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Are limiting beliefs holding you back from success in life with Justin Belt

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Are limiting beliefs holding you back from success in life with Justin Belt

Thursday, 19th October 2023
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Hey , my friend , what is the one thing

0:02

that is holding you back from success and

0:04

something you want to accomplish in your life ? Well

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, we are going to share the secret to how to

0:09

recognize what may be holding you back

0:12

and the three powerful steps to

0:14

taking big action in your life . Hope

0:16

you enjoy .

0:18

Welcome to Inspire to Run Podcast

0:20

. Here you will find inspiration

0:23

, Whether you are looking to take control of

0:25

your health and fitness or you are a seasoned

0:27

runner looking for community and

0:29

some extra motivation . You

0:31

will hear inspiring stories from amazing

0:33

runners , along with helpful tips from

0:35

fitness experts . Now here

0:37

is your host , Richard .

0:39

Connor . Hi

0:42

everyone , welcome to Inspire to Run Podcast

0:44

. Today I'm sitting down with Justin Bell

0:46

, who is a life coach author

0:49

and teacher in Dallas , texas . His

0:51

first book , slaying the Lion Hunt

0:54

what is Hunting you , is currently

0:56

five star rated on Amazon . In

0:58

his life coaching practice , he works with

1:00

men who are searching for their path and

1:03

their purpose through strategies

1:05

centrally focusing on eliminating

1:07

beliefs eliminating limiting

1:10

beliefs and correcting faulty self

1:12

narratives . Justin has been able

1:14

to help many clients move forward with

1:16

clarity and renewed focus on creating

1:19

the kind of future that aligns with

1:21

their dreams and goals .

1:23

Welcome to the show , Justin . Thank you

1:25

, Richard . I'm glad to be here . I'm glad to be here for the invitation

1:27

. Yeah , for sure .

1:29

So you know I love the work that

1:31

you're doing in your coaching practice and

1:33

I'm excited to learn a little bit more

1:35

about the book that you've written the five star

1:37

rated book and I think this

1:39

is really cool for us to have a life coach

1:42

on the show to help our listeners through

1:44

, you know , maybe with some of the things that they're

1:46

going through , and you know the principle

1:48

of the show is to help folks make

1:50

a change in their life . Right , they want to make a

1:52

change . They may want to make a change and

1:54

maybe they don't know how or maybe there's some limiting

1:57

beliefs that's holding them back . So

1:59

really excited to have you here and just kind

2:01

of talk about that on the show .

2:04

Well , I'm excited to be here and to talk about

2:06

it all and I think , like I told you before

2:08

, while I'm not a runner , my

2:10

son tells me that I'm a very fast walker

2:12

, so maybe there's some correlations

2:15

there .

2:16

Oh , that's awesome . I love that . I love that . Well

2:19

, all is welcome here , even fast walkers , so so that's very

2:21

cool . All right , so you know a little

2:23

bit beyond your bio . Let's learn a little bit more

2:25

about you .

2:26

Okay , well , I am

2:29

the husband of a now

2:31

graduated chiropractor , so

2:34

we are definitely celebrating that I'm

2:36

a father of five . We

2:38

just sent our oldest off to college

2:40

, back in back at the end of

2:42

July , so we are kind of coping

2:45

with one being out

2:47

of the nest and flying , flying free

2:49

. But other than that man , I

2:51

, in my day job , my nine to five

2:53

I am a student success

2:55

coach , so I work with students

2:57

on helping them

2:59

to pass date testing but also

3:01

to kind of navigate what that post

3:04

school life looks like . And

3:07

I'm a podcaster . So I have a podcast

3:09

called the pep talk podcast , where

3:12

the mission , everything that we do , is to

3:14

cheer you on and to coach you up

3:16

, and the idea behind that is just simply

3:18

, everybody needs a cheerleader

3:21

, somebody to encourage them

3:23

and to you know , rah , rah

3:25

, rah them . But we also need a coach

3:27

to help us to elevate to whatever that

3:29

next level in life is , and so that's

3:32

what I try to do on the podcast and that's

3:34

kind of the central focus of where

3:37

my path in life has taken me so far .

