758. #75HARD vs Danny Miranda
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1 hour and 12 minutes
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Summary
75 Hard is a young entrepreneur out here getting it done. In this episode, I interview him about how he got to where he is today, why he started a podcast, and why he decided to quit his 9-5 job in order to pursue his dream of becoming a full time entrepreneur.
Transcript
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what is up guys it's andy for selling this is the show for the realists say goodbye to the lies the
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fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality guys today
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i know you guys are used to having cti on friday but we have a 75 hard versus instead and this is
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going to be a really good one uh the reason we don't have cti is we have a bunch of people on
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their yearly vacation including dj uh but we will be back on normal schedule next week with that so
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uh but you guys are going to get a lot out of this i'm super excited to have um a young man who who i
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am greatly impressed by uh he has a podcast he's a young guy out here getting it done um quite
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honestly if you haven't listened to the episode that i've done with him which you should after this
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show uh it's one of the best interviews that i've ever been given and it's by my friend danny miranda
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so welcome to the show brother thank you for having me how are you i'm incredible yeah this is an
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amazing place to be and obviously the facilities everyone talks about it to get a workout in here
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is like a breath of fresh air i could i could spend all day here yeah thanks bro um now tell
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everybody a little bit about yourself like how old are you and what you got going on because you know
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i meet a lot of young entrepreneurs uh you know through through the show and just business and the
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things i do and and you've been one of my favorite guys that i've met along the way and i just want
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people to know who you are so kind of give them the the little info if you will for sure so i'm 29 years
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old i'm originally from new york i i grew up in new york and moved to austin texas two years ago
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i started a podcast four years ago and the reason why i started the podcast was because i started having
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amazing phone conversations with people who all around the world were people who were people i wanted
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to learn from and people i was excited by and i was like i got to record these conversations just
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conversations with friends and that led to me recording them originally just zoom calls and
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skype calls and it led to me flying out to st louis to be here and you know in this moment this season
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of my life i'm less fired up about podcasting than i am about coaching and helping people mentally perform
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at their peak because i've realized the podcast is an amazing vehicle for helping people um and growing
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my myself and helping others but helping people one-on-one is a different level of excitement and uh
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i'm just blessed to be here in this moment and i have to thank 75 hard for bringing it all to happen
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and making it all happen so thank you so what's your podcast tell everybody about it because i want
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them to check it out yeah the danny miranda podcast i interview entrepreneurs like yourself
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uh high performers people who are getting shit done in the world and i am you know so blessed to be
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able to do deep research on people to really help them and help them i want to know more about somebody
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than they their significant other knows about them and so that's how i've kind of separated myself
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in the whole process you mentioned it was one of your favorite absolutely the the reason why
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is because i did more research on you than anyone who interviewed you yeah i believe that i listened
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to must have been 30 40 50 hours of you in addition to being a fan of real af in addition to listening to
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mf ceo for years and so of course you're gonna have the best experience and so i think 75 hard
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really drill this home in me you want to be better than most people just do more work
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right it's simple but how often is are people actually executing on that it's rare yeah it is
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so dude let's get right to it man um how'd you hear about 75 hard what made you decide to go after
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it and uh let's talk about that sure so the first time i heard of it was september 15th
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2019 and i had just quit a job that was paying me ten thousand dollars a month i could do it from
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anywhere i was living in san diego life was great except i hated my life and the reason why i hated
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it was because the job was easy it wasn't in line with what i actually care about and i knew i needed
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to change something so i stopped the job i quit the job cold turkey and was like i'm gonna find a
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better way and then a week later 75 hard comes on my radar i have no idea how but i looked at the five
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tasks or six with the second workout and i was like that's it that's something that i need to do
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and that's something that if i do i know i will be in a different place and so it started because i was
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in such a depressed state so bad and i didn't believe i could do what i said i was going to do
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and so 75 hard was found i found it early on right yeah it's been you've been talking about it yeah i
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mean since the beginning yeah so uh i i did the i i committed that that night that i found it i was
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like i'm starting tomorrow i told my buddy that i was doing it he said he would do it i told my other
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buddy that i was doing and together i just saw my life transformed day by day brick by brick
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and by the middle of the program i'm a completely different human being my friends are texting me
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like dude what are you doing like i notice in how you're showing up in the world it's so much
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different and i knew that i was becoming a different person i was becoming somebody who could
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do what they said they were going to do and finish what they started which is a huge huge i think that's
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everything dude i think that's i think most everybody knows what they should do in the areas
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that are weak in their life right like we all know if we're a little overweight we got to get in shape
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we all know if our bank account's not right we need to make some more money we all know if we're
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not the best friend or the best human we need to improve we know what to do the problem is we have
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problems doing it and um i think that's the what you're talking about there you know the ability to
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finish things the ability to fulfill the obligation that you make to yourself when you say i'm going to
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do this thing i really think that's most of the people out there's problem i do not think the problem
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is that they don't know what to do um i mean what do you think i think you're absolutely right yeah
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and i know that 75 hard was the most difficult thing i had ever done in my life at that point i
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was 25 years old or 24 years old and i'm the fact that i could actually that what's so amazing about
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the program is that 75 days seems like a long time but by the time you do the first you complete one
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day if you can complete one day you have showed yourself that you could actually do what you said you
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were going to do in that day and guess what every day is day one that's right i love tim grover
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one on everything that's it and it's like if you just do that one day and complete that one day you've
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proved to yourself that you can do what you say you're going to do yep so just do it again yep dude
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i think that's such that's the most simple way to describe high levels of achievement every single
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person listening right now has the ability to be a high achiever they think it requires this
