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There's emptiness in, like, all the money and the stuff.
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If that's the purpose of, like, why you're doing something is to get money, then you're
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never gonna be satisfied.
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Then there's a you can always get
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more.
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Right?
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Or you can always get the next cool car stuff, right?
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If stuff is a gold and, like, it's not gonna serve your soul.
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The moment that you make money first in your life.
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That's the moment that you start losing.
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You know, there's so many other things that comes first
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Welcome to the Full Fuel podcast with your host, Doctor Alfred Elesey.
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Yeah, Matt Zack.
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Man.
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How you doing?
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I'm doing amazing today.
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What's going on?
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It's good
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to see you, bro.
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We got a good one today, man.
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Good friend of ours on the show.
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Eddie Gomez Del Casal.
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He's a high performance coach.
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He's an ex professional basketball player with a really cool story, man.
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I'm really looking forward to sharing some conversation with you, brother.
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Absolutely.
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Had a really cool meeting with this guy on the Tampa River Walk where we just kinda ran into
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you.
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We were doing some filming recording down there and just kinda started conversating and noticed
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how much we had aligned and in common and just were like, man, we gotta get on on the show
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with this guy.
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So how you doing today, brother?
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I'm doing good, man.
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Ready, you know, to talk to you guys.
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Heck.
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Yeah.
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Heck.
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Yeah.
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You're also you're an author too.
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Correct.
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So you have a book.
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The book is called Live Relentless.
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Mhmm.
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That's kinda your your Motto or your brand.
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Right?
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Right.
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That's the the model, the brand, the movement, the coaching, everything goes under Denver,
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Awesome, man.
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Awesome.
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Let's get into it.
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Tell us a little bit about yourself, man.
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Give our audience a little bit of background, kinda how you from a kid came to be where you
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are today.
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I know there was some struggles and tough things that happened in your life, man.
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So, as much as you wanna as much as you're comfortable with, but just give us some
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background on Eddie.
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I'll I'll be open.
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You know, because, actually, I realized that stories help people, and I that's my mission.
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Just picture you know, these nineteen year old kid, you know, starts to do good in basketball
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and Spain.
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Out of the blue gets an offer to come to America.
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No idea of English starts to, like you guys say, leave the American dream.
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So I come here.
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Now I have to take classes in English.
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I have to learn the language and I have to play basketball at high level.
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You know?
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Everything went great.
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College went great.
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And the last semester of my college which is about to when when the pandemic is is starting.
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You know, it was actually December 2020.
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So it was a little bit already.
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Yeah.
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Like into it.
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Are you got injured with a spine injury?
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You know, L 1125?
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We talked about it.
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Right.
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My €10 casting passed away on a car crash.
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The doctor tells me that, hey, you're not gonna be able to play really high performance ever
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again.
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You know, like, these are the limitations that you're gonna the girl, which he was my wife at
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that time.
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She we separated.
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Let's say that, you
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know, like,
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that's the next way to say And, you know, I'd lost probably myself.
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Yeah.
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And all that happened within 2 weeks.
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Okay?
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Oh, wow.
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Something that I'm not ready.
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I'm not ready at all, and I tried to commit suicide.
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You know, that was the first time.
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As soon as I'm trying, I call my parents, I don't know what I have done.
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I'm sorry.
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Like, get me out of here.
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Like, I need help.
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So I get a fly to go to Spain.
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It was a headache.
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It was in the middle of the pandemic.
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You needed a COVID test within 24 hours to travel to start to Spain.
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I also wanted to make it to the funeral for my cousin.
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Well, I need to call embassies because where I was, it was actually a 30 hour, you know, like,
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fly with layovers and everything.
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So, I don't wanna make it.
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Jeez.
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I risk it.
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I'm like, okay.
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Okay.
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They stop me.
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They stop, you know, I get home.
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I made it to the funeral.
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I was able to be with family.
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What happens?
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Is that everybody on their shoulder, you know, they try to lean on me.
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You know, the elitist came after a year and a half being away I wanna hang out.
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Yes.
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They hang out with me, but they tell me all what is going on around their life.
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Just trauma and I'm all over you, man.
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Happy, happy, happy, I didn't understand, and nobody knew that I was getting more low, low,
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low.
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You know, I wasn't opening up.
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I was going on in my life.
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I seek, psychology, professional help, decided to feel better.
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I need to tell my parents.
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I'm gonna go back to America.
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I wanna try to get my marriage back.
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See, it's the girl of my life.
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I love her.
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I wanna be with her.
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I come back.
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I mean, the only thing that I got was simulation.
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You know, like, I thought I was gonna get something.
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It it wasn't possible.
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Man, that's in April 5th, 2021.
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My best friend was like, hey, man.
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I'm in Florida in Tampa.
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Why don't you come for a little bit, you know, spend a month and then just do your life.
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You know, I think you need a better headspace right now.
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So I packed 52 cases, come to Tampa area.
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I start living life.
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I actually like it, but I chose the wrong life.
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I start to go out to try to cope with the pain of my career didn't succeed, my marriage didn't
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succeed, My family is broken.
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I can only leave
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on them anymore right now,
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you know, but they're still recovering.
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And I'm trying to find new pets.
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So, alcohol and parties is what, you know, my dog, I mean, let's say it away.
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And Soon I realized that it's not the way, you know, soon because I put weight, I hit mental,
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like, issues that I'm like, I'm getting myself into more at depressed scenarios.
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Like, I have to stop this.
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When I thought that I was moving into a healthy environment, it happens to be that when I was
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renting a house, the lady, you know, like, that room wasn't for me.
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So literally for 8 months, I had to live on a garage.
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Literally.
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Like, if you have you ever watched Harry Potter?
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Yeah.
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You're in a
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room talking from.
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Yeah.
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You know,
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hard four room.
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That was your that was your low.
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That was that was the lowest of my of my life.
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You know, I'm
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waking up every morning with cars you know, I turned on the the smoke on it.
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One day I'm out to call my parents, you know, I call my dad, be like, hey, dad.
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I start to reminding things that I really like, love them, thank them, because I was about to
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commit suicide again.
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Yeah.
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And it's time for me to talk to my mom.
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And all the time, my brother calls her.
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And he's like, my dad is like, one second.
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Your mom is coming back.
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You know, my mom all of a sudden gels, hey, what's going on?
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Is everything well at home?
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My uncle was back.
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She's like, hey.
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You're gonna be an uncle.
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I'm like, what?
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Like, what do you mean?
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Like, this is not I mean, it wasn't on the plans.
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It would, like, this a miracle, you know, like, right now, 2 things happen on my head.
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If my brother made it, why I kinda make it?
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And how am I gonna make the happiest day of my family's life with with this amazing kid.
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Yeah.
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The saddest.
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You know?
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So I stood up and I decided to create a new life.