3:40

I love that . I love that . First

3:42

, congratulations to your family , achievements

3:44

to , to your wife and your oldest

3:46

. Now I'm going off to college and my

3:48

oldest just went off to college as well and

3:51

I'm still kind of coming to terms with all of that

3:53

. But I also kind of feel like it was time , like

3:56

she's she's ready to go . I think I

3:58

think she's ready . She's going to be successful in whatever

4:00

she wants to do . So I'm excited for this

4:02

phase of her life . So but anyway , congratulations

4:05

to your family . And you know I love

4:07

the principle behind your show

4:09

and I think you're absolutely right about you

4:11

know everybody needing a cheerleader and everybody

4:13

needing a coach . And just you know quick

4:15

story on my side and the listeners

4:17

know the story that I hired

4:19

a Spartan coach I don't know about three

4:21

, four years ago and I went into

4:23

it thinking like , just tell me what to do and I'll do it

4:26

right , just help me get to where I need to be . But

4:28

he turned out to be so much more and helped me

4:30

, you know , really push me to do things that maybe

4:32

I was afraid to do or thought that I couldn't

4:34

do . So having a coach was

4:36

so much more for me than I thought it was . So

4:38

you know love to get into a little bit of that and the work

4:41

that you've done as well .

4:42

Awesome . Yeah , I'm a Spartan

4:45

coach . I have friends who

4:47

have done some of those races . Whew

4:50

, what

4:54

was your experience like ? Have

4:57

you actually done the race yet ?

4:59

I have , yeah , so you know fair response

5:02

to someone talking about obstacle

5:04

course races , in particular , spartan yeah

5:06

, so you know the first one I did back in 2018

5:09

. And after that race is a reason

5:11

why I got a coach . So it was a tough race

5:13

, as you can imagine , and

5:15

you know I started it as a way to do things

5:17

I'd never done before , overcome

5:20

some of my fears , and I did the race

5:22

and I was like you know I could do this better , but

5:24

I recognized at that point that I needed

5:26

help because I , you know , I thought I trained for it

5:28

. I spent , you know , better part of the year doing

5:31

the things I needed to do , but it

5:33

wasn't getting me to where I needed to be . So I was

5:35

just like you know , I need help in this area . But

5:38

it was a lot of fun . It was really kind of the jumping off

5:40

point for the journey that I'm on that eventually

5:42

led to Inspired by my podcast . But

5:44

you know so , through my own journey , I started

5:46

to wonder and I started , I started to hear a little

5:48

bit of this from others right . So as

5:51

I'm telling my story , I'm hearing hey

5:53

, richard , you know what you're doing , like with Spartan as

5:55

an example , that's really great , but

5:57

I wish I could do that , or

6:00

I could never do that . And

6:02

you know , I've always wondered like , how many people

6:04

out there have that same

6:06

feeling ? Like gosh , I really would love to do X , Y and

6:08

Z , but I can't , or I don't have time or

6:10

I don't have the resources or whatever the case

6:12

is . So

6:14

you know that I'm wondering

6:17

, you know , maybe , from your perspective , what

6:19

have you seen in your practice and your coaching practice

6:21

and through your podcast , what

6:24

are kind of those common limiting

6:26

beliefs and how can someone

6:28

start to kind of work through those and get

6:30

over those .

