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10. Life After Reality TV, Unlocking Potential Through Microcybin With David Alexander
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Hey everyone!!! Very excited to be back podcasting and who better to kick off the new year with than David Alexander. We dive into the struggles of coming off a reality tv show that people may deal with. We discuss how Microcybin has both helped us unlock our potential we didn't think was possible! Sit back relax and enjoy.
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Introduction of David Alexander
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome back guys to another episode of Unlocking with Adam Pike. This is the first one in the new year and we have a guest on today. You might have seen him on a couple seasons of Big Brother US and also MTV The Challenge and this is David Alexander. How's it going?
00:00:19
Speaker
Adam, what's up, man? A pleasure, an honor to be on the podcast. And I know you got some really great topics for us to discuss today, stuff that's just on brand with me. So, man, I'm excited to get into it and give some audiences maybe some information, some insights about me that they didn't know before. Yeah, I appreciate you coming on,
Connecting Over Microdosing Journeys
00:00:38
Speaker
man. Honestly, I've been thinking about asking you for a while because I feel like we
00:00:42
Speaker
We're kind of like on the same type of level. We've been like connecting over social media and whatnot about our little micro dosing journey and all that good stuff.
00:00:52
Speaker
Yeah, what's new? What's going on in
David's Move to Houston and New Job
00:00:54
Speaker
your life? Man, I just got to Houston literally two weeks ago. I moved out to Texas, recently got a new job in the similar space. I work in consumer product sales, specifically on the gym and fitness side. And it was a Swedish based energy drink company called NOCO, N-O-C-C-O.
00:01:17
Speaker
I'm sitting here and I have one right now. You're going to have to send me some of these because I don't know, man. I don't know if it's going to compete with Rain. You know, I'm definitely going to hook you up. Bro, you know what's crazy about this brand real quick is I saw them all over California back in 2019 when I first moved out there to work with my last company. And, you know, when you see something new in this space, so many brands come and go. I think it's like 800 new energy brands come.
00:01:42
Speaker
that 1% might get some kind of crazy percentage, right? Usually most brands don't make it. So I'm just like, Oh, this is another brand that's not going to be here. And I kept seeing them all over from LA to Portland, Seattle. And so, um, you know, when I got out of LA for my last company, just because of LA, my last company was great, but they reached out to me and they were looking at somebody to help grow the territory on the West coast. I'm like, no,
00:02:04
Speaker
I'm done with LA. And then I'm like, well, hey, we got something in Texas. First thought was, no, I don't want to move to Texas. Like I literally just got home to Atlanta from two and a half years in LA. I'm in Atlanta with my friends, family, everything's good. And then I start talking to them and I start asking about
00:02:22
Speaker
Texas to different friends and family and heard nothing but good things. So Nomad, Yolo, I'm out here in Texas. I'm literally two weeks in and I feel like I made the right decision.
Weather Adaptation and Fitness Routines
00:02:32
Speaker
So you moved out there for this company.
00:02:35
Speaker
Yeah, this was a YOLO move to help grow this brand. And it's not just for the company too, right? Houston, and Texas in particular, is super affordable. So when I was looking at just building wealth going into the future, I'm like, well, if I can cut my cost and do the type of work that I'm doing, Texas is the perfect spot to do that. Man, I actually don't know how you deal with the heat.
00:03:02
Speaker
I don't know if I'd be able to live down there. Because when I did the boxing fight down there, we never really talked much when I was down there. There was a lot going on, but dude, anytime I stepped foot outside, I was drenched in sweat. I was uncomfortable. It was not okay. What's it like down there right now? Hot? Right now, it's 76 degrees.
00:03:27
Speaker
A little bit of humidity. I mean, I just ran nine miles. I took my shirt off in the middle of it. I'm like, oh, this is great. It's January. I'm literally running around the park with no shirt. Man, like here in Newfoundland, so we just got like
00:03:39
Speaker
I think we had 35 centimeters of snow. It was minus 18 and then the very next day it rained all day and it was 14 degrees and there's like no snow anywhere to be seen.
00:03:58
Speaker
So like, that's, I know, Newfoundland is like a weird province and it's always so up and down. You'll get like four or five seasons in like one day and yeah, it's- I mean, you had me at a negative temperature like, yo, I'm good. Like, I am good. The ice plunged, like it finally thawed out, but like it was that cold. The other day I had like the sledgehammer and I was like trying to beat the ice open to get in it. And it was probably like this much ice, like it's,
00:04:29
Speaker
Cold, cold plunges are, are fucking shitty. And I know that you're doing, I know that you're doing 75 hard now.