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What I wanted to do is help people become the better I wanted to be the person that I am
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where they need somebody in life and nobody's around.
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You know?
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So, I created Renna's coaching, which that's how I started.
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Like, I told you fifty people, you know, on me.
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Wanted to help people around.
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And I started to build, you know, a network and everything around fast forward 3 years now.
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I have a coaching that you said, high performance.
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I work with athletes and CEOs.
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I'm an author.
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I speak, as much as I can, where there's a soul to be lifted as I work I'll be there.
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You know, you can sign in on my trials and tribulations.
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I can lift people up, you know, and just connect with people.
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Help, you know, collaborate.
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I always said, people at the top collaborate, people at the at the bottom compete, you know,
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and that's super important.
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Like, collaborate, collaborate, So Yeah.
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So, yeah, that's the that's the story.
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Yeah.
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There's a lot, man.
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That's like and I think that's probably why all of our, like, like, we vibe so well together is
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because, you know, I've been I've been down man.
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And when you, like, use your story to elevate other people, because everyone's going through
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some.
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Right?
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Everyone's been through something.
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You've got your story of of being low as well and that.
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And being open about it, then people are like, damn.
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Like, they, like, I'm not the only one.
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Right?
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Mhmm.
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So I'm I'm sure when you were in that moment, you're like, that nobody's ever felt like this.
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This is my thing.
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Right?
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Why is it happening to me?
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Yeah.
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I realized that every every man is gonna have to go through a rock bottom.
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I need to okay to not be okay.
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Yeah.
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You
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know, if I am in, it was was crazy, man.
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That's good.
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I'm saying it's okay to not be okay because it's one of those things where, too, it doesn't
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matter what mountain top you're on.
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Right?
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I was explaining this when I was even writing yesterday.
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I was looking at our logo and the nutritious logo in terms of, like, where the mountains go.
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Right?
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And, when you're, like, when you're going up a mountain, you're meeting with things with the
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resistance.
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That's where trials and, like, you're getting impacted.
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There's, like, there's punches.
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There's gonna be swings along the way.
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Well, my question says, you know, are you are you planning for the, you know, everyone's got
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a plan until they get punched in the face.
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Is you're gonna get knocked down, but then how do you learn from that get back up to reach
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that next mountain top?
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And then the elevations, I was thinking about this too of like, when you're reaching new
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mountains and you're going along the way, like you said yourself, like, you hit high in your
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athletic career.
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Right?
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It's like you're like, dang, man.
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I did.
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I did really well.
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Mhmm.
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But then you got punched in the face.
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And you came back down a little bit.
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Right?
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And you're like, shoot, how do I handle that?
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Right?
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And then what is that gap that creates?
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Like, where where am I gonna protect my mind to go to the next And there was one key thing in
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your story that I think everyone needs to grab on to is that when you're at that state within
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that valley, every time I look at the Nutris logo, there's gonna be a valley in your story
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regardless.
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Right?
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At any given time, there's gonna be a death in the family.
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There's gonna be There's gonna be something that comes along the way.
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And the best thing you can do is help somebody
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else.
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Right?
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Like, help somebody else lift them up along the way.
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Yeah.
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Because, like, when you're in that state, it's like the only your only ability is to really
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help somebody else.
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And when you elevate that.
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You elevate yourself.
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You elevate your mindset.
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And, it's, but when you're in the season of, which I've been there, of like, no, I'm gonna
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seek.
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I'm gonna I'm gonna drink some alcohol.
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I'm gonna do this.
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I'm gonna do that.
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And I'm gonna be more inward focused.
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That's when the that's when the valley becomes longer.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And it's all about, like, do we wanna extend out the valley, or do we wanna, like, look at
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the next mountain to climb?
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And even though we know what comes with resistant.
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It also comes with it a level of growth at the same time.
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So I don't
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think you can grow without resistance.
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Yeah.
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Muscles don't grow without resistance.
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Go do a bunch of go do a 1 crunches.
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Your month those abs are not gonna grow that much.
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Right?
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But if you wait if you put some weight on that and you do, like, decline crunches with weight,
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you're gonna grow abs.
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Right?
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And, like, build that muscle, same with any muscle in the body.
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It needs resistance.
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For sure.
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And, you know, like, your spirits are muscle.
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Right?
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You can train it the same way.
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We talk about that all the time.
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As a great point.
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Let's let's tap into a little bit of basketball.
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We're both big basketball guys.
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I love basketball.
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I love it.
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Steven, but I was gonna ask him to come play and I was like, oh, do I wanna get it?
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You know, like, because I think I'm kinda good at it.
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Like, someone like him shows up.
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I'm like, oh,
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the so there's gonna be there's gonna be a difference obviously playing in Spain coming
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over to the US.
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Even the courts are a little bit different.
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The 3 point line's a little bit different.
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Then I think the I think the lanes are a little bit more narrow.
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Are they?
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Or Yes.
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So some course, they have changes, some course, they haven't, you know, these different
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regulations, you know, like, I mean, planning in Europe is completely different than playing
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in America.
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You know, here, I think sometimes it's more like high speed, more individual.
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Back home is more like tempo, control, team base, you know, like, we move the ball and
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team, the defense, get started, and then we score.
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You know, like, that that's what it is.
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I remember that in high school, we will it run the clock down every single time.
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You know,
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and here in when I came to the US, I remember my Get
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to the basket.
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Running back and down, you know, like, I will sometimes outbound the ball, you know, real
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quick and pass it.
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I'm waiting to receive it, and it will be already on the bus guy.
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And I want
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the heck is going on.
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So, like, what's a big transfusion, man?
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The, you know, comparatively, I think I'm a big John wooden fan.
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You ever heard?
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Oh, I love it.
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Yeah.
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John wooden is the the man.
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And I think he played more of a European style of basketball as they prepared games.
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Mhmm.
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Endurance was a huge thing with them.
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Off ball movement.
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Right?
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There's a ton of off ball balls moving around.
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Yeah.
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All the time.
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And, like, that's what I see.
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Like, when I obviously, the Olympics is probably the only time I watch professional
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basketball.
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I mean, that's why he's the most winning coach.
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Right.
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Right.
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I think eleven titles?
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13.
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13.
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I think 13 national.
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I said 11 actually in a prior podcast, but my dad here, I could I'm pretty sure it's 13.
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13.
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But I had the style of ball Mhmm.
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Is, like, so completely different.
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Yeah.
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And to I like that, like, level of, like, team oriented basketball.
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I the Golden State Warriors, like, a couple years back.
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Like, when they went on a stretch, I think they won 2 or 3, but they were at a team that you
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could see that passed the ball.
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Mhmm.
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And they wore down the clock.
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That 24 second shot clock was always at 3, between 3:5 before that shot fired.
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They
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I saw something.
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It was Steph Curry.
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If you watch him play, he is never stops running, and he's running.
