Unlocking Your Inner Strength

“Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.” - Sun Tzu, Art of War

What’s up Inner Strength listeners? Do you like that quote? There is a lot of high-level success coaching that can be gleaned from it. And it’s at the heart of what we’re going to chat about today.

I’ve been thinking through the Go-Giver series of books that I’ve been reading by author Bob Burg, and I wanted to share some thoughts with you because I believe the depth of knowledge from these books will help you to accomplish any goal, and ultimately, that is what this Inner Strength show is all about. So without further adieu, here is what we’re going to unpack today ...

Show Highlights:

• You get what you give. Leaders aren’t simply all about the vision. Leaders need to be the best at giving. Here’s why ... (02:06)
• If you just want to make the sale, you’re dependent upon the goodwill of the customer. But if you know this leadership principle, you are in the driver’s seat and customers will follow without resistence (03:51)
• Money is not a measure of goodness or worthiness. Here’s what it really measures, and why getting more is simple ... (04:52)
• Great leaders are fascinated and curious. Develop these to grow your impact ...  (5:15)
• The difference between REACTING and RESPONDING, and which one good leaders always do ... (06:02)
• Why the leader must keep focused on seeing the big picture, even when those he leads are fearful (09:01)
• What influence really is and the secret for unleashing its full potential ... (10:37)

Ok. So this was a bit different than some of the stuff we’ve talked about in the past, but as you’ll see, the knowledge in these books is complementary to everything you’re already doing to become the best version of yourself. This is just another tool in the arsenal. And remember, leading others begins with leading yourself, and all of these points are applicable in that regard.

Leave us a review!

After more than a year of shows, we’re getting into a pretty good groove, and I’m hearing from listeners that the show is helping them. I am so happy to hear that.

If you like the show, you’re getting value from it, please leave the show a positive review on iTunes. And be sure to share the show with someone you know who could benefit.

Becoming our best selves and unlocking our own inner strength naturally leads to wanting to help others to do the same. Sharing this with them is a good start.

Alright. That’s all I’ve got for you today. I hope you geek out on this stuff like I do. Until next time, keep pressing on. You’re stronger than you know!

Peace,

• Kyle Newell

If you have show suggestions or an interesting idea you want me to talk about, please contact me at [email protected] or at [email protected]. You can also leave a comment or review on today’s show. We love hearing from you!

You know, I’ve always wondered why people like going to haunted houses intent on being scared around this time of year. I think I’ve got it figured out … PEOPLE LOVE FEAR! It’s true. There’s excitement in being afraid. We are always afraid of something, but as I mentioned in the last episode, that fear can either fuel you or rule you.

I believe the fear that rules and keeps you from moving is simply fear without enthusiasm. That is the other key ingredient for forward motion toward a goal. If you can harness your fear and find enthusiasm and excitement in it, there’s not a thing in this world you can’t accomplish.

Show Highlights:

• How fear and enthusiasm work hand-in-glove to drive sustainable motivation (02:26)
• REMINDER: your mind craves this more than the most addictive drug, and it’s why people cheat ... (04:28)
• Back to your MindMap - Where fear and enthusiasm lives in the brain and why these sections battle for prominence (04:50)
• How understanding the power of these two fuels can make it so will-power doesn’t even come into play ... (12:55)

Give in to your fears ...

This is a really heady topic. And it expands upon one of the last points we covered last time. In that episode, I said fear is: (F)alse (E)vidence (A)ppearing (R)eal. And it is, because the thing you fear is always in the future. But while it may be etherial, it can still push us to achieve beyond what we would otherwise if we didn’t experience it, i.e., the fear of death after a heart attack leading to a new enthusiasm for working out …

Find a way to infuse fear into something related to your end goal, and let that fear excite you, driving your enthusiasm for what must be done to achieve your fitness and life goals.

Thanks for listening! I’d appreciate it if you’d leave the show a review on iTunes, and share this with a friend who could benefit from this knowledge.

As always, you’re on the right path in your journey toward unlocking your inner strength, and I’m humbled to be on it with you. You’re stronger than you know!

Peace,

• Kyle Newell

If you have show suggestions or an interesting idea you want me to talk about, please contact me at [email protected] or at [email protected]. You can also leave a comment or review on today’s show. We love hearing from you!

