Full Episode Transcript

Below is the full conversation from the Pathway to Peak Performance podcast featuring Jodi Barrett, founder of KBStronger and creator of the Calm Strength Method.

Movement Changes Everything

You're working with people all over the world. What you've been able to accomplish in terms of training people

on how to actually use movement and mindfulness to achieve like a higher

level of existence. I started training kettlebells and they grounded me so much that I was like,

"Okay, this is something I think I can um expand on." And it's just that piece

of I can move my body. Mobility is the secret sauce to it. Sure, the heavy

lifts are great, but when you're able to move better, it's like that's your

keeper forever. You sort of unlocked a door. Yeah. And understood like something was

revealed to you cuz you'll have that moment where you hit a wall and you're like, "Okay,

what do I really need to figure out and work on here?" So, that was my moment. I think it was actually the day I got

super brave. You can help so many people. You have to move first, right? and just

the foundations of that. So, you know, it's just just getting people to do that

first step. Jodi Barrett, welcome to the Pathway to Peak Performance. It's so great to have you here, my friend. Welcome all the way

Meet Jodi Barrett

down from Canada. Thank you so much for having me. Pleasure. It's our pleasure. Um, so you know, each

Charity Dress for Success

episode we have a charity that the guest chooses and um I'd like to know what

yours is. Dress for Success. All right. Dress for success that helps people who are sort of Well, you you could explain it better than I can. Ah, well, it's the idea of when women

enter back into the workforce, you help them dress. And the whole idea behind it

is when you put on something that you feel comfortable in, good in, it helps,

right? So, it's just empowering. Well, you are an interesting person and have a

Farm Girl Roots

very interesting story uh that goes uh that starts in a remote area of Canada,

Saskatchewan uh which is that's the wilderness, right? It is out there. So, take us all

the way back. Tell us about your story and then we'll get to where we are today and your pathway to peak performance.

Oh, all the way back. Yeah. Oh boy. Yeah. So I grew up in like a rural community on a farm and literally the

town I think had 20 people in it where I first started going to school. Eventually that closed down and I had to

go to the bigger school. And yeah, so it was like I um I'm farm

girl by by by trade by heart I guess. country girl and grew up and some of

those values I didn't realize how much they were embedded in me and helped me

grow what I grew today and then I went to you know went off to school went off

to university and the whole path of you know you you

grow up in this small area you go to the bigger school bigger university you get married kind of where everything my

pathway way led and I stayed at home for 11 and a half years and then I got

Divorce and Reinvention

divorced and yeah, it's like I always say the Cole's version cuz it seemed like such a

long thing, but it was um I went from university to like I had this plan I was

going to not get married right away, become who I needed to be, but that kind

of got diverted. I kind of feel like I did things my way but completely different.

um got divorced in 2013 and kind of went through a whole

transition of making the decision, having the moment of knowing I need to make the decision,

getting in that space and going I wasn't really happy with how I felt about

myself personally and then realizing I made this huge decision that affected so many people in my family and I'm like I

have to turn this around. So, I launched my first company at 41,

which was crazy because it involved flying to New York City. I just decided

that I would get certified, but I knew before I got on the plane that I wanted to get her to hire me. That was my plan.

Yeah. So, I sat on that plane just kind of going, "This is what I'm going to do." Honestly, before I got on when I

was sitting there, I thought I wasn't sure how what the turnout would be, but I was comfortable sitting on the plane

knowing that it was the step. You're making the effort. Yep. And it was like I knew it was a

piece of it. I wasn't sure. Well, I wasn't sure I'd be sitting here today. And it just kind of snowballed from from

that. All of it. The insanity of day one to here. We all feel like we have a plan

in life or sometimes a lack of a plan and then something pulls us through and

takes us you know some people start their pathway to peak performance at an early age some people come to it later

in life. um the notion of um you know growing up and having some values and

understanding who you were and then really getting in touch obviously in order to make those types of decisions

to dramatically change your life um and those that are around you pretty serious

and so it's not something that you just made up I'm sure like one day you're

you're giving this a lot of consideration. Oh yeah. Like I often talk about the story about in the gym

Gym Mirror Wake Up

one day when I was standing there and my kids were all in school. They're school age. So I had, you know, I stayed home

so I went and I would train at the gym. And I remember the day I was like standing there looking at my reflection

going like it was such a disconnect and a connect all at the same time cuz I was like, "Oh, she's super strong, that

woman that I see there." But everything in the room felt heavy. And I didn't work out that day. And that was the day