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He's not like like jogging a little bit.
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He's walking a little bit.
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He's running.
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So his he just wears people out.
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Like, they did, like, one of those things where they tracked his his, like, foot his steps per
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game and it was, like, insane.
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It was, like, like, three times out of the next closest.
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He's just always moving, moving, catching screens, running at circles, dude.
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And so, like, the guy covered it was probably like, damn, I don't wanna have to cover this
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guy tonight.
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Like, this is gonna be a job, and then he's just getting open, you know.
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I have
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another, in 2004, like, the Detroit pistons at Rick Hamilton, if you remember him, Rick
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Hamilton and Chauncey Phillips.
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It was a good question.
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They were, like, game management, tempo management, So I Yeah.
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NBA basketball team that was like, it was never a guy held the ball, dribbled it for 10 to 15
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seconds, found a shot and then put it up.
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Different styles.
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I like team more.
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You know, like, I, I truly
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think it's way better, you know.
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And the thing about basketball and it's 4.
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We can drill it into life.
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When you have a team and you work together, you will go farther than just by yourself.
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You know, and, I think that a lot of the current basketball that we're watching is also
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a misunderstanding.
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Because we see biggest stars like Michael Yordan, Coby Brian, you know, like, I mean,
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those are my 2 favorites, you know.
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What is the highlight?
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Interesting.
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The problem is great.
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So, on the highlights, it looks like he was them, you know, which they had a huge impact
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but they will not be where they are in the hotel right now without a team, you know, and
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that's what people have to see that other players play a huge role, you know, into the
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boss, went to the team, you know.
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So that that that's how I see it.
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That's why, like, team.
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Yeah.
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Always right.
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Again, like, Curry wouldn't be getting as open for 3 pointers if he wasn't catching screens.
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Someone's got a laid up screens.
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You know
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what I mean?
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Team's gotta move the ball and stuff.
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So So
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I'll have to do the rework.
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As well.
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That's right.
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In green.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You know, like, he he does so much for the whole team and maybe people doesn't see it.
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Maybe he doesn't have as big as stats, but Yeah.
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You know, like, he's there.
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You know?
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There's always that one guy who's just like the hustler.
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Like, it's like the one dude you want on the team.
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Right?
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The guy who's gonna lay him.
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He's gonna dive on a ball Yeah.
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To lay himself out a little bit, take a charge.
00:16:01
Mhmm.
00:16:01
Right?
00:16:01
Do the dirty work so that the other guys can get the glory.
00:16:04
Yeah.
00:16:05
Love that too.
00:16:06
I think, I was watching something even on Dennis Rodman and how Dennis Rodman, he would,
00:16:11
like, he doesn't he didn't he didn't need to touch the basketball because he knew he was
00:16:15
gonna touch the basketball on a rebound.
00:16:17
And one thing that he would do, like, before the games is he's like, I know I'm not gonna
00:16:22
shoot all that much.
00:16:23
He's like, I'm gonna take a couple shots for warm up, but I'm gonna look at how Michael
00:16:27
Jordan, where he's gonna shoot it from.
00:16:30
And John wouldn't did this too.
00:16:31
So everyone had their low on the court as far as their highest percentage across the
00:16:36
probability to make a shot.
00:16:37
So, like, Bill Walton could only shoot 12 feet in.
00:16:40
On, you know, the left side because his left side was his best side.
00:16:43
But, like, he would look at even when he played with Isaiah Thomas and, Michael Jordan, He
00:16:49
would look at how many times their ball rotated on their shots, and he would predict based on
00:16:55
how many times the ball rotated the board that the where the ball went on.
00:16:58
It's off the board.
00:16:59
That's cool.
00:17:00
And so he knew then to take his angle.
00:17:03
He know the geometry.
00:17:04
And you look at Dennis Rodney, you're like, dude, this guy's not that smart.
00:17:07
Right?
00:17:08
He's very smart.
00:17:09
Because what he would do then is based on geometry of where that ball would bounce off,
00:17:14
he would be in the location of where the highest probability the ball would be.
00:17:18
Yeah.
00:17:19
And he wasn't even the tallest guy.
00:17:21
He was, like, 6.
00:17:22
I think he was 6, 8, 6, 7, maybe.
00:17:24
But he knew where the ball, he, like, he was always in that placement.
00:17:27
I was like, dude, that's sick.
00:17:29
That is, like, team basketball.
00:17:32
It's all about positioning.
00:17:33
Yeah.
00:17:34
Yeah.
00:17:34
That's cool.
00:17:34
But even, probably your boy, I think he's a Spaniard.
00:17:37
Paul Gassalle.
00:17:38
Yeah.
00:17:38
Yeah.
00:17:39
He was a spaniard.
00:17:40
I mean, Really, I, I love all this.
00:17:42
That's great.
00:17:43
Yeah.
00:17:43
Yeah.
00:17:43
Part of the reason Kobe was winning, dude.
00:17:45
Yeah.
00:17:46
They had massive reason.
00:17:47
They were like, they were really, really good friends.
00:17:49
Yeah.
00:17:49
The real splash brothers to think.
00:17:52
Glass Brothers.
00:17:54
Go ahead and get on.
00:17:56
Yeah.
00:17:56
That's for sure.
00:17:57
Clayton, I mean, the it's next level how think the Golden State Warriors have changed a little
00:18:02
bit in terms of, like, their overall dynamic as far as the team.
00:18:06
But, like, when they were at their, like, absolute peak, and Clay Thompson and, Steph
00:18:12
Curry, where she's coming to the basketball.
00:18:14
Yeah.
00:18:14
They, but that was with, Andrew Bynum, I think, was that with them when they were went in, was
00:18:20
that the center?
00:18:21
Andre Godalo is there.
00:18:22
Andre Godalo, which again.
00:18:24
He's another guy that was but it was more point is I think it was more like, I felt like it was
00:18:30
that more European basketball time where they, like, chose they knew kind of, like, when to
00:18:35
sprint, when to hold one back off on the clock.
00:18:37
You know your role.
00:18:38
For sure.
00:18:39
And that's what I see in European basketball share.
00:18:41
I just love watching.
00:18:42
Even in the Olympics, if you realize, sometimes individual teams, they struggle so much because
00:18:47
it's not such a high pace.
00:18:48
And if the other team controls the tempo more, you know, possession based, they actually have
00:18:54
more issues you know, like, scoring because they are more tired from playing defense.
00:18:59
So they have less, it's having a less, you know, resistance on the offensive part, you
00:19:04
know, that's why the Olympics also is, I mean, I love it.
00:19:06
Like, you know, when it's been placed in other states, you know, that's that's my game.
00:19:12
It's a little chippy too.
00:19:13
Right?
00:19:13
Like, they're very competitive.
00:19:14
Like And
00:19:14
I love it, you know.
