Building Bonds Through Workouts
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Welcome back to the podcast. Today I got a good friend on Rich Sepka. How are you doing? I'm doing very good Adam. It's been a fucking day. It's been a day. Cheers to that. Cheers brother. Cheers to that.
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Yeah, so today we did a crazy, crazy workout. This is our second workout now. It is, yeah. And the first time working out was probably our first time hanging out, really. Yeah. I mean, that much without other people around or like in a social event, for sure. Yeah. For sure. We've crossed paths a few times, but. Absolutely.
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That that workout was it was wild because I I just I seen another saw to you that I'm not used to right? You know, we cross paths at like Christians and stuff like that. But like seeing you in the gym your energy was just Like level a hundred and like I was just feeding off it and and I left that workout feeling like so Good and like I started pushing myself more, right? So I wanted to get you on the podcast
Emotional Release and Workout Balance
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I mean, I've been working out for a really long time. It's kind of like my release to to anything that kind of, you know, gives me grief or trouble in my life. I release it in the gym. Yeah. Just gives me a new lease on life. Yeah. We go hard. We go hard. We go hard. You push me. I'm telling you, there's not many people out there that can push me hard in the workout. But when I go with you, I walk out being holy fuck.
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there's an art to a good workout you know you don't want to cross the red line but you want to stay as close to it as possible like when you work on it by yourself i find like i'll just kind of start getting a little bit comfortable but then when i train with you i'm like jesus and i i need to be doing more right so like i always like even after today i know i'm gonna
00:01:45
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I'm going to leave and go into my workouts, like thinking about that workout, pushing myself even harder. Any day after the gym, we did a six kilometer run around Signal Hill in the snow. Absolutely. I mean, you never really realize how far you can push it. And I think that if you meet people throughout your life that will take you into their routines and you'll get this to really open up a new echelon of like, okay, I'm capable of this. I can do this.
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I push myself to these levels and I'm okay. It's okay. But it really does help to have a mentor or a partner or somebody that's just an expert in a different variety of exercises that can show you their side and really help you flush out your
Training and Online Fitness Programs
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Yeah, are you still are you training people? Yeah, I train people personally and I have an online program for people that want to get into it and you know get get their Because you definitely have it. Oh, man. You definitely have it because I know like when I'm there I'm just like my hands hurts. I was like you just lead the way man. I'm doing whatever the fuck you're doing
00:02:49
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I like to try to keep it fun and not let you think about too much. It was a lot of fun. Absolutely. It was a lot of fun. Yeah, you just want to focus on the task at hand. You don't want to really get too specific with every element that you're going to be going through that day. There's just too much on the mind. I find it's easier to just kind of go flow state, step by step. We'll conquer it as we go. And as much like life, it's a good metaphor. To go to the gym and to work out and just focus on each movement, each exercise as you're doing it, you really come out
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realizing that way I perform so much better when I look at things this way and when you kind of imprint that onto life it works much the same you know you're not thinking about what you did and how you screwed up last time or how hard it's going to be in the future you just work about hey I'm gonna bust my ass here in these movements and then when it's done we'll evaluate we'll see how I feel you know yeah yeah it's hard not to think about other things and absolutely your failures and you know what I mean but
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I noticed that in the gym today.
Living in the Moment and Overcoming Struggles
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But you kept saying, I don't want to go back to that life. I heard you say that a few times. Absolutely. So I just want to dive right into it. Yeah. What do you mean by that?
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Well, for me, it's like, you know, I find where I'm to to be very precious. It's been a lot of accumulation of knowledge, of hard work, dedication. And, you know, sometimes you have little memories, something will happen and you'll get a flashback of what it used to be like in the old life. Before you had these lessons and, you know, wanted to really put your nose to the grindstone and get things done for yourself.
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So when I think about the past, sometimes I just, I'm so happy that I've graduated through that and gotten myself to a level where nothing's really gonna stop me or nothing's gonna put me in the shadows where I'm gonna feel bad for myself or overthink things. So yeah, I'm not going back to that way of life. I'm in the moment, I'm flowing. And I just take it step by step with a smile on my face, I do the best I can, and that's enough. That's okay for me. Yeah, I used to overthink a lot, man.
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I know I definitely resonate what you're saying because like I look back on my life often and I know how not well in the head I used to be and how I used to overthink everything and like even in my relationships like I'd always be overthinking like
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What's she doing? Is she up to something? You know what I mean? And then like us, even like second guess myself in life, I'd overthink like things I wanted to do. And it just, it just causes so much shit, right? And like, I feel like I'm like on the same wavelength as you right now. Like it's like, nothing can fricking stop me. And I'm just, I'm just going to keep going. And like when you're stuck in that life of like the past, like that life that we don't want to go back to, it's like, it's so hard to get out of that. Oh, it is.
00:05:35
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But there's like, there's a better life. Absolutely. There's a better life on the other side. I think that everybody, you know, has to kind of go through that. That is, you know, the meaning of life is to go through your trials and tribulations, to doubt yourself, to second guess, to overthink. And eventually you realize that, that a real
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profitable life is one that's simple in the way that you don't do those things, you know? And if you're worried about what she's doing, well maybe that's because you're worried about the man that you are and whether that's enough for her, right? So it all comes back to you. So if you can work on you and make yourself iron-clad, well then you'll never be worried about what she's thinking.
Self-Improvement and Mentorship
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Exactly. Because you'll know what she got because you worked hard to get it.
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You know what I'm saying? So it's like, you can go out and you can play the games. You can try to see where you rank and maybe you have a chip on your shoulder because you're good at these things naturally. But you're never going to beat someone that just goes and works on shit, like in engineering their lives every day and working on the hard stuff to become more well-rounded and a better man. And when you become that,
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then you don't have to worry about like, how do I get the side door for this girl? Or how do I do this to get that opportunity? It'll just come to you. They'll just acclimatize to your presence because your presence now has become this echelon, this next level. And those people want to be around that energy. So it starts with you. It's so wild, man.
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I used to be threatened of other men. I used to be like that man. I'll be honest with you, as a young man, I was too. Whatever girlfriend I had, or even if I was just at the gym and seeing somebody that was bigger than me, or they were good looking, I'd always feel threatened. I didn't feel safe around them, you know what I mean?
