Speaker 1: I wanted to ask my friend Wade Lightheart a question
as I'm headed into my seal fit journey, which just
became real. I just got invited into the zoom session
to meet the other men who are going to be
burdened with me in their group. Ah, these poor guys,
and I wanted to ask him about the hardest thing
about doing hard things, because Wade's a guy who's done
a lot of hard things, and we are all going
to have to do hard things. You probably saw the
video of the guy who was offered one misdemeanor charge,
that's it, no jail time, no prison time because of
January sixth. He refused it because he says the government
was going to make him lie about other people, so
instead he did two years in prison. I wonder what
the hardest thing about doing hard things was for him.
We'll talk about this with Wade, with the help of
God Almighty.
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Speaker 1: Today is a day the Lord has made, and these
are the times to which God has decided we shall live.
When you build up to do a hard thing, sometimes
I think, and we'll get weighed on and talk about this.
I think the hardest thing about doing hard things is
the part I'm in now that for me, this journey
seal fit is well, it's something that most people aren't
going to do, but it can really compare to things
you are going to have to do, particularly if you're young. Right,
those of us that are old, we sort of invent
our hard things. I mean, there are hard things in life.
There's the death of a loved one, there's moving, there's
changing jobs. Increasingly, there's staying wedded to the word of
God in a society that hates the word of God.
It can be hard to do that because sometimes it
leads to losing jobs, and that's.
Speaker 3: A real challenge.
Speaker 1: It's horrible. God promises us, he promises us that He
will return sevenfold what we lose if we do it
serving him. I've certainly found that to be true. With
this podcast and the multiple radio shows we have now
national radio shows, I've certainly can witness to that. The
hard thing I think about doing a hard thing is
getting past the thinking point the planning point. And there's
something that I've learned about my mind, and that is
that my mind will confuse talking about doing a thing
with doing the thing. Consequently, there are goals I have
in my mind I never share with anybody. I don't
even write them down. Trust me, they're not going away.
Speaker 3: They're up here.
Speaker 1: The hard thing as well is sometimes recognizing that you
are not going to shine all the time. It goes
right back to your the turtle, or no, not you
to the turtle. It goes back to all the places
will go. This is doctor Seuss right, You're not always
going to be on top. My coach did something to
me about four weeks ago. She's never done and what
was going on. I didn't even understand what she was doing.
She presented to me a workout challenge and showed me
the movements. This is going to be these movements. It's
what we'd call it shipper. So it has a whole
bunch of movements in it, and five movements. And it
was burpie box jumps, it was skier, it was wallballs,
dead lifts, it all in this one workout. And then
coach said to me, my.
Speaker 3: Expectation is that you will get easily.
Speaker 1: Through eight rounds of this. Oh okay, well that seems
an aggressive.
Speaker 3: Goal, but sweet, let's do it.
Speaker 1: So I began doing the workout, and in the middle
of the workout, it's about halfway through it, and I'm
pretty good at pacing myself and CrossFit. I looked up
at the clock and I realized, oh my gosh, if
I do not murder this thing, I won't even get
six rounds. So I had to turn everything up in
an effort to get six rounds, and Coach had expected.
Speaker 4: Me to get eight.
Speaker 1: Now, when the workout ended, I rarely ever flop after
a workout that is laid down.
Speaker 3: I rarely do that.
Speaker 1: I didn't this time, but I sat down, which is
also rare for me. I never want someone to see
me tired in a competition sense. I never want them
to perceive that that bothered me. So I had to
sit down and I finally stood up and I said
to coach, let me ask a question. Was there even
a chance that I could do eight rounds? And she said, well,
it's in the realm of possibility. One day I said, okay,
she goes Todd, You're going to go into an environment
and seal fit where you're going to fail. You are
not going to do on some of the evolutions. You're
gonna flop. That's going to happen. They're going to make
sure it happens. What I liked about what you just
did is I know you figured that out, she said.
I saw you look at the clock. I know you
did the math, but you sped up. You didn't slow down,
even knowing there was not a chance you were going
to get to eight rounds.
Speaker 3: That will serve you well.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I think the hardest thing about doing hard things
is recognizing that you are not always going to succeed.
There are going to be pieces of something at which
you'll fail, and being okay with that goes back to resilience.
Speaker 3: We'll ask Wade about this in just a second.
