It's just a club appearance is dripping best believe is going down. Tell me boy. Don't take nothing for granted. Praise the process episode 3. I'm your host Adam Dio and I am re-recording this intro because we did not do it justice. The first time we recorded it this week. We interview somebody special Colin Patterson. My co-host is back. I missed them and we had the opportunity the privilege to interview a power player this week guys. You guys are really going to appreciate the content before I get into that though. I want to get into our feet and our fee is this please refer us one like-minded friend. For every episode you receive value from so if you receive value from today's episode and our guest please refer us one like-minded friend. We're trying to build a community here guys, and please refer us one like-minded friend for every episode you receive value from in the future. And that's only if you receive value, which you will I'm very confident of that that being said, let's get into who we got the opportunity to interview this week. He's a Serial entrepreneur He's a commercial realtor. He's a fitness Enthusiast he grew up in the Saskatchewan prairies. It's a farm boy, he grew up doing everything and anything on his farm. He's the only boy and his family and he says that he can't eyes so much of what he is back to the lessons and work ethic that he learned getting to work that hard at an early age. Brett's mom and dad will be celebrating their 46th wedding anniversary this year. Congratulations. Mr. Mrs. Barker cultivated a drive and Brett spirit. He thought was unreasonable at the time that drive however is still paying dividends today. Brett owns for Anytime Fitness locations. He's been running these businesses for over nine years over thirteen hundred and thirty six kilometers in three provinces with no loss of momentum or enthusiasm. Brett also owns cosmetic culture and Spa cosmetic culture. Spawn sport is the full name and that's located in beautiful Lake Country British Columbia. He's lost 60 pounds and undergone a total body. Recap whilst Reinventing himself daily. Brett lives his life around his core values love health and freedom. So please join me in welcoming. One of cologne has truly great entrepreneurs. I Dynamic Diversified personality and inspiration a new personal friend of mine the Brett Parker. Wow, thank you for that. That's awesome. Really appreciate it and stoked to be here just on it was the first person on this cast and that that give me another gear you guys so that you get after it. It's perfect man. We're excited to have you here and guys we want to thank you got 300 place so far on this podcast, please keep real and you're going to want to pay that fee after this podcast. So no BS let's get right into it Brett. Let's talk about the beginning man. Have you always been an entrepreneur? Have you always been a Hard worker what really inspired you to get going doing what you're doing. Yeah. I've always believed that the true entrepreneur is is what my parents did man and if you know farming you You just got to get it every day. And you know, there's so much out of your control but there's so much in it. So, you know really from the age of zero on you know, I truly have been entrepreneur. I worked for somebody, you know throughout my life. Absolutely. No, I I've always I went to the rig's during University things like that. Make sure that I was cashed up to have some fun, but always pulled back into working for myself and so out of graduating from University. I worked for about two years one of Being while I owned my first fitness facility as soon as I could and probably a little earlier than I should have. Quit that job and I haven't looked back since so that was that was eight years ago, man. Alright, so growing up on a farm. What lessons did you learn? They still utilize today's and entrepreneur. Yeah, that's just persistence. And and I think you you guys said it's the hard work. I mean, my dad needed is 15 minute nap every day at at 12 o'clock for a reason, you know, he was up at for crushing it we I grew up on a mixed farm. So we raised purebred Charles a cattle. He's grown. He's growing his cropping up to about 3,200 Acres of oh right owned land in in the Saskatchewan prairies, which is amazing. I Right off the Manitoba border on the Saskatchewan side pencil not from getting a cow shit kicked in my face every day to you know to to in Hydra sing and and ceding our crops and watching them grow has been been a part of me and always will be that's that's what I like to tell people is home home home home. Okay, so you started in the Fitness business business, which is a little bit different than now what you started doing the hard work goes across all platforms, but what really inspired you to To own a couple of Fitness locations. What was what was going on there? I played competitive hockey all growing up for the most part always been, you know Sports always been a huge part of my life. And and I owe it a ton. I've always been a big part of team sports. I've recently poured myself more into individual sport, which is a whole nother ball game, especially mentally and and I'm really enjoying that now but back then I would encourage everybody to join. Some form of team sport humming between the camaraderie the mentorship the peer pressure's the coaches and and things like when you find a good coach and team sport, it can be life changing and I was I'm extremely grateful to have many of them from the time. I was young, you know all the way up through Junior Hockey and yeah, that's absolutely playing sports. There's a lot of routine as well as even, you know, growing up on a farm, you know, you undergo These these constant routines to ensure success. So as an entrepreneur currently how pivotal is routine in your life and what specific things do you need to do to ensure that they're tied into your daily