet your obligations, your ability to help others, and ultimately to be able to find a place where you can uh ease off the throttle on working so hard and have more space and quality of life, you know, trying to find that that magic, you know, that magic life where you can have passion for living without compromising your integrity, without reducing to uh a detrimental effect the desires that you have in your heart. But you can feed those desires responsibly all along the way, maybe even change careers because you're leveling up in your thinking, or like Steve Young was doing, he changed his whole perspective and realized that he was creating himself as a victim, and he had all the tools around him uh to for success. And what is it about? It's about being about the best you can be. Are you gonna be about the best you can be? That's what Steve's mentor asked him. What are you gonna be about? Well, be about it then. Quit whining and get to be get busy. You know, be the right person, look in the mirror, evaluate yourself well, honestly, authentically. And Steve used that that word authentic several times in that sentence. He wasn't being authentic with himself. And so don't shortchange yourself by thinking you can't do something that it's impossible, because it may very well be possible. But don't be, you know, inauthentic with your and dishonest with yourself saying you can do something that you were not equipped to do. Maybe you can really reach a certain level, but that's the level you're gonna reach. But if you don't try, if you're not gonna go after that, how do you know? I've seen people that weren't the most gifted. In fact, in an environment with other people, there was lots of other people that were more naturally gifted at this particular thing. But because of the work ethic, because of the continued pushing forward and not stopping, not quitting, they greatly out outpace and uh elevate much further above somebody that had natural talent. It's not about the giftedness you have alone, although many times the giftedness in us is what we excel at at that area that we're gifted and we can do much better. But it does require a stick to it, it requires grit and a willingness to fail little failures all along the way, not quitting, but overcoming. And sometimes that requires, you know, the brotherly love, the sisterly love of iron sharpens iron, and uh reaching out when others are down and helping them up and being willing to accept that from others as well. Accepting help from others sometimes is very difficult. Sometimes for some of us it's very easy to help others and very easy to take help. But those are bondage areas, those are weaknesses. You're even unwillingness to forgive is a weakness, not a strength. Your ability to create boundaries can be either a weakness or a strength. You may have such strong boundaries, you're locking people out and unwilling to even listen. And so it's important to have that balanced perspective of wisdom, discernment, and understanding and clarity of thought. And that's what living inside out is all about. It's about balance, it's a mentoring movement through the 7M's, and you too can overcome and level up. And one of the best ways to do that is to join us at DefendFit Tactical and uh take some of our classes, get to know the other students, uh, be part of a family of warriors training with purpose where we keep it simple, smart, not do so. All right, we'll be right back with uh more from Lib Again Set Out Radio. Stay tuned.

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Practice Discipline And Sound Mind

