Erik talks about how the wind can affect us by blowing us off the path we are looking to take. When we are intentional and take action quickly then the wind does not affect us as much. 

• Taking action with speed and intention limits the effects of outside forces that may keep us from our goals and dreams.  
• If we slow down, limit our action, and/or do not fully commit then we do get to where we want to go and achieve the results we want when it comes to our health and finances. 
• Erik also talks about what the most expensive thing is, as it is a closed mind.  
• He gives the example of Blockbuster video not being open to Redbox and Netflix which has changed the way we watch movies and TV in our homes. As a result they are no longer in business. 
• Erik also mentions that the best investment we can make is in ourselves as we can improve our business, finances, and health by purchasing a program that will give us the tools or access we did not have which shorten the amount of time it will take to achieve our goals and dreams

• “The most expensive thing we can have is a closed mind.” –Erik Smith

• “The best investment we can make is in ourselves.“ –Erik Smith 

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In this episode of Fitness & Finance, Kris Levy talks to your host Erik Smith about pursuing his passions of fitness, travel, and wine, the importance of working with coaches in your self-improvement process, and the many benefits of traveling and taking yourself out of your comfort zone.  

• Kris Levy grew up in Texas and has been in the military for about nine years now.  
• Traveling more extensively impacted Kris on how to improve himself.  
• Kris had a back injury while in the military that put him out for several months.
• What was the first step that Kris took towards changing his life?  
• The first area of Kris’s life that he wanted to improve was self-awareness and self-assessment.  
• How did Kris put systems in place to become more self-aware?  
• What various countries and environments has Kris traveled to?  
• Kris talks about how traveling has benefited his fitness and nutritional habits.  
• Where is Kris’s favorite place to work on something creative?  
• How did Kris’ body adapt to different types of foods?  
• Kris has coaches for fitness and areas that he wants to get better in.  
• How does Kris train and have fitness workouts when he is traveling abroad?  
• Where does Kris Levy see himself in the next five years?  
• If you're not genuinely happy with what you have now, how will you be happy when you have more?  

1. Turn something you are passionate about into a creative outlet so you can express yourself.  

    

2. We are all leaders or aspiring to be leaders and adaptability is a key element of being a great leader.  

• “I realized for me, that traveling affected all the other aspects of my life. And not so much the traveling, but being put in uncomfortable situations.” –Kris Levy 

• “Your best days, your best years, your best moments, your best experiences are in front of you, not behind you, and that is what you should be going for.” –Kris Levy 

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• Kris Levy on Instagram

Erik shares things he has learned from Jim Rohn and other successful individuals of the journey to become financially free. It is a shift in mindset that could seem simple but can compound for years.

• While exercising his body Erik also shares ways to exercise his mind as he listens to audios on how to improve themselves and change their thinking. 
• Erik also describes techniques to use when we are in stressful situations to improve our performance and shift our minds to look at the circumstances in a more calm and relaxed manner.
• When we try too hard we often do not perform as well. 

1. When we are in stressful situations we need to be in a relaxed state in order to perform better.

2. In order to do this we have to visualize more and/or go to a familiar place because we are not thinking about what we are doing or are worrying about others or what they are thinking. 

• “Most who are financially free pay themselves first before they pay anyone else.” –Erik Smith

• “When your passive income exceeds your expenses you are financially free.” –Erik Smith

• Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz 
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In the final part of a 3-part episode, Sofia Shah (CEO, Dynasty Leadership) talks to your host Erik Smith about how building a strong foundation in whatever you do is what will set you up for long-term success. 

• Sofia experimented with her diet and how it affected her health, becoming vegan after growing up vegetarian, but her body didn’t react well to veganism especially with bodybuilding and running marathons. 
• As a result, she had to start eating meat, and her body reacted incredibly well to it. 
• She has to eat 6 meals a day to support her bodybuilding, but people look at her and often think she barely eats. 
• Sofia views bodybuilding as art, but the art is your body. 
• The long-term mindset, focusing on the bigger picture, is unusual in today’s world of instant gratification. 
• The biggest thing you need is accountability. 
• People often say they want to do something but they “can’t,” and if that’s the story you’re telling yourself, it becomes self-fulfilling. 
• Finding a good coach gives you a perspective on your progress that you could never have for yourself alone. 
• She has decided not to compete yet because she wants to focus on being consistent and properly building a bodybuilding foundation. 
• Despite all of her success, Sofia still felt unfulfilled and like she wasn’t good enough, and in reading about it she learned that often women, no matter how successful, have been taught to be less confident. 
• Sofia had an event for women to impart what she had learned about confidence. 
• Sofia’s business is about financial services and teaching people how money works and how to make more informed choices with the money they have. 
• She’s passionate about this because she knew that for the type of life she wants, she needed a strong financial foundation to allow her to work with trainers and to eat the way she eats. 