I actually I left. I went for a walk and I was like, "Okay, need to make some

changes." Because I always like training. I learned at a very young age that I didn't connect the piece about

how training helped, but I learned at a young age that it helped me regulate and

that if I, you know, I was having something that was bothering me, I would go for a run. I learned that at a really

young age. And then so that day in the gym, I was like kind of terrified cuz

I'm like my one go-to. I didn't execute, right? And but I think you know if you

follow people who do fitness, they often they'll extreme fitness it for a while

if hopefully they figure it out, right? Because you'll have that moment where you hit a wall and you're like, "Okay,

what do I really need to figure out and work on here on here?" So that was my moment. I always say it was like I'm

like, "Oh, I broke down that day." And I'm like, I think it was actually the day I got super brave to go, okay, what

do you need to do? You sort of unlocked a door. Yeah. And understood like something was

revealed to you like this is the new path forward. Yeah. And I have to go do that now. Even

though it's a tough one. Yeah. Um, so in your pathway to peak performance, you're doing all the things

that you think you're supposed to do when you come to this point in time where you go, "No, no, no. I have to go do this new thing, which isn't going to

be easy." Uh, I often say in the pathway to peak performance, we have to break the mold of what came before uh in order

to actually achieve the new the next the next sort of level of that. Interesting. So, you go to New York.

New York Kettlebell Leap

Let's talk about that. Yeah. Um, actually found this person on Instagram is how that came about. I was

Muay Thai training at the time. She's did kettle bell. She brought both together and I was like, "Okay, this is

what I'm going to do." Most people thought I was crazy. They're like, "Oh, you are having the biggest midlife crisis, Jody. What are you doing?"

And I was like, I don't know. Like, I started training kettle bells and they grounded me so much that I was like,

"Okay, this is something I think I can um expand on." and I wanted to get

certified. And the idea was, you know, I wanted to work for because I wanted I

had a moment in time where through my divorce when I was going to go look for a place, I couldn't sign a

contract for an apartment because they're like, "Well, you haven't worked." And I was like, "Oh, 11 years

of your life staying home." I was like, "Gutted." So when I went to New York, it

was like, okay, if I can do certifications, help women so they have something, not so that they're going to

leave because I mean, you know, I it's not my intention of like I'm going to work with women and you're going to, you

know, abort, but I'm like it's like when if you can give yourself something as an

individual, as a, you know, as a mom, so that it's healthier because I saw

that I didn't necessarily always do that. I was so focused on everyone else

instead of self a little bit. So, so yeah, New York was such a big like I

mean I was so green. You know, you think about I'm originally prairie girl, grew up in rural. My biggest place I lived

was had 250,000 people living in it and I raised three kids and now I'm getting

on this plane to go to New York. And I decided when I got on that plane, I would say yes. Well, not to everything,

but you know, it was like that thing where I was like, "That's good cuz you can get in trouble." In New York, I'm good. But it was that

moment where like she's like, "Do you want to teach a class on Saturday morning?" She has 30 30 people. And I'm like, before I even processed it in my

head, I've already said yes. Out of my mouth. And I was like, "Okay,

very interesting." Yeah. And then I went for um lunch one day with some of the

professional Muay Thai fighters. And I'm sitting there having we're having sushi and I was like I had this moment where I

thought if somebody would have snapped a picture of this and sent it to me like 5 years before and handed it to me I would

have been like what is she doing there? Right. So yeah it was

crazy. Okay. So you come to this point in time where you're helping people, you're

Building a Global Business

getting certified. You're developing a business. And it's a business. You know what's interesting about your business

is you're working with people all over the world. Um like you have like clients

in Dubai and here and there and all. It's it's pretty wild um what you've

been able to accomplish in terms of training people um on how to actually

use movement and mindfulness to achieve like a higher you know a higher uh level

of existence I guess is the best way of saying it. What happens after New York? You're there, you're you've done this,

you get this certification, you become a a certified kettle bell coach, correct?

Yeah. And then she's like, day two, she shows up and she's like, "Okay, talk to my husband and we're going to hire you.

So, you'll go back to Canada." And so, I would trainers for her. So, I went back

and I did that. And then about a month in, she phones me one day and she's like, "Well, do you want to buy the

Canadian region?" I remember the day cuz I kind of I screamed in the kitchen. And my kids are like, "What's wrong?"

