Joe Sheehey

Who:

• Founding Partner & CEO of Cured Nutrition, www.curednutrition.com
• Host of The Cured Collective Podcast
• Was a top ranked Men's Physique competitor, online fitness coach

Story:

• Went to college for aerospace engineering
• Lost himself in drugs and alcohol
• Landed his first job at the biggest defense contractor in the world
• Became depressed and suicidal while finishing college
• Isolated to pull his life together
• Found competitive fitness and built a community
• Took a leap of faith and quit engineering to be a cannabis entrepreneur
• Built a 1+mil company in less than a year
• Continue to discover myself every single day
• What is the "Entourage Effect"

Takeaways:

• I am far more capable than anything I could have ever imagined
• I have the ability to give myself the permission to do anything I want with this life
• I am the hero of my own story

- Owner of, Santa Barbara based, Strength Incorporated - 4 Olympic Distance triathlons and The Arnold Sports Festival - The Importance of brotherhood - Addiction, and coming out of the darkness - Chris, literally, turned right instead of left one night and how it changed his life forever - How important fitness is to every part of life - How he went from doing cocaine in the morning to losing 100+ pounds and being a competitive athlete - What he is doing now with his Phoenix Transformation Experience

Intro

Actor

Producer

Animal activist recently did a lot of good work rescuing horses from the Woolsey fire in LA

Sober

Kundalini Yoga student

About

Join me as I talk to Billy McNamara about:

His road into the entertainment industry.

The quick rise to stardom

The up and downs of the business

His path to and into long-term recovery from alcoholism

The crazy story about the recent Malibu fires in Southern California and how he saved two horses, literally, walking through the fires.

We finish by talking about what sobriety looks like for him

Natalie's Journey

- My dad was my coach. I was born into the sport and it was my life.

- Was the only sport I knew and did. Until senior year high school was on a hip hop team haha but we don't have to talk about that.

- Freshman year, the day before my first college meet I was pulled into the coaches office and said I couldn't compete. Then said I couldn't travel with the team. All year. Because of my SAT scores. That was a devastating time

- Captain of the team my senior year college

- After college I was ready to start new. Do something other than gymnastics. Little did I know I would go downhill fast.

- A few months of partying going crazy after gymnastics I found myself sitting at a crossroad.... literally in my car. Saying "now I know why people kill themselves" basically I thought to myself that I had no reason to be on this earth. I didn't know anything but gymnastics.

- I didn't really focus on my studies because I went to college for gymnastics basically. So I had a hard time getting a job

- Finally got some help. Got myself together. Moved from CT to Boston and new life began.

- Remembered the determination, drive and skills I had that I used in my gymnastics to helps be successful. Then used them towards a line of work

- I found my purpose. Helping other former athletes through their transition into life after sport.

- I am here today!

Take Action Tuesday

I wanted to be and behaved like a rockstar for far too long.

It was my identity. It was what I thought attracted people to me.

It was actually what was pushing people away and I was digging myself deeper, and deeper into a hole of alcoholism.

- Owner of BairFit, go check out his website www.bairfit.com

- Weekly blogs about fitness, mindset, nutrition, his journey

Topics

- Journey through depression and social anxiety to become an industry expert and helping others get in great shape without fitness running their life.

- My fitness journey: finding the happiness I was chasing in helping a client succeed, NOT in my own gym success - "If-then" thinking - Struggles with social anxiety - The importance of vulnerability - Shifting how you define yourself from external to internal - Importance of "creating space" daily - Meditation/ "getting out of your head"/being present - Detaching yourself from your thoughts - Positive self-talk - The faults you see in others are often your own insecurities reflected back at you - Anxiety and depression: where did that come from? Feeling like I wasn't good enough. That I had to be the best for anyone to love me. Wanting only to impress people. Didn't think they would love me if they could see my flaws/I was vulnerable. Takeaways - Detach yourself from your thoughts/feelings: realize that these thoughts/feelings are not who you are.

- Thinking of the voice in your head as a bad roommate, realizing how up and down it is, and just not true. - The importance of vulnerability to building real relationships. Thinking of it as putting a piece of yourself out there, making it a  "building block" for a relationship, which the other person usually reciprocates. - Looking for happiness internally instead of externally. Looks, validation from other people, social media, etc. is all temporary, and very fleeting. It will never make you happy for long. You must find the things internally that you love/value in yourself.

ABOUT:- I am a ball of energy and a hurricane of happiness that is here to serve you

- Founder of Michael Arnold Coaching where her slogan is Make Shift Happen.

- Co-author of the soon to be released book "Drowning in Addiction: Sink or Swim"

- Fur mommy to two hilarious little weiner dogs.

Story:

- acceptance of my disease (it was never just one drink)

- living fear of judgment

- being an actor putting on a show- so many secrets- so much shame- the show needed to end

- actually loving myself- feeling all the feels

- the GIFTS of sobriety: gratitude everyday, attention to detail, actually LIVING

- community- find your tribe and surround yourself with people that support you

- dealing with my past and making amends and being okay if people didn't accept it

- going to Harmony and having all the staff be in recovery, I honestly don't believe I would've been as successful as I am if I had to talk to a therapist that didn't go through addiction like I did. Harmony's staff new me. They really made me feel okay and that I wasn't a bad person

Takeaways

- my past is my greatest asset

- I do not judge. love and tolerance is my code

- sobriety is and always will be #1- if I don't have my sobriety then I don't have anything

- I have faith- I know the universe has my back. I do good- good shit happens

13 Daily Happiness Habits

1) Be a good human

Just don't be an asshat. Hold the door for the lady behind you, the child behind you, the man behind you, THE PERSON behind you.

2) Forgive quickly

Not forgiving and holding onto the anger or whatever negative emotion you're experiencing is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

3) Be honest

It's true what you were told all of your childhood, honesty is the best policy. That is all.

4) Judge less

When you judge someone you're actually judging yourself. Let that sink in. Doesn't feel to nice.

5) Exercise

Because science. If you want to get into the details here send me a message and we'll take a deep dive as my man @bedroskeulian likes to say.

6) Eat like you love yourself

Unless you're under the age of 11-ish, you know what feels good when you eat it and what doesn't. Eat the things that make you feel good.

7) Don't have a victim mindset

You are not a victim. IT may feel comfortable and easy to slip into being one, but it will not help you at all.

8) Show gratitude, always

Also, because science. It is proven that writing a gratitude list actually creates new neural pathways in your brain.

9) Drink enough water

This is necessary for survival, but it also helps with energy, brain power and mood.

10) Be open to change

Everything is always changing anyway, so there's really no use in fighting it.

11) Be patient, but don't wait

Patience is mindful, waiting is mindless.

12) Speak well of others

No matter who it is speak well of them. Sometimes fewer words is better.

13) Smile more than you frown

Smiling just like yawning is contagious. The more you smile the more people around you will smile and the happier everyone will be.

Bonus happiness tip: Accept every moment as if you chose it. Because you did.