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In this episode Will sits down with mindset and performance coach Kevin Voisin.  They discuss the education system, the importance of knowing history, seeking viewpoint diversity, and how mindset matters! Patterdox: https://patterdox.com/ Coach Kevin: https://itscoachkevin.com/ Apogee Strong: https://apogeestrong.com/  Apogee Schools: https://apogeestrong.com/apogee-schools 

Kevin Voisin is a successful entrepreneur and founder of Forge Legend, a proven elite men's personal coaching organization that focuses on faith, family, finance, fitness, and fun and specializes in training and investing in men from all walks of life so that they can not only withstand challenges, but conquer them and prosper. What do you get with Coach Kevin? Radical authenticity, unlimited connection, and love ... that can come as a hug or a slap to the face depending on what you need. apogeestrong.com itscoachkevin.com

Overcoming limits and following your passions transform challenges into opportunities, revealing your inner strength and guiding you toward a more fulfilling life. It's about facing obstacles with determination, recognizing them as stepping stones. This journey empowers you, showcasing your innate potential and leading to a more enriched and purposeful life. Kevin Voisin imparts his life's lessons, wisdom, and counsel to everyone listening today. Break free from the chains of self-imposed limitations; your passions know no boundaries! Tune in as young leaders ask questions about life, personal growth, and more! Quotes: “Age is not a limiter if you don't want it to be.” – Kevin Voisin “If there's anything you want to be successful at, that's where you've got to go, period.” – Kevin Voisin "The most dangerous guy in the room is almost always also the calmest guy in there." – Kevin Voisin Takeaways: Age is a canvas, not a boundary. It only limits you if you allow it to. The journey may be challenging, but every step forward brings you closer to the triumph you envision. The calmest person in the room is often the most powerful. Strength lies in composure amidst chaos. Conclusion: Overcoming limitations to pursue one's passions requires resilience and determination. By pushing boundaries, embracing challenges, and following one's aspirations, individuals can unlock new possibilities, demonstrating that the pursuit of passions is a powerful catalyst for personal growth and fulfillment. https://apogeestrong.comhttps://apogeewoman.com/https://apogeestrongdads.comhttps://apogeestrongfoundation.org

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Coach Sam welcomes Coach Kevin to the studio this week where they discuss the major pains inside the lives of women as well as the top issues women face and are not sharing with their men. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Parable #1: Picking Up the Pieces The #1 thing our wives are concerned about is saying something that will cause us to go into a spiral, leaving them to pick up the pieces. Most of the time when women lie to us, they are literally trying to protect us from our own breakdowns. Women are more concerned about preserving our feelings than in telling us the truth. QUESTION What is your experience with this?   Parable #2: Mum’s the Word A lack of feedback will only increase the insecurity of men. If your wife never praises you on your sexual performance and sexuality, that silence is as bad as criticizing. Coach Kevin loves giving massages, but his wife doesn’t get them very often because she stays silent. He likes feedback in knowing that she’s enjoying it. She loves it, but she’s silent about how much she loves it. QUESTION What can you do to open up a conversation about the role of feedback inside your relationship?   Parable #3: It’s This, Not That Men get bitched at by their wives, but it’s not about the things they REALLY want to talk about. It might be the thing they’re losing their shit about, but there’s actually something underneath that has been building for a period of time. Ninety-eight percent of the time it has to do with communication, and the ultimate form of communication is sex. It also has to do with “I want to be seen, I want to be heard.” But they never really teach you how, so you have to guess, and if you guess wrong then they think you don’t love them. QUESTION What would be possible for your relationship if you actually had a conversation about what your wife is upset about rather than making assumptions?   Parable #4: Sex Pyramid Sex is at the top of the pyramid but you won’t get that full, complete experience of the without the deep communication and connection. Men penetrate and go out; women accepts and takes in. In order to take you in, there’s got to be massive trust. QUESTION What do you do to increase the trust your wife has for you?   Parable #5: Fantasy vs Reality Because porn is a fantasy acted out by real people, it’s very difficult, even with the adult mind, to remember that this IS fantasy. These are paid actors, paid to produce a result. As parents, it’s your responsibility to begin talking to your children about the biology of sex as well as about the psychology of sex. It is absolutely crucial that you start painting the picture of the Sex Pyramid beginning at a very young age and make them aware. QUESTION How has porn played a part in how you view sex?     Parables from the Pit: “Part of the training at Warrior is to get you comfortable in having the uncomfortable conversations across all areas of your life.” —Sam Falsafi “She feels it’s her job is to protect you, and the easiest way to protect you is to pretend that everything is great, even though it’s not.” –Kevin Voisin