Speaker 1: I just got a note from my friend Steve Anderson,
who's the managing director managing partner of renew Healthcare. Three
couples went there in November, three fantastic outcomes, and I'm
cooking up a trip back down there this time. If
we go do a wellcation, we're going to give a
lot more time in planning so we get a lot
more people down. We didn't give much time in planning
us having a great time, got to make great viewers
and listeners. But there are three friends of mine who
are thinking going on. One of them is Zach Abraham,
who you know comes on our show once a week.
He wants to get the infusion of stem cells. The
infusion is probably the most expensive process and it attacks
inflammation throughout your bodies. These stem cells that are ethically
gathered from umbilical cords and placentas.
Speaker 3: They search your body for any hotspots.
Speaker 1: If there's cartilage that needs to be rebuilt, it can
do that, tend then muscle. It does that, but it
destroys inflammation across the body. That's what Zach is looking at.
Another friend of mine blew up his knee. I've been
asking you to pray for him. He's called the wrestler.
That's not completely blown up, but looks like the beginning
of a cartilage terear at our age. And he's my
age in our mid fifties. Cartilage isn't likely to grow back.
These stem cells can grow it back. So he's looking
at having that done. And then a friend of mine
a call Andy, and he's a with jumper's knee forever
now it's just me. So we're all looking at going
down my thing lower back. I made the mistake of
wrestling my much younger, much stronger, much more athletic, better looking, smarter,
and more godly friend Ben. I got the first three
takedowns and he figured me out and crushed me, hurt me.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's my sports med doc. So there's that.
Speaker 1: So maybe he should fix me. Hey Ben, maybe I
should get a you hurt me discount. So we're all
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Speaker 3: Wade Lightheart, Welcome back to the Todd Hermann Show. Good
to see you, my friend, Todd.
Speaker 5: I'm so excited to be here. We had so much
fun last time. To be back again. I really appreciate you.
Speaker 4: Having me on.
Speaker 3: I couldn't agree more man.
Speaker 1: Thank you before we get to the hard things, and
I want to ask you the question, what's the hardest
thing about doing hard things? I would be like negligent
if I didn't ask you. There's a lot going on
in this news. You're a very smart man. I've never
talked current events with you, Like what do you seeing?
Speaker 5: Well, we're seeing the culmination of I believe, what was
illustrated by the guys that wrote The Fourth Turning and
if you've read that book, We're in a phase of chaos,
which is usually represented by either civil war or external
war or potentially even both. And there's economic cycles, there's
you know, civilization cycles, and it seems that we're flat
and that's probably going to be in this for another
ten years as the technological in the technological advancement has
really outstripped our biological capacity to handle it. So, for example,
we just witnessed the most public event in world history
with the attempted assassination of the former president Donald Trump,
and in the current candidate. Now, I'm a Canadian, I
don't get to vote either way, okay, So I want
to be clear about that, and it's not a political statement,
but the moment can't be lost in the fact that
once again the authorities that we are entrusting to give
us accurate information are stonewalling us. And we saw this
in the pandemic.
Speaker 4: We saw this.
Speaker 5: I think we also saw this with the hearings in
the university stuff. We saw it in the Capital six.
And what's happened is we have a fractionation of opinions
distributed through these little things that gain traction, that reaffirm
whatever biases. I don't know what happened. I don't know
what's behind all this. And people are grabbing for certainty
because you need a certain amount of certainty in direction.
You know, It's why people get a coach when they're
trying to figure out their fitness. There's a lot of
ways to get fit, but you need some sort of direction.
While you have a professor at a university that you learn,
or a teacher of profession, or a spiritual teaching or
a leader or a functional religion, these structures. Well, now
there's so much confusion around this that people are spinning
around in these cycles.
Speaker 4: Of what do I do? What about this? You know,
is it a conspiracy? Is this the rise of Hitler?
Is you know, like Is it the end of the world?
Is it World War three like? And what happens two things.
Speaker 5: Either you get really hyper motivated and indoctrinated with some
kind of defenses, like we've got to save the nation
and we've got to get kill everybody or fight everybody,
or you go into a defense mode where it's like,
I'm not listening to it, I'm checked out, don't I
want to play the safe game.
Speaker 4: I don't want to deal with this.
Speaker 5: I want to just hunker down in my room and
play some video games or something and take some substances
that just detach me from society.
