The Next Level Guy Show

Today's guest is Dr. Carlos Berio, the first BJJ Physio and licensed Physical Therapist.

Dr. Carlos J Berio, PT, DPT, MS, CSCS, CMTPT, HKC is the Executive Director, Head Sports Pain Expert, and Founder of SPARK Physiotherapy in Alexandria, VA. He is a licensed Doctor of Physical Therapy, a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, and a Trigger Point Dry Needling Expert. He also holds a Master's Degree in Clinical Exercise Physiology. His combination of hard skills and an ever present focus on the client experience is what makes Dr. Berio and SPARK Physiotherapy an industry leader in all things 'performance physical therapy'.

He is most recognized for his work with BJJ/MMA players as well as collegiate and professional rotary power athletes. His personal experiences as a collegiate baseball player and as a competitive Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioner, make him a sought after resource on the field and in the training room.

Carlos remains active in several sports and is an avid BJJ enthusiast, motorcycle rider and adventure race runner.

"Treating sports pain is my skill. Returning people to play is my passion"

In this interview, we discuss:

• How to find the right rehab care for yourself as a grappler.
• How you can add mobility to your standard training and find success in only 20 minutes a day.
• How you can bullet-proof your body for BJJ with custom designed programs and exercises to keep you on the mats so you can Move better | Feel Great | Roll Forever
• And so much more.

But first a quick highlight, right now, Dr Berio has space in his Virtual Visit beta test phase. You can sign up via their IG Bio. Soon the visits will cost $80. That will include the 6-week DIY rehab program and the Do's and Don'ts healing optimization sheet. Total value of these is over $200 so you had better move fast to get in now!

Here are some key points that I would advise you to concentrate on

• BJJ is a fantastic hobby but it is very challenging sport, which is very rough on the body. You need to look after your body to roll for a long time, and Dr Berio is the man to show you how!
• Unfortunately, a lot of the rehab and care given by doctors and therapists follow standard protocols without having a true understanding of the demands and challenges that a BJJ athlete (of any level) goes through. Sometimes you will need to darce or triangle one for them to understand the pressure and pain from it so they truly know!
• Having a 'bad back' or a 'jippy knee' is not a badge of honor or needs to be something that keeps you from doing sports or even general movement. There are solutions available, you just need to find the right people to help you depending on the demands you have. You only get one body, you need to look after it, by getting it treated right!
• Problem areas are areas that you have limited range of movement, leak energy, have pain using etc.
• You should interview the physios and therapists you use, you should not settle, you deserve the best, and someone that can treat the issues that you have and understand the terms you are using, and the demands that they bring along.
• Common problem areas are the neck, wrist, elbow, hip, shoulder and knees but the type of issues change depending on the experience of the grappler.
• As fun as training is, you need to implement BJJ rehab to stay pain free and able to train all the time. You need to prioritize self-care to ensure you can train as you age.
• Choose wisely on the people that you roll, as some people are not experienced enough to roll or train safely with.
• You need to find your baseline of movement etc before you implement rehab etc - you need to know what and WHY you are fixing something, before you even look at how to review it to ensure the plan to fix is worthwhile and effective.
• Your body changes as you age but it doesn't need to get worse, you just need to change your approach and methods to better care and recover.
• You don't need to add more days in the gym, you can add in mobility, conditioning, and rehab work in after your training session, seeing massive benefits without having to change your schedule. It can take as little as 20 mins extra!
• You should use methods you enjoy and not what others think you should as it is what the masses normally say. If you don't like running, try swimming or cycling etc. Find methods that work and are enjoyable to you.
• A cool down is just as important as a warm up.
• Getting good, deep sleep, eat right and drink enough water, will give you the best bang for your buck. Fixing some bad lifestyle habits could bring a big impact on your performance on the mats.
• The majority of people are not actually tight (as in tight muscles with limited range of movement), they are just immobile.
• You don't need a serious amount of weight to work on and fix your mobility etc. A small amount will work wonders at the start. Leave your ego at the door, and use your brain instead to give your body what it needs to improve.
• There is good and bad pain. You should use common sense and self-analysis to work out which is which.
• Quality training over quantity of training will always be the most important thing. The ones who boast about how much they do, rarely progress or last well and tend to have no responsibilities.

Today’s guest is Fred Joyal.