00:07:25
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Not like that now. Here we are sitting now doing this shit. You know what I mean? It's just like when you build that confidence in yourself and you get to a point in your life where you know that you're fucking great. When you're young, you're going through the trials and tribulations of life and it's really easy to second guess yourself or doubt yourself. You see people that have somehow figured it out and you're wondering how they did it so that threatens you.
00:07:54
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You're trying to hold on to not being able to lose these small little things that you've attained through a small little part of your life when there's so much more to attain. And the last thing you should do is guarding anything. You should share it, you know, and that's what it's really about. When, when I see young people at the gym, the first thing I do is I go up and I say, Hey, I'm rich. Welcome to the gym. You know, I'm the loud guy in the corner, but we're all here to better ourselves. If you ever need anything, let me know. And I could see that you're really good at this, this, and this. And like, welcome to the team.
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yeah yeah honestly i wish when i was younger i had a i had a good mentor yeah i think that's really important for men growing up especially because i feel like i never i feel like i never really had anybody that was like i was then at a young age like i
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was just always on my own. Like even at like 13, 14, I was just always like banging around with the boys, like at 17 I left and went to Alberta and I was just trying to figure life out on my own, right? And it wasn't until I turned 30, I remember when I turned 30, I was like man, I think I'm finally like,
00:08:58
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figuring my life out. I think I'm finally getting to a place where I'm like, holy shit, like what the hell was I doing for 30 years? You know what I mean? Not everybody has like a great father figure or brothers, siblings, or uncles in their life that are there to guide them. You got to kind of pick and choose your own people to look up to. Mentors might be a coach at your basketball team or like a particular teacher or some man you met at the gym. You know, a clever kid will always find his mentors.
00:09:26
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You know if he has the curiosity and the and the want to find those people right like my dad was Very very smart like smartest dude ever Could play any instrument like anything you put in front of him like he lit I don't know if you like you play instance, right? Like can you can you listen and play? Yeah He could just sit down listen any song but like wow he was always working
00:09:50
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He was always like, that's as much as, as much as I remember, he was just always working, right? And, you know, I was on that same path of, of, of working 12, 14 hours a day, gone away to work the camp. And if I just stayed there.
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I would stay there. I'd eventually have kids and I'd eventually never be in their life. I know a lot of people that have gone down that path, that haven't had that activation of someone that really believes in them, that has the confidence, that wants to teach them the tools of life.
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And some people, like you said, they get right out of school, they get right into the workforce. And next thing you know, we got three kids, and there's still so much uncovered that they haven't been able to find out about themselves. And at that point, then they think it's too late and whatever, right? So it's important to realize that it's never too late to find happiness and peace in your life, even if you have kids.
Healthy Lifestyle Practices
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I mean, just start with small things that are gonna improve your life and your consciousness,
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You know, be healthy, exercise, you know, at least sweat once a day. You cold plunge. I cold plunge. You sauna. Hot and cold therapy really, really works good for the nervous system. You do intermittent fasting. I do intermittent fasting, yes. I believe that humans evolved through struggle, through adversity, and if you do not include that into your life daily routine,
00:11:13
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you will not activate what it is to be human, and it is to struggle, to strive, to not always get to the top, but that's how you get better, because the next day, you'll go to the top and then you'll go to the next peak, you know? Yeah. So it's all about, you know, why do I eat healthy? Well, just because I don't eat for a 15-hour cycle, and by the time it comes time to eat, I don't want candies and chips and synthetic foods. I want pure foods, and when I eat those foods,
00:11:42
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then my body gives me a signal like hey good job I like this inside me not like a double Big Mac where you're feeling bloated and sick later you know so it's one thing leads to the other and if you just start with yourself you know spirit body mind they will lead in it will lead into the next thing for you and you'll start to really understand okay this is what I do I try to improve myself every day I try to like get up every morning with optimism
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and love in my heart and do what I can to be the best man I can be and to spread that, to help that, which will only make your life more peaceful because people around you will vibe with that energy. They will start to give back to you. And so then you're running hot then. You got some good energy flowing and it can really get you over the humps of life, the difficulties of life, because it's gonna happen. Things are gonna happen in this life.
00:12:34
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So stay on your game, be ready. You need to stay on your game. You gotta stay on your game. You need to stay on your game. I think we were talking about that when we were running down the hill and I was telling you how I kind of took my foot off the gas a little bit and this thing came up in my life and I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready. My cardio was shit. I was a little sluggish and now it's like I get up, cold plunge, sauna, gym, run, stretch, intermittent fasting, and it's like I feel fucking great.
00:13:04
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I think sometimes for people initiating these practices can be hard. And most people, even myself, I'll be honest, I quit after a few weeks or months of it. But I think that once you've tasted health, once you've really seen the benefits of it and how you feel.
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and the energy levels we have and the consciousness that you attain and your ability to do things that you never thought you were able to do, well then when you go back to the unhealthy lifestyle, then it really hits home, okay, wow, there is more and I don't have to feel this way and these are the things that I have to do to do it. So it's okay in life to have an ebb and flow of how you get better. It doesn't have to be a straight line to the top. We're human, right?
00:13:54
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We quit, we stop. 100%. But that doesn't mean that we can't dust ourselves off the next day and we can give it another shot. Yeah. And so I think that you have to be kind to yourself, patient with yourself, and just take off one box every week. You know, list out some things that are gonna make your way of life better, that you know, your wellness.
