0:00

make a commitment to stop the thing that

0:02

is destroying you and start the thing that's

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going to build you. Welcome

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to the Bedros Coolian Show. Hey

0:26

guys, welcome to the Bedros Coolian Show. My name is

0:28

Bedros Coolian. Today, we've got a great show teed up

0:30

for you and this is for all of you who

0:32

have your chips on the

0:34

table. In other words, all the chips are down. You've

0:38

hit rock bottom. What do

0:40

you do next? And this

0:42

is actually a show

0:45

that was inspired by a gentleman I

0:47

met in Plantation, Florida, just outside of

0:49

Fort Lauderdale, Florida. And

0:52

I was working out at a UFC gym out

0:54

there in Plantation, Florida. Shout out to all

0:57

of you in Fort Lauderdale and Plantation. And

1:01

this gentleman came up to me and he's like, dude, I

1:03

read your book and I listened

1:05

to your podcast and I want to let you know

1:08

that just a few

1:10

years ago, I had hit rock bottom and

1:13

all the chips were down. I

1:15

was like, dude, what do you mean? He goes, well,

1:17

you know, I was in the military and I

1:19

was a field medic. And

1:21

then I got out of the military and I

1:23

became a nurse at a hospital, but as they

1:25

started to get

1:28

everyone to take that

1:32

COVID-19 vaccine, I

1:34

chose not to. And so I

1:36

had to quit my nursing job at the hospital. And

1:39

so I found myself in a position where I

1:43

gained weight, debt

1:47

and unsure of my path and purpose and

1:51

started to really get down and depressed

1:54

and anxious. And

1:56

he showed me a picture On

1:58

his phone. And

2:00

I think if memory serves right, here's a. Make

2:02

two hundred and Eighty two hundred ninety

2:05

pounds. And then he showed me his

2:07

current picture. And. You could

2:09

see abs coming out I'm he had

2:11

dropped probably that forty pounds or so

2:13

fifty pounds and he's. He's

2:16

have within half way through and Priscilla's

2:18

seventy five hard right now and he's

2:20

like man. Between listening to andy show

2:23

and your show and reading your book,

2:25

like to sing is. That

2:27

like of transform my life. I

2:29

got myself out of rock Bottom and I

2:32

got to thinking that. Rock

2:34

Bottom isn't just a place that you're

2:36

at if you're addicted to drugs, if

2:38

you're addicted to alcohol. When we think

2:40

about Rock Bottom, it's typically a byproduct

2:43

of. Drugs. Or alcohol? Something

2:45

went wrong because I'm an addiction. Everything

2:49

around you fell apart. Your words,

2:51

your family, your house, Your

2:53

sense of mission and purpose and

2:55

you are just at the very

2:57

bottom. Of addiction.

3:01

And as Lauren here said a second ago,

3:05

When you're at that place, you can see ten

3:07

feet ahead of you. When sounds like here's the

3:09

first step you like, I can't even see the

3:12

first half step let alone the first step as

3:14

I wanted to make this video this episode this

3:16

podcast for you guys because I. I

3:19

think I can help those of you that are

3:21

stuck in rock bottom. Where.

3:23

Your chips are all out! And

3:26

you know know what to do next

3:28

and it doesn't matter is a byproduct

3:30

of advice and addiction, alcohol, or if

3:32

it's a series of bad decisions. Maybe

3:34

you'd listen to the show when you

3:36

know what you should be going, but

3:38

you're not waking up on time. You're

3:41

hitting the snooze button. You're not working

3:43

out your screen, sucking too much. You

3:45

are not drinking your water, You not

3:47

getting sunlight, You're not exercising. You're not

3:49

eating right. You're not surrounding yourself with

3:51

positive, success minded people. You.

3:54

Instead hit the have a pen. Maybe

3:56

there's alcohol? Maybe there's a string of bad

3:58

decisions? Maybe you're just lazy. Whatever

4:02

it is, they got you to rock bottom. Whatever

4:04

it is that got you to. This.

4:07

Place of were all the chips are

4:09

down. There. Is

4:11

a way out. But. When

4:13

you're there. It's hard to

4:15

see. The. Top Of the Staircase. How

4:18

it's hard to see that first step isn't it?

4:20

And I share that with you because. After

4:23

meeting this gentleman implantation florida. I

4:27

that you see gym. I.

4:29

Realize at Rock Bottom shows up in many

4:31

ways and people's lives manic. It could be

4:33

a byproduct of. Have a life

4:36

ambush. You. Know. My

4:38

friend Jason Redmond. Cause

4:41

in a life ambush, you know If you know

4:43

his story, he's A. He's a retired Navy Seal.

