What's up, everybody guys? It is Jordan from The axalta holistic Hub welcoming you to episode 3 of the exile to experience now today. I got to sit down with the man himself told Jarrett is a good friend of mine and a great coach and inspiring young man and someone that is certainly going to haveIs having a good crack at life now. He's very very inspiring to listen to because the lessons that toddler has learnt in 2019 the challenges that is overcome is quite phenomenal in the fact that a lot of people would be victimized by what Todd's been through but he is only kept a warrior mindset the whole time and he really has pushed through and will continue to push through the challenges that he faces in life. So guys, it's a great conversation. We talk about food we talk aboutThe power of the minds we talked about the hard work and mentality and what that can do to your health and really talk about where you need to put your energy into to get the most out of life. So the underlying factor from Todd was how to live at your fullest. So enjoy the conversation reach out to either us on Instagram. So Todd's account is at coach Jarrett on Instagram and Facebook sharing share with us any feedback that you have and and if you feel like someone would benefit from this episode just share it through to them send them the link and you know, it could help them quite a lot on their Journey so we would be more than happy to share this information with more people. So thank you very much. Enjoy the episode and be present. Mrs. Jarrett, JP. How you doing, bro? I'm doing incredibly how are you? Very very well. I'm excited. We are finally sitting down to do a podcast. It's been a while in the making. Yeah, how long you reckon if we start from the beginning a few years? Yeah. Yes, certainly been a journey last couple of years. Yeah. It's pretty cool. We're only chatting about Nestle 20 minutes ago. Yeah. Yeah now it's going to be Incredible to see what happens in the future, but there's so much that's happened in the past. Keen to have a chat. So tell me about what's happening. What are you been up to lately? And what's what's the life of told Jared look like so for those that are on here that are didn't know my background. I was a performance coach training athletes and that was my focus. And that was the dream and the aspirations and that's what I was doing down in Victoria before I moved up to the coast and that's how obviously we got to know each other through. Through our internship Leonard would fit in Vic and then I came up here. I wanted to coach athletes at Stanford. And the only way to do that was to get her a letter of recommendation to get up there. So Matt Busan it in turn there and I was able to get that process started and then I moved up here and I've been here since absolutely loving it. So here being the sunny Costa beautiful incredible Sunshine Coast growing up we came up here with racing with Motocross with commentary in the journalism and everything and we'd always Ask victorians would always talk about. Oh one day. We'll live here one day. We took them. Yeah, just yeah that whole area just Queensland. We all spoke about it. There's probably 20 of us and everyone so we'll talk but no one took action and now I'm here so I'm pumped on that is that we're used to come there to cool. Yeah. Yeah, so we find a breezy and then we drive up to call them and to con and out so Mulaney. Okay, and then we'd stay in caloundra. There's a big race is a cool night. Yeah, the final Nationals. Yeah. So yeah was training athletes and then Obviously that ended up doing a lot of Consulting online with guys and teaching out of the uni and then starting the mentorship programs that tjt mentorship. And that was what I knew I wanted to do when I started teaching because I loved educating athletes and then that whole process was sort of just grew naturally. I didn't expect it to I had no idea what I was doing. Which Looking Back Now will probably chat about it. I had no idea. I literally just came from demand and then from there I was just sort of thrown in there. Ben had no business sense at all or none zero you ever have an idea? No. No, not at all. Actually. I feel like the more I learn the less. I know the less of an idea. I have that dunning-kruger effect. Yeah, so it's just taking action and learning lessons. I think yeah biggest thing so had the tjt programs and they became the focus. So I stopped training athletes and Consulting the Consulting was a big thing because I was working with a lot of motocross guys. It's a pretty high levels, which is awesome and And then the focus became the mentorship and the advanced grad program and obviously the instant growth experience seminar and because of that lack of business understanding like theoretically I knew it all because I've done a lot of seminars and done all of that. But when it came time to actually apply it like I was really struggling and by the stress levels and by what I would say applying the Practical like actual practical application of the things you've learned the experience the hands-on experience. I really Struggled with that that would have been say the systems and especially like and we've discussed this the sales because it was selling myself and I was at a point where you know, when you get to a point where you know so much you feel like everyone knows it I was at that point. I was like I shouldn't be talking to these trainers. Like I already know this stuff but you forget how little a lot of people do know, so I didn't have that belief in myself. Although when people come into the program's I got. Oh my gosh, I forgot that because I hadn't gone. On out and spoken and sort out feedback or testimonials and things like that and trying to forget how far you've come. Oh, yeah, absolutely the ability to stick to the basics and because people's people's lack of knowledge is so abundant this there is such a lack of knowledge in our society now so like basic things like drink more water, like people don't understand that they have to drink more water. So like when you tap into those I6 it kind of feels like you're being a dumbass but it's just because they're not up to that that level of knowledge that happened literally the other day to me being hydrated for learning new information because of synaptogenesis and neurogenesis. Basically where the parts in the brain starts shooting off new Pathways that requires hydration and I mentioned that at one of my coaching the other day and so many people are quite what they had no idea and that was something to me. I learnt years ago that wasn't even something in my mind anymore. It was just it was just unconscious so Yeah, it's like if you've got if you don't have water in the body, if you're dehydrated, you got to dry brain. Yeah, you get shrinkage literally get a cute shrinkage your brain gets smaller when you're dehydrated. It's crazy your ability to make it easy we start yeah. Well history is the essence. Do you need more wet? So yeah, then we move the I was very fortunate that when you were expanding exalt. Oh that I got to see that from the start. We've been through the photos of the day. When you're literally in the small space and when you said you're opening up the Hub, I was like, okay, that's that's where I want to be. That's where I want to run the program's out of and that's what we started and about halfway through the program's. I ended up really really sick just from my own doing from the accumulative effects of psychological stress not nailing my diet not sleeping enough enough over the years these things are accumulated and I've obviously got a I say now I have damage cells. So there's a lot of people that they're they're given a condition or a disease and it becomes like their label becomes their identity. I have X and they tired of that and it's almost like they use that as their I hate using it as an excuse like the kid that has ADHD. I've got ADHD, it's all right that I misbehave know like if I said that you just behave poorly and there's no dis we had an extreme amount of energy. Yeah exactly. Like it's about controlling it. So I now say that I have damaged cells around my stomach. That's what I try to say as much as I can. And so basically I ended up in hospital once and then I started to realize hey, this is my own doing psychologically that the cumulative effect of all the stress and stress is multifactorial so many different things that are called stressors can literally be training or relationships the food you're eating or Financier people whatever it may be but thinking about stress. Yeah. Exactly. Did you going going to the hospital stressor? And so I had that started to slow down a little bit with the work and then I decided to step away not long after which was huge for me for those that obviously on the podcast. This might be the first time hearing my story if you just imagine the most Analytical mind that is just driven for something and doesn't really want to rest that was who I was and that's all I'd ever known. So that was my identity. I was like, I broke like was pride in myself on you are the grinder don't sleep like a little kid that wants something and doesn't give up. It was literally like yeah R&B like toads of savage toads not gonna give up on this stuff. Even if it's to the risk of his health. Yeah, and that's that's what happened. And then I'm really grateful that it actually got to the point. Way I took a couple weeks to go into isolation and then had some time with family then I got really sick. I ended up in hospital the second time. It's like they come down right you get out of that cycle of the body working and then chooses to rest and everything comes down. Yeah. It's that when people go on holiday. Yeah been working in a call. I do we sleep. Yeah because your body needs it. Well, they finish uni and they get sick. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you just flew. Yeah holiday flu so been a big Journey. Yeah, the big the big turning Factor was when I was in hospital the second time in the docks basically just said to me like look if you don't change in the next 24 48 hours will take your bow out or if that doesn't go well like you looking death in the face and I broke down I got I've said this to a few people that that was the day that I went. Okay, it's stop like I will stop now because my family were all down in Vic and I was in a hospital bed up here in Queensland and the I had a family friend with me and the doctor said you could die. Next two days and I'll let you leave had Mom on speaker, and she just she was traumatic broken down completely and I said mum, I need you up here and I called Dad and Dad doesn't take time off work a lot of the time and I really struggled to ask him to come up. I was stuttering on the phone nearly didn't ask him because I was so nervous that he might say. No like I can't make it up. I'm working and that would have crushed me like that that belief that maybe work comes first what happens if I didn't make it and Dad hadn't come up like that was really tough and but he made it up he flew up and he hates planes my other sister and made it up and then Chloe was down in Victor supporting me from the other end with the kids and It was at that time. I realized that you hear it to me now. It's cliche because I guess I've experienced but and you've the same thing it's like when you're at that near-death experience and you've looked at in the face. It makes you have a different perspective. And that's when I said Okay, I want to do things differently. So since then I've been on the road for a few months just being with family done to for past in a meditation courses basically read journal meditated and eaten food every day for the last three or four months work. In yeah, we'll check box and the working. Yeah, we're all putting so much work at you know, what are we doing to put the work in? Yeah, so that's the context of it is I lost my identity if I have inside you take the sticker off about you then yeah. It's like a sticker of these batteries and I'm like, yeah, I'm pretty sure he's had it. Identity shift. Yeah, and all the all the stickers I had on the center console box are all gone. I yeah for because I know shedding skin. Yeah, exactly. And I know that there's a lot of young listeners that are like obviously the guys training at axalta that I've seen that it coming in and out there will be listening and imagine all you know, and I have a lot of these kids are safe football players and things like that. It's like imagine you have that just ripped away from you. You actually don't know who you are or the all of the friends you've had in all of the sports. You've done everything is gone. And you're like, all I have left is my family. Who is this person? So for me all I knew was you work and you don't stop working you go you grind. You hustle. You just do not stop whatever it takes burn your body into the ground whatever like it doesn't matter and then I went on this 180 shift and I was like do not touch work do not do anything strenuous. If anything stresses you walk away from it, which was opposite before I was like walk into the stress like feed on that eat it for breakfast. So I lost myself and in a huge way, so probably a month and a half into this time away. I had one of those I crises. Who am I what am I doing? And I started to freak out like I was by myself and I left in isolation. So to speak on the road not with people. I knew and I started to question. What am I doing? And it was in that time that I actually because I'd already taken the stickers off and done those things because I was at that point. I'd put all my TJ t-shirts to the back of my wardrobe didn't want to touch them. I didn't wear them for a couple of months. I wasn't ready to I wanted to be a different person and It was when I sort of got to that point of who am I that I realized all your are you're in a deep place. You've come a long way because I've actually lost that like the connection is gone now and then I started to develop this other personality each other Viewpoint of everything and that sort of took on control for probably. Two months, I would say. And I'm very fortunate that I've had people like yourself like Nick like Brody and Toby that I've been able to chat cat throughout this process about and have guidance. Everyone's just said just take your time do what you've got to do and it will come to you and in the last probably three weeks. everything started again, the wheels of started turning the cogs of started spinning opportunities are arising and I'm feeling everything differently when things are coming to me or things are popping up. I'm being able to deal with them in a different way, you know far more calm mindful way, which is what I need for my health, but also I want to be able to pass this on to other people because I was literally doing some coaching the other day and high level you would say owner of a high-level company was talking about how stressed out they get on the day-to-day about thinking the next thing they need to do but they never actually finishing the thing they are doing that was me and that led to where I got to and that's when I sort of when I realized that this is powerful and I need to pass this on so the things through this journey how hard it's been I've needed at all and it's supposed to have happened to me because it's now what I want to pass on to others, so it's certainly be not a defining factor. It's a refining Factor. It actually gives you a chance to refine you yourself as a person and your product. It's not--it wasn't it's not the definition of either you got sick. It's actually the opportunity to like around how am I going to use this to my my ability to improve myself who I was before and the way I had tjt set up that could have lasted for 10 years, but it only would've Like Arnie would have got as big as it was and I would have worked massive ridiculous hours just to maintain it at that point now that I can look back and see that I go I was supposed to go through this because I know I'm destined for bigger things. This is my time to sit back and go you sucked. Like that's my reality of it the way I view it was like, oh you are such a rookie. So yeah, it's a big it's been so good watching. I'm when you got sick, even when you told me you could have died. I was like, it's me or not. Ready for death bro. Like I had all the faith that you were gonna get through like the got way. You've got so much potential and love to give the world and posit that this is so much positive energy that comes out of your being. It's like you weren't ready to leave this earth. Not yet. So I think there was a massive massive belief that I knew you'd just be right and your mindset was always it's so good. We wait we both talk about mindset all the time. And then when these challenges come up and we're just like bring it. It was good to see you get tested about that. Yeah, I think it's nice watching someone not be victimized by and so on actually, you know, it's an inspiration to see the warrior mindset played out in real life events. And I know everyone that's connected in your circle and your mentees and everyone that's being connected to has the same view of your life. You didn't break white one point you had breaking points, but you didn't break. Yeah, there's like breakthroughs. So it's good to watch. It's been a big part of the journey you share. In the hardships, and I know that's something I've really tried to verbalize and vocalize through social media is that I will post on my worst days the days are good. I might not even post. I'll just go enjoy it the days were there were the most amazing during the journey. I was just experiencing because was so awesome, but the days of were rough I was by myself. So I thought one I can share this with other people with my way to express it. But to it reminds people that are going through hardship. You're not alone for those that are listening to this right now. You've probably had something go on today. We have gone. This is tough. We all do and even if we have the most positive mindset the realities we still experience tough things. That's just how we view them. So I make sure that people know that yes. I have a strong mindset just talk to you have an incredible mind set. It doesn't mean everything always happens exactly the way we want it. We all have challenges and to be able to share those with people but with the right mindset being reflected from it empowers others to take that on so through the Journey. I've had a lot of people mess. Me and Ty Cobb had a rough day. I've had a rough week. I have an autoimmune condition. I had this disease. I've been through cancer. My