progression and your goals for your businesses love it no routine and habit absolutely drives my day and anybody who follows my feet I think could probably although I just kind of started showing more. I guess what I do on that and growing my On the online world as I grow habits are what allow me to continue to push forward. So if you know I wake up I wake up and do the same damn thing every day, you know throughout the day you can't control I have what I call my AM and PM bookends and those babies are locked down, you know ninety-nine out of a hundred days that shit, you know does not get altered and And yeah, if you want me to share what it is, I sure could. Yeah, look we would love that. Yeah, it's so so I wake up I use a sleep timer that wakes me up naturally within a half an hour period and it's usually between 5:30 and 6:00 a.m. Or it's 5:30 to 6:00 a.m. Every day. Sleep cycle. That is the one that has I use that one too. Yeah, look at that great Heroes. Yeah. So yeah, so just naturally wakes you up into a pattern. So I wake up feeling great. Never hit the snooze button. I pop it a bed. My dog is a demanding little shit. So I have to always let her out first and feed her right away and then I get into my stuff. So I drink the same drink first thing when I wake up and this is a this is post bathroom everybody. I'll leave while leave that. Oh, it's because I think that one's that one's everybody's but I do floss and brush my teeth everyday, so I drink the same drink before when I wake up and before this law. Thing I drink before bed. So I've been working on it for a long time. I've actually had to collide of based ulcers when I was a you know, an over the last like five years and I've through diet nutrition and and Iowa big part of it too. I believe this drink of have cured it myself. So it's it's a precious money on Ginger tumeric activated charcoal apple cider vinegar glutamine greens. And what else is in there? And then I just fill that up with water. I mix that up and I drink a liter of water before I do anything as we all know and if anybody is a tractor sleep, we're dehydrated as heck when we wake up. So I drew hydrate as much as I can. I strapped on my running shoes color at my dog and we head out immediately. And and so I firmly believe in getting the body moving right away, so I don't give a chance to sit down and That nature I fast every day for a minimum 13 hours usually 13 because I like to eat and so when I get I I'm usually it's about three and a half K and and that's been varying because I've been extremely I've been moving a lot lately. So I love the hills and I would much prefer and so I just bought a house up Mountain again so I can get back to the trails which is which is nature and what I love so so I'm excited. Be getting back up there. But right now I've been running around what I call the Promenade and and and stuff downtown Kelowna which has its own Beauty, but it's flat. So we push it a little bit harder on flat ground get in and move into my meditation for my meditation. That's that's 20 minutes using I use a couple different apps, but for the most part of non guided meditation, I've worked up to during that meditation. I affirm eight. And I have a few specific mantras that I might even share with you guys later and then I hit my readings and so I fluctuate in my readings but but minimum 20 pages every day, which is which is one of the habits I picked up from James clear. And if you guys haven't checked out get James Clear he is the Habit master and a wicked cool dude all the same time, huh? So he has a book called Atomic a big switch, which was just recently came out actually. Really, but I've been following him for a long time and he's he's a dude so reading, you know get get through that and then then I pretty much move into eating my first meal which is the same every morning which is pretty funny. Now that I'm talking about my Amazon real has and I'm pretty damn habitual. So I 3 farm fresh eggs every morning over easy extra easy, baby. And from there. It's It so I follow a keto Terrian style diet and from its 10 grams of whole oats a cup of blueberries and 3 tablespoons of coconut oil with with like just under a quarter cup of hemp hearts. And and then and only then after I eat do I get into my work so that usually takes somewhere between it does vary a little bit depending on a few things. Things but usually run an hour and 45 minutes from wake up to finishing that and then I slowly go into what I consider is my important work. I'm always proactive off the start of my day. So I sure as shit don't open my emails that's a reactive process. So I jump into things and people that I want to reach out to crush that off immediately and then I started letting people get into my day. Wow. Wow. Okay. So this is amazing for a couple of reasons because a lot of people that are in our age bracket sort of start to look on Instagram and they start to think don't open your down Instagram. Yeah. Don't open your Instagram feed in the morning cool to just get up and you know, just check the phone. But yeah the vacations and then that's a bit of a turn-off the notification a sense but essentially most people our age look at entrepreneurs and they look at what people are posting on mainstream and they think wow, it's the somehow these guys have figured out how to Different days every single day and still kill it at life. And you know, I'm certain three analyzing your process here. I'm starting to learn that there's a lot of routine and there's a lot of not sexy routine behind everything that you are and everything that you're going to be right so sexy brother, but in terms of the routines right like has this been a recent thing or if it is this been a practice for the last 10 years 5 years 2 years. How recent is I learn everyday? So like I said that drink took me two and a half years to concoct and get right. I tweaked