75 Hard Challenge
00:04:37
Speaker
How's that? This is day one. Oh, you just started. Okay. This is, this is day one. This is my attempt. Number 11. I get better. I swear I get better and better at this thing. The more often I try it, hopefully this is the time I get through. I feel like I am. You know what it is when you're in a new city, a new place, just less of your normal distractions.
00:04:58
Speaker
You know fitness became a big part of my life last summer. Just just do this just after doing the challenge USA I really wanted to take my fitness Seriously, so I'm kind of continuing that trend and somebody far as when you really like the way to be like, okay, Houston Okay, no Co. Okay, David like, you know, I'm really serious about you know, why I'm here and you know, just taking care of myself Yeah, man. I honestly if like if did you listen to the podcast to like the Andy?
00:05:28
Speaker
I listen to the one where he kind of goes over the details. Yeah, so like technically I Never really finished 75 hard. So like my first time doing it I I went the whole 75 days. I did all the all the like the two workouts I did most of the things but there was like a couple I had a couple slip ups and Not no alcohol. I never drank any alcohol. Like I think the slip ups were
00:05:55
Speaker
like maybe not reading like 10 pages a day like i kind of like said fuck it one day but like really if you don't do every single thing to the tee you fail and you're supposed to start over right so i like to tell myself that i finish it but in yeah if i actually went by the rules then no but
00:06:13
Speaker
Now the reason why I was talking about the cold plunge, if you looked into live hard, so there's like three phases after, one of them is taking a cold shower every single day. Dude, so the other day when I couldn't fucking beat the ISO, I took a cold shower. Cold showers are actually worse than the ice plunge.
00:06:37
Speaker
I don't know why. There's something about getting an ice plunge. It's just it's very still. But having that cold water, just just try it. Have you done it? Yeah, because because the water is constantly coming in. You want to like you want to it doesn't you know when you get that panic breathing shot supposed to control that breath throwing it. Yeah, I feel like in a cold plunge, it happens. But then you kind of like you settle down you kind of
00:06:59
Speaker
Yeah, it's a good state of like flow and control. We're in a cold shower. This is just like it's crazy. It's loud. You know, it's just like chaos chaos. Have you ever, have you ever done a cold shower? Yeah, I've done. I've done both. I haven't done the everyday one. So maybe, you know, like in the stage two of this whole thing that, you know, I'll be able to
00:07:20
Speaker
Experience that yeah, like I'm doing this challenge now with this company other ship It's like we do a cold plunge every single day. That's the breathing app or Yeah, it's a breathing app. Yeah, so it's called like the play it cool challenge and I've been going in every single day and every single day it sucks and
00:07:42
Speaker
With everything nowadays, they say there's a ton of health benefits and you know what I mean? So I'm doing it, but I'm not really noticing a huge difference, right? So you can go on YouTube and research the health benefits for Asana, the benefits to that, and then the benefits of the cold plunge. It's kind of the same. Sometimes I question myself, am I really jumping in this cold plunge for
00:08:11
Speaker
a good reason or could I just... You know what I think? You know how awesome I think these things are outside of the biological benefits, which you can argue everybody's subjective and different. The fact that you willingly do something difficult that you don't have to is already kind of like, it's like building that foundation of resilience. It's like, I don't want to do it, but I'm going to do it. And so if you can do a co-plunge, then you can write that blog. You can record that podcast. You can create that content because those things are way easier
00:08:40
Speaker
and suffering
00:09:00
Speaker
If I don't have something that I'm working towards, but don't have a challenge, but don't have like an obstacle in front of me, it's like, I'm kind of like a little bit empty inside.
Goal Setting for the New Year
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through
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Speaker
You know what I mean? Yeah, man. A hundred percent. That's what I got into last man. Let me, this, this running thing. So I have a goal right now to run a thousand miles this year. Um, that's. Yeah. I got, I got, uh, I got a 29 point.
