April 3, 2026

Influence vs Manipulation — Do You Know the Difference?

Influence vs Manipulation — Do You Know the Difference?

What are you scared to say out loud? That is where this conversation with Brett Bartholomew starts. We get real about the stuff people usually avoid: • Fertility struggles • Frozen embryos • Messy divorces • What dating looks like when you are trying to stay open without inviting chaos. Then we get into Brett’s wheelhouse. Communication, persuasion, and why trying to “be logical” in an argument almost never works. We talk about how people actually make decisions, how to motivate someone who d...

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Season 1

What are you scared to say out loud? That is where this conversation with Brett Bartholomew starts.

We get real about the stuff people usually avoid:
• Fertility struggles
• Frozen embryos
• Messy divorces
• What dating looks like when you are trying to stay open without inviting chaos.

Then we get into Brett’s wheelhouse. Communication, persuasion, and why trying to “be logical” in an argument almost never works. We talk about how people actually make decisions, how to motivate someone who does not want to listen, and how to influence without turning into a manipulative jerk.

We also get into introverts, social burnout, and a simple relationship tool Brett calls “hot zones” that can save you from a lot of unnecessary blowups. Plus a look at his book The Anti-Hero Advantage and why the idea of the “perfect leader” is mostly nonsense.

If you want better conversations, stronger boundaries, and a few honest laughs along the way, this one delivers. 🎙️

00:00 - Welcome And Radio Show Spin-Off

02:05 - Travel Stories And Marriage Milestones

06:40 - Fertility Journeys And Frozen Embryos

14:40 - Dating Apps And Emotional Landmines

22:20 - Persuasion Versus Manipulation In Real Life

33:40 - Eating Disorder Hospital And Learning People

43:35 - Social Agility And Improv Style Drills

50:25 - Writing A Book And Landing A Publisher

58:20 - Anti-Hero Leadership And Healthy Boundaries

01:02:35 - Surprise Guest Joel And Coaching Reality

01:05:05 - Foster Kids Graduation Invite And Wrap

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Okay, so welcome to our podcast.

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This is a little bit different today because this podcast is a spin-off of our radio show.

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Yeah, look at you.

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You look like you look well rested.

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Have you been traveling a lot?

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Did I what?

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Have you been traveling a lot or anything?

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I have you're in Hawaii like the last eight times I texted you.

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The last seven weeks I've been every weekend because Kemp Kemp Division II kept making it.

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They kept winning in their March Madness.

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You know, they kept going.

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So we were in San Diego one weekend and we had to wait to see if they won, and they won.

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Then we had to go to we had to go to San Francisco for the next weekend.

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And then at halftime, they're up by 12.

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And I'm like, man, we're gonna go to the and then they they lost by four.

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Speaking of, and this is my ADD brain, when you said San Diego, you met your wife in San Diego, right?

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You got 30 years coming up, don't you?

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How do you know that?

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Dude, you think I don't do my research?

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You don't think I pay attention?

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Wait, how long have we known each other?

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You just think I sit here and come to talk about me?

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I know shit about you that you don't even know I know about you.

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She's uh, yeah, it's her birthday today, as a matter of fact.

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I have my own version of like Lord, you watch Game of Thrones?

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Yeah, like Lord Baelish?

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I got my own little little version of the Lord Baelish, you know?

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I got spies all around you.

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That's that's true.

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Did you did you really do some Googling before you?

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No, I literally think I don't pay attention to you, but I wouldn't know I barely know my anniversary.

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Uh, you and I have a lot of commonalities, like a lot of similarities that you don't know.

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We just never get a chance to talk about them.

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Like a foot fetish?

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Uh fertility journeys, fucking having boys.

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I didn't know you you were going through fertility stuff.

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Yeah, yeah.

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I did that's how I got my son.

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I did.

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Yeah, Bronson was a miracle.

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We had everybody in the world tell us we weren't gonna have it, lost embryos.

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Oh, yeah.

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Yeah, all that, yeah, yeah.

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I mean, even like with the divorce, you know, like we lost an embryo in the process of trying to have another child, but then, you know, the byproduct, unfortunately, of the divorce is there's certain embryos that you know lost in that.

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But yeah, Bronson was like a miracle.

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You mean you got a divorce and there's frozen embryos?

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So we had five embryos when we went through our fertility journey, right?

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And this was after, oh, it's never gonna happen, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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I feel like, you know, everybody's got a story of a doctor like telling them that.

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It's like they go to some school or they're like, just tell people this.

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And then it feels like more of a miracle, mindfuck them to the max.

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You know, and then we were blessed to have Bronson.

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And so we had four other embryos.

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Um, one, we lost in that process, like when I was still married.

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And then, yeah, unfortunately, due to certain laws and regulations and divorce, you know, you don't always get to decide what happens to the remaining embryos.

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Well, so but what happened?

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Uh, well, in this case, uh, they're gonna be dissolved.

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Oh, they're gonna destroy.

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Yeah.

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We have, I have, I have, I'm sorry, let me put my phone away.

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I have, or my wife and I have um one more frozen embryo, and it is my youngest son, Dutch's twin.

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Oh, really?

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Yeah.

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So it's kind of crazy to think that there's another one of him.

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And wasn't he like a miracle, miracle, miracle?

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Like the Well Kemp, my middle son, and him are twins.

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Okay.

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But they're just two years apart.

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Yeah.

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You know how they do that.

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The first arrest.

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So from the same thing.

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Yeah.

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But there was one more there.

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So we like pay rent on him in Tucson.

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He's in a fertility clinic in Tucson.

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Yeah.

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Still.

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Uh I think it's like a hundred bucks a year or something like that.

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But it's like, what do we do?

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And then I thought, wouldn't that be wild if like he goes through infertility and then his wife was able to carry that egg, which is his twin?

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Because you know what's gonna happen.

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It's gonna get crazy as that.

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Right on, right?

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Yeah, and I mean, I at one point in time, my my now ex-wife, but we had a friend that was having trouble, went through a terrible journey, and we were considering, well, she was to be a surrogate.

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And so, like, yeah, lots of I mean, you know.

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We did that.

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We did that too.

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Yeah, I remember with Kemp, right?

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Kemp, yeah, Blake's sister carried him.

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Yeah, by the way, the podcast is on.

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That's the I understand.

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So I mean, it's good.

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No question, nothing's off limits, is it?

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No, it's not with you, is it?

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No.

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No, no, not at all.

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Okay, good because that's good.

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Because I know we I had you last time I saw you, you were on my radio show trying to find you a woman.

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Yeah, well, that was uh, oh my god.

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I have I have quit dating, thankfully.

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Have you really?

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Uh yeah.

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I mean, is everything really on?

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Like we can talk about whatever.

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You don't have like a sensitive, crazy, weird woke audience or anything.

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I don't think so.

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Okay, good.

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I don't think so.

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Yeah, I mean, I think I went on eight dates.

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Uh with the girls I set you up with?

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Or no, I think there was one because we went out, I met with two.

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Well, there was only three on that Tate.

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Yeah.

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Um, one uh maybe asked me about their kid like 30 times, was like quizzing me if I remembered the name of their kid.

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Like we could barely get through a conversation about just regular, like, hi, how are you?

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Like, you know, let's get into an actual conversation.

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It was then I get that.

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Like you hear about people's journeys.

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There are people that, you know, whether they were married before, dating before, some people like I love being a dad, and I knew what I signed up for being a dad.

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It's the best thing in the world, right?

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But you know, there's people on all sides of the equation that you meet as like, oh, my partner's not really a part of my son's life, and that could be men or women.

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But I was like getting tested constantly.

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If I remembered the name of, I'm like, yes, I know that you have one son, I know that he's 13, I know that he has a soccer tournament in Globe, like I'm paying attention.

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Um, had a lot of folks that wanted to ask me just how deep my belief in Christ went, and it was never enough to just be like, okay, yeah, I believe in a higher power.

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Yes, okay, I believe in Jesus.

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Yes, but did you know he died for our sins?

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And so I once again, this is the first 10 minutes of discussion.

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And then the most recent date, which definitely I'm now done done dating for unless it's like introductions from friends.

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Right.

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Unless it's introductions from friends.

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Went to a beautiful restaurant, had a great conversation for about 15, 20 minutes, and then I heard about everything her ex did to ruin her life.

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How him, uh apparently, along with everybody in today's world, is a narcissist.

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And you're listening, you know, you're trying to casually like steer a conversation elsewhere while showing.

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Um, but then at one point she started screaming about something he had done to her about like parent-teacher conferences and a pickup.

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And people at the restaurant thought she was yelling at me.

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So I'm trying to balance this dynamic of, you know, really being present for her.

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Because, you know, you're empathetic, you genuinely care.

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It seems like she went through a lot, but I'm also like, yo, people think you're screaming at me.

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Like, I don't know you.

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Like, I don't want that.

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So, what do you do?

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Get up and leave.

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No, no, I just I gently like touched her hand because she kept pounding the table, talking about this gentleman that that apparently had done her wrong.

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And I just said, Hey, I I'm genuinely listening, but could you please not scream?

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Because I think, and I was trying to be diplomatic.

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It's not, I think people were looking at us.

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A lot of people in the restaurant were looking at us.

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And so I just kind of put dating on the backburn.

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I mean, when I I was in just let it happen.

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Yeah, I was in a marriage for 10 years.

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I was, you know, with my ex 15 years.

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Like, I didn't have to deal with apps, you know.

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That was it.

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So I did that just enough to be like, what's the lay of the land here?

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Right.

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And then I realized, and I'm very aware of my own stuff too, but I I grew up in the Midwest.

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You don't talk about your ex, you probably don't start conversations with politics and religion.

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Just be genuinely present.

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Right.

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Like I try to be with you.

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You're a friend.

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We're just gonna give a shit about what you say and let it go from there.

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No, I think you're incredible.

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I think you're no, I really think that like you are there's so many uh single guys, there's so many single women, and you just can't find a good guy.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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So that's what they say.

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Like, I think that to find you the right, like I almost partly want to make it like my goal to find you the right person.

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One one thing I've found that works against me is I can't tell people what I do for a living anymore.

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Why?

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Um, one of the first women I went on a date with, and she was brilliant.

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I think she was like a biophysicist, really enjoyed talking to her.

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Um, and then at one point she just said, you know, I don't really think that I could see myself dating somebody like you.

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And I'm like, oh, clutching my pearls, someone like me.

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And she was like, Well, you said that you teach people how to deal with power dynamics and difficult personalities.

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So you basically teach people how to manipulate for a living.

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And I'm like, well, yes, but no.

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I turn like there are many people that use those things for ill-gotten gain.

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Like, I teach people how to deal with people for good.

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You know, we all know, I mean, anybody listening to this in the carpool lane knows that sometimes you have to say a certain thing or do a certain thing to get a result.

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I mean, even with our kids, you know, you have to kind of trick them into eating their vegetables or you have to do this.

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So I just teach people principles around persuasion and influence and behavior change for good reasons.

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You know, but I'm like, really?

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I can't say that I teach communication and persuasion.

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Well, where'd you how'd you go from that?

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Because you were, I mean, back in the day when I met you or 10 years ago or so.

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In fact, I remember when you got engaged.

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Right?

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That was I remember I remember that old.

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That's Australia on the bridge.

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Yeah, good memory.

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You do your research too.

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It wasn't research, I just remember.

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I remember when you went and then you came back, and it was like, whoa, yeah, what a story.

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Yeah.

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Um but you were a trainer.

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You were a strength and conditioning coach, right?

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So from there, and then I remember I remember we were like doing push-ups because you were training me and you said, Hey, I want to ask your advice on something.

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And I said, What?

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And you said, I had an opportunity.

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This is you saying, yeah, an opportunity to go be the Miami Dolphins strength and condition coach or uh able to own your own gym with somebody in LA, I think it was, right?

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And I I and I can't remember what my advice was, but I re if I was to think back then, I would think I would tell you to go to the gym to ownership.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Right.

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Yeah, well, I think I mean, similar to uh like I didn't want to leave Arizona, right?

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And like I think you've had opportunities in New York, and I know you've lived in Cincinnati and Houston and all these things.