4:46

He got himself a purple heart after getting

4:48

shot up. While

4:50

in Iraq he was shot across the

4:52

body through the face. Blew. Out.

4:55

His orbital plate. He was shot

4:57

in the arm. It took nearly

4:59

forty surgeries over two and a

5:01

half year period to peace, chase

5:03

and back together again. From.

5:06

A titanium face played to all the

5:08

different skin grafts. He

5:11

found himself. In

5:13

a life ambush. right? He

5:16

and his name is your buddies are the

5:18

predators. They're the ones going to get the

5:20

bad guys on that particular mission. But.

5:23

Instead he finds himself on the X. Now.

5:27

Jason's got a strong mindset. He's got

5:29

a strong support system. And

5:32

if you know anything about Jason if you read

5:34

any of his to his to bugs you know

5:36

that he overcame and persevered through. The.

5:38

Best thing you could use a get off the acts

5:40

of ambush. But

5:42

life ambushes can come in many ways. Maybe

5:44

you come home and the spouses I tell

5:47

on a divorce? Maybe get a phone call.

5:49

Mom and dad gone into a car accident.

5:53

Maybe a string of bad decisions and business

5:55

put you in a massive debt. maybe

5:59

maybe just maybe the

6:01

traumas that you haven't healed from as

6:03

a kid are constantly haunting

6:06

and haunting and haunting you. And

6:09

you're in a place where you can only use

6:11

alcohol and drugs to escape the pain. And

6:15

the more you do that, the greater the addiction

6:17

and dependency grows. And

6:20

you find yourself hiding your addictions from

6:23

your family, from your boss, from your

6:25

coworkers, from your business partners.

6:28

I don't know how Rock Bottom shows up for you, but

6:31

I can tell you there's a way out. And

6:34

that's what this episode is about. So

6:37

I wanna tell you something. Back in 2012, 2013,

6:39

in that era, I

6:45

found myself in my own version of a Rock

6:47

Bottom. All the chips were out. They

6:49

were all down. I had

6:51

nothing more. Now at

6:53

that time, I'd

6:56

launched Fit Body Bootcamp a year

6:58

earlier. I had underestimated how

7:01

much work it would take to

7:03

launch a successful business. And

7:06

so the 80 some odd thousand dollars we

7:08

spent to franchise was

7:11

just a fraction of what was needed to

7:13

continue to grow the Fit Body Bootcamp brand.

7:15

It is not the mega franchise that it

7:17

is today. Back then,

7:19

we had a handful

7:21

of locations. Back then, we didn't

7:24

have processes and systems. Back then,

7:26

we didn't have the predictable marketing

7:28

strategies. Back then, we didn't have

7:30

operation teams, compliance teams, sales teams,

7:33

leadership teams like we do today.

7:36

Today, Fit Body Bootcamp thrives as

7:38

a byproduct of

7:42

having persevered through

7:44

the adversity that was laid at my feet. Some,

7:48

as a byproduct of me underestimating exactly

7:50

what it would take to launch a

7:52

successful mega brand and

7:55

some as a byproduct of really stupid

7:57

decisions on my part. And

8:00

I have to own up to those. And

8:03

so when we didn't have enough money to continue

8:05

to grow, I had to refinance

8:08

the house. I had to pull money

8:10

out on my house. And you

8:12

could imagine what that would do to

8:14

your relationship with your spouse. If

8:17

you're constantly pulling money on the house, throwing

8:19

it into a business that's just eating up

8:22

that money and demanding more to continue to

8:24

grow and you don't know how much more

8:26

it needs and where you're going to find

8:28

the rest of that money. But

8:31

if you don't feed it, it is the end. And

8:36

so I had gotten to a place of burnout. By

8:39

the time two and a half years had gone by

8:42

after launching Fit Body Bootcamp, I had gotten to a

8:44

place of burnout where I was just in

8:46

debt. I

8:49

was constantly stressed and anxious.

8:52

Me and my business partner who started Fit Body Bootcamp

8:55

at the time were at each other's

8:57

throat. And

8:59

quite honestly, I didn't see a way out. And

9:02

I think that's what rock bottom is. It's

9:05

when you don't see a way out.

9:08

Rock bottom is the absence of hope.