6:33

It's funny that you started with that question , because

6:35

all the people that I've known

6:37

who've done like the Spartan races

6:39

and the tough mutters I don't know if you've ever heard of

6:41

those . When

6:44

I listen to them talk about the

6:47

physical exertion that goes along with it

6:49

, I'm like , oh my gosh , I could never do that . And

6:52

it's almost like an automatic , an

6:54

automatic response , right . And

6:56

so here's

6:59

what I think . I

7:02

think that sometimes what we don't realize

7:04

is that the way that

7:06

our brains work

7:09

and when I talk to clients about this they're

7:11

like wait a minute , what Our

7:13

minds are created

7:16

, they're developed , they want to . Our brain

7:18

wants to conserve energy , so it

7:20

looks for patterns

7:22

. You know ways to skip steps just to make things easier . And

7:25

so when we settle into

7:28

what we consider to be our

7:30

comfortable life , right , I

7:32

go to , I wake up in the morning , hit

7:34

my snooze three times , you know

7:36

, get my coffee , kiss the wife

7:38

, kiss the kids , go to work , come home

7:40

from work , have dinner , go to bed , rinse , repeat

7:43

. We

7:45

hit an autopilot where the

7:47

brain really doesn't have to jump in

7:49

and say , oh my gosh , something new has come up . So

7:52

it's like , good , it's going to serve energy , it's feeling

7:54

really good . But then something

7:57

like the Spartan race comes up and

8:00

you're like your brain's like wait a minute , this

8:03

is going to require something new that

8:05

I haven't had to

8:07

, you know , throw the resources

8:09

out , for I don't think that we

8:11

should do that and see , because

8:14

our brains want to protect

8:16

us . A lot of times when we introduce

8:19

something that is very foreign into

8:22

the calculation , it

8:24

immediately wants to reject it . And

8:26

that's some of the places where those

8:28

fears and those limiting beliefs come from

8:31

. It's not that we

8:34

don't want to do it , we do want to do it , but

8:36

our brain thinks

8:38

of this new introduction

8:41

, of this new idea , this new

8:43

obstacle , this new

8:45

event , as something that's going

8:47

to be threatening for our

8:49

well-being . So immediately it's like nope

8:51

, we're not doing that . And

8:53

so when I talk to clients , I'm like you

8:56

cannot trust everything

8:58

that your mind is telling

9:00

you . Your mind wants to protect

9:03

you , your mind wants to be your friend

9:05

, but we all have those friends who

9:08

will think that they're doing

9:10

the positive thing for us through

9:13

negative means , like I had

9:15

a friend in college

9:17

sorry , in high school when I

9:19

told him that I wanted to go to school and major in music

9:21

, he was like musicians

9:24

, don't make anything . Like what

9:26

are you doing ? Like you should go into

9:29

business where you can make some money , like

9:31

become a lawyer or a doctor

9:33

and go into a field that's going to make you some money

9:35

. He was trying

9:37

to help me , but he

9:39

was doing it through introducing , you

9:42

know , a negative , negative language

9:44

. And when I went to school and majored in

9:46

music , what I heard in my head was I

9:48

probably shouldn't be doing this . Even

9:51

my mom , my mom , said you shouldn't

9:53

major in music , you should major in English and become

9:55

an English teacher . Now , even

9:57

though I did eventually become an

9:59

English teacher , I

10:02

could hear her voice in my head you

10:05

shouldn't do music . To the point

10:07

that , to the point that when

10:09

I was about to graduate from college , I

10:11

was approached by several

10:13

prestigious music programs in Mississippi

10:16

to come and take over their

10:18

music programs and

10:20

I said no because I didn't

10:23

feel like I had it in me to

10:25

be able to do it on a high level . So

10:28

what was I hearing ? I

10:30

had gone through five years of a music

10:32

program , because the music program was a five year program

10:34

. I had learned how to compose . I

10:36

was the president of the choir , I was the

10:38

you know assistant conductor

10:40

. I had the timing and stuff . I could have

10:43

done the job . But

10:45

what stopped me Was

10:47

, in my mind , those voices

10:50

you can't do this , you shouldn't

10:52

do this , you wouldn't be happy doing this . And

10:55

so when I Talked to

10:57

clients and I'm like , and they're

10:59

like I , I'm

11:01

afraid of doing

11:03

x , y and z . Why

11:06

? Why is that like ? When you

11:09

think about doing this , what are the immediate emotions

11:11

that come to you ? What are you here in your

11:13

mind ? Well , in my mind I

11:16

can think of all of the different ways . I'm going to

11:18

fall flat on my face . I'm

11:20

not going to be able to do those monkey bars . I

11:23

Throw up in my mouth a little bit

11:25

when I think about crawling through the mud . Like

11:27

all . All of these things

11:29

are constructs that

11:32

our mind comes up with to protect

11:34

us from something that could possibly cause

11:36

harm . Because , let's face it , sometimes

11:39

Change , inserting change

11:41

into our lives . It can be harmful

11:44

in the beginning , but

11:46

once we Integrate

11:48

that well into our lives , it becomes the best

11:51

thing , the best thing for us . I mean , you're

11:53

, you're , you're a Spartan course finisher , something

11:56

that I could only Probably

11:58

have a bad dream about doing , you know , right

12:00

, right now . But it

12:03

just falls back to the

12:05

limiting beliefs and Understanding

12:08

that , while our mind is for us

12:10

in every instance , it's

12:13

not the most trustworthy voice

12:15

to have in our heads .