partner had this I lost this family member and having your post has kept me going through this and I've got that's why I do it. That's why I let people know because they're on the other side of the world or the other the other side of the country and they're getting support just from a post. It's like whatever I say is is helping them. Because I'm going through a tough time to its confidence and support comes in numbers. So if you can share that but share it with the right message rather than having that victim mentality have the Victor mentality slave a warrior as you well know and as your tribe knows the warrior mentality people love that Vibe and people get on to that. So I would say that I don't have a big social media following compared to some of the people that I grew up with. But the the following that I do have you would say is authentic. Yeah is really the naked yet. I know the story. Yeah, so I'm really grateful for that. So yeah, it's a good I think it's a good point you made there about like being a like being a positive person doesn't give you protection from trauma or protection from negative events. It actually just provides you a lens to look through so that negative events actually a happening for you and you can learn from them in. That of if you're negative person stuffs always happening to but having that positive lens of perspective that you look through. It's like bad shits going to happen. Like there's going to be some fucking hard times in life. We're not kidding anyone by thinking that's not going to happen. But you know being a positive person is even when it's tough looking for the best in each situation or even better just looking for a lesson so that you can be grateful for what it's teaching you and and that's where you really proved your Activity, it's like okay you getting chips are down and you've been dealt the wrong cards close. Yeah, but you're actually still going to use that hand to get up. So yeah, it's been good to watch you fight that thank you very much. So I want to lead into I don't want to tap too much into the old identity because I know it's gone and it's a good reference point and I don't think it needs a lot of conversation. But you've obviously discovered a new element to your mind and potential like there's a there's a new level it because you when when we got started and we were working and core strength together. Like we're on the level like we had that same energy and I could tell you thought you were like 10 out of 10 and I was like this motherfucker. He's on a 10 out of 10, but I always knew I'm like there's so much more. Yeah, and I'm Not on that level yet. I'm still want to go down the path you've gone with the meditation and obviously exploring the mind more and I'll get there when I'm ready. But like what's that Evolution being like so talk to me about the the pasta is because you never would have been someone to really consider that but this journey is kind of paved the way into that. I just want to reference before we go further into this and I will answer this in depth with the best value I can That although you say that I've gone down this path and you want to go down it you're one of the reasons that I went down and the energy that I had in that when you say like that 10 out of 10 energy. I'd like you would say a 10 out of 10 energy but in one area and that was like the drive the motivation the grind the hustle like that mentality. I didn't have another side to me. I was like the Seesaw a hundred percent on one and they're 0 on the other whereas you could do the hundred percent on one side, but you had like to me you had like 70 percent on the other still so you could at least and that's You haven't been in hospital with this stuff. Like you've been able to manage and balance which is something I looked up to so and was in hospital. I ended up in hospital at one point in my life and that will be a big story for this podcast to in the future but coming back to that in terms of what it's been like making the transition. Or what I've learned from it. Just I guess, you know like the person you thought you were you know, because you thought you know, I'm the ten out of ten I'll go hard and now realizing the lens that you're looking through. Like there's a guarantee everyone listening to this is probably thinking they've got to go harder life. They've got to put more energy into the end and as much as that's valid like you do have to go all in yeah, but there's there's that other side to it as Understanding Stillness understanding, I guess the inner self like what's been your journey instead of being the outer person or the external person instead diving Inward and finding the power within it was the realization that we have an outer journey and we have an inner Journey. We have an external Pro like an external Journey external outcome as I would call it and they are like the goals the aspirations they can be material. So I think the house the car the money the hot wife for for us or for the women that Jack husband or whatever or the was a male. It's about the female you could call them material tangible items. That's like the external one for most of society. That's what we relate success quota to is that what we can see and that's what I was always sort of dictated towards not so much the items but the validation Personal success and I was always goals and things like that. It was when I realized that hey, they're actually using the inner Journey. There's an inner process and it's not about what you achieve on the outside. But how you experience achieving it how you go through the process? So it's the whole like the journey or the destination or the process and the outcome and I was so caught up on the outcomes. I was never actually on the journey. I was never actually in the process. I was too superficial from it and And it was when I realized that there was an inner Journey that I went, okay. I need to focus on this because one I'm going to continue down my path and going to keep going back in the hospital and it could get worse. I could lose my ballot could die. and the second thing is that I won't be happy because I read in this is when I was reading one of the books when I was away and it was that. We have a thousand steps to our external goal. And that's thinking of like to get to the big facilities that you may want in a gym or to get to that position in speaking or coaching does a thousand steps. You need to take off to get there on the external Journey. But on the inner Journey, there's just one step and that's the present moment step and you just taking that one step carries you through the thousand and it was when I read that I was just kind of I actually think I put the book down and sat for like half an hour up in Port Douglas and that just ran through my mind over and over again like a recorder. So it's like instead of focusing on the thousand steps ahead focus on the present moment. Yes and just take each present moment. And eventually there'll be a thousand present moment zactly. Yeah. It's like instead of focus future Focus just focus. Yeah now the present because if your I was always caught up in tomorrow, which means if I'm if I have any of my focus on tomorrow means a part of my focus is not on today. So I Be getting 10% of my focus to tomorrow, which means I can only give the people I'm with today 90% of me because I wasn't even there in conversation for me. So by being focused right now and giving my best right now. I am 100% here and that means tomorrow when I'm in tomorrow. I can be a hundred percent there. So wherever I am, I'm 100 percent whereas before I wasn't do you feel like I feel like in society. It's more like 90/10 the other like, you know Aang that's what I see is anxiety. It's like 90% then tomorrow 10% today. Yeah, like if you feel putting 90 percent of your energy into tomorrow, you're going to be anxious. What if how what if this happens? You know, what am I going to do? You know instead of just thinking putting your hundred-percent into right now. What can I do in this very moment to move myself forward or to progress instead of you know, what's going to happen and I feel like the our societies. Did a lot of anxiety but then there's also depression which is 90% of energy in yesterday or the past. It's like bringing that hundred. So what are the what are some of the lessons you've learned from hundred percent in the moment? There are some like my mind becomes flooded. What some of the basic what some of the most enjoyable things about being president you experiencing more fully so deeply and I some of the things that I bring up I actually questioned myself when I say them because I know so many people will hear this and they won't click because I haven't they're not on that Journey yet. They may they may not so I'm still working that out in my head how to express what I've experienced because it is an experience not a theory like it from a book, but you can when you're Walking to someone you feel it more you feel the energy you feel the emotion from that person you can the words I say and how they're saying. I can now read the language in the emotion and what people are saying, well, they mean before you could say something completely sarcastically to and I just hear the words. It was almost like I had in Asperger's I believe it is where you can say a