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, all 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
renew dot Healthcare and of course God.
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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 episodes are old. We sort of are 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 a real challenge. 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. 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
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.
Speaker 3: It's what we'd call it shipper.
Speaker 1: 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
expectation is that you will get easily through eight rounds
of this. Oh okay, well that seems an aggressive goal,
but sweet, let's do it. 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 me to get eight. Now, when the
workout ended, I rarely ever flop after a workout that
is laid down. I rarely do that. 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 face. You are not
going to do well 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. That will serve you well.
Sometimes I think the hardest thing about doing hard things
is recognizing that you are not always going to succeed.
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Welcome back to the Todd Herman Show. Good to see you,
my friend, Todd.
Speaker 3: I'm so excited to be here. We had so much
fun last time and to be back again. I really
appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more man, 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 are you seeing?
Speaker 3: 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 it
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 Donal 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. We saw this. 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. And 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 of what do I do? What about this?
You know? Is it a conspiracy? Is this the rise
of Hitler? Is it you know like? Is it the
end of the world? Is it World War three? Like?
And what happens two things. 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. I don't. I want to play the
safe game. I don't want to deal with this. I
want to just bunker down in my room and play
some video games or something and take some substances that
just detach me from society. And we're seeing that 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 be based
in fear, and it can't be 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 that we're in, we have to start
gathering ourselves with other men to find essentially 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.
We can't solve 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 1: I couldn't agree more. And like so many people will
complain about and I look, I complain sometimes if you're
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 to 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.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: 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 quantity because we're gonna get a lot of orders
for this? And your team says, yeah, we didn't check.
Wait so wait, no one checked.
Speaker 3: Yeah we didn't.
Speaker 1: Can we look into the warehouse?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 1: We didn't swing by the warehouse?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: Did we tell Todd this is a possibility?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, And you are getting these series of excuses. Wait,
who'd you put on this? Who's running this?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: The new guy Doug? Wait, Doug's a great kid, but
he's from the shipping depart You put Doug at parts
of this? Yeah, we tried about as a project managemer
And you're sitting there. How quickly do people find themselves
with that employment or something? In Wade Whiteheart's world of Bioptimizers.
Speaker 3: Well, first off, the first step is that the buck
stops with me because it's our company, Matt and I's company. Ye,
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. Therefore,
I obviously need to be replaced. And during that replacement process,
because I'm taking responsibility, I am going to find out
all of the executional components 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. If
I don't do that, then I'm not a leader. I'm
a I'm a false representation. 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 regulations and stuff like this
because they're playing as politic a 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 going to
make some and here's the benchmarks. We're going to take
a benchmarkt 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.
If it's a product, it's like, Hey, you wanted the
best some magnesium 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? Right,
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've 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. 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 4: But I think it's that size and that volume and
that distortion that's made them lose track of the one
person that matters, which is the American citizen.
Speaker 3: And the American citizen has entrusted these people and these
institutions to operate in an integris format to deliver the services,
the guidance, and to properly spend the money that they
exricate 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, American tax payer, plain.
Speaker 1: And simple, and wait my heart for president dude, I
wish you were Canadian. Well, nothing wrong with being Canadian.
Speaker 3: I love Canada.
Speaker 1: But that's so so well said. And see that would
be a very hard thing to do. To resign your
position as the boss be a very hard thing to do.
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Speaker 3: Wade.
Speaker 1: You heard me 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 gonna realize, my gosh, I'm gonna 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 as the boss. What do you think
is the real hard thing about doing hard things?
Speaker 3: I think it's to be one honest with yourself.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're scared me because I'm getting afraid in
seal fit and I'm starting to be honest with myself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know. The first I think if
there is another commandmentage, thou shalt not kid thyself.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 3: Right, And what does that mean? 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 directly
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 you're 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. You 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 thought
you were nailing it, 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 can kind of take away from
your confidence a little bit. 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 liked. Are 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. Speaking in public. Now,
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 going too
a university and get ripped up in their first thing.
They go into that aspirational aspect and at some point
they get a conflict with that self representation. Now, opportunity
and danger are written in the Kaishu script in Chinese
and Japanese writing. So the dangerous aspect is to face
oneself and you're less than representation of what you could
be is dangerous for the psyche and the stampoint. 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
can find 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 don't,
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 that,
or why they that that's dumb or that's stupid, or
why would I do that or anyone else that does that.
They'll direct that can emative narrative around that, or they're
selfish or they're not cool, or they think they're all that,
or they 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 1: That's beautiful, That is just beautiful. 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. But here's the deal. 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 it. 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.