12:16

Wow that's incredible and you know

12:18

, I really love what you said about not

12:21

trusting everything that the mind is telling

12:23

you , because you know , I was just actually having

12:26

this conversation the other day about something about

12:28

affirmations , and you

12:30

know the kind of the power of positive thinking and then

12:32

kind of telling your mind about

12:35

you know Not where you're going

12:37

, but where you are like in the future

12:39

, but in a way kind of tricking your mind so

12:42

it doesn't give you those kind of limiting

12:44

beliefs like all you can never get there or

12:46

you know , in a way of , like you Said , trying to protect

12:48

you . So that's really interesting and you

12:50

know , and I think to some extent is probably Happening

12:54

at a subconscious level for folks . They probably

12:56

don't realize it . It's happening right , and so you

12:58

ask those questions . You know what

13:00

are the emotions that come up when you

13:02

think about doing something new , or you

13:04

know what are the thoughts that you have . So that's

13:06

really that's really interesting . So I

13:08

guess that's how someone should start right if they want

13:10

to do something new that's

13:13

gonna benefit them in their lives really

13:15

and they may have like negative thoughts

13:18

about or maybe not know . The first thing is

13:20

well , really being cautious

13:22

about what are they thinking about , when they think

13:24

about those things right , and how are they feeling

13:26

about it ? And maybe starting there .

13:28

Yeah , I think with anything

13:31

you have to

13:33

start at the root , like you have

13:35

to explore , you

13:37

have to identify what it is . So

13:39

what is that

13:41

story that's on a loop ? And now we're talking about

13:43

? You know narratives , the stories that we tell ourselves . What's

13:46

that narrative that's on a loop in your head

13:49

and how

13:51

is it limiting you ? I'm a huge proponent

13:54

of stories and

13:56

our minds are such that our minds

13:58

are always picking up on Our

14:01

minds , pick up on so many things that we're

14:03

not even aware that it's paying attention to over the course , over the course

14:05

of a day . And

14:08

if we're not careful , then

14:10

you

14:13

know the saying an idle mind is the devil's , the devil's

14:15

workshop . When we've not given our minds Affirm

14:20

focus and a pathway to focus

14:22

on , then we just

14:24

free it to be like a child hyped up on Kool-Aid

14:29

and Halloween candy . You

14:31

know , just running amok , amok , amok , amok . However , the

14:33

inverse of that is when

14:39

we begin to assert some control over our

14:41

mind and our mental activity , then

14:45

the mind can literally become a

14:47

magnet for where you want to go and for

14:49

what you want to accomplish . For example , I'm willing to bet that when

14:53

you had your coach , or I may be wrong

14:55

, but possibly at any point did your coach

14:57

kind of have you , you

15:03

know , think about how good it would feel to finish

15:05

the the course , or did you do that on your own at any point ? Your training , yeah

15:07

, I mean , so I definitely do that .

15:10

I definitely visualize my races or the activities that have to do

15:12

, which I think I think athletes do is it's like common

15:14

practice , so

15:17

I can't say that I do it at at Professional

15:20

athlete level , but I do that and and then

15:22

, yeah , you know , my coach also encourages me to think

15:25

through .

15:26

You know what it's the ?

15:27

experience is going to be like , because in a lot

15:29

of these cases I've

15:31

never done it before right . So we we always talk through , especially before

15:33

race , what the day is going to be like , what the

15:36

prep is going to be , what I'm going to run through , you

15:41

know , run into during the course . So you know , both of us kind of do it

15:43

. Okay , perfect . So by doing that we're

15:45

going to do it Perfect

15:47

.