Speaker 4: And we're seeing that.
Speaker 5: We've got to find a better resolution to the new
challenges of society. So there is a call to action
for a lot of people. But that action can't.
Speaker 4: Be based in fear, and it can't be.
Speaker 5: Entrenched in violence, because if it is, the cost of
the solution is much higher than we need to pay.
But it doesn't look like anybody's learning the lessons. So
it's likely the worst case scenario. And we have as
men who are in charge of our families, and that's
our immediate community, and then the community.
Speaker 4: That we're in.
Speaker 5: We have to start gathering ourselves with other men to
find aally new you know, independent communities that are able
to provide support and safety for each other in a
non combative way, hopefully agreed and and and that's our
that's our task, that's our calling.
Speaker 4: We can't solve.
Speaker 5: These national things, but we can solve the local We
solve the local problems. I think we have an opportunity
to solve the bigger problems.
Speaker 3: I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 1: And like so many people will complain about and I look,
I complain sometimes living and not take care of home base.
One thing I would ask you as an executive and
then we'll get into the hard things discussion. Like you
and Matt have built a very very successful company, and
you have you know, scientists and medical people who work
with you and for you in a formulation lab. So
I just want to run through this scenario. And I'm
taking the assassination attempt to President Trump. So here's some
things we've discovered. They chose not to record the radio traffic, okay.
They chose not to secure the rooftop, all right. They
chose to use untrained agents, okay. They chose not to
take the highest viewpoint, which would be the water tower.
They chose, they chose to surrender that they chose to
let this guy walk around for an hour. They chose
to let him be in the rooftop for half an hour.
He was there twenty minutes, a known danger with a gun.
They chose that President Trump come out. So all these
choices they made. And I want to put you in
an executive sense. So let's say that you come to
work one day and you sit down with your team.
All right, we're doing the free Magnese and Breakthrough thing.
It's Meg Breakthrough dot com slash Todd Free. We're doing
this with Todd Herman on the show. Do we have
enough coranny because we're going to get a lot of
orders for this? And your team says, yeah, we didn't check.
Wait so wait, no one checked. Yeah we didn't.
Speaker 3: Can we look into the warehouse? You know what?
Speaker 1: We didn't swing by the warehouse? Okay, did we tell
Todd this is a possibility?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, And you are getting these series of excuses. Wait,
who'd you put on this? Who's running this?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: The new guy, Doug? Wait, Doug's a great kid, but
he's from the shipping department. You put Doug departs of this. Yeah,
we tried about as a project managemer and you're sitting there.
Speaker 3: How quickly do.
Speaker 1: People find themselves with that employment or something? In Wade
Whiteheart's World of Bioptimizers.
Speaker 5: Well, first off, the first step is that the buck
stops with me because it's our company, Matt and I's company. Yeah,
and I wouldn't even speak for Matt. I would say
this is my fault number one. I am responsible for
the delivery of our mission statement, and Matt would do
the exact same thing. Nice, Okay, it's our fault. So
I come out and I make a public statement I
have failed in the execution of what I've promised to do.
Speaker 4: Therefore, I obviously need to be replaced.
Speaker 5: And during that replacement process, because I'm taking responsibility, I
am going to find out all of the executional components.
Speaker 4: That I thought were in place or omitted or was
ignorant or whatever the issue was. And I'm going to
work through this to hand off the new opportunity to
whoever's going to take my role in the future to
say this is what we did wrong, these are the oversights,
these are the elements, and we need to make this
so it doesn't happen again.
Speaker 5: If I don't do that, then I'm not a leader.
I'm a I'm.
Speaker 4: A false representation.
Speaker 5: And there's a lot of people in business today who
take over big companies with the big paycheck and all
this sort of stuff, and they're catering to the donor class.
They're catering to the biggest investors. They're involved in some
politically maneuvering. They're pandering to you know, silly government regulation
and stuff like this. Yeah, because they're playing this political game.
And what happens is a lose track of in all
of the numbers, like in all of the numbers in
the company, what is what does each number essentially represent?