From Consumer To Protector

Choosing A Church With Depth

Culture Accountability And Safety

Skills Training And Firearm Scenarios

Final Charge And Invitation

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Welcome back to Living In Side Out Radio. Thanks for joining us today. This is our third segment, and we're we're reaching the point that we have the outcome, the sharpened life. Man, the sharpened life is really where our goal, isn't it? When we're thinking about the results of sharpening, this is really where we start having confidence without fear, or at least not the kind of fear that disables us. You know, it's not like you don't want to have some fear. Show me a man that has no fear, I'll show you a dead man walking. Fear can be a healthy thing, but it needs to be something that's managed, not something you just give into. Use that fear, use that fear to raise your awareness, your understanding, your desire to overcome, to conquer, whatever it is that you feel like you're a little deficient or a lot of deficient. Nobody's arrived, man. We're all on a journey. And it's important to just live in the truth of that. Be authentic with yourself, be authentic with others. Don't pretend you're something you're not. And uh be what it is you want to be, what you aspire to be. Live it out, but do the training, the day in and the day work. I mean the day in and the day out, hard work. Hard work, man, is the answer. But being smart about your work as well. Um Vince Lombardi said, practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect perfection. And I oftentimes I'll say, you've heard it said that practice makes perfect, and I'll immediately say, no, it doesn't. There's no such thing as perfection for us. There is only one man that walked the earth that was perfect, sinless, and that's Jesus. But we can understand that practice leads to excellence, and perfect practice leads to much higher excellence. So a defend fit, that's one of the things we're trying to do. So it all starts with your fundamental foundation of your belief system. 2 Timothy 1.7 says God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind. So sharpening produces power, physical capability, love, relational strength, sound mind, mental clarity. Fear decreases as competence increases. The word says that my people perish for a lack of understanding. So leveling up in your spirit, mind, and body in all the seven M's will be affected. So there's a multidimensional benefit of training at Defend Fit. The physical benefits, strength, speed, endurance, fat loss, the mental benefits, confidence, reduced anxiety, improved focus, the relational benefits of family, brotherhood and sisterhood, and accountability partners, the spiritual benefits, discipline, identity alignment, courage. Sharpening transfer uh transforms the whole person. And you know, you're not, it's not like you're going to church here at DefendFit. I mean, we pray before and after class, but that's that's the extent of my talking at any length, anyway, of the spiritual dynamics. Because you came here to learn the physical aspects of Defend Fit Tactical Fitness. So come and join us for the boxing or the Muay Thai kickboxing, the Brazil Jiu-Jitsu, or the Krama Ga or the Firearm, or the Combat Fitness, or the Modern Arniss. Bring your kids. Put your kids in here, man. Let us mentor them up. And if you have some reservations about coming to class, about having your family in class, come watch. Come do a free trial class. See what it's like yourself. Don't take somebody's word for it. Look at my but yeah, take somebody's word for it. Look at my Google reviews, and uh they can tell you a lot. My my policy around Google reviews are I throw out the top 10% of excellent reviews and I throw out the bottom 10% of terrible reviews. What is the bulk, what does the majority say about what's going on with that business? And a lot of times you get a pretty pretty clear picture, you know. So let's talk about identity transformation. Most people live as consumers. Sharpened people live as protectors, protectors of their family, their health, their mind, their faith, their financial viability. You know, this is a biblically masculine design. We don't feel like, I don't feel like masculinity is a bad thing, an ugly thing. I certainly know, you know, masculine people that, both male and female, that are overbearing, arrogant, cocky, you know, quick to uh read people the right act or go off on you. That's not the kind of masculinity I'm talking about, man. The masculinity that's that's powerful, that's bal is balanced and wise. There's a call to action here too. So Proverbs 24, 5 says, a wise man is strong. Yes, a man of knowledge increases strength. Strength is wisdom applied physically. Sharpening is obedience to reality. So much of the world seems to be living in with a lot of delusion. I mean, it's just amazing the lies spewed through the media, through educational institutions, through many times homes and fathers and mothers that are delusional. Um organizations that get corrupted. Just about any place where there's a gathering of the people, there's going to be a portion of that group of people that have some misconceptions, misunderstandings, or full-blown delusions. And some are built around that delusion. So it takes a lot of um time, if you will, to gain the experience to make those good decisions. And then sometimes we're uh we're willing to lie to ourselves for our own selfish intentions or our unwillingness to check ourselves or to possibly be wrong. We can be so invested in a certain direction that it's difficult to change directions. You're so uh uh educated towards a certain direction that you're unwilling to educate yourself in another possibility. But there's a lot of great sources to open your mind for understanding. So it is important for us to continue growing, developing, looking at things objectively, getting a mentor, going to church. Let's just start with that. Going to church and start kind of figuring out is this a good place for me? Are they telling the truth? Uh is it grounded in biblical doctrine? Can you verify by reading the word yourself and what are the what they're saying is true? Can you support that with uh a study aspect of the word of God where there's using a particular scripture and applying it to a certain situation? Does that really apply or is it mis misapplied? So you know, the version of apologetics and eschatology where you dig deep, man, dig deep in the word of God. And uh I'll give you a tip. David Gusick has a a program called Enduring Word. Enduring Word, he's got an app, and basically David Gusick is like just an amazing pastor teacher. He started quite a few different churches, he installs pastors in administration to take over that church, and he goes to the next one. And the Enduring Word has an app, and what it is is he goes through the Bible verse by verse, man, sentence by sentence, and he explains what the sentence means in the context historical, cultural, and spiritual. And that's really the root of your live you know, living