June 23, 2025
๐๐ก๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ญ๐๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ (๐๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฒ) ๐
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ โ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญโ๐ฌ ๐ค๐๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ค? ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ? ๐๐ง๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐โ๐๐ญ ๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค? In this powerful episode of ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง ๐๐๐๐๐๐ซ ๐๐จ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ, I sit down with ๐๐๐๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐๐ค๐๐ซ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ ๐๐จ๐๐๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐ to unpack whatโs really holding high performers backโฆ and how YOU can flip the script starting today. ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ: โ The โInvisible 4โ opponents every leader must face โ W...
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ โ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญโ๐ฌ ๐ค๐๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ค?
๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ?
๐๐ง๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐โ๐๐ญ ๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค?
In this powerful episode of ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง ๐๐๐๐๐๐ซ ๐๐จ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ, I sit down with ๐๐๐๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐๐ค๐๐ซ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ ๐๐จ๐๐๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐ย to unpack whatโs really holding high performers backโฆ and how YOU can flip the script starting today.
๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ:
โ The โInvisible 4โ opponents every leader must face
โ Why winning is a lifestyle (not just a result)
โ How mind-heart-body alignment fuels peak leadership
โ Simple shifts that can change how you show upโat work, in life, and at home
If youโre a business leader, entrepreneur, executiveโor someone chasing a bigger version of yourselfโthis conversation will hit home.
๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ญโ๐ฌ ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ. ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐จโ๐ซ๐๐๐๐ก ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ!
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00:00 - Winning as a Daily Lifestyle
05:44 - The Power of Celebrating Small Wins
11:29 - Managing Pressure Through Transitions
21:47 - The Mind-Heart-Body Connection
31:23 - Athlete Success Story and Identity
38:55 - The Four Invisible Opponents
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Winning is a lifestyle that you live day in and day out.
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It's not just this one event at one given time that comes with this particular status.
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It is a daily thing, and just because you didn't win in your career or your relationship that day doesn't mean you can't win in your finances or whatever other area you have in your life whatever other area you have in your life.
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Hey, uncommon Leaders, welcome back.
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This is the Uncommon Leader Podcast.
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I'm your host, john Gallagher, today.
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It's about time to come up clutch.
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We're going to have an interview with a friend of mine now and we've had a chance to chat beforehand in a couple of different ways.
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I'm pretty excited.
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Jr Reid he's a TEDx speaker.
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He is a pro and executive coach for those in the sports world.
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I'm looking forward to hearing some of about that and beyond.
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Ultimately, he's going to tell us about the unwavering belief that you're just one win away from something.
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Now, you're going to have to wait and listen in to what the answer to that one thing is, but I know that he's going to talk about how we deal with pressure.
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He's going to talk about how we deal with life, and he's going to do it in a way that's going to bring a lot of energy to the listeners of the Uncommon Leader Podcast.
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So, jr Reid, welcome to the Uncommon Leader Podcast.
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How are you doing today?
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John, it's great to be here, my man.
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I'm doing great.
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How about you?
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I'm doing well and I'm excited about our conversation, and I'll start you off with the question that I always start my first time guests.
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We have a lot of fun with this question and it can conjure up a lot in terms of connecting in.
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But what's a story from your childhood that still impacts who you are today, as a person or as a leader man?
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This is a fun question.
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So here's my disclaimer.
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My disclaimer is I had great parents.
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I grew up in a great home, two wonderful parents.
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They loved me to death.
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So I just I got to put that disclaimer on.
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But one day as a kid I don't know something must have happened between my dad and I.
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I got him really mad and I just remember crying hysterically and I must have been I don't know, been I don't know 10, 9, 10 years old.
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But back then now I'm dating myself I went down to my counter in the kitchen at my childhood home and I opened up the phone book that my mom had written down all the addresses and phone numbers, and I found my little league coach.
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I found his name and his number and I went, turned to the left, picked up the phone with the cord you know those things we used to have and I called him, hysterically, crying.
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I said, coach, I just got this fight with my dad and this and that, this and that right, and he just listened and then he coached me on how to handle myself in that moment and then how to handle my dad in that moment.
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I'm so glad you asked this question because I haven't gone back to that moment in a very, very long time and that is why I do what I do today.
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It's because, you know, I believe every single person needs that one person, that one coach that they could call when life feels like it's just hitting them so hard and they need to get out of their own way in that moment and they need to get in a way, that they need to get prepared in a way to move forward so they don't stay in that moment.