Fred Joyal is an author, speaker, entrepreneur, and business advisor. He co-founded the most successful dentist referral service in the country, 1-800-DENTIST. He has previously written two books on marketing, has dabbled in standup and improv comedy, acted in bad movies and excellent TV commercials. His latest book, Superbold: from Under-confident to Charismatic in 90 days, is an Amazon and Wall Street Journal bestseller and in my opinion, a game changer on confidence and finding your inner boldness. He once beat Sir Richard Branson in chess and was also a question on Jeopardy. He is an avid cyclist, a below-average tennis player and an even worse golfer. He lives in Los Angeles.

In this interview, we discuss:

• How being bold can be learned and is not inherited.
• Why interactions with no agenda will change your life.
• Why you should chase failure and experience and not perfection.
• Fred's awesome mantra to use when you feel nervous and want to tap into your own boldness.
• And so much more.

Here are some key points that I would advise you to concentrate on

• Becoming bold is a process that you can do, it is skill that you can develop and not a part of your character that you can't change.
• People mistake boldness with confidence.
• Being bold will allow you to take on the world, and do things and achieve things that stop the masses from achieving.
• Courage isn't the absence of fear, it is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.
• Regret is a lot worse to have in your life than trying and not succeeding. Failure means you tried but didn't succeed, regret means a lifetime of hating your inaction, you don't want regrets, you want memories and experiences.
• Boldness is a superpower, and everything flows from it, imagine what you could do if you didn't let fear hold you back in life.
• "There is a deep primal need to fit in" - this is from the cavemen days, that is "deep in our programming" but is not really relevant to our modern world now.
• You need to learn to have a tolerance to fear, and step outside the comfort zone.
• Our parents are partly to blame, as they tend to pass on messages like 'don't stand out' or 'try and fit in' - this is bad advice, it is meant well but we need to step outside the parental influences and find out our own abilities, not what others want from us.
• Being social is a skill that you can learn, it is not something that you are born with, it just needs to be worked on.
• Looking back at your regrets can be a great thing to do as long as you do not dwell on them, but instead use it as a fuel to motivate and inspire you to go after what you want and let the upset of missing the opportunities drives you to never miss anymore.
• Start really gradually on your journey to becoming more bold, start gradual and build from there.
• You should use intrigue in conversation - build interest and wonder. Avoid interview questions, and be more interested in the other person.
• Silence is acceptable, you don't need to fill all the dead air.
• Be confident, not cocky or worse creepy. Confidence is attractive, cocky is off putting and will kill any connection.
• Your change into boldness is not something that will stay, you need to keep working at it, and trying it. You will always want to take the easy way out until you can make it a habit, but you need to push yourself each day to be bold to change your life.
• Approach conversations without having any anterior motivate or agenda, just look to enjoy the interaction and not chase an outcome.
• Connect immediately with someone by complementing them. People love to talk about themselves and be complemented, but be honest, not fake.
• Speaking up can change your life, but you need to try it for the first time.
• Trying things just for the fun and experience is attractive to others. Chase the experience not perfection.
• Don't be the person that holds yourself back, step out your own way and let you step into the new version of yourself.
• If you feel under confident in any situation, use Frank's mantra of 'I belong here, I belong everywhere' and do it!
• Treat practicing boldness like push ups, each time you are bold it strengthens the skill and your ability to be bolder in life. Rep it out every day!
• Pushing your comfort zone will expand it so it is further away the next time you try and push your limits. You will never be the same person after being bold.
• You will not be perfect all the time. You will make mistakes. Expect to make mistakes. But mistakes are a sign of you trying and learning. Learn from the mistakes. Make mistakes not regrets.
• How you react to bad things is up to you, you can learn from it, make a funny comment, and not get stuck in your head. You can either make a regret that you will hate yourself about or make it as a funny experience and roll from it.
• Someone's reaction is rarely about what you did but more about what is happening in their life - stop taking it so personally. It is a choice and up to you if you take it personally or not.
• Not everyone needs to love you - its a tall order to expect everyone to love you, but the people who do, the friends who do are worth the hunt to find. Same with dating. Find your tribe.
• When speaking to people at parties, don't react with your own story when speaking to someone, listen, ask questions and find them interesting. Actively listen to learn, not to just reply. Connect with them, connect with others, only have the agenda to connect with people not just to talk about yourself.
• Our brains create new pathways every day and year, we can change and shape our brain to discover ourselves, we just need to step out of the familiar pathways to the same kind of behaviors that we want to fall back to when we feel nervous.
• When you write your goals, write about what you will AND what you won't accept from yourself. Be worthy, decide what you want in life, and decide what you will not accept in your life anymore and live these.
• Charisma is just feeling confident in all situations.
• Don't let a day go by without doing a drive-by compliment to someone!