And I'm like, "Okay, well, this cool opportunity." And I'm like, again, I had zero idea of what that looked like, how

that looked. How was I couldn't even sign a contract to um get an apartment.

How am I now going to pull this off? And that's how I say I'm like, again, it's

not always the middle part. I don't always know when I'm doing it, how I'm getting to it. It's like, I'll shoot for

this and we'll see where we we end up. So, you know, I got certified in March.

By October, I had found two business partners and we

launched the Canadian region. So, yeah, it was it was a ride and I feel

like I I don't have a business degree like from school, but I do have one after.

Yeah. So, I did that and then crazy things all happened. So, I certified,

Pandemic Pivot Online

started doing that, and then the pandemic hit just when I was getting

ready to sign papers for the first studio location cuz that was my plan. I'm like, now we'll do studios and we'll

do one here and then I'll do one in this next province, grow it like that.

But then the pandemic hit and it was like, okay, sign the papers. Moving forward still, because I always thought,

stand around too long, you get stagnant. So, let's just keep keep going. So, did

that, but then that allowed me to have the online piece, the hybrid, right?

How cool is that? And that that may not have come along had that piece not that

obstacle not happened. Yeah. Like, it gives me goosebumps actually. Right. Yeah. It forced a it forced it you to

call a or to pivot and and it's a huge and it wound up being just this huge

thing. Yeah. And it ended up where I ended up right. We did the studio for how many

months? Well, for three years, three and a half years. And then that summer

before I decided I had to make a change, I like I launched my book and I knew I

had to decide between which part of my business model was working, which wasn't. And it was the online piece that

I looked at and I'm like, well, it's existing just there. So, and I always

wanted to move, which was also crazy cuz at 48 I was like I closed the studio location. and I

rebranded. I took nine women on a retreat and then I got back home and everyone's like,

"Oh, Jony's just packing up, taking a little break." And I knew that I was

leaving and not coming back. But um, you know, I wasn't I wasn't I was processing all of it still. And I was like, "Okay,

I'll just keep that piece to myself for a bit." my kids knew. But um yeah, so

that was my rebranded in 20 23 in December and it was the piece the online

piece. I I think one of the things that's really great about what you do um is that often times in fitness in the

Mobility and Body Awareness

fitness community of whatever you might want to call it. One thing that's really interesting is that oftentimes you need

a lot of equipment, you need a lot of space, you need a gym membership, you need access to, but a lot of people

can't get those things. They can't make all of those things line up. The work

that you do and the way that you train people with very limited equipment, you

know, you do a lot of push-ups, you do a lot of pull-ups, you do a lot of this using the kettle bells in all sorts of different ways and all this. What's

really interesting is the multiple planes and the mobility work that you do, which now as I get older, I realize,

hey, the mobility stuff may be the most important. So, you really have created

something. You've brought this new piece to the table that gives people access to

something that they might not have been able to do not that long ago. And that's so exciting because they can actually

get fit. How does that feel? It feels so great because it's just like this piece that when you believe in something so

wholeheartedly like I do like at home. I'm like you can and I know gyms are

great. I had a I had a studio that piece of you know the community

but it's like you can do what you need to do. No excuses in your own space. you

can build up the confidence. So maybe one day you do transition into a gym space, but it's removing that piece of

like I don't have time, but you always have there's always the begin because

you don't need a whole lot of equipment. I saw a post the other day and there was somebody showing the big cable machine and showing a double tuck and I had a

client send a message saying, "Hey, that's a double tuck with a kettle bell. We don't need all that space or that

equipment." Right? So, and it's just that piece of I can move my body.

Mobility is the secret sauce to it. I believe like when you train with me and it's like sure the heavy lifts are

great, but when you're able to move better, it's like that's your keeper

forever. And the other piece is you're teaching people how to connect with

their body. Well, I'm 50, so I mean like and it's okay that it's happening later because I think also that's a journey.

But you're connecting in a space of, you know, when we're training, I'm like I

need to know things like are you hydrated? Did you fuel?

