Men to Mastery Podcast

Ron Worley, today’s guest, embodies some of the greatest resilience, attitude, and gratitude we’ve come across in a long while. He has been a drug addict and alcoholic since early childhood, was arrested, homeless, and lost the privilege of access to his children, has been institutionalized and suicidal, and a few years ago died in public of heart failure. But he has lived to tell his story, reclaim his role as a father, start several businesses, become a self-made millionaire, and write a book about what he’s learned and the resulting value system for bravery, trust, family, and freedom.

• Life after dying of heart failure
• Childhood drug & alcohol addiction
• Divorced and homeless as an adult
• Reclaiming fatherhood
• Being a bounty hunter
• Business of bail bonds
• Choose, trust and surrender to choices
• Top 3 Worley Way values
• Bond of brotherhood

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David Pereira, a Navy Combat Veteran and Purple Heart Recipient, is the owner of FENIX, a high-end personal training facility located in New Jersey, and the creator of the Beyond Fitness program. David visits the show to share his passion for helping successful people develop a mental toughness mindset that allows them to shift their perspectives and excel in more aspects of their lives. He enjoys helping his clients excel in fitness and in business and knows that high achievers sometimes need help translating what they do in their careers over to their health goals. In short, David helps people become the CEO of their lives.

• Extracting lessons to civilian practice
• Life and luck favor hard work
• Tactical perspective
• Starving distractions
• Control what you control
• Start with a zero balance daily
• Expanding your mental bandwidth
• Follow-through and hacking discipline
• Legacy – setting the example
• Physical meets Psychology

David Pereira, a Navy Combat Veteran and Purple Heart Recipient, is the owner of FENIX, a high-end personal training facility located in New Jersey, and the creator of the Beyond Fitness program. As a well-trained fitness professional, David offers valued experience in the ownership and management of an active successful physical fitness business. He has success in defining, developing, and executing long-term excellence as well as a sound record of running a highly efficient cost effective operating structure. David has demonstrated the capacity to create long-term business solutions that enhance operations and increase revenue and is a respected leader with a proven ability to flawlessly implement innovative strategies and help clients achieve their goals.

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Lane Kawaoka joins the show to share how he built passive cashflow with a specific rental real estate formula. He educates and organizes investors to do the same, leading from the front with his philosophy to live where you want and invest where the numbers work. It’s shocking to consider that a real asset with cashflow and leverage is considered an alternative investment compared to the engineered virtual financial markets dominated by wholesale firms and high-frequency trading. Listen and learn where to look, what metrics to use, and how to start.

• Three key things to look for in investment
• Primary, secondary, tertiary markets
• A, B, and C class real estate
• 1% or better rent to value target
• When to rent v/s buy your home
• Non-recourse loans for multi-family 
• SPC educational info and fund
• 30% bonus depreciation in year 1
• COVID rent collection v/s breakeven level
• Look for problem sellers not problem property

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Nathaniel Carroll recently completed his one-millionth pushup (on March 2, 2021 and with his kids alongside) on his quest to break the world record for the most push-ups in a 12 month period. This 31 year record of 1,500,230 push-ups looks ready to fall by mid June as Nate averages 4,111 push-ups per day in pursuit.

But, the record and notoriety are not what drive this Wisconsin father of three. He remains humbly focused on the mission it serves: to benefit and to honor the first responders who keep our communities safe and especially those and the families of those who have fallen in the line of duty. And at home, Nate stays focused on leading as a father, by example, with action, dedication, and consistency. These commitments live in his mind every waking moment, impacting every moment and every day until the mission is complete.

• Daily routine to average 4,111 pushups
• Mindset and microgoals
• Focus on the mission and gratitude
• Leading by example
• Adapting for adequate rest and recovery

Nathaniel Carroll is no stranger to hard work, setting big goals, and serving a bigger mission. He was in the US Marine Corps Reserve, has been a social worker in the Wisconsin prison system for 20 years, and is an active dad with children ages 10, 11, and 13. In recent years he has completed two Ironman triathlons and numerous marathons and ultramarathons. But Nate doesn’t stop at the finish line.

In 2019 Nate finished the Marine Corps Marathons plus did 3,142 pushups. In 2020, he tacked on 3,000 pushups to the JailBreak Marathon and 5,000 pushups to the Glacial Trail 50k. Also in 2020, adapting to quarantine, Nate ran 50 miles around his house to raise money for local law enforcement to buy COVID PPE. And this year’s quest for the world record of 1,500,230 pushups to benefit fallen first responders through the Tunnel 2 Towers foun

Dennis Stoika is a high-ranking career FBI agent, police officer, Marine veteran, NRA instructor, and expert in reality-based self defense. He is also a certified coach and practitioner in numerous modalities of functional fitness, health and nutrition. Most importantly, the way he trains clients to be the safest, strongest version of themselves is in an integrated, incremental, sustainable, and achievable fashion. Dennis visited at the start of the year to share how to approach 2021, make it the best year yet, and become 1% better every day, in every way.

Patrick Sweeney – the Fear Guru – returns to the show to announce and preview the audiobook version of Fear is Fuel that is dropping on March 1, 2021! He’s created a really special audiobook format that we discuss, narrated by a former pro athlete and featuring cameo appearances from other fear and courage gurus to deliver podcast style lessons with each chapter. And we catch up on adapting and thriving to find happiness on the other side of COVID and quarantine fears.

• Unresolved fears perpetuate lies and shame
• Freeze or act in the face of fear
• What can I change that will serve me?
• Breathing to create space
• How to begin taking agency
• COVID parenting and relationship fears

Patrick Sweeney, the Fear Guru, was a typical, over-compensating over-achiever in Olympic level sports and then in the tech / business world…until he’d pushed so hard he literally faced death in the form of diagnosis with a rare case of leukemia.

With the gift of a second chance at life and as the father of a young daughter at the time, Patrick committed to face his limiting fears. On the other side of those fears he has created his own future of abundance, fulfillment, joy, and happiness.

Today, Patrick is an author, key-note speaker, and adventurer, traveling the world speaking on fear and unlocking peak performance. His mission is helping thousands of people make amazing transformations in their lives.

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Mark Podolsky of The Land Geek is on a mission to free everyone from solo economic dependency – trading hours for dollars – the most extreme form of active income. Mark shares the details of his method to developing a passive income stream through investment in distressed land in a way that minimizes capital at risk and creates monthly cashflow. The goal is working when you want to, not because you have to. As Mark says, true freedom in life is working when you want, where you want, and with whom you want. Ultimately, Mark’s own story and the way he serves others through The Land Geek is all about creating happiness.

Andy and Kacy Panfil of the Fierce Planet Adventures podcast are a married couple who sold their home and possessions to travel the country and world inspiring others to lives of purpose, passion, and self-mastery. They like to say, “With nature as our canvas and adventure our vehicle, we are creating a life of purpose and passion.”

What can we do to change and live this life of being untethered and adventure and growth? – Kacy Panfil

Michael Bulloch Jr made a commitment on Jan 1, 2020 to complete 20 burpees…per day…each and every day of 2020 – all 366 off them. Little did anyone know what a crazy year it would turn out to be. A few burpees each day is simple, but not easy. Sometimes they go quickly. Some days you just don’t feel like it. Either way, you push through and can rely on consistency and discipline as constants even in volatile and uncertain times. Along the way, Michael was supported, joined, and encouraged by kids and adults all over the world. He led and he learned. In this episode we talk wins, lessons, and what’s next in 2021.

“This past year taught me to appreciate everything because life can change so quickly”

– Michael Bulloch Jr