It represents a relationship with the customer, and the customer
is buying a promise. You're promising number one that they
have a problem, a thing they want to solve, whatever
that challenge is. And you're saying, hey, look, i'm going
to communicate to you. First, there's a communication I'm going
to I'm in charge of this. We're going to help
you with your problem too. We're going to explain, we're
going to provide the solution to that problem. Number two,
we're going to show you how to use or take
or take advantage of that solution. Number three, we're going
to make sure that that solution happens in a timely
fashion so that your expectations are met within a reasonable
time frame. So if I'm a personal trainer, I'm going
to say, hey, yeah, we can get your You want
to lose forty pounds, Well, we can lose that in
a year safely. We're gonna make some and here's the benchmarks.
We're going to take a benchmark at twelve weeks. We're
going to take a Bell's market twenty four and we're
going to see based on your compliance, and we're going
to work those compliance things out.
Speaker 4: If it's a product, it's like, Hey.
Speaker 5: You wanted the best magnesium in the market, You're gonna
take magnesium Breakthrough. Why is it the best? Here's the
reasons why. Here's our promise. We're gonna ship it to
you with this medium. Do you like Amazon? Do you
like online? Do you like Facebook? Do you like with
an affiliate such as yourself? Great, we're gonna get that.
We're gonna give you a discount represent for that person
because that person is out there promoting and putting their
name on the line and their stuff, because I have
a responsibility to my partner and then when that product
gets to them, do they know how to take it
and it gets in a time and fashion and number
four of that, if any part of that goes wrong,
I'm responsible to that, and so therefore I give my
customer their money back. And in this case they have
to say, I have to give the title back that
I was entrusted with because I've failed to deliver and
I owe it to this. I owe it to the
position that I'm in and the position of service that
I have been given and entrusted and have the opportunity for.
I've failed in it, and so therefore I need to
give that back to you because I failed in it.
And that's why we have a one hundred percent money
back guarantee. So my business is no different than that institution.
It's just a way bigger institution.
Speaker 4: When you're talking about the United States of America and
hundreds of years and presidency and that the protection this
is monumentally bigger.
Speaker 6: But I think it's that size in that volume and
that distortion that's made them lose track of the one
person that matters, which is the American citizen, and the
American citizen has entrusted these.
Speaker 7: People and these institutions to operate in an integris format
to deliver the services, the guidance, and to properly spend
the money that they execate from them. And there's all indications,
independent of which political side that you have, that we
have a tyrannical, bureaucratic state that has impaired the delivery
of value to the American citizen, the American taxpayer, plain
and simple.
Speaker 1: And wait light heart for president dude, I wish you
were a Canadian. Well, nothing wrong with being Canadian. I
love Canada.
Speaker 3: But that's so so well said. And see that would
be a very hard thing to do.
Speaker 1: To resign your position as the boss be a very
hard thing to do. So I want to transfer in
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Speaker 3: Truk twenty four Dash three seven eight Wade. You heard me.
Speaker 1: Talk about this thing that my coach did to me.
And she's not a sy op person, she's not a
head gamer. But she did this on purpose to give
me a task that mathematically and we've worked together for
four years. She knows my capability, she knows my work capacity.
She knew there's no chance you're getting to eight rounds
when she did that to me. She was looking for something.
Is Todd gonna crack? Is You're going to realize, my gosh,
I'm going to fail? So why even put in the effort?
And what she said she was pleased by was no,
you sped up, you poured more into it knowing you
weren't going to get eight rounds. That's what I was
looking for because in seal fit, you're going to fail. Todd,
you are going to fail. So I think one of
the things that hard things are doing, hard things weighed
is to recognize that you're going to fail. You've done
a ton of hard things, being a world champ, bodybuilder,
building this company, being willing to step down.
Speaker 3: As the boss. What do you think is the real
hard thing about doing hard things?
Speaker 4: I think it's to be honest with yourself.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're scaring me because I'm getting afraid and
seal fit and I'm starting to be honest with myself.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you know the first I think if
there is another Commandmtage thou shalt not kid thyself?
Speaker 3: I love that, right?
Speaker 4: And what does that mean?
Speaker 5: You See, everybody has a voice in their head, and
that voice maybe over calibrating to the negative or over
calibrating to the positive, and in different areas, and very
seldom is it direct leap an accurate representation of reality.
And only when you get outside of your comfort zone,
which is a requirement of excellence, because an excellence, you
are letting go of what your past self is or
what's comfortable for you now to embrace what could could
you be your potential. But you don't know what your
potential is. You don't know what your top end is,
you don't know what your super self could possibly be.