Try to think of one of history’s greatest cowards. Did you come up with anybody? What about a hero - someone who disregarded their personal safety to take a massive action they believed in their heart to be right. I bet you could name quite a few of them …

The fact is, no one remembers the cowards. We remember the bold, or better yet, it’s the boldness of others that inspires us to remember. So how can you be bold so that history will remember you were here?

Show Highlights:

• What a study of the mindset of olympic athletes showed that you can use to stack the success deck in your favor … (03:26)
• Success in any area really hinges upon three very intricately tied principles (This is what people who read the book “The Secret” get wrong) and understanding these principles will give you a huge advantage over even the smartest people … (04:32)
• I’m calling Bravo-Sierra on your claim that you have no time. You’re afraid! Here’s what to do with that fear to make it fuel you instead of rule you ... (09:59)
• At some point in life you are going to want to inspire someone toward a goal. What will you say when they ask, “Why should I listen to you?” (12:55)

Create a mission statement for your life

Today, we got into some heavy topics. The thing is, there is no cut and dry, black and white paint-by-numbers path to success. And if there was, it wouldn’t inspire anyone to take it. Only people with a mission that drives them take inspiring, bold action. I know you have it in you to be one of them. But it starts with creating your own life mission statement. So get on that.

Being bold together ...

At Newell Strength, our mission is to inspire people to make positive change in their lives. That means we have to be working toward making positive change in our own lives, and we are. But one last thing I wanted to mention, as you write your mission statement and begin taking bold action, remember, you’re never alone. You’re simply bolder earlier on than the person you’ve yet to inspire.

Thanks for listening and be sure to get after it this week. You’re stronger than you know!

Peace,

• Kyle Newell

If you have show suggestions or an interesting idea you want me to talk about, please contact me at [email protected] or at [email protected]. You can also leave a comment or review on today’s show. We love hearing from you!

What do JFK, cardio equipment and and breakfast cereals have in common? On the surface, you might think, nothing! But mention any of these and it’s a good way to get my immediate attention. Why? Because I love a good conspiracy theory. And, darn skippy, these are some good ones.

We can chat who really shot JFK later, but for today’s episode I want to dispel some fitness and medical myths, and expose a conspiracy that the government and big pharma don’t want you to know. They want to keep you sick, dumb and fat so you’ll be a good little servant and slave in their thought prison …

If you don’t enjoy today’s show, you’re just not woke, yo!

Show Highlights:

• Why unless you’re Homer Simpson, you should never trust the labs regular doctors run ... (02:11)
• The government pharmaceutical complex has turned cholesterol into the monster in the closet. Why you should stop buying that lie right now … (05:34)
• It’s revenge of the regulatory nerds! Why poindexter’s inferiority complex is keeping you from being your smartest, strongest self … (10:16)
• Who doesn’t love waffles!? But don’t eat them for breakfast. It is NOT the most important meal of the day. Here’s why they tell you it is ... (11:02)
• Does a fuel efficient engine burn more fuel or less? Why most of today’s cardio workouts are a complete farce simply designed to get you to spend money … (12:54)

Question everything ...

Understanding why the government and the health industry is telling you these lies is going to be the best lesson you can learn in order to take control of your own health and strength. Knowing the truth, but more importantly, what you should be questioning, helps you to make better informed decisions and is going to help you make huge strides toward becoming your strongest, smartest and best self.

That’s all for this week. Next time we’re going to get back to talking mindset. Remember, you’re stronger than you know, even if the government doesn’t want you to be …

Peace,

• Kyle Newell

If you have show suggestions or an interesting idea you want me to talk about, please contact me at [email protected] or at [email protected]. You can also leave a comment or review on today’s show. We love hearing from you!

If we worked in the world’s richest bank, and I handed you a key, and this key opened up every door there was in this bank, including the vault, how valuable would that key be? Not one you’d want to lose, am I right?

What’s up Inner Strength friends? This show is sort of like that bank key in that I’m going to give you a key to unlocking any door to understanding human behaviors and desires. Knowing this will help you understand the way your mind works so you can work with your mind and your biology to make impactful change in your life, whether it be in terms of professional accomplishment or overcoming areas of struggle, like we talked about last time.