00:09:30
Speaker
four kilometers ran this month. That's not really a lot, but. 1,000 divided by 365. That's like 2.7 miles a day, right? Let's call it a 5k a day, a few days off, right? That's tough. That's tough. Yeah. This, the only reason that, you know, only even reason I even, when I told people, I told my coworkers, I think our first meeting, they're like, what are your new year's resolutions? I'm like, I want to run a thousand miles. And other people were like, I want to eat healthier or I want to,
00:09:58
Speaker
you know, make better food decisions. I'm just like, I want to, here's this numerical real goal of a thousand miles. And so what it does for me is it makes fitness is conscious of fitness and being healthy. But when I have to think about dedicating something that isn't always fun, that can be painful sometimes as you know, it's kind of boring compared to some other fitness things that I do. But
00:10:26
Speaker
it is just this hard goal that's going to make me consistently have to train and be what we fit.
00:10:32
Speaker
Last week, I was in Miami with my company. They were celebrating a really successful year. Lucky me, I just joined. And then I get to participate in the success even though I didn't contribute yet. But anyways, we're in Miami having a good time. And this company, we like to go out and party, have tequila. If you want to, it's not pressure. But if you want to have those drinks. So I'm like, hell yeah, I'm turning up in Miami having a good time. But I would turn up with the team.
00:10:59
Speaker
not get a lot of sleep. Wake up and I'm like okay, if I want to get to a thousand miles I know this is a random Wednesday morning. I could probably get by without running today but if I want to hit that goal I kind of have these many days like this to where I made bad decisions and I got to just suffer through it. So, I wake up and I'm just like let me just go run one mile. If I can run one mile then that'll get me closer to my goal and usually what happens is I run one mile and I'm like oh,
00:11:29
Speaker
This hurts, but it's not that bad. And I run two and I might run up to four miles. And so what I've learned only in a couple of weeks is that, you know, even if you just move this much towards your goal, you'd be surprised. Your body might respond differently. Or what my mind is telling me like, Oh, David, you have a hangover. You can't run. And I'm like, Oh, okay, I can. I can run. It sucks. You can. You can literally do whatever you want. It's just people are very, very comfortable.
00:11:55
Speaker
I like settle a goal for myself. I'm trying to burn over 1200 calories a day. So like the other night it was, I think it was like 10 30 or 11 o'clock at night. And like, I was fucking tired, man. I looked at my thing. I'm like, God damn it, man.
00:12:09
Speaker
It's cold outside. I'm like, you know what? I'm just gonna go for a run so I went for a little 33 kilometer run came home I was like who's feeling all good and shit and Yeah, you just you just got to do shit. But like most people don't want to do shit They don't want it. They don't want to put in that that extra work. You know what I mean? So Yeah, that's a good goal. I find a lot of people will make New Year's resolutions I spoke about this the other day on the Instagram. It's like I
00:12:35
Speaker
They'll do nothing all year, right? They'll get that motivation and they're like starting out the year strong. Woo, let's get it. And then it just dies off. And then they just go back to their old shitty habits. And then it's just, it's just a cycle over and over and over again. Right. Um, I don't really make new year's resolutions. I just, I always wanted to just have a better year than what I had the year before. And I, I've, I've found that as I, as I'm getting older every single year,
00:13:09
Speaker
Great year, but you know what? I'm gonna do more this year like that's that that's my goal is just keep Having like six years. Yeah, I think you're speaking into this thing. I started saying The new year new me, you know, that was a big thing. That was a big thing for a little while I don't even say that anymore. I'm like new year better me is the is the thing I'm saying I don't have New Year's resolutions either. I just put like
00:13:34
Speaker
I'll just put different goals that seem tough that's going to take some consistency. Maybe one thing is just this enormous goal. I mean, I need to go travel to another country, which means I need to be more, you know, more financially, more financial stewardship and make sure that I am, you know, have that as a goal financially to be able to go somewhere or running a thousand miles. The benefit of running a thousand miles is I'm going to be consistently in shape, maintaining my body all year long. So, only that can happen.
00:14:00
Speaker
But no, man, I think not having New Year's resolutions, just having big goals, even if you don't reach them. I even tell the people that it's like, it's okay to have a goal you don't reach because you still had a journey of getting to how far you got to. One example last year is I had the same lofty goal. I want to run a thousand miles. Same goal. Same goal I had last year. You never did it? I got to 540, but I did the show and I relocated and I only got to running over the summer.
00:14:29
Speaker
Although I didn't get to a thousand miles, I had the most miles I haven't ran in a year. So I didn't get to that crazy goal, but I still had a personal
Balancing Fitness and Mental Health
00:14:37
Speaker
record. So I still walked away from the year as a win. I'm like, okay, well, I'm getting closer to that crazy thousand mile goal. I feel like this year is gonna happen. So not having resolutions, just having better me, I think that's what more people need. And that way you don't fall off of something, right? You're just like, progress is better than perfection. Fuck perfection.