Today’s guest is Sarah Jeffries.

Sarah is a registered nurse, has a Masters of Science in nursing, expertise in ER nursing, education and sleep therapy. She is married to Olympic bronze medalist ex-boxer Tony Jeffries and Mum to 3 young girls, Jayde, Jessie and Jodie in Los Angeles CA. She is born and bred in Sunderland UK and the founder of 'The Greatest sleep.com and YouTube channel'. She is now changing the way medical health, mental health, sleep and so much more is available to learn and use.

In this interview, we discuss:

• Men's health red flags you shouldn't ignore.
• How to source valid, reputable health information.
• How to sleep better.
• Mental health warning signs to look for.
• And so much more!

Here are some key points that I would advise you to concentrate on

• • We need to rise about the embarrassment of having something wrong with us and just ask for help - the nurse and doctors have seen it all and just want to help you get better, its a small dose of courage to book an appointment, but it could potentially help stop something serious. IF you have something wrong, get it seen to!
  • Stop relying on others and social media for your health information - if the site has a .com or .co.uk address it is unlikely to be an unbiased source. Use the sources Sarah suggest to find reputable information to help you make up your mind.
  • Show empathy and be kind to others who disagree with you, most will not be open to a discussion as our beliefs can be rooted in too strong an emotion to listen, but be kind to all as we are all going through a tough time and we will never know the challenges others are going through.
  • As soon as you see something wrong, get it checked. Most men are waiting to the point it is seriously wrong and then go to a doctor and be then it might have caused a lot of damage to you, sometimes irreversible.
  • You need to setup regular checks on your blood pressure, cholesterol, prostate etc.
  • Speak to others, ask for help, be open, and be vulnerable. Ask for assistance as you need. Your courage and forward thinking might help others pay attention to their own health.
  • Ask more questions when you visit the doctor or nurse, ask for information - there is no silly questions, but if it is on your mind, ask it!
  • Remove the stigma on mental health, if you are struggling, open up to your doctor or nurse and they can help. If you had a broken leg you'd ask for help and take treatment, so why would a mental health issue be different than a physical health issue? It's not, treat the brain like an organ! Everyone has a different brain chemistry, you are not weaker if you are being affected by something and someone else isn't.
  • There are a lot more support methods available for mental health, please do not sit and suffer in silence. There is treatment and habit changes that can help you, please do not suffer.
  • How well you sleep is a big indicator of your overall health.
  • Screen use, and exposure to blue light before bed can be devastating to sleep quality - stop using screens as much as possible two hours before bed.
  • Medical training and education is improving all the time, just because something couldn't be helped or fixed before, doesn't mean there might not be a way to fix it now.

Today's guest is Terrance "T.Wrecks" McKinney, on taking your second chance, fighting your demons and chasing your dreams!

Terrance "T.Wrecks" McKinney is a professional fighter from Spokane, Washington. He trains at Warrior Camp gym located within Spokane. A standout high school wrestler, McKinney would go on to wrestle at Chadron State College in Nebraska, and North Idaho College. McKinney would have a scary encounter with death, his heart-stopping two times after injuring himself while on a bad mix of drugs and alcohol. This happened in 2015, when McKinney was just 20 years old. He changed his life around after this, and became a professional fighter. McKinney would find himself in a matchup with Sean "Sniper" Woodson on Dana White's contender series, where he would lose to a flying knee TKO in the second round.

Terrance said on the event that 5 years ago I overdosed and died (twice), 2 years ago I made it to UFC Contender Series and lost, but 3 weeks ago I made my debut and set a record. Don't let mistakes and losses define you. Every day is a new chance to be better than you were.

He now has the Fastest Knockout in Lightweight UFC History and is building towards becoming a legend in the sport.