Did you sleep? Where's your stress? And the last thing we check in is actually

how does your body feel in this very moment. So, you're creating that relationship where you're like, if

you're heavy, life's heavy. I'll say go do this. You're not going to lift heavy. You're not going to beat yourself up

today. You're going to slow this down, but you're still going to move with the weight or mobility, right? So, it's the

ability to give that because I think that's a huge piece to

people like online. Yeah, that's wild too. And you think about it now. We live in this world of

fit of trackers, right? And I, you know, I wear this watch to to actually count steps more than anything, but I do track

my workouts just because I want to see like, I don't know, it's just a competitive nature in me. But I think

that you just picked up on something that is so important, which is being in tune with your body enough to know when,

hey, maybe I need a rest day today or maybe I don't need to train as hard,

just enough. uh in the medical world it's the minimum effective dose right so

it might be that day you you don't need to train beyond it's um but you do have

some standards oh yeah you you have some pretty hard heavy duty heavy I wouldn't say hardcore I'd say

100 Pushups Daily Standard

heavy duty standards uh where you'll you'll you'll see the stuff where it's like I still have my last 25 push-ups to

do how many push-ups do you do in a day 100 100 every day every day

you've done a 100 push-up chips a day since 2019. Mhm. So that's um Okay, that's a lot. And why

do you think you're in such bad shape? Yeah, I don't know. Okay, you say

without a lot. Oh, that's hilarious. No, in all seriousness, that's really impressive

that you know you could actually stay with that no matter what. Even when you're sick, you did it.

Yeah. Yeah. You have a a philosophy around that, too. When somebody's not feeling all

that great, you say push through. Yeah. Or not like I mean, or you can break it up. So, it's I just did a we

just did a 30-minute challenge with my crew swinging a kettle bell for 30 minutes, but they had to decide before

what their rest time was going to be, right? So, it was like they do 20 swings regardless it was 20 and then they had

to pick either a 20 second rest or 30 second rest. and they have to decide this before I'm like you can't halfway

between like this is a decision because you're teaching them I just say I love I

can relate everything to training too like when you talk about that it's like you can learn so much from it right cuz

you're like you're teaching them to show up and be true to their word and that's

the practice that we rep over and over. So 100 push-ups. I don't sit down and do

100 at once like I do 50 in the morning and 25. And but it's interesting is that

people forget like that group when we sat down and I said, "Okay, let's calculate what we did." And they're

like, "Wow, we did like 700 push-ups." And I'm like, "Now, can you imagine if I

would have turned on the camera today and said, "Okay, we're going to do 700 push-ups in the next 30 minutes." They

would have been like, "Yeah, no." So, how powerful is that look back when you when you go back and retrospect like the

Small Promises Big Wins

you go back and take a look at okay here's what you just did over the last seven days over the last 30 days over

the last 6 months uh with the people that you that you coach that you work with. How powerful is that for so many

people? It's incredible because people tend to not believe in the capacity that they're

able to do. Like we always forget that we're so capable and it's just if you

can break things down for people those little moments and then we can put them

all together and share and it's showing up. So some of my shortest videos online

are like 2 minutes specifically because I'm like you said

you were going to train today. I don't care if you don't train 45 minutes, but

you should care that you made a promise to yourself. And it's like building that piece of

pride inside. I always tell the story about my daughter. She bicycled down from her dad's one day to the studio,

her and a group of friends, and she's like the friend's parents came and picked them up and she's like, "Mom, can

you take me home?" And I'm like, "Okay, I'll take you home." But I said, "You got to wait two hours because I got two

hours of work left here." And she sat around and hemmed and hot. And she's like, "I'm over at I'm going to bike

Hard Things Build Confidence

back home." And it was so awesome. She got home and she phones me. She's like,

"Can you believe I did that?" She's like, "I did it. Like I drove I biked

all the way down and biked back." And I'm so grateful that I had to work two hours because I would have robbed her of

a something that taught her at a very young age what she's capable of. And I think so many times along the way we rob

ourselves because we go easy instead of doing something hard

to know we're capable. It's not easy to do the hard stuff. No.

And people are afraid to get started. They don't know how to start. So that that notion of like u kaizen right it's

Kaizen and Daily Growth

a term um deming so it's the notion of you know small like 1% incremental

efforts that compound over time yes and we just get better and better and better

and you're a prime example of that u and then you're also we talk about pathway

Peaks Sustainability and Burnout

to peak performance so you've achieved peak performance uh you've done that you have more than one business, but you

also are sort of on this sustainable path. You have a pathway of

sustainability now that where there's a line. You you you upleveled and then you

held the line. You push yourself up and I don't know, do you feel like that

you're continuing to push to these new levels and then that's the new sustainable level or there peaks and

then coming back to sustainability and how does it all work for you? Yeah, I think there's definitely peaks in there

and but I think understanding the the push is just different

like understanding that the pace which is probably what it is. Like I mean I'm pretty consistent and I teach my body

that it's just my brain understanding that it's like okay just keep course

right and then but I do think you have to you're always going to have to challenge yourself.