15:47

So by doing that , what

15:49

you're doing is giving your mind

15:52

a set of parameters to operate

15:54

from . It's said

15:56

that when you are visualizing

15:58

something like a race , coaches

16:00

often tell athletes

16:03

to Not just imagine

16:05

what it's going to be like when they cross the finish

16:08

line first , but also to

16:10

feel the emotion of it

16:12

, because it's the emotion of the

16:14

thing that really submits it Inside

16:17

of us as something that zoom

16:19

. This is what I'm going for . Nothing's going to stop me

16:21

because I feel Not . I not only

16:23

see it , but I feel . I

16:25

feel the emotion of , and we know that emotion

16:27

is a powerful , powerful driver . So

16:30

when I give my mind a firm

16:32

direction to go in , all

16:35

of a sudden it's like Google

16:37

. It begins to pick

16:40

up on Information and you

16:42

know snippets online and all

16:44

of these different things that will help

16:46

to Build that

16:49

reality around you . Like it

16:51

it's . It is incredible

16:53

what the brain will pick

16:55

up on when we give it Specific

16:59

of a specific and

17:01

a clear search query

17:03

, just like I mean on Google . If I

17:05

just say , type in the bar cats

17:07

, I'm going to get every single

17:10

thing about cats , stuff

17:12

that may not even serve me well , you

17:14

know stuff that is like way off

17:17

in left field from the dark web . It's

17:19

gonna be crazy . But if I say

17:21

Calico cats in

17:23

Dallas , texas , that narrows

17:25

it down some more . If I say Striped

17:29

Calico cats in Dallas , texas

17:31

, that narrows it down more . And

17:33

what I found , and neuro

17:35

research has shown that

17:38

the more specific we are and

17:40

the more clarity , the more clear we are

17:42

and how we operate and what we think

17:44

about and what are and how we

17:46

set our goals all of these things the

17:49

more efficient the mind is

17:51

in helping you to notice

17:53

Patterns that

17:55

will relate to you accomplishing the goal . It

17:58

helps you , like if you're just scrolling

18:01

Facebook and maybe there's

18:03

a friend who's always posting something

18:05

about , you know , going to culinary

18:07

school and that's something that you want to do and you all you've never

18:09

paid it any attention your

18:11

brain will like wait , wait , stop . This

18:13

is about culinary school . Please stop

18:15

. Notice this because I noticed I picked

18:17

this up for you the

18:20

brain is really

18:22

adept at At noticing

18:24

and pulling in the information

18:26

that we're looking for . That will help

18:28

our life experiences Align

18:31

with that goal that we've

18:33

set for ourselves .

18:35

I Love that . I love that and you

18:37

know , just talking to somebody about this the other day

18:39

, about I don't remember the scientific term

18:41

for it , but if I mention Yellow

18:44

Mercedes and you

18:46

probably would say I've never seen a yellow Mercedes

18:49

on the road , but now that I mentioned it , within

18:51

a week you're gonna see a yellow Mercedes on the road

18:53

.

18:53

Right , because your mind is is now kind of looking

18:55

for that , because so .

18:56

I forgot that , the scientific term for

18:58

it , but I think it's similar to what you're saying there

19:01

and I there's . You know there's a lot of truth in

19:03

that and it's so interesting how powerful

19:05

the mind is , and you know so for

19:07

a few things that I picked up on that you talked about

19:09

so far . So first is being

19:11

conscious of maybe some of the subconscious

19:14

things that your brain is Thinking , or the way

19:16

you're feeling about a certain action right or by

19:18

a certain path that you want to take to

19:20

, is Visualizing what

19:23

it would feel like to be successful , right

19:25

kind of , on that path . You know

19:27

we're talking about running , so , during your race

19:29

and crossing , being the first across that finish

19:32

line , yeah . And then three about , like

19:34

, setting those clear goals

19:36

, reflecting

19:38

where you want to be right , and so your

19:40

brain is now focused on what is

19:42

it gonna take for me to get there ? And accepting that information and

19:45

then maybe blocking out to some extent

19:48

information that that's unrelated or doesn't

19:50

serve you in that particular goal .

19:52

Yeah , I think that's that's it

19:54

and I like the way you put it . At

19:57

the end you said the info tossing , the information

19:59

that doesn't serve you reaching that goal

20:01

. I think if we can keep

20:04

in the front of our minds what's

20:06

gonna serve us getting to our destination

20:09

and what's not serving us , then we would be surprised

20:11

the the progress that we

20:13

can make Toward

20:17

whatever the goal is that we have

20:19

in our lives . Like for a runner , you know , thinking

20:23

about that misstep out of the starting blocks for the entire

20:25

race is gonna screw you . Or

20:28

thinking about how you know how far ahead of everybody

20:30

else you are during a race For most runners that's gonna screw

20:32

you up . But

20:36

when you really begin to focus in on

20:38

oh , how's my breathing right or how's my body

20:40

feeling right now , that's

20:44

actually gonna help you cross the finish line and accomplish your goal

20:46

. And we just be taking so

20:48

much over the course of the day . I

20:52

think we have to constantly be in a state

20:54

of data dumping

20:57

so that the things that we're holding within

20:59

our body are going to be able to . We're holding within

21:01

us are going to be the things that are keeping us

21:03

Motivated and inspired to

21:06

keep going toward whatever's next 100%

21:10

.

