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Hey , my friend , what is the one thing
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that is holding you back from success and
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something you want to accomplish in your life ? Well
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, we are going to share the secret to how to
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recognize what may be holding you back
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and the three powerful steps to
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taking big action in your life . Hope
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you enjoy .
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Welcome to Inspire to Run Podcast
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. Here you will find inspiration
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, Whether you are looking to take control of
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your health and fitness or you are a seasoned
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runner looking for community and
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some extra motivation . You
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will hear inspiring stories from amazing
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runners , along with helpful tips from
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fitness experts . Now here
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is your host , Richard .
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Connor . Hi
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everyone , welcome to Inspire to Run Podcast
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. Today I'm sitting down with Justin Bell
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, who is a life coach author
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and teacher in Dallas , texas . His
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first book , slaying the Lion Hunt
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what is Hunting you , is currently
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five star rated on Amazon . In
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his life coaching practice , he works with
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men who are searching for their path and
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their purpose through strategies
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centrally focusing on eliminating
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beliefs eliminating limiting
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beliefs and correcting faulty self
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narratives . Justin has been able
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to help many clients move forward with
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clarity and renewed focus on creating
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the kind of future that aligns with
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their dreams and goals .
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Welcome to the show , Justin . Thank you
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, Richard . I'm glad to be here . I'm glad to be here for the invitation
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. Yeah , for sure .
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So you know I love the work that
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you're doing in your coaching practice and
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I'm excited to learn a little bit more
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about the book that you've written the five star
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rated book and I think this
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is really cool for us to have a life coach
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on the show to help our listeners through
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, you know , maybe with some of the things that they're
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going through , and you know the principle
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of the show is to help folks make
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a change in their life . Right , they want to make a
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change . They may want to make a change and
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maybe they don't know how or maybe there's some limiting
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beliefs that's holding them back . So
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really excited to have you here and just kind
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of talk about that on the show .
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Well , I'm excited to be here and to talk about
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it all and I think , like I told you before
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, while I'm not a runner , my
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son tells me that I'm a very fast walker
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, so maybe there's some correlations
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there .
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Oh , that's awesome . I love that . I love that . Well
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, all is welcome here , even fast walkers , so so that's very
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cool . All right , so you know a little
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bit beyond your bio . Let's learn a little bit more
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about you .
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Okay , well , I am
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the husband of a now
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graduated chiropractor , so
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we are definitely celebrating that I'm
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a father of five . We
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just sent our oldest off to college
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, back in back at the end of
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July , so we are kind of coping
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with one being out
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of the nest and flying , flying free
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. But other than that man , I
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, in my day job , my nine to five
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I am a student success
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coach , so I work with students
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on helping them
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to pass date testing but also
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to kind of navigate what that post
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school life looks like . And
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I'm a podcaster . So I have a podcast
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called the pep talk podcast , where
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the mission , everything that we do , is to
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cheer you on and to coach you up
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, and the idea behind that is just simply
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, everybody needs a cheerleader
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, somebody to encourage them
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and to you know , rah , rah
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, rah them . But we also need a coach
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to help us to elevate to whatever that
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next level in life is , and so that's
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what I try to do on the podcast and that's
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kind of the central focus of where
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my path in life has taken me so far .
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I love that . I love that . First
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, congratulations to your family , achievements
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to , to your wife and your oldest
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. Now I'm going off to college and my
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oldest just went off to college as well and
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I'm still kind of coming to terms with all of that
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. But I also kind of feel like it was time , like
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she's she's ready to go . I think I
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think she's ready . She's going to be successful in whatever
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she wants to do . So I'm excited for this
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phase of her life . So but anyway , congratulations
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to your family . And you know I love
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the principle behind your show
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and I think you're absolutely right about you
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know everybody needing a cheerleader and everybody
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needing a coach . And just you know quick
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story on my side and the listeners
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know the story that I hired
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a Spartan coach I don't know about three
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, four years ago and I went into
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it thinking like , just tell me what to do and I'll do it
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right , just help me get to where I need to be . But
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he turned out to be so much more and helped me
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, you know , really push me to do things that maybe
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I was afraid to do or thought that I couldn't
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do . So having a coach was
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so much more for me than I thought it was . So
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you know love to get into a little bit of that and the work
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that you've done as well .
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Awesome . Yeah , I'm a Spartan
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coach . I have friends who
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have done some of those races . Whew
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, what
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was your experience like ? Have
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you actually done the race yet ?
