For today’s Podcast Episode I sat down and talked with Nathan Collins. Nathan has come quite a long way over the last years. He studied to become a teacher but then decided that he wanted to follow his passion for training and become a Personal Trainer. He continued to develop his Business and is a successful online coach today.

In this episode, we talk about why it is so important to follow your passion, focus on helping others; and take risks and try to achieve the things that really matter to you. Nathan explains how you can make the transition from the corporate world, 9-5 job situation, into working on your passion and doing what you love. He also shared what kind of mindset you should adopt if you were to make such a step. Finally, we talked about how you can use social media to grow your business and how you can achieve consistency on various platforms.

As we both develop coaching businesses, our discussion focuses around becoming a successful trainer, but the concepts Nathan share can be applied to any business and are thus extremely valuable for everyone who wants to change is life and do what he loves for a living.

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I have been talking about my battle with depressions in the past. (E07 on my Podcast). Battling them and recovering has been a long process. There are three things, which helped me big time on that journey and continue to help me feeling happy today. These activities not only help to fight off depressions, but to live a happier life in general. So, I think they are useful and applicable for everyone.

The main reason for depressions – or just feeling unhappy – is usually a combination of being disconnected from the present moment – thinking too much about the past usually – as well as missing self-confidence and a negative self-image. To overcome them, you need to really focus on the present moment while building confidence.

The most effective activities to achieve that for me have been Fitness, reading stoic philosophy and praying (to express an attitude of gratitude). Each of them refocuses you on the present moment, help you dealing with adversity and develop confidence and a positive self-image in their own way.

Fitness does so by teaching you that you are 100% in control of your life and the results you achieve. It gives you daily private victories and thus builds confidence. Reading philosophy teaches you how to deal with adversity and what you should focus your energies on. And praying to thank god – as a way to express gratitude – guides your focus to the present moment by highlighting the things you have going for you right now.

In this show, I explain how and why those three things are so effective and how I applied them to my personal life. I also share how they guided me through the process of battling and overcoming my depressions and how they still help me on a daily basis to keep negative feelings away.

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For this week’s Podcast Episode I sat down with Glenn Meier to talk about his personal journey to a happy and fulfilled life.

Glenn has a very interesting story to tell. His entire life he has been training football to become a professional. He has been playing in the youth team of FC Luzern for his entire life, but at some point, he had to come to terms with the fact that he won’t make the cut to the first team. This apparent failure has set him up for personal growth as well as his future career as a football coach and athletic trainer.

He shared his extremely reflected way of looking at the world. He explained how one can use wisdom and reflection to feel truly happy from within and even how one can use it to perform at a high level.

We also talked a lot about how the way our society works sets us up for unhappiness and problems. We also uncovered what we can do to thrive in today’s world instead of feeling obsolete and depressed.

For me this was an extremely inspiring talk. A lot of the wisdom Glenn shared resonates well with me and is close to things I have been sharing in previous episodes of mine.

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I believe that there is more to life than being a wheel in the machinery of society – that true happiness can only be found in passion and love. In this series, I interview people that have set out to do what they love, with the goal of figuring out what it means to live the good life and what we can do to live it ourselves.

My first guest is Nicky Davies. Nicky is from the UK and decided to develop a business that supports following her two big passions: sailing and travelling. Today, she works as a leadership coach with clients all over the world operating her business from Greece, where she has a sailboat.

Nicky’s story is extremely inspiring to me. Doesn’t she live the life many of us dream about? In this interview, she shared her story, explaining what pushed her to make the necessary changes. She also shares valuable inputs on proper mindset, a different and ethical approach to selling a services as well as applicable steps for people that strive to make big changes in their life.

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I love Calisthenics, the different skills are just super cool and the training is so much fun to me. Yet, due to the nature of calisthenics exercises, the learning curve is much steeper. With this episode I want to help beginner athletes to get into it quickly and unlock their first skills, as well as more experienced athlete to learn advanced skills and improve the ones they’ve already unlocked.

If you want to squat, you grab a bar and squat, then you put weights on, and as you do that you get stronger. In the beginning, you might squat little weight, but you can squat. Calisthenics is different. Many people hit the gym and can’t do pull-ups, let’s not even talk about Front Levers or Handstand Push-Ups. So you can’t just get stronger by doing the specific movement. You need to break it down into easier elements, master those and then progress to the next level, until you are finally able to do the desired skill.

In this episode, we discuss that exact process. How it works to break down movements and what you need to look out for. Then I give you a template on how I program my calisthenics skill work in my own training, how I get after learning new skills and improving the ones I can do already.

This style of training really does help me to build the strength and skills necessary to progress on my calisthenics journey. I’m super happy to share it with you, may it help you to become a better athlete.

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We all know it, life just happens here and there. And as soon as we get stressed at work, or with our family or any other area of life, we fall back into default mode. Suddenly we stop going to the gym, we go back to eating junk food, or we stop investing time into growing our business or developing our personality.

This is completely normal – as stress increase – our willpower decreases. We are going to have a hard time sticking to actions we set out to do. To solve that problem, we have to make those actions habits. We have to reprogram our brain to default into doing the right actions. As soon as the actions that move the needle, that bring you forward, are engrained as your fundamental habits, you will fall back on them no matter how stressful your life is. Thus, developing good sustainable habits will make you unstoppable.

In this week’s Podcast episode, I share three hacks with you that will help you to establish new habits into your life and reprogram your brain.

1. Focus on one habit at the time; give it the attention it deserves.

2. Gamify the process of making a certain action a habit

3. Have an external accountability system in place.

I will share exact strategies for each of the three hacks and tell you how I do it to develop my own habits. This episode offers crazy value for anyone that wants to reach his health, fitness, personal and/or career goals.

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