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And so that point in my life, I really loved Arizona.

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I had found a niche in what I wanted to do and how I got into strength and conditioning would make a lot more sense of what I do now.

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It led to kind of how I also got out of it.

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I've always been interested in psychology, helping people overcome obstacles, kind of figuring out what drives them, what makes them tick.

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I think early on, that was strength and conditioning related because that was just a tool to help people overcome psychological obstacles.

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And I was an athlete, but as you also know, I nearly lost my life due to poor communication in a healthcare setting.

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So for me, I liked coaching more than anything.

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And so when I was a strength coach, and even during that time that you and I had met, like what I really wanted to do was find like, how can I expand beyond this?

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Because it's great making people bigger, stronger, faster, more agile, all of that.

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But like that wasn't the main thing that I loved.

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I loved the psychology.

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How do I get these guys, men and women, that are worth millions of dollars, who are world-class to do things inherently many of them don't want to do.

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Like Kemp likes to train, right?

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Yeah.

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He'll train two to three times.

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He'll do it.

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Yeah, he loves it.

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Right.

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I mean, this doesn't, this may not surprise you.

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A lot of those guys, and I'm gonna use that term universally, they don't always want to train.

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Like they want to play their sport.

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Oh, they want to play.

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But that but that's also good.

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Yeah, that's fine.

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You're right.

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But like my job as a strength coach was to get them to, you know, you're having them do things that they're inherently not always great at.

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Uh, they may not be great at deceleration technique, or they might be weak in an isometric hold of a certain extra.

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Like, and so my job was to expose them to their weaknesses so that they'd be less likely to get injured, so on and so forth.

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So that took a lot of communication strategy, right?

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Like the easiest way to get people to do something is you have to speak to their self-interest.

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And so they they wanted to play more, they wanted to make more money.

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And so I was always fascinated by what makes people tick.

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That was the through line.

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Okay.

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And so when I wrote conscious coaching, and that took off, that was my first book, and that took off into other industries.

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I was like, holy shit, I'm really now, I have an avenue to do what I really love doing, helping people, no matter what their profession is, what their walk of life is, deal with how to influence, get more effort out of people, uh, deal with difficult personalities, basically help people make more progress.

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So now I do conflict uh resolution stuff with companies.

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I go in and do all kinds of clinics and seminars on everything from how to build buy-in with staff or how to get more out of this person or how to deal with a dickhead boss.

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Ironically, done a lot of relationship counseling now, um, which I thought my credibility on that would have taken a hit, given a lot of people.

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Were you talking about serious like one-on-one with a couple?

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Yeah, I mean, like just people that were coming to me for executive coaching, let's say from a certain company, right?

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And initially they wanted to deal with uh how do I manage this staff and what have you.

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Now they're like, well, can I shift gears and talk to you about some things I'm dealing with with my husband?

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So for me, I loved coaching.

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And I think that's also where like I loved that you had an improv background because I started a lot of what you have to do when you deal with people.

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I would imagine when you're interviewing me or when you're on John Jay and Rich, you have to rely on your background to ask certain questions to understand where to steer that conversation or how to help them.

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So I always love people, and and that's kind of how that convergence took place is how do I help people deal with deep dark shit that they all deal with?

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So let me jump back to manipulation.

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What is a what is a tool that you've used when you're dealing with someone because you're dealing with football players, right?

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I mean, in the beginning.

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In the beginning.

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I know some of the guys you train, big football players, famous football players.

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Sure.

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If they wouldn't do something, is there a trick you use, just kind of like you with your son?

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Yeah.

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So a common uh like question, and this will lead to the example is a coach was asking me recently how I say coach, you mean coach like Yeah, this is a real, this is like a sport example.

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Like, yeah, but when you but when the example, is it a coach that we would know?

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Is it a coach that's yeah, but I can't say the name, just yes.

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You say is it NCAA or N C double A.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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What sport?

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What sport?

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Football.

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Okay.

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And there are certain things that are not mandatory, just like in the NFL or like NFL, they have uh collective bargaining agreements where certain athletes they can choose whether they show up for certain workouts at certain times, right?

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But this guy's like, how do I incentivize it so they make the right choice?

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They come, they do the workouts, they and I'm like, well, the thing about incentives, whether it's kids, whether it's getting your spouse to put you know their dirty laundry away or maybe cook dinner once a night, like once a week or something, is pay attention to what they already care about.

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For athletes, a lot of that's recognition.

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You know, they want they want a social rewards, they want to be known as the hardest worker, they want to be known as this.

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For certain people, of course, it's money and financial rewards.

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So I'm like, you're not having trouble incentivizing them.

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You're not paying attention to what already incentivizes them.

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And I ask them, what does this person care about the most?

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What do you mean?

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I don't know.

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You ask the coach, not a player.

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What does it because that's what does this player care about the most?

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Yeah.

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And he says, I don't know.

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Yeah.

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And then I push him a little bit more.

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And he's like, well, he wants to be recognized as, you know, he likes being known that he's the hardest worker in the room.

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And I'm like, well, use that against him.

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All you have to do is use a little of what's called a pooria.

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And kind of some people would say this is gaslighting.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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But a pooria is like, hey, you consider yourself one of the hardest workers on the team.

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You consider yourself the one of the most dedicated guys on the team.

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You say that, right?

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Yeah.

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Well, then why isn't your ass showing up for the voluntary workouts?

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Set the example that you say you want to set every day.

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So sometimes, I mean, and I do that with my son.

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He wanted to be a T-Rex when he was five.

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I go, buddy, you're not eating your dinner.

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Wouldn't a T-Rex eat all of his dinner?

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You're not gonna be a very big T-Rex.

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So it can be simple things like that.

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But as you know, people are not rational.

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So they'll the I think here's a better answer.

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The least effective way to get somebody to do something, whether it's your mother to go to the gym two days a week, somebody to save money for their retirement, their kids to eat their vegetables, whatever, the least effective way is using logic.

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People don't want stats and all of that.

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They don't.

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People are emotion driven, right?

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They're they're inherently, we're all inherently selfish to a degree.

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I mean, is there anybody that really doesn't know they need to get more sleep, brush their teeth, get outside?

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You can give them all the stats in the world.

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They're not gonna do it.

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That'll make them push back.

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Right.

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So I always try to get them to understand the emotional levers of what makes people do the things that they want to do.

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Yeah, logic is a big pushback for me.

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Like being a firstborn, being a Virgo, like that's uh like there's certain things that fall under that umbrella of being, and sometimes I'll tell my wife when we get in arguments, I'll be like, okay, logically, blah, blah, blah.

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And then I'll sit there and I'll go, it's emotion.

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Yeah, for the emotion.

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Logic is never that our first, when people are like, think logically, that biologically goes against how we're hardwired, right?

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The the amygdala, all these parts of what people colloquially call our like reptilian brain, that makes the decision first.

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And then your vocabulary is awesome.

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I forgot about that, Brett.

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Our prefrontal cortex is just like, oh no, now do this.

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So somebody gets an iPhone, they don't think, oh, well, this can help me with this.

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And they're like, that shit looks cool.

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They're gonna do this.

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And then they're like, oh, but it would also be good for work.

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So we always go emotion first, human beings, and then we reinforce that with logic.

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So that's logic is the worst way to persuade somebody if you really want to know about how to effectively manipulate.

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And also that term, somebody listening to this has manipulated the volume.

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Right.

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Yeah, they manipulate the thermostat.

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That term just means to wield something skillfully.

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But most people think it's negative.

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Yeah, they think it means to like shit on somebody, you know, or like just do something unethically.

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Right.

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But that's their own experience with that language.

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But where did this all come from for you?

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Like, I mean, you you you were where'd you go to college in Nebraska?

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No, Kansas State.

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Kansas State.

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It came from when I was hospitalized.

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I mean, when I spent that's where you learned everything.

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Yeah, when I was in, I mean, and I don't know how deep you want to go in, I'll cover whatever.

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But I mean, I spent uh collectively eight plus months of my life in an eating disorder hospital as a teenager.

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Right.

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I saw the pictures are unbelievable.

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And you would hear nurses and doctors talk about patients as if they were things.

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Oh, like, can you believe this person's doing this?

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And, you know, it wasn't so much treatment as what's really going on here.

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As you know, with like with addiction or any kind of underlying disorder, it's it's never the thing.

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Like most alcoholics aren't like, oh my God, I love the taste of vodka.

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Right.

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You know, there's something underlying that people are either running towards or running from.

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For me, my eating disorder at that time is I didn't know how to deal with stress.

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Parents were going through a divorce.

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A lot of my friends got into hardcore drugs, things like that.

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Working out was a refuge for me.

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And I took it to an extreme.

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It was how I dealt with anger, it was how I dealt with anxiety.

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I started doing radical dying, eating low-fat uh dieting, eating low fat, low carb, because that's what men's health told me.

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I'm like 14.

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But when I was in this hospital, they're not really worried about the root cause of why this 56-year-old woman's in there or why I'm in there.

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They're just giving you medication, Zoloft, they're tri they're feeding you six, seven thousand calories a day.

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And for me, my interest was always like, how the fuck can people like how is this reality?

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How is this treatment?

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How are these people that are supposed to be caring for people, like, how is this what they think is helpful?

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And they would treat you like shit.

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They would talk down to you, they'd be rude to you.

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And so, like, that was when I started looking at the room of other patients too.

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This woman was the middle of nine children.

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Her eating disorder was a way to get attention early on in her family.

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Another one, husband cheated on her.

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I think I've told you this, a junior Olympic wrestler, his dad beat him after not making weight.

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So every day was a PhD in psychology.

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Are you taking mental notes?

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Are you taking are you like I mean, as much as a 14 to 15 year old, I'm taking mental notes thinking, holy, there's like we have these group therapy sessions, and I'm understanding that these people and that work for the hospital are not really listening.

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And when they leave the room, the patients talk about the real stuff in their lives.

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And I think that was my first understanding of people were very rarely reveal to you what they're thinking, what they want, what they need, unless it's informal or they're in a psychological state where they feel comfortable around you.

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And so that would be another quote unquote ethical use.

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I'm not gonna say that every time I, you know, like manipulation, like the one thing I teach my son, even at this young age, is in essence, if you want somebody to change your behavior or do what you want in a good way, the first step is get them in an emotional state where they're ready to even receive that message.

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You know, it doesn't matter what you have to say.

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If they're stressed or they're coming from some, you know, they've had a bad day or they're defensive, they're not gonna listen to you anyway.

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And you would see these doctors and nurses, a lot of them didn't care about what uh we all had to say.

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In their opinion, you had an eating disorder, it's one size fits all, antidepressants, anti-anxiety, stuff you with food.

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That should cure the issue.

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You know, and it doesn't.

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You know, when you talk about like teaching your son, it kind of gave me things that I do without study.

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Like I there's something that just happens as a human being, right?

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Like I try to make somebody laugh.

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Yeah.

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And when we're laughing, smiling, having a good time, then I ask him for what I need to ask, right?

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You're so that what that would be called an ingratiation tactic.

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You are incredible at this.

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You will use humor to disarm people.

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Uh-huh.

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You you downplay your own intelligence a lot, too, to kind of it's kind of like play a fool to catch a fool.

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You're good at this.

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Yes, you don't.

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I'm very disagreeable.

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Even when I watch you interact with you, you are so filled with humor and joy and a fun energy.

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It's incredibly disarming.

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And so you could have Demi Lovato here, Taylor Swift, Marshall Mathers, and they're all gonna open up to you to a degree because you don't seem like you have an agenda.

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How come you didn't say Eminem?

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You said Marshall Mathers.

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I mean, because I mean Sounds like your friends.

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For all you know, he's a client.

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Have you trained?

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You can't.

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No, no, no, no.

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No.

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Um, but you are good.

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You need to like that is something that I study from you.

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I and I you don't know this, but I've actually used you when I give lectures.

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I talk about, and I I I don't always use your name because I want to respect your privacy.

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But you are incredibly disarming, and your interview style is so organic and natural, and you can tell that you have an impact.

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Prov background because you're loose with it, but you can always take that through line that maybe was 10 minutes ago and bring it back to close something out.