9:13

And only looking back now, I realized what

9:17

had happened was I had given up. I

9:20

had given up in growing Fit Body Bootcamp and I

9:23

had, I guess, subconsciously committed to the idea that

9:25

I will let it all erode. Now,

9:28

if you read my book, Man Up, another

9:30

year after this period,

9:34

I had a massive panic attack, right?

9:38

Remember, I told you in my book that

9:40

I thought I was having a heart attack. I thought that

9:42

at age 38, 11 years ago from today, at

9:47

age 38, I thought I was having a heart attack

9:49

and I was dying. What

9:51

I didn't realize was this was the first of

9:53

many panic attacks. And

9:55

it was because I was so overwhelmed, I couldn't see

9:57

10 feet in front of me in terms of a disease.

10:00

to make that was going to give me any

10:02

kind of hope to resurrect Fit

10:04

Body Bootcamp, to right the

10:07

wrongs, to

10:10

be able to get the business on track

10:13

without having to keep selling assets.

10:18

Hell, I had a 2011 Nissan GTR. At

10:23

the time, that was my dream car. I

10:26

bought that Nissan GTR, literally

10:29

drove it to SP Engineering out

10:32

here off the 60 freeway in LA, and

10:35

spent another $25,000 getting

10:38

that bad boy souped up, man. Downpipes,

10:43

cat, exhaust, fuel

10:46

injectors, air

10:50

intake, the

10:52

cob tune, and

10:55

a whole bunch of other shit that

10:58

ended up putting the price point of that

11:00

new GTR at about $120,000, only

11:06

to have to sell it at

11:09

a massive deficit, at a massive loss, six

11:12

months later, because I had so much debt

11:14

that had accumulated, because

11:16

in that time, my

11:19

quarterly taxes and payroll

11:21

were due in the same month, and

11:24

I realized there's no more money I can

11:26

take out of my house. Payroll

11:29

and quarterly taxes are due, and

11:31

the only way I can make both of those happen

11:34

is if I sell this dream car that I bought, and

11:38

that's exactly what I did, and I sold it

11:40

for a big loss, and

11:43

it was a massive regret at the time, but

11:45

it was the only decision I could make. And

11:49

so I share this with you, because there was

11:51

a time I was just waiting for everything to

11:53

collapse around me, and it

11:55

doesn't make me happy to say this, and it's not

11:57

something that I'm proud of here, but I would literally

11:59

say it. sit in my Chevy Tahoe and

12:02

listen to Howard Stern and he would, you

12:05

know, he had a great show. If you

12:07

all ever listen to Howard Stern, you know he's a great

12:10

radio personality and he would

12:13

entertain me. And looking back

12:15

now, I realized all I was doing was just waiting

12:18

out the collapse of my

12:20

relationship, of my

12:22

health, because I wasn't sleeping

12:25

at night. I was

12:27

always anxious. I would go

12:29

to the gym and instead of working out, I would just

12:31

do a couple of reps and then go back to my

12:33

truck and then just fall asleep in the parking lot. I

12:36

wasn't eating right. I was emotionally eating. And

12:40

so I'd found myself that everything's about to

12:42

fall apart, my health, my relationship, my money,

12:44

my business, my mindset.

12:49

And so I was just entertaining myself with Howard Stern. Like

12:52

what an unfortunate way to give up,

12:54

right? Lucky for

12:56

me, he

13:00

had a guest on the show and Howard

13:02

Stern was interviewing this guy named Howard Wozden.

13:06

Howard Wozden had, and the

13:08

year was probably, I don't

13:10

know, 2013, which was

13:12

two years earlier, Howard Wozden had

13:15

written a book called Memoirs of

13:17

a Navy Seal Sniper, or

13:20

maybe it's Memoirs of an Elite Navy

13:22

Seal Sniper. And

13:25

as it turns out, Howard Wozden was

13:27

a member of Seal Team 6 during

13:30

that time of Black Hawk

13:32

Down in Africa. And

13:36

he was a sniper out

13:39

there in Mugadishu. And

13:42

he's being interviewed by Howard Stern and

13:45

I'm paying attention and

13:47

I'm like, man, this guy's got a book. And

13:49

Howard Stern says, guys, if you like

13:51

the stuff we're talking about here and

13:54

you want to read a really good book, you ought to go buy

13:56

his book. Well, Listen, man, I'm a

13:58

Howard Stern fan. Howard

14:01

Stern makes a recommendation. I'm

14:03

gonna go do it. He recommended

14:06

a book. I like the

14:08

interview. I went and bought Howard Stern.