00:14:58
Speaker
No perfection. And you feel better. Like I tell people this all the time, right? Cause like everybody, well, not everybody, but a lot of people will think that like health and fitness, like you got to fucking eat plain chicken and rice and you got to do shit you don't want to do. But like literally if you just, okay, for, for example, like over Christmas, I was, I was like drinking quite a bit and I was having fun and kind of before that I went on a trip and like,
00:15:24
Speaker
my mental health was kind of shit and like I could like really notice it in my head and I was like down on myself and had no motivation started it's what January 16th 15th or whatever like two weeks two weeks into January and I'm just right back on track I got my goal set I'm micro dosing again and I'm fucking feeling like top level you know what I mean yeah so it don't take long and like when just say if you don't
00:15:53
Speaker
lose the 10 pounds that you set out to lose, but mentally, you're feeling fucking great. To me, that's what health and fitness is about. It's more than just muscles and whatever. It's your mental health too.
00:16:11
Speaker
just this past year that unless I'm in a good space mentally, then my physical self is going to suffer. If I'm not taking care of my mind, I'm not going to make the right food decisions. I'm not going to make fitness decisions. I'm not going to make the right sleep decisions. It's all sourced in how well my mental and emotional state. So I got to pay attention to that first. Take care of David first. If I take care of David mentally, then the body's going to follow.
00:16:41
Speaker
You know, same thing over the holidays. I had this crazy, I'm making these crazy PRs fitness wise going from like literally June to all the way through October. About two months ago around mid November, I started getting this interview process and I started this relocation process. I'm relocating new job, holidays, my fitness
00:17:04
Speaker
that just took a back seat. It was doing a little bit, but it wasn't the priority it was for the last few months. And so I remember those different moments where I was kind of feeling guilty like, damn, I got down to like 183 weight wise and I was on my way to 170 something, which was a goal I had for the year. I'm going to beat 179 on the scale from like one 200.
00:17:22
Speaker
Then I didn't get there, and I probably gained several pounds over the holidays. And I had to tell myself, you have life transition. You're moving, and you at least learned how to appreciate what I learned last summer.
00:17:37
Speaker
going into the fall, and now I can just take that up a notch. So my mantra this year is perfection doesn't exist. If I can get over the idea of perfection, then progress takes a priority, and I just work a little bit better every day. Yeah, yeah.
Reality TV Experiences
00:17:54
Speaker
I feel it man, you've been on a mission the last couple of years. So like you had two seasons on, was it back to back seasons? Back to back. Bro, that blows my mind because like I was in the house for 64 days or something like that, right? And like what a lot of people don't know
00:18:15
Speaker
Reality TV, right? Like you go in and like if you make it far you're on such a high and like they treat you like your fucking God and then you come out they throw you out in the in the in the real world and then that's it and you're just a regular human just like everybody else but like people who tend to watch these shows think you're like a half-man half-amazing, right, but like I
00:18:38
Speaker
In reality, anybody could do these shows because they pick people from all walks of life. And some people just excel more than others on the show. You know what I mean? But coming off and going back into the real world, it can really fuck with your mind. So you do them back to back seasons.
00:18:58
Speaker
off the show or what? Oh my goodness, man. It felt like Black Mirror, man. You've never seen Black Mirror. I've seen that, yeah. You know, the first time, there's nothing like walking in the house, realizing you're playing this game. It's the most surreal, I couldn't imagine my life going
00:19:17
Speaker
the way it was it happening and then um then you come off and you kind of think it's over so I'm a competitor I didn't win so I was just like okay well you know this is over time to move on no that wasn't the case like you have uh people who admire you have fans you have haters you have the highs and lows of social media and there was no
00:19:38
Speaker
pamphlet, there was no guide, this is how you do it when you get off. At least not for me. And I hadn't been a big fan of the show, so I didn't see how others managed post-show. But no, it's definitely tough mentally. It goes against all of your social rules and cues. When you build trust with someone,
00:20:01
Speaker
It's for legitimate reasons and when you play this Big Brother game, it's manipulation. So you have to go opposite of how you normally behave for most people anyway. Come back to the world war to kind of act like that's over and not build the trust and not do the lies and being able to be completely naked in the bathroom without realizing there's no camera. Like actually do it.