So in pursuit of that, whether you're driven by a
negative voice or a positive voice, the accuracy isn't there.
So you need some sort of external benchmark to determine
where you really are at. So, whether that is delivering
a product on time to a customer or a client,
whether that is achieving a new level of fitness, going
in a fitness contest or running a marathon or doing
seal Fit or any of the difficult things, or having
and maintaining a good relationship with your wife. Think that
everything's okay and I'm doing a great job, and then
you know, you go to a therapist and she starts
bringing up a bunch of things that you had no
idea about and you you thought you.
Speaker 4: Were nailing it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and and and and so the distortion between your
perception of what you're doing and her experience is different.
So this confrontation with external reality versus your internal representation
of it is the process of excellence. And the first
time or two that you hit this, or even the
first multiple times, it's it's impactful in the fact that
it can be you.
Speaker 4: Can kind of take away from your confidence a little bit.
Speaker 5: It's like, well, wait a minute, the world isn't exactly
the way that I'm representing it in my self talk
or my representation. I'm not as good as I think
I am. I'm not as cool as I think I am.
I'm not as fit as I think I am. I'm
not as successful or wealthy, or confident or well like?
Are all all of those stories that we're trying to
bolster or hide from in dealing with it. And it's
very you know what is the biggest fear in public
in people's lives?
Speaker 4: Speaking in public? Now?
Speaker 5: We all have a voice in our head that's ourselves talking,
but in public, if speaking in a public room with
a bunch of people where they could actually not be
concordant with what you're saying in your head, why are
people scared of that? Because people don't want to expose
themselves to that situation because they might feel that it's
too crushing. It's too crushing. And some people will go
into a situation like that. They'll do their first competition,
they'll they'll get in their first marriage and go through
a divorce, or they'll they'll fail at a competition, or
they'll start a business and fail, or they're go into
a university and get ripped up in their first thing.
They go into that aspirational aspect and at some point
they they get a conflict with that self representation now.
Opportunity and danger are written in the kaishu script in
Chinese and Japanese.
Speaker 4: Writing.
Speaker 5: So the dangerous aspect is to face oneself and your
less than representation of what you could be is dangerous
for the psyche and the stamp. Why okay, life is
not what I think it is? The opportunity is is okay, Well,
here's where I'm at. Maybe if I continue further, I
can be a better version of myself because the only
person you're really competing against yourself is the person you
were yesterday, and if you continually confined little tiny games
within that, you'll be successful. The other thing is is
most people never go all into anything right because they're
scared that if they go all in and it's not enough,
that somehow they're not good enough, they're not successful enough,
they're not cool enough, they're not attractive enough, they're not
rich enough, whatever. So therefore they rationalize out why they
shouldn't do it, or why they that's dumb or that's stupid,
or why would I do that or anyone else that
does that. They'll direct a condemnitive narrative around that, or
they're selfish, or they're not.
Speaker 4: Cool or they think they're all that, or they.
Speaker 5: Generate this whole projection around that, but really it's a
self protection mechanism because guess what, it's better to stay
safe and secure in delusion than to be out there
and exposed in reality.
Speaker 3: That's beautiful. That is just beautiful.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that we grab that and
push that through all the socials. That's a beautiful, beautiful statement.
And this, like this measuring stick, Mike, my current thing
will be seal fit and my expectation of myself is
to thrive, right, because if I go down there and
say I'm going to survive, well, that's like aiming for okay,
and I want to thrive. My measuring stick for this
are these series of things I've been doing. A twelve
hour workout, a sixteen hour workout, a twenty four hour workout.
Speaker 3: But here's the deal.
Speaker 1: Wait, is that when I do this, I program it
on my own. Well, those are things I'm innately going
to put limits of myself. When I invite my friends
in and have them kindly show up at three o'clock
in the morning and I am toast and they're brand new,
fresh out of bed, with coffee and pancakes and they
show up and say, here's what we're going to do.
Speaker 3: This is the next hour and a half of your life.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, that dynamic changes, and I'm confronted
now with having to pace with another person. We're going
to run a five k, You're going to pace me,
You're going to stick with me, You're going to wear
a kit. I'm not going to wear a kit. My
run is going to be easier, you's going to be harder.