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And that's that's a byproduct of your mind.

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And I would imagine some aspect of your well, it's just that when you when you write a book like conscious coaching, like your your background, you're using a lot what happened to you in the hospital, right?

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But also your college education.

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But like you just came up with the words that I was using.

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Are those words you are those definitions you came up with, or those are real definitions?

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In terms of like, you mean like when I told you what I did.

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It's called ingratiation.

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Yeah, well, that's just like a blend of like I understand there's a wide range of listeners.

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Some people just like the common term, like getting, but that also is a research term.

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Like that's my doctorate.

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Right.

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That's so like I went full nerd as I transitioned into different careers.

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Cause I mean, again, my fascination with what makes people tick, and then how can I help others?

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Because I think social connection is the most important thing in this world.

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Like, uh like if I had, I've thought about doing a non-for-profit multiple times where I help kids in school learn how to be better communicators, express their feelings, be more.

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Because of social media and texting and phones.

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I mean, I think that amplifies.

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I feel there's a massive disconnect with the world.

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The social attributes.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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It's like I read this thing that most kids like uh under 24 haven't been on a date, never talk to anybody at a bar, never do anything.

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I believe like most people under 24 are virgins.

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They they show that all cause mortality now, like when you look at when people that don't get enough sleep or smoke cigarettes and all that, obviously that raises mortality risk.

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They found that poor social connections raise all cause mortality as high, if not higher, than smoking in certain circumstances.

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Because think about that anxiety and depression and feelings of isolation and COVID only amplified that.

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And so, like, my job and what I do for a living actually is teach people social agility, no matter what this person's personality is, and if that person's hard to get to, like, how can you find an in-roads with somebody that seems even the most closed off or neurodiverse or really angry?

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Because there's a lot of people that, and this is a lot of what my next book is about.

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How do you open up the anti-heroes of the world, the misfits, the underdogs, those of us that oftentimes are kind of looked down on because we're different, they're the most interesting people a lot of times.

00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:15.759
So, will you do drills with these people?

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Yeah, a lot of improv.

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Do a lot of improv drills, like uh uh a freeze tag?

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So we'll do things like that to kind of warm them up, you know.

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But like when we do it, we'll literally put them in scenario.

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Think of athlete scrimmaging.

00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:37.759
So, like, think of Kemp if he was working on a certain drill in a certain scenario, or if if somebody plays another sport, or even like when I box competitively, okay, this round, I want you to work the body.

00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:41.839
We would take somebody and say, what stresses you out or what opens you up?

00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:43.680
What's give me some context?

00:24:43.839 --> 00:24:54.400
And then we'd put them in a role-playing scenario that's like, okay, you have three minutes to try to get this person to just relax, open up, maybe laugh, use anything you can.

00:24:54.480 --> 00:24:56.559
And then we don't give them any tools at the beginning.

00:24:56.720 --> 00:24:58.640
We try to just get an idea of where they're at.

00:24:58.799 --> 00:25:07.119
And then over the course of you know, the hour or the two days, however long the course is, we give them little techniques and tactics and we put them back in those scenarios.

00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:10.400
But you do this to them in front of other people.

00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:11.599
See, that's like so.

00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:13.519
I I do you know who Jesse Itzler is?

00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:14.480
Uh I've heard his name.

00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:15.279
He used to come.

00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:17.039
Wait, he came to Exos a couple times ago.

00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:19.039
Did he he's the guy triathlete?

00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:20.240
Oh, he's definitely a runner.

00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:20.480
I know.

00:25:20.799 --> 00:25:21.119
Yeah, runner.

00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:25.039
He's a guy who's like um he started Zico Coconut Water.

00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:26.720
He started uh a bunch of different companies.

00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:27.680
I maybe think somebody else.

00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:31.920
He's a really now he's speaking and doing he's like you know, he's just on tour.

00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:38.880
I've met him a few times, and I went to his house in Georgia in how it was a little town called what town was it?

00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:40.720
Some little town outside of outside of Atlanta.

00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:42.720
And I met his house, there was about 20 of us.

00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:46.880
And it was a sauna cold plunge day.

00:25:46.960 --> 00:25:47.599
Yeah, right.

00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:49.200
So I'm excited to be there.

00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:50.480
You got a whole retreat he's running?

00:25:50.880 --> 00:25:52.000
A little retreat for one day.

00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:53.839
It was like one day, get there, whatever it was invitable.

00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:54.319
It was really cool.

00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:55.759
For elites, but for what?

00:25:55.920 --> 00:25:57.440
For elites, for like high class people.

00:25:57.680 --> 00:25:59.039
No, it was no, no, no, no.

00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:09.519
There was 20 of us, but there was like you know, 19, 20 year olds, there was a lady who lost her house in the Palisade Fire, there was a couple athletes, you know, and then it was me, and I, you know, I didn't fit in.

00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:14.079
And uh, I was sitting there and it was he was talking, and it was so interesting to hear this guy speak.

00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:23.039
And then he says, where someone like me, my stomach just uh oh, he says, I want everybody to get up here and stand up in front of the group and tell us your story.

00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:24.319
Oh, that's brutal for anybody.

00:26:24.559 --> 00:26:25.680
Yeah, I wouldn't want to say that.

00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:28.160
Yeah, oh my God, I didn't sign up for I don't want to.

00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:30.720
If I would have known we're gonna do that, I don't want to come here.

00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:33.599
I I want I didn't, I was praying to God it wouldn't come to me.

00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:39.680
And at one point, they they go around, we're sitting on a hill in his backyard, and we're they're going, This person is going, this person's going.

00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:46.079
Then it's coming to me, and the guy next to me, this guy right here, he taps me on the knee and he goes, You're gonna be okay.

00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:47.519
He goes, You're gonna be okay.

00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:52.000
And I thought it was so weird, like he could tell that I was like so stressed.

00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:52.720
Yeah, paying attention.

00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:54.480
And then I got up there and I did it, and I was fine.

00:26:54.559 --> 00:26:56.079
But it's like this is what you do for a living.

00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:57.279
Yeah, but it's it's not.

00:26:57.359 --> 00:26:59.920
It's like I sit in a room, in a little room with people that I know.

00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:02.799
When you're out of context, and I think too, go ahead.

00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:03.680
And I think talk about it.

00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:04.240
That's it.

00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:06.160
It was just so I can't imagine.

00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:09.359
Think of that person next time you say, hey, in front of the group, get up and tell yourself.

00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:10.720
We want you to get up and do it all.

00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:14.880
Uh yeah, we are so we don't do it like that so much as, and I probably did a poor job explaining.

00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:15.599
Very poor.

00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:17.119
We'll break them, we'll break them out.

00:27:17.279 --> 00:27:20.720
So let's say everybody in this room was doing it, or let's say there was eight people in the room.

00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:24.960
We won't bring people up and be like, in front of everybody, mortal combat fight, you know.

00:27:25.759 --> 00:27:27.119
We we have them break off.

00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:32.079
And we what we do is we we create very low stakes situations early on.

00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:38.079
And then just again, like athletes, and this is where my background as a coach helped, you know, it'd be like somebody comes in the weight room the first time.

00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:40.400
You don't throw them into a murder workout.

00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:45.039
You know, you're like, hey, let's make sure your squat form's good and let's do this, let's set you up for success.

00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:50.799
So we we warm them up into it, you know, we may, and then we make sure that everybody's spread out.

00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:51.920
We'll say divide up.

00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:59.759
Like we just did this with the Texas Rangers during spring training, uh, their staff and and uh some members of their front office and the Boston Red Sox as well.

00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:01.680
We've done stuff like this out at Apple.

00:28:01.839 --> 00:28:08.480
And so we'll we'll kind of set the stakes for them, low stakes, and then we'll say divide up, find a partner, lock and load.

00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:10.799
And when you say that, it's give giving you the point of view.

00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:12.079
I'm gonna sorry to interrupt you.

00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:12.720
No, you're fine.

00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:14.400
But to be like uh find a partner.

00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:15.920
Oh God, I don't know anybody here.

00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:16.880
Why do I gotta find a partner?

00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:18.480
Yeah, I'd rather you tell me that's my guy.

00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:19.680
But we'll do that for some good.

00:28:20.160 --> 00:28:24.400
So like I'm giving you the point of view of someone who's insecure, antisocial, introvert for most part.

00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:27.599
Yeah, no, I'm like when I go to church, growing up, when I go to church, I was Catholic.

00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:31.119
When they did Peace Be With You, you know the part of the hard, yeah, it was the worst.

00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:33.680
Now, as an adult, when I know it's coming, that's when I go to the bathroom.

00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:34.160
That's smart.

00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:36.799
Yeah, and then sometimes I'll come to the bathroom, I come back and they hadn't done it yet.

00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:37.759
And I'm like, oh my God.

00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:43.119
Well, and correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I think something that like so one of when you had me on for the speed dating, and I'm thinking of the idea.

00:28:43.359 --> 00:28:44.160
You were great, you were great.

00:28:44.319 --> 00:28:44.880
Thanks.

00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:46.799
Um, but I had never done anything like that.

00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:52.640
And I'm like, what's one question that could teach me a lot about somebody without them feeling like they've been interrogated?

00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:53.599
Because that stuff's important.

00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:55.119
I don't want to feel that on the date.

00:28:55.279 --> 00:28:56.480
Yeah, no, no, no, no.

00:28:56.720 --> 00:28:58.160
You you wanted me to have some questions.

00:28:58.319 --> 00:28:58.960
Oh, right, right, right.

00:28:59.200 --> 00:28:59.279
Right?

00:28:59.839 --> 00:29:00.240
Yeah, yeah.

00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:14.240
And one question that I asked that I made sure to answer myself first, that that relates back to what you're just saying, that existential dread of like, oh my God, I don't want to was what's one thing most people misunderstand about you?

00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:18.079
And there were some interesting answers on the speed dating, if you remember.

00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:20.640
But I thought, well, what is that for me first?

00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:23.039
Because I always turn my own stuff on me first.

00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:27.039
There's nothing I teach that I I like to turn myself inside out.

00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:33.680
I have just the right amount of self-hate because like I've turned myself every which way.

00:29:34.079 --> 00:29:36.880
I know all my flaws, I know all of this.

00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:45.759
And um, I'm like, well, I think what most people misunderstand about me is that I like to talk a lot or that I want to be the center of attention.

00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:46.400
I don't.

00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:51.519
I don't want to, I would, I would be the same way if you were on if I was on that couch.

00:29:51.680 --> 00:30:03.839
Because in my context of what I do, I have to be that center of attention because I'm being paid to speak or consult or, you know, and I have to be on sometimes for two to three days at a time teaching.

00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:07.279
When I'm not in that context, I'm kind of reclusive.

00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:11.680
Like if you were ever around me without microphones on, whatever, like I'm boring.

00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:13.920
I'm I like to chill at home.

00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:15.599
I like to go hike alone.

00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:17.200
I like to yeah.

00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:23.920
I mean, like if I had when I was with a partner, I'd have, but like I very much like my solitude and I'm chill.

00:30:24.079 --> 00:30:25.119
Like I had to go.

00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:28.799
I uh do you know CB Dolloway used to fight in the UFC?

00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:31.200
I feel no, I'm really nice guy.

00:30:31.599 --> 00:30:38.240
Sounds familiar, but yeah, he's retired now, but his daughter turned one and he was like, Oh, I'd love you to come and meet my daughter, and I'd love you to meet my wife.

00:30:38.319 --> 00:30:40.319
And of course, as a friend, I want to do those things.

00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:42.240
So this is not a reflection of C B.

00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:49.759
But the fact that I had to go be social on a Saturday night on a rare case that I wasn't teaching or anything like that, I was like, I don't want to do this.

00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:54.079
I want to just stay home, probably rewatch Game of Thrones or success.

00:30:54.559 --> 00:30:55.519
How long are you there for?

00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:56.880
Two and a half hours.

00:30:57.039 --> 00:30:58.319
Oh man, that's a long time.

00:30:58.480 --> 00:30:58.799
Yeah.

00:30:59.039 --> 00:31:02.640
But you know, I then what I try to do is just make it about other people.