21:10

You know , and I'm thinking back to Even

21:13

some of my recent races you're talking about , like

21:15

missteps . So my last race that I had

21:17

a week you know a week ago I

21:19

had a negative mindset coming into it , and I know

21:21

this , and physically I wasn't where I needed

21:23

to be and I knew it and

21:25

my mind just kept feeding me , you know , not

21:28

great thoughts and then it ended up , you

21:30

know , not me not reaching my goals . But I

21:32

remember over the summer I ran

21:34

a five-mile or father's day race and I went

21:36

into it looking for redemption

21:38

. I'm like I know , the previous

21:41

race before that I did my best but I didn't

21:43

get to where I want to be . But this race

21:45

I'm gonna find redemption and

21:47

I felt good , I had positive thoughts

21:49

, I was happy and

21:52

I not only reached my goal but I exceeded

21:54

it , and you

21:56

know so . I could definitely see the difference this year

21:58

between certain races . How I performed

22:00

correlated not only to how I was training

22:03

and how I Hydrated in my

22:05

nutrition , but also how I was

22:07

thinking and feeling about the race .

22:09

Yeah , man , the mind is Incredibly

22:13

powerful and we

22:15

we have to own the fact that the way

22:17

that it operates , so much of

22:20

it depends on on

22:22

us , we . We give we

22:24

give away way too much power , I'm

22:26

convinced , to the people in our

22:28

lives and we fall victim to people

22:30

and the situations . And we fall victim most

22:33

of all to our own negative

22:35

Dispositions . And

22:38

as someone who knows how easy it is to fall

22:40

into a negative mindset

22:42

, I get it . I

22:45

remember A couple of years ago

22:47

I had really

22:49

fallen into a state of dissatisfaction

22:52

with teaching my parents

22:54

. They both taught for 30

22:56

years and I knew , going into

22:59

education I wasn't going to be

23:01

a lifer . I didn't start

23:03

in education until I was 32

23:07

. I believe . So I was already late to the blocks

23:09

, but I knew I didn't want to teach

23:11

until I was 62 . That

23:14

wasn't happening and

23:17

I wanted to quit . But

23:19

I didn't know what the next thing

23:22

for me was going to be . And

23:24

so my wife kind of sensed

23:26

my dissatisfaction and

23:29

she gave me permission to hire

23:31

a coach . So my first time

23:34

hiring a coach . Up until that point I

23:36

thought coaches were all charlatans . I

23:40

thought that they were just out to get your

23:42

money or whatever . And I just said you know , I've

23:44

got to get some clarity , I've got to figure out what's going

23:46

on . And so I hired a coach

23:48

and during our first

23:50

session I tell him he

23:53

earned all of his money in that first session

23:55

Because , as

23:57

we talked , every

24:00

time I said something

24:02

negative about myself he wrote a tally down on a notebook

24:04

. After 30 minutes

24:06

he was like Justin , do you realize

24:08

that just in a 30

24:10

minute conversation you put yourself

24:13

down almost a hundred

24:15

times ? Had

24:17

no idea , had

24:19

no idea . And

24:22

so we had

24:24

to start with . Why do you feel

24:26

the way that you feel about yourself ? And

24:29

he wasn't a therapist , so there was no therapizing

24:32

in any of that . And I'm all for therapy

24:34

too , don't get me wrong . But he

24:36

made me aware of

24:39

what I was saying about

24:41

myself , which was

24:43

an indication of what I believed about myself

24:46

. I had very

24:48

little stock in my

24:50

self-worth . I knew that I was a good husband

24:52

, I knew that I was a good father

24:54

, but beyond

24:56

that , as far as what life

24:58

was for me , I

25:02

had very little belief that I could

25:04

build something that

25:07

would really feel , that

25:09

would help me to accomplish a

25:11

purpose or something . And

25:13

so I remember we met for

25:16

about four months and

25:19

at the end of four months I

25:21

knew that I wanted to go into the coaching space

25:23

because I knew that there

25:25

were people out there who were

25:27

like me , who needed

25:29

someone to come alongside

25:32

them . And number one make them aware

25:34

of what they were saying and what they were believing

25:36

. But number two show them that there is a way

25:38

to change that . And I remember our

25:41

second to last session . He said , justin , you need

25:43

to go ahead and start your coaching business

25:45

. I said I'm not ready . He

25:47

said you'll figure it out . I

25:50

said what do you mean ? I'll figure it out . I

25:52

don't know what to do or where to go . He

25:55

said , justin , do you have confidence that you can be a good

25:57

coach ? I said yeah

26:00

, and before I could say . But he

26:02

said then you have to understand

26:04