Yeah. Because if you don't, you're not growing, right? For sure. Yeah. If you're not

challenging yourself every single day, there's a point in time when um there are peak performers who overchallenge

themselves and and hit a burnout point. Um and that comes in variety of ways uh

with different folks. But as you get older, you learn sort of what those break points are. And you start to put

the brakes on, say, "Hey, okay, I got to I got to back off of this a little bit in order to actually maybe take a rest

day here instead of training straight through." So in your world, what's next?

What's the big what's like you've got a bunch of big things that are going on. So what's the next big thing for you?

Building a Safe Training Community

The next big thing just I think growing my online platform to the point where

like I've started doing retreats before and then I kind of just pulled back a little bit just because of the big my

big move and trying to get myself settled there just um just creating a

space for people to I think it's so important like in training to feel safe

and heard And I think because I've went through things in life probably that

pushed me there when you feel like those are spots that you had moments in life

where that wasn't part of your world. So you really want to create that space for

others and just I work with so many women and men too that most people we

all flourish when we feel safe in our training environment and there's so much to learn when you train. Like I mean my

kids always tease. They're like you relate everything to Cattle Bell because I think because I can, right?

It's just it's it works. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So the online community is growing. More and more people are

Juggling Clients and Loving the Work

learning about you. It keeps you keep more and more uh clients all the time.

How do you manage? That's the one thing I'm curious about because you have these clients that are international clients

and you're you still do stuff where you work individually with people and then you have the platform itself. You have

an app where people can go on and actually take courses. Um, but how do

you manage all of that? Well, I think probably because I was a mom, I was multitasking for for many

years. Yeah. And I love what I do. You know, I I don't know if I ever I think maybe we

talked about the online auction was my first like after, you know, after I got divorced, I'm like, "What am I going to

do?" And you're like, because I had stayed at home mom for 11 and a half years. Well, the first one was an online

auction. Me and two other people were like, "Okay, let's do this. Let's build this." And at 2:00 in the morning, I was

pricing salt and pepper shakers. I think someone brought in 20 boxes. And I'm sitting on a concrete floor and I'm

like, Jodie, I'm like, I think I'm in my space by

myself in this warehouse. I probably said out loud, "If I ever have my own

business again, I better love what I'm doing because these hours are killing me." Like, it was like ridiculous. So,

and then I I did I left that because I was like, "This is this is silly." And

then I actually went and started selling leggings. So I went from before kettlebell lady, I was like the lady

legging lady, the legging lady legging lady. Then I used to have clients that I knew from that come into

train with me and they're like, "You'll always be the legging lady to Jodie." But yeah, so my online auction was the

first my online I guess business. But it was, you know, and I guess coming

back to your question is how do I just do all of it is because I actually just

really love what I do and I love the kettle bell like and like you

talked about like a general practitioner. When I went in and figured out it was kettle bell, I was like I

like also like being really good at something. I actually practiced doing

stuff I'm not good at because it's a good practice. But I wanted to be specific and the fact

that I could do kettle bell like I've tried I every once in a while go back to conventional a little bit to see and

then I'm like oh yeah that's why cuz I can be super strong with kettle bell. You know it's sort of funny when you

Why Kettlebells Work

look at the mechanics of kettle bell the mechanics of what you're doing are truly

incredible from a fitness standpoint. you know, in terms of becoming like a uh

bodybuilder and it seems to me like from a fitness standpoint and a longevity

standpoint, it seems that that is um a a phenomenal like that is like on another

level like when you look at those swings. What are we engaging? You're engaging the entire body. the I mean the

core that's like one of the the main things when you think about uh keeping your back in order um and and your

entire posture and how you carry yourself and just everything. Um it's an

incredible it's it's actually an incredible tool. So you really you really specialized in kettle bells and

it's really paid off for you. Yeah. And I love the idea of it's rhythmic, right? So that you like for me

before I was to go to a big meeting or something I would swing a bell just to regulate to ground to calm. And the

piece that people sometimes miss with a bell is that you have to think.

