In every human being, there’s a box that gets unlocked at some point in their lives.  Sometimes it comes early in life and sometimes, much later. The differentiation in when and how all stems from your focus and more importantly, your attitude. 

Jay Nixon is a best-selling author, speaker, coach, mentor, and founder of Thrive Forever Fit Podcast, and is owner of Thrive Fitness Studio. His drive and dedication to excellence started at a young age when he was left with only his mom after his father died suddenly. Today, he’s parlayed what many would deem a chaotic life, and changed his life by changing his attitude and simply doing the work. 

In this episode, Jeff and Jay talk about significant loss in life, the journeys through a chaotic life, suicide, unfortunate turns of events, and answering the call to excellence in the direst moments in life.  Jay shares one of the biggest breakthroughs of his life that sparked an insatiable appetite for self-development on his journey to self-awareness.  Today, he’s charged with helping thousands of individuals find their center and rediscovering the path they were intended to be on while on this planet. 

 

What You'll Learn:

 

• How Jay channeled the rage from a significant childhood loss
• The reason Jay still carries a dollar bill in pocket to this day, and what’s written on it
• Why Jay became a coach
• The importance of being coached, being in a mastermind of some type and why it’s necessary for you if you’re going to thrive moving forward
• What living in a town of 4,000 people was like and the reality of how most people live
• How giving up certain things and people in life is a requirement if you’re going to continue growth
• Why consulting for the NFL Alumni was not enough to fill Jay’s “Why”
• How a flood in a region of California where it rarely rains, completely changed the trajectory of Jay’s lifted after his business flooded  
• Having blind faith, and how to use it to your advantage
• Suffering great loss in rapid succession and how to cope 
• Changing your language and how you talk to yourself, can change your life 
• And much more! 

 

FAVORITE QUOTE:

 “I’m not saying it was easy. There were moments where I had to talk myself off the ledge, but that flood moved me from where I was comfortable to where I needed to be. I just wasn’t doing it.  Even though things have been chaotic at times, everything happened for me, not to me. It’s amazing what faith can do if you believe.”

 - Jay Nixon

 

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Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out. 

In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for his next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions insurance agency on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.

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