• In this interview we discuss.
• How he changed his life from infamy to fame.
• Not letting your past define you and using your present to make a better future.
• How you can change your life and chase your dreams. And so much more

Here are some key points that I would advise you to concentrate on

• Your past doesn't need to be your future. You can change your life at any moment, you just need to want it.
• You may need to go through hardships and trials in your life, to find out who you are as a person.
• Defining what a man is and what masculinity means to you will be different for you compared to any other man, but you can find good male role models in your life to help you find your own path.
• It takes true strength to say you are stepping away from a bad habit, friendship or relationship and becoming a better version of yourself.
• Teach your kids things you didn't know and give them the knowledge, it is better than just giving them what you didn't have. Knowledge will always be worth more than things.
• Good friends will help you become a better person in your life, they will not use you for entertainment or fun.
• You are better than an event in your life. Do not let mistakes define you and ruin your life. Own the mistake, apologize and the best apology is changed behavior.
• You can change right now, you don't need to wait till Monday, the new year, or whatever, you just need to want to make that change.
• You can't just stop bad behaviors, you may need to speak to a specialist to get help, spiritual help or go cold turkey or slowly phase it out. Ideally, you would change a bad behavior like drinking with a better hobby, like martial arts, working out etc, to replace the problem and build a better you from it.
• To truly change, do not think on how you will change, focus on why you want to change, focus on the why and the how will take care of itself.
• A team should be a family. A good gym will try and make you a better person on and off the mats.
• Taking up a combat sport may provide that masculine energy expenditure that is missing in your life.
• Learning and developing your skills is a lifelong journey - don't look at it as a session or lifting practice, look at the journey, not the destination, avoid small wins and then you get hurt, its ok to rest, take a session off, lower the intensity etc as you need to go. Listen to your body and initiate a recovery protocol.
• Be the professional fighter with your training, nutrition and recovery methods, act as you are an athlete and not just a hobbyist, act like an athlete and you'll train like one.
• The journey to change and improving yourself isn't easy, if it was everyone would be doing it, but the journey will be well worth the effort!
• You are the average of the five people you constantly hang around with. Pick a strong base of friends, teammates, relationships etc. Be there for others and look to make each other better.
• Do not rest on your laurels, Terrance may have the fastest knockout ever but Terrance is still training hard for the next fight. He is not being prideful and using that as an excuse, he puts his pride aside and works on bettering himself daily.
• Terrance knew he needed someone to speak to, to ask for help. It is a sign of strength to admit you need help, that you don't know what to do, and be open, honest, and vulnerable.
• Build a gameplan and practice things until you can do them with your eyes closed. Train at a high level of technique and skills as you can, so when you struggle, you will fall back to the highest level of your training and not your sense of fear etc.
• A loss is not a bad thing. A loss doesn't define you. You only truly lose when you give up. Use losses as a way to see where you need to work on, where you can improve etc.
• It is easier to stay close to fighting shape than it is to try and transform back to fighting shape. Get your water, diet and recovery dialled in and small treats etc won't completely ruin your weight cuts etc.
• "Practise is the place to make mistakes, so you don't make them in your fights'"
• Trust the process. Don't look for shortcuts. Trust in your team and dive in with both feet and chase your dreams.

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Today's guest is Andy Torbet.

Andy is a professional cave diver, freediver, skydiver, and climber. This has led him into a world of exploration, TV Presenting, and as Stunt Performer.

In this interview, we discuss:

• Overcoming fear.
• The need for and how to train for challenges in your life.
• How to build resilience in your own life.
• And so much more.

