Brave & Big
What if you could live a Brave and Big life? One where you have great friends, a thriving marriage, a plan to accomplish your goals; a life where you’re fit, spiritually healthy, and constantly becoming everything God created you to be.
Welcome to Brave & Big.
We are Chris Hart, founder and CEO of Brave Coaches, and Joey Odom, public speaker, author, and former tech co-founder, and we have been friends for over 25 years. Throughout our friendship, we have had thousands of conversations, have gotten better from each one, and want you to be part of those conversations. We’ll talk about what it means to be Brave and live Big - things like grit, living with no excuses, following Jesus, being a great parent, spouse, and friend. Sometimes it will just be the two of us and sometimes it will be high performing athletes, business leaders, and performers.
At the end of each episode, you will walk away with a small step that you can immediately implement to take ground in your life.
We’re glad you’re here. Let’s be Brave & live Big.
Brave & Big
Progress or Excuses: You Can't Do Both
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
The first sin in human history was followed immediately by an excuse. Adam pointed at Eve. Eve pointed at the serpent. Nobody pointed at themselves. Joey Odom and Chris Hart open episode three with that observation and spend the next forty minutes unpacking why excuses are the lid on almost every life, and what it actually takes to kill them.
This one gets personal fast. Chris lays out the case that an excuse always starts as a lie, and if you let it linger long enough, it becomes your truth. The "I'm just not good at making money." The "I could never get in that kind of shape." The stories we tell ourselves so often we stop noticing we're telling them. Joey pushes back on the easy version of this conversation, draws the line between commitments you actually made and ones you never made in the first place, and gives a tactical reframe that changes everything: stop tying excuses to outcomes. Instead, tie them to activities.
By the end, they land on a line that's going to follow this show around for a while: you can either make progress or make excuses. You cannot do both.
In this episode:
- Why the first response to the first sin was an excuse, and what that tells you about human nature
- The difference between a real excuse and something you were never committed to in the first place
- How an excuse starts as a lie and slowly becomes your truth
- Why tying your commitments to activities (not outcomes) is the unlock
- The event plus response equals outcome formula, and where most people get it wrong
- The 100 percent rule: why all-in is actually easier than 98 percent
- How defensiveness is a tell that there's truth in what you're hearing
- The six F's gut-check: where are you making excuses in faith, family, fun, fitness, finances, friends
This week's small step: Identify one excuse you're making personally and one you're making professionally. Just one of each. Kill them both for the next seven days. That's it. Make progress or make excuses. You cannot do both.
Be Brave. Live Big.
—
SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW
If this episode hit, do us a favor: subscribe wherever you listen, and leave us a 5-star review. It's the single biggest thing you can do to help us reach more listeners with this show.
FOLLOW THE HOSTS
Joey Odom — @joeyodom.life; www.joeyodom.life
Chris Hart — @thechrishart · @thebravecoaches; www.bravecoaches.com
—
Produced by Sonus Podcasts · sonuspodcasts.com