Buckle in because this is a heady show ...

Show Highlights:

• It takes only 30 minutes a day to become an expert and influence people ... (03:27)
• You are biologically programmed with eight life force desires. Understanding them is key to changing your life! (04:34)
• Secondary desires that are not biological but learned that will help you rank your six human needs ...(07:28)
• How these biological and learned desires, and the human needs help you better understand persuasion … (08:22)
• The six human needs and why they are so powerful (Hint: it has to do with making you happy) (09:24)

An important announcement! Look for my book, coming soon!

You may not have heard yet, but I’m writing a book with Dax Moy, creator of the MindMAP Mastery I’ve been talking about for a few episodes now. Anyway, I wrote him something saying, “Wouldn’t it be cool if we did something together,” and he agreed. So look for something that digs a little bit deeper into this Mindmap stuff from me and Dax in the near future.

Last chance to join the October Mastermind Challenge

No kidding, this is literally your  last chance to commit to making serious strides and accomplishing a BIG 90-day goal. If you want to get coached by me to reach that big goal, join my October Mastermind challenge. Go to unlockingyourinnerstrength.com/mastermind.

I hope you got a lot out of learning these biological and learned desires along with the six human needs. I’ll be back with you next week with more interesting and helpful thought meat. Keep searching! You’re stronger than you know!

Peace,

• Kyle Newell

If you have show suggestions or an interesting idea you want me to talk about, please contact me at [email protected] or at [email protected]. You can also leave a comment or review on today’s show. We love hearing from you!

Don’t get mad at me for this truth I’m about to hit you with, but as I said last week, you either create or allow everything that happens to you in your life. That means the responsibility for your life is yours and yours alone.

What’s up Inner Strength listener? You know I love you, but today I’m going to hold up a mirror and reflect some things back to you that you may not want to see. The good news is, you’re not alone, and you can learn and grow by making small, consistent changes.

The 7 common struggles Show Highlights:

• Don’t have time? Try facing your own death … (03:07)
• How to create a good mindset and habits to exercise your discipline (04:54)
• Motivation isn’t going to get you to your goal. This will … (06:21)
• Sometimes you just need somebody to answer to ... (08:34)
• Create steps for yourself to prevent overwhelm and move forward (10:20)
• How to create confidence and focus your energy toward your goals (11:58)

Why it’s important to know your struggle areas

This may seem like a boring topic but I promise you, if you learn to become more self aware with where you struggle, you’ll be better prepared for addressing those struggles to accomplish more.

Pick one …

Don’t let this full list overwhelm you. Realize you don’t have to tackle all struggles all at once. Have a plan and set yourself up for small wins that will add up to big wins. Pick your biggest struggle right now, and work on that. For example, if you feel like you lack time to work out, make your goal to carve out time in your day. Then, once that’s done, move onto another struggle.

Join the October Mastermind Challenge

This is pretty much your last chance to commit to making serious strides and accomplishing a BIG 90-day goal. If you want to get in, join my October Mastermind challenge. Go to unlockingyourinnerstrength.com/mastermind.

Thanks for tuning in. Week by week you’re getting better, and you’re stronger than you know!

Peace,

• Kyle Newell

If you have show suggestions or an interesting idea you want me to talk about, please contact me at [email protected] or at [email protected]. You can also leave a comment or review on today’s show. We love hearing from you!

Are there any tax accountants listening to this episode? If so, do you know if I need to file a form 1099B with the government for the amount of gold I’m about to drop here?

What’s up Inner Strength listeners. Today’s podcast just might be one of the most valuable episodes I’ve done to date, as I’m going to unpack the knowledge of why you’re not losing your gut or your butt, no matter how many stairs you climb or how many combination lifts you string together.

This is a real and extremely frustrating problem for a significant number of people who no matter what diet or exercise they try, just can’t seem to fry off the fat. Well, my friends, if that’s you, I’m about to hand you the keys to free yourself from the fat shackles, and I’m giving it to you free of charge.