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complex algorithm of you know the stars aligning and being born in the right place under the right
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kind of moon you know and having the right parents or the right this or the right that when in reality
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dude it's very simple okay if you can muster up the will and the drive and the discipline to make it
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through one single day that's one day and every single one of you listening can do that
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there is no reason that you can't do it again tomorrow and again the next day so if you can make
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it through one day dude you can win your whole life and i think when we break it down and make
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it that simple it really resonates with people because you know we see all these i guess you know
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for lack of a better term just misrepresentations of what success is about you know we're told by our
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parents that you got to be lucky or we're told by you know our teachers that you know you're not getting
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good enough grades or we're told by all these people that are supposed to encourage us and help
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us and make us better that there's all these reasons why we're not who we want to be or why
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we can't be who we want to be when in reality dude if you can make it through one day you can make it
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through your life and and that's what the program's designed to really help people understand um
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and i think i think most people that do the program right it sticks and i think that's the power of
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the program you know what i'm saying uh when you started the first time i mean did you expect
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the results that you got did it make sense to you when you first started because a lot of people
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when they start they're like i don't understand the point of all these things and they kind of
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don't get it i mean how did you feel when you first started versus how you felt when you first
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finished the first time yeah i i knew that i was doing most of the tasks on 75 hard i just wasn't
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doing them consistently and so i knew if i stack these together day by day by day brick by brick
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i'm going to be a different person just by virtue of the fact that i i can actually do what i say i'm
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going to do so i knew it would be impactful from the first day i knew there was not a shadow of a
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doubt because i knew i was already doing them yeah and so it was a no-brainer for me in terms of
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committing to it it was a no-brainer because i knew i would see the benefits
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and i did and what was so interesting was i was reviewing my notes today of my notes that i took
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the first time around i could feel the first time that i almost quit or almost i'm not going to do
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this or wow this was a challenging day and then i could feel another day you know the first one was
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24 days in i'm waking up at 11 30 a.m and i'm like i haven't done any of my stuff and and then the
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next time is day day 50 where i get food poisoning and the difference between day 24 and day 50
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is like i still complete my workout day 50 day 24 i figured out a way but those days i realized all
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my excuses were such bullshit yeah you realize it's like you realize you're just lying to yourself and
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so but it's cool to have those days where you might quit or that you could give yourself an out
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those are the most important days because those are the days when you gain the most strength
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those are the days when you sell yourself on the idea and you realize that wait a minute
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just because i had a bad moment doesn't mean i have to have a bad day that's it right like a lot
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of people will take a bad interaction or a bad conversation or some bad news and they will make
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it a spread across their whole day when in reality dude it's just a bad moment like it's a moment in
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time and if you pick up right there and finish out the day and win the day you can actually minimize
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the amount of impact those moments have it's the opposite of what most people do right like most
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people amplify you know the one bad thing that happens to them in the day and they're like fuck i
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had a terrible day it's like bro uh you know like there's people out here that are that are not
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being able to eat yeah you know what i mean there's people out here without a place to live
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like you you got some bad news you know you were you were not down an extra pound you know what i'm
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saying like you had to do an extra thing at work send an extra email it's not a bad fucking day yeah
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you know so let's talk a little bit about uh you know how because you've done the program how many
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times now this is my fourth time fourth time doing 55 right now today yeah okay so
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where when you first went through this process and you were you're not happy you're not really uh in
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a place where you want to be and you said hey i'm going to do this program where where did that take
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you after that where it took me after that was exactly what you say not to do i was drinking and
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partying and so happy that i completed it and i felt immediately yeah i felt like wow what what did i
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just do this is not fun the what was fun was actually building up to this point yeah and i got
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a huge moment of like i i went into depression after i went into depression because i knew what i was
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capable of and now i wasn't doing what i said i was going to do yeah and i was like i'm disgusted with
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myself and so it took me a few months and then i got back on the program i started phase one and i was
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like oh i could do this whenever i want i'm making the choice to be depressed right now i'm making
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the choice to get mad at myself well and the reason you're probably depressed correct me if i'm wrong
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is that you know what you're capable of and you're living below that standard that's it and that's
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something that people have a hard time once you open up pandora's box to what you're capable of
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yeah and you start living below that of course you're going to feel like shit dude because you know
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in your heart that you're living below what your potential is and that doesn't feel good no and and
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so i i just went into a tailspin and and i think people i i wish i thought about what am i going to
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do after and prioritized it and made it a focus because looking back that was the most obvious
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thing to do you're creating a whole new person and the person that you are creating is better than
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any person that you've ever been in your entire life so when you go day 76 have a plan you got to
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have a plan for day 76 you got to start and continue having standards for yourself maybe even higher
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than 75 hard requires because if you don't you're just gonna you might go back to old habits and you
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might absolutely become a person that is even worse yeah than the person who yep who started the
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program that's why i tell people so many times i'm like guys this is not a diet this is a mental
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program and once you open up the possibilities for yourself you try to go back to where you were
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you're going to feel even worse because where you were before you were ignorant to how you could be
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right if you don't know what you can be then you don't know how bad you are but once you shine a
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light on how bad you are and you know that you could be more that's a hard pill to live with when you
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know you're underperforming or holding a lower standard you know i i'll just throw this in here
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you know for me i've always struggled with my weight my whole life um i i have a very easy time putting
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on weight and it wasn't until i figured out that i could hold that standard for myself mentally