inside out. You approach everything from that perspective of how does it affect you know the impact on me spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically. And if if the word of God, if you can see it from the spiritual context, the cultural context, there's always a relational context, you know, relation to our creator and relation to the people around us. And you can s really start to understand if a if a pastor teacher is telling the truth. And then is there enough depth and and bandwidth uh in that teaching Sunday after Sunday? And then there's always a balance of not just a teaching, but prayer, and not just prayer. Teaching, but also worship. And you really need all three. You need powerful prayer, powerful worship, and powerful teaching. Many times people are like outside in the lobby of church, and I'm like, the band has already started, the worship is going, they're full blown into it, and some people feel like the worship isn't all that important. They can improve the teaching. And I would say this about that your prayer life and the prayer like culture of the church and the worship culture, those two things prepare your mind, prepare your spirit to take in the teaching of the word of God. So one thing leads to the other. They're all connected. Just like our spirit, mind, and body is connected, so are these aspects of of the spiritual life, the prayer, the worship, and the teaching. So there's there's a multidimensional approach to almost everything in life. And as soon as you start being single-minded, uh to the detriment of the big pri picture, is uh oftentimes where that's where we run off course. That's where we get delusion can step in, or misunderstanding, or uh maybe we start lying to ourselves and believe things that aren't true. So if we think about things like that, even at Defend Fit, and all my instructors are highly trained, highly capable, lots of experience, credibility, and paper to prove it, and experience to prove it, and they live it out in their words and their actions on the mat and even off the mat, which is a very important part of being authentic uh auth authentic. And so when we're looking at those things on at your experience at DefendFit, I want you to know, man, it's my promise to you that no matter what happens on the mat, there's accountability. Accountability to you as the consumer, as um partner in our success. So I'll be the first one to call out myself or others in in leadership if something's not right. And we'll handle that and elevate that up and move forward in you know the best possible way. Nobody's perfect, but training properly, thinking properly does lead to excellence. So when we think about uh when I think about your possibility of training at Defend Fit, I think about transformation, I think about living inside out, and this is just one piece of it. But it's it's certainly an important piece. I think not enough people look at physical training of gaining muscle and gaining skills to protect your way of life. There's just not enough emphasis on it, in my opinion. Many people think it's out of reach for them, or there's a bunch of macho psycho people, you know, in that environment, tough guys, meatheads, gym rats, you know, whatever, you know, detrimental title you want to place on those people. Some gyms can be out of balance and not so great for you. So, you know, come see us at Defend Fit. And I I know this is my forty-first year of training and teaching. I started the school to get away from those kind of environments and and to have a sense of control on uh what the culture is. And I do, I have a my finger on the pulse of the culture of the school. And it's really quite an amazing place. Is it perfect? No, it's not perfect because I'm here, you're here, they're here, and so there's no such thing as being perfect, but there is a sense of, hey man, we're gonna do everything we ever thing we can to be excellent. And so professional boxing, and you're not gonna get your head bashed in, but you are gonna learn how to box. And one of my Muay Thai classes this week was super packed, you know, and it's like, oh yeah, man, I like that. There's a lot of energy in the rooms, a lot of people leveling up, there's uh a good physical workout, there's a good mental stimulation and learning skills and applying those skills. My crop classes this week were big, and so my firearm classes were really uh big and and not just, you know, like when I say big, I'm not saying we have uh a packed house and fifty people on the mat. That'd be too many. But we typically when I say big, we we're meeting that ratio of about ten people to one instructor. We try not to exceed that. If we have more than ten people, we try to get help and make sure we have uh you know at least one instructor per ten people, and we can cover a lot of ground like that and still maintain excellence. So the firearm class this week was ex extra special because we're bringing in American training walls, American shoot walls, and so these walls are movable and reconfigurable so you can create like uh different rooms and hallways and windows and shooting around corners, shooting over under, and so you can be can make a realistic um environment and run scenarios with a real firearm putting barrel plugs in, or in my case, I'm introducing the cool fire trainer, which replaces the barrel and compensation spring. And now I fill it with CO2 and the barrel becomes an air tank, and every time I fire that weapon, it recoils, making me maintain my grip, my trigger reset. It uh moves, of course, because it's cycling, and I gotta keep my sight picture in my front of me, and it's got a laser on the front, so it actually hit, I see where the target is hit. So really powerful, man. And so this is leveling up and transforming people's lives as well. So what makes us different truly is the firearm, the Krama Ga, hand-to-hand combat, empty hand knife, gun threats, and then the firearm. But we also can elevate in the striking area by doing mock boxing in Muay Thai and the grappling area by doing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and the fitness area by uh both doing uh the fighting arts, there's a physical component, and then there's a pure physical component in our combat fitness class. And so, really a great way to stimulate your mind is to add these things, and even the modern Arnice, it makes you think quickly in sequences and putting things together with speed and power and safety. Safety is always the number one. So we want to make a difference in your life. So as iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. Sharpen your mind, sharpen your body, sharpen your spirit, sharpen your life. Thanks for being here today. And I want you to know that iron does not sharpen itself, neither do men and women. At DeFinFit, we sharpen body, mind, and spirit. So you're ready for whatever life brings. So join us at DeFinFit, become sharp. Um, we want to help you build yourself up. And so thank you for joining us. Have a great week and God bless.

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