14:10

Howard was his book on the spot

14:12

Started my towel went to Barnes and

14:14

Nobles, bought the book, started reading it.

14:17

Now keep in mind every day I'm sitting at

14:19

my trucks. Just

14:21

waiting for the eminent collapse of sit

14:23

by the boot camp of my life

14:25

of my relationship. My.

14:28

Physique was already gone. I'd put on

14:30

like thirty five pounds in that time.

14:33

I look like a pair. See

14:35

wonder why I'm always up your ass about

14:38

doing something. To. Get yourself

14:40

back in shape. Speak as

14:42

Fitness is the gateway drug. And

14:45

I'll talk more about that and just a moment. For

14:48

them, reading how would wasn't books? I

14:53

realize it. What?

14:55

These guys go through. As

14:58

they are becoming Navy Seals. Is

15:01

nowhere near the stress. Goes

15:06

my stress I should say is nowhere near

15:08

the stress. That. They were

15:10

going through now. I had chosen to be

15:12

an entrepreneur. They had made the choice to

15:14

become Navy Seals. I.

15:17

Was going through my own version of a suck?

15:19

They were going to their own version of a

15:21

suck. The difference was that once they become a

15:23

Navy Seal, They're deployed to

15:25

war. They

15:27

can lose your life. The.

15:29

Decisions they make. Are

15:32

very costly, There. Is

15:34

no. Correction. From some of

15:36

the mistakes they make. right? As

15:39

those I'm reading his book, I'm learning all

15:42

about leadership. I'm learning about prioritizing like literally

15:44

taking all the things he to do and

15:46

prioritize. I'm from the highest level priority to

15:48

los of a priority. And

15:50

and executing on it. I'm

15:53

learning how to communicate. I'm learning what

15:55

a mission is. Not just

15:57

a mission as and battle. But what

15:59

is my me? As an entrepreneur was the last

16:01

time I shared my vision of my mission for

16:03

sit body boot camp for this baby little company

16:06

that I'd built. With my

16:08

team. I hadn't. Back.

16:10

Then the ask me how many locations the want

16:12

I would set alight but when you want him

16:15

by as soon as possible percent of beijing mess

16:17

on a mission right? A. Proper

16:19

Mission is on one twenty five hundred

16:21

locations By the your twenty twenty five.

16:24

And. These are the things we're going to do

16:26

our daily mission steps of rotate to get there.

16:30

I didn't know any of that stuff. Turns.

16:33

Out I was a horrible leader. And.

16:35

It was the poor leadership decisions I had

16:37

made that has got me into most of

16:40

the financial crisis that I was dealing with.

16:43

And there I was experiencing rock

16:45

bottom. Now. Reading a

16:47

book by Howard was then

16:49

recommended by Howard Stern. And.

16:53

Realizing that. If I take

16:55

some of the advice from this man's books, And

16:58

apply to my business. I. Just

17:00

might be able to. Course.

17:03

Correct. This.

17:05

Past and I'm on. Both physically.

17:09

Mentally. Relation

17:11

Li. And in business.

17:15

Now member I said in his book

17:18

Howard was and talked about prioritizing. As

17:21

seals as warriors, They.

17:23

Prioritize what they're going to do

17:25

on their mission. right? Everything

17:27

can be a proud to say got it's okay This

17:29

is a top priority is the second, this the third.

17:32

The force. And

17:34

I realized right. Well, I don't have a lot of

17:36

control. right? Now. As

17:39

on as I'm reading this book, I realize the highest

17:41

party that I have right now. Is getting

17:43

myself back in shape? Why? Because it is the

17:45

only thing I'm one hundred percent control over. Didn't.

17:48

Have any control. On

17:50

the home front. I can

17:52

control what I do from that point forward, but

17:55

I don't know. how

17:58

my wife would feel I

18:01

didn't have any control in

18:04

terms of the business side of things, not

18:08

finite immediate control where I could flip

18:10

a lever and get a result. So

18:13

I found myself saying, well, what is the

18:15

thing that I have the highest level of control over? My

18:19

fitness. All right, fat boy, get

18:22

fit again. Because

18:24

that I can control. I

18:27

can decide how many times a week I work out. I

18:29

can decide how I eat. I can

18:32

decide how intense my workouts are. I

18:34

can decide exactly what

18:37

I'm going to do to build the muscle, burn

18:39

the fat, and

18:41

no one's going to stop me. There is

18:43

no secondary person that's going to make a

18:46

decision where my fitness is concerned. It's all

18:48

me. And

18:50

there isn't a delay

18:53

in terms

18:55

of making a decision and then

18:57

seeing the outcome later like

19:00

there is in business. Because you

19:02

know this, you can walk into the gym, have an

19:04

awesome workout for 45 minutes, walk

19:06

out feeling like you're the fucking king of

19:09

the world, right? Like

19:11

that is amazing. Within 45

19:13

minutes, you

19:16

completely changed how you feel, how

19:18

you think, how you process. You

19:21

gave yourself hope. And

19:23

so every day, I continue

19:26

to work on my fitness while

19:28

I also work on my business.