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that would keep my body in check where i was able to maintain the weight loss right like i've been
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i lost 110 pounds in 2016 and then you know i didn't we didn't start 75 hard till 2019 um but
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normally that's that's how it would have went for me it would have went you know two or three years
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and then i would have got fat again and i've been able to keep it off you know fuck i guess almost
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you know eight nine years now um because i understand the concept of living a standard
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right like once you adopt a new standard for yourself you have to live it otherwise you're
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going to feel bad and i think it's very important for people to understand like
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once you understand that you're living below what it is you're supposed to live
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it's it's it's very important that you that you execute at a higher level because dude you will
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feel like shit about yourself and a lot of people will say oh they get off 75 hard and they just go
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back to the way they were and i didn't feel i felt worse no shit because now you know that you're
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capable of what you're capable of and now you're you're not living that at all you're trying to go
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back to who you used to be and that's very painful and and your heart and your soul and your mind is
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all telling you dude you don't want this this is not you you're you're supposed to be here you can
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do this you could be that and you think about those internal conversations that we have about
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what we're capable of mentally right like we're laying at home at night and we're kind of thinking
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about what we could be or what we could become or what we want to become or what we want to
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create or what we want to build and we're thinking about all these things and when we're not
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aware of what we're capable of those visions are small so they're not very far above like when
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we're living the i would say you know a negative lifestyle right they're a little bit above that
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but once you go for an extended period of time like 75 days or let's say you do phase one right
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after where you go 105 days in a row now you're very very aware of what you're actually capable of
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so like that level of where i used to live is so far below you get what i'm saying it's so far below
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what you're actually capable of that living like that is miserable like even living at a high level of
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what you used to think was high is still miserable so it's a it's something that you need to be
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prepared for before you go into it for sure yeah i'm curious you recently it stopped for you right
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75 hard stop for you in the sense of you were doing the program yeah just saturday saturday and you go to
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the er yeah what do you tell people in moments like that and how do you respond to moments like that
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i mean there's there's things that happen you know that's called life man yeah you know sometimes
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there's going to be uncontrollable things i woke up in the morning i was throwing up i had massive
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like pain in my stomach and went to my back and went up into my chest and i'm like fuck i'm having a
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heart attack and and i made uh i went to the hospital on an ambulance and i was there all day and what it
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ended up being was an intestinal blockage from uh i smoked three cigars the night before and it
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dehydrated me and then i ate a super uh like a like a i ate steak that night which i usually don't
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eat steak i usually eat chicken or or fish or shrimp and um the combination of those two irritated my
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gallbladder and then also gave me an intestinal blockage so like i was in the hospital until
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6 7 p.m that night um and and dude after that i wasn't able to to continue going so what do i tell
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people i just tell them the truth like there's things that happen there's life that happens and
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when that happens it is what it is yeah um i've already done this year 75 hard phase one and phase
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two and i was doing 75 hard with my buddy who um needed it to really get himself back on track
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yeah so i just picked up where the next day and i mean i'm not i'm not doing it like officially
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but i'm going to finish with him because i said i would so i missed i missed a day yeah um but i'm
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going to go ahead and finish and if it were my first time through 75 hard this year i would start
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right over but uh because it's not i'm just going to pick up where i was yeah i think that that part
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about i was speaking to somebody who works here earlier and they were talking about how if you've
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done the program multiple times what happens is you miss a day and that's just life and you
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understand you can get right back on the horse the next day yeah the first time going through
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i had nightmares yeah about drinking alcohol yeah or about eating a donut yeah and it's like now now
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i'm just this is life yeah dude it is life i would say most of the time even when i'm not tracking
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the program i'm still living the program it is pretty it is very much so become a daily routine for me
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i mean all of those things every single day whether you see me posting it or not posting it
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or saying what day i'm on or not chances are i followed those things all day the the only thing
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that i might not follow a hundred percent all the time is my diet right like i might i might eat
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you know good monday through saturday and have some sort you know go out to dinner or something
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saturday night kind of eat something but like dude even though even with that like my my off
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meals or my cheat meals so to say that i have when i'm not like there's so much less damaging
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because like i don't i've gone so far like so many cumulative days now without eating all that shit
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that when i do eat it i feel gross dude and so like it's not even what i want when i when i actually
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want to go off plan it's not even what i choose to eat like i used to want to just gorge myself and
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i'd want to eat you know all the all the good foods quote unquote and the reality is and dude
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i remember used to be and i remember you when i used to be like when i had zero discipline i would
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like fantasize about becoming one of these people that like this stuff didn't affect them like i would
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notice friends or people i knew or guys that were good they were athletes you know and we would go we
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would go out or we would go to a ball game or whatever dude and they're they're eating on their
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plan right and i always admired that i was always like how what like how come i don't have that like
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why why are they able to do this and it's no big deal and i always wanted that for myself
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and and now i have it like i don't even crave any of that shit and i know how hard that is for
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someone who's at the beginning stages to really understand but when you put like the live hard
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program where you do 75 hard phase one two and three over the course of a year
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you're sort of weeding that out of your your system and and dude i can't tell you i mean you
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probably talk to a bunch of people too who after they started living this lifestyle i mean dude they
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don't really drink ever yeah uh they don't really i mean they're usually pretty ripped all the time
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uh and they're constantly moving forward in life they're not just stagnating and and staying still
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so it's kind of funny when people say oh dude you know it's just a it's a gimmick or a fad well
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i mean fuck dude i only know i don't know any fads the last six years and get bigger as they go you
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know what i mean um but yeah dude i i think that's a good it's a good thing though you know like uh i feel