So best way to get out of my day and my stress is to put a bell in my hand.

Build a complex where I have to go two swings mid rack squat. I'm pressing

because I've forgotten about this because I have to come super present here. And I think we also forget that as

we age, we don't just want to build this muscle. We need this to stay clear, right? So my

grandma, she played cards up until she was 96 and she was just a sharp little woman. And I always think it was cuz she

played cards. So, not only when you swing the bell, you're mind body

connecting. You're recurring in relationship, you're regulating,

and now you're like you're super present because you have to be, you know, and those are the days that like if you have

a super heavy day, I say go do some light, some mobility because maybe you just really can't connect in that

moment. But I like to me I like I know there's other things but I'm like the

bell is an ultimate piece of tool. And coming back to the safe piece where are

you most safe in your home? No doubt. Right. I think it takes such incredible

Affordable Home Fitness Setup

courage. Sometimes I see people, we always, you know, it's always one of those things the beginning of uh the the

year there's that period in the gym where you see this massive amount of people that

start out and by February like most of them, half of them are gone. By March,

you're back to the normal levels that of where that gym was. And I always admire

the people that are going in there um that aren't in shape, that are trying,

they're trying their best. And so it's like, you know, I feel I always feel like the gym is a pretty supportive environment. There are a lot of people

who just can't get over that barrier to walk into any a gym, a studio, or

whatever. But if they can get access to the right information from someone who's

as talented as you are and start to utilize that, you know, whatever. It's

not an kettle bells aren't expensive, are they? No. Like I mean you can get one bell

like and cuz I do I trainers in it. So I'm like and then when they set up their studio I'm like well you don't need a

whole bunch of bells. You cuz the position and holds of a kettle bell will change your workout. And that's why I

can guide people on, you know, you get this bell. I always say people say, "What do I need for bells?" Well, what

can you afford to do? Can you do one? Then this is what you're going to need. If you can do two, go here. Right? So,

there's different ways that you can navigate that. But ultimately, if we were just to say, what's the average cost of any bell?

Any bell. So, you can probably get a 15 Well, I'm trying to think. I was in Walmart the other day. You can get a 15

pound bell for I think $25. $25, right?

$25. And then an online course and then a pull-up bar. That's not expensive.

Yeah. And push-ups are free. Push-ups are free. You can do them anywhere. Yours is a really comprehensive program.

It's everything that you need all in one place. Um, and people have this opportunity to

to really dig into uh what it's going to take to get them from where they are in that moment to where they want to go.

Um, that's powerful. That's like that's an amazing thing. That's one of the things I I really felt when I first saw

your stuff. I was like, "Oh, we have to have her on the show. We she has to come be on the show." Uh, that's a long

flight from Canada Canada to come down here to be on this show. But um I felt it was super important. The reason being

is that um you can help so many people. Well, all cause mortality

drops dramatically when we have fitness injected into it. So when you can get

somebody to break that barrier of okay, I can't go into a gym, I can't go to a studio, I can't go anywhere else, but I

can do it in my safest place and I can do it with somebody that doesn't cost very much money. I could get access to

an applic uh an app and I can get trained um using this. That's pretty

darn cool. Yeah. My when I did my 12week program is my favorite one that I've ever done

because it's like body weight first for four weeks and it's because people will always say,

"Well, I don't have kettle bells yet." Because they'll they'll reach out and connect with me. I'm like, "Well, you don't need kettle bells yet." Because

you have to be able to move first. right? And just the foundations of that. So, you know, it's just just getting

people to do that first step, right? And not in a way that's so overwhelming

because people, like you said, January 1, everybody starts hard. They go hard, but they they don't know how to time

management, right? Like when you keep adding things into your day, something's going to fall off, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Or people go, that's the other thing, because they don't know what they're doing. They go too hard. Mhm.

And then they they throw themselves off. I just think what you're doing is so fascinating and you bring such a

Movement Friends and Gratitude

positive energy. So in your pathway to peak performance, um there are times when life is hard.

Mhm. Not everything goes our way. Where do you go? How do you handle that?

So bell is always a good place for me. movement. That's usually where I go and

just I've leed over time that to feel stuff,

sit with it because if you don't, it just it brews up. I used to have a rule

with my kids. I'm like 5 minutes, go set your timer in your room.