19:31

And by stacking that confidence, those wins

19:33

in the gym, as the

19:36

scale went down in weight, as

19:39

the strength and endurance went

19:41

up in the gym, as

19:44

my body got leaner, as

19:46

I changed my shape

19:48

and got wider shoulders, wider back,

19:50

and narrower waist again, I

19:53

started to feel a sense of great hope

19:57

In just a matter of 30 days. As

20:00

a when I'm up your ass. Telling

20:03

you that if you are in a rock

20:05

bottom place in life, all the chips are

20:08

down. You don't know what

20:10

to do? A legal why is be costly.

20:12

Say. Get your ass

20:14

and shape because fitness is the gateway

20:16

drug. To the high yourself.

20:20

When you start working out, you

20:22

immediately start releasing doping means and

20:24

endorphins. You start.

20:26

Feeling. Better you start feeling hopeful

20:29

and when you feel hopeful, you

20:31

can ride that wave after that

20:33

work out into your milk. It's

20:36

no coincidence that some of my best

20:38

workouts have led to some of my

20:41

best business ideas. It's

20:43

no coincidence to some my best workouts

20:45

have led to my some my best

20:47

business decisions. It

20:50

is no coincidence that some my

20:52

best workouts had led to some

20:54

my best podcast episodes. The

20:58

reason for that is because when you're

21:00

working out, you have absolute control. You

21:02

put that phone away, You come in,

21:04

there was a plan of attack. you

21:06

had your coffee, I'd your protein, your

21:08

your oatmeal ahead of time. And.

21:11

You attack that work out like a mother

21:14

fucker. You

21:16

do that for thirty days straight and I

21:18

promise you. He. Will

21:20

see daylight In terms of rock bottom.

21:24

But he said, i think what most people do was

21:26

when they hit rock bottom when all the chips are

21:28

down. Defined. A shovel and they

21:30

start digging more. Like

21:32

you know what are noses rock bottom but I think

21:34

I can dig myself into a deeper hole. I'll.

21:38

Continue to not work out or continue. Not

21:40

good sleep. I won't get some might I

21:42

will eat like an idiot. I'll

21:45

keep drinking. I'll.

21:47

Keep. Addicted. To the beep.

21:50

To. whatever drugs. Or

21:53

keep rubbing one out to to pornography.