00:14:13
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and just tick one box off a week. Don't try to get it all done in one time, that's gonna be hard. It's gonna deter you. That's what people quit. Absolutely. They go too hard, too fast. Absolutely. And they just jump in, they're like, this is not for me. That's right. Right? But like. That's why, I mean, you and I, we've started and quitted a bunch of things in our lives. Yeah. But now we've kind of got them all in a row. I just failed that fucking, that running challenge then. I don't know, this is probably my first time talking about it, but
00:14:42
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Yeah, like I seen this guy and he's like I'm gonna run every day 5k for a full year I'm like well fucking I can do this no problem I got five days in and the fifth day was like rough I had basketball on those days and I went to the gym and it was hard and honestly the weekend I went drinking and I had a long night and I got off the next day and I was like there's no way I'm fucking going running today but like
00:15:09
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you know it's just but I failed right but now it's like I want to keep going it's just I have to plan my days better around it this doesn't mean that it's over for you in running no you know to set these goals I mean they're admirable but are they truly I just like to put the attainable I just like to push myself I like to challenge myself at all times and like running 5k for every day is probably not the healthiest thing but like
00:15:37
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I just like a challenge. I always like something in front of me that like, yeah, the gym is great, but like, I like challenging myself on these little things that like, I was like, I could fucking do this. Absolutely. Sometimes you can modify a goal or a challenge in your life because then when you start to do it, you realize what's beneficial and what's not, right? There is such things over training.
00:15:59
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There is such a thing as is not doing the proper things to recover from your training So then by the time you get back to training, you're not still trying to recover So it's okay to modify a goal or an experience, you know, so maybe instead of doing 5k every day I'm gonna do 15k each week and I get to choose the days when I get to do it Why because that's an attainable goal and I'll feel good about achieving that goal. So smaller goals
00:16:23
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Easier to achieve, pads on the back, large goals, harder to achieve, you might fuck up sometimes and that might deter you. So in life that's a lesson, I think you just pick your little battles and then eventually you'll have some mores to slug out. But right now, start with the little things, tuck it all together, get your game in shape, and then go and do those climbs to Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Everest, you know what I'm saying?
00:16:50
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How long have you, um, how long have you been doing intermittent fasting? Cause like I've been, I used to fuck with it like before, but it was like weekends would come would, would like shy away from it. Wouldn't even intermittent fast. And like, I would kind of, you know what I mean? But now it's like I'm to the T and I got with that 16 hours and I'm like, I'm waking up feeling shredded. I feel great. Like how long have you been doing it?
00:17:14
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This now will almost be two years. When I get into 2024, I'd say January, February, March, it'll be two years. So before that, how was it like you're eating stuff? Oh my God, it was all over the place. I think I knew that there was something incorrect with, you know, all the GMO foods and snacks, treats.
00:17:35
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When you grow up in a family where all that stuff is normalized, you know, like what do you want kids chicken nuggets and french fries? You know, there's bags of chips and thing I mean parents are they're making accessible to you and you don't really know they're not teaching it in school I mean when I was in school, it was a five food groups for fuck's sakes. Yeah, that's not even a thing anymore So like, you know like
00:17:57
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you start to want to explore and search what's gonna be right for me. I tried being a vegan for a minute. How was that? I got sick, I got like an infection and shit. Shit. So I was like, okay, that's not for me. And then I found the carnivore diet, or it was like pure foods diet, and I found this guy. You done the carnivore?
00:18:19
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Yeah, that's basically the main substance of my diet and my way of life. He calls it the Remembering, which is like a replication of... Who's he? Well, Dr. M.D., the carnivore M.D., his name is Paul Saliano, and he essentially, you know, he's invented what he calls the Remembering, which is trying to replicate what it was like for our ancient ancestors as they evolved the foods they ate, how they ate them,
00:18:46
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And so grass-fed, grass-finished beef, you know, free-run chicken and eggs, natural animals eating the foods that they want to eat in their natural habitat, and then, you know, lots of water or unpasteurized milk and honey.
00:19:03
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I mean, some of these things are freaking illegal. And these are what your ancestors ate to evolve. So when you get way back 100,000 years ago, they didn't eat every night. There wasn't breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Sometimes it was a week that went by without them eating. So fasting became part of an evolutionary trait for humans. You're not always going to eat. And when you don't eat,
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your body actually goes into these other forms of energy sources and it'll actually create
00:19:35
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a little bit more ability in terms of your sense of smell, your eyesight, your hearing, it actually hones you in so that you become a better hunter, no hungrier you are. So it's that dichotomy of feeding yourself and recovering, but also stretching the lengths of what it is capable for your body to really
00:19:57
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hone into what your skills and your senses and the magic of life, I would call it.
Ancestral Health Concepts
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Getting into those runner highs, those flows of state of mind and intuition, those kinds of things. That's what your ancestors had to use to get food to survive.
00:20:15
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And so when you can replicate that in your day-to-day way of life, you know, you go to facilities, hot and cold plunging. I mean, your ancestors didn't have a choice. They got up early in the morning and there was ice. If they wanted to clean themselves, they broke the ice and they cleaned themselves in the pond. You know what I'm saying? And if they wanted, you know, to warm up, I'm sure they'd heat up a fire, heat some rocks, put it into a little sweat lodge. Away you go. Now you're having a sauna.
00:20:40
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So we're only doing things that have been done over 100,000 years ago by humans. But it seems like we forgot a few things. It lasted a little while through the Industrial Revolution, big business and government. But there is a small
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group of people across the world that are now getting back to what it is to be human. And they call it the remembering, eating pure foods again, sleeping the way we sleep, drinking the water that we're supposed to drink. You know, alkaline, high pH.
00:21:14
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less acidity, you know, no refined items or factored items, you know, fasting. Yeah. These are the tools that I'm using now in my life that have really kind of opened my eyes to what it makes you feel good, man. Like I.
00:21:30
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Feel like a lot of people just they believe that like you need to just get up and eat and especially people in the gym like They just they look at these bodybuilders that are eating five six meals a day and they're like I gotta eat five six meals a day That's what I was doing and it's it's tiring like I was just sick of eating all day long It was I was just sick of fucking eating well when you're eating that much you I mean How is it getting digested your body actually has to use energy to do that?
00:21:55
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I feel like fasting, like it's, you're giving your stomach a chance to like get rid of all the shit, right? And like, I feel that's why I feel so clear minded when I'm fasting. Like the other day, my first meal was four 30. And then like, that's, that's a little bit crazy, but like, I went like 19 and a half hours, but like, I was just so on and I had a busy day. I was so clear in mind. I didn't think once about food. I never had the hunger in my stomach. It was nothing.