1. Having a long-term mindset helped her understand the importance of every small day-to-day decision she makes to build a strong foundation.

2. Self-improvement includes awareness and accountability to your own level of confidence and learning to cultivate a confident mindset. 

• “What could be better than art on a body, like you becoming the art that you want to create?“ –Sofia Shah

• “What I’m looking to do is to be undeniable. So I don’t just want to compete, I want to dominate. I know at this stage it would be lofty to think that I can do that, so I’m just going to work & work & work until I get to the point where I am going to be undeniable." –Sofia Shah

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• Sofia Shah on Instagram 
• The Confidence Code

Erik shares how his experience the second time around with 75 Hard has helped him build strength after the initial soreness the first few weeks. 

• When we hit certain physical and mental challenges along with constant punishment over time we end up developing more strength that allows us to perform better. 
• The description of Erik’s experience in his adult soccer league is detailed and how over the past couple of weeks he has gotten stronger and started to perform better after initially playing less than 100%. 
• Over time in life the struggle gives us strength in everything we do.

1. Callouses on our body become sources of strength whether it is physical, mentally, or emotionally. 

2. Sometimes when we go through certain obstacles or storms we do not know when it will end but when come out on the other side there is a blessing. 

• “My speed was coming back. I didn’t feel so tired or sore.“ –Erik Smith

• “I am only going to get stronger from what I am putting my body through.“ –Erik Smith

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In the second part of a 3-part episode, Sofia Shah (CEO, Dynasty Leadership) talks to your host Erik Smith about managing stress and her health while growing her business. 

• Sofia and her husband decided they wanted to build something for themselves instead of putting all of their energy and effort into the vision of a CEO they would never meet. 
• Your mindset and expectations going into something are going to determine the outcome, especially the understanding that you will struggle and have to do things you are bad at and what you dislike in order to reach success. 
• The idea of health is generic and means different things to different people. 
• While building her business, Sofia was being healthy to the best of her ability, but it was difficult to prioritize or focus on, and she felt the effects of it. 
• Her health was most affected by the stress of starting her business, and she didn’t know how to deal with it. 
• She responded by jumping into a lot of fitness bootcamps, but by overdoing it she only made herself more run down and eventually had to learn to let herself recover. 
• Sofia’s rock bottom was where she was having difficulty functioning due to stress and exhaustion, even developing an ovarian cyst, so she decided to focus on listening to her body beginning with cutting out caffeine.

1. If you don’t accept and expect the negatives of being an entrepreneur, you won’t have the correct mindset for success.

2. Be wary of overcompensating because that can worsen health problems. 

• “That struggle is necessary for life and to have perspective because you can’t feel the good without feeling the bad.” –Sofia Shah

• “I’m going to do things to push the limits of my body and mind, and that’s how I live.” –Sofia Shah

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Erik Smith talks about giving people enough value and sometimes they do not take action because they did not see the value. 

• People often convince themselves that they plan on working for the rest of their lives even though they may not love their work. It is often because they have not set themselves up financially to where they no longer have to work for money. 
• Erik gives an example of working with someone who he was looking to help financially but did not take immediate action because he said he could not afford it and had to figure it out.
• Fortunately he did not close the door and set an appointment to follow up and determine whether he could take action to pay himself instead of just other obligations.
• We have to learn from the situations we are in and always trust our gut when things are not on the right track.

1. Make sure that you really convey your message to where the other person sees no other alternative but to agree with you or take action on what have shown them that is in their best interest. 

2. One thing not mentioned was that do need to see things from the other person’s perspective and speak their language. Seek to understand. 