And that sort of mind game you could call it,
is very very functional because they know what's being done
out of love and very helpful. But that measuring stick
I don't think happens consistently enough in people's lives. Like
you talked about a husband and wife. I did a
show once on marriage. KPIs key performance indicators. The fruit
of the spirit on one access the biblical definition of love.
On the other, access do I feel around people the
fruit of the spirit patients, kindness, joy, temperance, self control, kindness, charity.
And then on the bottom, do I have then the
characteristics of biblical love? Am I seeking to serve not
be served? Am I not boastful, proud or angry? And
if you take a confluence of those things and map
that on a chart and talk with one another, how
are we on these KPIs. Now you're getting some sort
of measure between one another. You add a third party
to that, like a therapist. Then you have someone else
saying I don't know that you're exactly rated that way.
There are people who have special needs kids and this
happens that they have to adjust their expectation for their kids,
and this is really hard for parents. Parents say, well,
my kid's going to be he's going to go to
my college and he's going to pursue my profession. And
when they find out the kids have are non neurotypical,
a lot of times for parents it can be oh
my gosh, and it's a difficult thing.
Speaker 3: To adjust expectations.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that you stop loving, you stop pushing, stop believing,
or parents of kids have special needs for them to
understand that Alan has it really tough. He's effectively nonverbal,
he has at eighteen operations. He's only fourteen years old.
Speaker 4: But he works.
Speaker 1: He invents soap. He works at the company in quality control.
His brother Ian is impacted by autism. He works, He
contributes Amy who got late on set autism. She's thriving,
helping with social media, et cetera. She was told she's
hirable and the soap is of pristine quality. There's no
way John would put his name on a soap that sucked.
So they researched a family. They found them in the Midwest.
They are three generations into the soap crafting world. That's
what that's all they do. They took on the fragrances
that Alan thought of, that came from special memories for him.
Speaker 3: They create those soaps. They're all natural, they're made in.
Speaker 1: America to give this to families with kids with special needs.
Partake of the younger kids. It's a side of hope,
and every time they wash their bodies they can remember that. Yep,
our kids too can work. Our kids can contribute. What
the word saying is not true. So go to alansaps
dot com slash todd. That's alansaps dot com slash todd.
From a Christian perspective, we need to understand something the Bible,
the Holy Bible told us, and this is paraphrasing, things
are gonna get whack. That's not exactly how the Lord
Jesus said it. But look we can read good's going
to be called evil. Evil's going to be good. Men
are gonna, you know, depart solid teachings and go after
the false teachers who give them what their itching ears
want to know. That goes back to that self awaren thing.
And also having this measure for me going back to
the Bible. Is this biblical? Are these good things or not?
Speaker 3: And I agree with you on these protocols.
Speaker 1: In what I have done the like twenty four hours,
sixteen ho or twelve hour work is you know what's
the first to give up?
Speaker 3: It's not my body, it's my mind.
Speaker 1: Correct And I found myself from the first twelve hour
workout at about hour nine, I realized my neurological system is.
Speaker 4: Wigged.
Speaker 1: I fell asleep swimming and I thank god I was
at a four foot deep pool so I didn't drowned.
So what I want to close off with on this
with you've been so kind with your time. I want you,
if you would be so kind, is to help me
visualize a moment that's coming for me and help me.
Given the success you've had as a competitive athlete, I
want you to help me visualize something in just a
second and we'll close off with you because I want
everybody to hear you prep us for the moment. The
moment could be asking this person to marry you. The
moment could be quitting a job. The moment could be
asking for a job. The moment could be having a
very tough conversation with your kid. There are going to
be these moments.
Speaker 3: So this as a preface, I want to ask you to.
Speaker 1: Do that.
Speaker 3: I'm having this morning. This would be.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, let's see twelfth twenty four. This is my
Alex is laughing by producer Alex. This is my thirtieth ounce,
now thirty second ounce of bone Frog coffee this morning.
Speaker 3: This happens to be what do we have downstairs? Goltlocker?
Speaker 1: Oh so the goltlocker is a great, great story from
bone Frog Coffee. The goltlocker is a place where enlisted
officers in the Navy can go and the big wigs
they can't even come in without knocking. It's a great, great,
great tradition. And this is a light roast, French roast,
light but incredibly rich. It took three years to develop this.
