Grit Meets Growth

Your spouse… There is power in having someone you can trust and respect by your side… Someone who will battle alongside you and who you will go to battle for… Someone you can be open, honest and exposed with… Someone who will step into the arena alongside you… Someone who sits in the seat beside you on the journey and steps into the adventure with a “Hell yeah, where are we going together?”

In this episode, we’re exploring:
• Showing up as your true self, vulnerable, with all your scars and fears
• Balancing your independence and thriving together as a team
• Earning respect begins with battling together
• Trust as the key to a great relationship
Learning how your partner makes you better and you do the same for them
• Challenging culture’s pattern of raising passive men
• Making your partner a priority where they feel seen, heard, and valued

TRUTH: The toughest things lead to the best things

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Whoever said curiosity killed the cat was wrong. The cat died because it wasn’t curious, and when food got scarce, it starved to death. Curiosity is the food that fuels us, the spark that we launch great ideas from, and the source of imagination and vision in our lives. The more we feed our curiosity, the more we grow and more often our visions and goals become reality.

Want to achieve something new? Your journey begins with curiosity.

In this episode, we’re exploring:
• Getting curious about what it is you really want in life
• Tapping back into the curiosity you lived on as a kid
• Relearning how to flex your curiosity muscle
• Making room to explore and use your imagination
• Using curiosity to create the man or woman you want to become
• Curiosity’s ability to accelerate achieving your goals
• Reigniting curiosity in our relationships

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Get after it!

We’ve all had those mountaintop experiences: the perfect vacation, winning at work, achieving the goal. It feels amazing! At the same time, and often when we’re coming down from the mountaintop, we get hit with the negatives and end up in the valley. Between the two, when we’re not feeling too high or too low, many days are right in the middle. Through all three of these experiences, when we weave in some gratitude, we can find our contentment and happiness… even when things get hard.

In this episode, we’re exploring:
• Doing things today instead of waiting until tomorrow
• Coming back from life’s mountaintop experiences
• Why you can’t stay on top of the mountain
• Walking through the valleys
• Learning to enjoy the in-between moments
• Finding gratitude in all three
• The power of having a chip and a chair… You’re still in the game

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Get after it!

There is massive power in saying, “Hey, I need some help.” Too often, though, we let mental health stigmas hold us back. The result? We bury our emotions and challenges in the ground, creating deadly landmines that other people step on. Nothing goes unexploded… Once we bury it, it doesn’t go away. It waits for us. With that in mind, today we’re talking openly about mental health and working to break down those walls.

In this episode, we’re digging into how our mental health relates to:
• Breaking down the stigma around mental health
• Resisting the urge to bury our emotions in the corner
• Finding our anchors, our hope, and exploring our faith
• Becoming a 2 AM person for someone else
• The crossroads between strength and vulnerability

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Get after it!

We were in the beginnings of a mental health crisis three years ago… then the pandemic hit, and it amplified an already loud challenge. Today, more and more of us are on auto-pilot, feeling disconnected, lonely, and sometimes hopeless. If this is you, you’re not alone. In today’s episode, we’re speaking to this directly and bringing some simple tips for taking care of yourself no matter where you’re at.

Today, we’re digging into how our mental health relates to:
• Living life in uncertain times
• Our physical health
• Resisting comparison
• Controlling our news and social media intake
• Feeling burnout
• Experiencing relationship stress
• Our work, our jobs, and our security

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Get after it!

We’re curious as kids, and then we lose our imaginations. We get hurt as adults and have difficulty forgiving… even forgiving ourselves. We encounter discomfort and we run from it rather than leaning into it. Curiosity, forgiveness, and discomfort... All three play a powerful role in our growth and getting us where we want to go in life, and that’s why we’re spending this episode on these three things.

Today, we’re digging into:
• Reigniting the imaginations we had when we were kids
• Learning to value time and space for curiosity
• Forgiving other people and forgiving ourselves
• Running toward the discomfort and leaning in
• Giving 100% of the 60% you have available today
• Stretching ourselves to find out what we’re truly capable of

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Get after it!

If you say you value something, where’s the evidence? If you value fun, where’s the proof in your life? If you value your health, where’s the evidence? If you value your goals, where do your actions prove it?

In this episode, we’re digging into:
• Including fun in your life
• How self reflection leads to achieving your goals
• Defining what you want… and what you don’t
• Making people feel seen, heard, and significant
• Backing up your values with evidence
• Doubling down on your failure’s lessons

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Get after it!

“I’ll start when I’m ready, and I know every step I need to take.” Unfortunately, this kind of thinking leads to one thing… Inaction. We can easily become paralyzed when we get so laser-focused on eliminating every risk and understanding every step. Layer onto that our fear of failure and what other people think, and instead of stepping into the arena, we stay on the sidelines.

No more.

In this episode, we’re digging into:
• Starting anything in life without overanalyzing
• The sometimes paralyzing overabundance of information
• Confronting the fear of not knowing what to do
• How to keep fear from preventing taking action
• Being willing to learn and ask questions
• Knowing when to ask for help
• Taking blind trust in your own abilities
• Holding fast to your morning and evening rituals
• Impacting the world one person at a time

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Get after it!

We sometimes slip into a funk or catch ourselves living life on cruise control. When that happens, it’s time to embrace our time in the dirt, interrupt some patterns, lean back into discipline, and make a break from the herd.

Some key takeaways from this conversation:
• Finding yourself in a funk and getting out
• Leaning back into discipline when you don’t feel like it
• Knowing when to switch directions
• Identifying when struggle is a good thing
• Spending time down in the dirt before you grow
• The power of becoming self-aware
• Thinking for yourself and breaking from the herd
• Getting clear on your definition of success

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Get after it!

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The most successful people in history had to make course corrections. They had to confront their fears. They had to fight the naysayers. And, because they stayed focused on their goals, we still talk about them today.

Some key takeaways from this conversation:
• Everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the face
• There is power in exploring places we’ve never been before
• The unknown plan leads to the greatest encounters
• Be willing to adjust your plan and try new things
• Everything you achieve starts with one step
• Having a vision board isn’t enough – you have to do the work
• Think about your thoughts and develop your self awareness
• Control where you put your energy in life – you only have so much

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Get after it!

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