Cutting through the misinformation:

You know as well as I do that the market claiming to have the secret to blasting away fat like a sugar-doped boy with a pocketful of quarters pounding the fire button of an the old school Atari game of Space Invaders is seriously oversaturated.

And so many of these weight loss “experts” are saying, “Eat this diet ...” “Do this exercise …” “Drink this concoction …” “Stand on this foot when the full moon shines its brightest while chanting a Taylor Swift tune …”

Ok, I made the last one up, but you get my point. There is a ton of crap information out there. And I don’t want my listeners falling victim to it all. So that’s why I’m sharing with you the actual science to how your body burns fat so you can create a plan for fat burning that works for you.

Here’s what you’re going to learn:

• Why bodybuilders have the absolute worst advice when it comes to losing and keeping off weight (01:47)
• What fat actually is and how knowing this can take the pressure off of sticking to some fad diet to lose it (03:25)
• Why skinny, ripped gym bros are more likely to die when North Korea launches all of those missiles (03:39)
• What a floating stick of butter in a sink full of water can teach you about how your body stores and burns fat (04:01)
• If you are on a low carb diet, don’t celebrate that weight loss too much yet. Here’s what you really lost (04:23)
• Why this signal your muscles receive give your body no reason to burn body fat (04:36)
• The three parts to fat loss: mobilization, transportation and utilization, and how to activate each to turn into a fat-burning furnace (05:14)
• Why lack of blood flow to certain areas of your body can lead to stubborn belly fat (06:14)
• A huge mistake people make with high-intensity training that is actually keeping them fat (07:01)
• Here is how to structure your cardio to really see fat-melting results (07:48)
• The time of day when your body’s insulin is at its lowest and why working out during this time can boost your fat lose significantly (09:12)
• How the vast majority of people are shutting down their fat-burning engines for the rest of the day by simply eating traditional breakfasts (09:45)
• When this hormone is high, you know you’re revved up to burn some stored chub (10:33)
• Tell-tale signs your body gives you to let you know you’re about to start burning some serious fat (10:59)
• Understanding your body’s “set point” with body weight and body fat and why you shouldn’t push too hard to go below it (12:32)

And if you’ll recall from previous episodes, two of your biggest fat-blasting weapons are proper sleep and a good mindset. In fact, I tell my clients it’s not so much what you eat as who you are when you eat it.

Combine those two weapons with the gold you learned in this podcast and you’ll be well on your way to maintaining your own “set point” and unlocking the inner strength inside you.

If you liked this episode, and if you listen to this podcast regularly, I’d like you to do something for me. I love sharing my experience and knowledge with you, but would you show me you appreciate it by leaving me a review on iTunes and sharing this episode with a friend? It’s my goal to get this useful information into as many hands of people who need it as possible. You can help. Thank you.

Finally, if you haven’t signed up yet, there’s still time to get into my October Mastermind challenge. If you want to know more, go to unlockingyourinnerstrength.com/mastermind.

That’s it for this week. Until next time, don’t forget, you’re stronger than you know!

Peace,

• Kyle Newell

If you have show suggestions or an interesting idea you want me to talk about, please contact me at [email protected] or at [email protected]. You can also leave a comment or review on today’s show. We love hearing from you!

Guess what, Inner Strength show listener? Today we’ve got some more MindMap content! We’re going to expand on the last episode’s topic because mindset is so important to achieving your best and healthiest self. It’s not a bunch of new age-y, “your aura’s harshing my chakra” kind of weirdness. This is legit science on how your brain and your body work in tandem. And if you know how your brain works, you can use its power to become your best self.

So there are a few things I want to share with you today. But first, if you are struggling with a body image issue, know you’re not alone. You’re never too sexy to have body image issues. Most people have them at some points in their lives. So cheer up!

Enough with the pep talk and on to business …

Let’s talk about: Definitions. This is so important for everything we’ll cover today, as it’s a foundation for an inner strength strategy (which I’ll expand upon in a future episode). I learned about this when, after coming off a couple of bodybuilding shows, looking as ripped and as good as I felt I’ve ever looked in my life, I blew out my knee playing basketball. At this point, I wasn’t working out for about five weeks and was feeling pretty flabby, but something funny happened … My wife, Devon, told me that I was the most attractive to her that I’ve ever been. Of course, I’ll share with you why she thought that, but it set me on a path of creating definitions.