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I have , yeah , so you know fair response
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to someone talking about obstacle
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course races , in particular , spartan yeah
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, so you know the first one I did back in 2018
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. And after that race is a reason
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why I got a coach . So it was a tough race
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, as you can imagine , and
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you know I started it as a way to do things
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I'd never done before , overcome
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some of my fears , and I did the race
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and I was like you know I could do this better , but
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I recognized at that point that I needed
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help because I , you know , I thought I trained for it
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. I spent , you know , better part of the year doing
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the things I needed to do , but it
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wasn't getting me to where I needed to be . So I was
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just like you know , I need help in this area . But
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it was a lot of fun . It was really kind of the jumping off
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point for the journey that I'm on that eventually
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led to Inspired by my podcast . But
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you know so , through my own journey , I started
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to wonder and I started , I started to hear a little
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bit of this from others right . So as
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I'm telling my story , I'm hearing hey
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, richard , you know what you're doing , like with Spartan as
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an example , that's really great , but
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I wish I could do that , or
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I could never do that . And
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you know , I've always wondered like , how many people
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out there have that same
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feeling ? Like gosh , I really would love to do X , Y and
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Z , but I can't , or I don't have time or
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I don't have the resources or whatever the case
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is . So
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you know that I'm wondering
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, you know , maybe , from your perspective , what
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have you seen in your practice and your coaching practice
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and through your podcast , what
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are kind of those common limiting
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beliefs and how can someone
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start to kind of work through those and get
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over those .
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It's funny that you started with that question , because
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all the people that I've known
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who've done like the Spartan races
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and the tough mutters I don't know if you've ever heard of
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those . When
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I listen to them talk about the
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physical exertion that goes along with it
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, I'm like , oh my gosh , I could never do that . And
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it's almost like an automatic , an
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automatic response , right . And
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so here's
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what I think . I
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think that sometimes what we don't realize
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is that the way that
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our brains work
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and when I talk to clients about this they're
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like wait a minute , what Our
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minds are created
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, they're developed , they want to . Our brain
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wants to conserve energy , so it
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looks for patterns
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. You know ways to skip steps just to make things easier . And
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so when we settle into
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what we consider to be our
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comfortable life , right , I
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go to , I wake up in the morning , hit
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my snooze three times , you know
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, get my coffee , kiss the wife
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, kiss the kids , go to work , come home
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from work , have dinner , go to bed , rinse , repeat
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. We
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hit an autopilot where the
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brain really doesn't have to jump in
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and say , oh my gosh , something new has come up . So
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it's like , good , it's going to serve energy , it's feeling
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really good . But then something
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like the Spartan race comes up and
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you're like your brain's like wait a minute , this
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is going to require something new that
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I haven't had to
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, you know , throw the resources
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out , for I don't think that we
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should do that and see , because
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our brains want to protect
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us . A lot of times when we introduce
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something that is very foreign into
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the calculation , it
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immediately wants to reject it . And
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that's some of the places where those
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fears and those limiting beliefs come from
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. It's not that we
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don't want to do it , we do want to do it , but
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our brain thinks
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of this new introduction
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, of this new idea , this new
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obstacle , this new
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event , as something that's going
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to be threatening for our
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well-being . So immediately it's like nope
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, we're not doing that . And
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so when I talk to clients , I'm like you
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cannot trust everything
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that your mind is telling
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you . Your mind wants to protect
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you , your mind wants to be your friend
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, but we all have those friends who
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will think that they're doing
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the positive thing for us through
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negative means , like I had
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a friend in college
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sorry , in high school when I
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told him that I wanted to go to school and major in music
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, he was like musicians
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, don't make anything . Like what
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are you doing ? Like you should go into
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business where you can make some money , like
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become a lawyer or a doctor
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and go into a field that's going to make you some money
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. He was trying
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to help me , but he
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was doing it through introducing , you
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know , a negative , negative language
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. And when I went to school and majored in
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music , what I heard in my head was I
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probably shouldn't be doing this . Even
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my mom , my mom , said you shouldn't
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major in music , you should major in English and become
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an English teacher . Now , even
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though I did eventually become an
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English teacher , I
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could hear her voice in my head you
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shouldn't do music . To the point
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that , to the point that when
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I was about to graduate from college , I
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was approached by several
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prestigious music programs in Mississippi
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to come and take over their
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music programs and
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I said no because I didn't
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feel like I had it in me to
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be able to do it on a high level . So
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what was I hearing ? I
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had gone through five years of a music
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program , because the music program was a five year program
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. I had learned how to compose . I
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was the president of the choir , I was the
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you know assistant conductor
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. I had the timing and stuff . I could have
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done the job . But
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what stopped me Was
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, in my mind , those voices
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you can't do this , you shouldn't
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do this , you wouldn't be happy doing this . And
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so when I Talked to
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clients and I'm like , and they're
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like I , I'm
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afraid of doing
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x , y and z . Why
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? Why is that like ? When you
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think about doing this , what are the immediate emotions
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that come to you ? What are you here in your
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mind ? Well , in my mind I
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can think of all of the different ways . I'm going to
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fall flat on my face . I'm
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not going to be able to do those monkey bars . I
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Throw up in my mouth a little bit
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when I think about crawling through the mud . Like
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all . All of these things
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are constructs that
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our mind comes up with to protect
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us from something that could possibly cause
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harm . Because , let's face it , sometimes
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Change , inserting change
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into our lives . It can be harmful
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in the beginning , but
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once we Integrate
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that well into our lives , it becomes the best
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thing , the best thing for us . I mean , you're
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, you're , you're a Spartan course finisher , something
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that I could only Probably
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have a bad dream about doing , you know , right
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, right now . But it
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just falls back to the
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limiting beliefs and Understanding
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that , while our mind is for us
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in every instance , it's
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not the most trustworthy voice
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to have in our heads .
