WARRIOR WEEK

In This Week's Episode....

 

Your host Sam Falsafi has a Warrior Guest on the call to discuss how important it is to stop fucking lying, and the first person to start with is ourselves.

 

Parable #1: Getting Punched in the Face with Applications for Worthiness

• Warrior Guest Dan Bednarski joins Sam Falsafi about not feeling worthy enough to become part of Warrior because nothing that he was doing was working in his life, wondering if he was even capable of doing in the application interview.
• The first question that is asked within the Warrior Week application interview is about being punched in the face, to find out that it's not talking about being punched physically but in other areas of life being punched, having the pain arise.

 

QUESTION: Have you ever been punched in the face by another man?

  Parable #2: Confronting A Flood of Emotional Pain

• Dan could feel within his bones that the life that he knew and had grown accustomed to was going to fall apart, and there was nothing left from that world leading into Warrior Week, which made him feel unworthy for everything else.
• When it comes to Pain, no one really wants to hear your story, and part of that is because you need to face that Pain yourself. This is where we are dying without killing ourselves, having to live through this death of an old version of yourself and become reborn from it, paralyzing us until we change our perspective. No one can do that for us, nor do others want to be in the Pit with us either.

 

QUESTION: Where in your life are you lying?

 

Parable #3: Stop Pretending that You're Significant

• We may not have courage to visit the Pit until we realize that we need to stop pretending that we have any significance in being alone, realizing that others have Pits that they have buried within them as well.
• Loneliness is contagious because it's constantly being projected on your kids and wife, in which they feel the certainty or the hiding within you, regardless of how much you're trying to put on a mask.

 

QUESTION: What is the pain that you have continued to hide from?

  Parable #4: Leadership Starts by Telling the Fucking Truth

• Your stories and assumption to protect your family from the truth is not only hurting you, but your family. Systematically, you must choose to rise from this place of lies that hasn't been serving anyone. Sam shared the last lie that he made back in 2014 to talk about the toxic energy that lies send out to the universe.
• The truth is a simple place to be, but it becomes one of the most difficult decisions to make when you start putting assumptions around it that it's OK to remain in the lie in order to protect others from who you are.

 

QUESTION: Where do you need to be ruthless and relentless in pushing yourself towards the truth?

  Parable #5: The Pit of Being Alone

• Dan's Pit is being alone and going back to his experience at Warrior Week two years ago has become visceral, because they will never go away, having an opportunity to accept a different reality once he learned how to get out of the Pit.
• Feeling the Purpose for the Pit, there's a possibility that is seen for a greater version of yourself, having no idea how to get there, there's a feeling of pushing through it by being willing to DO THE WORK. You have to go through hell in order to get back; there's no other option.

 

QUESTION: What possibility is out there for you? What is the purpose behind the Pain you are going through?

 

Parable from the Pit:

"Masculinity is about feeling the fucking pain that you've gone through. The most hurtful and paralyzing feeling that a man can feel is that feeling of being alone. Many have created assumptions and justifications for feeling alone, creating stories that are living in a fantasyland that no one else wants to go into with you. When a man decides to step into the Pit for the first time, it doesn't matter how great the pain is...we all have this common pain inside of the Pit that we feel alone because we're operating alone. Inside of Warrior we have this conversation amongst men that teaches us to experience the pain with others."

--Sam Falsafi

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"The pain doesn't ever go away, but it teaches me to become the man that I am. By going through this fact of life that we want to maintain what we have, I was forced within myself to step up and let myself have the opportunity to become authentic to myself. I am now willing to stand up for myself. The feeling of being alone will become your own reality and will continue to get louder until you are willing to tell the truth to yourself."

--Dan Bednarksi

 

 

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In Today's Episode.... Welcome to the Warrior Week Podcast with Coach Sam Falsafi, CEO of Wk teaching "Parables from the Pit" with co-host Garrett J White, founder of Wake Up Warrior.   Point #1: CrossFit and The Guy in the Green Hat

• The Purpose of this podcast is to share the message of how men have discovered living the Warrior's Way within their own lives
• 2014 New Year's Resolution for Sam Falsafi to join CrossFit, learning more and more about it, demonstrating and showcasing interest in CrossFit and runs into a guy with a guy with a green hat.

  Point #2: 5 Minute Video that Changes Men's Lives to an Interview on a Blue Couch

• Sam saw a 5 minute video posted from Garrett's phone to join Warrior Week, a program for eight married businessmen for the very first time.
• After seeing the invitation and communicating with Garrett, Sam had a rare face to face interview with Garrett to be accepted into Warrior Week, after sorting through hundreds of applications.

  Point #3: The Good Principle

• Looking back now, Sam knows why he went, but at the time it was a magnetic pull to become a better man after living a good life, pulled towards greatness and awakened towards other possibilities.
• 50% of the men that arrive for Warrior Week now have found a way to numb out the pain, while the other 50% know that their lives are fucked.

