In today's episode, Coach Joey breaks down his thinking on cheap vs. expensively acquired dopamine. He discusses his observations about how easy it is to find quick 'feel good' fixes in today's world while elaborating on how detrimental these quick dopamine hits can be to our health in the long run.

Coach Joey provides a summary of how to break free from your existing Habit Loops (a topic popularized by Judson Brewer in the book 'The Craving Mind').

If you feel like you're a victim of your own habits, this episode will give you strategies on how to identify and take back control of your habit loops.

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In today's episode, Coach Joey discusses his thoughts on 'overwhelm culture'. He dives deep into his daily life and how he consistently feels overwhelmed.

More importantly, Coach Joey offers a reframe on that sense of overwhelm that plagues so many people this day in age. He explains that overwhelm is not a function of having too much to do, but rather a function of having too little focus on what needs to be done in this moment.

In today's episode Coach Joey dives deep into his approach to goal setting. He tells the story of his first entrepreneurial venture and how achievement of a singular goal ultimately left him feeling far less fulfilled than he would have expected at the time.

This experience helped formulate Coach Joey's thinking on goal setting as he followed future pursuits. His main framework: It's not about the goal, it's about who you become on the path to achieving the goal.

Coach Joey gives 4 simple questions that you can ask yourself when you're planning out your goals to determine if you will like who you become in service of a goal.

In today's episode Coach Joey breaks down Imposter Syndrome and makes his argument for why it is actually a good thing.

Coach Joey dives deep into his own experiences of feeling like an imposter in his professional life. He describes how he has come up with systems to not let these feelings of being an imposter hold him back from making big professional moves throughout the years.

If you're struggling with feeling like 'you don't belong in the room' or like you're an imposter in your field, then this episode will offer insight that may just help you reassess, reframe, and rebuild your thinking.

In today's episode, Coach Joey dives deep into his experience as an expat living in Azores, Portugal.

He moved to the Azores nearly 3 years ago and the experience has defined much of his thinking surrounding overcoming complicated problems.

Today he identifies his 3 biggest lessons learned in that time.

In today's episode, Coach Joey breaks down what 'Unsolicited Advice' is all about, taking real stories and extrapolating the lessons from them.

Coach Joey dives deep into what drove his massive weight gain in his late 20's. He talks about the pitfalls of having a sedentary job and the tolls it can take on your health over a long period of time.

He goes on to talk about an unforeseen career change that forced him to look deeply at his lifestyle and realize that a change was needed if he was going to take back his health.

In episode 3, Coach Joey takes a deep dive into what it means to want to give up on something we've just started. It is not uncommon for strong willed, Type A personalities to struggle with the nuances of new challenges, particularly the feelings of inadequacy that arise from not being adept at the new task.

The framework that Coach Joey uses when feeling like he dislikes something new is simple... he asks "do I really dislike this thing, or am I just not very good at it yet?"

In today's episode, Coach Joey dives deep into the personal journey that took him from being a father, husband, and suburban guy based in Phoenix, Arizona to being a man living on his own (with his kids half the time) on a small island in Azores, Portugal.

It's a deeply personal story but needs to be told in order to help the listener better understand Coach Joey's 'Reassess, Reframe, and Rebuild Your Thinking' framework for redefining your relationship to the problems and circumstances that might be holding you back.

In Episode 1 of "Unsolicited Advice with Coach Joey" Coach Joey gives a brief overview of how his 'daily unsolicited advice' series started on social media. Coach Joey goes on to discuss how this evolved into the desire to create a podcast designed to help people reassess, reframe, and rebuild their thinking about common daily stressors that we are all navigating.

The theme of episode 1 is 'just get started'. Because Coach Joey believes that if there is something you are interested in doing, the best thing you can do is just get started. Because that act shifts you from being someone who is talking about doing the thing, to be someone who is doing the thing.