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I I I think a lot of people always ask me, like, you love NBA?
00:19:43
Yeah.
00:19:43
I love it.
00:19:44
You know, what's your favorite team?
00:19:46
And I got to a point where, yes, I grew up with February players.
00:19:49
I think that right now, when I'm seeking this competition, I love, and I appreciate hard
00:19:53
work.
00:19:54
I love, and I appreciate competition.
00:19:55
Like, you know, like, that's what I what I like to see right now.
00:19:59
You know, if it's not a competitive game, I don't know what team is playing.
00:20:04
I don't care.
00:20:04
You know, like, I'm glad to turn it off.
00:20:06
Yeah.
00:20:06
For sure.
00:20:07
Based on your point out tempo and then creating the tempo, that's what happened, the other
00:20:11
night in the national championship game when, perdue.
00:20:15
Mhmm.
00:20:16
Purdue is just trying to go inside inside inside.
00:20:18
Like, they they literally went into the, not, use the, I think, the 2 year.
00:20:23
Yeah.
00:20:23
National player of the year, ED, but they had I mean, that was the only thing they did, and
00:20:28
they never opened up.
00:20:30
They never opened up the 3 point line at all.
00:20:32
But Yukon did a really good job at maintaining the tempo of the game.
00:20:36
But the one difference there with Yukon is they were nonstop.
00:20:39
Like, it was it nonstop up and down the floor.
00:20:42
I think I like the rhythm of you can, like, as soon as the first half happen, I knew that the
00:20:49
game was over.
00:20:50
You know, like, I mean, like, if you think also about this, actually, by the way, both national
00:20:57
games, I think that they were, like, low performance.
00:21:00
I I thought it could have been more level, but I think that Yukon won because more people on
00:21:07
their team were, you know, like playing as a team.
00:21:10
Mhmm.
00:21:10
Yukon.
00:21:11
I'm sorry.
00:21:11
Purdue was more like Let's give it to 2 players.
00:21:14
You know, that's that's what happened.
00:21:16
I think you might have had it.
00:21:17
Yeah.
00:21:17
No.
00:21:18
I agree with you.
00:21:19
Well, because it, you know, Purdue had said they have some quality they have some quality 3
00:21:24
point shooters.
00:21:24
Like, they're guard.
00:21:25
I forget his name, but, like, Braden something.
00:21:28
He was a he's a phenomenal guard, like, great core manager.
00:21:32
But he also can shoot.
00:21:33
He never looked at the opportunity to shoot early on in the game.
00:21:36
So when it came at the end of the game, they were trying to, like, they were just trying to
00:21:39
force.
00:21:39
They never controlled the tempo.
00:21:41
Whereas Yukon was running a lot of backdoors.
00:21:44
I honestly this is one thing I thought.
00:21:47
Easy to be, like, kind of a fan just looking in at these games.
00:21:50
But, like, if I was Purdue, there were so many easy buckets that they got early in the game,
00:21:56
like, just layups or dunks.
00:21:57
That I was like, man, wouldn't you go to, like, at 2, 3?
00:22:00
Like, you would just go more of a zone at that point, try to get back and try to get him in a
00:22:04
zone scenario.
00:22:05
Because they they were tight at halftime.
00:22:07
So it was, like, only a 6 point lead, but, like, I'm, like, man, would you go to a zone
00:22:11
just to try to, like, not get the easy buckets making for but then the second half Yukon came
00:22:17
out and was hitting 3.
00:22:18
So it
00:22:18
was a it was it was a, like, an interesting game to watch.
00:22:21
I wouldn't wanna wait.
00:22:22
Because you're you're saying exactly Yukon was the more that was the team.
00:22:27
Overall.
00:22:28
Yeah.
00:22:28
Overall.
00:22:29
Versus Purdue that wanted to isolate it with 1 or 2 players.
00:22:32
Yeah.
00:22:32
That's it.
00:22:32
And they stopped the two players.
00:22:33
He was done.
00:22:35
Yeah.
00:22:35
They're like, let ED get his buckets.
00:22:36
And then, yeah, we'll we'll shut everyone else down.
00:22:39
That's what we saw about.
00:22:40
It was
00:22:40
a good game plan.
00:22:41
I love, the enthusiasm of, really too.
00:22:45
And that guy, that was, it was fun to watch the coach He literally touched one of the players.
00:22:50
He was
00:22:51
at half court.
00:22:51
During the game, he hops onto the court.
00:22:55
It pushes one of his players like, pass the ball to him.
00:22:58
You're allowed to do that?
00:22:59
No.
00:23:00
No.
00:23:00
You got golf.
00:23:01
You got golf, sir.
00:23:02
I think you got or attack or something like that.
00:23:04
You know, like, you need to touch it to players.
00:23:06
The lay
00:23:07
of game or something.
00:23:08
Yeah.
00:23:08
Dude, funny, it's you said zone defense.
00:23:10
Like, I was playing pickup the other day.
00:23:11
And these dudes just start playing zone.
00:23:13
Ah, I don't know about that.
00:23:14
If you're playing pickup, I Well,
00:23:16
I was like, what the hell is going on?
00:23:17
Like, you gotta be coordinated to do this.
00:23:18
It was 5 dudes have probably never met each other.
00:23:20
They all just start playing the zone.
00:23:21
I'm like, This has a good head bump.
00:23:22
You know, we ended up beating them too, but I was just very you don't see that very often.
00:23:26
It it picked up ball.
00:23:28
It picked up ball.
00:23:28
Yeah.
00:23:29
That's hilarious.
00:23:31
Tell us a little bit more.
00:23:32
I bought your book.
00:23:33
So Liberty Lendless.
00:23:34
I know it was a journey over 6 months.
00:23:36
He went around the US.
00:23:38
And really the guide there is the ultimate guide, for you to become the better you.
00:23:43
Yeah.
00:23:43
And that was a transition, obviously, from your story.
00:23:47
And thanks to you.
00:23:47
Thank you for sharing all that because I mean, that's that means a lot.
00:23:51
And so your story then and then what you chose to do over that 6 months.
00:23:56
Yeah.
00:23:56
Take us through maybe some of the cities that you were in and then why you even chose to
00:24:00
write a book after.
00:24:01
Yeah.
00:24:01
Of course.
00:24:02
So, basically, I recovered from everything with the the depression that I suffered was 8
00:24:07
months.
00:24:07
Okay.
00:24:07
I end up in December 2021, January of 2022.
00:24:10
I was I was good, you know.
00:24:13
And then 2022 was a great year.
00:24:17
And beginning of 2023, doctor you know, I go to the doctor because I wasn't feeling well on my
00:24:23
gut, you know.
00:24:24
She's like, Eddie, you need to come in right now.
00:24:27
You actually need an emergency surgery there's a a herniated, you know, I'm sorry, a hernia
00:24:33
coming out of your gut, you know, it's an carcinator 1.