00:20:26
Speaker
without leaving the towel on. It took me about a week to get over that. Bro, I got exposed on my season. There you go. So, no, so you got a head start on the OnlyFans. Yeah. Yeah. And then you did the challenge. You do two seasons of the challenge? Just one. Just the one. Okay. I actually didn't watch that season. I just started watching the one that's currently on right now.
00:20:52
Speaker
Well, I missed the last few seasons, so. The USA. Yeah, man. Is that kind of the same thing? Because I don't really know a whole. So the Challenge USA, it's Viacom and CBS, they merged a couple of years ago. And so now CBS is like, oh, MTV, Intellectual Properties, Challenge, whatever. They can now bring over these people. Same thing for MTV. It's kind of like Marvel.
00:21:18
Speaker
cinematic universe coming together and get all these reality personalities under one umbrella. So they get to like make really cool shows like the Challenge USA. So for me personally, my Big Brother experience was not that great. I had a lot of pressure, nobody African-American had won yet. I put that pressure on myself like many other African-Americans before because you want to be that first, you can see it, you know,
00:21:39
Speaker
The casting does a great job of making you feel like you can win, because they're supposed to make you, they want you to go in the most confident. You go in the most confident. And so to be unsuccessful two years in a row, and then all of a sudden you get a chance to play another game, which is very rare. Let me speak to, wait, let me just put it out there really quick. Especially people who have watched me. I was first off of my Big Brother experience. First person off my first show, which is already traumatized very then you go through to get on.
00:22:05
Speaker
then to come back and then to go on to a third show. This has not happened in reality TV. This is not the norm. It's quite the exception. I've spoken to many other first out reality contestants amongst several different shows and they're just like, David, how? And I'm just like, I don't know, but I'm so grateful. If my reality adventure ended right now, I'm winning because I just continue to get another chance. But
00:22:30
Speaker
Back to the Challenge USA, man, that was my redemption experience. I actually won a couple of times. I feel like I defied some of the odds and some of the perspectives that some people had on me on the game. It kind of, it kind of, it kind of healed a lot of wounds I had for Big Brother where I didn't win anything that affected the game.
00:22:51
Speaker
where on this one I had a couple of opportunities to get in there and fight and stay. And so A, it gave me my confidence back or allowed me to see how powerful I can be. It also made me realize I can be in much better shape compared to what I was, the fact that all the old guys got to the end. And then C, if I don't ever do a reality TV show again, I'm okay with that because I had some redemption.
00:23:17
Speaker
feel confident in what I was able to do. And what I wasn't able to do, I still gave him a max effort. So, man, it was lucky. You've been having a lot of life-changing experiences, eh?
Microdosing Impact on Mental Health
00:23:29
Speaker
Yeah, man. My life is a movie. It is. And then, as of recently, we've been kind of connecting over social media.
00:23:41
Speaker
Microcyber kind of sent you out some products and stuff like that. We've been connecting through all that type of stuff. So how do you have you been finding that?
00:23:49
Speaker
Man, so I got into the microdosing. How did you get into that? Besides me reaching out, were you microdosing before me? Yeah, so I experimented a little bit. I think the pandemic, full of transparency, we were all going through it mentally.
00:24:12
Speaker
You know, cannabis was something that's been part of my life for a little bit while now pandemic just up this usage I think a lot of people I mean the fact that the dispensaries were open right during the pandemic was a big show of like what people needed in terms of just as a distraction from what was going on. So I had a roommate at the time.
00:24:30
Speaker
This guy was a Marine suffering from PTSD actively during the pandemic. And he's like, yo, I got some mushrooms. And I'm just like, bro, I'm not doing that. That's that. You know what I mean? I was so ignorant, but I was like, bro, that's that white people stuff.
00:24:48
Speaker
I'm not doing it. You know what I'm saying? He was white, but he was cool. He was cool. And so we just laughed for that because we were like, bruh, come on, it's not even... It's truly an indigenous... It's been a... Yeah, it's an indigenous thing, but that's just me being ignorant to what its benefits was. So I try it and...
00:25:09
Speaker
you know, I have this high experience and our usage wasn't, we want to party and have a good time. I think there's a lot of confusion that people see mushrooms as this go party, go to a rave. People can do that and have a good time. But for me, it was like therapeutic for some of the trauma and my own PTSD for maybe the reality TV shows and everything. Like it really showed me a different perspective, completely changed my life. And it allowed me to get into micro dosing on the healing side. Now you hit me up saying, Hey,
00:25:39
Speaker
I got this company based out of Canada, you know, it's, it's official. Like, it's not some person that's sourcing their, you know.