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And honestly, john, I mean that's what you do, that's what I do Like that moment will stick with me until I'm six feet under, you know and there's so much that I love about that story.
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One is just thinking about nine and 10 and some of those stories.
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With my dad as well.
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I did play sports also.
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I can't imagine calling up that baseball coach if you will, but it is that 3 am friend that we need today that we got a problem man.
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We need someone that we can call who's going to be there, and if we said I need you to meet me here tomorrow at my house and we need to go through this because I'm really struggling with it, that they drive six hours to make sure that that happens, kind of thing, or they'd get on an airplane and be there for you.
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I just had a recent situation where my dad's passed a couple months ago and you find out ultimately who he's impacted in his life, but also those who have been close to you.
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And having two of my dear friends surprise me at the funeral home to come and support me one who flew in and one who drove hours in those are those individuals, those phone numbers in the phone book that you need to be able to count on in your future.
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Love that story and sharing it and understanding it.
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And then there's the old cord on the telephone.
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So how long was your cord?
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Could you stretch into the other room to be secretive?
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Hey, that was my mom's phone man.
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In this little short Italian.
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That thing could stretch.
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I felt like it could stretch to the next neighbor's house.
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That thing was so long, but yeah, I was just like Mom.
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Why do you need this long of a cord for crying?
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out loud.
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Yeah, it was fun.
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There's something we were talking about Just hold it down, so it spins and spins and spins until you get it and it's not tangled up anymore.
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People wonder why I became such a great athlete.
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It's because when I came downstairs and went into the kitchen, the cord was stretched from the wall to where she was sitting and I had to do hurdles all the time over the cord while she was having her coffee and coffee cake.
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Man, it was fun times back in the day.
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So good, it's going to be great to have a conversation with you, but I want to start you off a little bit.
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What I chatted about in the kickoff, and that was this statement that opens up your bio you say we're one win away from a completely different blank.
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So what is it that we're one win away from and, ultimately, how do you use that philosophy in your coaching today?
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Well, it's really fill in your own blank.
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You know, as athletes and I found this both when I played as an athlete and obviously I'm fortunate to get to work with the highest level of athletes now and highest level executives and we get so caught up on the big deal that when we have a win, we don't realize that it's a win and that it's fueling forward progress and momentum, and that's just it.
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I found when we're focused on the big thing so much and then we realize where we're at today and we see this big gap, it's almost like, oh shoot, I'm failing.
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Oh, shoot, man, I'm never going to get there.
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Do I even have enough to get?
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Like it's all of those thoughts and that's why I say hey look, you're just one win away from more momentum towards filling that gap, towards, you know, closing that deal, towards crossing that goal line.
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So I it's just it's something I've said over and over again because, john, I I feel like we're overlooking the power of the wind instead of this massive win that we think we need to feel great, to look great and to feel like we're making progress.
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I love that.
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I think about that because when I coach individuals now, the first question I ask them in their template each coaching call is what's been your biggest win since we last talked?
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And so many times you talk about that win since we last talked and so many times you talk about that.
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They're looking for that outcome that they talk about and they're like oh, I landed a new job that was worth $5 million for us as a company, or I was able to complete this event in 47 minutes instead of 25 or whatever that is.
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And so when they think about that big win, too many times like I can't really think of a win over the past two weeks exactly, and we're like no, no I, so I've I've, by the way, I've eliminated that adjective and period like.
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So I, like you, caught myself all the time asking, hey, what's what's been a big win this week, or what's your top three, or whatever.
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I just stopped and I was like, hey, I'm just curious what?
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When you got this week, and it's, and it's, it's shifted especially for my longtime clients.
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It's shifted from yeah, the big thing, to like man, I got to walk around the block with my daughter this week.
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Amen, that's a huge see, I almost said it, huge win, that's a win, you know.
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So that's what I'm saying.
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That walk around the block with your daughter, that's what I'm talking about.
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That's a win.
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You're one win away.
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That walk puts you that much closer to whatever success you want to have, in whatever arena, even with your daughter in this case.
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Because you, you were there, you were present in that.
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That wind fueled you, it fueled your soul, it fueled your brain, it fueled your body, and I'm telling you, that's just how momentum works.
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You know, this is an athlete, john.
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We got that fuel.
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Gosh, gosh, darn it.
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We're going to be more prepared to, to be a better husband, father, leader, wherever the case may be.
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Fill in your own blank fill in your own blank.