00:22:21
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And then I was at a time I was like, all right, I should have a meal now. And then you sit down and you have a big feast and you're just like, ironed. Oh yeah, time slows down and you thank the gods. No, for sure. I mean, I think that the real toothbrush, I mean, people talk about eat this and eat that and it's a toothbrush for your stomach. But the real toothbrush is to not eat. And what happens then is your body gets to clear everything out of the tract
00:22:46
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Your cells turn inward and they heal. They heal your body. And they prep again for the next meal or the next workout. And I think everything needs that. I mean, a rest from everything. There's no digestion happening. You think you can't sleep? Well, what are you eating before bed? What's your body trying to do for you while you sleep?
00:23:09
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Especially, especially if you're having these late night snacks, these salty snacks and you're like just shit and coke and then you go to sleep and your body's just trying to digest it all while you're sleeping and you're waking up and being like, ugh.
00:23:23
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It's just because your body was working overtime while you were going to sleep. I watched a documentary there a couple of weeks ago and was talking about the invention of the breakfast. We both know that breakfast means the break of fast. To begin eating again. But this whole idea of breakfast like pancakes, eggs, bacon and cereal.
00:23:42
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I mean, that was only created not that long ago with the Industrial Revolution. Big business. They wanted to make, you know, cereal foods and, you know, boxed and canned things for people to just get access to. And it's just not real. It's not the way. And, you know, I haven't sat down and had like this, you know,
00:24:04
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Old-fashioned breakfast in a long time because by the time I break my fast, it's two three o'clock in the day Yeah, and I'm eating a steak. Yeah, I'm eating like a grass-fed fucking steak two free-run eggs a glass of milk You know unpasteurized honey and some figs like that's literally like my lunch a lot of times Yeah, you know is if you don't grow off a plant I can't pick it as a fruit with seeds in it and
00:24:29
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Or it doesn't run free in its own field eating what it wants to eat I ain't looking at it, you know, and I just know that now Talk about talking about eating real stuff Well, we both eat mushrooms.
Exploring the Benefits of Mushrooms
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Oh, we do both eat mushrooms many kinds of mushrooms
00:24:44
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Yeah, and I want to just jump on that topic because I know you've had quite a bit of experience. Well, let's talk about the unmagical kind because they're really important too. I'm on a particular mushroom vitamin called Shroom Boom.
00:25:02
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that has multiple, has a cocktail. Shroomboom. Yeah, it's called Shroomboom. Is this a pill? It's a pill. It's all different forms of mushrooms. Mine's vein, shaga, all of them. Ashwagandha. We're going, you know them all. There's like 51 in this pill. 51 of them. They all do different things. As you know, most of it is the malleability of your brain to
00:25:26
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Unwire these fixed, you know pathways that aren't working for you anymore Yeah, and giving you the ability to try new things wake up in the morning without anxieties of of old fixtures in your life You know, it really gives you the ability to just like turn the page
00:25:42
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and create new pathways in the brain to find peace and joy and give love and work hard. And I think then you get into the magic mushrooms and whether you micro dose or macro dose from time to time, that just really gives you the perspective of like what it is to be like this amazing organism called human.
00:26:05
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Floating on this ball going through space and like how magical really is to be alive. Yeah I follow this girl and she she posted this thing. It was like When you do a larger dose, you're not actually experiencing things you're remembering the past or something like that. Yeah, but I sold this weekend I done like two and a half grams and
00:26:31
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I love doing bigger doses like that but like I always take something from it and you know like you go through the phases right where you're kind of like a little bit silly but then like when you when you get to the point where your brain is like firing I started to realize that like my life was a little bit fucking chaotic and like just for example like my my Instagram right
00:26:54
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I work with a lot of different brands, but lately I've just been doing things on the fly, I've got no structure, it's just all over the place, and it's almost like I've got a fucking ADHD, and it's like, I was just living life. I'm like, Adam, you need to structure this thing. So I'm there, on mushrooms, I started writing this out. I was like, okay, Monday we're gonna do this, Tuesday we're gonna do that. And it's like, if I'd never done those mushrooms, I just would've kept going on that chaotic thing.
00:27:19
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right so it's it's like the mushrooms kind of grounds me brings me back makes me realize okay this is what you got to do Adam like it always gives me the answers that I don't even know that I need and then I just come out the next day and I'm like alright fuck yeah it's crazy when you have the opportunity like as you know like cuz
00:27:39
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We're in these bodies, you have your ego, your superego, your consciousness, your subconscious. We're just in the driver's seat behind all those things, looking through the glass. So it's a great opportunity sometimes to like, shut up ego, shut up superego. Okay, consciousness, I know you're trying to figure everything out for me, but I just wanna be here, just me, whatever this is, this life force.
00:28:04
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And I just wanna like just on my own analyze my life and see what's important, you know, to me and how I wanna live my life and how I feel right now and just like be introspective as opposed to worrying about how this person thinks. Well, how am I gonna get to this mountain top? I mean, I think that when you do macro doses of shrooms, it slows time down and allows you to be like, who am I?
00:28:29
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Why am I doing this? How does it make me feel? And I think that's really important for everybody is to just like take a chance to ask yourself the same way you would with any
Introspection and Pushing Comfort Zones
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other loved one. Like how are you? Let me check in. What's going on? What can we gear up and do next?
00:28:46
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I feel like I get like, I feel like I start to get distracted in life a little bit. Well there's lots of distractions out there. There's a lot of distractions. I let those distractions take over and then before I know them, my fucking life is almost falling apart and then I do the mushrooms and then I'm like, wait a minute, I'm like, what am I doing at them?
00:29:03
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And I always, I always sit down with myself and I always like, for those of you who have never tried mushrooms, like I wouldn't suggest going out and just doing a big large dose because like when you're, when you're very new to it, you don't understand what's happening. And I remember when I used to first do it, like I sit down with my buddies and we'd be like,
00:29:21
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We used to be giggling like I didn't know what the fuck was going on right? But like the more I did it and then now the more I'm doing it I go into it understanding it more and it always it always gives me clarity and answers and like just better It just gets my life back on fucking track. Absolutely I think it opens up my heart a lot and there's a lot of stuff that I get I push down and I just like it gets pent up energy and then when I do the mushrooms and depending on whoever I'm with I like I really open up about the things that I'm doing wrong in my life and then I'm like
00:29:51
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I'm gonna be better. Truthfully. And I think that's what it is, is a periodic checkup, just the same way you take your car in to get an oil change or anything else. It's like, how are you doing, Adam? You know, this is you asking you. How are you doing? You know what I mean? Like, do you have that chain attached to your chest getting hauled through life again? Or have you cut that free and are you walking day to day and enjoying the pace? A serious question though. Yeah. How are you doing? I'm doing great, man. I feel like... Are you happy?