00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:02.960
Right.

00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:05.920
I, you know, I try to ask his wife a lot of questions, genuinely.

00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:07.039
I give a shit.

00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:09.920
Um, same reason I would rather not talk about myself the whole time.

00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:10.880
I'd rather talk about you.

00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:14.799
You have an absolutely intriguing story, and every time I'm around you, it's always about me.

00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:16.000
Well, I'm interviewing you.

00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:17.359
It's a conversation then.

00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:18.799
You know what I was gonna ask you this?

00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:19.440
Maybe this is really stupid.

00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:20.559
Look at he did it so ready.

00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:22.240
No, no, I was thinking about your book, Conscious Coaching.

00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:25.920
First of all, I I always have the visual of Tom Hanks holding that book up from Instagram.

00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:26.720
That is so cool.

00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:27.279
How'd that happen?

00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:29.200
Was that do me a favor, hold this up?

00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:33.279
Or I think uh a friend of a friend of a friend made something happening.

00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:33.839
You know what I mean?

00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:34.480
That's so good.

00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:35.519
Yeah, that's so good.

00:31:35.759 --> 00:31:36.400
But it's like that.

00:31:36.640 --> 00:31:37.279
So that's an example.

00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:38.160
Can I interrupt you real quick?

00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:38.799
Yes, yes, yes.

00:31:39.039 --> 00:31:43.279
That's an example of something that I'm horrible at sometimes, or that um marketing.

00:31:43.759 --> 00:31:48.079
I'm not horrible at it, but like it, like the average person, it makes me uncomfortable.

00:31:48.240 --> 00:32:00.240
So for my next book, the one that comes out this December, we just got a four-star general, Stanley McChrystal, who led the uh special task force for the United States against Al-Qaeda to write an endorsement.

00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:06.960
Steven Pressfield, who wrote The Legend of Bagger Vance and a book that inspired the movie 300, wrote an endorsement for the book.

00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:24.960
And I had to reach out to these folks and find the right way to convey genuine respect, make my book make sense to them in the shortest amount of time possible to not waste their time, and then ask two people who are world-renowned who don't know me to read my manuscript and endorse it.

00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:28.480
That terrifies me like it would the average person.

00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:32.160
So you you reached out to the general on your own through a friend, a friend of a friend?

00:32:32.559 --> 00:32:41.920
Well, my editor knew his editor, okay, and I said, I want to, I would really love based on what this book talks about, to see if we could get an endorsement.

00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:48.880
Now, mind you, I have certain people that are like behavioral economists at university.

00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:50.480
They're like, I don't have time.

00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:51.519
Or there's another thing.

00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:53.839
Oh, I get shut down all the time.

00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:54.240
Right.

00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:59.279
And and like then there are some that are like, uh, I don't do blurbs.

00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:04.559
You know, they've apparently gotten to such celebrity status, they've forgotten what it's been like to do this.

00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:06.640
And you know, like you come with humility.

00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:10.000
I could sit here and name drop and whatever, but like I know you can.

00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:14.480
I like, but it's tough because you have to choose people that relate to the material.

00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:22.880
It's not like I would just like cold reach out to Josh Brolin and be like, hey, I have a book called The Anti-Hero Advantage when you you have to understand their world and reach out to them.

00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:24.160
But like that stuff is not comfortable.

00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:26.720
You can reach out to them and ask them to give you a blurb as Thanos.

00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:27.599
Exactly.

00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:29.039
Well, because that was a misunderstood.

00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:45.519
And so that's the thing that again I admire you for is you think about all the people you've interviewed, whether as part of John Jay and Rich or your own endeavors, you have to find the through line and the thing that they care about and find a way to open them up and make them feel genuinely cared for, interested in.

00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:49.680
And I think it works for you, unlike a lot of people, because you are genuinely interested.

00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:51.599
But that takes a lot out of you, does it not?

00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:52.720
Sometimes exhausting.

00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:53.359
That's what I mean.

00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:53.680
Yeah.

00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:55.279
Like what you said about Saturday night.

00:33:55.359 --> 00:33:56.240
That would have wiped me out.

00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:56.720
Yeah.

00:33:56.960 --> 00:33:57.200
Right?

00:33:57.440 --> 00:33:58.160
But you did, yeah.

00:33:58.319 --> 00:33:58.480
Yeah.

00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:03.039
I and that's I think something that what's something miss most people misunderstand about you.

00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:04.960
You know what?

00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:05.599
That's a good question.

00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:07.440
But I try to be an open book as much as I can.

00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:08.159
So I don't know.

00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:10.559
Sometimes it has nothing to do with not being open.

00:34:11.039 --> 00:34:13.760
Well, people think that I'm a I'm an extrovert, and I don't think I am.

00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:15.760
I think I'm very far from that.

00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:20.239
Like, I like the happiest I am is when I'm totally bored.

00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:20.880
Yeah.

00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:22.639
That's the happiest that makes sense.

00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:26.320
I got a new couch today, and I've been working on this couch trying to find a couch for three months.

00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:33.440
It got delivered today, and I sat on the couch and I had a tub of yogurt and I turned on the TV, and I thought, this is freaking awesome.

00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:34.239
I would love that.

00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:37.280
Do you know that I had about two minutes where I had to turn it off and go?

00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:37.599
Yeah.

00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:39.519
But those two minutes were freaking awesome.

00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:43.760
Well, and like didn't when you came on my podcast, I think you were talking about you sit in the hot tub in the mornings.

00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:44.320
I still do.

00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:46.079
So that's oh, go ahead.

00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:49.360
Yeah, no, I when I so when I get up in the morning, I have a little routine.

00:34:49.519 --> 00:34:51.519
Part of it is I I I have it put a gym in my house.

00:34:51.599 --> 00:34:53.519
So I do, I don't want to call it a workout.

00:34:53.599 --> 00:34:55.920
I do I try to, you know, movement is medicine.

00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:56.079
Yeah.

00:34:56.320 --> 00:34:59.920
So I try to get my body moving every way possible so that the blood's moving and everything trampoline.

00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:01.440
Yeah, the trampoline.

00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:10.480
Then I go and I get in the hot tub, and in the hot tub, I take time in there to out loud go over to the things I'm grateful for in my life.

00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:11.119
At 3 a.m.

00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:12.000
At 3 a.m.

00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:17.039
And I do it out loud, and there's nobody there, and I look at the stars, and I just feel it total peace.

00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:18.159
It's like my time.

00:35:18.320 --> 00:35:19.840
Then I get in the cold plunge.

00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:24.559
Then when I'm driving to work, I don't have anything on in the car, and I just and I do it again out loud.

00:35:24.719 --> 00:35:26.960
A little bit more spiritual, where I'm talking to God.

00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:27.119
Yeah.

00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:28.320
Or I talk to my parents.

00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:29.760
My both my parents have passed.

00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:36.159
So I talk to my parents on the way to work, and it gives me this like this reset every day that I that I do.

00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:36.880
You know what I mean?

00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:40.639
Yeah, without a that's that's what I was gonna, and there's a lot of connection points of that.

00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:45.280
The one thing, this was another question I asked in the speed dating, is like, what's one thing that instantly relaxes you?

00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:46.880
For me, that's a hot tub as well.

00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:50.079
I'll sit in the hot tub and I do like to do the same thing.

00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:55.679
I mean, people think I like certain friends think I'm touched because I'll sit out there and look at the stars for like three hours in the hot tub.

00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:57.599
I'm like, no, this is just like amazing.

00:35:57.760 --> 00:35:58.400
Yeah, it's great.

00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:03.360
And when we taught this, we I taught a course called Imperfect Relationships, and it was like a play on words.

00:36:03.519 --> 00:36:08.000
The I am is like, it looks like I'm perfect because you know everybody wants bullshit, like their relationships.

00:36:08.159 --> 00:36:11.119
Just Instagram, pray here's all our fall photos, here's this.

00:36:11.199 --> 00:36:15.920
In the meantime, you know, they have like a sex dungeon downstairs and they haven't let their husband speak in three weeks.

00:36:16.239 --> 00:36:19.519
Um, so like there's the dark bread.

00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:21.039
Yeah, oh, we can go anywhere.

00:36:21.199 --> 00:36:25.679
We can go if I didn't do what I did now, I would be a criminal profiler or a sex therapist.

00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:26.320
Wow, yeah.

00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:33.119
But um, we're talking about something I wish I would have known earlier in my relationship, is what's called a hot zone.

00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:38.000
One thing that I definitely needed to work on is I'd get home from teaching two days.

00:36:38.079 --> 00:36:40.239
I'd be traveling, what have you, I'd be on all the time.

00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:42.239
And this relates to what we've been talking about.

00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:47.440
And I'm kind of like a hot nerve then, because people will hit me with really hard questions.

00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:50.960
And I want to make sure I'm OCD about trying to help people with their prop.

00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:52.239
That's what they pay me to do.

00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:54.559
So I put a lot of pressure on myself.

00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:58.480
So when I come home from two days of teaching, I just kind of need to unwind.

00:36:58.559 --> 00:36:59.840
I need to decompress.

00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:07.119
And there would be times where my now ex-wife would come out and try to tell me like what was on the slate for Monday and the next week.

00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:10.400
And I'd be like, yo, like not, you know, this is not a great time.

00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:11.440
And I realized, you know what?

00:37:11.519 --> 00:37:16.159
I had not done a good enough job at labeling, you assume your partner knows these things.

00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:18.079
And that's the worst thing in communication.

00:37:18.559 --> 00:37:19.039
It sure is.

00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:20.559
It's the worst thing in communication.

00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:25.440
And I'm like, so when we put together this course, I was like, everybody needs to do something called hot zones.

00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:34.239
Go to your spouse or your partner or somebody you're dating or your sex slave and say, hey, here are three, here are three times where it's probably not great.

00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:39.840
And not because I don't love you or care for you or respect you, but because I'm wound up or I need to decompress.

00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:44.639
And so one of those was like the signal for me is if I'm in the hot tub, just know that I'm probably kind of chilling.

00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:50.159
And that's not, you can talk to me and I would love to listen to you, but don't tell me what I have coming up.

00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:55.280
And I think that was especially because I had my doctorate going, the book, and this book took me forever.

00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:59.199
And then I have my day job, and you know, you have all the things as a dad.

00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:01.599
And so you need some time to just chill.

00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:07.599
And so I think that's a worthwhile thing for anybody listening, is think of the three things that you would tell somebody you love or care about.

00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:11.039
These are times where I probably just it's not that I don't love you, but look at that.

00:38:11.119 --> 00:38:12.480
Well, in other words, you got to communicate.

00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:13.840
You gotta communicate and everything.

00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:14.400
Yeah, yeah.

00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:17.039
Um, your book, well, we get back to what I say about conscious coaching.

00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:20.480
So this is maybe a stupid question, but I've always tried to get the vibe of when you're writing a book.

00:38:20.559 --> 00:38:25.519
Are you had you have your laptop open and you're just like, are you going chapter one?

00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:28.320
When I was in, like, are you like are you just going to be?

00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:31.039
So conscious coaching was very different than this most recent book.

00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:33.280
Um, so do you want me to answer what it's like most recently now?

00:38:33.679 --> 00:38:36.559
I want to go conscious coaching first because that's a book that's out, was very successful.

00:38:36.719 --> 00:38:39.119
In fact, I have to do let me uh we're we're both AD.

00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:40.159
This book's out now, too.

00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:41.360
Oh, they said pre-order.

00:38:41.679 --> 00:38:44.320
Yeah, that it'll be in bookstores and airports December.

00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:45.519
It's available for pre-order now.

00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:46.239
What's it called?

00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:49.119
The anti-hero advantage through Penguin Random House.

00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:49.599
Okay, hold on.

00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:50.719
Oh, that's so legit, dude.

00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:51.599
You're so big time.

00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:52.400
Oh, yeah.

00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:54.400
You are controls me so bad.

00:38:54.719 --> 00:38:55.360
What are you talking about?

00:38:56.079 --> 00:38:58.159
Most people write a book, it's self-published on Amazon.

00:38:58.320 --> 00:38:58.480
Yeah.