joke, but they think you're being serious because they don't get the tone. I didn't get that before so I wasn't an emotive person. It's like think about it like when you're having a conversation with someone and you can tell they're speaking back to you, but they're not actually in the conversation like exactly what you're saying something to me, right? Yeah, and you can tell they're not they're present with you. That's how a lot of people living their lives like having this conversation with their life and they're not actually listening to the conversation. They're just thinking about what to say next. Yeah. It's like if you actually just slow down and then apply listening as a skill and listen to the other person. And then you can actually go much deeper slack. It's because so many of us listen to respond to give that answer back and I used to do that. So I'm working on that in myself now, so that's one thing is you get to experience people more which is the most important thing when people say when they're on their death bed when I was at that point where I was like, okay, I may not make it what was important to me and that happened family before his my my last day. I wanted to be with my family. That was it nothing else mattered. So that was one big thing experiencing and that's also when my purpose in life changed. So that was one massively the experience with people and then how much you get to enjoy what you're doing. So even training being around people experiencing the ice bath now to what it was before is completely different like exult o tribe try to meditate in the ice bath like whatever you can do to Bring yourself to be fully present in it. You just experienced things and I say fully which is my purpose in life. Now. It used to be Empower others to live their highest level life to me a high level that was external outcome. Now, it's leave transparently. So let everyone see what's actually going on to empower others to live their fullest life so they can go to the highest Highs but ensure that it's full and its Rich of experience which to me six to eight months ago if I said something I'm like that I would have been what as if that that's now that I'm at this point life is so much better. So what's more important to you? people living their fullest or you living your fullest me because I need to be able to live my fullest help others. Absolutely. I need to fill my cup. So what's your purpose? My purpose is to live transparently to empower others to live their fullest life. So by living transparently that is indicative of me being fully experiencing things and letting others see it. So so what's what's you living to the fullest look like at the moment? Obviously, there's been some adjustments in Your environment your identity that the fullest in the previous identity would have been very different to what it is. Now at what do you what do you wake up to do? What are you excited to do when you wake up my full day is self love and self care and I'm calling itself love in the fact that it is self care. It's just habits. So my full days I get up. I have my half a liter of water straight away. That's my first thing I roll over I do my health Journal because I Need to type what has happened during the night. Then I do my stoic gratitude Journal. Shout out to Connolly Coach Conner zeldo shop. Yeah ulta.com that I go to the shop. You'll be able to buy a stoic Journal of corner there into Game Changer. Yes. So many people have jumped on that. It's no lies in that movie The to game changer with our lives. So I'll do that and then I'll meditate and that the days that I meditate I know now meditate for half an hour I used. To set my timer when I was before this happened when I was living in budino. I used to set my timer for 10 minutes to meditate and I get to the 4-minute mark on freaked out. Like I can't do this. I've got stuff to do like this is a waste of time like 10 minutes. I need to be doing something else I meditate for a minimum of 30 minutes every morning now and it can go for longer and I'll meditate more during the day the days that I meditate first thing the best days my most calm days and the days that I haven't meditated in the morning the two days that have had that have happened. In the last couple of weeks are the two days about felt anxious and then when I felt anxious, okay, what was the first thing I did went back and meditator shifted me again. So I'll meditate and then I'll do my exercise in vitamin D. So I'll go for a walk or go for a push bike ride, and then I'll lay in the sun. Whatever it is. Then I'll typically have good food. So it's changed a lot through this journey what I eat and what I feel fuel or feed my body to talk to me about food a bit because I know I was a big advocate for For Whole Foods. Yeah, when we first met and you kind of like yeah, yeah, I'm I or II then I did so bad and I was like, yeah don't fucking lie to me, but I know you like shit. Yeah, but but you also had the mindset they did or right because it was like an all-rounded kind of just I it's all right sometimes and I bad sometimes like that's an all right diet. Yes, but in our diet in our society is actually a she'd diet. I was picking and choosing how I used the word balance. I was like I have balance in diet. Balance is important. But if someone said to me, do you have balance in life? I'd be like no, why do you need balance? So I was so subjective and biased towards myself. But yeah die before was a lot of binging like on date nights and things like that and not being careful about what was in the the smaller parts of products and from all of the last six months. Like I said when I was reading and meditating and journaling most of my reading for the first period of time was solely on food and on information Within In the body because that's all I mean condition basis and that's part of my path and I'm going down now he's doing a holistic health platform, which I'm really excited about food is one of the doctors the natural doctors of the world. One of the biggest sets crazy. So I've cut out gluten. I've cut out any added sugars. I've cut out anything artificial added in terms of like artificial flavors artificial sweeteners. I don't have and this is specifically for me for the I don't have seeds or grains nuts beans and legumes currently because they've all been shown to be inflammatory at the cellular level on the gut and be hard for the gut lining and the tight junctions and things like that. I also don't have nightshade vegetables because they've been shown to be inflammatory and then I'll basically anything that's process don't touch so Whole Foods down at the farmers markets vegetables and fruits. Then meet which as much as I can and as you know, like fish and then organ Meats chicken is like the last just because of its ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 and it's obviously very much feed grain compared to say like cattle can be fed grass. So that's that's been big in that shift the Reason for those is for me to in the Western and I should actually finish that statement. The reason for that is for me to minimize inflammation for me to do everything. I can if there's any chance of information from anything in my day right now what's information. So information would be at in terms of at the cellular level would be like stress response. So it's really basic like there's like people that have no idea. So when when you get stressed like if someone for the adults if someone's beep the horn Giving you the bird if you pulled up in front of them or something, you never really had a car crash you get that fight or flight you get the adrenaline the cortisol for a kid. It might be when a bully's picked on you or When Something's Happened mum and dad aroused when you maybe you get that the tingles and the shakes. That's it. That's so to speak what we call stress as soon as you get that. It causes inflammation within the body. It's like a swollen ankle. Yeah. Yeah and you roll your ankle. It swells are ya the cells get like fat and they yeah and white blood cells and yeah, that's swells up and loses function. Yes. Yes. Yeah. So do you have that in your gut? Yeah as in for me information. Yes. Yeah. Well it got to a point where obviously there's information but then it attacks and breaks things down more when you got swelling say at the ankle, for example for other people. It's there to heal. Whereas for me. It was the opposite it was that a breakdown and that's that's because I've got so to speak like a dysregulated immune system from everything that's going on where it's out of balance the goods low and the bads really high. All kind of got like that the bad Ami doing more work. So what I've looked to do through this this journey that I've been on is eliminate anything that's going to cause inflammation within my body and that's stemming from Physical training I've learned that for people with autoimmune conditions at high intensity really high intensity training is indicative of inflammation. We know that as coaches, we push people for that because it stimulates muscular growth and things like that, but for someone that already has an immune system that's not really easily triggered for that to then cause they're negative area like rheumatoid arthritis and things like that to flare up. That's a worry. So I've been doing moderate