00:30:20
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big time. I think that it's the eye of the beholder. It's the perspective you want to create for yourself and it is about slowing down and just taking things day to day. I told you this story before. I'm gonna jump into it. It's a perfect segue. As a kid, I would go on this trip with my family and all the kids would congregate on the beach. It was summertime. Everybody was camping. It was a beautiful beach.
00:30:45
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and there's this massive mountain of boulders sitting at the end of the beach and all the kids would line up after dinner it was going to be a race race time and all the kids were mapping out their path up the hill and go to the boulder with your right foot here left foot hit up this rock come up this path and my dad would just come over and say rich rich rich look at me look at me don't look at the hill he's like yeah yeah let's laugh like this dad
00:31:09
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You know, we're here to have a good time. Look at the nature, look at the birds, you know, enjoy, take it all and breathe in the moment, be in the moment. And when the whistle blew and we had to run up the hill, I would just look at one foot, left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot, and I'd make the decision, which rock am I going to place my foot on? What's the best decision at this moment for where I currently am in this race? I get to the top of the hill and I look back.
00:31:39
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And I won by a mile. And my dad would be looking at me, looking up, and he'd be like, yeah, my son. So it's just a metaphor in life to take one thing a step at a time. Don't try to over plan because you think it's strategic or you're going to get some side door or some secret to win. There is no secret to win. You know what the secret to winning is? Be in it. Be present.
00:32:00
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Give it all. Open your eyes, open your ears, use your senses in the moment, in real time. We live in a world now where everybody's like, they're in the best moment of their life and they're looking through their phone screen because they can't wait to show all their pals. They didn't even look at Shaq.
00:32:18
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They looked at Shaq through their phone as he walked into the dressing room. You know what I'm saying? I don't get it. I don't get it. It's like be in your life as you. Be in the movie. Be the star. And enjoy the light. Make the decisions when they're there to be made. But other than that, just be there. It's hard though. It is hard. Even when we were walking here.
00:32:41
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I was like, should I get beer? No, maybe not. And I was, you know, how many times did I do that, right? And as soon as I got here, I'm like, where are we gonna go later? Like, who gives a fuck, Adam? And I like, I struggled with that, but like, when I took that time off from my phone there, when I went away or whatever, when I never had the phone and like, all those distractions was gone, I was in the moment. And I didn't care about like,
00:33:07
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this or that or what the fuck I was doing. It's just whatever I was doing was in front of me, you know what I mean? But I feel like we just get really distracted and it's just hard. I think it comes from a good place at the end of the day. It's hard, even like I sit down and watch a movie, right? And I'm just thinking about the phone call I got tomorrow or the video I'm gonna make and it's really hard to just be in the moment. But you know what we're doing right now? What are we doing? We're fucking talking.
00:33:34
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Absolutely. And we're in the moment. Hey, does it feel good? Yeah. Absolutely. And not many people, like, I'm seriously good about this. Cheers, bro. I'm having a great time. Yeah. I mean, I'll tell you right now. And I don't do this. I don't do this. Like, normally when I do a podcast, it's like I'm looking at a screen, right?
00:33:50
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So like to sit down here and then like this, I think this is the first time I've done a podcast. Great way to do this is how Joe Rogan does it, baby. I know. That's how Joe Rogan does it. He's got the beast in the room. He's got the beers. He's got the guy checking to make sure everything's truthful they're talking about on the screen. That's the goal, man. I think just to iterate on what you just said.
00:34:09
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I think it is important to have hope for outcomes in your life. And so people want to show up. They want to be their best selves. And whatever is going on, they want to make a plan for that because as they see it, that's what's going to lead to the peace and the success at the end. But overthinking things, I mean, life doesn't always go the way that you want it to go or how you predict it to go. We aren't fortune tellers here. So at the end of the day, if you really want to make the best decision,
00:34:37
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wait till it's time to make the decision be there and then make the decision because how are we gonna go get ice cream after we eat the steak and go for a while who knows how we're gonna feel then yeah you know i mean let's take it well like some things you need to plan though because of course because i gotta say though like the whole boot camp thing right so like i walked in the gym one day and then uh stephan then we're like oh you should run a boot camp here and i was like yeah it'd be great and i was like yeah let's do it but then i like
00:35:04
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I was in my head about it but I never had a plan and I was like I knew that the date was coming sooner but I never had a plan on what I was gonna do and then that like right up until that point until I made a plan stressing about it so then I went in the gym and I actually like put myself through the boot camp I wrote everything down I had a plan like
00:35:22
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Well, fuck, I feel way better now. I'm like, you know, this is going to be this. So it's just overthinking and like feelings and like being stuck in your feelings and being stuck in overthinking. It's just like holding you back from all the things that you could potentially be doing because I have been wanting to do boot camp for years. Yeah. And I've never done it. I think you'd be great at it.
00:35:42
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done it. I mean like I had a coach when I was growing up and he used to say to me all the time he never understood what he was saying but he was always what he meant but he was always saying you got to learn it so you can unlearn it and what he means is is you got to get in there to discover what the options are and then you need to you know try to plan those options and then test those options and then eventually once you've done that enough then you know what works and you can go flow state again.
00:36:09
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But with everything in life, you need to get there. You're not just going to know everything. So write it down. Go through it. Test it on your buddies. Test it on your mother. Test it on yourself. See how it works. Edit that. Then throw it in the trash.
00:36:26
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Because then you've learned it, it's all in your mind, and you can decide what will really work at this very moment. Oh yeah, I did this, this, and this. That came to be a better workout at this point in the exercises.
00:36:42
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I'm gonna go that way. So it's like, it is good to plan, it is good to attain the knowledge, it is good to test it, A, B, it on people, but then don't keep the paper in front of your face. Fold it up, put it in your pocket, it's still there, it's safe, and you start flowing. Start getting in your flow state again. There's a lot of people that got a lot of talent, and they got a lot of things that they can offer the world, and they don't do it because they just keep thinking about it.