00:38:59.039 --> 00:38:59.679
That was my first one.

00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:01.039
It took that to get this deal.

00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:04.559
So what you got so you so conscious coaching goes out, it's huge.

00:39:04.639 --> 00:39:06.800
And then Penguin Random House reaches out to you?

00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:07.920
Well, that's not how that went.

00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:10.480
Which question do you want me to answer first so I can respect your process?

00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:11.199
Oh, I don't care.

00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:12.480
Okay, wait, wait, wait, okay.

00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:13.440
Let me answer this one first.

00:39:13.519 --> 00:39:14.719
Oh, I'm gonna jump around.

00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:20.079
My my trainer that I have now, who has a very similar background to you, he's incredible.

00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:24.320
He is he is so starstruck that I know you.

00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:25.199
He shouldn't be.

00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:27.440
He so I actually invited him to come here today.

00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:28.159
He said no.

00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:29.039
He got out of the shit.

00:39:29.199 --> 00:39:30.239
He said yes, he's in here.

00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:32.320
He said yes, and then he freaked out and said no.

00:39:32.480 --> 00:39:32.880
Why?

00:39:33.039 --> 00:39:34.400
Because you're you're the guy.

00:39:34.719 --> 00:39:35.760
Oh, I just disappoint him.

00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:38.320
You you're the guy, like he came up this right behind you.

00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:40.480
Like he even talked about he met you one time.

00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:41.760
He's such a great guy.

00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:42.559
You would love this guy.

00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:44.159
It'd be like uh Robert Downey Jr.

00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:45.039
in Tropic Thunder.

00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:47.599
I'm the dude pretending to be the other dude playing this deal.

00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:49.119
He was so so anyway.

00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:50.079
I wanted to tell you that.

00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:50.719
His name's Chris.

00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:51.760
Maybe you can leave Chris a note.

00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:52.880
Yeah, well, Chris a note.

00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:53.679
Tell Chris something.

00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:55.840
In my illustrious five-year-old handwriting.

00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:56.960
Chris, you should have came.

00:39:57.119 --> 00:39:57.280
Yeah.

00:39:57.440 --> 00:39:58.079
You should have came.

00:39:58.239 --> 00:39:58.320
Yeah.

00:39:58.480 --> 00:39:58.719
Okay.

00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:02.320
Now, how'd you get how'd you get this publishing place?

00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:04.880
Uh yeah, it was not a fun process.

00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:07.360
So I reached out to, I knew I had something to say.

00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:11.599
Like, I don't think you should ever write a book unless something's like actually tearing out your soul.

00:40:11.760 --> 00:40:13.519
And a lot of stuff was for a long time.

00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:16.800
And then also just transitioning out of what I used to do to what I knew now.

00:40:17.039 --> 00:40:18.000
It was important for me.

00:40:18.079 --> 00:40:21.840
Like, I wanted to have something that was kind of a springboard for that, right?

00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:25.119
And allow me to kind of advance into working with the audiences I do more of.

00:40:25.199 --> 00:40:28.639
But long story short, I reached out to a buddy, asked if he knew any agents.

00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:29.920
This is after conscious coaching.

00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:32.400
Yeah, I wrote my first book in 2017.

00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:35.920
Um, I got told many times I was a pissant nobody.

00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:39.840
Uh, publishers had no idea what a strength coach was, right?

00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:46.960
Like, because a lot of people that write books through either former tech people or military people or surgeons or their famous TED Talk people or whatever.

00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:51.360
Um, uh almost every publisher I talked to is like, what's a strength coach?

00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:55.039
Why would we pick up a niche book written for strength coaches?

00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:57.280
Which at the time, to be fair, it was.

00:40:57.519 --> 00:40:59.760
But then it got picked up with a huge crossover.

00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:01.440
It's kind of like the inner game of tennis.

00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:02.239
Yeah, exactly.

00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:02.480
Right?

00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:02.800
Yeah, yeah.

00:41:03.199 --> 00:41:06.000
It's like any game, like when you look at your bookshelf, it's really like any book.

00:41:06.079 --> 00:41:12.159
You know, I have a million books by people in so many different trades, and it's never about, oh, I need to own a restaurant.

00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:14.400
It's what is this book fundamentally about?

00:41:14.639 --> 00:41:15.440
Same with film, right?

00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:19.840
Doesn't one of your sons like work at a movie store or movie theater or like love and we did he did work in movie theater?

00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:20.480
He did, right?

00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:21.039
Jake?

00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:21.679
Yeah, right.

00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:31.039
So, like movies, you can go see a movie like a Star Wars movie, and it's not really about whatever the Star Wars shit is, it's fundamentally a movie about a relationship or treachery or whatever.

00:41:31.199 --> 00:41:39.840
So, conscious coaching was really about like in in many fields that are obsessed with X's and O's, whatever that is, you could build rockets, like the technical part.

00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:41.760
How do you come back to the human piece?

00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:45.280
And how do you deal with different personality archetypes?

00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:48.079
Because you're gonna do that, whether you're working at NASA or what have you.

00:41:48.239 --> 00:41:55.679
So, yes, by the I self-published that by the grace of God, at some point it outsold like Dan Rather and Phil Knight.

00:41:55.760 --> 00:41:58.400
I have the screenshots to prove it for haters and all the science fake.

00:41:58.480 --> 00:42:00.400
Yeah, I outsold Shoe Dog at one point in time.

00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:01.920
Shoe dog's a great book.

00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:02.719
I mean, great book.

00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:05.199
This is not me telling you my book's better than Shoe Dog.

00:42:05.679 --> 00:42:06.239
Stop, I know.

00:42:06.480 --> 00:42:13.920
And so all of a sudden this book started picking up steam, and I get invited to go here and there, and I'm like, oh shit, like I need to like actually.

00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:18.239
I came from a profession that meant the mentality is like a coal miner.

00:42:18.400 --> 00:42:22.400
You're told when you're a strength coach, you are to be seen, not heard.

00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:26.880
If you have a brand, you're a sellout, first in, last out, be miserable.

00:42:27.039 --> 00:42:31.760
I got told that I would be blacklisted from that industry if for writing a book.

00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:33.519
It's just it's that kind of industry.

00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:34.800
People love being miserable.

00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:37.199
So at this point, like I just embrace it.

00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:40.480
I start speaking, I build a different company, the one that I run now.

00:42:40.639 --> 00:42:44.320
And so I had reached out to some other people saying, hey, I'm thinking about writing another book.

00:42:44.639 --> 00:42:48.159
Conscious coaching, you know, has been translated into six languages.

00:42:48.239 --> 00:42:50.480
It sold well over a hundred thousand copies.

00:42:50.639 --> 00:42:55.360
And I got people that I thought were friends telling me my agent won't touch you.

00:42:55.519 --> 00:43:00.960
They only like career writers like a Ryan Holiday, or people that write book after, but they don't want.

00:43:01.119 --> 00:43:02.079
And I'm like, time out.

00:43:02.239 --> 00:43:03.360
And I genuinely didn't understand.

00:43:03.519 --> 00:43:04.480
Ryan Holliday, he's the stoic.

00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:05.440
Yeah, the stoic guy.

00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:07.679
Or just people that what they do is just write books.

00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:08.239
Right, right, right.

00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:09.440
All they do is write books.

00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:14.559
They might speak periodically, but they're not out actually like doing the thing they write about.

00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:15.599
They're writing about it.

00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:17.360
And that's not to demean Ryan Holliday.

00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:18.800
It's just he's that's what he does.

00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:21.920
And um, and so I'm like, time out.

00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:31.119
I'm getting like blacklisted because I'm actually out there teaching members of the military and organizations how to deal with the dark side of leadership.

00:43:31.360 --> 00:43:35.199
But like, because I'm not a career author, like your agent won't talk to me.

00:43:35.360 --> 00:43:37.599
So that went and went and went eventually.

00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:42.719
Somebody who's actually the son of the agent who represents John Grisham.

00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:43.679
Okay.

00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:44.800
And and who knows?

00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:45.840
You know, I I like him.

00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:52.239
He's a great guy now, but maybe he's just his dad was like, take this piss aunt client and get him off our so his son was getting into the agent.

00:43:53.679 --> 00:43:54.159
Oh, wow.

00:43:54.320 --> 00:43:56.800
The agent of John Grisham, his son is my agent.

00:43:56.960 --> 00:43:57.199
Okay.

00:43:57.360 --> 00:43:58.800
And I think he just took a shot on me.

00:43:58.880 --> 00:43:59.760
I at some point I'm gonna.

00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:03.760
Get him drunk and find out the real story of like he uh does he have lots of clients?

00:44:03.920 --> 00:44:21.039
I don't I like we don't we haven't gotten to that line he keeps everything very uh we're friends enough that I give him shit for going to a Glow Rilla concert and being the whitest guy that I know in my life, and you know, but like you you very much still get that sense, and I wouldn't care if he heard this that like he's waiting to see what this book does.

00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:21.519
Right.

00:44:21.679 --> 00:44:25.119
And so first they didn't believe me that conscious coaching did what it did.

00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:28.480
So I had to like open up the kimono and show them the Amazon stuff.

00:44:28.639 --> 00:44:32.880
I had to write a 50-page like proposal of why I think people will give a shit about this book.

00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:36.079
They want to know everything about superficial because they want their money back.

00:44:36.400 --> 00:44:44.639
And then you pitch them on the book, they send it out to publishers, and you sit down behind Zoom and you're like, all these publishers are like, why should we give a shit?

00:44:44.719 --> 00:44:45.599
Why should we do this?

00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:46.639
And I pitched the book.

00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:51.440
I said, listen, there's a lot of books written about kind of bullshitty leadership stuff.

00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:55.119
Just be charismatic and positive, and it's gonna solve all your issues.

00:44:55.280 --> 00:44:56.880
Like you and I know that's not the case.

00:44:57.039 --> 00:44:58.639
The world is a dark place.

00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:05.119
There is a lot of egos and dipshits and personalities, and people will not always say yes to you.

00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:07.280
As a matter of fact, the majority of the time they're not.

00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:09.679
And I don't think there's a book that tells people how to deal with that.

00:45:09.760 --> 00:45:14.079
And I think it relates to 13-year-old girls who can't figure out why their friends are being catty.

00:45:14.159 --> 00:45:20.320
And I think it uh also relates to CEOs who need to understand how to get their team of people back on track.

00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:21.840
And they're like, we love it.

00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:22.880
So Wow.

00:45:23.119 --> 00:45:23.920
So what's it called again?

00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:26.320
The anti-hero advantage.

00:45:26.480 --> 00:45:26.719
Okay.

00:45:26.880 --> 00:45:28.000
It's on Amazon right now.

00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:30.480
So who are some famous anti-heroes?

00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:31.840
Uh Walter White.

00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:32.960
And I think that's a good point.

00:45:33.119 --> 00:45:34.559
So, like, that was one of their concerns.

00:45:34.639 --> 00:45:34.880
Right.

00:45:35.039 --> 00:45:42.400
They didn't want to name it that because they thought people would think of Walter White, who technically would be uh an anti-villain or more villainous.

00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:43.280
So Walter White was.

00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:44.400
You're rooting for him, though.

00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:54.239
Well, at the beginning, right, you know, and I like with marketing, no, no, this was stuff that they push me on because we're like, we can't have people think that you're writing a book telling people to be assholes.

00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:54.480
Right.

00:45:55.039 --> 00:45:56.800
And I'm like, well, that's not what the book is about.

00:45:56.960 --> 00:46:07.199
The book is simply this do we or do we not have a lot of narratives of what a leader or a hero or a good person or a great person should look like, be like an actor.

00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:07.440
Right.

00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:07.840
Yeah.

00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:13.679
They all have to have this perfect morning routine and they can't, they have to be brave and always know the right thing and be super well communicated.

00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:14.320
Positive.

00:46:14.480 --> 00:46:15.840
And that's know the janitor.

00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:18.559
Know the CEO knows the janitor, CEO knows everything, C knows everything.

00:46:18.639 --> 00:46:18.880
Yeah, right.

00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:20.880
And that's not actually the case.