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very proud about the discipline that i've cultivated and and it's it's so good now where it doesn't even
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feel like discipline it's just like it is what it is like i don't have those mental struggles anymore
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like when i see someone drinking beer i don't think like oh i need to drink beer or when i see someone
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eating pizza it doesn't make me want pizza like i don't even i don't like it used to be like the
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first time i did 75 hard even the first year i did live hard those were mental conversations i had
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you know we talk about in the book the boss voice and the bitch voice but when you get so far down
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the path the boss voice just becomes your default setting and it's not a struggle anymore there's no
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longer this like contentious conversation happening on the inside of your brain you know the little
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angel and the little devil it's just this is what i'm doing and i don't compromise it and i i think
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that's the power of the lifestyle in general um what do you think dude i think you're absolutely right
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and i'm so happy you brought up the the drinking piece yeah because i so specifically remembered
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during the program i was 24 years old living in san diego and i would use the fact that i was doing
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75 hard as an excuse to tell people i wasn't drinking yeah because i was insecure yeah about that fact
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yeah well you were you like in the light the drinking lifestyle yeah i was too yeah so i was partying
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every weekend and i wanted to i wanted to go out still but i was insecure about the fact that i
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wasn't drinking yeah which now that i think about is an entirely different reality than the one that
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i currently live in yeah it's so wild how you progress now i'm proud to not drink yeah and but there
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was a moment there where that was part of my identity that's part of who i was yeah and so one thing
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that i'm uh this conversation is just making me think of is like there's a lot of people who whose identity
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right now listening here is i'm a drinker yeah and i drink alcohol and that's an important part well
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okay well do 75 hard you have an excuse a way around it in that moment so that you can eventually
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be secure in the fact that you don't drink you know what was hard for me at first was because
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the drinking lifestyle was such a big part of my social existence yeah you know um i knew the people
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where i would go to drink at i had my friends that i drank with and it was hard for me to
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see my life outside of that because that was such a big part of my life and i think it's important
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for people to realize that once you kind of unplug from that and you see it for what it is uh
00:25:23.420
uh it's really just not it's just not a healthy way to live and and i don't mean that like physically
00:25:31.660
healthy i mean just overall man you know a lot of people spend their whole lives in a bar and
00:25:40.300
you know when you unplug from that and you start to recognize it you know one of the things that that
00:25:44.220
really helped me realize why i didn't like it is like if you go to a bar and you imagine imagine
00:25:50.940
there being no music and imagine like all the lights on right and then imagine what that looks
00:25:56.060
like right that's that's what you're at and and when you start to like imagine it like that and
00:26:00.700
see it for what it is and then you see all these people and you look around and they're none of them
00:26:05.980
are in shape they all look sick they all look 10 years older than what they are and you start to
00:26:13.500
realize like dude this is just not what i want to be around and so you unplug and you start to build
00:26:19.340
better relationships with people who are aligned with progress people who are aligned with healthier
00:26:25.260
lifestyle and and dude when you're in the bar scene and you hear that you're like that sounds corny
00:26:29.740
that doesn't sound fun at all but dude i can't tell you how much better i mean i it's a it's a it's a
00:26:37.260
thousand times better it's it's inconceivably better to to unplug yourself from that social scene and and
00:26:44.140
and live a you know i still drink occasionally but i would say most of the time i'm sober life right
00:26:49.820
yeah and it's one thing to hear that on a podcast it's another thing to have the lived experience
00:26:54.940
of on day 76 you drink a beer and you're like wait i missed the program yeah and that completely
00:27:01.900
shifts everything yeah when you actually feel winning is actually doing this and losing is actually
00:27:10.460
the thing that we do to celebrate and that was the hugest mindfuck for me how wait we're we celebrate
00:27:17.660
doing the thing that hurts us yeah this makes no yeah no sense i mean i i got on people for
00:27:23.980
for on twitter i posted on my birthday i was like isn't it so fascinating that we celebrate birthdays by
00:27:30.140
cake and people were like this guy he has no life yeah and i'm like well you're actively doing
00:27:35.580
something that hurts you yeah and where does that come from yeah and why do we celebrate
00:27:40.620
by doing things that actively hurt us yeah that makes no sense to me it doesn't to me either but
00:27:46.380
it always did before it did before and and i think that's an awareness that you have to come to on your
00:27:52.700
own dude let me ask you this you know we talk a lot about the benefits the mental benefits of 75 hard
00:27:59.500
right the confidence the grit the self-esteem the the self-belief the ability to endure let's talk
00:28:06.620
about some of those character traits and and how this helped you develop not just the first time
00:28:11.100
through but over the last five years or so so i mean there's so many examples but just dude you
00:28:18.300
got the open mic yeah let it rip so what happened was the first time i noticed the program actually
00:28:25.020
making an impact on me after i had done it was when i started to meditate 60 minutes a day for
00:28:31.340
from may 2020 to december of 2020 i never i started meditating when i did the program so it was basically
00:28:38.380
75 hard plus a meditation of 15 minutes in the morning when i started and then after it was over
00:28:44.780
did 20 minutes of med i did 60 minutes of meditation and i carried that through for the rest of the year
00:28:49.660
and now how do you do that you sit down close your eyes you put a a blanket over you you put your feet
00:28:57.740
out or put them on the floor and just witness what comes up we spend so much of our time in other
00:29:05.020
people's worlds through instagram through the tv through the internet through podcasts but what are
00:29:10.220
you thinking your voice is as important as any of those that you're listening to so i realized that and
00:29:15.500
i started to meditate 60 minutes a day and what i realized it was a 60 minute a day challenge for 60
00:29:20.860
days i realized somewhere around day 30 there is no shot that i would have completed this challenge
00:29:26.940
had it not been for doing 75 hard because there was a moment where it was making an impact but i didn't
00:29:32.140
really see it and then i said to myself i'm going to continue doing this because i know if i get to the
00:29:39.180
end of this i'm going to be a different person and i have faith that if i take the appropriate
00:29:44.300
action i will be a different person and so i continued and i continued and it changed my life
00:29:50.060
it changed my perception of myself and it changed everything i saw my reality shift one way it shifted
00:29:55.180
in september of 2020 was i started the podcast and because i'm meditating every day i'm doing 75 hard
00:30:01.100
and the live hard program i'm now talking to people i want to talk to people about my experience
00:30:06.620
so so those were within one year i mean within one year i can't do what i say i'm going to do
00:30:11.660
to now i have a podcast and i'm doing three episodes a week i mean that's a completely
00:30:15.980
different reality and i'm meditating 60 minutes a day during the time when everyone's losing their
00:30:20.220
mind so that was a cool moment of building mental toughness grit and discipline what you notice is
00:30:27.740
it gets bigger and bigger just on on december 31st of this year or december 30th of 2023 rather
00:30:35.180
my buddy matt choi text me and he says hey do you want to run a marathon tomorrow i said yeah let's
00:30:41.500
do it i knew i was that person who was capable of doing that but it was only because of 75 hard that
00:30:47.340
i knew that i wouldn't have done that i'd ran a marathon a month prior but i wouldn't have done
00:30:53.100
that had it not been for for doing 75 hard so the ways in which this program shapes you is phenomenal
00:30:58.780
now what do you when you talk about like you know when we talk about like the grit the confidence
00:31:04.060
self-esteem you know as you're making this progress from someone who can't do what they say they're
00:31:11.020
going to do to someone who's clearly moving down the path of progress did you find that
00:31:19.100
the more you dug into this lifestyle the more those skills compounded for you absolutely i mean it's
00:31:25.900
it's not it's not a question but what's interesting is that every time i think i have it figured out
00:31:33.100
and every time like no i don't need the program i go to a low that is needed where i need to recalibrate
00:31:40.620
and i think if i spend uh three months off the program i'm like something's wrong something's off
00:31:49.100
and and i need to change something i mean dude i went through this this breakup three months ago three
00:31:55.100
months ago almost to this day and i was the lowest that i've ever been in my entire life
00:32:00.700
just feeling like who am i what am i doing and it was a month of just being in absolute
00:32:09.900
distress and and sorrow and and sadness and it was only until my friend talia was like you know