  Point #4: Warrior Week is a Living Organism

• Wake Up Warrior has its own pull; it's not Garrett but the program, which Sam experienced a massive reframe that everything, even the weaknesses that he sees within himself is part of him.
• That shift of certainty from within himself spoke to Sam's heart, finding something that makes him move.

  Point #5: Reframe the Way You See Opportunities

• You will have new opportunities inside of the game of reframe and there is no one that has mastered this more than Coach Sam Falsafi because of his ruthless commitment to listen to The Voice.
• It came down to seeing the possibilities that Sam could access from speaking French, Persian and English and the power that thinking in all three of these cultures to look at life from three different perspectives.

  Point #6: Lethal Interviewing

• The breakthroughs and distinctions that Sam found inside of himself came during the interview process, prior to the pit within Warrior Week.
• Warrior Week creates the structure after being pulled towards Wake Up Warrior. What's the cost of not doing it now? Once a man has clarity within himself after seeking for it during the interview, he has power. We are an interview organization to have a safe environment to share where you're at.

  Point #7: Storytime with Coach Sam

• Parables from the Pit was the initial name that we were looking at within this Warrior Week Podcast about men and their journey into the Pit of their life and back through weekly stories and teaching towards True Liberation.
• When you want to live the Warrior's Way, it's about letting go of the way you were living prior to being part of Warrior. For Sam, he had to let go of the world that he knew, the identity that he had within himself based off of what was pulling him creates the biology on the thoughts around your heart, giving you courage to make decisions.

  In order for a man to find the courage to purely let go, he has to remove layers and layers of stories within him that a man doesn't like to visit, which is what we refer to as The Pit inside of Warrior. To have the power to confront the stories within the Pit.   The Pit is a place within a man with profound incarceration into an unworkable life. Warrior Week was built as an experience and a rite of passage for a man to step from the place that he was today to step up to the plate as a modern man that lives by the Warrior's Way by choosing to step out of the shadows and towards a place of liberation.     Point #8: Taboo Conversations about Pain

• We're going to talk about the truth behind the perfect posts and the couple that has it all figured out and the smiles that everyone sees.
• That comes down to talking about the pain within a man, and there's a reason why the crucible of Warrior through Warrior Week works. We demand the same results or better for the men coming into the Game of Warrior by shattering today's perspective to see new light.

  Point #9: Invited to Visit the Dark to Look in the Mirror

• There's a place that these men are able to see themselves clearly exactly where they are, beginning to receive the clarity that they need to identify what it is that he wants as a man. That clarity and certainty is obtained at Warrior Week, with a Gift that comes on the 2nd Day on the Mountain within the experience of Warrior Week, but no one will know what it is until he goes through it.
• Once a man morphs into this Gift, he doesn't have to follow anyone's checklist on what it means to be a man but for him to be himself, for some the first time in their lives, all within a sacred place where a man is no longer lying about who he is.

  Point #10: Permission to Be All of Who You Are

• The truth is, be all of you, even if you're scared to death of who you are. Put all of the stories to show up as all of you that it's ok to be you.
• The greatest fear for a man is to die knowing he never took a stand. Inside of that death, to meet the man that he could have become. Looking back at the men we were before, these men that were guided  from who they were, Garrett and Sam included, to consider the life that would have been had they not leveled up in living the Warrior's Way. The man that you could become through Warrior Week will allow you to stop hiding from the greatness that you know is inside of you.

      THE ONE THING FROM EPISODE #1:  What can a man expect as a listener from Coach Sam Falsafi?   Sam: The truth, whether it's ugly or beautiful. We're exposing stories and amongst all of the men and Warrior Week stories that we gathered, there is one common pain that all of these men experience, which is the pain of being alone. We will look towards the future by knocking on the door of the Pit, which has a guided path through Warrior Week. Most men don't want to knock on the door, so Warrior Week Podcast will bring tools to have you knock on the Pit, deleting the stories that are robbing the power from you.   No one is going to do the work for you. Every single action that is done as a man is for our loved ones and family; it's the whole purpose behind this podcast and what Wake Up Warrior is all about.   Garrett: The only reason I was even searching within myself was because I was searching for power inside of home. Warrior Week was built as an assurance to ensure the shift. A man needs an experience to discover himself, talking to you from the Pit every single week         Today's Parable from the Pit:   "In order for a man to find the courage to purely let go, he has to remove layers and layers of stories within him that a man doesn't like to visit, which is what we refer to as The Pit inside of Warrior. To have the power to confront the stories within the Pit."   --Coach Sam Falsafi   "The Pit is a place within a man with profound incarceration into an unworkable life. Warrior Week was built as an experience and a rite of passage for a man to step from the place that he was today to step up to the plate as a modern man that lives by the Warrior's Way by choosing to step out of the shadows and towards a place of liberation."   --Garrett J White

 

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