exercise and we'll build a tolerance. Like training sleep. So 8 to 10 hours a night and a regular sleep schedule with that obviously managing. My hormone levels has been huge and that comes with food and that comes with the Sleep management and the exercise during the day. So exercising early in the morning rising early going to bed earlier. And then linking that in with the foods has been big. There's a few other aspects to it obviously finding the right people to work with and learn from having the right supplement program and stuff like that in terms of the pre and probiotics and and vitamins and minerals and those things but everything I've done has been to decrease that information because in the western medicine way or the conventional medicine that we know The doctors are specialists in one area. So for me my are he's obviously gastroenterology, which is basically looking at the GI tract where the food goes through your intestines and all of that that's their one area of expertise. If I then go to them and start talking about how food affects that that's not their area of study if I then go to a dietitian that's a that's specializing in the gastro side of things and talk about psychology. That's not their area if I go to the psychologist and talk about Exercise that's not their area. So you although we talked about having like a team, you've got five people that know their five areas, but none of them know how they integrate and that's been a big part of my learning process. Not many. Yeah, not many exactly you when you find the right teams in the right people that have the same vision then you can get that and that's for me. I wasn't fortunate to begin with to have that and I've been able to slowly piece the puzzle together to find that so it all matters. Oh, absolutely because it It always in together and that's why having something like the holistic Hub where you have different practitioners that are all with a holistic approach with the name. Axalta holistic Hub comes in, you know that you're working with people that want to do things to get to the bottom of the issue the root cause because to like that's what I was saying is all of those five Specialists will Band-Aid you and fix you in their area. My autoimmune condition my damaged cells weren't caused by one thing. They were caused by a multitude of things that built up over time. That's how all disease works for someone to devour. This is massive for someone to develop cancer. A lot of people say like, oh, they've got the breast cancer Gene. That's one of 13. For example, Domino's it need to be stacked side by side for them to actually get breast cancer just because they have one doesn't mean they get it. They've got to have all of these. Things aligned for it to all topple over. So the people that go I'll change my diet. Brilliant. How's your psychology? Has you sleep as your exercise? How you relationships? You've got to look at those or how your hormone levels so it's that integration and that's why I say this Journeys happen for a reason because before I was all about sports performance, and I was looking at it at sets and Reps and things like that. But if I have an athlete that has a terrible diet that's not sleeping much and I compared them with the same training volume or training amount to someone that has a good diet and sleep Square the guy that has a good diet. And so he's well he's going to have less inflammation and thus will Have a better make sure that they're going to get a better response. You can do side by side the exact same training one guy will get a better response than the other and it just comes down to those two things there. So a part of my purpose is now moving from guess we'll still do the coaching side of things, but I want to then open that up for people to be able to learn the integration on a platform where they can get all of the info in together. So I was very fortunate to read a very powerful. It's a basically like a university textbook and I commended for everyone the title to me woeful because it's called The Paleo Approach which immediately people got to pay their book, but when you get into it, it's all about inflammation and everything to cause information. It's about a lifestyle and I read that thing cover to cover 360 pages with a highlighter took me like three months but everything I noted down when into my encyclopedias, so I want to be able to take that information and all of the information I've hands-on experience and the things that I've been Researching and picking apart and bring that into a platform where people don't have to do six months of research. Like I did they can come to this platform that or come to these people like at the Hub where they can get all of it in one area because that's probably the biggest challenge for so many people whether it be athletes whether it be parents whether it be people with conditions is that They find one piece of info but they don't get the whole lot. And it's it's like needing five sets of keys for five padlocks. You can't have one key that fits and does it all and that's been a big part of the process because that's something that I realized. I didn't know before. and I will say for everyone that's listening that You were a massive massive influence on that one of the catalytic factors that caused me to look into the food more especially and then the other one of the other people that are very much within your circle or two people. Actually. I might mention that all within your circle that help me with this process One Was Keegan Smith from real movement because I was the theoretical Guy taught at Uni was all about like books and information so I could teach the shit out of anything theoretically and know But I wasn't hands on like I wasn't looking massive jacked in the gym. Where is Keegan did it all hands on he was in the trenches so to speak and I looked at him and I said, what do I not have the keys has because I looked up to him in that sense. I said he experienced the stuff. So when all of this happened I would like time stepping away from work. I'm going 100% on the experience. Hence why I've done the past and of course as I've just gone meditation journaling reading for this time, because I'm really embody the message experience. That's where the Stop. Yeah knowledge is useless if you're not using it apply. Yeah, so that was huge and then Adam Cavanaugh. He's been on the road and I've seen what he's done on the road. So he was another person that that channel towards me that I saw. Okay, that's that's cool. I like that idea. I want to do that quickly want to tap into and keeping it basic. You used to whatwhat's the shit that you used to eat because I know used to get excited about it. And this is probably very relevant relevant to a lot of people listening. What was good kind of shit that you ate like used to Gorge and have your day night and go hard like day/night like the the awesome date night back. Then was Betty's Burgers like we go and get a bed is classic. We get the shake and the concrete the fries whatever that was it or like another next week. It might be Two large pizzas with the soft drink the garlic bread. Then that was like your Dells you treat right? Exactly exactly cheating on Wednesday night day night. Yes. I was actually not the other days. We ate pretty well and when I say pretty well looking at it looking back out and now we did steer pretty clear quite closely with things in terms of with in terms of the whole food side of it, but it was more so not getting food from the markets initially and then we made that switch. But how much how much damage do you think that one cheat night? Does we I can say from not even from like how much do I think how much do I know from hands-on experience when I was in hospital and I've been eating very very strictly the way I have been for the last period of time and I felt normal all of those days when I was in there and I was recommended that I needed to have more calories for everyone. I'm saying that in quotas like basically just get the calories in we all know what that means. People are just eat what you've got away. They wanted me to try jelly. They wanted me to try to gluten-free bread and Natalie. if some people go unless we go oh that's great look into not elect more trust me and I had those three things and literally within not even an hour I had bloating stomach pains and I had started having these huge massive cravings for sugar I hadn't had added sugar or processed food in months and when I had this jelly it was just like bang boom all of the bacterium I got that I've been craving sugar That's been killing off for so long starving them. It was just like they all got reignite it and literally that night I was laying in bed and I was like, I don't feel like anything you said sugar, but what can I get from the hospital that because I couldn't have dairy. I don't have dairy either and I said literally said to the nurse, please bring me two pieces of gluten-free bread some that elects and sugar. I'm a fairy bread because I was told I needed to get my calories. I hate that within the next 45 minutes. I was on the toilet. Toilet in crippling pain. I had sweat I literally fell asleep on the toilet. I went into this huge higher had the shakes the sweat stomach pains and then I fell asleep on the toilet like you could say like passed