00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:27.599
If you look at people like um Winston Churchill, right, had uh depression, was pretty much an alcoholic.

00:46:27.760 --> 00:46:48.239
You look at even Martin Luther King Jr., had some mental illness in his past, you look at all these people that nobody's ever really told you the real story about, but there's a lot of research that shows that darkness, that struggle, those things that made them less than in some people's eyes, is actually what helped them be tremendous leaders in a given context.

00:46:48.559 --> 00:46:52.159
And so you know what it reminds me of a little bit of Tim Grover.

00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:54.880
I've never Tim Grover was Michael Jordan's trainer.

00:46:55.119 --> 00:46:57.280
Okay, and he talks about the dark side.

00:46:57.679 --> 00:46:58.400
In what context?

00:46:58.559 --> 00:47:05.119
Uh the dark side of there's certain athletes, the best of the best of the best, Tiger Woods, dark side.

00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:06.800
Yeah, they have to have a certain other thing.

00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:08.239
Dike dark side, yeah.

00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:12.239
But also keep in mind that also applies to the 38-year-old woman in the carpool lane right now.

00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:19.519
And like for some, when I talk about an anti-hero, essentially I'm talking about somebody that they have a good balance, right?

00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:28.159
They can be empathetic, they can be loving, they can be caring, but they also know when to dial up that ethical dark side and be a little bit more assertive and set a boundary.

00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:30.480
Ethical dark side and tell somebody to piss off.

00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:30.719
Right.

00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:31.119
Yeah, yeah.

00:47:31.199 --> 00:47:33.599
That's what so what you're saying is it's okay to have that side.

00:47:33.840 --> 00:47:34.400
You have to.

00:47:34.559 --> 00:47:34.800
Right.

00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:40.559
We in society, my soapbox is this we need more balanced, socially agile people.

00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:46.079
Jake, Kemp, and Dutch need to know how to be gentlemen and thoughtful and loving.

00:47:46.239 --> 00:47:55.760
And they also need to know when to put the foot down and step a stand up for something and be a steward of like, you know, a good steward of your community doesn't mean just doing things for people all the time.

00:47:55.920 --> 00:47:56.880
It means setting boundaries.

00:47:56.960 --> 00:47:57.920
It means so good.

00:47:58.239 --> 00:48:02.000
And so, like for me, my version of that, like I'm naturally assertive.

00:48:02.159 --> 00:48:04.000
I don't have a problem with that.

00:48:04.639 --> 00:48:11.679
My my balance where I have to balance more of that anti-hero kind of ethos, is sometimes I have to be a bit more patient.

00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:13.920
I need to be a bit more calm, right?

00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:16.239
Like, what would say is your balance of opposites?

00:48:16.400 --> 00:48:18.159
What's your more natural state?

00:48:18.239 --> 00:48:19.840
Give me some terms that would describe you.

00:48:20.079 --> 00:48:21.119
My more natural state?

00:48:21.280 --> 00:48:25.760
Yeah, like I just said I tend to be more assertive, I tend to be more direct.

00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:28.079
Give me some two or three things that describe you.

00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:37.519
I think I'm well, I mean, I I I think I'm insecure about stuff because I like I wish I could put my foot down, like you're saying, but I'm afraid of the backlash.

00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:38.960
Okay, so that's a great example.

00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:49.360
So, and this would be most people, whether they, and I'm not saying you identify as this, but a lot of our audience, a lot of my audience are overthinkers, people pleasers, huge overthinker for me, huge.

00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:50.239
All of that.

00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:56.159
Um, some of them will be avoidant because they don't want to piss people off or are afraid of the backlash.

00:48:56.400 --> 00:49:03.119
In the book, we give them tools of saying, hey, here are some things that you actually need to integrate because you have an alter ego in you.

00:49:03.280 --> 00:49:12.480
You have an alter ego in you, whether it's Deborah or John Jay or Michael, whatever, that really you know that there's this part of you that you've been waiting to let off the leash.

00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:14.079
And we give you tools to do that.

00:49:14.239 --> 00:49:15.599
Here's how you can actually integrate that.

00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:16.239
That's brilliant.

00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:17.360
Wait, okay, anti-hero what?

00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:18.880
The anti-hero advantage.

00:49:19.039 --> 00:49:22.159
The anti-hero anti or anti-does it matter, anti-hero.

00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:22.800
Anti-hero.

00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:24.800
Yeah, plus it's a Tito Swift song.

00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:25.440
Yeah, I didn't know that.

00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:26.960
Every social media post you made.

00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:28.400
Now everybody's gonna think.

00:49:28.480 --> 00:49:28.639
Yeah.

00:49:28.880 --> 00:49:30.400
Hey, it's me, I'm the problem.

00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:31.119
That's her song.

00:49:31.280 --> 00:49:32.639
So those are the two parts of the book.

00:49:32.719 --> 00:49:37.119
How do I get over this version of my how do I become a more balanced version of myself?

00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:40.320
If you are a people pleaser, overly analytical, whatever.

00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:43.519
Like, what's this kind of ulterior mindset you can build?

00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:52.239
Oh, and then also how do you deal with the world as it is and the people in it, knowing how do I deal with difficult personalities, egos, attitudes, and agendas?

00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:53.199
So, how'd you write it?

00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:57.119
Like when like again, did you have a laptop open and you're like chapter one?

00:49:57.519 --> 00:49:58.800
Sporadically, because I have a date.

00:49:58.880 --> 00:50:01.920
I mean, I you know, I don't have a guaranteed income running a business.

00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:06.079
And so this isn't like uh uh JK Rowling.

00:50:06.159 --> 00:50:10.800
I didn't get to abscond to a castle with my huge advance and be like that cat gif.

00:50:11.199 --> 00:50:13.840
Um, so a mix, yes, sometimes with a laptop.

00:50:14.079 --> 00:50:25.519
Main thing is my home office, which looks like somewhere between a nightmare and a laboratory, because I have research papers everywhere or other books and you're researching this.

00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:26.480
That's what I'm saying.

00:50:26.559 --> 00:50:27.760
Like it just doesn't come from your head.

00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:30.320
Sure, some of it does, but your core message does.

00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:34.320
Do you know off the top of your head the first few words of your of your in this case?

00:50:34.400 --> 00:50:34.960
I did, yeah.

00:50:35.119 --> 00:50:36.880
Because I had very strong feelings about shit.

00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:43.199
Like you're like the very first words of the original manuscript, because the editor, you know, kind of took them out.

00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:44.400
They have their version of it.

00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:46.159
Uh how many pages is it?

00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:49.199
Uh 65,000 words, 272 pages.

00:50:49.360 --> 00:50:50.159
You have a hard limit.

00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:50.800
Is it done?

00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:51.519
Yeah, it's done.

00:50:51.920 --> 00:50:53.119
So why do you have to wait till December?

00:50:53.199 --> 00:50:53.599
Why can't it be?

00:50:57.280 --> 00:50:59.360
Why are we not able to see Avengers Doomsday today?

00:50:59.599 --> 00:51:04.639
Well, that's all that's to me, I think, is because we're gonna wait until July 4th weekend when it's Well, it's December.

00:51:04.880 --> 00:51:05.440
No, no, no.

00:51:05.519 --> 00:51:06.400
I'm saying Avenger.

00:51:06.480 --> 00:51:07.280
No, December, you're right.

00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:08.000
December 20th.

00:51:08.159 --> 00:51:08.800
That's right, that's right, right.

00:51:09.039 --> 00:51:10.639
So, like they gave me the same explanation.

00:51:10.719 --> 00:51:12.000
I have no control over this.

00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:23.840
So they have, okay, you turn in the manuscript, we take it to copy editing, we take it to this, we have to go through graphic and cover approval, several renditions of that, then we assign you a publicist, and then we do this.

00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:26.480
And originally it was gonna be September, and I go, why December?

00:51:26.639 --> 00:51:31.039
And they're like, well, because midterm elections and we don't want to compete with the media for that.

00:51:31.199 --> 00:51:31.679
Right, right, right.

00:51:31.920 --> 00:51:38.400
So it was super upsetting to me, to be frank, because I spent three Christmases, like I had to balance some things.

00:51:38.559 --> 00:51:47.440
One, while I was going through the divorce, you know, because I I have my son the majority of the time over those Christmas holidays, and I want to give him the best Christmas, just as I normally would, right?

00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:49.679
Not as a byproduct of being like a Disneyland dad.

00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:50.000
Oh, right.

00:51:50.159 --> 00:51:51.039
We do the holidays big.

00:51:51.119 --> 00:51:52.400
So you'll be on a tour during Christmas.

00:51:52.559 --> 00:51:53.840
Yeah, but I also, no, no, no.

00:51:53.920 --> 00:51:54.639
Oh, I was writing.

00:51:54.719 --> 00:51:55.360
I'd have to write.

00:51:55.519 --> 00:51:57.760
No, but now when the book comes out, you're gonna do publicity.

00:51:58.079 --> 00:51:58.400
We'll see.

00:51:58.559 --> 00:52:06.880
I mean, that I wouldn't imagine that's a smart time to do media, but what I was referencing is they told me you have to have this book done by January 5th, 2026.

00:52:06.960 --> 00:52:08.079
And I would say, well, why?

00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:10.000
If it's not coming out until September.

00:52:10.159 --> 00:52:12.480
And that's when they explain the whole rollout process.

00:52:12.559 --> 00:52:14.960
And then they have other authors in their pipeline.

00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:15.920
So boom.

00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:21.199
Is it like in the movies where they give you in advance or they give you, they pay you in advance and you get a percentage of the stuff?

00:52:21.360 --> 00:52:25.280
Yeah, so like conscious coaching, and I wish other authors would talk about this, by the way.

00:52:25.519 --> 00:52:28.159
This is I couldn't figure out any of this shit.

00:52:28.239 --> 00:52:34.559
I'd try to figure out how uh Stephen King or Ryan Holliday or any of these, nobody talks about this for some reason.

00:52:34.639 --> 00:52:36.400
So maybe this will get me blacklisted again.

00:52:36.719 --> 00:52:37.760
I think you do well blacklisted.

00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:45.360
But kinda conscious coaching, I get a cut of uh like if somebody bought it today from Amazon, I think I get like six bucks, right?

00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:46.719
This is different.

00:52:46.880 --> 00:52:50.960
They give you an advance, so they give you one payment up front that's like go write the book.

00:52:51.119 --> 00:52:56.239
Well, at that time I had five staff and I moved cross country, so that money was gone before I got it.

00:52:56.400 --> 00:52:56.800
Right, right.

00:52:56.960 --> 00:53:03.039
Um, then they pay you when your first draft, like the actual draft that they accept, like, yes, this is the book.

00:53:03.199 --> 00:53:03.840
That's done.

00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:05.679
I think I just got that payment.

00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:08.159
Mind you, this started in 2021.

00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:10.559
So, like, this doesn't equate to minimum wage.

00:53:10.719 --> 00:53:10.960
Sure.

00:53:11.199 --> 00:53:18.400
Then you get paid the day it comes out and one more payment, and then you never see another red cent unless it out earns its advance.

00:53:18.480 --> 00:53:18.639
Wow.

00:53:18.880 --> 00:53:20.239
Because the studio's got to recoup their money.

00:53:20.719 --> 00:53:25.679
And they say most authors never recoup their advance, which is interesting to me.

00:53:26.239 --> 00:53:34.480
So why don't you start uh why don't you ask some of the uh high baller guys that you've trained and women that you've trained when the book comes out to help you talk about it?

00:53:34.639 --> 00:53:38.079
For the same reason you probably don't call up celebrities you've interviewed and asked for favors.

00:53:38.960 --> 00:53:40.639
Well, I don't have anything to promote.

00:53:40.880 --> 00:53:46.400
Well, I mean, I mean, I mean, I happen to know some of the people that you've trained.

00:53:46.559 --> 00:53:49.840
I would think if you're like, hey, uh, do the blurb thing.

00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:50.159
Yeah.

00:53:50.400 --> 00:53:52.639
So well, so that's that's different too.

00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:58.159
So conscious coaching, I could get blurbs, like we had a Super Bowl champion, a full colonel in the United States military, other folks.