00:32:17.100
you mentioned doing 75 hard i'm gonna do that you want to do with me i was like yes
00:32:20.940
that changed my life doing it on june 15th starting the program again so it's like yeah it's a great
00:32:28.540
tool for recalibration that's it that's the thing is like it's you know people think you can do something
00:32:36.220
once right you can go on a diet once or you can uh you know train for a marathon and do it once or or you
00:32:44.060
can you know do 75 hard once and it's gonna stick it's listen these skills that we talk about
00:32:52.060
discipline grit fortitude self-belief confidence the ability to endure all of these things are
00:33:00.060
perishable they are things that will go down if you do not practice them if you don't practice playing
00:33:06.780
the guitar you're going to get worse at guitar playing if you don't shoot on a regular basis you're
00:33:13.740
going to become a worse shot all right if you don't shoot baskets every single day guess what
00:33:20.620
you're not going to be as good as you could be and it's no if you don't take a shower guess what
00:33:25.900
you're gonna stink and that's the thing about this this program is that that's why it's designed in a
00:33:31.820
framework of one year all right it's 75 days for those of you guys that don't know then it's phase
00:33:38.140
one is 30 days phase two is 30 days and phase three is 30 days and they are all spaced out at
00:33:43.980
your discretion throughout the year except phase three phase three is done 30 days prior to the
00:33:50.620
anniversary of you starting 75 hard the year before okay and the purpose of this is so that we can keep
00:33:57.980
these skills sharp all right because just because you do 75 hard once doesn't mean that your discipline
00:34:05.580
is going to be at a high level the rest of the year it doesn't even last that long that's the
00:34:11.340
thing what does last that long is your awareness your awareness lasts forever because like we talked
00:34:17.340
about before you're now understanding what you're capable of you're now understanding what your
00:34:23.100
potential is and what it could be if you execute it all the time all right but the ability to execute
00:34:30.220
is a different story the your confidence staying high your confidence isn't going to stay high all
00:34:35.340
the time you're going to have dings on your confidence you're going to have breakups you're
00:34:40.060
going to have career changes you're going to have unexpected hardships that's called life dude and we
00:34:47.100
have to know when it's time to you know take another shower right or recalibrate our our discipline and
00:34:54.140
our toughness and our our mental fortitude and our ability you know to endure and our confidence and all
00:34:59.580
these things we have to look at those as if they are sliding scales that are always moving and i like
00:35:06.300
to compare this to like you know a video game right like let's just you know madden football is a game
00:35:11.580
i used to play and you get a football player and you'd have a guy on there that had speed 99 and then
00:35:17.180
strength you know he had 80 and then his agility was like 90 and they had all these different levels and
00:35:23.100
if you think about yourself like that and you think about the categories being discipline grit
00:35:29.820
fortitude mental toughness confidence belief all of these self-esteem all of these things they're
00:35:37.100
always moving up and down because of the environment that we're living in because nobody is so immune
00:35:43.500
and so strong that they can just stay at the top level all the time nobody there's not a single person
00:35:49.340
on earth we i mean we see this in sports all the time right we see the pitcher who's a phenomenal
00:35:55.420
pitcher and then all of a sudden he loses his shit and can't throw a fucking strike right or we see a
00:36:00.940
football guy who was an amazing player all through college and then he gets to the pros and he's horrible
00:36:06.700
the reason isn't skill dude the reason is somewhere in that in that mental mindset they have allowed
00:36:13.660
their levels to go down and they haven't figured out how to replenish them so we as a like dude look
00:36:20.540
anybody listen to this show you have goals for achievement or else you wouldn't be listening
00:36:25.500
so we all of us listening as high achievers or want to be high achievers we have to realize
00:36:32.140
that we have to constantly be assessing where we are right we have to self-assess where am i like you
00:36:38.860
just said i just went through this breakup i'm i'm really low i need to get my ship back together
00:36:44.300
yes i'm going to use this tool to get it back to where it needs to be and that's how i look at the
00:36:49.180
program and and that's how you should look at the program you shouldn't look at it as a cure-all be-all
00:36:54.940
one-time one-stop shop you should look at it as okay i did the program i've got the awareness i
00:37:02.380
understand how to build these things and then the next step past that is being aware enough to
00:37:08.140
self-evaluate as you go through your life to know when you need to sharpen the blade so to speak
00:37:15.100
and uh those two things the the ability to execute on 75 hard once and then the ability to know when
00:37:23.740
you need it again bro i i think though if you can if you can do that i don't think that you can
00:37:30.540
i think the limits of of a human are almost non-existent because we like i said on the compounding
00:37:38.060
effect the longer you do it the more you invest just like like we say when you don't do it and
00:37:44.860
it goes down the more you do it the higher it goes so the higher your levels go yes and and dude to be
00:37:50.940
a high achiever on a high level you're competing with the best in the world so this whether you
00:37:55.980
want to believe that or not you are and when you think about where your levels need to be it's it has to
00:38:01.500
be something that you're you know like when you start to let it when you start to notice that it dips you
00:38:06.140
should be right on that and say all right dude it's time for me to recalibrate phase one should
00:38:10.380
start now phase two should start now right 75 hard should start now and um i think that's a very very
00:38:17.340
very important way to look at the at this program as a tool not as a cure it's not a cure it's never
00:38:24.940
been told never been told you i've never told you guys it was a cure it's never been presented as a
00:38:29.660
cure it's presented as a tool that we use when we uh you know realize that we need it absolutely
00:38:37.180
and what i was thinking about on that was so beautifully said i was on a run this morning
00:38:42.620
and i realized that i am the way i am the way out of every situation i need to get out of or every
00:38:51.420
situation i want to go towards i am the way you are the way there's nobody else that's going to come
00:38:57.260
save you there's nobody else that's coming for you and and checking off your tasks for you you
00:39:02.140
are the way for everything and if people really understood that they would get excited when the
00:39:07.980
day gets hard yeah they would get excited when there's two workouts and it's four o'clock in the
00:39:12.300
afternoon and you haven't done it yeah they get excited for when life throws them a curveball
00:39:16.620
because you're the way out yeah and when you understand that and live that you become a
00:39:21.580
different person bro it's a chance it's a test every single day where you have those days where
00:39:27.500
it's like like dude i'm having one a day to be just completely honest like today i procrastinated so
00:39:33.740
hard on training because i've just had one thing after another after another in my business life today
00:39:40.540
and i didn't want to train and and i did i had a great workout but the point is is that you start to
00:39:48.380
look at those to your point you start to look at those times as an opportunity as opposed to
00:39:56.300
something that's negative right like okay cool i woke up at four i still got two or i still got two
00:40:01.740
workouts uh to go today um that's an opportunity to prove to myself that i can overcome this and get
00:40:09.820
this done right uh yeah it's midnight i haven't got my second workout in you know what uh i'm gonna go do
00:40:16.460
it and then when you do it those hard workouts are the ones that pay you the most right those those
00:40:22.620
critical tasks that we that we accomplish when your back is against the wall is when you learn
00:40:30.300
that you actually are capable of doing these things and so you know as you start to progress mentally
00:40:36.940
yeah dude i think it's absolutely true that when tests present themselves you get excited about it as
00:40:43.180
opposed to uh demoralized i think whenever you know what most people do yeah you know what's so
00:40:48.780
interesting is this is my fourth time through the program and i have not i've every single day i've
00:40:56.620
gotten it done before 7 p.m at night there's been no moment where it's nine o'clock or 11 o'clock i'm
00:41:04.140
laying in bed and i'm like wow isn't that the win yeah as well the fact that you're talking about you
00:41:09.180
figured it out yeah that you can actually get your done yeah there's no and and that was so fascinating
00:41:15.020
for me to realize is i used to procrastinate this yeah i used to wait until the end and that was my
00:41:20.700
way of coping but when you realize and do this program enough you realize you're gonna do it one
00:41:25.580
way or another so might as well do it early yeah i noticed that too man the more i've now that you say
00:41:30.620
that like i don't have those days anymore where i where it's midnight and i gotta get out and do my
00:41:36.220
my thing like that's not like if i know i'm having a hard day tomorrow meaning my schedule is
00:41:41.740
packed i figure it out dude i get up an hour earlier two hours earlier or i make time to get
00:41:47.500
it done because i don't want to be out doing it and dude that's a valuable skill as well the time
00:41:52.220
management aspect that that this program teaches people i think is one of the biggest benefits uh of
00:41:58.860
the program and a lot of people when they first look at it they say there's no way i have time to do
00:42:05.100
all this i'm busy and then when they're like it i'm gonna do it they get like two weeks in and
00:42:09.900
they're like dude i actually have way more time because i know that i can't be distracted with
00:42:15.260
bullshit i can't allow people to steal my time and one of the things that was really uh good for me
00:42:22.860
was not just the time management but it was also the realization of how many people and how much time
00:42:31.420
was being stolen from me over nothing my tolerance for bullshit went to zero my tolerance for other
00:42:38.700
people's excuses went to zero and it really showed me a lot about other people when i started figuring
00:42:45.580
this out because like dude when you're living at a high standard and you're doing all these things