This is the next hour and a half of your life.
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. Your's going to be harder.
And that sort of mind game you could call it,
is very very functional because they know what it'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. KPI's 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 patient's 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
had 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. I love what you said, but
I also want to ask you. May I ask you
a question about another product real quick way? Then I
want to get back in the discussion about hard things
because I've not been able to ask you about this.
Can I ask you about mushroom breakthrough real quick Just
something that happened to me with this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mushroom breakthrough is a game changer because we've found
a way to put essentially one point two pounds of
mushrooms using one hundred to one and fifty to one extract.
So it's like eating one point two pounds of mushrooms
in every serving. Yeah, and and so you make this
thing and it's a combination of Rechian lines made and
all the great mushrooms and all this sort of stuff.
So what is the benefit of putting that much mushroom?
So we've all heard about the wonderful magnet you know, man,
magnificent mushroom effects that you can have, right and and
largely in part it increases brain drive neutrophic factor, which
allows you to make better connections between your neural links,
like so your axiom dendrite connections powerful. So what happened
is we started doing uh every year met myself and
some of our executives. We do a brain training, We
do an extreme neural feedback, and we push ourselves to
the absolute maximum. In fact, we were the person who
designed the program. So you guys produce incredible results. But
the way we were able to do that because when
you're taxing your brain so hard, you get brain fatigue.
Knows us when you're tackling or you just kind of
check out. Yep, Well, mushrooms are What's interesting about my celium.
Two things. My celium we share an ancestorage like three
hundred million years ago or whatever. The digestive system of
mushrooms is the same as ours, only they went external
and we went internal. The mycilium and how they work
under all of nature and connect the trees and the
grass and the animals and the plants at all. This
it's a realiant network works the same as the neural
networks in our brain. So when we take these mushrooms,
it actually improves our capacity to create these neural connections
in our brain. And this creates a level of resilience
and the learning capability that exceeds your capacity if you
aren't using it. So what we did is we were
taking these all independently. We found a way to put
the extracts. We made it into a really cool drink,
yep that you can make with three great flavors. And
I personally only like the chocolate.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear you say that. Chocolates my favorite.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a salted carara, but the salt of
the chocolate's actually like a dessert.
Speaker 3: It is, and when you drink this in the morning.
And number one, it alleviate some of the negative impacts
if you're a caffeine guy, I like caffeine. Number Two,
it gives you cognitive resilience in an increased capacity to
learn and to remember things. And you start doing this
for a couple of weeks and people start to really
notice the sense of their capacity and willingness to learn.
And let's face it, in the times that we're facing
right now, there's two things that we have to do
as as men and leaders of our community. Number One,
we need to reduce our stress response. I'm not saying
reduce stress. I'm saying we need to be the calm, cool,
collected person who are dealing with the chaos that's ensuing
over the next period of times, it's going to be
an absolute banana train to the to the election, and
who knows what happens after that. I don't think it's
gonna let off either, whoever wins this thing. So we
have to be in a calm, cool center. That's why.
That's why always like the Clint Eastwoods and stuff, will
the grim he's coming into chaos, or Arnold Schwarzeinger, he's
cracking jokes as he's blowing up the bad guys, right,
or Bruce Willis, you know, like all of these guys
are like the stalwart man, hyper masculine mail. That's like, yeah,
I got this right, you know. Jocko Willink is a
great example of that, right right, you know, yeah, check,
there's missiles coming in check acknowledged, acknowledged. So that means
you need to master your nervous system. That's magnisum. And
then number two is how do you how do you
adapt to a dynamic situation of chaos being able to
have the resilience cognitively that you can learn, unlearn, and
relearn in a very quick pace. Because we are going
through this grand fourth turning where the institutions, the universities,
the government systems, the banking systems, the financial systems, the
legal systems are all being transformed, and I think ten
years from now we're going to be in the best
place ever. But to go through this, we need to
be on top of our game. So taking care of
your health, your brain, and your spirit. Having a divine
or relationship with the divine that's personal will lead you
through the desert that the Israelites went through. They left
tyranny in Egypt and spent forty years fighting amongst themselves
until they came up with a set of principles like no,
here's how we run, and then they got to the
Promised line. So it's symbolic. So it's in the biblicaltres
we're going into the desert, yes, right, and right now
we're probably going through it like the you know, with
the frogs and the bloody river and right well.