that confidence is the

26:06

knowledge and the feeling deep within

26:08

you that , even though

26:10

you don't know how to do

26:13

what you're doing , you know that you'll

26:15

figure it out and no matter how

26:17

long it takes you to get there , you'll

26:20

reinvent as long as you need to

26:22

, but you'll find a way to

26:24

get it done . And

26:27

when we were done meeting together

26:29

, I had this sense

26:31

of empowerment because really

26:34

, for the first time in my life , I

26:37

believed not just in Justin

26:39

the husband , or Justin the father , or

26:41

Justin the teacher I knew that I was good

26:44

there but I believed in Justin the

26:46

man and what I could actually

26:48

accomplish in my

26:50

life . And so , because

26:53

I know the power of that and

26:55

the harm that we can self-inflict on one another

26:57

, I knew that that

26:59

coaching was for me . But

27:01

even more than that , I really realized

27:04

the power that each and every one of us

27:06

harbors on the inside of us that we never

27:08

really get a chance to tap into

27:11

. And so I'm

27:13

out to shift all of that

27:15

. For every person that I come into contact with

27:17

, my students are like Mr B , I

27:19

don't need your affirmations , I

27:21

don't need your pep talks , I'm like , okay

27:24

, but one day you will . So just listen

27:27

, sit down and listen . I have

27:29

you for another 90 minutes , just sit down and listen . And

27:32

so you know and

27:34

that's why I got into the podcasting space

27:36

, because I think you get

27:38

this is that that

27:40

thing that's burning on the inside of

27:42

us . We have to get it out

27:44

somehow . And

27:47

what you're doing , you're encouraging

27:49

people and you know these are

27:51

things , these are mindsets that don't just

27:53

help runners . They

27:55

help slow walkers , they help fast

27:58

walkers like me , they help people who

28:00

are crawling Like you're

28:02

just doing it in the space for

28:05

runners . But I could

28:07

put a client on to your podcast

28:10

and say come away from this and tell me what you

28:12

think , and they can come back

28:14

from this and say , yo , I

28:17

can take what he said and

28:19

I can be so much better and

28:21

more efficient in my job just based

28:23

on what Richard said in episode

28:26

99 of the podcast . So

28:28

I applaud you for what

28:30

you're doing too , because I

28:33

think the

28:35

passion that is within you , you're

28:38

bringing it out in a way that is

28:40

helping people not just to run better

28:42

, not just to race better , but to live better and to

28:44

think better as well . Sorry

28:47

, that was long-mitted .

28:48

Oh , that was wonderful . 100%

28:52

. I deeply appreciate what you said and

28:54

you're exactly right . On the show

28:56

we talk about mindset , movement

28:58

and motivation , so those three pillars . But

29:00

I always say the movement is running

29:02

, because that's what I know and love . I've seen running

29:05

transforming , changing lives of so

29:07

many people , many of those that have come

29:09

on the show . But it could be anything , it could be any

29:11

form of movement and it doesn't even have

29:13

to be physical . Like you said , the movement could be movement

29:16

in your career , it could be movement

29:18

in your family life , it could be movement

29:20

in your relationships , but

29:23

following those principles of having

29:25

the right mindset , taking action

29:27

and staying consistent and

29:29

staying motivated . I love what

29:31

you said . I appreciate you because

29:34

that is exactly what we're trying to do here . Hopefully

29:36

running doesn't scare everybody away because I know

29:39

it's a very polarizing topic , but

29:41

it's so much more than running , as

29:43

you pointed out , so I appreciate that Totally

29:47

, totally , totally Cool . We

29:50

talked about a lot of great things . We

29:52

talked about those three tips in the beginning around

29:54

really becoming conscious

29:56

of your thoughts , especially your negative

29:58

thoughts or limiting beliefs , setting those

30:01

goals and having clarity around

30:03

that . Let's

30:05

talk a little bit about you . We talked about coaching

30:07

, the importance of coaching . Coaching

30:10

may or may not be for everybody , depending on what

30:12

you believe or what your beliefs are about coaching . You

30:14

and I both have really positive experiences

30:16

with coaching , so it's something we definitely recommend

30:19

. Beyond

30:22

that , any final tips for

30:24

someone listening for again , someone who's trying

30:26

to make a change in their life . They may have

30:28

those limiting beliefs , they may not know where to start

30:31

and what would be those

30:33

tips that you would share with them to help them get going

30:35

.