out. I woke up afterwards still sweating sitting on the toilet and I had stomach pain all night two days later The dietitian came back and she was like, how did you go? I was like, well, let's talk because before that I'd said all of this info that I'd been applying and it was only anecdote. So for those that might be new order this kind of Basically anecdote just means it's he experienced like we eat different foods and we feel good that's called anecdote. So it's not shown in a scientific experiment or a scientific study that it's working 100% stake you feel it's like it's like giving a result on what you feel exactly versus like strict data on what happened. Yeah, and I said we've spoken about anecdote and and all of that before and these people wanted to refute the what I was doing was worth it. They said like look, it can't have that much of an effect. And then when they came in I said you want your own hearing about effect. Let me tell you so I told them that story and they said they literally were like if you want to go back to doing what you're doing. That's fine. I was like no I most certainly will thank you very much. And then I got mom and my sister to keep bringing me back the food. They will bring you in before so I can say from hands-on experience that one cheat meal. You have that one day. Will you go off you're literally putting sand in the petrol tank. You will literally just But there's that saying that like you ready to feeding your body, you're killing your body you we truly are and I used to think that was kind of like I used to you know, how I was that's an exaggeration. I can't be that serious until I experienced it in hospital and I was like, I'm going to swear it's all right, huh, that's for that's a fine. But that's bullshit that we can have people out there that are going to say like doesn't have enough of effect when that nearly ruined me in hospital that like I was a mentally a mess the next day to like if you speak to my And we that were with me I had ridiculous Brian folk. I couldn't like I was struggling with conversations because my body hadn't had it for so long because it's literally like putting water in your fuel tank and it's affecting your cart around. Normally. It's not going to happen. So for anyone that's out there. It's kind of been on the fence about the food side of things from firsthand experience that meal that you're thinking it might be. All right, it's not worth it. Do you get excited for like a good nutritious whole food like a good grasp? Fed, steak and some quality organic veggies and your cooked well or you know a cheat meal like a big go out and get a big ice cream or something. Like what makes you more excited now Health fuel my body for performance and to Big switch with people because they don't understand that like the damage when you eat shit. Basically, you're actually tearing holes in your guts like and we won't go into the side. So it's such a deep hole, but you're at the literally bashing your guts. And the reason you don't feel the full effect is Your gut isn't that that detrimental stage yet, but you don't want to get it to there. So the sooner you can realize that whole food nutritious like dense quality organic food is actually fueling you helping your body instead of hindering it. You just get excited for to eat good I get so Juiced up on my grass fed steak and some nice veggies. I remember this coming up in Connors episode you guys talkin about Foo. Yeah what I want to love it. I want everyone at home to picture this for a moment. Even if you've got a close your eyes. All I want you to picture he's or even just look at your arms right now your forearms and your hands now see what they look like. Imagine that you've just eaten what I used to have as a cheat meal. You've had your milkshake and you've had your burger and your chips. You're going too fast food. Now imagine you're looking at your arms and you've taken in that food and then all of a sudden of the next day 15 minutes your arms literally starts like the skin starts to peel off and you start to blister. And then let's say you do this for a couple of days and those blisters and start to become like ulcers bloody ulcers. Now, you're looking around you these bloodied ulcers all over your arms. Let's say it becomes a couple of months. Now your arms are red raw bleeding. If you were to see that and have to look at that every single day, you'd be like I'm not going to eat this anymore. That's a because that's that only in the using the arms because you can see it right now. Imagine your whole body being bloodied and ulcer dad. And you could see that imagine what you would want to go out in public. You wouldn't want to be seen I value it. Imagine if your feel like just imagine your face the skin just peeling off and it's just blood and mucus. That's what your gut is. Like if you get to that point and that's what's happening. Why you have step gloating got it pains, you know cramping. What do you think? It comes from constipation diarrhea, if that stuff happening if you're farting after meals that is your gut telling you like this is not good. Yeah, there's something not right here. Exactly. And that's when you when you can see it on your outside of your body people make a change immediately you get ahead of acne. First thing people are doing is getting that change. Someone starts have a stomach issue that I can. It's all right. Yeah, you need to realize what all as a heads up because autoimmune conditions are one of the most graphically growing areas of concern in the world today. All autoimmune conditions have been found to be linked with a leaky gut. So a leaky gut is is when you basically your gut like all rights downwards in your gut. Yeah, it allows things through where the immune system can then start to fire their little guns and try to kill things that's been the foundational base for all autoimmune conditions. Is that At the gut level because 80% of your immune system is in your gut in your intestines on the outside of it. So you start breaking that down and you're just allowing it to a war to start you're asking for it to happen. So if you can realize that when someone comes to me and says I've started having these symptoms I go. I try not to I don't want to scare them but they need to know I'm like be fucking careful because if you're having those diarrhea that constipation those stomach issues. Let's say you're a young athlete and you want to be a professional if I wanted to be a professional athlete and I On to what I've gone no chance. So if you're a young athlete and you want to chase your goals eat, well, not only because it's going to feel your body right because he could stop from you from ending your career. Those are UFC fighter very high level. He had ulcerative colitis. He had to stop competing in the USC because of it because he didn't eat well didn't look after himself before and added up I think about that scene up on the outside and he said yeah, that's his whole career. Yeah. It's a massive part and like if you need help reach out obviously to either yourself. And you can direct people or reach out to us exult o holistic Hub. We're happy to help. This is why we do what we do and we're keen to educate people on a better level. I want to dive deep into obviously the probably the biggest talking point for us to with our Journeys at the moment is meditation for a lot and I'm for a lot of young people and it just be kind of like we were all things that we had Yogi's do or monks. Like let's talk about meditation. For the modern world look at the most successful people in the world and just ask them. What are your daily habits? Whether they're the highest level athlete Tom Brady Tiger Woods, so on and so forth. You could think of in an RL people like that Union. Just ask them what their habits are in for those that are adults that are listening to this. Look at the most successful business people. What are they almost all have in common they meditate? They might have Del have different forms of meditation to what suits them but they all meditate they will have a mindfulness practice and it's been the most powerful thing that I've ever been gifted and I say gifted because it's been given to me as a tool and I can either use it or I can dispose of it and I sure as hell know what I'm going to do. It's my super power now. so how do you explain meditation to someone who's like just thinks it's like a weird thing or they can't do it like Imagine being able to control your brain. With whatever happens whatever happens in the day, if you're about to get angry, if you're about to get upset. If you're about to forget something imagine being able to control that like having a super power over your own mind having a super power over your behavior. That's what it is. It's just there's only one way to practice it and that's it's the same thing as getting a jacket body. What do you do? You've got to practice training. You've got to train the same thing with the mind you've got to train it. I like a quote. I heard the other half can't reference it right now forgotten soft top of my head. They explained that as humans, you know, we're so focused on cleaning cleaning the dishes after we eat cleaning the house cleaning the toilet cleaning a car, but we're not actually taking the time to clean our minds our unconscious minds and