So, I mean, whatever. And I've whatever I teach them, I I do myself. And sometimes it'll be like, well, I

probably need 20 minutes, maybe 30 minutes or more. And just knowing that

again, when you rep training, you're not just repping training, you're

repping life. So you try, try try, muscle breaks down, you're tired. What

do you have to do? You have to rest. So it's just understanding that. And

don't get me wrong, there are days where things are not always the easiest, but I think having a good circle of friends,

maybe one or two, it doesn't have to be big. So, when you have those days that are heavy, they're they're there to go,

it's okay. You got this. Get back up. Yeah. I think that's someone to be that

you can be completely honest with and really like call it like it is. Yeah. Um, we all have people,

associates, right? But you don't they don't really know you. No. And that person that you can actually

say, "Oh, I'm feeling super hot." Right. Where you can be completely real.

Yeah. This is what's really going on for me right now. Um, it's uh that's a rare

thing and it's important to have that. Um, so in your pathway to peak

performance, you when you get into those moments where it's tough, you're gonna

go to movement. Um, you're going to tap tap in with some

friends, uh, check your thinking, and then is there a third component,

which is to sort of like just sort of pause and reflect and let things

go where they go? For me, gratitude's big. Yeah. Well, I don't there's no thinking about it. Every day I wake up,

first thing I do is write gratitude. And I do it in the morning because it sets the tone for my day. And I can tell you

that there's been days where I have literally written I woke up and you're grateful that you woke up.

And I'm grateful I woke up. And that has helped me tremendously on some of the

hardest times. And I want to share a quick thing of my daughter cuz I said to her the other day, this is probably a month ago. I'm like I said, "You need to

start adding gratitude at the beginning of your day." And then I said to her, I said, "But you might rep it." I said, "A

lot." Cuz I'm a rapper. Like rep I rep it. Said cuz I said, "Sometimes I'll write the same thing." And so we had a

conversation not too long ago. And she's like, "Mom, I'm doing my gratitude." And I'm like, "Great." I said, "Is it you

repping the same stuff?" And she's like, "No, I'm like I just want to be really super present." So I just sit with it

and I really think about that exact moment. And I'm like, "Oh my god, she

just taught me something." Because I was like, I get into the habit of repping

things so much that it becomes a rep and not a present. So I I phoned her up and I was like,

"Okay, you thank you. You taught me." And today I said, "So then I shared with her what, you know, what my gratitude

was that day." But gratitude is a big one for me. Gratitude gives me faith. You know, that's great. I um that's a

great takeaway. Um, if everyone were to wake up every day and write a gratitude list,

you know, you think about it, right? We have clean water, we have a place to live, we have food.

So, if we go back to like, you know, Masela's hierarchy of needs, so air,

water, food, shelter, and as we go up through those layers all the way up to

self-actualization, yeah, to be grateful um, is incredible. I'm

going to start I I'm going to do that. I'm going to start to do that um based on that because I don't do that now.

To be grateful is a great place to come from and that hopefulness uh and it gives you faith and uh a great

outlook. That's tremendous. All right, last thoughts of of um you know, hey uh

what should people know? What what uh what other than gratitude? What other what's something that you want to say to

the world? um would like to say it's okay to be scared to start something. Start it

Start Scared Go Anyway

though. Just start. Just start. Most things that I've done, I've done terrified and I'm like, I'm just going

to do it. And I guess that's the faith piece. I always when I come to deciding

about doing things, I always go ask myself, am I going to regret this? And I know it sounds morbid when you say, am I

going to regret this on my last breath? And I can always decide right away. I'm

like, "Oh, yeah. I would regret that." So, I'm going for it, you know, go for it. One shot.

Regret it. And if you didn't if I didn't do it, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you don't if you don't

try, you never you never know. There's so many people that they get to a place and they say, "That's it. I I'm"

and if they just push through. I've heard that. It's so crazy, right? It's

like um I'm gonna try until I just It doesn't If it doesn't work out, well, it

doesn't work out, right? There's an honesty in that. Yeah. Which is pretty powerful. Yeah.

Farewell and Channel Outro

Well, my friend, welcome to the United States of America. Uh and thank you for so much for coming

down. Uh that was a long trip and we appreciate you coming all the way from Canada to see us.

Appreciate you having me and I'm hope we'll probably get to do some push-ups before we leave. Yeah, for sure. without a doubt.

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