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Wow that's incredible and you know
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, I really love what you said about not
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trusting everything that the mind is telling
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you , because you know , I was just actually having
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this conversation the other day about something about
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affirmations , and you
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know the kind of the power of positive thinking and then
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kind of telling your mind about
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you know Not where you're going
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, but where you are like in the future
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, but in a way kind of tricking your mind so
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it doesn't give you those kind of limiting
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beliefs like all you can never get there or
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you know , in a way of , like you Said , trying to protect
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you . So that's really interesting and you
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know , and I think to some extent is probably Happening
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at a subconscious level for folks . They probably
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don't realize it . It's happening right , and so you
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ask those questions . You know what
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are the emotions that come up when you
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think about doing something new , or you
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know what are the thoughts that you have . So that's
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really that's really interesting . So I
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guess that's how someone should start right if they want
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to do something new that's
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gonna benefit them in their lives really
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and they may have like negative thoughts
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about or maybe not know . The first thing is
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well , really being cautious
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about what are they thinking about , when they think
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about those things right , and how are they feeling
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about it ? And maybe starting there .
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Yeah , I think with anything
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you have to
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start at the root , like you have
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to explore , you
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have to identify what it is . So
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what is that
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story that's on a loop ? And now we're talking about
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? You know narratives , the stories that we tell ourselves . What's
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that narrative that's on a loop in your head
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and how
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is it limiting you ? I'm a huge proponent
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of stories and
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our minds are such that our minds
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are always picking up on Our
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minds , pick up on so many things that we're
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not even aware that it's paying attention to over the course , over the course
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of a day . And
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if we're not careful , then
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you
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know the saying an idle mind is the devil's , the devil's
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workshop . When we've not given our minds Affirm
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focus and a pathway to focus
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on , then we just
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free it to be like a child hyped up on Kool-Aid
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and Halloween candy . You
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know , just running amok , amok , amok , amok . However , the
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inverse of that is when
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we begin to assert some control over our
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mind and our mental activity , then
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the mind can literally become a
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magnet for where you want to go and for
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what you want to accomplish . For example , I'm willing to bet that when
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you had your coach , or I may be wrong
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, but possibly at any point did your coach
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kind of have you , you
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know , think about how good it would feel to finish
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the the course , or did you do that on your own at any point ? Your training , yeah
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, I mean , so I definitely do that .
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I definitely visualize my races or the activities that have to do
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, which I think I think athletes do is it's like common
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practice , so
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I can't say that I do it at at Professional
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athlete level , but I do that and and then
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, yeah , you know , my coach also encourages me to think
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through .
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You know what it's the ?
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experience is going to be like , because in a lot
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of these cases I've
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never done it before right . So we we always talk through , especially before
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race , what the day is going to be like , what the
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prep is going to be , what I'm going to run through , you
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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
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.
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So by doing that , what
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you're doing is giving your mind
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a set of parameters to operate
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from . It's said
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that when you are visualizing
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something like a race , coaches
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often tell athletes
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to Not just imagine
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what it's going to be like when they cross the finish
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line first , but also to
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feel the emotion of it
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, because it's the emotion of the
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thing that really submits it Inside
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of us as something that zoom
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. This is what I'm going for . Nothing's going to stop me
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because I feel Not . I not only
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see it , but I feel . I
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feel the emotion of , and we know that emotion
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is a powerful , powerful driver . So
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when I give my mind a firm
16:32
direction to go in , all
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of a sudden it's like Google
16:37
. It begins to pick
16:40
up on Information and you
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know snippets online and all
16:44
of these different things that will help
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to Build that
16:49
reality around you . Like it
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it's . It is incredible
16:53
what the brain will pick
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up on when we give it Specific
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of a specific and
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a clear search query
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, just like I mean on Google . If I
17:05
just say , type in the bar cats
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, 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
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gonna be crazy . But if I say
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Calico cats in
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Dallas , texas , that narrows
17:25
it down some more . If I say Striped
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Calico cats in Dallas , texas
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, that narrows it down more . And
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what I found , and neuro
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research has shown that
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the more specific we are and
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the more clarity , the more clear we are
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and how we operate and what we think
17:44
about and what are and how we
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set our goals all of these things the
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more efficient the mind is
17:51
in helping you to notice
17:53
Patterns that
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will relate to you accomplishing the goal . It
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helps you , like if you're just scrolling
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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
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. Notice this because I noticed I picked
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this up for you the
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brain is really
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adept at At noticing
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and pulling in the information
18:26
that we're looking for . That will help
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our life experiences Align
18:31
with that goal that we've
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set for ourselves .
18:35
I Love that . I love that and you
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know , just talking to somebody about this the other day
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, 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
.
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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
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it , but I think it's similar to what you're saying there
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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
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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 .
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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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