Here are some key points that I would advise you to concentrate on

• Let your skills and actions define who you are and not your job title.
• There are adventures all around us, you don't need to go far to find challenges. Use sites like Meetup.com to find groups who go snorkeling, climbing, diving etc.
• You need to find challenges in your life, and work through them, to build resilience in your life, and realize how the hard times shape you, educate you, and evolve you to be a better person.
• Risks should be managed and controlled. You need to identify risks and threats and look at how these can be planned for, prepped for, and controlled as much as possible.
• You can never 100% reduce all risks and threats but you can mitigate the risks down where possible using planning, equipment, and checks.
• Andy assumes that his equipment will fail, which is never has, but always considers it will so incorporate backup options just in case, and can feel more confident that if something bad does happen he has options to use to keep safe.
• Once you understand the problem or risk, and what you can do about it to reduce the risks, and understand how dangerous something actually is and not what it appears to be, you can manage the fear as you have an understanding of the situation and task and not what your caveman fear is trying to tell you it is - "Knowledge dispels fear!"
• You feel fear to try and keep you safe, but your sense of fear doesn't know the true scenario, the checks, and balances that have been put in place to help, fear wants to keep you away from all bad situations but "fear is always on your side, but not always right".
• At the height of fear, you need to stop and relax, keep calm and think and observe the situation and look for a solution and not let your caveman fear run away with you and panic.
• Don't worry about what else is to come, look at dealing with the problem in front, reign yourself in, look at the solution, fixes etc, and manage the goal in front of you and what is to come.
• Andy sometimes wishes he could stop and look back at all he has done and take stock and feel greatful for it. Use your successes when you can overcome fear etc, and look back at the situation, journal about it, think about it, and look at how much you have changed and grown from the situation. Appreciate how much it has expanded your comfort zone and now the next time you are doing something fearful or dangerous, you have a new expanded comfort zone limit and your previous experiences to lean on to not panic and reign yourself in and act more effectively.
• Sometimes looking at what you have to do to survive is enough, use your priorities and responsibilities to overrule your sense of fear that is trying to help but might actually be holding you back.
• The more you experience hardships, the more resilient you will become as a person. Exposing kids to controlled risks will help them develop the skill of resilience as they grow and help them in their future life.
• There are no shortcuts, all paths to experience will teach you and help you learn, even if you are going down the wrong path.
• You should train one level up - so if something bad happens, you can fall back to your level of training and competency and not the situation. This means if you are planning to dive only to 30 meters, for example, you should train to go to 50 meters, so you always rise to the level of your training and not the level of your fear.
• Sometimes having too much confidence and experience can be the most dangerous place to be in. "Never underestimate your own ability to be a fucking idiot!". Use pre-checks, checks from others, double-check tanks, buckles etc, reduce chances for anything to go wrong where possible.
• Focusing on or helping others, can be the focus you need to reduce how you are personally feeling and allow you to focus elsewhere and overcome the sense of fear.
• Build a general level of fitness so that you can rely on your body when you need a help, boost, to escape etc.
• What works for one person in terms of diet and exercise, will not necessarily work for another. Trial different methods of exercise, diet and lifestyle and find out what works best for you.
• Most people will panic and be stressed during troubling and scary times - expect it and rise above it, be the leader you need in the situation and not part of the problem!

Today's guests are Jonathan Decker and Alan Seawright from Cinema Therapy.

Cinema Therapy is a hit YouTube channel in which a licensed therapist and a professional filmmaker explore what hit movies can teach us about life, love, and mental health.

Jonathan Decker is a licensed marriage and family therapist and clinical director of Mended Light, a trauma-focused counseling clinic.

Alan Seawright is a director, writer, editor, producer, and CEO of Telekinesis Entertainment.

In this interview, we discuss:

• The use of films to inspire, educate and motivate change.
• Great character examples.
• The bond between the guys.
• Cinema Therapy
• And so much more!

Here are some key points that I would advise you to concentrate on

• You can take wisdom, learning and emotional understanding from films, the writing, the use of color, the characters.
• You can manipulate film character behavior and take the positive traits to use in your own life.
• The use of stories to show abstract concepts can be a truly powerful tool to educate, inspire and motivate the audience.
• The use of humor can be a great tool to help people be encouraged to learn and understand.
• Healthy relationships and maintaining them take continual work and growth between each member.
• Each movie will speak to different people on a different level. You need to be receptive to the messages the movie is giving.
• People need to understand better and be open to change.
• Watch the film with your brain turned on. What is the message it is giving? What are you relating to? What is annoying you? What inspires? Don't look at the films as a chance to switch your brain off for two hours, but as a chance to learn, evolve and grow as a person through the story and its arc.
• Empathy is a great tool, to emphasise with the characters, but you should choose if they are worth emulating depending on the quality of the character.
• The thing that you react to in the film might be something that you need to consider in your own life.
• True heroism isn't just being big and strong. It is about being truthful, responsible and virtuous during hard times.
• Strength has many forms, and films are showing a greater range in the types in modern-day films.
• The transformation arc in a film isn't always very realistic due to time constraints but life takes more twists and turns, but the journey is always worth it.
• What you think about a film will change from person to person. You will go on your own personal journey and that is one of the greatest things about films, it gives you your own journey to go on.
• Therapy is a great tool to use but it doesn't always work the first time. You may need to find an alternative, they should guide you along with your own transformation and encourage you, but not try and change you themselves.

Today's guest is Shaahin Cheyene!

Shaahin Cheyene is the number #1 ranked Amazon Accelerator. He helps you sell on Amazon and make a lot of money!