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I love that.
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Fill in your own blank, and that's that is so cool.
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You know I just finished reading a book and I know you know we are readers, to say the least and it was written by a navy.
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And he talked about hell week a little bit within that, and he was on one of the teams that took care of Osama bin Laden at the time.
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But he said you know, if I had to look at hell week and I only looked at the win was to get through hell week and not quit.
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I would have quit on day one.
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And he talked about the exercise of the when they lay down on the beach arm and arm arm with each other and they don't know how long they're going to have to take that cold water on over and over again.
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He says I just had to change the horizon of the wind, bring it in closer.
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He said I just need to get through the next five waves and that's the wind.
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Let's celebrate that wind and understand what that is.
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That helped me so much just before.
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The timing of it was perfect I don't think it was accidental before I did my first Spartan race and just don't worry about getting to the end of the race.
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Just get to the next obstacle and work your way to the next obstacle and then assess that.
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So cool.
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I love that.
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Fill in the blank as you talk about it.
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You mentioned and a lot of times we put pressure on yourselves.
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That's a big part of what you coach is thriving under intense pressure.
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Navy SEALs are under intense pressure.
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What's your take on pressure and how that impacts how we celebrate our wins?
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Yeah, it's rare.
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I mean, it's real, not rare, it's not rare, it's every day, multiple times a day.
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It's real, it's real.
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Now, is it unrealistic?
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Sometimes, yes, is it overpowering?
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Sometimes, yes, but again, people want to talk about pressure all the time.
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And I just had gotten this conversation with one of my Major League Baseball players and he was talking about the P word, as we call it, and I said man, what is it?
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And he's like yeah, man, well, you know, I got my family now and I got my kids and I just signed this big contract.
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And he was just going on and on, and on, and on and on and on.
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I said interesting, what about the game?
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And he goes what?
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I said yeah, what about the game?
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You're playing baseball, right?
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I said, yeah, you haven't mentioned anything about baseball yet and you should have saw the look on his face.
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It's almost like he had an epiphany.
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I said do you realize you're focused on all of these other things that have nothing to do with you playing the game?
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He goes whoa, yeah, they do, because if I don't perform, then I can't put food on the table, then I can't live this lifestyle, then I can't, then I can't, then I can't.
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I said, hmm, seems like we found the root of your pressure, john.
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To me it's.
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And again, this is not like we just flip a switch and it's there.
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A lot of this is in the reframe, a lot of this is in our perspective, and this is why I'm so big on focus.
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I basically tell my clients, in any conversation I have around just this human performance world, I say you know what?
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Life is one big transition.
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We transition between moments, we transition between roles, you know, from entrepreneur to husband to father, whatever Transition between seasons.
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If we start looking at life through that lens, then it's all about oh, I'm moving from this to that, all right, how do I get prepared?
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Oh, I'm moving from this to that, all right, how do I get prepared?
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Oh, I'm moving from this to this, how do I get prepared?
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We're staying in the moment and then all the other stuff can't get in the way because we're focused on what we can manage in that moment or in that role or in that season.
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And then we go, okay, got to make this transition, got to make this transition.
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What's happening is we're not focused on this as a transition and it's creating this emotional residue.
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We're just carrying it with us wherever we go.
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And next thing, you know it, all these other things are forcing us to just hold on to it, hold on to it, hold on to it.
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And then, all of a sudden, you know the whole saying about carrying baggage.
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Well, that's where it comes from our our minds can only take so much, and when they're overloaded, our brain goes into fight or flight and then we're just completely off our rocker, our nervous system's out of control.
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And then guess what happens when our body is talking to our brain and our brain's talking to our body and in it's saying there's multiple bears in front of you.
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You better run fast.
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That's pressure.
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That's I better.
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This is my life.
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I better run hard and run fast.
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That's what this is really.
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That's what's really happened, john well, the good thing is, as a coach, you never go through those transitions right, because you got it in the bag, everything I got figured out, oh yeah I got, I got figured out.
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there's me and Jesus baby.
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I got it figured, that's right.
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Yeah, right, right there, you know, like one A on the on the on the chart, no, but I mean so.
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We all experience that and the good part about it that, from a vulnerability standpoint, is first when you can help folks become aware of that and also recognize.
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You even touched on this as you look back at back to that nine year old story-year-old story about not even thinking about how that's impacted you today.
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There are different things that you must use to become aware.
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So what are one or two habits you have to chase those bears so that you can focus and stay present in the moment.