00:37:08
Speaker
it's crazy it's so wild and it's a shame because like there's it is a really it's a shame it is a shame people will like be in the jobs their whole life but like they're really talented at something and they just don't do it enough to like make anything you know what i mean it's crazy my music teacher when i was growing up she used to say the best piano player in the world never picked up the piano
00:37:34
Speaker
so it just goes to show that there's so much talent that they're untapped someone that could be like the new Mozart who never ever took the chance to sit at the keys so it's like you don't know what you're capable of you don't know what you're going to be the best at you don't
00:37:51
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know what you're gonna be meant for unless you go out and give it a shot and we don't give it a shot because we get comfortable we get comfortable and shit that we just think is like I put a video up there not too long ago about a couple months ago and I first got my PR for my deadlift yeah over 500 pounds that's crazy I could never do it man I'm gonna do it you are gonna do it because honestly the boys the boys did it they were like first ones to five and like I think I got to
00:38:20
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four plates and a 25 and a five. And I could get that up. 455. But as soon as I went to five plates.
00:38:30
Speaker
Not a chance. I think I got like this far off the ground. But I haven't tried it in a long time. Well, let's try it. Let's try it, Adam. No, it's heavy. Four plates? I can actually rep it out. Five plates? Guess what else is heavy, Adam? Life. So if we could lift the five, we could lift the life. But anyways, yeah, your first time. So we did it the first time, and it was crazy.
00:38:55
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We were so in the workout and so in the deadlifting over the past few months that when I got to it, I sat down afterwards and it took 10 or 15 minutes. I was like, man, I would never have said that I would have been able to do this. I was a little like this flashback eight years. I was 135 pounds soaking wet, a little sprinter, a little wiry kid. I didn't eat right. Didn't know what the fuck was up. Now look at me. Yeah. 220. They were fucking bull moves. So.
00:39:23
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You know, like I said, go out there. Give it a shot. Check it out. It may not feel great at first, but give it a chance. See where it goes. You never know. You could be the next Mozart. You could be the next, you know, heavyweight champion of the world. But if you think it's going to be an easy little trail, then don't do it.
00:39:44
Speaker
Do things that you want to suffer at do things that you want. We just said that we were literally up on top of Signal Hill We ran up the wall. Well, I ran up the whole stairs. I ran up the whole stairs. You bet me. I did leg this day. You bet me to the top. I was rough man. We both we both ran. I don't know if you know Signal Hill but basically like when you go into one direction you got to run up the top of the stairs so like we both get to the top and then we're like looking out over the city and What'd you say it was like?
00:40:14
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It's like when you're home and you're comfortable and you're all cozy on your couch and you go up to this, it's like, ah! Well, here we are, up on top of the hill, feeling like fucking champions, feeling great in the moment. It wasn't even cold. I was loving life, man. Exactly. Of course, when you roll out of bed in the morning and you get into the shower and you turn it on C,
00:40:37
Speaker
course you're gonna go wow yeah you're gonna go you're not gonna like it but trust me give it five minutes you're gonna come out of that shower it's gonna be the best awake clear-headed moment of your day you know what I mean so we went through that rigorous training we were burning
00:40:56
Speaker
and we finally got to the apex of the hill, and then we came down the other side, and there's our city, man. Shining, the snow was sprinkling down, and I felt content, I felt, I don't want to be home on my couch. There's only awesome two other people out there that day. There was a guy, he almost laughed at us, he was on fire, that guy. But we thought there was gonna be nobody out there, and here we are, there's traffic all around, so it's good to see the people that are out there, even in the snow, doing their best, trying to make a difference in their life,
Managing Emotions and Microdosing
00:41:27
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There's no medal at the end of this race, is there? There's not. There's no endingness. There's never an endingness in anything. There's no finish line. There's no nothing. You've just got to keep going. And I find that when I am doing all the things in my life like I'm doing right now and I keep consistent with that, it's when I feel
00:41:44
Speaker
my ultimate best self and everyone always says oh i want to be my best self but like i know like when i start to shy away from these things and like when i went to mexico like yeah mexico was fun but like i drank every day i felt like shit i started sleeping like shit and then i was like just making all these fucking wild stupid decisions drunk as fuck like if i just kept on that path
00:42:09
Speaker
Where am I going in life? Nowhere. Absolutely. Right? So it's easier. Yeah, it's easier than getting up every day early, but I'm not saying to go fucking and not travel. Like, like obviously go, go out and have your fun. It's just, it's just, I'm just using that as, as, as a reference. No, and it's a perfect way because all it takes is one vacation to get you off your routine.
00:42:25
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But I find like here, like where we live in Newfoundland, I love everybody. But like a lot of this province is just drinking. Absolutely. And like we're going here. We're drinking. We're going here. We're drinking. Absolutely.
00:42:40
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Everybody drinks. You told me about a friend from your friend group or that's affiliated with your business that who's going to these dry parties where people are experiencing small doses of shrooms. Absolutely. Imagine the topics of conversation and the love that's flowing through the room. I mean, you don't have to worry about some belligerent mess.
00:43:00
Speaker
coming in and ruining the vibe you know yeah i'm really really interested in that myself i mean i am trying to cut down drinking in my life yeah you know even though i'm an importer for wine liquor and beer for my work that's fine but like
00:43:13
Speaker
Drinking is, drinking brings nothing, drinking has brought nothing ever good to my life, ever. It's ruined relationships, I've made bad decisions in my life, I got into trouble, I've gotten to fight with my family, it's like, it's gotten, brought me nowhere. Absolutely, it's like one of the, I think it's one of the biggest cancers in society right today, and it's so normalized. So go and eat mushrooms. Yeah, go and eat mushrooms instead.
00:43:43
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The thing is, this is maybe a lesson that the variety of life, that's okay. You want to experience things. You want to burn the good karma with the bad. But at the end of the day, too much of anything is no good. You know what I mean? Even you, you want to run, you start doing 5K every day, you never run in a long time. It's not good for the joints, right? Ease in. Too much water, you drown, but it's our lifeblood.