00:42:50.380
and you're around people that aren't even trying or you're around people that are making excuses
00:42:55.020
or you're around people that are saying oh my god i'm so busy when they really don't do
00:42:59.100
shit it starts to wear you out real quick because you're paying the price it's kind of like having
00:43:04.780
to do a job with like a you know it's you and four other people and we got to move this pile of rocks
00:43:10.220
from over here to over there and you're doing all the shoveling and they're not doing shit you start to
00:43:14.540
be like well fuck you guys and dude it eliminates a lot of the weak relationships out of your life
00:43:19.820
that's something it did for me that i'm very thankful for and you know of course people get upset about
00:43:24.300
that because they're like oh well you got too good for us no dude i'm just on a different path
00:43:29.020
i'm trying to squeeze out everything that i can squeeze out i'm not trying to be a normal
00:43:33.340
motherfucker dude i'm not trying to wake up every day go to my job get paid go home and repeat that
00:43:40.060
cycle for i'm trying to be the best that i can be so that like when my time comes i can say all right
00:43:46.140
dude you left it out there on the field bro you know what i'm saying i'm not going to have regrets
00:43:50.460
now i might have some regrets like maybe i will regret that i didn't you know do more fun things
00:43:56.140
or whatever but dude that's just not the way i'm wired i'm wired for achievement i'm wired for battle
00:44:01.820
and um i have to have a fight you know warriors got to have a war and for me i i love the fact that
00:44:10.380
i'm constantly getting better and i love the fact that as i'm constantly getting better the people
00:44:16.220
around me and the people that i attract and the relationships that i build even now in my 40s
00:44:21.660
i'm meeting people who are of higher standard i'm meeting people who hold a higher standard
00:44:26.220
all of my friends now they're all you know they're all sort of the same you know they're not out like
00:44:32.860
getting wasted and and they're not they're all focused they're all willing to work hard they're all
00:44:38.060
moving in the same direction and dude that feels a hell of a lot better than being the only guy in
00:44:43.180
your circle that's like running hard you know what i mean yeah when you're high energy and you're
00:44:46.940
living a life that's in alignment to you it really puts a magnifying glass on the people who are not
00:44:52.780
bro and when you see that and experience that you just get excited i do to continue pushing that path
00:44:59.420
because the people in my life just keep getting better and better and better yeah and at younger and
00:45:03.820
younger ages yeah so it's like i i have a 22 year old friend right now named ben and i'm like this
00:45:09.580
guy is so self-aware he cares so much about life he's trying so hard this guy is someone i want to
00:45:14.620
be around yeah and it's like where were those people when i was 22. bro that's how he's
00:45:18.300
fucking partying that's how i felt when i met you dude real talk man i appreciate yeah i tell everybody
00:45:23.020
i know i'm like bro you got to talk to danny miranda you got to go on and do a show you got to listen to
00:45:29.180
a show um it's really really cool and i know i tell you this all the time and i've told you this before
00:45:36.060
the it's cool to have a young guy kind of carrying that torch you know there's very few young people
00:45:43.580
out there carrying that torch of high standards uh you know matt graham does it you do it uh there's
00:45:49.580
a couple other guys online that i really that i really enjoy their their content and their persona
00:45:54.220
and the example that they're setting um and you know this aside from all this i just think you're
00:45:59.340
really setting an amazing example for the other guys around you bro thank you it's a big deal it's a
00:46:03.660
big deal i really appreciate that i really appreciate it so let's talk about this brother
00:46:09.100
um how did it affect your like we talked about this just a minute ago but like like your actual
00:46:15.020
roster of friends like how did it what happened during this whole last five years i wonder if it's
00:46:21.820
similar to what's happened with me yeah dude i mean my friends used to i was big in partying and
00:46:26.940
drinking and that was fun but my friends now are some of the coolest most interesting insightful
00:46:34.300
hard-working people i know yeah and i i'm so blessed i live in austin texas and the only reason i live in
00:46:41.980
austin texas is because the people there are so in alignment with who i am and my friends are
00:46:48.700
everybody you know you know what i was thinking about the other day my friends are people who get
00:46:56.300
shit done on their own and i trust them 100 to get the job done and they trust me 100 to get the job
00:47:04.300
done myself why because i've proved it with the podcast with my meditation with my working out like
00:47:09.260
i've proved that i can do things on my own and they've proved they could do things on their own too
00:47:13.500
and together we come and do things together and that is such a special relationship because
00:47:18.460
we don't need anything from anyone yeah we're not using each other to validate ourselves yeah we're
00:47:22.940
not using each other so that we could have this habit we like doing the habits that we like doing
00:47:28.460
on our own and together we come together yeah and we get better yeah it's the best thing in the world
00:47:33.740
dude that's that's that's what it's about that's what friends should be right friends shouldn't be
00:47:39.100
people that drag you off course like it's weird to me how many people i get this all the time from
00:47:45.180
the show people who they feel like because they grew up with people or because they knew people
00:47:52.700
in high school or in college they feel this sense of loyalty towards them even though those people don't
00:47:59.180
do anything but bring negative into their life right gossip drama alcohol partying uh you know
00:48:07.180
criticism of your goals and dreams like dude you guys have to understand you have to cut that loose
00:48:13.740
being successful and becoming a high achiever in any area of life is super super super super super rare
00:48:21.340
and super fucking hard okay that's why it's rare and if you think you're going to be the first person
00:48:29.340
in the history of the fucking world to carry a bunch of dead weight motherfuckers to the finish line
00:48:35.500
you're insane it's not going to happen for you bro so like you have to figure out who you are you have
00:48:42.540
to become that person and then you will see these other great people start to materialize around you
00:48:48.940
you know one of the the the questions that we get frequently is how do i find more friends that are
00:48:54.700
of high level how do i network better listen dude how do i find a better girlfriend or a better boyfriend
00:49:01.020
like listen listen you have to become what it is you desire you have to become the person that you desire
00:49:10.780
in your life from the other person whether that's a relationship or whether that's a friendship or
00:49:16.220
whether that's you know whatever it is you have to become that and then when you become that it attracts
00:49:23.660
the other ones to you okay you don't go out there as a piece of shit and get to hang out with the world
00:49:30.220
champions bro like that's not how it works you don't get to be a shitty fucking athlete and go hang out
00:49:35.900
with the new england patriots no you have to be good and then they're like hey come hang out with us
00:49:41.180
and that's how this works dude so you guys out here who feel like you know yeah man i want to get
00:49:46.700
better and yeah i want to do better and yeah i want to have better friends and i want to network
00:49:51.020
okay cool become the kind of person that you want to attract and those people will surround you
00:49:57.340
automatically you won't have to try you won't have to go network they will just find you bro because
00:50:03.740
it's so rare that when you find somebody like that you know it like like like you know what i'm saying
00:50:09.980
when you meet someone who's special who's who's driven who's disciplined who is one of these people who
00:50:16.700
gets done what they say they're going to do do you you know it right away so it's an automatic thing so
00:50:24.060
like dude you guys have to understand it's not find the group and then work to fit in it's become the
00:50:29.900
person and create your own group because they those people will find you that's right and here's the
00:50:35.660
thing people listen to podcasts because often they're in the middle period yeah the middle no man's
00:50:41.740
land no man's land is an important piece to talk about you you have these habits or you have this
00:50:46.860
these friends that you grew up with and now you say okay i'm going to do 75 hard and i'm going to be a
00:50:51.660
different person but guess what in between you having the group that you want to be around and you
00:50:57.740
your current life that's the middle period yeah and the middle period you have to have faith in the
00:51:01.900
middle period that you're doing what you say you're going to do you're building yourself into the
00:51:05.820
person that you want to be and just have faith it will work out yeah and it will i'm living proof
00:51:11.420
of it i have the best friends in the world and it's only because i waited the middle period and i
00:51:16.300
didn't sacrifice my progress because i could have friends that were not in alignment with the person
00:51:22.140
that i wanted to be dude it's super super important to talk about this because so many people
00:51:27.580
will limit their own life and their own success based around other people's standards of what success
00:51:33.740
looks like and what i mean by that is is is what danny's talking about okay you grew up with this
00:51:39.740
group of friends from high school and you decide that you're going to go out and you're going to
00:51:45.020
become a successful businessman who has his whole life together and these people you know they're happy
00:51:51.340
where they want to be and that's okay i'm not judging but they're happy working their regular job
00:51:56.860
coming home drinking thursday friday saturday sunday they're happy with that because they're unaware
00:52:02.540
just just so we understand each other that's why they're happy ignorance is bliss that's the saying
00:52:08.300
and then you start to move away from that okay and this is where that phrase lonely at the top
00:52:14.460
comes from because you start to make progress maybe you get a better career or you get in better
00:52:20.300
shape or all of that right and your life starts to come together in a little bit better way and you
00:52:25.580
get in this area and i call it no man's land where you don't have many friends all right and and you
00:52:32.780
know what most people do at this point in time is they get really uncomfortable because it is