00:53:58.320 --> 00:53:59.119
No, for anti-hero.

00:53:59.280 --> 00:54:09.920
I know I'm telling you, for this book, I was told it mainly has to be authors, or if I did go with like celebrities, it has to have be somebody that would so like the actual Josh Brolin thing would be a valid idea.

00:54:10.079 --> 00:54:10.239
Right.

00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:10.559
Right?

00:54:10.639 --> 00:54:20.079
They like, we want authors mainly only that have adjacent content, or if you did go with a media personality, it has to be somebody that it makes a connection.

00:54:20.239 --> 00:54:27.360
So somebody that understands or has played a character like that or spoken about that, or they have something that relates, it has to be an aha.

00:54:27.599 --> 00:54:29.760
So you can't just go to athletes for this.

00:54:29.920 --> 00:54:34.719
I could see motivational speakers taking this book and making it their own, right?

00:54:34.800 --> 00:54:35.519
Like I can see totally.

00:54:35.760 --> 00:54:36.559
You mean trying to pirate it?

00:54:36.639 --> 00:54:38.239
Yeah, well, just like, oh, this is a great idea.

00:54:38.320 --> 00:54:38.800
Let me do this.

00:54:39.039 --> 00:54:40.000
They can't do that shit now.

00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:41.760
I got the intellectual property rights.

00:54:41.920 --> 00:54:44.239
You've got anything anti-hero, I own now.

00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:45.760
You're Taylor Swift.

00:54:45.920 --> 00:54:49.440
Well, originally they wanted the book to be called You Don't Have to Be Liked.

00:54:49.679 --> 00:54:50.800
And I said, No.

00:54:51.119 --> 00:54:54.239
Like, what's there's nothing intellectual property or unique about that.

00:54:54.320 --> 00:54:57.280
And I'm not insinuating I knew more than Penguin Random House.

00:54:57.360 --> 00:54:58.000
That's the OG.

00:54:58.320 --> 00:54:59.280
Yeah, so they're watching.

00:54:59.519 --> 00:55:00.320
That's big time, dude.

00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:02.079
And so I like heard of them, and I don't read.

00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:02.400
Yeah.

00:55:02.480 --> 00:55:04.639
So who do you think I should pitch for the anti-hero advantage?

00:55:04.719 --> 00:55:06.639
You know, who's in your black book of secrets there?

00:55:07.039 --> 00:55:11.360
I mean, honestly, dude, I mean, I have a friend that knows freaking Brian Cranston.

00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:11.599
Okay.

00:55:11.760 --> 00:55:13.039
I mean, he's the ultimate anti-hero.

00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:15.039
I mean, but he's not, he's Walter White.

00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:16.480
Yeah, well, this is what they said.

00:55:16.559 --> 00:55:21.280
They'd have to have the distinction of like Walter White makes sense at the beginning, pure anti-hero.

00:55:21.360 --> 00:55:21.440
Right.

00:55:21.679 --> 00:55:22.960
But you're rooting for him, whatever.

00:55:23.119 --> 00:55:25.840
What they were saying, and this was early on when they were scared about the name.

00:55:26.079 --> 00:55:26.960
Jason Bateman.

00:55:27.199 --> 00:55:27.519
There you go.

00:55:27.840 --> 00:55:28.320
Ozark.

00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:28.719
There you go.

00:55:28.880 --> 00:55:29.039
Right?

00:55:29.119 --> 00:55:30.400
Because you're rooting for him the whole time.

00:55:30.639 --> 00:55:41.360
Fundamentally, the pitch is simple of what I tell people is we're often told what a good person or is and what and that false selling that to kid, you want to, this is dead serious.

00:55:41.519 --> 00:55:41.679
Right.

00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:47.360
Selling that idea of like even my six-year-old son being like, Daddy, does this mean I'm not brave?

00:55:47.519 --> 00:55:48.719
Does this mean I'm not this?

00:55:48.880 --> 00:55:51.519
Because I'm scared and this person's not scared.

00:55:51.679 --> 00:55:59.119
I have to have conversations daily with my son of like, buddy, that doesn't mean that you're not this, and that like we talk about what it means to be.

00:55:59.360 --> 00:56:01.440
I'm like, don't worry about being a hero.

00:56:01.679 --> 00:56:03.039
Those things don't exist.

00:56:03.199 --> 00:56:04.719
The perfect people don't exist.

00:56:04.880 --> 00:56:14.960
The reason daddy wrote a book, and I dedicated the book to my son, the the first words since you asked are the same moments that may break you are the exact moments that will make you.

00:56:15.119 --> 00:56:25.920
I love you always, Daddy, because I'm trying to teach my son that you don't have to live up to this polished, sterile, asepticized, optimized bullshit that society sells you.

00:56:26.400 --> 00:56:28.239
Being an anti-hero means something very different.

00:56:28.320 --> 00:56:40.800
At its core, it means being adaptable, it means being strategic, it means seeing the big picture, and it means being balanced in who you are, flaws and all of that, and who you actually want to be.

00:56:41.119 --> 00:56:48.400
And like that shit tears me up because I'm trying to like, I don't like what we're told societally about, like what I dealt with that.

00:56:48.480 --> 00:56:50.000
That was a big part of the hospitalization.

00:56:50.079 --> 00:56:53.199
I'm like, you're not this, you're not that, all these fucking labels.

00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:55.360
And think about people listening to this right now.

00:56:55.440 --> 00:57:02.960
Who listening to this doesn't have something in their past that they feel bad about or they're ashamed of or they wouldn't like this, and what that's supposed to define them?

00:57:03.199 --> 00:57:06.400
And so I think that people don't want cheesy superficial shit.

00:57:06.639 --> 00:57:10.239
I want something that says, hey, you got some demons and darkness and chaos in you.

00:57:10.480 --> 00:57:10.880
That's good.

00:57:11.119 --> 00:57:12.000
Let's use it for good.

00:57:12.159 --> 00:57:12.880
Yeah, that's good.

00:57:13.119 --> 00:57:14.880
You know, some more anti-heroes I was thinking about.

00:57:15.599 --> 00:57:21.280
Um uh like uh uh uh uh um the the chef, Gordon Ramsay.

00:57:21.440 --> 00:57:22.639
Yeah, didn't your sister run?

00:57:23.039 --> 00:57:25.760
Yeah, she she used to run it run his whole, now she runs Mr.

00:57:25.840 --> 00:57:26.159
Beast.

00:57:26.480 --> 00:57:34.079
So I would be interested in hearing from her because I would imagine like you like her, and I know you want to keep deflecting from you, but I'm your and I'm your friend, so I'm giving you shit about it.

00:57:34.320 --> 00:57:36.159
You channel different parts of your personality.

00:57:36.320 --> 00:57:37.920
Think about what she has to do.

00:57:38.079 --> 00:57:40.000
I would love to follow her for a day.

00:57:40.239 --> 00:57:41.280
She's insane.

00:57:41.440 --> 00:57:43.920
And watch how, but that's an example of what we're talking about in the book.

00:57:44.000 --> 00:57:45.039
That's social agility.

00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:47.599
One way with Gordon Ramsay, one way with Mr.

00:57:47.679 --> 00:57:48.079
Beast.

00:57:48.159 --> 00:57:49.679
There's certain dynamics that probably overlap.

00:57:50.000 --> 00:57:51.920
Plus, she's in a in a male-driven business.

00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:56.320
Like, I mean, I she's come up with so many brilliant ideas, and then someone takes them.

00:57:56.400 --> 00:57:56.639
Yeah.

00:57:56.800 --> 00:57:57.840
It's brutal, right?

00:57:58.079 --> 00:58:10.000
And that that that is another thing that I told the publisher, and I think we were right about is this book, oddly enough, appeals uh a lot to women because talk about a subset that is always told what they should be or how they have to behave.

00:58:10.079 --> 00:58:11.760
And you know how many women are like, fuck that.

00:58:12.239 --> 00:58:12.880
You know what I mean?

00:58:12.960 --> 00:58:17.119
This is and so, like, and I think people too are tired of motivational rhetoric.

00:58:17.199 --> 00:58:22.000
And so that this is kind of written in more of like a way that you have to be okay with a cuss word here and there.

00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:23.360
Like, we didn't pull punches with it.

00:58:23.519 --> 00:58:29.039
But I would want to meet your, I would love to, if she ever does take your kid to work day, tell her I want to like dress up like a little Dutch boy and like go in a few.

00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:33.119
I think everyone wants to know.

00:58:33.280 --> 00:58:35.280
I'm getting lots of text messages during this interview.

00:58:35.440 --> 00:58:36.400
What happened to your finger?

00:58:36.559 --> 00:58:37.360
What happened to my finger?

00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:38.480
I see a band-aid on your finger.

00:58:38.639 --> 00:58:39.199
Yeah, listen.

00:58:39.280 --> 00:58:42.880
Um, like I told my son, I got into a fight with a lot of ninjas the other day.

00:58:42.960 --> 00:58:44.079
Um, they weren't expected.

00:58:44.159 --> 00:58:45.679
It turns out they held a grudge.

00:58:45.840 --> 00:58:48.800
Um, no, there's this was actually from uh deadlifting.

00:58:48.880 --> 00:58:50.400
It got cut on a neural.

00:58:50.960 --> 00:58:53.039
So let me ask you about such a clown.

00:58:54.000 --> 00:58:55.360
You won't even let me ask him a question.

00:58:55.440 --> 00:58:56.239
He's so defensive.

00:58:56.480 --> 00:58:57.920
I want to talk about longevity and health.

00:58:58.400 --> 00:58:59.039
Okay, let's do that.

00:58:59.199 --> 00:59:00.079
Is there any what do you do?

00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:02.239
Sending your taint is the biggest thing that you've done.

00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:02.800
I've done that, dude.

00:59:03.920 --> 00:59:05.519
I imagine show me your technique.

00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:07.519
I met this guy here, I interviewed him here.

00:59:07.679 --> 00:59:08.639
Certified health freak.

00:59:08.719 --> 00:59:08.960
Was it?

00:59:09.039 --> 00:59:11.280
He drinks his own urine and he goes, he'll sit.

00:59:11.599 --> 00:59:12.400
I'll show you my kick that.

00:59:12.480 --> 00:59:14.079
Oh, yeah, your brother's talking about sending his taint.

00:59:14.239 --> 00:59:17.039
I'll go like this, and then and then the and then the sun goes.

00:59:17.119 --> 00:59:18.000
It's really difficult, especially.

00:59:18.320 --> 00:59:19.519
Can you show that to Kep and like?

00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:20.960
No, it may have come out before.

00:59:21.039 --> 00:59:23.199
I've done it in the backyard, but I'm like, I don't want them to.

00:59:23.599 --> 00:59:24.480
What does Blake say when you do it?

00:59:24.639 --> 00:59:25.920
She freaks out, especially if she comes home out of the way.

00:59:26.719 --> 00:59:28.559
She's so forgiving, like she just sees the shit that you do.

00:59:29.679 --> 00:59:30.480
Happy birthday, hon.

00:59:30.639 --> 00:59:30.800
Yeah.

00:59:30.960 --> 00:59:31.840
Oh, it's her birthday today.

00:59:31.920 --> 00:59:32.639
Yeah, today's her birthday.

00:59:32.800 --> 00:59:34.559
And then you were surprised nobody got to see this because it wasn't.

00:59:34.800 --> 00:59:37.840
You were surprised that I knew it was your 30th anniversary coming up instead of coming up.

00:59:37.920 --> 00:59:38.400
Yeah, that's wild.

00:59:38.480 --> 00:59:38.800
That's wrong.

00:59:38.880 --> 00:59:39.840
And wasn't she in sales?

00:59:39.920 --> 00:59:40.880
Like she was in radio sales.

00:59:41.119 --> 00:59:41.920
She was in radio when I met her.

00:59:42.079 --> 00:59:43.119
Is that what you'd call that radio sales?

00:59:43.280 --> 00:59:43.440
Radio.

00:59:43.519 --> 00:59:45.039
Well, they sell all the commercials here on the radio.