00:44:10
Speaker
Even the necessities of life, if you do too much of it, it's not good. Yeah, I go through these waves where I'm like, the way I'm feeling right now, I'm on top. Oh, absolutely. But I'm always going to, at some point, I know there will be a lot, I'm going to go through a low point and it's like, you can't stay away from it. No.
00:44:30
Speaker
It's just how you're gonna react, like you're never ever gonna be able to control every thought that comes into your head. But it's your reaction to those thoughts that you really have control over. So like when next time you have a low time, go in the mirror and say there you are again rich by Jesus. I'm feeling for you my son. You could talk to yourself that way. The same way you would to your old pal. But don't worry bro, tomorrow you're gonna wake up.
00:44:53
Speaker
It's going to be a new day. You know, go through this moment, sit with it. It's okay. Feel the sadness. Feel the anger, whatever. But know that just like a cloud in the sky, it's going to go by. Maybe some beautiful blue sky again. So just don't beat yourself up over it. Just let it be.
00:45:12
Speaker
that we all react to shit. We react. No matter what happens in our life, we react to it. If your girlfriend pisses you off or if someone says something the wrong way, you need to react to have your feelings validated, right? Absolutely. We don't ever like, we don't ever process that.
00:45:29
Speaker
that that feeling in our head and just like let it let the feeling just be be and then and then they say nothing absolutely and just like deal with it in your head and like it's just we always got to react ah ah I used to do it man like some sense of mechanism go my way and it's like I turn fucking beat red and just be fucking flipping out right but it's like there's no need of that like if something pisses you off like
00:45:53
Speaker
There's good and bad consequences to every reaction you make in your life, right? So to sit and not react at all, well, then you have to don't worry about any kind of consequence, do you? It's okay to feel an emotion. Your brain is triggering that for you. It's saying, hey, this last time you felt this way, this is what happened to anger. But you can say, that's okay, brain, thank you for that. But I'm just gonna put that in the basket behind. I'm just gonna go with silence and calmness and clarity. Thank you. Because you still have that control.
00:46:22
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Like whatever thing comes in your brain, whatever emotion it is, that's just a hard fixture of what you did last time that your brain remembers. It's trying to remind you of. It's like, hey, this is what you did last time, bro. Do you want to do that program again? I'm like, no, that's okay. I'm deleting that program actually. I'm writing a new one, which is I'm on my game and I'm not letting this little thing slip me up. And that's why I like microdosing because it gives me that,
00:46:49
Speaker
it gives me that new way of thinking about things and like I can actually process those feelings in my mind instead of just reacting right and it's like the great thing about microdosing is like you just have those same thoughts and like you can be stuck in your ways not even with microdosing just surround yourself with new people or open up your mind a little bit of like other ways of thinking right instead of being stuck in your own ways like there's so many people out there that is stuck in their own ways
00:47:17
Speaker
and they will never ever fucking change until the day that they die and they are always right and no one else is right. Instead of just being open-minded and learning and sitting down and having conversations and being like, oh, well maybe you are right. Wow. That's why I think micro dosing is the best option for those types of people that want change in their life because you don't really notice it. It's not like a macro dose where it's like a slap in the fucking head like, whoa, this is life really.
00:47:43
Speaker
That's too much for people to digest sometimes. So in the microdose, it's just you're not really conscious of the loosening of these fixtures in your brain, of the pathways that you've created in the past that aren't working for you. They're just dissolving. And you're just in this state where like,
00:48:00
Speaker
You know, where am I gonna walk? What choices am I gonna make that are gonna give me peace? Because I'm done being exhausted. I'm done being pissed off. I love my corrosive man. I took 300 milligrams today because I knew me and you were having a good day, man. I'm jealous. Yeah, I honestly do. I was like...
00:48:21
Speaker
I hope you got a block of chocolate for me after this fucking show. I was driving that like to the gym and I had the music on man and I was just like I was vibing man I was vibing and for those of you who were listening you're not high you're not tripping out because a lot of people is gonna say oh you were trying
00:48:39
Speaker
You're not even aware of it. No, it's like microdosing is so subtle. It's just going to heighten your mood a little bit. You're just going to feel a little bit better. That music that you're listening to is going to just sound a little bit better. And it's just going to make you a little bit more happier. Absolutely. And then you're just going to be a little bit more poppy. When I got to the gym, I was like, whoa, let's go, baby. You know what I mean? I can see the gleam in your eye when that came up over yesterday. It just gives me a little bit of a glow. And that's why I like it, because I can be a little bit
00:49:07
Speaker
Dry sometimes and like very like sensitive and like just You know what I mean? And like I find like when I get that perfect Microdose, it just lightens me up a little bit and like listen You get grumpy when you don't get to eat after a while Just say your fast goes a little bit late and it's 630 you haven't even eaten yet You know I mean feed your brain the same way you'd feed your body
00:49:27
Speaker
We all need a little bit of a release, a little bit of a break from the regular grind all the time. When you take a micro dose, it's just like a little security blanket, a little bit of support to really just...
00:49:47
Speaker
be happy with who you are in your present moment and the choices that you're making, you know? And just know that you're gonna improve them and, you know, like things may happen in the past, but you're over those things and you're ready for new experiences. So that's how I would describe it. It's just like support, a little bit of mental support going through new echelons of your life. Nothing wrong with it. How's your beer? My beer, I need another one actually if you want to crisp me when I have to.
00:50:17
Speaker
You're a gentleman and a scholar. They're going in on like water. Well, that's it. Like you can, you know, we deserve it. And at the end of the day, it's like, yeah, we're mental nuts. You know, we were obsessed with all this stuff.
00:50:32
Speaker
It doesn't mean that we don't crack up here. I like how Riley was saying at the gym today. He's like, you're probably going to be at witcher's way to vest on froth in front of the nose. That's exactly how we are. Well, they know how crazy we are in our own right. When they saw us together as a tag team, I thought they thought it was going to be Super Smash Brothers over there at the other side of the good life.
00:50:52
Speaker
The other guy was like, seriously, what are you doing? Or like, we did like a, what'd you say? Like a, a, a death warrior, fucking whatever. It was like, that sounds a little burnt. I was like, I was like, death row, death row workout.