00:24:36
It could cost a blood clot, comradea.
00:24:38
I go to doctor.
00:24:39
I get the surgery done.
00:24:40
He tells me it's okay.
00:24:41
So only gonna be 6 weeks recovery.
00:24:44
Well, it was 6 weeks, actually, end up being, like, 15 to 18 weeks.
00:24:47
You know?
00:24:48
I'm sure that many people can relate with me, even you guys, when you take away exercise from
00:24:51
a very active guy, you are taking the life away literally.
00:24:59
Like, that's what happened to me again.
00:25:00
You know, it's like, what am I doing?
00:25:02
You know, like, I lost so much muscle.
00:25:02
I actually went to £180, you know, which is the skinniest I've been since I came to the US,
00:25:13
which in the US, I can, I had around 79, you know, like, it was crazy?
00:25:19
Anyway, I know I had the years going and in July, I'm like, I'm out after 4, if you like, I
00:25:26
don't know how the year is going.
00:25:27
I still have time.
00:25:28
Let's change it.
00:25:29
So I packed my whole car with you know, like, supplies, you know, like, to survive on the
00:25:36
wild, on the cities everywhere.
00:25:38
And I make this map that I'm gonna be for 2 months, traveling national parks, traveling
00:25:42
cities, connecting with people, with clients, you know, connecting with God, building myself
00:25:51
back again.
00:25:52
I also have a building myself back.
00:25:53
I took a air fryer and I rescued her with me.
00:25:56
I connected gas stations, motel, first houses.
00:25:58
I will know the houses.
00:25:59
Can I cook my rice real quick?
00:26:01
You know, I am trying the whole US.
00:26:02
I just need it for the road.
00:26:03
Boom.
00:26:04
And I will have my index every single day, you know, like
00:26:07
That's awesome.
00:26:07
That's how I do it.
00:26:08
So in Oklahoma, it was in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
00:26:12
I saw this praying hands, which is a beautiful monument, and I something came to me, like, I
00:26:19
think code for a bigger purpose.
00:26:22
Like, I need to put all the trials of simulations and all the lessons learned into a
00:26:23
blueprint to help people.
00:26:30
So I started to think, you know, I go to more states.
00:26:33
I went to Utah, I went to Nevada, and in San Diego, actually in the Mojave dessert from
00:26:40
Nevada to San Diego.
00:26:41
I'm like, I know what I'm gonna do.
00:26:42
So I start writing stuff, and I just put a book 10 chapters.
00:26:50
It's called the journey to greatness because every chapter, takes you to a new level of
00:26:54
greatness in life.
00:26:54
So, it's not only a book there's also exercises for you to do to apply to your daily life.
00:27:05
Boom.
00:27:06
That's cool.
00:27:06
At first, I was like, I'm just gonna do it.
00:27:08
So I give it to my clients.
00:27:10
And then I realized that people that start buying it.
00:27:13
You know, I, became best seller in January, when he came out, you know.
00:27:19
And then I went to this conference and I brought five bags, five five boxes with me.
00:27:24
And I sold that within 20 minutes.
00:27:27
I'm like, this is actually cool.
00:27:28
You know?
00:27:29
So I was like, why don't actually promote it?
00:27:31
Like, an author, promoting, like, you know, like, yes, not for the clients.
00:27:35
So that's what I did.
00:27:36
How did I do it anywhere?
00:27:38
Mojave Desert on the beautiful beaches of California, Oregon, on top of a mountain
00:27:44
glacier with animals around anywhere Chicago, Times Square.
00:27:45
And I would just write, you know, like now, you ask me how And, yes, I remember what I wrote.
00:27:55
I, yes, the inspiration, man.
00:27:56
It was just there.
00:27:57
Like, I'm like, the, I, I have a book.
00:27:59
I don't know.
00:28:00
So that's what it is.
00:28:01
Right now, I'm working on translating to Spanish as well because I wanna have it in both
00:28:05
languages.
00:28:05
Mhmm.
00:28:05
Cool.
00:28:06
And the audiobook, which is something a little bit challenging.
00:28:10
You know, but it's coming together.
00:28:10
And that's what
00:28:11
it was, man, a transformational journey in
00:28:11
my whole you know, professional personal life because professionally, I was able to meet the
00:28:21
connections, which and one that I'm working with right now as well.
00:28:29
And everything, you know, it's it's something that I recommend everybody to do.
00:28:32
You know, and I think that everybody should do it from high school to college or after
00:28:37
college, boom, travel, you know, and find out your life.
00:28:41
You know?
00:28:41
Yeah.
00:28:42
So there's a good book that is called the monk who sold his Ferrari.
00:28:47
I don't know if you guys ever
00:28:48
No.
00:28:48
I've heard of it.
00:28:49
Yeah.
00:28:49
Yeah.
00:28:50
Yeah.
00:28:50
Such a good book.
00:28:51
Cool.
00:28:51
100% recommend it, and that's exactly what it happened.
00:28:54
A very successful lawyer.
00:28:55
He gets burned out.
00:28:57
He goes to live life like a monk.
00:28:59
They teach him the senses of life, and he comes back to civilization looking better, feeling
00:29:04
better, he looks younger, and he's more successful than ever.
00:29:08
Yeah.
00:29:08
You know, so that's how I truly feel.
00:29:10
You know?
00:29:11
There's there's so many stories like that.
00:29:13
You hear of, like, real successful people who are like, dude, I'm it's done.
00:29:16
There's emptiness in, like, all the money and the stuff.
00:29:18
If that's the purpose of, like, why you're doing something is to get money, then you're
00:29:22
never gonna be satisfied
00:29:23
because
00:29:23
then there's a you can always get
00:29:24
more.
00:29:25
Yeah.
00:29:25
Right?
00:29:25
Or you can always get the next cool car stuff.
00:29:27
Right?
00:29:28
If stuff is a gold, then, like, it's not gonna serve your soul.
00:29:31
The moment that you make money first in your life, that's the moment that you start losing.
00:29:36
You know, there's so many other things that comes first.
00:29:40
First of all, you have to take care of you.
00:29:42
2nd, for faith based people, god, you know, like, And that goes in hand in hand, you know,
00:29:48
first you and god.
00:29:49
Like, yes, well, you have to praise to God, but also that you have to make sure to be good to
00:29:54
do everything.
00:29:55
You know, I truly believe that everybody is born with gifts.
00:29:58
You know, I have gifts.
00:30:00
You have gifts.
00:30:00
You have gifts.
00:30:01
Everybody's different.
00:30:02
And you will not be able to use them unless you are 100%.
00:30:06
So one of my gifts is energetic, positive, you know, like actually helping people.
00:30:12
When I feel bad, when I feel at my loss, I was energetic.
00:30:15
I was in positive.
00:30:16
I wasn't helping people.