it gets dirty. We've all felt what a dirty mind. This to Daddy - yeah, what like a harsh mind or a negative mind feels like and that's because we're not cleaning it and we're not keeping it, you know positive and clear and and having that Clarity of mind and meditation is a gateway to really clean your unconscious mind and allow your conscious mind to function the way you want it to absolutely and that's its you're literally training the unconscious mind to become conscious in a way. So we talked about that. Iceberg so 90% 95% of our mind is unconscious 5 to 10% He's conscious. I believe that through meditation. We are taking that Iceberg and starting to flip it and become so conscious is just another word for a we're mindful is just another word for awareness. So what your conscious of your aware of what your unconscious of you're not aware of so the more you meditate the more aware you've become of everything because you're more mindful you're more present. Actually just flipping now. So, you know everything that's everything that you're doing. Whereas before it became. It was just it happened. Now, you know, the one thing that and I said this earlier in the podcast is because my journey has been so deep and so intensive like I haven't done anything except meditate and journal and read on these areas for the last few months. It's been so deep that I've almost. it's hard to relate to people that were saying let's say like work in their day-to-day and then they go and do say a meditative sitting like for me to have that understanding is very different it but again, it's like having the knowledge and then forgetting that the abundance of lack of knowledge, but For the day-to-day it enables you to. To calm down to calm your mind and to quieten it. Like I said, I used to sit go to do a 10-minute meditative sitting and I get four minutes through and I'd be freaking out like I don't have time for this and now I feel like 30 minutes. I'm like, I need to I want to go for longer. I can need to go for more. So what I say, you should meditate for 10 minutes a day. And if you don't have time to meditate 10 minutes a day, you should meditate for an hour. Yeah good more excuses. You create that you don't have time. You need to meditate long yet more. Yeah Dad's is like a saying by the border. You can't meditate for 10 minutes. You made men died 20 yet double whatever you think so. What else what would you like the guys to know like it's a deep deep rabbit hole, but whatever you want to talk about. Whatever I can give them. I will yeah, I think it's stuck. How much is it helped you because because people and this actually probably what's probably more relevant is the challenges of meditation the challenges of actually learning to sit still in our world our modern society, which is so time for and so instantly gratified and fast, what are the challenges that you've gone through to actually learn Stillness putting yourself first, absolutely and valuing it because everything we do comes down to our values. So so many people are believe that they've got to work hard and not stop to get to where they want to go. But for everyone that's at home happy for you to pause it for a moment. Take a moment to reflect on how hard you're working. You deserve where you're going. Do you actually know exactly where you're going? Most people are just going there just got a shotgun in there shooting. They don't actually know what they're aiming for. It's being able to it gives you the chance to slow down to step back and go what do I want? So that happened from meditation. And it causes meditation as well. So it's a two-fold effect. The challenge to begin with before I did the courses was making time for but that just comes down to our habits. So set a habit to do it first thing in the morning just set your alarm five minutes earlier one minute earlier. Just do one minute, which means going to sleep. Yeah bit earlier. Yeah, so and you don't have to think I can in to sit down cross-legged have my hands in my lap literally and this is the most I would say the most powerful gift. I received from my second meditation teacher Richard he's been teaching meditation in vipassana courses for like over 40 years now and he said to me at the end of the course. Just keep up your practice and I thought he meant sit down cross your legs meditate the past in the style, which is really really strict and disciplined. That's like the pure Buddhist monk style of meditation. So that the two courses that I've done in the most strict meditation you can do it's full-on but he just said keep up your practice. And I said, what do you mean like sitting down and doing it? He said when you pull up at like when you're at the stop lights take your awareness to the breath and just focus on feeling the breath coming in and out of your nose and the end of your breath when you He think about that when you're cooking food because I know you love food Todd because I was in the kinship constantly during the course. Think about the breath when you're listening to a podcast. Think about the breath, whatever you're doing whenever you've got a moment of Stillness rather than like when you're waiting in line to get food, you're not waiting be present take your attention to the breath and that made it simple and made it bite sizable and chunk a ball and we were just talking about earlier. We don't need to think of going to the elite level and me. Immediately you start at the basics and then you bite sized chunks and go up. So it Master is like 10,000 hours. Yeah, but don't think about the 10,000 hours. Like we've been saying don't think about the future start with the one second right now. I think that's what I my journey with meditation has been it actually doesn't matter whether it's 1 minute in the morning or whether it's 30 or an hour. I've done, you know, one minute all the way out to the end. The longest said I did was an hour and a half. It doesn't actually matter that could just because you can see right now half doesn't mean shit what actually matters is that you can just be in the present moment and like we're talking about like for people who think they can't meditate meditating is literally like if you were listening to this it being aware that you can pull air into your body and feel it and then you can feel it. Go out and if you can put a few link three or four breaths 10 breaths, 3050 breaths, whatever if you can just be aware of stopping and being conscious of present moment movement of Stillness that's meditation and that hadza adds a whole level of performance to your life of Tranquility of experience of being like fuck. I'm in the moment. And when you are in the moment, you can enjoy life so much more. That's the full life full circle talking about earlier. That's how you live. A full life is just being present the present moment. Yeah living to the fullest isn't get achieving your goals and doing this and you know going hard and having the sickest day tomorrow living the fullest life is pulling everything out of right this second like this this conversation looking around looking at the colors of the green trees the Blues. Guy listening to the birds smelling the are feeling your fingers you like just connecting with the present moment and how much gratitude we have for our lives. That's that's the fucking fullest that you can get. You literally you are the fullest moment exactly. Exactly. And no matter what else you have. Nothing can compare to that. If it was a book that I could recommend for people to read. It is actually there's two there's two go for it. Untethered soul is first and the Power of Now is second The Power of Now gets really deep really really deep and you need to be ready for it. I've spoken to a bunch of people now that have started they haven't gotten through the book because it was so deep. That's why I say power other Power of Now second after untethered soul, but they will take you on a journey where you're now you'll get to a point once you've been through those books where you know, what you and I are talking about at that experiential level. You'll know exactly how it feels. So meditation is is gifting you the ability to experience things fully to be happy because we all chase this happiness and being happy. Where does the word happy actually come from happening that the root of it comes from happening. What is happening the present moment so being happy is actually being present only found that out recently. That's cool. I like that. Yeah, so that's been the biggest gift of it all and is it no matter what age you're at if you're nine years old and you're listening. Into this right now, which I know they will be from from your tribe start meditating. I had my nephew he's four years old. I had to meditate for five minutes when I was down in vic last time I got into do for passed in the meditation, which is Advanced up kids are good at it. Yeah. It's like they can sit you just tell them it's to Carmine. It's crazy imagination. Yeah, I think about the tree like look at the trees and think about like kids don't have those limitations. It's adults who I don't have the time or fucking around. I don't got all this going on and I can't my mind's you know, I'm all caught up. Just sit breathe be still if you could control if you could press pause on time every something in every time something