00:51:06
Speaker
But that's the thing. That's what it was though. I'm not taking myself serious. I'm saying it with a chuckle. You know, I don't mean that I'm killing myself. But the thing is, like a man that smokes his cigar after a fucking life hard work and he's successful. It's an acquired taste. It's something that, you know, like
00:51:26
Speaker
gives you the feeling of both sides. Like there's a little bit of discomfort and there's a little bit of comfort as well. And you start to acquire the taste for those kinds of things in life because it's the way life is. You know, like it's rarely that you'll ever see, you know, a complete comfortable situation for any other life form on this earth other than a human. You know, birds don't sit on the fucking couch. They're on their feet 24-7, they sleep on their feet in freezing cold rain, whipping wind.
00:51:55
Speaker
So it's like, I think like the way that we're living and like the way we're challenging ourselves, the way we're putting ourselves out there, like I really feel like that is what it is to be a man. Absolutely. Absolutely. Because I do believe that, especially here in Newfoundland, I just, I believe that there's a lot of people just stuck in their ways and like,
00:52:16
Speaker
they're stuck in their head and they think that they don't have any problems and they live their whole life probably with a lot of stuff locked up in here that they never just open up about and realize or fix and never change their life, right? And some people don't have the opportunity and you have to realize that too that there's some people that came from a certain way of life and they were taught certain things and that's why me and you do these things like this podcast where it's like, you know, share it.
00:52:43
Speaker
spread the wealth. This is not something that you hoard for yourself. This is something that you share with your fellow man. And it's only going to help you in the end because you're going to live in a more peaceful environment where everybody's at peace or striving to be better and enjoying that process. So it's like to all those guys out there that, you know, like some bottled up shit.
00:53:05
Speaker
you know, we're here, together, and let's do it. And anytime anybody comes up to me and asks me for a favor or some help or a year, I'm there. I bottle up a lot of shit, man, in my life. I have two. For many, many years. I have two. And I just always like, I know, I've talked to this so many times on my podcast, man, like I've always like pointed the finger and like thought I never needed any help and thought I was just like number one and never had any problems and like it just,
00:53:33
Speaker
cause me so much like I think pain and like ruin relationships and just that the end of the day is that real confidence or is that like a self-defense mechanism that's not true it's terrible fucking terrible pretending that you're the best while you're suffering in the shadow like now like just on this path of like discovering yourself
00:53:53
Speaker
Some of it is not easy. Some of it is not comfortable, right? Because you're going through a lot of changes yourself, right? And sometimes I might feel unsure. Because I'm going through a lot of changes in my life, right? And it's just like a lot of this is like unfamiliar territory, right? But I just know that I'm just constantly always trying to be better.
00:54:15
Speaker
and I'm always trying to learn and like I know it's just I'm just building up a better Adam every single day,
Embracing Challenges and Conclusion
00:54:21
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right? It's so true, dude. At the end of the day, I mean, we didn't all get the opportunity to be exposed as children to a variety of different, you know, things to get into art, to get into music, to, you know, to have psychological conversations about what it is to be human, to grow up. We not all have the privilege of that, you know?
00:54:41
Speaker
So not everybody's getting the chance, they're starting into these new things a little bit later in their life which can be difficult. But every day will get better. The first day, showing up is always the hardest part regardless of what it is in life. The first day, showing up, first day of school, nobody knows you. You feel like a loser. Your dad parted your hair to the right darn way and you look stupid. It's always gonna be tough on that first day.
00:55:09
Speaker
Second day gets better, third day gets better, you find your way, you start talking to people, you realize that we're all here for the same fucking thing.
00:55:16
Speaker
You know, and, and that's fine. So, you know, just get out there, show up and maybe a little bit unpleasant from the beginning, but you'll find your way. You'll get a groove for it, you know, and that's, I know it sounds simple, but that's the huge, that's the biggest piece of advice you'll ever get is just put yourself out there, get started, show up, see what happens. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think this was a good podcast.
00:55:41
Speaker
I think it went over time. I think you're a great fucking dude. I think you're a great fucking dude. I think you have a lot of really good energy and a lot of good wisdom to spread to people. You know, don't make me cry. There's not a lot of people that you go around and you leave them feeling better. Because I even have friends that like...
00:56:02
Speaker
you'd be around them and you don't leave feeling better. There's only very select people when you're around them for like an hour or maybe just FaceTime them, you leave them smiling and being like, fuck man, I gotta be better. You know what I mean? Absolutely. So you have that. People can drain your energy and people can give you energy and I think along the certain points of my life, there were certain people
00:56:25
Speaker
that made huge impact on my life. Whether I met them or not, I mean, most of my teachers, they don't even know who I am, might be already dead. You know, like Muhammad Ali, a huge shit person to look up to as a kid. You know, like my bands and, you know, different people, you know, famous for different things. They don't need to know you, but the teachings are there. And I feel like when you feel the love and you realize how much of an impact it made on you, and you can reciprocate that for someone else,
00:56:53
Speaker
really completes things that maybe you never got as a kid. So if I could be there for someone in a moment of need, when I suffered in that same moment and I could fix that for someone else, it's like I'm fixing the old me, the old kid that never had that.
00:57:08
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So through you, I'm vicariously going in the past and giving my little kid a hug, you know, my inner child. So I think that's what it really comes down to is that we all are in this together. We got our help or we're getting scratched at each other until we're dead. But if we really work together, you can see that life is quite enjoyable. It can be great. Now you're going to get some things that happen from time to time.
00:57:32
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but we're there for each other. We're going to work it out and make it happen, right? We're going to pass good things on the next generation and we're going to make the best of it. Right? So it's all we can do. It's all we can do when we can all be on our, uh, on our own pedestal, you know, at certain points in our life. But I think anything that you have that's valuable, give it away. And 10 times will come back, you know? And on that note, on that note, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to end it here.
00:58:00
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Goodnight St. John's, I appreciate it. Goodnight St. John's. Anyways guys, I hope you guys enjoyed that episode. To my man Rich, you're a good dude. Thank you. Peace out guys. Peace out everybody. See ya. Thanks for having me Adam. Fuck yeah.