21:57

how long will you use those escapes

22:00

When you're at rock bottom until

22:02

you decide to make a really bad decision And

22:08

that's what this guy in plantation Florida was telling

22:10

me he was like dude I

22:12

was ready to check out Do

22:15

you understand that I? Don't

22:17

know where you guys are in life right now. I don't

22:20

know if you're rock bottom I don't know if you're about

22:22

there. I don't know if you've been hanging out there for

22:24

a time and I

22:26

don't know if it's a byproduct of

22:28

alcohol addiction to drugs I don't know

22:30

if it's a byproduct of a relationship

22:32

gone bad or a business collapse or

22:34

you've just been trying to do everything

22:36

wrong because you are just focused on

22:38

sabotaging your life because you refuse to

22:41

heal from your shit from when

22:43

you were a kid How

22:46

long will you stay here and How

22:50

long until you decide that you're gonna check

22:52

out like this guy was about to

22:56

and This episode was literally

22:58

inspired by him It

23:01

was inspired by him for you It

23:03

was inspired by him for you to share it

23:05

with others who might be hitting

23:07

rock bottom Who might not know what

23:10

to do so let's talk about that

23:12

here. You are all the chips

23:14

are down You've hit rock bottom. What do you

23:16

do? Simple

23:20

First of all take inventory Life

23:22

is never as bad It's

23:25

never as bad as we think it is Because

23:27

if you are listening to this episode if

23:29

you're watching this show on YouTube You're

23:33

already at an advantage. Why you have

23:35

life Dead

23:37

people don't have any options living

23:40

people do You

23:42

have life that means you have options you

23:45

may not have hope yet, but you have

23:47

options One option is

23:50

to make a commitment To

23:52

stop the thing that is destroying you and

23:55

start the thing that's going to build you that

23:58

is where you start That's

24:00

the commitment I made. That I

24:02

was gonna start working out like a savage again. Cause

24:05

man, I'm a personal trainer, right? I'm a personal

24:07

trainer by trade for over 25 years. How

24:10

did I let myself put on 35 pounds of fat? Let

24:14

all the muscle atrophy to

24:17

the point where I was wearing baggy clothes when I

24:19

was making videos. If you were on YouTube, go back

24:21

to my, some of my older videos, you'll see the

24:23

chunky cheeks. You'll see me making videos from the, from

24:25

the neck up because I was embarrassed to show my

24:27

body. Like

24:31

what a hypocrite. How am I

24:33

starting a fitness business? Yet I'm 35 pounds

24:36

over fat. But

24:39

that's where you start. If you're at rock bottom, you have

24:41

to make a commitment to do one

24:44

thing. And that one thing is to start

24:46

the thing that's gonna build you and

24:48

to stop one thing that's

24:50

destroying you. For

24:52

me, it was to start working out like a

24:54

savage and to stop

24:56

binge eating at night. That's

24:59

when I would binge eat. Three to

25:01

five nights a week, I

25:03

would be stressed, overwhelmed.

25:06

And I would stand at the buffet that

25:08

center little island in the kitchen

25:10

in my house. And I would

25:12

open up the bag of bagels. I would take out

25:15

the cream cheese from the fridge and I would crack

25:17

a bagel in half and I would dip it in

25:19

the cream cheese and eat it. Three,

25:22

four, five bagels and cream cheese

25:24

a night. How

25:29

much fat does

25:31

all that process carbohydrates and fat

25:34

that you're eating put on you? How

25:37

much guilt and shame did I

25:40

feel the next morning? Fuck,

25:42

let's be honest. After

25:44

I got that dopamine hit, after eating

25:47

three, four, five bagels and cream cheese, just

25:49

standing there at the buffet, I

25:52

would feel such guilt immediately.

25:55

I would feel such regret immediately.

25:58

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27:29

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27:36

chart, you're going to see this pyramid.

27:39

And at the very bottom of that pyramid, the

27:43

lowest frequency that you could vibrate at is

27:47

guilt, shame, regret.

27:53

That's where I was vibrating at. In

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the middle of that pyramid, as the