00:25:50
Speaker
It's an official company and I checked out the website and I was just like, wow, this is actually legal someplace. This is a beautiful, beautiful thing. And I get to experiment and be part of not just taking this medicine and hoping it works or reading what should happen and like, oh, am I healed? Am I better? Is my trauma better?
00:26:13
Speaker
like a training with feedback with you know a change and trying to notice patterns of behavior and like so man the um I forgot the name of what that process was called yeah so like um we uh a few of us would just jump on zoom call and like we would just kind of go over like micro dosing and whatnot and like
00:26:36
Speaker
That's the good thing about Microsoft and they're very like, they'll give you a lot of information for what you need, right? It's not just like, there's a lot of other companies, like there's probably thousands of microdosing companies and majority of them you just go on the website and it's just big smiley face here, take this pill, we'll be happy, yeah. But like with Microsoft and it's actually like they got articles and like you can talk to them and like answer any of your questions, right? So that's why I think Microsoft stands out.
00:27:04
Speaker
But yeah, no, I learned a lot over those few weeks, like just kind of listening to what they had to say, like hearing other people's stories and stuff like that. And I thought, go ahead. I was gonna say, you know what I think it is? The knowledge that I try to put in my brain when it comes to microdosing with my micro, micro-summon like we did with the training versus just doing it by yourself is on one side, I'm going to LA Fitness, right? If it's just me, I'm going to LA Fitness.
00:27:32
Speaker
I'm going to write out my program. I'm just going to go in there and just figure it out. I'm going to get, it's going to work. It's going to be effective. I'm going to get in decent shape versus Microsoft where boom, I have this coach, this experience is like, Hey, today we're focusing on this. This should be a result. This is your stimulus. This is how you should feel. This is who you should be looking for. So like, I feel like it accelerated whatever you're going to do by yourself. It just takes it to a brand new level and opens your eyes up to things you would never imagine instead of you just taking a solo. So,
00:28:00
Speaker
During those couple weeks though, like I did find when we kind of stopped doing the zoom calls and stuff I like almost just like fell off a little bit But like when I was showing up every Saturday and I was like surrounding myself with you guys and listening and all this stuff I was like
00:28:17
Speaker
Really like locked in with the micro dosing and stuff like that. I don't know. I guess it's just It's like the fact that there's an accountability like how was your week? What happened? Well, you know you want to you want to contribute because you know for us we get the benefit
00:28:32
Speaker
It was a really great program. I feel like that's something that people would pay for. And we got to be kind of, not guinea pigs in a negative sense, but in a way we got the chance to just understand and get feedback. And so it was nice. It was almost like just having a weekly, not therapeutic call, because we didn't get into too deep of a level of stuff. But it was enough for us to kind of understand what the intention was and how to
00:28:58
Speaker
language patterns of behavior.
Personal Growth Through Microdosing
00:29:00
Speaker
There's a lot more to it. Like there's a lot more to micro dosing than just Yeah, I missed this two or three of them. I missed some very big topics that I still have to kind of go back and that's why like you have to use the micro dosing instead of just trying to get the micro dosing to do everything for you. And then that's why a lot of people don't understand. They'll they'll buy micro sibon and they'll take a couple pills and they'll be like, well, I don't
00:29:24
Speaker
I don't feel shit. I'm not like I'm hearing you talk about this every day, but how it's changed your life. But like I took two pills and I don't feel nothing. I'm like, well, there's a lot more to it than just popping a pill and then going on about your day. You know what I mean? But I feel like most people need to understand that it is you're not taking Adderall and having this dopamine hit of productivity.
00:29:53
Speaker
That's something I used to take that I quit at the assistance of micro dosing, right? So you're not gonna get that, boom, I'm high on amphetamine type filming. It's gonna be very, very, very subconscious. You're not going to actively fill it. I feel like what happens is it's a skeptical visual effect when you look back over a couple of months, you're like, oh, there's been a shift.
00:30:21
Speaker
Very subtle shift. And you kind of continue to build on that shift. But in this culture of immediate gratification, you're not going to get that with this. It actually takes you showing up and putting this in work. Go to the gym, put your work in. Not one day, every day. Six months. Looking back on those six months, you're like, oh, same thing. Your brain, you're like, oh, wow. Yeah.