During the Iranian Revolution of 1978, Shaahin's family had to escape to survive and ended up finally migrating to Los Angeles, Ca . At 15 years old Shaahin left home with nothing but the clothes on his back and created over a BILLION dollars in revenue by inventing the legendary smart drug known as HERBAL ECSTACY. He made over $350 Million In Sales. Herbal Ecstacy, Vapir and many more!

These childhood experiences had a major impact on his perspective of freedom, hard work and entrepreneurship. Later Shaahin went on to invent Digital Vaporization (the forerunner to today's vapes) and start a number of successful businesses with a couple notable failures. Today, he is the Founder and CEO of Accelerated Intelligence, Inc. a major Amazon FBA seller with millions in sales, the lead coach at Amazon Mastery where he teaches entrepreneurs how to CRUSH IT! on the Amazon platform and an active YouTube creator.

Shaahin is considered one of the leading global minds on what's next in e-commerce, Amazon and the internet. He is described as the "Willy Wonka Of Generation X" by the London Observer and Newsweek and is one of the most forward thinkers in business – with his Amazon Mastery Course he acutely recognizes trends and patterns early on the Amazon platform to help others understand how these shifts impact markets and consumer behavior.

In this interview, we discuss:

• A method to start selling on Amazon or anywhere else.
• The key that influence plays in selling.
• How you can build recurring revenue streams right now.
• And so much more.

Here are some key points that I would advise you to concentrate on

• Your starting point doesn't need to be your end point. Shaanin's family immigrated over and he sourced methods to learn and grow and not dwell on where he was, he looked at what he could become.
• Don't look at threats and challenges as a bad thing, see them as a chance to reframe as opportunities. Something missing, can you fill it? Something not working, is there a solution? Something working, can it be improved? Just because something is working or has always been that way, doesn't mean it needs to be that way consistently! Look at all events as a chance to grow, develop and evolve.
• Use pain and your worst situation as a motivation tool rather as a way to hold yourself in your current situation.
• Create systems in your life and business to sell, to grow, to build, to action procedures.
• Avoid letting your current successes hold you back by growing further. You can always start again, you can always make it again, you just need to have that belief and the grit that you can take a beating and come back up.
• Learn from your mistakes. Learn from hardships and challenges in your life. You never fail until you stop and give up.
• You need to analyse your life and look at what you do well AND what you struggle with, and your weaknesses. Don't settle. Don't wait and rest, your enemies are plotting your demise while you sleep. Be willing to work, and not rest on your laurels.
• You need to diversify your income streams, and be like Shaanin have pillars of finance. Don't leave all your financial eggs in one basket. Your ability to do things, freedom of movement etc depend on your financial status. Build options, systems and procedures to help make money automatically, invest and grow while you work.
• Your ability to influence others is the key to success. Telling a good story, building emotions in others, appealing to their needs are keys to successful sales.
• Selling is selling, regardless of the type of products etc. Everything around you has been sold by one person or another. You can sell too, you can be a person of influence, you just need to decide if you will be a seller or not.
• Every sale is made before the customer knows about you or comes on your site. They want to make the purchase and looking for the site that fits their opinion of the product, of who they are etc.
• Find a market, and niche down your product range to begin. See what the market needs, and then sell the product there and find an innovation that makes you different to others and begin, and influence sales. Stop waiting to be perfect and just begin!
• Shaahin sees people focusing on the little parts of the business too much, and suffer from paralysis analysis. Those who don't begin will never succeed. You have to start somewhere.
• You are not your customer. You can't bet on your hunches, you need to discover what your customers truly want and build systems to supply the need, which will allow you to create recurring revenue streams.
• Bring value into the world. Don't just try and be the middle man.
• You don't need to do it all alone or know it all. You can source people to do the build, the coding, the design etc, there are a variety of ways. You can find people to help, masterminds to help you grow and assist. Find people who have done similar things and mirror them to begin with until you find your own style.
• You can sell and be married. You can sell and have kids. But you will need to take a risk and Shaahin suggests having $10k to use as a fund to launch a very healthy business. Don't risk your main money, wait until you have the savings of $10k that if lost wouldn't affect your life, or ability to pay bills etc.
• Remember behind every sale, there is a person, behind every service there is a person. You need to know that the person wants what you are selling, or you move on.

Today's guest is Josh Settlage, CSCS!