On that path, adding in the MindMap principles, I learned:

• Transformation may seen like it takes a long time, but it actually happens in an instant. Here’s why … (04:07)
• Why you need to develop your definition of what health is (04:23)
• Your brain needs to have this one thing in order for it to reach good decisions (04:39)

• Why losing weight and getting ripped is not always the best thing (05:10)
• I share with you my own personal definition of health (05:27)
• What is the purpose of any goal, really? You might be surprised to learn the truth (06:01)
• How to know you’re chasing after the wrong goal (06:21)
• Why you can’t create good habits and why willpower is useless (in most cases ...) (06:44)
• Where to find your willpower in your brain and what it actually runs off of (this will explain why you can never make it to the gym after work) (07:34)
• Why you absolutely have to remove willpower from the habit-forming equation, and what you really need in its place ... (08:45)
• Why this MindMap stuff is not only good for your head, but great for your physique (09:30)
• What really controls how you look, how much you weigh, your body composition and how much fat or muscle you have (09:47)
• Your hormones are cars in a parking lot. Here’s what happens when stress kicks in and they begin fighting for those spaces … (10:44)
• Breaking it all down with cortisol (11:14)
• The “Three King” hormones that regulate everything else (11:51)
• The hormone you’re really having a problem with when you have low testosterone (12:14)
• The one hormone you have the most control of (12:27)
• What prednisone and catabolic steroids do to your body through hormone manipulation (12:42)
• Why when it comes down to it, it’s not about calories in versus calories out. It’s really about this … (13:03)
• Go on vacation and come home having lost weight? No way! … WAY! Here’s why (13:27)
• What you must be in, in order to Rest. Digest. Relax. (13:52)

Take it from my experience, you need to pay attention to this stuff if you have a goal in your life you want to achieve.

That’s it for this episode. Later we’ll talk about how to form strategies to deal with things that will distract us from forming the habits that help us reach our goals.

Please leave us a review and share this episode with a friend. As a reminder, you can apply to work with me for the 90 Day Sprint Master Mind, which I guarantee you will achieve the outcome you set. Go to unlockingyourinnerstrength/mastermind.

You’re stronger than you know!

Peace,

• Kyle Newell

If you have show suggestions or an interesting idea you want me to talk about, please contact me at [email protected] or at [email protected]. You can also leave a comment or review on today’s show. We love hearing from you!

Hello gorgeous! No, not you (though I mean no offense). I was talking to your brain. Your brain is an amazingly beautiful and brilliant thing. It’s absolutely fascinating the more you understand how it works and where in your brain certain responses, feeling and thoughts happen.

I owe my love of the mind to MindMap Mastery coach Dax Moy. He introduced me to mind mapping when I went with my buddy CJ to one of Dax’s two-day conferences. By the end I was hooked, and it’s become the core of my coaching philosophy.

So what’s this all about?

In today’s episode, I’m going to share with you some seriously fascinating tidbits about how your brain has evolved to allow you to become self-actualized, and how three specific parts of your brain work together to control two important parts of your autonomic immune system. This is important because your best and strongest self can only be realized when you are in the proper state of mind - a state that just so happens to regulate the hormones in your body and bring balance. So without further adieu, here’s what you’ll learn today:

• What is the science of transformation and why you should care (02:31)
• What your brain is built around and why it thrives on habits (02:50)
• The triune brain, its parts, and why it’s responsible for everything from hunger to sadness to logical though (03:05)
• What habits actually free up your brain to do (03:41)
• Where danger, food and sex actually register in your brain (04:02)
• Where you feel connection, experience, emotion and attachment (05:05)
• An area of the brain that is larger and more pronounced in women, and why (05:38)
• How to avoid lowering your testosterone levels by not holding crying babies. Mostly for the guys ... (06:15)
• Where logical and linear thought happens (06:45)
• The key difference between change and transformation (07:35)
• What you need to realize when trying to form new habits and why it’s not an “information” problem (08:15)
• Why you should pay close attention to your main recurring top of mind emotions and what they actually mean (09:33)
• How your hormones regulate your metabolism and the rest of your body (Hint: you can hack your weight by regulating hormones. Here’s how) … (10:01)
• The two parts of your autonomic nervous system that control your hormones and at the same time enhance your chances of survival in stressful situations (11:18)
• We’ve talked about this before, but the sympathetic nervous system’s response to stress is: Freeze, Flight or Fight. The order is important, and shows how brilliant your brain is ... (10:04)
• Two alertness hormones that activate your muscular system (12:47)
• Why activating your parasympathetic nervous system is so important for being healthy and losing weight (13:20)
• How your brain sees judgement and why it’s a significant threat to your strength journey (15:07)
• Why to get permission and give permission. This is crucial for our subconscious to accept suggestions (16:23)
• The most stressful time of the day and how to plan for dealing with the natural stress response to get back into your parasympathetic nervous system ... (17:49)

There’s a lot for you to digest in here. And which nervous system should you be in while you digest it? Just making sure you were paying attention ...

All right, that’s all I’ve go for you today. Next time we’ll expand this MindMAP concept a bit further where we’ll talk about will power and how understanding how your mind works can make you willpower obsolete.

Keep pressing forward and win your week. You’re stronger than you know!

Peace,

• Kyle Newell

If you have show suggestions or an interesting idea you want me to talk about, please contact me at [email protected] or at [email protected]. You can also leave a comment or review on today’s show. We love hearing from you!

“Tii-iii-iii-iiime is on my side. Yes it is!”

What’s up Unlocking Your Inner Strength listener? Do you ever feel like time is against you? Do you wonder where time goes even when you are trying to make the most of it to get things done?

When I was still working a full-time teaching gig, I managed to study and get my masters degree, I successfully started Newell Strength, trained and competed in bodybuilding shows, was nominated as “Author of the Year” on one of the top fitness sites in the world, and was published in numerous other places. I don’t say this to make you feel bad, or to brag. I only want to show you what is possible when you know the things we’re going to talk about today.

Fighting the right battles ...

I’m telling you, time is not your enemy, but you do have enemies that keep you from making the most of your time. Defeating them is easy when you know:

• Who the two time enemies we all have are and the secret sword you can use to put through their hearts (01:35)
• What to do with your writing to ensure each produced piece is leveraged to the hilt (This was crucial for growing my newsletter) … (02:37)
• A simple mindset shift you can make to help you plan for productivity in the midst of chaos (03:49)
• What happens to your brain when you throw it a surprise party (04:35)
• The best mode to be in when confronted with chaos and how to get into this mode ... (04:43)
• What is really the hardest thing about writing for most people … (05:01)
• The one thing you really need to figure out how to do when you have more and more responsibility (05:54)
• An easy trick you can do to get more leverage of you time (most people have no idea how to apply this simple trick) ... (07:04)
• Why you should always carry a pocket notebook ... (07:45)
• How to “live off the grid” with your errands. This is a very effective time leverage tactic that I use to keep me from losing focus ... (10:04)
• Why your driving commute is some of the most valuable and productive time you have, if you use it right (10:21)
• A $10 tool you can get to help you master leveraging your time to gain that slight edge (11:48)

Leveraging your time is the way to gain the slight edge, which is getting a little bit better each day, no matter what. I realized the power of leverage when my Dad wrote me a serious letter. He said, “Kyle, you have accomplished more in a year than most people do in 20. Help me.” That’s when I realized I was onto something unique.

If you apply what we covered in today’s episode, you be well on your way to making big things happen. I look forward to hearing the stories in the coming weeks.

Of course, we’ve got lot’s more great stuff to talk about. Real quick, I wanted to let you know about the opportunity to work closely with me as part of my 90-day Sprint Mastermind. I’m iron clad guaranteeing you, you will accomplish what you select as your outcome for this. But I’m only selecting a few people, so be sure to apply at: unlockingyourinnerstrength.com/mastermind

That’s all I’ve go for you today. Keep pressing forward. You’re stronger than you know!

Peace,

• Kyle Newell

If you have show suggestions or an interesting idea you want me to talk about, please contact me at [email protected] or at [email protected]. You can also leave a comment or review on today’s show. We love hearing from you!