00:30:44
Speaker
I can really meditate and get into a deep state of meditation where I couldn't do that a year ago. Bro, I got a video when Microcybin first sent me this stuff, right? You know what's fucking fucked up? I thought these guys were a scam because they contacted me and I went to their page and they never had that big of a following. And I was like, there's no way that there's this
00:31:11
Speaker
mushroom company wanting to send me mushrooms. I'm like, what the fuck is going on? You're right. You're like, I almost never even opened it. I said, fuck it. But I was like, you know what?
00:31:22
Speaker
let's say hello. And then they called me and this guy I'm chatting with, he's like, oh yeah, bro, like we'll give you all this stuff. And I'm like, all right, we'll figure it out. I guess not gonna say no to free stuff. So they send me in. And anyways, the whole point of this is if you listen to that, if you listen to me talk on that video,
00:31:43
Speaker
And like, well, for me personally, when I watch them, I'm like, I'm cringing. I'm like, what the fuck? And like, you compare that to like now, maybe like seven or eight months later, and like you can listen to one of the videos. It's like, I'm talking a lot differently than what I would normally talk back then. You know what I mean? It's just wild. Like you don't really see huge changes, but then like when I kind of look at a video like that and listen to how I'm talking and
00:32:10
Speaker
Yeah, it is life-changing stuff, 100%. What I feel like, and we talked about this on one of the calls, two things I kind of tell people, depending on who they are, I'm like, first I ask them, have you seen The Matrix, right? They say, yeah, then I'm like, okay, I took the red pill.
00:32:31
Speaker
a couple years ago, last summer, I've gotten deeper and deeper into it. But it's just hyper awareness of me existing to where sometimes I'm like, man, I've really gone down a hippie, a little bit of a hippie now.
00:32:49
Speaker
It kind of feels that way, you know what I mean? Like I'm just very much like into the present moment being calm and I feel less distracted by society and the random things like, you know, I'm hyper, okay, put it like this. I'm hyper aware of like, what I'm just, I'm gonna start naming just random things that feel different about myself, right? I'm hyper aware of where my attention goes. For someone who's suffered from ADHD to where I've just been blind to where my consciousness goes, moment to moment, what makes me excited. Now I'm like, okay,
00:33:19
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Like, oh, the news wants me to pay attention. They want me to feel a particular way, especially the news now where CNN, Fox, whatever, whoever it is, right? They want to write an article that makes me feel a certain emotion so I can get into it and read it. And now I kind of pause. I'm like, ooh, I don't want to feel whatever they're trying to make me feel. So I'm not going to read it or I'm not going to turn that channel on. I'm not going to watch it. I will respond. I don't like being told what to feel.
00:33:48
Speaker
And then B, a higher level of empathy and patience. I feel like before I was subconsciously very judgmental. Where I see somebody and if they're overweight, I see somebody that's being lazy or suffers from willpower. Now,
00:34:09
Speaker
I see somebody and I'm like, well, you know, they just haven't maybe unlocked something or maybe, you know, if they're driving slow on the road, maybe they're older, maybe I don't need to get frustrated that they're driving slow. Like, why am I getting, where am I trying to go? Like, you know what I mean? Stuff like that where I'm just like, there's so many moments where I was just frustrated by some external source for whatever reason, but now I don't get frustrated by it. It's like, I've just controlled my emotions. Dude, dude, I got a story for you.
00:34:38
Speaker
I was at a bar one time, right? And I was with my friend and she had her friend there and we were all like sitting at a table together, right? Yeah. And I'm just sitting here talking to like my friend's friend and I'm telling her a story and she's laughed and whatever and like we're just all being friendly.
00:34:58
Speaker
This, this girl's boyfriend walks in the bar and like, he's just really, really drunk. And he comes, he comes off to me, right? And he's like, kind of standing over me and like, just being like, who the fuck do you think you are? Like, so old Adam, right? Would have probably got up to me like, man, get the fuck out of here. Like, you know what I mean? And probably probably get heated. We'd probably get in the scrap. But I just sat there and I was like,
00:35:24
Speaker
I was like, this guy's really, really mad. There's something going on. I was being more aware. I was like, this guy got some issues, man. Honestly, I wish I could help him. So I was like, dude, why don't you just come sit at the table? Everything is just relaxing. He's flipping out even more, trying to fucking grab me. And I'm like, dude, I hope you have a good day, man. I just sat there. And I was very cool. And his friends had to come grab him. He was losing his mind. He walked away.
