Can you tell us a bit more?

Sure.

Absolutely.

Um, and I'll just hit on, you know, a few that come to mind.

But I, I was in the Navy SEAL team, so I retired as a commander in 2011.

[sniffs] And, uh, we call it the SEAL teams for a reason, because it's a team.

So what I learned in the SEALs was how to be really an exceptional teammate.

... or, or we need to get rid of, or we need to get rid of it?

What's the thing that like really fires you up?

Well, I love training and coaching in person, right? Like I'm really good at it and you have like instant feedback.

You know what I mean? Yeah.

Like the transformation is right there in front of you and that's powerful.

And I'm getting a little tired of sitting and standing in front of a freaking camera.

You know what I mean? Yeah.

I'm okay with this podcast.

Hmm.

just

shattered.

I know.

If you or I tried that, it would literally split our skull wide open.

But he had developed this capacity to have this leading edge of energy, which was like a knife that before his forehead even touched ice, it already cut through.

Wow.

That's mental power or chi, you know, the harnessing of the life force.

Could you talk about the five plateaus, if you will, and speak about some of the things you've described?

Yeah.

So training the mind, most of you think, well, I, I go to school, or I go to, I went to sales training, right? Or I do this certification here, or I do that, you know, event over there.

And they're really just, um, packing some more content in their head, and they're not actually doing any training.

So I'm talking about not training to learn more things, but to literally transform how your mind works.

Of course, I learned this before my SEAL training through, uh, concentration training in Zen.

But in the SEAL training, the SEALs are all about training the mind to be able to take in more information, to be able to see things that other people don't see, to be able to be really calm and clear in the most chaotic and dangerous environments, and to be incredibly creative, right? So the training the mind is a practice, right? It can't be done episodically.

It's not gonna be done, uh, in what we call horizontally by just trying to pack more information in, right? This is like the first level of learning is just downloading content, and most people think they're done there.

Mm.

What'd your, what'd your mom and dad do?

Dad would ran, you know, ran the family business that was li- now four generations by the time he stumbled into it when his father had a stroke.

And my mom largely supported him, right? But when I say the family, you know, it wasn't like, I didn't learn a lot of business from my dad.

He didn't really know what he was doing.

He's a great guy, but he struggled to hold onto that thing, and now my brothers are running it, and they're, they're, they're doing a really good job.

Um, m- so, so check this out.

Here I am thinking everything's cool, right? I, I'm learning to put points on the board, right? I got my MBA rolling.

[laughs]

90%.

Yeah, 90%.

So I had to pivot again.

So again, all entrepreneurs have to...

I mean, if your business looks the same way it does two years from now, then you're probably not doing the right thing, especially at today's age of disruption or speed of disruption.

So I pivoted into... into training and, and because it was, it was my passion, right? So I said, I'd really love to train other individuals to, to help them, you know, tap into unknown or hidden potential to find their, you know, peak performance, right.

To really tap, use some skills that they didn't know they had.

get out more and just do things,

Oh, so no holds in the other word.

Yeah, right.

So during the day, the practice will lead you to this nostril breathing six breaths per minute, which astoundingly research has come in on this in recent, uh, last two or three years, that that is the ideal breathing pattern for health and longevity.

And we just kinda stumbled on this, and we've been teaching it since, um, the early 2000s.

So what an incredible benefit, and this...

Again, we're just talking about physiological at this point.

The term we use is arousal control.

If we're dragging our feet, we're procrastinating, and we're, "Uh, I don't feel like it," have some avoidance, you have any pro tips there?