it all the time. So I have been sticking to that one, you know for for a while, you know, I'd say over a year. Trust me you guys travel things like that, you know, it gets hard, but I'm telling you if you let If you don't control the morning and and the night when you have control people like me will get you people like you will get us. All right, so you're talking to a young guy. He doesn't know anything that's going on in terms of Entrepreneurship. Let's pretend he's sitting right beside you. What is this simple thing that he can start doing every single morning to start to work towards this amazing routine that you have because these are all habits that you've built right maybe expecting somebody to get up, right? The morning tomorrow that hasn't done any of this shit and expect them to do it. All right off the cuff ain't going to happen. So what's the first floor? What's the what's your 5-10 minute routine? For somebody that's just starting out in this so it will start to sleep so I could talk on sleep for for this whole podcast for that matter. So I'll go post sleep, you know, just just get up if you're dicking around in bed. And if that means grabbing your phone or hitting the snooze button or anything again, you know your it's proven scientifically the that you're just not you're not gonna be able to get after it. But if I had to say one thing you guys like he mentioned I'm a health and fitness, you know about started. Jim's cosmetic culture is a proactive Health business. Move he on if that's a vinyasa flow or a you know, if you got to stay in house, whatever it is get up and get moving. But if I had to back up for sure hydrate, you know, everybody walks around dehydrated and I say everybody I'm even you know bad for it at the day during the day, but we can't think and act if we aren't hydrated so I'd say those two things then those are the first ones that I do and I'd start there and if early isn't you I Maybe don't fight that you know slowly work into that. I'm a firm believer One of the very first self-help books. I don't even know if you call it self help but the miracle morning by Hal Elrod was the very first book that I read that started me on this habit based process, and he just he has a need little acronym for for a lot of those things that I do and and maybe make that your first your first 20 Page read their guys. So guys it has LL rods Miracle morning book is amazing roses talk about it. Seven steps 7, right 7 micro things that you can do in the morning. What is the acronym subscribe? Yeah. I can't even remember anymore. But again, I've you know affirmation scribing meditation moving and he's got a nice little acronym for it. I'm I don't remember the acronym and I don't know if it's 7 or 5, but I just know it was an amazing start to to it all cool guy. So control your morning's get up early. And hydrate, let's start there and try to get into your own version of a morning routine, but let's start there. Alright, so let's get into your fitness journey here and tell us about your amazing transformation. I've lost so much weight and what are some steps people can take to achieve their fitness goals, whether it be gaining muscle or just even simply losing weight. Yeah. So it's all say this. I've kind of rolled a you know, I was a I was the Mariah Carey of guys. I'll say I you know in In high school and stuff. I fought with my weight I'll say but I was always so active that it kind of stayed semi under under control, you know for the most part are getting into AAA hockey and Junior Hockey and and more that that also you know was a That automatically kept things where it needed to be and so I I sure didn't have the muscle tone that I would have wanted there. But but from an endurance perspective and that is occupy are at the level that I did it, you know, it left at their High School. I got it Army in University. I got into lifting weights and I was in really good shape. It was those it was really the end of University and and the I'll see those first two years so that job that I talked about that I had for two years was a marketing representative role. So it was that one where you're in Saskatchewan and you know, there's there's no juice and smoothie bars and and freshy it was it was Chinese food and Broad View and there and and bears and you know, everything like that, right? And so that's where that's where I've seen things, you know, get out of control for me. So there was a time and I I almost can't even freaking believe it. There is an entire year that I never walked my dog. And and you know, I'm thinking back on that right now and it's absolutely mind-blowing because I you know II average near 20,000 steps and I don't count me like I my steps are tracked like I don't pay attention to them. That's just naturally I get, you know, roughly 17,000 on average now and all of that I mean shit She's with me 12,000 of them. Right? So so that's crazy me but yeah, you know, so that's really what happened bad habits the job, you know, I slid out of some of the habits that were, you know, I don't want to say forced upon me through hockey. But but that were just not a Neo naturally occurred and so it's really been the last You know I started and that's when the gyms kinda came up didn't ever think I'd ever be able to do it but kind of when we when I when I decided to do our first gym that give me the motivation to draw probably about 30 30 issue of those pounds. I stayed around so so just to back up a little bit. I'm sick 6, okay, so I was to 266 at one time and now I carry myself around 205 pounds and so I carry myself. 