Josh (or Coach J) has spent over a decade studying grappling sports and human performance, working with and learning from the best minds in physical therapy, biomechanics, strength, and conditioning. He studied kinesiology with a concentration in exercises science at William Jessup University and is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist within the National Strength & Conditioning Association. Coach J has studied under and worked alongside world record holders in powerlifting, professional bodybuilders, NCAA wrestling All-Americans & national champions, and IBJJF Worlds & Pan-Am champions.

Coach J has worked with high school & college wrestlers across the country, and many more Jiu-Jitsu athletes across the world. His unique blend of knowledge in strength & conditioning and experience on the mat, provide him with the tools necessary to help all of his athletes, win more matches & get injured less.

In this interview, we discuss:

• How to setup a training programme to build strength for BJJ.
• Recovery protocols you need to implement in your training.
• Why you need to enter the Strength Matrix!
• Mindset hacks to win more matches and get injured less
• And so much more!

Here are some key points that I would advise you to concentrate on

• You need to switch your mindset from hobbyist to athlete, and build the BJJ body. Technique is great to have but the stronger, fitter athlete with more endurance will win the match when two competitors are at the same technique level.
• Strength training will help all BJJ athletes. However a standard power lifting programme may not be your best bet.
• You need to build a foundation of strength and dedicate time to strengthening the parts of the body that deal with
• the most damage, such as the neck, the knees etc.
• An increase in your overall strength, will allow for easier takedowns, better base control, stronger grip strength and so much more.
• Strength training should be an accompaniment to your training, not a replacement.
• You need to work on your mobility, rotational movement, flexibility etc along with your strength and skills.
• Josh likes to ensure his athletes can complete the general human movement patterns effectively before he starts to add weight to the movement.
• Josh recommends you lift as much as you can, as often as you can, without it affecting your overall BJJ training.
• You don't need to live in the gym to make suitable gains for your BJJ game.
• Bodyweight exercises can be useful when you can't get to the gym. You can be creative with equipment when you can't access a normal gym, a fancy gym in't essential but better tools in a gym help you develop faster.
• Your training should be different if you are building towards a competition compared to when you are training generally.
• Your training should be based on your individual goals, not someone else's or worse, because it came free in a magazine!
• Mix up your rep schemes to focus on different kinds of strength and movement. Mix up your training methods as well. Avoid becoming too dependent on one method, and build a multi-layered version of strength and athleticism.
• You should aim to promote blood flow to injured areas like shoulders, knees etc, using higher rep exercises.
• If you know your why as why you train, then the how becomes a lot more simple. Write out your goals, your true goals and you will start avoiding today's temptation, to chase tomorrows goals and avoid regret.
• You should pick training partners that motivate, inspire and challenge you. Friends should build you up, not cut you down.
• You need to be disciplined to meet your goals in life, but discipline can be built in your life. Be a man of your word to yourself, this is the most important part.
• Stack the small wins, to build your confidence and discipline, even if its getting up straight away when your alarm goes off. Build a strong discipline habit too.
• Older athletes should adapt their training to suit their body mechanics, recovery methods needed etc compared to younger athletes.
• It's not what you do in the gym that changes you, it is what you do in the gym AND what you can recover from. The majority of athletes who struggle are under recovered.
• Aim for a minimum of seven hours of sleep where possible.
• Hack your lifestyle to build in the recovery and nutrition that you will need to level up.
• You need to use your brain when you train, not your ego. Be disciplined on when you feel you should stop, or feel under-recovered and not let your ego lead you into big trouble on the mats when recovery is a better option.
• Building true strength means working on your weaknesses to improve your overall skill rather than your preferred A game moves!
• Go into each training session with a clear goal and vision for each session, don't half ass sessions, plan it out and follow the plan.
• Take advantage of technology to monitor, review, and analyse your training and monitoring your consistency and progression, just don't be controlled by it!
• What gets measured gets managed and improved.

Today’s guest is Dave Salmoni on animals, education, conservation and chat shows.

Dave Salmoni is a Canadian animal trainer, entertainer, host and producer. He has his own production company, Triosphere, which is based in South Africa and specializes in wildlife films. Salmoni has hosted and produced several television documentaries, including: Living with Tigers, Into the Lion's Den and Sharks: Are They Hunting Us? All three documentaries aired on the Discovery Channel. Salmoni has since starred as a host and expert on Discovery and Animal Planet’s shows Animal Face-Off, Rogue Nature, After the Attack, and Into the Pride. He also hosted Expedition Impossible, a Mark Burnett show on ABC. Salmoni is regularly featured on numerous talk shows, including Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Larry King Now, Conan and Good Morning America.