00:30:17
So how am I using my gift?
00:30:18
You know, so that's why you have to take care.
00:30:20
And I've seen so many people that they are making so much money and the people that I work
00:30:25
with, you know, like, some people come to work with me, you know, and I'm sure with you guys
00:30:30
as well.
00:30:30
They have everything, but they don't have the values.
00:30:33
They don't have the family.
00:30:34
Miserable part with all the stuff.
00:30:36
Yeah.
00:30:36
They don't it's like, they go work and they go back home and they're like, well, everybody's,
00:30:41
you know, sleeping,
00:30:42
you know,
00:30:42
and when I go to they're not happy
00:30:43
Yeah.
00:30:44
You know, it's not a fulfilled life.
00:30:46
A lot of people can be happy, but I truly think that people have to look for fulfillment.
00:30:51
What fulfills
00:30:53
Yeah.
00:30:53
You know, and that's a huge
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I have a little bit of contrasting view on saying on this, because,
00:31:36
you know,
00:31:36
I think it's yeah.
00:31:38
No.
00:31:38
It's it's it's it's crucial to, like, think about it.
00:31:41
And I've talked about the this in, like, in-depth.
00:31:44
Is that, you know, money is money is what you make of it.
00:31:48
Money money is energy, right, at the end of the day.
00:31:51
So, like, if we put our focus in on money, money could actually be a really healthy thing.
00:31:56
Right?
00:31:56
And so Yeah.
00:31:57
I don't
00:31:57
think that's what he's saying.
00:31:58
And so, like, but then it becomes this to is that not many people did what you did and
00:32:05
really reconcile with their story.
00:32:07
Right?
00:32:07
And so looking into their past, and reconciling with those moments.
00:32:11
Like, I had to do that.
00:32:12
And I think then what that led to was presence.
00:32:16
And I think presence is really the key to really true fulfillment.
00:32:20
There's not ever been one person that, like, that I, like, didn't like that you had their
00:32:27
presence.
00:32:27
Right?
00:32:28
They looked you in the eyes, and they're like, I'm not here.
00:32:31
I'm not there.
00:32:32
I'm just right here with you, bro.
00:32:34
And so, like, that element of presence of understanding the presence that, like, we there
00:32:39
we have, like, tomorrow to gain if we're given tomorrow.
00:32:42
But, like, right now is all that I have.
00:32:45
And so how am I making the opportunity of, like, right now, the most with that presence?
00:32:51
And then it becomes, like, that presence being the circle of influence that you're surrounded
00:32:56
with.
00:32:56
And I was talking to my, seven year old.
00:32:58
Like, I have really, like, intentional conversations, with her.
00:33:02
That's awesome.
00:33:04
And so I pray over that her, like, every night is that god start preparing her friends in her
00:33:09
future mate, like, right now.
00:33:10
Like, I
00:33:10
want I want you to start preparing that now.
00:33:13
But, like, that prayer is embedding that into her head because I wanna have so much presence
00:33:18
with her and Molina in every, but, like, specifically that presence is what's going to
00:33:23
then ultimately dictate how she's gonna choose her circle of friends.
00:33:30
Right?
00:33:30
And that circle then is going to impact what's gonna happen tomorrow the next day.
00:33:36
Right?
00:33:37
And so and another thing is
00:33:39
is that that circle,
00:33:39
I truly believe I'm much I'd much rather be fulfilled and rich than fulfilled and poor.
00:33:49
Right?
00:33:49
That's the reality
00:33:50
of life.
00:33:50
I know what you're saying.
00:33:51
Well, you know
00:33:51
what I mean?
00:33:52
And so, like, that level of presence is dictated based on, number 1, you got, right,
00:33:58
focusing on that.
00:33:59
But then ultimately, of like, I'm gonna take care of that, like, just
00:34:03
with what I have right now.
00:34:03
Right?
00:34:03
And hopefully that turns
00:34:07
into you know, fulfilled and rich rather than feel more.
00:34:11
You can do a lot more being fulfilled and rich.
00:34:13
But it is not focused.
00:34:15
Yeah.
00:34:15
How many people can you help if you have, like, you know, resources.
00:34:19
I don't think it's money in itself is a bad thing because with more money, you can do more
00:34:24
good.
00:34:25
I think it's love of money.
00:34:26
Right?
00:34:26
And it says in the bottom.
00:34:27
100%.
00:34:28
It's obsession.
00:34:29
Love if that's what if that's the god you're serving, that's the problem.
00:34:33
Right?
00:34:33
I think that's what you were saying.
00:34:34
I don't think.
00:34:35
For sure.
00:34:35
Yeah.
00:34:35
Yeah.
00:34:36
Yeah.
00:34:36
So it's it's more like obsession.
00:34:37
Any anything that is obsessed is out of place.
00:34:40
Yeah.
00:34:41
You know?
00:34:41
That's right.
00:34:41
But I do agree with that.
00:34:42
You know, get me, Ramon is good.
00:34:44
You're gonna be able to buy things that makes you feel good, and you're gonna show up also,
00:34:49
you know, almost the last time that you bought that suit and you're like, it was expensive,
00:34:53
but you bought it and you're like, it feels here.
00:34:55
Actually, I'm showing up, you know, my my cell is a little a little bit more back.
00:34:58
Am says in the past.
00:34:59
You know what I'm saying?
00:35:00
So, but, but, yeah, I agree.
00:35:02
Like, I'm, I love that you pray, you know, for or with whatever, you know, like, with kids, I
00:35:09
think it's so important.
00:35:11
And I think it's important because not only the they're watching, and I always said, these,
00:35:18
your kids are always watching.
00:35:19
I still remember my parents, like, so many things because I was so observant, but also
00:35:24
because you're teaching them the ways and the standards and the values that they should aim
00:35:28
for.
00:35:28
That's it.
00:35:29
You know?
00:35:29
We, yeah, we've talked about that, like, in-depth in, like, past episodes about, like,
00:35:34
that standard.
00:35:35
Like, I have 2 boys.
00:35:36
They're 3 and, like, they're still young, but I'm, like, they're they're always moving, and
00:35:41
I'm, like, I'm always moving.
00:35:42
Right?
00:35:42
And so it's like they wanna do what I'm doing.
00:35:44
We're always outside.
00:35:45
So the standard is we go outside every single day.
00:35:47
If it's raining, we're still going outside.
00:35:48
It's like,
00:35:49
we'll find something to do.
00:35:50
But That's just like a not like the way you say the non negotiables.
00:35:54
We go outside, man.
00:35:55
Like, we're active people.
00:35:56
We don't have I don't have a TV that they can walk.
00:35:58
Like, I have a TV, but it's in my room and I'd keep it away because, like, if it was there,
00:36:02
they'd wanna watch it.
00:36:03
But, like, when it's not there out of sight, they just wanna do, like, active stuff.