235 for a long time like, you know, probably probably five years, you know of which, you know still too heavy for my frame and it's really just been the last three years that things have. You know, these habits really kicked in and like I said, I've been working with a diet that works for me and I don't push any diet on any person, you know, we all come from different places and any different things and really got to find what's right for you. And and be consistent with it, you know, I never believed in being on a diet and so I used the word diet. It's a lifestyle and if it's not something that you can enjoy and and you know, I'll I was just out with a couple buddies right before this and I had a pint of beer and I don't drink very much at all, but I don't ever see, you know, like if I'm out with my buddies and I want to have a beer I bloody will have a beer right? And yeah, so it's absolutely you know, you got to have some of it and and as an You're always out of balance. But so, you know, it's about finding what works for you. And you know, if there isn't a gym clothes, like I said, I live five times a week various different styles. I kind of rotate through to make sure I'm fresh with it but backing up like if you're new to it get a coach, you know get a trainer. It'll be some of the best money that you've ever spent. I've hired them throughout my entire journey. I just went I just hired a physiotherapist the other day because I've got a few imbalances in my body and it was $85 and some of the best $85 I've spent in a long long time. So, you know, it's there's so many people out there. There's a lot of free content. I'll say just just pick a habit a week that you know isn't serving you and and supplement it, you know, there's and again shit if if you want to ask me. Reach out to me reach out to them. All right. So you said earlier. We said an interesting word there and that's balanced. So I personally don't believe in Balance. What's your take on balance? Like? What do you what is balance Brett? What would you tell these nice people about the word balance and do you strive to attain it? I absolutely don't struggle to obtain it. I think I backed that up with with I'm always out of balance, you know, and Yeah, it's interest actually just heard somebody talk it a woman's entrepreneur event and for you young guys out there. If if you're single go to a women's entrepreneur event. It was on board. But the one lady the very first Speaker she was a marathon runner and she was there to talk on balance and I could tell she was struggling with trying to explain it and and almost halfway through. I think she had an aha moment and it was like shit were always Of balance and you know, I mean if you read a lot you'll hear about Comfort zones and and all that and I mean bottom line if it's balanced if it's Comfort zones if it's whatever the you know, the magic happens outside of that stuff. So if you're if you're striving to be balanced you're comfortable and you know, I don't think you're probably being all that you can be to use a maybe an army term. So no, I never strive to be in it quite opposite probably that being said, you know, No, I obviously with my AMPM book and things like that things I can control, you know, I could look at that as balance. But I mean, I'm still pushing to get better in those times. And so I don't know if that so it hit home for you. Let me let me follow that up with so if there's no balance, you're always out of balance. That means you're going to have to keep reallocating your energy right to different parts of life because if there's no balance and that means like if we're going to make this a wheel analogy, like let's pretend we got like a little wagon wheel here. The wheel is never going to be Totally round. So are you could do you find yourself constantly reallocating energy to different parts of your life like, you know to put energy into this area will take a little bit out of this one. Naturally. That's just kind of what tends to happen. So is there a rhythm or a flow to your life or are you just kind of doing things as you do? Do you know what I mean? Absolutely do and so in the intro. I think you can go back to love Health freedom. I have a custom jewelry that I made. You know kind of a code of dangling necklace or whatever around my neck, and my core values are on there along with the with with just one of the things that I believe in and and I try and push things through that I've heard and read a lot of people make buckets and you know, absolutely, you know, they'll transfer them through them and everybody's buckets where they need and want to spend energy as a little different like I don't have a family right now. Well, that sounds an Only kids maybe I should say kids. Obviously if you're a father, I mean, you know, a lot of your energy is going to go there right? I don't have that right now. So so that's that's a big one for me. But but love health and freedom guide guide my decisions if they don't fall within there. you know, I find it pretty easy to say no, you know, and then I guess as far as the transferring within those I'd say absolutely I mean he you know, I think I recognize where and when I need to be out of balance and and sometimes you know, I have to push the like my freedom bucket right now, which is like work. That kind of thing is is probably pulling from from some of the other ones, you know a little bit. Yeah, that's it. That's an interesting question. There's absolutely fluctuation amongst amongst those things. Do you can you control it completely null and but I think you do kind of understand where it is and where it needs to go back to the big word of comfort zone. What's the biggest risk? You've taken where you realize. Wow. This is totally out of my comfort zone and you might have felt uncomfortable about but maybe you still did it. Was there a point in time where you that big leap Yeah, in business and I suppose the the you know, the biggest one for sure was probably you know the start because that's when everything felt really big, you know, but if I try and look to a recent one, it would probably be you know, the I've hired an amazing regional manager for Anytime Fitness and I've