That's at Bonefrog Coffee dot com. Slash tad get tempercent
off all the products there, everything comes labeled God Country Team.
Speaker 3: Now in this hand is a pretend? Is it sniffer?
Speaker 1: What do you all wine people drink? What's the fancy
wine things called like wine glass?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's a fancy wine glass in this hand, a fake
one because I don't drink wine.
Speaker 3: But if it did drink wine, it would have bone.
Speaker 1: Frog cellars and I would go and I'd swish it around,
and that's called legs.
Speaker 3: Does it have legs?
Speaker 1: I learned this from my friends who are wine snobs,
wine wine experts. It has legs, and then I would
test the bouquete like up my beak. You can do
that with coffee too. You could also do that with
root beer. You can do that with a blowy sandwich.
I don't know why people do it with wine, but
they do it.
Speaker 3: That's what you do.
Speaker 1: Then you take a little bit of it and you
drink it. You put it in your mouth, but then
you open your mouth and your nose and you breathe
fuck through as you're testing the wine. I think you
do that a little bit more aerodype form, a little
bit more genteel.
Speaker 4: See.
Speaker 1: I don't drink wine, but I turn to my friends
who are wine experts, and they tried bone Frog cellars
and were deeply impressed. They had the twenty fifteen Mayor
Low and those are the two. I don't know if
to say flavors or blends. I don't know types of wine.
My daughter tried it. She is not yet legally supposed
to drink, but hey, it's our house. Assue me, but
I guess you could. She loved it, Suitor her boyfriend,
my wife occasion has wine with dinner. She really enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: So try it.
Speaker 1: You go to Bonefrogsellers dot com slash todd. Ten percent
of proceeds go to the Navy Seal Foundation because the founder,
Tim Krukshank, look at that retired Navy sealed Bonefrogsellers dot
com slash todd, so Wade Lightheart by Optimizers and a
friend of the show. Let me set this stage and
this should apply to everybody. It could be you walking
in to talk to the boss about a race. It
could be you sending the family down to say we're moving.
It could be going to a loved one and saying, hey,
I did read the medical reports you are dying. I mean,
these things happen it could be a conversation with someone
you've known, and hey, you know what, I've ever thought
about being more than friends, and it could be all
these things. Here's my situation. I want to have your help.
I will be in I think it's called Tahano, California.
There's no doubt I'm not gonna get to be sleep
before this event. I'm not going to kid myself. You said,
don't live in delusion. I'm going to be nervous the
whole stinking night.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get it.
Speaker 1: At four am, I'm gonna take my mushroom breakthrough. I'm
gonna have my caffeine, I'm gonna have my supplements. I'm
going to get onto a campus with most guys twenty
two to twenty four years of age in the Navy
intending to be Navy seals. At six am, they're gonna
put us into a courtyard and this session is going
to begin. You know what freaks me out the most
walking into the parking lot, literally parking the rental car
or taking an uber because I'm not allowed to drive
away out to be an uber walking into the parking lot,
and you know what really freaks him out, Wade is
all these young guys looking and going, oh, look at
the old dude, Look at the guy who thinks he's
going to get this done. And then it's that moment
where Mark Divine, the head coach, starts us out and
I know that the first eight hours are about getting.
Speaker 3: The people who are easy drops to drop.
Speaker 1: I know it, I get it, and yet still in
my gut and I'm trying to transfer it into excitement. Waight,
I'm trying to do that thing that neural linguistic programming
to make it excitement.
Speaker 3: Help me with this.
Speaker 1: You have had to walk on stages and pose against
the world's greatest all natural bodybuilders. Just talk me through
that moment. Prep me for this.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 5: I think the first step to go into in any
event that you haven't done before is number one to
do the preparation beforehand so you're well prepared. In other words,
you've done the training, you've probably got some sort of
expert to kind of bring you up to speed. So
don't think that you should go like I think the
dumbest thing that you could do is to go in
blind and say, yeah, let's just wagness and go for it.
Because what happens is when you get exposed. You can't
lean back on all of those experiential trains, the days,
the hours in the gym, the sessions with your coach,
the preparation that you've done, whether that's training or lifting
or you know, So every time I went into a
competition and you know, you're standing on stage in front
of the most critical of it at all, you know,
crowd you could possibly have with bright lights that are
designed to show every single flag by your body. It's
the sport of bodybuilding. It's the crazy story. And there's
no money in it either. It's not like if I,
you know, you're an okay baseball player, you're a millionaire,
you're an okay, you're a great bodybuilder, you're still broke.