30:35

I would ask a question . The

30:38

question that I would ask is

30:40

what's the harm in believing

30:43

the biggest and best things

30:45

about yourself ? I'm

30:49

reading a book now called the Magic

30:51

of Thinking Big . I'm

30:54

only on chapter two

30:56

, I believe , but it's been an incredible read so

30:58

far . One

31:01

thing that the author said and I can't recall his

31:03

name right now , but he says that

31:06

we do so much harm to

31:08

ourselves when we undertake

31:11

something new , knowing

31:13

that we don't believe in what we're doing . He

31:16

said I can always tell what somebody doesn't believe , because

31:19

that thing they're doing will fail , and

31:21

the first thing out of their mouths they'll say I

31:24

knew this wasn't going to work . I

31:27

don't even know why I tried this . I knew it wasn't

31:29

going to work .

31:30

Then why'd ?

31:30

you try it , and

31:32

so my question then is what

31:35

is the harm in believing

31:37

the biggest and best thing

31:39

about yourself ? What's

31:42

the worst thing that can happen ? You

31:45

don't exactly hit that mark , but you land

31:47

up under it . That's still good

31:49

. Maybe you surpass that mark and go

31:51

above it , that's great . But

31:54

we have all of this life experience to show

31:57

us what living underlimiting

31:59

beliefs will do for us . It leads to

32:01

a very underwhelming

32:03

, rote , comfortable

32:06

kind of life that

32:08

becomes boring really fast . I

32:11

would prefer to live a

32:14

life where I feel

32:17

free to believe the best that

32:19

I can about myself and to dream

32:21

the biggest that I can about

32:23

myself and

32:25

just live in that . And I don't

32:27

believe that it's telling yourself

32:30

a lie and trying to live according to a lie . But

32:32

I believe that believing big

32:34

spurs us on to big

32:37

action , and

32:40

I think for so many of us maybe even somebody

32:42

listening right now there is a big

32:44

action that you have been putting

32:47

off for the longest amount of

32:49

time . Maybe it's that marathon

32:51

that you think about training for

32:53

and you're like , nope , I haven't even done

32:55

a 5K yet . Maybe

32:58

it is even getting you some shoes

33:00

and getting out and doing one of those walk

33:03

to 5K programs that they have

33:05

in the app stores all over the place . I

33:07

don't know what that thing is for

33:10

you , but what

33:12

would be the harm in believing

33:15

that the biggest and best things about

33:17

your life are true

33:19

and then taking

33:21

action according to those beliefs

33:24

those beliefs and

33:26

not caring what anybody else had to say

33:28

about you or about you were

33:30

doing ? And that's

33:32

not a tip , it's a question . But

33:34

I think answering that question can

33:37

lead to so much life change

33:39

.

33:40

Love it . Love it , justin . I

33:42

appreciate you . I've totally

33:44

enjoyed this conversation and I'm sure

33:47

everyone listening is enjoying it as well . So

33:49

how can our community , our listeners

33:52

, find you ? Follow you online

33:54

, listen to your podcast , read

33:56

your book ? Tell us how we can find you

33:58

.

34:00

Well , you can find me on Instagram . I

34:02

am at underscore . Jb speaks

34:05

. Usually every day

34:07

. I'm posting one or two videos that

34:09

are mindset

34:11

or motivational adjacent

34:14

just to try to get people to think about life differently

34:16

. And

34:19

I'm also on TikTok , but I'm not dancing

34:22

. It's pep

34:24

talk podcast on TikTok , where I do the

34:26

same thing , but also

34:28

the podcast , the pep talk podcast , that drops

34:30

episodes every Monday

34:32

, and I'd love to

34:35

invite your listeners to come over and

34:37

join the pep squad , a

34:39

community of people who are just deputized

34:41

to provide encouragement

34:43

wherever they go . My

34:46

book is on Amazon . It's

34:48

laying the lion hunt what is hunting you , by

34:50

Justin belt , and if any

34:53

of your listeners reach out to me on Instagram , I'd

34:55

love to send them a free copy of my ebook

34:57

, soaring confidence . It's

35:00

just my little gift saying

35:02

thank you for listening to this conversation .

35:05

I love that . Thank you so much , justin . I will

35:07

put all of that in the show notes to make

35:10

it easy to find you and follow you online

35:12

and check out the ebook . So

35:14

thank you again for coming on the show and sharing your wisdom

35:17

with us , and you know what that thanks

35:19

, and have a great day .

35:21

You too . That's

35:23

it for this episode of Inspire to Run

35:25

Podcast . We hope you are inspired

35:28

to take control of your health and fitness and

35:30

take it to the next level . Be sure to

35:32

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35:34

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35:36

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