27:58

frequency levels go higher, There's

28:00

acceptance. And

28:03

that is the next thing you do. You accept

28:05

that you're rock bottom and

28:07

you accept that you're going to have to

28:09

make one change, which is to do

28:11

something that's going to build you and

28:13

to stop something that's destroying you. And at

28:15

the very top of that pyramid is

28:18

self actualization. At the

28:20

very top is bliss,

28:23

happiness, joy, the

28:25

highest of frequencies. And

28:28

that's really what it takes to get out of rock

28:30

bottom. It's

28:32

not a complex plan. Your complex

28:34

mind wants to make it a

28:36

complex plan so that you could

28:38

further overwhelm yourself and stay at

28:40

rock bottom. But

28:44

the reality is you pick the one thing and

28:47

you do it for 30 days. In

28:49

my case and in most of your cases, start

28:51

working out again. I mean, work

28:54

out right and eat right. Work out

28:56

to build muscle and burn fat. Work

28:58

out to get abdominal

29:00

definition. Work out to

29:02

look like a fucking savage

29:04

of a human being. Work

29:07

out so you don't look like a pear

29:09

or a pumpkin anymore with gelatinous titties that

29:11

I could slap around and milk. And

29:14

when you do that for

29:17

30 days straight, you have

29:19

absolute control over what you eat,

29:22

what you drink, how you sleep,

29:25

your workouts. You're going to

29:27

put your phone away when

29:29

you're crushing the weights. You're

29:32

going to get your cardio in if you need it or

29:36

I can superset like I do with minimal rest. And

29:41

then you're going to stop the one thing that's

29:43

destroying you as you're doing the one

29:45

thing that is building you for those 30 days. And

29:47

for me, it was the bagels and cream cheese three

29:49

to five nights a week. And

29:51

guess what happened next? All

29:54

of a sudden, day after day, like

29:56

from day one, you're going to feel hopeful because you're going

29:59

to have such an awesome. You're gonna walk out

30:01

of that gym feeling like

30:03

you're fucking 20 feet tall. Like,

30:05

all right, feel good about myself. I made a commitment to

30:08

do something. I have absolute control over that thing. I

30:11

did it exactly as I committed. Oh, fucking

30:14

savage. What else can I crush today while

30:17

I'm on this endorphin high? That

30:20

is where the gateway is. That

30:23

is why I say fitness is the gateway drug. Fitness

30:26

is what will get you out of rock bottom. Because

30:29

when you are working out

30:31

consistently to

30:34

the point where you're getting actual

30:36

visible results, results

30:39

that you could measure on a body fat test,

30:41

results that you could see on a scale, guess

30:44

what's happening? You're deploying the

30:46

four most important things that

30:49

people can use to

30:52

climb out of any bad

30:54

situation. Consistency,

30:56

focus, delayed gratification, and discipline.

30:58

Because it'll take consistency, focus,

31:01

delayed gratification, and discipline

31:03

for you to eat right every day, go

31:05

to the gym every day, bring the fucking

31:07

thunder every day, for you to go to

31:10

sleep on time, for

31:12

you to get that sunlight, do the things that are gonna build

31:14

the muscle, burn the fat for 30 days. It

31:16

takes those four things. And in 30 days,

31:18

those four things are gonna become a new habit that you

31:20

can now deploy in business. You

31:23

can deploy in your relationship. You can deploy in

31:25

your business partnerships, at

31:28

work if you have a job. You

31:30

all of a sudden feel hope on a day to

31:32

day, week to week, month to month basis, before you

31:35

know it, 90 days have gone by. And you're like,

31:37

you know what? I think I'm gonna start tearing away

31:39

some other addictions that I have, some

31:42

other dependencies. And

31:44

maybe that's when you stop doing the

31:46

occasional drinking, the social drinking.

31:49

The social drinking. By

31:52

the way, all these fucking people that are

31:55

busting my balls about what's wrong with the

31:57

occasional drinking. If I said that I

31:59

would, Listen To

32:01

me. November Twelve Of Twenty Twenty

32:03

Two. I.

32:06

Stopped social drinking. I was never an

32:08

alcoholic. I was never a drink a

32:11

few beers or winds at night. Couple

32:14

of times a month I would have a

32:16

couple of cocktails at a dinner or after

32:18

a speaking gig at the meet and greet

32:20

to just kind of take the edge off,

32:23

right? I would have a vodka

32:25

and pineapple juice, but as I got

32:27

into my later forties and forty nine

32:29

now. Even

32:31

a couple a cocktails. Made.

32:33

Me: foggy headed the Met next morning.

32:35

even a couple a cocktails. Would.

32:38

Give me indigestion. I was unable to

32:40

sleep. And quite honestly, even

32:42

a couple of cocktails took away the

32:44

beautiful veins on my body, and I

32:46

would lose definition for a day or.

32:49

Because. Alcohol this poison and it makes

32:51

you retain water and book. And

32:54

the active your body trying to purge the

32:56

poison out. Makes. Your

32:58

body look like a sack of wet ricotta

33:00

cheese. And

33:03

so. When I decided

33:05

to quit alcohol. Even. Just

33:07

occasional drinking. Good.

33:09

People were like. Oh, Is everything

33:12

okay? Am I get? Everything's fine? Or.

33:14

Didn't do to deal with okay on occasion right?

33:16

and we can live a little right? Now.

33:19

I don't want to live a little like that's.

33:21

where I need a dependency on alcohol to take

33:23

the edge off. No one is out there drinking

33:25

it for the taste of it was. Be honest,

33:28

you're not drinking alcohol for the taste of it.

33:30

You're drinking it for how it makes you feel.

33:33

It makes you feel like. Your

33:36

problems on exist. It makes you feel

33:38

like. You're escaping.

33:41

From was haunting you. It makes you

33:43

feel like. The. Trauma that

33:45

you were dealing with. Is.

33:47

Not there at the moment. But

33:50

what you feel later. Is. Regrets.

33:52

What? You feel later is foggy. What?

33:55

You feel later is like a fat socks.

33:58

and i can't understand why people will bust

34:00

balls about the fact that, well, why don't you

34:03

just have a beer? Why don't you just have

34:05

one cocktail? It's not gonna hurt anybody. Because if

34:07

I said, hey man, on November 12th, I stopped

34:09

fentanyl, you

34:11

wouldn't be like, well, you know, have

34:13

a little bit of fentanyl, it's okay. Right,

34:16

you would never do that. But somehow,

34:18

because alcohol is legal by the fucking

34:20

oppressive system, the

34:22

opposition that is trying to control and

34:24

get compliance over you, you're like,

34:27

it's legal, it's fine. How is it

34:29

legal to drink

34:31

alcohol? And

34:33

it's not legal in some states to smoke weed.