In this interview, we discuss:

• How we can have open and honest discussions on animals to truly start to make a difference.
• Hunting and land use.
• The truth about animals on talk shows.
• How you can help animals being affected by the COVID pandemic.
• And so on.

Here are some key points that I would advise you to concentrate on

• Dave made a career from his passions ... if he can, what is stopping you? If there is not a path for you to take to your goals, why not make one instead? Use Dave's journey as inspiration and follow your dreams.
• Produce content on what you love, show passion for what you are creating, and it will be attractive to others.
• Start with your why, and the how will take care of itself.
• Don't try and do everything yourself. You can't be the best at everything. Use the available resources, experts, guides etc that are available to you. Build a network of help and information, so your skills are always evolving and improving, and you should be in relative control.
• Quality content, with depth and effort will always over-ride sensationalist attention seeking content.
• Build systems to ensure safety, quality control and produce the content in a controlled environment and get the shots that inspire.
• COVID has really hurt a lot of animal rescue places, so if you can donate to charities, and dog rescue centres etc. Help those, helping others.
• You don't need to agree fully with someone to approve of the message - you can disagree on the methods but support others on the overall voice, so people can be made aware of the plight of animals for example.
• A problem with removing hunting in remote places, is that blocking hunting without actioning an alternative funding method for the local people, who make money from the hunting element, will not work.
• We need to act on how things are and not how we want them to be, to make a change in conservation and helping change animals being threatened with extinction etc.
• We need more civilized discussions on these topics, without letting emotions overrule considered thought. You can't expect others to have your ethics and morals, but we need to work together to make things better by ignoring the little differences to help fix on the whole.
• To someone an animal might be lovely, to another its a pest. We need to see the perspective from the opposite view, to understand and come to a good solution between the two that will work.
• Animals can be a very emotive topic. Asking open questions and being willing to listen, can help you gain a deeper understanding.
• Learn to have confidence in your opinions and abilities to say no, and be confident in your choices and not be motivated or pushed by others to overstep the line.
• Always be yourself. You can never be found to be fake if you are yourself and not playing a character of yourself.
• Chase your passions. The world is smaller today than it has ever been. Google, research etc, do your homework and find out about what you are into, spend money on it, work on it, take part in it, build interest for you and others.

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RELENTLESS. That's not a slogan. It's a way of life.

In this episode, I sit down with Dean Stott — former British Special Forces operator, 2× world-record holder, extreme endurance adventurer, and one of the most mentally resilient men you'll ever hear from.

Dean doesn't talk about motivation. He talks about standards.

After surviving one of the most brutal Special Forces selection processes in the world and serving 16 years on the front line, Dean carried the same mindset into civilian life — facing war zones, evacuating embassies, cycling 14,000 miles from Argentina to Alaska, and proving that "impossible" usually just means no one's done it yet.

What makes this even more insane?

👉 Before training for that world-record ride, Dean had never cycled more than a few miles.

This conversation isn't hype. It's a masterclass in mental discipline, resilience, and execution.

🎯 IN THIS INTERVIEW, WE BREAK DOWN:

• What "relentless" actually means (and why most people misuse it)

• How Special Forces operators build discipline without motivation

• Why standards beat goals every time

• Turning suffering into a skill instead of something to avoid

• How to plan for chaos — and stay calm when everything goes wrong

• Why top performers obsess over fundamentals, not hacks

• How to build routines that carry you through hard seasons

• The power of tribe, brotherhood, and shared standards

• Why confidence is quiet — and arrogance is loud

• How to break massive goals into executable missions

• When to push… and when to recover so you don't burn out

🧠 KEY TAKEAWAYS YOU'LL HEAR REPEATEDLY:

• Your past does not define your future — but your standards do

• Action silences critics faster than explanations ever will

• Resilience is built through exposure, not comfort

• You don't rise to the level of your dreams — you fall to the level of your preparation

• Measure what matters, set deadlines, and execute

• Control what you can. Let go of what you can't

• Strong teams are built from different strengths, not identical people

• Every avoided challenge moves you backwards

• Rest is not weakness — it's a performance strategy

👊 WHO THIS EPISODE IS FOR:

If you're tired of:

• Overthinking instead of executing

• Starting strong and fading out

• Waiting for motivation to show up

This episode will reset your standards.

🎧 🎧 Listen now and decide what "relentless" is going to mean in your life. https://www.nextlevelguy.com/deanstott130/