taken a huge step back from those facilities and and you know, my my purpose and goal right now as I purchased. Oh some share. There's out of cosmetic culture and and I'm leaning completely in there as the president and CEO and you know, I so that one would probably be the biggest one. It's you know, do I shit? I have my first PRP and facial tomorrow you guys so so if you don't think I'm learning about stuff and a little uncomfortable of with that. Yeah. What's a PRP facial Applause? Asthma, there you go. I still need to learn some stuff, right? Yeah. It's a palette rich plasma. So we harvest blood from the person it spins in a centrifuge and so you can really think about it. Like it's the next best thing to our stem cells as far as regeneration, and and I like to explain it as the gold in our bodies so it can be applied. By injecting it into joints and things of that nature and it will regrow and repair tissue like really nothing else that we have especially as easily harvested out of our blood and and it can be used for things like hair restoration to to facial treatments. You know, I believe most people would know it by the vampire facial and Kim Kardashian. So we do stuff like that there but and there's a whole Cosmetics out of the business, which I'm learning and you know, Far from comfortable with but like I said, I'm leaning into it. I'm going to get in the chair and I'm going to experience it and and feel what it is to me. We have a Whole Health side in that business which you know, I love and has changed my life and that's been a lot easier for me and I've understood and been able to do that. But yeah, you know, there's nothing like doing something, you know your first big deal in business or it's like the biggest one would be that but but recently here is as I shake things down and and take over a lot more of that company. It's it's been that but I will I will end it with its fired me up again. Like I haven't been fired up in quite a while. So guys what you heard there was Was not based on anything Around Talent this this man has got a lot of talent. I will tell you that much but he is constantly learning. He's constantly growing he's very confident but he's also very humble in his approach and that's sort of the thing that I think that we can drive home in this episode. Listen to what this man does in the morning. Let's listen to what he does before he checks his fucking email right listen so we can say fuck we can't say fuck. Yeah. So listen to the amount of effort that goes into his His routine listen to how he's Reinventing himself on The Daily and we asked him about his big transition and he didn't say anything along the lines of well young Brett didn't know what he was doing when he doesn't dwell on that. His biggest transition was literally like what two weeks ago. This caused me that you lean right into cosmetic culture, right? So he's in he's in his prime right now and his and his cool as he's managed to become. I mean, he's by no means done yet. He's constantly going to keep Reinventing himself. He's gonna keep getting better. And that's what all of you should strive to do. So I just kind of wanted to stop this train and sort of reflect on that and kind of give you guys something to think about. How can you how can you reinvent yourselves? How can you get better on the daily? How can you model what Brett is doing to improve your own life? Because it's your fucking life and you have to improve it. All right. I'm totally with you. I'm totally with me read what's next for Brett Weir. We find me on social media at barks biz on Instagram. Honestly, I haven't checked Facebook and probably 30 days and my staff doesn't like that. Yeah, I'm not so that's what that's for the best place to find medium. If you guys have any questions whatsoever. I just drop some gifts and stuff. So if you're local to a Kelowna, I always have giveaways in that on there. Yeah, definitely the best way to get me, you know, my my email is a Barker's Biz at gmail.com sweet once again, Again, that's at barks biz on Instagram and you can also find cosmetic culture and Spa on Instagram and Facebook guys. You got to follow this guy the energy he puts out is unreal. He truly never stops. So if you kind of want to get some motivation if you're kind of feeling sorry for yourself, and you're sitting there one day he is updating you in real time as he's moving. So you have to follow him. It's not an option. You must do it. You'll get value out of it. I promise. All right episode 3 and done. Thank you Brett Barker. Thank you. pleasure
Confused? Ever wonder what the top performers in our society do to get to and STAY at THE TOP. Wonder no more, in this episode Brett Barker will show you how to level up in business and in life. He’s a serial entrepreneur, a commercial realtor and a fitness enthusiast. He grew up in the Saskatchewan prairies and is a farm kid at heart. He grew up doing everything and anything on the farm as the only boy in his familyand can tie so much of what he is back to the lessons and work ethic that he learnt getting out to work at an early age! Brett’sMomand Dad (Who will be celebrating their 46thyear anniversary this year)cultivated a drive in Brettsspirit that he thought to be unreasonable at the time....but that drive IS STILL paying dividends!!! Brett owns FOUR anytime fitness locations he has been running these businesses for 9 years over 1336kms and three provinceswith no loss of momentum and passion.Brett ALSO owns cosmetic culture spa and sport which is located in beautiful lake country BC. He’s lost 60 lbs and undergone a total body recomp whilst reinventing himself on the daily. Brett lives his life around his core values Love, Health and FREEDOM………… So PLEASE join me in welcoming one of Kelowna’s truly great entrepreneurs, a dynamic and diversified personality an inspiration and new personal friend of mine. THE BRETT BARKER. 