00:35:53
Speaker
And I wish I could just have a conversation with him because I feel like at some point in my life, I was probably that guy. Yeah. You know what I mean? And one thing that's kind of huge for me, um, like I'm in this new relationship now and I have found that all the work that I'm doing on myself, both with using the micro dosing, being aware and getting control of my emotions, my relationship is a lot better.
Personal Growth and Relationships
00:36:20
Speaker
like way better than any relationship i've ever had before in my life because before i was like stuck in these in stuck in my mind thinking i was right and putting the blame on everybody else and i'll probably was that guy that jealous jealous shithead coming into the bar we're like uh fuck you you know what i mean yep but uh
00:36:41
Speaker
Yeah, I came to a realization last year that I was probably like 60% of the problems in all the relationships that I've ever been in. But like, during that time, I didn't think I was doing anything wrong. But now when I look back, I'm like, man, you had a lot of growing up to do, bro. It changed. It changes the perspective shift, man. The patience you get,
00:37:10
Speaker
When people get upset, I feel like there's this hyper awareness of your emotions most times, right? Not all the time, not perfect doesn't exist. So, it's this stop gap of, oh okay, I have a story too. So I was doing this job search, obviously I'm with Noko now, but prior to this I was, I had,
00:37:35
Speaker
two offers kind of sitting. One with the healthcare company, it's going to be really good money. Both companies are going to have some just great career movements. But I also really, really wanted to go back on the challenge. So, I was training for that. My heart wasn't into finding a job. I'm like, they're going to call me back. I got to be ready this time because I'm going to go win this money.
00:37:57
Speaker
And this other career moment, this other job opportunity comes on on LinkedIn. It's actually even more in this space, on a higher level. It was the most beautiful thing. They accelerated them for the entire hiring process. They were offering me just good finances. And I was just blown away. I remember that weekend. I remember thinking, damn, I have to interview my final interview on Monday.
Mindfulness in Job Searching
00:38:20
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Got this presentation together. Did it.
00:38:22
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got an email that night from the recruiter. Mind you, they just excelled with the entire process. I talked to all the different people. I'm thinking I'm in. She says, Hey, you know, we found that maybe it's not the right fit, blah, blah, blah. And I, two other jobs that I had, I kind of just kind of put them to the side, told them the weight and they both, I lost both of them. This one tells me no. And so I'm just like, I had
00:38:46
Speaker
all these opportunities in my hands. And I literally, literally just went, it was a Monday night. And I remember just feeling, I felt the anxiety come on, thinking what if, what I could have done, what I could have put together for the presentation, how I could have communicated to these other opportunities for the jobs. Like I was really like ruminating, ruminating, ruminating. It was a bad feeling. I had to sit there and I had to be like, okay, okay, okay, I'm sad.
00:39:15
Speaker
I'm disappointed. I'm anxious because I need a job. I'm sad because I didn't get it. And then so I really sat with the feeling then I was like, okay, am I going to die? No, no, no, no, I won't. Do I have food to eat later? Yes. Can I come back to the gym and train tomorrow? Will there be other jobs and more opportunities? Yes. So I had to like, I had to like,
00:39:38
Speaker
go through it, sit in that feeling, understanding why, and start kind of putting my language around, okay,
Conclusion and Social Media Details
00:39:45
Speaker
what does it mean? Then it wasn't the right fit. Yeah, yeah. But I think we covered a lot of good topics, and I won't keep you much longer, because I know you've got a busy schedule and whatnot, but appreciate you coming by. And if you want anything to add, if you want to add your socials, anything like that, where people can find you, let us know.
00:40:06
Speaker
Yeah, no, please. Man, Adam is a pleasure. We covered some good topics. I feel like this is, we're going to need a follow up. I would say, I think success, successfully completing my 75th hard, bring me back on. I want to come back on and talk about the challenges, hardships, all the different stuff. But for those that are listening, if you want to just follow the journey, I'm going to be pretty open about the commitment to it.
00:40:30
Speaker
the ups and downs of it. It's IMDavid underscore Alexander on Instagram. That's pretty much where all my content is going to be. It's going to be around fitness, lifestyle, mental health, mental fitness, weight loss, all the things that I think we want, but I'm just going to actually try to go after it and show my process. So if you want to tag along, come on and check it out. Adam, it's been a pleasure. Anyway, brother, thank you for coming by and we'll be talking soon.