So it's but subjecting that I can go back to
my very first time where I hadn't had that experience,
and I remember that feeling coming up, that anxiety as
you be walking into the parking lot that they'll you know,
it's just like standing backstage and seeing these other bodybuilders
and I'm going out on stage to lights from my
first posing and the crowd and my friends are going
to be there, and I could get and I remember
that feeling came up, and the key is don't fight it, huh.
Speaker 4: Allow allow it.
Speaker 5: To come up, allow it to rise up within it,
don't suppress it, don't try to fight it, don't say think,
don't even think that it shouldn't be there. This is
a heightened sense of awareness. This is your preparation and
the opportunity to step forth.
Speaker 4: And if we go back.
Speaker 5: In time, we have ten thousand generations within our DNA
that had to step into uncertainty, to death, to starvation,
to mayhem, to travels to unknown parts of the world
without compasses, GPS's internet, to get on a boat. We're
the product of all it. So you can leverage the
thousands of generations before you that is in your DNA.
And said, I honor the ancestors of the past, and
I honor the ancestors to in the future, and I
will step forth to pass this genetic lineage on into
the future and to honor that from the past, and
walk into the fear, walk into it and surrender into it,
because that is what the Lord's prayer says. Yay, though
I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil because thy rod and thy staff
comfort me. It is the suffering that comforts me, because
if I'm in pain, if I am suffering, and if
i am nervous, i am I'm still here. I'm still here.
Embrace it, walk through it. Don't think that you shouldn't
feel that. Everybody feels it. But eventually what separates the
people who thrive in those environments is they recognize that
those feelings in those senses are normal. And I can
recall a particular interview I think where Jocko Willing captured
this and he talked about they'd be going on a
mission and they have the new guy with them, and
just to give you an explanation on an on a
Navy seal mission, there's a voute, a thousand personal checks
that you have to do, everything from tying like taping
your boot laces, making sure you're like as a professional,
that all those guys are counting, because one screw up
and people are dead.
Speaker 4: I thought that this is the.
Speaker 5: Highest level of consequence to a tiny thing being at
a place. Then there's about one thousand things that are
mission specific that they have to check, and they're going
into you know, where they could lose their lives in
that moment or the lives of their friends. And what
he said was, you see the new guy and he's
nervous and everything, and the guys and the guys like
you know, they're trying to suppress the nervousness around the guys.
Speaker 4: And he says to him, he says, like, hey, it's
normal to feel nervous. Eventually, you just get used to
it and know that it's part of the deal. Love it,
love it.
Speaker 5: And eventually, what I've come to learn in my own
experience by exposing myself to those situations over and over
and over and over again, I don't even call it fear.
I call it a heightened sense of awareness in that
adrenaline in that that anxiety is me, is it? That's
my body preparing to be at its absolute best to rise.
Speaker 4: Up to the challenge.
Speaker 5: And I've failed many times, but I never failed in
a way that I cowered out. I did my best
in that moment, and I gave my best. And sometimes
it's not enough. But that's okay because I found my
limit today, love it, and from that I can build
from it.
Speaker 1: That's beautiful, so beautiful, Thank you for that. I will
contain that I will welcome the fear. I will feel
my body being.
Speaker 3: Hyper aware, hyper aware.
Speaker 1: And in the moment, and I love that. I love
that you use the psalms remind us about you know
they do. I walk through the valley of the shadow
of death. I'm unlikely to die seal fit and it
might happen, but I'm unlikely. That's bad business, usually to
kill customers something like that. Yea, brother, Thank you so
much for sharing your hearts, your view on current events.
Not a lot of bosses will do that. Thank you
for showing accountability and continue to speak into lives, particularly
young men. We are called to do that as men
of a certain age. And once again I extend the
imitation for you to get up here. We would love, love,
love to have you in Idaho. Thank you for the
meg breakthrough dot com slash toddfree site, for building that
for us and for this podcast family, and just want
to wish you to go with God's good grace.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Wade, thanks so much.
Speaker 3: This is the Todd Herman Show.
Speaker 1: Please go, be well, be strong, be kind, and please
make every effort to walk in the light of Christ.