34:37

Right, like think about that. Like

34:40

there was a time just a few years back that

34:42

most states, you can

34:44

buy weed legally. Yet

34:47

you can drink alcohol. Because it's a big business,

34:49

they have lobbies that they lobby the big government.

34:53

And how does that end up? Well, it ends up like this. Money

34:57

in the pockets of politicians

35:00

who then legalize alcohol, then

35:03

after a couple drinks, put you in

35:06

a position to get a DUI. Put

35:08

you in a position to make a bad decision with alcohol.

35:11

And I'm not here to do a whole diatribe on alcohol.

35:13

I've did a whole fucking episode why you oughta quit alcohol.

35:15

But what I'm telling you is that when you make that

35:18

commitment for those 30 days to

35:20

start getting after your fitness, to

35:23

do that one thing, that one

35:25

thing that's gonna build you, get after your

35:27

fitness, and then do

35:29

the one thing that's destroying you.

35:31

And I don't care what that one thing is,

35:33

but get rid of it. Could be alcohol, could

35:36

be food, but just pick one of the many

35:38

things that are holding you at rock bottom. You

35:42

do that for 30 days, man, and you

35:44

are gonna fucking find a new version of

35:46

yourself. And that's gonna give you the confidence

35:48

and the courage to stop one more thing,

35:50

and to stop one more thing, and to

35:52

stop one more thing. And then guess what

35:54

happens then? You've gained momentum. Now 90 days

35:56

have gone by, you've stopped a lot of

35:58

your vices, you've got greater. discipline and structuring

36:00

your life. You're getting leaner, more jacked,

36:03

you're getting compliments. Chicks

36:05

are breaking their neck to look at you. Or

36:08

in some of your cases, dudes are breaking their neck to look

36:10

at you. And that's cool too. I

36:12

don't give a fuck. The

36:15

point I'm making here is

36:18

if you're stuck at rock bottom, you're

36:20

either gonna wait it out and

36:23

hope that things

36:25

work out, or you have to

36:27

become an active participant and crawling

36:29

out of the hole

36:32

that you dug yourself in. Cause let's face it,

36:35

more times than not, rock bottom,

36:37

all the chips being out on the

36:39

table is a byproduct of you making

36:41

a string of bad decisions or

36:44

avoiding the right decisions is

36:47

what got you there. And

36:50

so what am I telling you here? Embrace fitness

36:52

for 30 days. Find the

36:54

one thing that's destroying you and sabotaging you and

36:57

stop that for 30 days. And

36:59

when you do, you will fight your way, crawl

37:01

your way, climb your way out of that rock

37:03

bottom. And when you do, pay it forward to

37:05

others. Because today we live in

37:08

a time and place where

37:11

the economy is fucked, our

37:13

nation's leadership is fucked. People

37:16

are having a hard time paying

37:18

their bills. Show

37:20

some grace, show some kindness to others

37:23

by forwarding this episode to them. Letting

37:25

them know that rock bottom is not permanent,

37:28

that there is a plan of getting out of rock bottom.

37:30

It's a very simple plan. Get lean and

37:33

jacked for 30 days, stop the

37:35

one thing that's destroying you. That

37:37

one thing you stop by the way, it could be fucking TV. If

37:40

you just binge watching TV late at night and therefore in

37:42

the morning you're having a hard time getting up, fucking

37:45

stop watching TV. My case, that one

37:47

thing that was destroying me was the bagels and cream

37:49

cheese every night. What

37:51

I'm saying is as you do this stuff, it'll

37:54

stack on top of itself. The W's will stack,

37:57

just like the losses have stacked in your life right now.

38:01

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38:24

people who need to hear this message. Share

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it on social media. You

38:30

know, we're living in a time where the economy

38:33

is jacked up. The leadership that

38:35

we have in this country, like I said, is jacked

38:37

up. People have lost

38:39

hope. They're not making

38:41

as much money as they need to with their

38:43

bills stacking up. And

38:45

some people might secretly be at rock

38:47

bottom. And you and I

38:51

could have a hand in helping them climb

38:53

out of this. So guys and gals,

38:55

remember this, that average is the enemy,

38:58

success is your responsibility, and change can

39:00

take place in an instant if

39:02

you are willing to flip the switch. I'll see

39:04

you next time.