• “People have their goals/results or their excuses. You can’t have both.“ –Erik Smith

• “Find an excuse to win!“ –Erik Smith

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In the first part of a 3-part episode, Sofia Shah (CEO, Dynasty Leadership) talks to your host Erik Smith about her origins. 

• Moving to the US from Peru when she was 4 years old, not knowing any English, taught her to acclimate quickly to new environments. 
• Health was always a priority in Sofia's household growing up, including a vegetarian diet and playing soccer. 
• Sofia always wanted to identify as an athlete because she loved the competition and admired the discipline and eventually became a runner in high school because it was the least expensive sport to participate in. 
• She got onto a cross country team in college but had to leave the team due to health issues, but after that in order to keep up her fitness, she started running shorter races and found herself winning. 
• Growing up, she had always assumed she would end up working for someone else until she read about Sam Walton founding Walmart and Sam’s Club. 
• Sofia turned down scholarships to graduate school in order to go into business for herself and tried real estate when she graduated college at age 20, but it didn’t stick because of the market crash. 
• When the real estate market crashed, she found a stable job at Verizon Wireless, and to distract herself from how much she hated it, she started working out more regularly. 
• With her coworker (who later became her husband), they grew their Verizon store to number one in the franchise. 
• When Sofia found the financial services business she is now in, she knew immediately that’s what she wanted. 

1. Nobody starts off great at what they do. 

2. Be open to ending up where you never expected. 

• “The store that we worked at, the Verizon in Irvine, when we both started to really care and work, we brought that store to the top, number one store.“ –Sofia Shah

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Erik Smith talks about how people need security in their jobs and gets to an understanding of what security really means. 

• This episode is for those who are thinking about taking the leap into business but feel they have their secure job that will take care of them.
• Sometimes we believe that we will always be employed but lay offs happen all the time.
• It is time for people to realize that when our livelihood is in someone else’s hands there is no such thing as security. 
• We are programmed into thinking we have that security with our job but we never know what can happen. 

1. You can give everything to a company, sacrifice time with your family and then one day find out that your services are no longer needed. Then what? 

2. In order to have true security in our jobs and/or businesses we have to bring tremendous value. 

3. It’s time to really understand what true security means.

• “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” –Erik Smith

• “If you leave it in the hands of another individual is that really secure?” –Erik Smith

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Jennie Lynn talks to your host Erik Smith about exercising your conscious mind, mentorship, and coaching. 

• We operate consciously and unconsciously at the same time, and the unconscious mind has the ability to override the conscious mind with a stress response. 
• This is called the “terror barrier.” 
• Jennie was given a speaking opportunity, and she was scared to do public speaking but decided to overcome the terror barrier live. 
• Jennie trained herself to be highly disciplined and carefully cultivated habits so that, for example, she makes a decision to go to the gym and doesn’t take any time to think about it, she just does it. 
• Jennie recommends an hour a day to exercise your body and an hour a day to exercise your mind. 
• Jennie struggled with an autoimmune condition, hormone imbalances, and body image issues but overcame them partially through the concepts of the law of attraction and the secret. 
• Most of what we do is habitual and unconscious, and we have to train yourself to have conscious discipline. 
• There’s a fine line between pushing yourself and working hard to meet your goals, and going too far and burning out. 
• After a friend of hers committed suicide, she felt she hit rock bottom and had to reach out to a mentor to help her see the big picture to move past it. 
• The same thing applies to finances, because we were not taught to study or cultivate wealth. 
• Imagination is the most powerful mental faculty we have. 
• People often use their imagination negatively, to imagine worst-case scenarios, but instead you can exercise the muscle to visualize our goals. 

1. The biggest factor in her success has been finding a mentor. 

2. Self-love and self-care are crucial to achieving your potential. 

3. You can think your way into the results you want. 

• “I felt so powerful after that. I said, damn it, if I can get over most people’s number one fear, my number one fear, what is there to be afraid of?“ –Jennie Lynn 

• “If you don’t make time for health, you’re going to have to make time for disease.‘” –Jennie Lynn 

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• Visit www.magneticlove.com 
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• Bob Proctor: https://www.proctorgallagherinstitute.com