Speaker 1: And the false prophets and right, and it's our turn
to go through this. And this is something that we
from a Christian perspective, we need to understand something the Bible,
the Holy Bible told us, and this is paraphrasing, things
are going to 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 going to you know, depart solid teachings and
go after the false teachers who give them what their
itching years.
Speaker 3: Want to know.
Speaker 1: That goes back to that self awareness thing and also
having this measure for me going back to the Bible.
Is this biblical? Are these good things or not? And
I agree with you on these protocols. In what I
have done the like twenty four hours, sixteen hours, twelve
hour worker is you know what's the first to give up?
It's not my body, it's my mind. 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
in a four foot deep pool so I didn't drowned.
So what I want to close off with it 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, so this as a preface, I
want to ask you to do that. We get to
have conversations like this with men like this because of
a long term partnership that we have first level with Bioptimizers,
Praise God, so thankful for it. And also with my
friend Zach Abraham. You talk about hard things. Zach is
one of the few fund managers who knows what it
is to be bankrupt.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: It was twenty five years ago. It was during the
housing crisis, a housing crisis Zach saw coming and he
said to his bosses, you know what, guys, it's not
too big to fail. But he and his wife ended
up with firms getting shut down because they failed. They
wouldn't take Zac's advice, so he had to go through
that process. That hard thing gave him the focus for
Bulwark Capital Management, which is risk management by way of
active management of every single portfolio which can reduce risk
and volatility. And his obsession with this, talking with you
one on one, looking at your retirement portfolio five, ten,
fifteen years out and telling you thumbs up or thumbs down,
and then here's what he'd change. And trust me, many
many times he'll talk to people and say, you got
a great fiduciary, you got someone handling your stuff, don't
change anything, or you know what you're doing this really
well on your own. But if it's not the case
and you're not on plan for retirement, he will tell
you the hard truth. Go to Know your Risk radio
dot com and just ask for a no obligation review.
Speaker 3: You will meet with him.
Speaker 1: Personally, either in person or via video. It's no your
Risk radio dot com. Bulwark Coupital Managements and Investment Advisor
representative of Tecki LLC and sec Richard Investment Advisor. Past
performance is not so indicative in future results and investments.
In volve risk, you could lose money Trek twenty four,
Dosh two four four. Go to Know your Risk Gradio
dot com. 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 raise. 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.
Speaker 3: You are dying.
Speaker 1: 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 with. I will be in I think
it's called Tahano, California. There's no doubt I'm not gonna
get any 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 going to get it.
Speaker 2: At four am.
Speaker 1: 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
hours of age in the Navy intending to be Navy seals.
Speaker 3: At six am.
Speaker 1: They're going to 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 the people who are easy drops to drop. I
know it, I get it, and yet still in my
gut and I'm trying to transfer it into excitement, Wade,
I'm trying to do that thing that neuro linguistic programming
to make an excitement.
Speaker 3: Help me with this.
Speaker 1: You have had to walk on stages and pose against
the world's greatest natural all natural bodybuilders.
Speaker 3: Just talk me through that moment. Prep me for this? Yes, well,
I think the first step to go into it in
any event that you haven't done before is number one
to do the preparation beforehand so you're 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 wingness
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, proud you could possibly have with
bright lights that are designed to show every single flag
by your body. Is the sport of bodybuilding. It's a
crazy story and there's no money, and it even it's
not like if I, you know, you're an okay baseball player,
you're a millionaire, you're an okay, you're 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 the you know, it's just like standing backstage and
seeing these other bodybuilders and I'm going out on stage
to lights for my first posing in the crowd and
my friends are going to be there, and I could
get it, and I remember that feeling come up. And
the key is don't fight it, allow allow it to
come up, allow it to rise up within me. 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. And if we go back
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 on 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 come 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 raw 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 it. 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 a Navy
seal mission, there's about 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.
I thought that this is the highest level of consequence
to a tiny thing being at a place. Then there's
about a 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. And he says
to him, now, 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.
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 is me?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 3: That's my body preparing to be at its absolute best
r such with the challenge. And I 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. That's beautiful, so beautiful.
Thank you for that.
Speaker 1: I will contain that, I will welcome the fear. I
will feel my body being hyper aware, hyper aware and
in the moment, and I love that. I love that
you use the psalms to remind us about you know
they do. I walk through the valley of the shadow
of death. I'm unlikely to diet seal fit and it
might happen, but I'm unlikely. That's bad business, usually to
kill customers something like that, yeaky bred the 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
meditation 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, Wade, thanks so much.
Speaker 1: This is the Todd Hermann Show. Please go, be well,
be strong, be kind, and please make every effort to
walk in the light of Christ.