00:52:38.380
uncomfortable when you don't know how to what it is when you don't know to expect it it's very
00:52:43.260
very very uncomfortable you're like i have i've alienated my friends i've i've you know i've lost all
00:52:49.420
my people i i don't have new i'm gonna end up alone i'm gonna die alone holy shit and you freak
00:52:53.980
the fuck out and then you start to go back to their group because you are afraid of continuing to move
00:53:00.540
forward but what you'll find is that when you continue to move forward is like we're talking
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about here you will begin to attract these other people who are no longer making fun of you for your
00:53:11.900
goals they're no longer talking shit when you say i'm going to do this big impossible crazy thing
00:53:18.460
they're saying yeah dude you should how can i help right and this changes your entire life because
00:53:24.860
now you're not surrounded by anchors now you've got a few propellers in the boat right and then if you
00:53:31.580
keep going and if you level up even again the same thing will repeat itself and it will keep repeating
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itself over and over and over the higher that you go and every time there'll be one or two people that
00:53:43.660
decide to go with you and the rest will stay there and yes you'll maintain amicable decent relationships
00:53:49.660
with those people but you're not going to be with them all the time and so what you guys have to
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understand is that when you start to progress you are going to feel alone at first and it's going to
00:53:59.020
be uncomfortable but if you keep going your life gets so much better and so much more fulfilling
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and quite honestly so much easier because you have people around you that are now pushing you down
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the path as opposed to trying to hold you back from the path and that's that's an amazing thing
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if you can withstand the time that you're alone and most people have a problem with that and i think
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it's because they don't expect it i think it's because they don't you know how do you know something
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that you don't know how do you know something that you never experienced and um you guys are out
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there like right now i know there's a lot of you because like i said we have a lot of high achievers and
00:54:37.340
ambitious people here you guys you know to you guys are feeling alone and feeling like man you
00:54:42.860
know i just fuck let us be your fucking friends bro look coming we're here almost every day all
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right we're out here like i always say this shit on my instagram story we work together we win
00:54:52.140
together follow danny bro he's working every fucking day we may not talk every day but i guarantee you
00:54:58.540
bro we live the example every single day and until you find that new group let us be your group
00:55:04.620
all right well this is why i set up my daily commitment because i want to help people do 75
00:55:09.820
hard who are in that middle period of their life so i'm i'm creating a program where you do 75 hard
00:55:15.820
we'll do a call a week let me be your friend let's go and i'll have the forum for you to come to
00:55:21.500
yeah so send me a message it's like that is i created the my program because of that yeah the 75
00:55:27.660
hard community is very very supportive dude yeah there's a very there's also an official facebook group
00:55:33.260
on facebook uh but dude you don't even have to do that all you got to do is go through the 75 hard
00:55:37.980
hashtag you'll find thousands of people doing it at any given time and dm them you know connect with
00:55:43.820
them be the accountability for each other yeah it makes a huge difference that's why i completed it
00:55:48.380
the first time was because i had a friend tez dosa who every day we would text each other at the end of
00:55:54.060
the day and say we completed this day and it's like that was the thing yeah that we did that too the
00:55:59.820
first time it's important the first time i did it well obviously me being the person that made it
00:56:05.020
the the first time i did it i knew i couldn't fucking fail like i was like if i fail i'm
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fucked and we also had a group with uh with my companies with supplement superstores and first
00:56:16.060
form of a bunch of guys who did it the first time with me and every day we'd all be like telling
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because like it was the first time through ever we'd all be sharing notes like how they felt and i
00:56:26.140
remember like dude the first time i got through a full week meaning monday through sunday and i was
00:56:32.380
on the next monday and i had it like i've made it bro i thought i i was like dude fuck yeah like that
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was a huge win for me because i was always the person who couldn't go a full week without cheating
00:56:45.580
on their diet or or even like three or four days i was that guy and um i was the guy you know who would
00:56:53.100
get three or four days into a diet and be like all right man you deserve a reward right and then i
00:56:57.820
would reward myself with the that i was trying to get away from you know and when you think about
00:57:02.700
that psychologically you know you can't ever really get away from the bad habits living like that you
00:57:08.540
have to go an extended period of time without you know when we talk about like what it's like to be
00:57:14.060
in this culture of alcohol and food you know we have to drink we have to eat to survive and these
00:57:21.900
things become so normal to us that it's almost impossible to quit like think of someone who's
00:57:27.420
addicted to food bro like for real i was a food addict i had no control over what somebody put in
00:57:33.580
front of my face none if somebody put something in front of my face i had to eat it and i know that
00:57:38.940
sounds like really ridiculous but i had zero control and for me that's the equivalent of
00:57:48.380
you know i'm being told hey you have to eat less you can't eat all this but you have to eat
00:57:54.860
all right and i was also an overeater so so think about that how hard that is to quit when you have
00:58:00.060
cheat meals inside the framework of that because what you're telling somebody for real is like okay
00:58:06.940
you're you're a heroin addict and you got to quit doing this because you're doing too much of it
00:58:12.380
but you got to do a little bit or or else you'll die okay now think how hard that is for a
00:58:17.260
addict so so now uh oh and by the way on saturday because you did good you can get high as you get
00:58:23.660
all is what you want how can you ever get over it you can't okay so we have to understand that
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mentally we have to go without for an extended period of time to prove to ourselves that we are capable of
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doing it and i remember that dude that was one of the key lessons for me the first time i went through
00:58:41.420
when i got that eighth day in and i was like bro i made it through a whole week and a weekend
00:58:46.220
perfect bro that was very powerful for me you know what's so fascinating about that is how often
00:58:53.260
before the program i believe that the conditions were dictating the actions and so all right friday
00:58:59.260
saturday sunday that means drink all right the weather is bad out that means don't work out yes and
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now it's i create the conditions no matter what yes and i am capable of doing what i'm supposed to
00:59:11.180
do no matter what dude if you are the kind of person that can execute see dude this is this is the key
00:59:18.540
okay we're really hitting on the keys to success in life in anything right here this point look dude
00:59:25.980
most people cannot operate they cannot execute unless conditions are absolutely perfect and the
00:59:33.740
problem with that is is that conditions are very rarely perfect so if you can learn to execute when
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things are imperfect or even when things are chaotic you are at a massive advantage over someone who is
00:59:46.540
like everybody else who can only move when is perfect 70 degrees outside perfectly sunny not a rain in the
00:59:53.900
sky nothing's going wrong in my life and i got a great day in today no bro you have to be able to
01:00:00.060
do it when it's perfect you have to be able to do it when it's minus 30 and there's a foot of snow on
01:00:05.260
the ground you have to be able to do it when it's 105 and it's hot as shit or it's storming it doesn't
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matter bro and if you can understand and and those are those are metaphorical things right the storm and
01:00:18.060
the snow these represent hardships and inconveniences and difficult times in our lives bad days you know
01:00:24.940
our girlfriend leaves us we get divorced our dog passes away these are difficult things we lose
01:00:30.620
somebody these things happen man it's called life and we have to be able to operate at high levels
01:00:36.540
regardless of what's going on in life over the cumulative okay now i understand and in no way shape
01:00:43.660
or form my saying that you lose your spouse and you're supposed to do your workouts that day that's
01:00:48.300
not the fuck i'm saying what i'm saying is that you need to be able to pull yourself out and you need
01:00:53.740
to know how to get back on track quickly and you have to operate over the cumulative time of your life
01:01:01.740
at a higher standard when times are not ideal because most of the times they won't be and if you can
01:01:07.420
become that person that can execute whether it's storming whether it's sunny whether it's raining
01:01:13.340
whether it's snowing whether it's hot whether it's cold bro you are at a tremendous advantage
01:01:18.860
over everybody else and people will say well i'm not competing with everybody else yes you are
01:01:23.340
you absolutely are you just don't you you bought into this in society if someone else can only
01:01:29.740
execute three days out of the month that are perfect and you can execute 30 you are doing 10 times
01:01:34.860
the amount of as that person you are going to win infinitely more and infinitely more frequent and and
01:01:42.140
just more in general so you know that's that's the key dude that's the key along with along with
01:01:49.500
along with being able to repeat the day one over and over you know dude people would come up to me
01:01:54.780
and they'd be like how do you how do you do three episodes a week of your podcast when i was doing it