00:36:06
So it's like
00:36:07
It's like grocery.
00:36:08
If you wanna be healthy, if you actually wanna get to the next level, but you have a lot of
00:36:13
temptations, don't buy it.
00:36:13
And this is great for those fitness coaches that they are listening right now, and and it's
00:36:21
a practice that I start doing because I learn from a mentor of mine.
00:36:24
At first, you know, people are gonna be motivated.
00:36:28
If a client starts to fall out, don't make them go to the supermarket, have them buy, like, an
00:36:34
Instagram online, of just the things that they need.
00:36:36
If they're not at the house, they're not gonna do it.
00:36:39
You know, if you don't buy sweets, they're not gonna be at the house.
00:36:42
Yeah.
00:36:42
And then have them show you the receipt.
00:36:45
Or how do you go for the groceries?
00:36:48
That's accountability.
00:36:48
Yes.
00:36:49
That's a
00:36:49
huge accountability.
00:36:50
Yeah.
00:36:51
You
00:36:51
know, the, so I I'm rereading, Tom Cabotts right now.
00:36:55
I'm glad James Clare.
00:36:56
That's awesome.
00:36:56
And one of the things that he always says is, like, you're, obviously, you don't rise to the
00:37:01
level of your goals.
00:37:02
You follow the level of your systems.
00:37:03
And so reading, I think, is just a big thing everyone should do.
00:37:07
I'm a big believer.
00:37:08
This came up in Chris Cavalier.
00:37:10
I've read just that insane amount of books, but I go back and I'm like, man, should I've read
00:37:16
all those books?
00:37:16
Like, maybe there's only, like, 4 or 5 that I should reread.
00:37:19
Oh, that's what he said.
00:37:20
Right?
00:37:20
With me.
00:37:21
Right?
00:37:21
Chris said that.
00:37:22
A 100% hit.
00:37:23
And so, like, there's a couple books that I'll just reread, but then it becomes like, if you
00:37:28
wanna read, it's just like groceries.
00:37:30
Right?
00:37:30
You gotta put the book by the toy it.
00:37:32
Right?
00:37:33
Because that's when you got time.
00:37:34
So if you wanna do scroll less on Instagram Yeah.
00:37:37
Then you wanna read more perfect time.
00:37:38
Right?
00:37:39
Yeah.
00:37:39
I'm, like, I've been learning Spanish.
00:37:41
So I actually did pretty well when I was over in, Spain and Madrid.
00:37:45
I would, like, literally try to talk to everyone.
00:37:47
I called myself a taxi cab Spanish thought.
00:37:49
Like, I
00:37:49
can get through a conversation.
00:37:51
But that is that is something that I do.
00:37:55
I'll be like, alright.
00:37:55
What's the environment that I'm putting myself in?
00:37:58
That then I can that I I can I can knock that out for the day?
00:38:02
Right?
00:38:03
So it's like all these systems that we're in incorporating in and you bring up a valuable
00:38:07
point.
00:38:07
We started ordering stuff online.
00:38:10
And we have our grocery sent to us, which then that impacts, like, when you go into the
00:38:14
grocery yeah, you don't wanna pull all these other things that you don't need.
00:38:17
Right?
00:38:17
Just get the stuff that you need.
00:38:19
That's all you need.
00:38:20
Yeah.
00:38:20
Please go for it.
00:38:21
Yeah.
00:38:21
I like what you said there, and I thought about it.
00:38:23
That's I do that with books.
00:38:24
Like, I kinda started doing it, not realizing it, but I, like, have strategically placed
00:38:28
books.
00:38:29
Yeah.
00:38:29
I have a book in my car.
00:38:30
I always have a book in my backpack that I bring with you everywhere.
00:38:33
I have a book on my kitchen table, which is where I do, like, some, like, note taking, and
00:38:36
then I have a book by my bed.
00:38:37
And, like, I'm reading, like, 4 or 5 books at at any given time, like, different ones.
00:38:41
One's more, like, you know, Christ based thinking book.
00:38:44
The other one's more like a fitness book.
00:38:46
Right?
00:38:46
So there's different different ones, but I, like, have them in places where I'm like,
00:38:50
that's where I know I'm gonna see it.
00:38:51
I'm gonna read it.
00:38:51
Right?
00:38:52
I was just the other day, like, thinking about that, I was like, I kinda by accident did that,
00:38:56
but it's been a, like, a really good thing for my ADHD brain to, like, kinda have that
00:39:00
structure, that routine.
00:39:02
Yeah.
00:39:02
I love the idea too that you're tapping into, like, obviously, different resources and books
00:39:07
because you sent a few over to me that you're reading you know, getting nerdy in your long
00:39:11
term memory bank, right, where you hold the hippocampus and the brain.
00:39:14
I feel like and this just, like, fired off as as I was, like, as thinking how how do you do
00:39:20
that?
00:39:20
Cause I'm like, oh, that would throw me off a little bit.
00:39:22
But, like, if they're different if they're different like that where it's, like, the
00:39:27
spiritual base book, it hits me a little bit differently.
00:39:29
Like, it it, like, when it fires off, it, like, more is soul oriented, right, and Whereas,
00:39:35
like, I'm not going in necessarily for the the purpose to I am going in to learn more, but
00:39:41
I'm, like, really opening it, just someone open up my heart and my soul to, like, what that
00:39:45
person has to say for his, like so it hits it.
00:39:49
It hits a different vibe and, like, kind of the the nature of, like, how my body operates.
00:39:53
There's different times for different books.
00:39:55
Like, when I'm when it's late at night, I'm getting ready for bed.
00:39:57
I really don't wanna be, like, sparking my mind with, like, a ton of stuff that I'm gonna wanna
00:40:02
take notes on, honestly.
00:40:03
That's, like, my brain's kinda turned off at that point.
00:40:05
So, like, I like a book that's a little bit more like soul and riching and, like, kinda
00:40:08
just, like, like, more creative.
00:40:10
Even sometimes fiction.
00:40:11
Like, I like fiction books too.
00:40:12
So I don't read a ton
00:40:13
of it, but Something good before going to it as well.
00:40:15
For sure.
00:40:16
There's this conscious mind.
00:40:17
Will work you know, and everything.
00:40:18
Yeah.
00:40:19
Just feeding your brain before.
00:40:20
I know
00:40:20
what you said.
00:40:21
You know, I was talking with a priest one one time, and I was like, I've never read the
00:40:26
Bible.
00:40:26
I told him.
00:40:27
I was like, I read verses, but I have never read it.
00:40:29
I was like, how can I do it?
00:40:31
Because I never remember and he said, like, put it under your pillow before you go to bed, open
00:40:36
it, recent.
00:40:37
I mean, it works better.
00:40:38
Yeah.
00:40:38
It was, like, so good.
00:40:39
I was, like, the best before bed book, dude.