00:59:45.119 --> 00:59:45.440
Oh, okay.

00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:46.559
She was one of the best.

00:59:46.639 --> 00:59:47.440
She's yeah, she's the best.

00:59:47.679 --> 00:59:48.559
You do a good job with that too.

00:59:48.639 --> 00:59:56.639
You inspire me when I have to do my podcast because you'll do like green mango and you have a perfect, like, if you I love walking around barefoot, I love that in the summer.

00:59:56.800 --> 00:59:58.079
Yeah, I don't want to step on bug.

00:59:58.239 --> 00:59:59.679
You'll, I'm like, man, John Jay.

00:59:59.760 --> 01:00:00.480
Like, I know.

01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:01.760
Oh, wait, wait.

01:00:01.840 --> 01:00:02.960
Is it I want to try this?

01:00:03.119 --> 01:00:03.599
I want to try it.

01:00:03.679 --> 01:00:04.320
Can you sit down?

01:00:04.480 --> 01:00:06.400
So uh yeah, so sit down.

01:00:06.559 --> 01:00:06.800
All right.

01:00:06.880 --> 01:00:08.639
So you guys are kind of in the same space.

01:00:08.800 --> 01:00:09.119
Okay.

01:00:09.440 --> 01:00:11.360
And and uh thank you for being flexible.

01:00:11.519 --> 01:00:18.800
So you both have books out, um, and you both are in the uh I I guess the the strength and conditioning space at some point or another.

01:00:18.960 --> 01:00:20.239
This is Brett Bartholomew.

01:00:20.320 --> 01:00:24.559
He's got a book called Conscious Coaching and a new book coming out called Anti-Hero Advantage.

01:00:24.639 --> 01:00:24.880
Yep.

01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:28.719
And Joe, your your book is yeah, it's called Life Switch.

01:00:28.960 --> 01:00:34.000
And it's uh it's a mindset book, but as you can probably tell, I'm very intense physically too.

01:00:34.079 --> 01:00:36.639
But I just, you know, top to bottom, inside and out.

01:00:36.719 --> 01:00:40.320
I I think there's a way you can live, and that's either on all the way or off.

01:00:41.039 --> 01:00:41.760
I want to hear more about this.

01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:42.400
That's what I'm saying.

01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:44.639
That's why I thought it's more interesting than I am.

01:00:45.360 --> 01:00:47.840
So I thought maybe this is kind of a cool crossover thing.

01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:50.960
Now, are you gonna tell him what we were just talking about prior to him walking in?

01:00:51.119 --> 01:00:52.239
I forgot what we were talking about.

01:00:53.199 --> 01:00:54.880
I'm not gonna bring that one out.

01:00:55.360 --> 01:00:57.119
Oh, oh, oh, sunning your taint?

01:00:57.280 --> 01:01:01.519
He wanted to ask me about longevity things, and all of a sudden the next conversation goes to him stunning his taint.

01:01:01.599 --> 01:01:03.519
You know, this was wait.

01:01:03.599 --> 01:01:06.159
Well, this guy's got an incredible sports background.

01:01:06.320 --> 01:01:07.039
He's worked with many teams.

01:01:07.119 --> 01:01:08.559
He owns he owns a G League team.

01:01:08.639 --> 01:01:09.039
Oh right.

01:01:09.199 --> 01:01:10.400
So like he's the team.

01:01:10.559 --> 01:01:11.599
The Nuggets G League team.

01:01:11.760 --> 01:01:11.920
Awesome.

01:01:12.079 --> 01:01:15.199
So they're out of Grand Rapids, and they're actually here tomorrow night.

01:01:15.440 --> 01:01:20.079
So this all worked out, even though it wasn't the plan, it worked out better than the original plan.

01:01:20.239 --> 01:01:21.119
Oh, great, great.

01:01:21.280 --> 01:01:23.920
So, but he's coached uh uh or you know.

01:01:24.239 --> 01:01:32.079
I was just trying to conditioning coach for 20 years, so predominantly worked with NFL, uh, major and minor league baseball, special forces, and then combat sport athletes.

01:01:32.320 --> 01:01:36.400
But then also, right now, the other things you're doing, like with the Rangers, with the Oh, you're talking about now.

01:01:36.480 --> 01:01:45.119
Yeah, right now, so I after my first book, now I work in more communication strategy, how to deal with difficult personalities, get more effort out of people.

01:01:45.199 --> 01:01:53.519
So I coach coaches, yeah, coaches and leaders in different contexts, specifically how to deal with kind of those power dynamics, as I'm sure you're very aware of.

01:01:53.840 --> 01:01:57.679
People that are resistant to change, how to help them overcome those kinds of obstacles.

01:01:57.920 --> 01:02:02.239
I love that because I find a lot of coaches are coaching because they had a problem.

01:02:02.400 --> 01:02:05.920
They kind of solved it, and all of a sudden they're a coach for other people.

01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:06.239
Yeah.

01:02:06.400 --> 01:02:15.199
And I feel like you would make sure that the BS meter is not beeping too loudly, making sure that they are an actual coach who has experience outside of dealing with their own stuff.

01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:16.480
Yeah, you read that well.

01:02:16.639 --> 01:02:16.880
Yeah.

01:02:16.960 --> 01:02:22.320
So a lot of our stuff is very, it's non-motivational, you know, jump up and clap your hands.

01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:23.440
It's cut the BS.

01:02:23.519 --> 01:02:25.440
Let's find out what really drives people.

01:02:25.599 --> 01:02:30.719
Let's also normalize a bit of conflict when you're dealing with high performers in any context, you're gonna have that.

01:02:30.880 --> 01:02:33.599
And you would get coaches that would just be like, why doesn't this athlete do this?

01:02:33.679 --> 01:02:35.039
Or why is the front office like that?

01:02:35.119 --> 01:02:38.480
And it's like, well, why inherently do you just expect them to trust you?

01:02:38.639 --> 01:02:39.360
You know what I mean?

01:02:39.519 --> 01:02:43.039
Like, you we don't, we're not all easy to trust, and you shouldn't be.

01:02:43.119 --> 01:02:44.800
You should have a healthy amount of skepticism.

01:02:44.960 --> 01:02:49.679
So helping them understand different perspectives of like, you need to ethically influence people.

01:02:49.760 --> 01:02:53.039
That's your job as a coach or a leader in any context.

01:02:53.280 --> 01:03:00.239
And you just need to spend some more time either building this relationship or figuring out what makes that person tick if you actually want to get anything done.

01:03:00.480 --> 01:03:02.079
Yeah, I agree with you a thousand percent.

01:03:02.239 --> 01:03:06.320
If you don't understand how someone's wired and how they tick, how can you help them?

01:03:06.480 --> 01:03:10.639
Yeah, and so there's a lot to coaching other than just, hey, do this, hey, do that.

01:03:10.719 --> 01:03:13.519
Yeah, you know, and throwing darts at the board and seeing what sticks.

01:03:13.679 --> 01:03:13.920
Yeah.

01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:15.679
Yeah, and he's spot on about go ahead.

01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:17.039
No, I'm just saying, see what I mean?

01:03:17.119 --> 01:03:17.519
This is great.

01:03:17.599 --> 01:03:18.320
This is what I was talking about.

01:03:18.400 --> 01:03:19.519
This is what I was hoping would happen.

01:03:19.679 --> 01:03:23.280
And so you're also spotted, it's what he was asking me, one of the things that got me into it.

01:03:23.360 --> 01:03:27.679
And at one point I just remember thinking, like, okay, am I actually a good coach?

01:03:27.840 --> 01:03:33.280
And I went through a quarter, quarter life crisis and started researching like what makes a good coach.

01:03:33.440 --> 01:03:46.960
And you find, as you alluded to, a lot of coaches, if not for the reason you mentioned, get into it because, or at least they model their behavior off of people they perceive to be successful coaches or the individual that coached them in the past.

01:03:47.199 --> 01:03:51.519
That's not a great model, you know, that assumes a lot of one size fits all, but it's natural.

01:03:51.679 --> 01:03:53.679
And then you realize, well, most of them don't get training.

01:03:53.840 --> 01:04:02.400
Surgeons will get training for what they do, members of the military will get training, and then you're like, ah, a lot of coaches actually don't get training on how to deal with people, like in strength and conditioning.

01:04:02.559 --> 01:04:05.280
All of our certifications were X's and O's based.

01:04:05.519 --> 01:04:07.599
You know, and so anyway, but I want to hear more about him.

01:04:07.760 --> 01:04:09.199
Pepper in with some of these questions here.

01:04:09.360 --> 01:04:11.280
Well, no, I mean, I wanted just you guys cross over that.

01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:12.719
I was gonna do a totally different interview with him.

01:04:12.880 --> 01:04:13.280
Yeah, that's fine.

01:04:13.519 --> 01:04:16.159
I think you guys, because you you speak to groups of people, he speaks, right?

01:04:16.400 --> 01:04:24.480
Both of them I'll make sure I'll get your information from the I feel like I jumped onto a treadmill that was already on 10.0, and I just jumped off.

01:04:24.800 --> 01:04:26.000
You did a great job into it.

01:04:26.079 --> 01:04:26.559
Yeah, why not?

01:04:26.800 --> 01:04:29.840
This is but I didn't I foreshare, I said this is what I like to happen.

01:04:29.920 --> 01:04:30.639
We're gonna be talking.

01:04:30.719 --> 01:04:32.159
He comes in, sit down, let's talk.

01:04:32.239 --> 01:04:33.119
I'll wrap up the interview.

01:04:33.199 --> 01:04:34.480
But I do want to ask you this real quick.

01:04:34.559 --> 01:04:36.320
Um, I should have you guys switch back again.

01:04:36.800 --> 01:04:36.960
Really?

01:04:37.519 --> 01:04:38.559
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

01:04:38.880 --> 01:04:44.639
Um, because you know, we do um our two foundations, Love Pup and Love Up, and Love Up, we work with a lot of foster kids.

01:04:44.800 --> 01:04:46.719
Uh, I think it'd be great if you came and spoke to our foster kids.

01:04:46.800 --> 01:04:47.360
I'd be honored.

01:04:47.599 --> 01:04:56.559
We every year we do a big graduation for all these kids that are aging out of the foster care system, and to know that you know, just you give them some kind of hope and some kind of those are the ultimate anti-forwards.

01:04:56.719 --> 01:04:56.880
Exactly.

01:04:57.039 --> 01:04:57.360
I'd be honored.

01:04:57.519 --> 01:04:57.920
I know, I know.

01:04:58.239 --> 01:04:59.679
And I'm I always enjoy talking to you, man.

01:05:00.159 --> 01:05:00.480
You're amazing.

01:05:00.559 --> 01:05:01.280
We don't get to do this often.

01:05:01.519 --> 01:05:03.119
He's also single, we gotta find him a nice woman.

01:05:03.679 --> 01:05:04.639
Some good-looking guy.

01:05:04.880 --> 01:05:06.159
We're gonna do a dating segment now.

01:05:06.400 --> 01:05:08.639
I hope that you go all of these same places with him.

01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:11.119
I hope that you're subject to all of it as well.

01:05:11.360 --> 01:05:12.159
Joel, right?

01:05:12.320 --> 01:05:12.480
Yes.

01:05:12.639 --> 01:05:13.599
All right, pleasure meeting you, Joel.

01:05:13.760 --> 01:05:14.079
Joel as well.

01:05:14.159 --> 01:05:14.320
Thank you.

01:05:14.960 --> 01:05:15.599
Joe or Joel?

01:05:15.760 --> 01:05:16.159
Joel.

01:05:16.320 --> 01:05:17.199
J-O-E-L.

01:05:17.360 --> 01:05:17.519
Yes.

01:05:17.840 --> 01:05:18.159
Okay, Joel.

01:05:18.719 --> 01:05:18.960
Yeah, yeah.

01:05:19.760 --> 01:05:20.079
Okay, okay.

01:05:20.159 --> 01:05:20.559
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:05:26.239 --> 01:05:27.840
Okay, so welcome to our podcast.

01:05:28.079 --> 01:05:34.400
This is a little bit different today because this podcast is a spin-off of our radio show.