01:01:59.100
yeah it's like bro are you kidding me you can't do three episodes a week yeah i don't care if you're
01:02:05.260
working another you can do three episodes a week if you commit yourself to it and you know you
01:02:09.820
hold a standard for yourself that's it yeah just we're doing three we're doing three yeah you could
01:02:14.940
do five you could do seven yeah you could do whatever the heck you want yeah it's not a like
01:02:19.740
people are so shocked at the smallest bit of success it's like you executing three episodes a week you
01:02:27.500
you know i most podcasts go to 20 episodes so you just do three episodes a week for five weeks six
01:02:37.020
weeks seven seven weeks by the seventh week you've done more podcast episodes than 99 of people that's
01:02:46.060
right that's right bro but most people when they start a podcast or whatever dude they buy five episodes
01:02:51.260
if they're not ranked in the top 100 they quit it's like bro do you understand there's millions of
01:02:55.740
podcasts it's the hardest social platform to get traction on by far yeah it's the hardest which
01:03:01.420
is why i don't do any of the other social i just do that right because i got the momentum there i'm
01:03:05.660
gonna stay there um dude let's talk about this what about your reading i love reading yeah so let's talk
01:03:13.420
about some of your favorite books man yeah so two books have changed my life forever uh map of
01:03:19.660
consciousness explained by david hawkins the surrender experiment by michael singer and those are two
01:03:27.660
books that reshaped who i was as a human being and helped me understand that there's
01:03:37.020
one thing is that love rules all and when i say love rules all 75 hard is the greatest example of giving
01:03:44.940
love to yourself every day so that you can give love to other people and i'm i'm not just talking
01:03:50.060
about love in this light and fairy way like the real practicality of love what does loving yourself
01:03:56.460
mean loving yourself means doing what you say you're going to do and holding a high standard for yourself
01:04:01.660
and what that book by david hawkins showed me is that the better that we can get at loving another
01:04:07.900
person the better we can get at showing love the more amazing things come into our lives so that starts
01:04:13.660
with who you are and what you do every single day which 75 hard show me the other book the surrender
01:04:19.740
experiment by michael singer told me that there's a lot going on here that we are not in control of
01:04:26.860
75 hard shows you you are in control of a lot of your life and you if you do the tasks every day you
01:04:33.500
can control how you feel but then there's also a lot that's happening that is outside my control i didn't
01:04:39.820
know on august 8 2024 i'd be here that's outside my control i just show up every day and do what i'm
01:04:44.860
supposed to do right i i don't control when i meet certain friends or how certain opportunities come
01:04:50.940
in you don't control that we all we do is show up how we can show up so surrender to what you don't
01:04:57.820
have control over is a really important thing that the surrender experiment by michael singer showed me
01:05:02.460
so those are two books i'm currently reading how champions think by dr bob rotella which is more in
01:05:07.580
the line of the habits the routines but what i love about this program in general is that it's
01:05:14.140
made me consistent with reading right i've always been somebody who would love reading but would be
01:05:21.180
inconsistent with it how do you think that's benefiting you it's made me realize that if i'm in the process
01:05:30.460
of reading i'm in the process of learning from somebody who took time out of their life to put
01:05:38.300
together these thoughts that were then edited by someone else over a period of years that now i'm
01:05:45.980
getting access to that information yeah reading and podcasting are examples of time travel yeah
01:05:51.820
absolutely dude somebody else is in a different place in a different time giving you information in
01:05:57.020
in that moment how is that not the coolest thing ever dude it's weird to me that people don't
01:06:01.900
understand how to value that kind of thing right like dude when you read a book okay when when i read
01:06:12.620
a book if i take and i'm not a very fast reader you know like i don't i don't mow through books they
01:06:18.380
i it takes me time to read and comprehend so i active read meaning i read things and i take notes
01:06:24.540
and i read parts of it and then i take notes dude i'm reading that entire book for one
01:06:29.980
fucking concept one thing i don't know what it is when i open the book but it's one thing and
01:06:36.620
whatever that one thing is i know is going to benefit my life immensely and probably make me a
01:06:43.660
whole bunch of money a whole bunch okay and it's weird to me how people don't value information
01:06:51.740
properly like right like if you're if you let's say bought an audio course from someone and it
01:06:57.900
costs two hundred dollars and it's fucking seven days long or whatever right i'm making this shit up
01:07:03.820
and you get one fucking concept out of that and it costs you 200 bucks and that concept over the
01:07:10.300
course of your life i mean dude what's that worth you see what i'm saying and i think whenever you
01:07:15.420
start to value reading and value information properly by understanding that like dude i'm not
01:07:21.420
trying to i'm not a book connoisseur where i'm trying to rate the book oh the whole book was
01:07:27.180
it was an a plus or it was a c i didn't like the way that his grammar was no we're looking for that
01:07:33.580
one or two things you know what i'm saying that are going to benefit us and and dude when we can take
01:07:38.700
someone's life and put it into a book like bro there's this book uh about sam walton it was the
01:07:45.420
first book i ever read it's called made in the usa or made in america sam walton first book i ever read
01:07:51.260
in my life which is kind of ironic because like here i'm not now i'm here i never intended to be
01:07:58.860
here when i was there but and but you read this book and it's this man the one of the greatest
01:08:07.740
entrepreneurs ever takes his whole fucking philosophy and puts it in a fucking 250 page
01:08:13.980
book this guy made walmart bro he revolutionized retail he made he his children are the richest
01:08:22.700
people in the fucking world right like if they didn't have it split up six seven different ways
01:08:27.660
it's the biggest empire ever created and um you know to to be able to read that in a couple hours
01:08:36.380
it's like you think what's that worth so you think you're not gonna learn something yeah from
01:08:41.180
the guy who created the thing that you see everywhere yeah it's like anybody yeah and dude
01:08:45.980
you can read a book about anybody's shit like bro you go read shoe dog you could read like whatever it
01:08:51.180
is you're trying to learn about man it's just a highly highly undervalued underutilized skill set
01:08:58.380
and i see a lot of people on the internet look i don't read well and i automatically think i'm like
01:09:02.460
well you're a dumb motherfucker then yeah because like dude you're turning your back to like complete
01:09:08.220
life lessons of some of the smartest people that have ever lived yeah and and what i love about the
01:09:13.500
program too the 10 pages often i'm reading 20 30 40 50 and it's the fact that i can know all right
01:09:21.260
10 is the baseline that's the minimum that we accept for ourselves hey when i'm in the process of
01:09:26.300
i'll finish this chapter i'll get to the next one and so there's something really magical about
01:09:31.900
10 pages is small enough where it seems so easy to to get done that i end up wanting to read more
01:09:38.700
yeah absolutely well brother listen man um we're gonna close the show but i'd like to give you a few
01:09:44.940
minutes to speak to the people about why they should do 75 hard i know you talk about it a lot but
01:09:51.500
you know just let it rip man and let people know what you think yeah man i there's no program that
01:09:58.700
i've come across that has changed more lives and more specifically changed my life than 75 hard and
01:10:04.700
the reason for that is build my discipline built my mental toughness and given me the tool that i need
01:10:09.980
to go back to anytime i want to become all i can be and i sit here before you today feeling the best
01:10:17.980
i've ever felt in my entire life feeling most energetic most alive most like myself and the
01:10:23.420
reason for that is because i've done 75 hard over and over and over and over again and failed and and
01:10:30.860
gone back to ways that i don't want to be but that's such a beautiful thing to know that it's always there
01:10:36.300
i'm always 30 days away from the person i want to be that's right and it's because 75 hard and so
01:10:41.660
i am i feel indebted to the program i will be talking about this program for the rest of my
01:10:47.660
life i will be doing this program for the rest of my life i will help people through this program
01:10:53.980
because i know who i've become as a result somebody who is loving who is caring who is disciplined who's
01:11:00.620
focused who's able to do what he says he's going to do who's able to help other people in the process
01:11:05.340
who's able to use his gifts and i just want everyone to experience what it feels like to live
01:11:13.020
in your purpose 100 of the time day by day by day action by action every moment getting a little bit
01:11:19.180
better a little bit better getting a little bit worse oh getting a lot bit better and over and over
01:11:24.220
and over again and i want everyone to experience that so i want everyone to do 75 hard because it
01:11:29.020
really has changed my life well brother listen dude it's a huge honor to have you on the show
01:11:34.460
guys if you haven't checked out danny please check him out where's your socials at hey danny miranda
01:11:40.620
on x and instagram are the two places i use the most and please send me a message yeah guys this is
01:11:46.620
a tremendous young man um like i said i met danny from doing his podcast which you know i do very very
01:11:53.900
very few podcasts um and the reason i decided to do his podcast was because of how passionate he was
01:12:00.780
about 75 hard and what i saw him doing for other people and if you're a young person um and you're
01:12:06.700
trying to get going i really think that there's a few key people out here that you really need to
01:12:11.980
be following and danny is one of them again matt graham is a great guy to follow as well um but bro i
01:12:19.340
just really appreciate you man i appreciate what you're bringing into the world uh it's very very very
01:12:24.460
real and very genuine and uh i'm just very proud to proud to know you dude i appreciate that so much
01:12:30.780
thank you for the kind words yeah all right guys that's the show 75 hard versus danny miranda go