00:40:42
There's cool stories, man.
00:40:43
Yeah.
00:40:43
It's it's a great story.
00:40:45
Let me let me ask you this, and I love to ask this to be, what's your favorite book ever?
00:40:50
Like, ever.
00:40:50
The one that has changed your life.
00:40:53
Another one to start what
00:40:53
you guys think.
00:40:53
The Go
00:40:56
Giver.
00:40:57
The Go Giver is a phenomenal book, dude.
00:40:59
I I love that book.
00:41:01
That's a short read.
00:41:01
You can tell.
00:41:02
You can,
00:41:03
you can you can grab on to.
00:41:05
The Go Giver is I mean, that's, like, that's just life.
00:41:08
You know, that's exactly what you're doing and how you're living life.
00:41:11
I love the go giver.
00:41:12
I would honestly say the book that, like, changed the director of my life that was, like,
00:41:16
similar to yours.
00:41:17
When I was in my mid twenties is there is the celebrate recovery bible there's this, like,
00:41:22
Bible, but, like, it was different than any other Bible that I had read.
00:41:26
It's full
00:41:26
of stories.
00:41:26
Because it's full of stories.
00:41:27
Yeah.
00:41:28
And it's like, more narrative based stories of, like, that I could relate to.
00:41:32
Because it's tough going through, like, a Bible, even if you even, like, the NIV or, you
00:41:37
know, whatever Bible you're going through, even if it's in chronological, I did that one too.
00:41:42
But it was, it was, you know, I was like, man, I wanna I wanna put myself in the shoes of
00:41:46
David.
00:41:46
I wanna put my shoes in the self of Solomon, I'm like, I'm like, you know, it's it's tough.
00:41:51
Oh, yeah.
00:41:52
Moses and Joshua.
00:41:53
I'd like, you know what I mean?
00:41:54
James is a great book.
00:41:55
I'm like, okay.
00:41:57
But like at the same time, the all these stories that were, like, appealed to me in a
00:42:02
different way.
00:42:03
It hit me and then kinda put in the relevance of, like, in scriptural terms, And so that one
00:42:08
was, like, that shifted the narrative and, like, how I think.
00:42:12
And then I would say atomic habits, actually.
00:42:14
It's kinda really, really cool.
00:42:15
I love it for me too.
00:42:16
Yeah.
00:42:17
What are you?
00:42:18
Yeah.
00:42:18
Tom Cabitz was a good I need to reread it because I read that a long time ago, so I'm
00:42:21
gonna bar yours when you're done.
00:42:23
Yeah.
00:42:23
I'm rereading limitless Jim Quicke.
00:42:27
That's a good one.
00:42:27
And for me, that's a good book because, like, my team, like, my attention span is, like, 15
00:42:32
minutes, like, where I can, like, focus on a task.
00:42:34
And then I have to take a or else I'm, like, wasting time.
00:42:37
So, like, he teaches on, like, that that Pomodoro technique of, like, productivity, 20
00:42:41
to 25 minutes tops, hyper focus on a task, 5 minute reset, movement break, then 25 minutes
00:42:47
again on either the same or a separate task, and you're, like, structuring it's time
00:42:51
management.
00:42:52
Which, like, for ADHD bro is, like, the best thing in the world.
00:42:54
Like, you gotta control that or else it's distractions and, like, when was do you
00:42:59
remember ever, like, I've experienced a lot.
00:43:01
You're, like, trying to do something for, like, hours and you feel like you get nothing done
00:43:04
because you're just distracted by, like, trying to do 5 different things.
00:43:09
Yeah.
00:43:10
And the term is actually, like, humans, like, literally we cannot multitask.
00:43:15
When you try to go from task to task at the same time, you're you're it's task switching.
00:43:20
And in that shift, you lose seconds, you know, maybe even minutes of, like, focus where, like,
00:43:26
over an hour course, you might have only, like, really, like, put, like, 20 minutes into
00:43:30
something, but you spent an hour at it because you're trying to bounce, like, back and forth
00:43:34
between stuff.
00:43:35
So it's very inefficient.
00:43:36
I love what you're saying.
00:43:38
I have ADHD too, and I actually learned this from Ed Millett.
00:43:42
Are you guys familiar with me?
00:43:43
Oh, yeah.
00:43:43
He said that he leaves 3 days.
00:43:45
Okay.
00:43:46
And he's so awesome.
00:43:47
You think about this.
00:43:48
They won 6 AM to 12 PM.
00:43:52
Boom.
00:43:52
That's when he gets all, you know, like, different blocks, different tasks.
00:43:57
12 to 6.
00:43:58
Okay.
00:43:58
Yeah.
00:43:59
I think that 6 to 12, it was work.
00:44:01
12 to 6.
00:44:02
It was more like personal or vice versa.
00:44:05
Yeah.
00:44:05
Yeah.
00:44:05
And then 6 to 12, it was more like families, his time, you know.
00:44:10
Mhmm.
00:44:10
And that's what he said.
00:44:11
Like, well, I always leave this notes, you know, bump on.
00:44:14
I think that's so awesome because he said, by the time that a natural human, like a regular
00:44:20
human, leaves one day.
00:44:22
I live 3 days.
00:44:22
You know, and I guess so much don't.
00:44:24
It's all about time management, blah blah, and I love it too.
00:44:26
It's awesome.
00:44:27
It is time time management's huge, bro.
00:44:29
And, like, that's something I've been dialing in as well.
00:44:31
It's like the first hour of my day, I'm not trying to do, like, I used to work out and I
00:44:35
felt like it was good, but, like, that's when my brain's, like, the most, like, apt to
00:44:40
remember stuff as high as functioning.
00:44:42
So, like, personal development or, like, cognitive tasks reading, that kind of stuff.
00:44:45
So I spent an hour in the morning.
00:44:47
That's huge.
00:44:47
Then I, obviously, I come to work, and I I treat patients for a few hours.
00:44:50
And then I usually get a workout in, like, around lunch because I've had food in me.
00:44:54
I got some calories.
00:44:54
Right?
00:44:54
So then I'm gonna split my day up with low physical activity.
00:44:57
Then I do some more, you know, work in the afternoon, and then I call it by, like, 6 due
00:45:00
to my usually, my brain's kinda like Oh, done.
00:45:03
Done with, like, absorbing.
00:45:05
Yeah.
00:45:05
So many little conversations throughout the day throughout the day that you kinda get fatigued.
00:45:08
You know?
00:45:10
Yeah.
00:45:10
Which is awesome.
00:45:11
It's been, I mean, time management is fantastic.
00:45:13
I think for sake of time, we're gonna do a part 2 of this episode So if you've enjoyed this
00:45:19
episode, we want you to tune in to part 2.
00:45:21
Listen to what we got going.
00:45:23
There's gonna be more good stuff coming.