big in life happens and you could weigh up what you're about to do and then make your decision. How much could you 10x 100x your life because you know that when a job opportunity comes up or client opportunity comes up or a sporting or training opportunity comes up. You can press pause and go deliberate. You might write a couple things down in that time we go. This is the best thing for me and then take that you could then control and respond to life rather than just react president. We've got a bug Beetle right now that's crawling all over JP some serious color in this thing. Take a moment to appreciate that. It's like that's what that's what life's about. It's like Ashley recognizing what life is for a run at home. Orange bright orange with these blue spots on his back. No super shiny. He looks like a Christmas decoration Aqua like this is orange yellow. He just flew onto my hand in that conversation. So good indication to Come into the present moment. That's why I wanted to stop his we've spoken about this recently was how we spoke about with curling and being able to be present during let's say presenting or being on the podcast and not I could have previously I could have seen that and just kept going but no experience this. So where I was was imagine you could press pause on life and you can make better decisions and you could take back the negatives and everything then becomes positive. It's like it's like a superpower you have this ability that will mean that you can 10x things. That's what awareness is. That's what mindfulness is. That is meditation. It's a superpower for the mind. Just start just literally just stop just stop actually stop and breathe. All right. I asked you guys for yourselves feel family for everyone around you. just stop and do one minute One minute a day breathing focusing on your nose. That's it. Just start their feel when you do it. Big breath in as you breathe out, relax your shoulders and all that all the tension of the muscles drop out of your body as it is a quick little fact for you guys. And it's all this is a physiology hack. You can only be in a fight or flight State when you have muscular tension in your body. You cannot be in a fight or flight State when you release all of the muscular tension. It's an automatic response dress stress State. Exactly. Yes Ari apologies. So when you're stressed you clench you get into a position that gets tight shoulders are tight. So by doing a deep breath because I was always Take a deep breath that overlaps you and I was doing that. It's not fucking Margate because I'm still Contracting and then I found out big breath in relax the tension out of your muscles and it was just like the anger all the frustration all the way just rush off dissolves. Yes activities deep breath and relax the muscles just allow the tension to dissipate and everything will change the worries will go to go away. The anger will go away. The frustration will go away your resentment for people will just disappear and positive things will start flowing into your head. It's a superpower. I want everyone on this planet to be able to do it Cam that did the last course with me. He was going into it so skeptical because what am I doing? I'm going like some coltie. He's so weird strange. I've got to the end of it when we were talking. So obviously 10 days of Silence. We got to the end of that. So what was your experience? He's like I want everyone that I work with everyone. I know to do this. My girlfriend's coming to the next course with me. Straight away. It was his first response because it's so powerful and that's what I want people to be able to experience those intensive courses, but to just stop and start something small just started the Baseline one minute just feel if it works. Well, keep going. It's not your jam. Try it a few more times. Don't give up on the first guy. Just keep going. Experience it the first thing they said on the first night of my first meditation course, and that's what I bought in hard. They said do not believe What you read? Do not believe what you are told by Family. Do not believe what you are told by teachers. Do not believe what you are told you during this course believe only what you experience firsthand. And I knew that I was in the right place because it was a bad experience and I was like because they the next thing that was said and this is by Michael Frazier. He's an incredible man. It was my first teacher. He said treat this course like a scientific experiment. We remove all the variables. That's where there's no technology. There's no phones no watches no laptops. No talking. No exercise no journaling. No reading. Nothing for 10 days. You eat you sleep in your meditate. He said we remove all the variables. So all you focus on is the one thing you can change and that's your Tation if this works for you and you feel incredible the end of the ten days like your life is transformed. You have a profound impact its work for you. You can continue for didn't so bad every single person that gets to the end of the course is like, holy shit. I've just realised the Matrix. I know the code of cracked the code. And that happens but you just start by experiencing and just step one. It's one minute. I guarantee if you stick it that and you just make it a goal to just do a little bit and you just keep at it with some persistence. What's possible? Hmm, so I've been a lot of juice in this podcast. last thing question What advice would you give the younger Todd? If you have a chat with younger Todd and just pulling up and say hey champ, let's have it yarn. What would you tell yourself? Listen to your mom because and I say that with sincerity would be the biggest thing is because mum told me from a young age hate balance. She literally said it to me for years. You need to find balance chill out a bit more balance this balance at I was like, fuck your balance like balances for me. Yoga like balances for average. I thought balance was 0 0 on both sides. So if I could go back it would be too. listen to Mom in having that balance in the sense of Enjoying what's happening now while going hard because that's I know my life is going to be incredible and I'm going to in create incredible things for a lot of people but I'm going to enjoy the whole process of doing it every step of the way if I could go back it would be go hard as hard as you physically can work 100% But then rest 100% relax 100% because you've earned it. Absolutely. So yeah, that's it 100% work 100% relax 100% or play as you going to say that work hard and play hard now. I want to switch off. An inspiring man, this is Jared. I'm grateful to be a part of your family to know you Nicola the exult O tribe and everyone within thank you very much for having me and chatting today and for your influence on my journey and my life. I wouldn't be where I am or who I am today without you. So thank you. None of us would be as well. We're all here for each other. Thank you, brother. I love you. I love you too, big dog. Who man and now how can people get in contact with you find you follow you at coach Jarrett on Instagram and Coach Jerod on Facebook for now. And if you did want to shoot me a message do so. I would say by Instagram or via email. If you want to chat more on a more like a deeper level Todd at TJ T dot company and I would say in the next few months. We're Going to have and we'll chat about this the holistic health platform will be launched and release which will be huge and that's that's my passion. And that's my fuel for the future is being able to give people that you got a heap of experience. Oh man. Yeah it is and that's it experience. Yeah, Dad to all that theory and sad inside the brain. Oh, yeah, very good. Thank you all for listening. It's been it's been so good to sit down. And actually get our first podcast done together and super excited for what's to come in the future and keep watching you grow. Keep watching being in the present moment with you. Thank you, bro. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Let's get it. Thank you. See you later.
The Exalto Experience hosted by Jordan Potts, the Founder and Owner of Exalto Holistic Hub. Episode 3 is a conversation with one of Exalto’s own, Todd Jarratt. Todd is an exceptional young man, an incredible coach and a big part of Exalto. Many challenges were faced in 2019 on Todd's journey and we know that he is going to make a huge impact in wherever he puts his energy. In the episode Todd and Jordan discuss the challenges and growth that has come from a big, scary, mind blowing year in 2019. Deadly health risks, mental adveristy, personal and professional growth has all been on the cards for Todd in 2019 and he has certainly stepped up to the plate, or in this case sat down and found stillness. Todd this year found the power of meditation and it's healing and progressive benefits on the mind, body and soul. This episode is a great insight into what it takes to create deep change in your life and Todd now embodies the message that he so strongly believes is best for him. If you want to connect and reach out to Todd you can message him on Instagram @coachjarratt. Send him a message and let him know your biggest takeaways from what he has shared. As always we grateful for you investing your time to listen to another episode of the Exalto Experience. Much love, thank you. 