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Yeah, I'm glad you loop back to that story of childhood because think about that moment.
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So that was a moment, that was a life moment.
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I had a transition.
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That coach in that moment Now I didn't even realize it at the time, I was fricking nine or 10 years old, right he helped me transition to my next moment, he prepared, he helped me and this is what I tell guys I said, look, I don't like the term.
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I mean you heard this as an athlete control the controllables.
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Sure, yeah, I heard all the time.
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Well then I did a lot more nerdy study on science and I realized we have 37 trillion plus cells in our body all running at a time.
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Let's say we don't even believe in God.
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If you think you can control all 37 trillion cells in your body at one given time, call me please.
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I need to meet you and have you on the show.
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If you do believe in God which I'm assuming a lot of your listeners do, just like you and me believe in God, which I'm assuming a lot of your listeners do, just like you and me we know that he is in full control.
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We never have full control.
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He has full control.
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So I don't like the control word.
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I like the manage word and I know it's a cheesy play on words, but follow me for a minute.
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I say manage your manageables.
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Like that, because just the word switch from control to manage takes pressure.
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Speaking of pressure, it takes pressure off me.
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I don't have to control everything, I could just manage it.
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And one way I help my clients do it I do it all the time is I talk about scan and respond.
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So I have this clutch recipe.
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Probably won't get into it today, but the first ingredient is manage, of course, and I talk about managing your mind, your heart and your body.
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Okay, so the first part in that ingredient is the scan piece.
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So I always say scan from top to bottom, respond from bottom to top.
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Okay, okay, so follow me.
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Mind's at the top, heart is in the middle, body's on the bottom.
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Okay, so I go all right, what are your primary thoughts right now?
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Scan it, what's going on in your head?
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We're creating awareness, okay, I know, and I, having had previous discussions with you and doing a podcast episode for me, I know you know how important awareness is.
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That creates awareness.
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Then I go down the heart.
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What are you feeling right now?
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And especially if you had a male, highly driven male leader, let's see to your show.
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We don't like the heart thing because it's soft.
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Oh, jr, here we're going to talk about feelings.
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Well, you know what?
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If you knew human performance science, you better know about your feelings, because there's this thing called emotional regulation that controls how we respond physically.
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But we won't get into that wormhole.
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So your heart, what am I feeling right now?
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So we just took inventory on our mind, we scanned our heart, we took inventory on what we're feeling.
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Then it's as a result of what I'm thinking and feeling, how is my body responding?
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Am I sweating?
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Is my heart rate up?
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Am I cramping?
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Because here's the deal, if we know our heart rate's out, well, guess what we do when we start to respond.
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We go oh shoot, my heart rate's really high right now.
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I'm about to go in an important meeting or important moment or a switch from entrepreneur to husband or father mode or spouse mode, whatever.
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Maybe I should slow my breathing down.
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Maybe I should slow my breathing down.
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Maybe I should respond.
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Maybe I should just go take a walk and just chill out for a couple minutes.
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Maybe I just need to sit in my car in the driveway before I open the front door and close my eyes.
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So we scan our mind, heart and body and're we're going to respond bottom up.
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I always say leverage your body to affect your mind.
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See a lot of men and a lot and this is how I grew up, john, especially as an athlete talk yourself out of your situation.
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Self-talk, self-talk, self-talk, self-talk.
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And one of my mentors said said this to he's in the energy psychology space.
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He said JR, you can never think your way out of a problem.
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You have this body.
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Your body knows how to regulate your nervous system.
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Use it.
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So I always say respond with body first, because you're going to know if you did scan properly, you're going to know how your body responded.
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And then move back up to the heart.
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All right, in this next moment, or in this next role, how do I want to feel?
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Well, I want to feel excited, I want to feel alive.
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I want to fill in your blank.
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And then, what's my primary thought?
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So back to the mind.
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Now that I'm transitioning to that next thing, how do I want to think?
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So, think about what we just did, john.
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We managed our mind, heart and body by scanning first.
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Then we got our body in place to go to our next thing.
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We got our body under control, okay, in a better state of management, and then we're focused on a feeling.
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So again our brain finds what we're looking for.
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So if we said we want to feel more joy, we're going on a feeling.
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So again our brain finds what we're looking for.
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So if we're look, if we said we want to feel more joy, we're going to look for more joy instead of the guy who just cut me off on the road and then and then we're going to have a saying or a phrase or something we want to think heading into that thing.
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