This week’s podcast is a candid and eye-opening conversation around the topic of  Trauma and Drama. Coach Sam and Coach Kevin uncover some important truths as they delve deep into this topic and share how a Warrior tool, Release the Rage, gives men and women the possibility to shift the drama, connect with the heart, and create a new perspective and path. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Parable #1: Drama Fuels the Ego Drama gives our ego fuel to justify and to create significance. So if this big thing is happening to me and to nobody else, then I must be very important. There’s a piece of us that wants to maintain the drama to continue to tell the story that we’re important, hanging onto that drama in order to hang onto our significance. But we also hang onto the negativity and bullshit around that same drama. QUESTION Where in your world is drama giving you a sense of importance and significance?   Parable #2: Drama Serves You There’s no question we have drama because it serves us. Most of the things that have fucked us up we learned to do because it gave us something in return. As babies, we cried and our mothers fed us.
 The problem is, we are no longer infants, yet we still have this instinct that maybe if I cry, someone will put a “tit” in my mouth; someone will give me attention. QUESTION How is drama in your life serving you? What is your payoff?   Parable #3: Drama and Disasters We have a tendency to get caught up in the drama of the disasters across the globe. It’s a way for us to stop thinking about our own lives, and instead, become completely distracted by the unfolding disasters. As we get sucked into the drama, we tend to forget about those around us who really need our time and attention. If we’re not careful, the drama will pull us away from what really matters most to us. QUESTION How do you respond to unfolding disasters? Do you get completely sucked in and distracted?   Parable #4: The Hollywood Effect We think that everything that happens to us is supposed to be this epic moment like we see in movies and on television. We learn from them how we’re “supposed” to act and feel. But these are manufactured to produce a certain response in us, almost like an audio-visual drug. It uses drama to tap into our emotions, which allows them to control us. QUESTION How has Hollywood affected your emotions and responses?   Parable #5: The Pit of Comfort Trauma happens, and then I take that trauma and build drama around it. “This happened to me, so, therefore, I’m going to isolate and stay in my fucking Pit alone in the darkness, because everywhere else I will be betrayed.” So into the Pit, I go. We create a dramatic story justifying why we should stay in the Pit, even though deep down inside, we want to be out of the Pit. We get comfortable inside of the Pit because the drama is easier to deal with than the trauma. QUESTION What drama have you created in your life because you don’t want to face the trauma?   Parables from the Pit: “Sometimes we deliberately create drama through our words, actions, and feelings in order to draw attention, importance, and significance to ourselves.” —Sam Falsafi “Drama stunts growth. You cannot grow and experience drama at the same time.” —Kevin Voisin

Coach Sam and Coach Kevin have a discussion about the shit that no one talks about. The societal taboo around topics such as miscarriage, sex, masturbation, death, and porn are stripped away in this week's important and candid conversation. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Parable #1: Pain, Shame, and Guilt Some of us don’t talk about something because it has happened to us and it’s painful, or we feel guilt and shame around it because it’s not “supposed” to happen. Then there are some of who don’t talk about it because it didn’t happen to us, we feel guilt and shame around that and feel that we’re not “worthy” to talk about it. We sometimes feel that talking about it will somehow bring it into our lives. QUESTION What stops you from talking about certain things?   Parable #2: Miscarriage Miscarriage is more common than one might think, occurring in more 30% of pregnancies, yet it’s one of those things that nobody talks about. Both Coach Sam and Coach Kevin have experienced this in their life. As a man, Coach Sam felt lost and paralyzed; he felt like it was somehow his fault. There was no blueprint available for him to follow, and no one to go to for help or answers. So he found himself turning to “Google” for help. QUESTION Where did you turn for help?   Parable #3: Sex? Masturbation? Shhhh… This notion that it’s unacceptable and taboo to talk about certain things like sex or masturbation is something that we see everywhere, from church groups to family, friends, and social media. To bring it up in a conversation is considered to be totally outside of the realm of acceptable topics. That leads to unhealthy ideas about these natural aspects of being human because no one is guiding us. Imagine if your parents had engaged in a candid conversation about sex with you (what feels good, what a woman likes, what a man likes, etc.) instead of you having to Google it or finding out from friends?? QUESTION Do you talk to your kids about sex and masturbation? Why or why not?   Parable #4: What Do You Want? The shit that we don’t talk about is linked to the lies that we choose to live. As long as you don’t talk about it and choose to live in a lie, you never truly access the power of the truth, which is ultimately linked to what you truly want. If you don’t declare what you want, all you have, at the end of the day, are false desires. You’re chasing some fantasy that can never exist because you never really thought about what it really means. QUESTION What lies are you telling yourself and others about what you truly want?   Parable #5: Ugly Fruit Before Beautiful Fruit Coach Kevin: I’d rather see a dude that shows me a deposit slip for $150 than a man’s dream of one million dollars. The fantasy creates this beautiful illusion, then blinds you to the ugly result. The truth to any success is this: there’s ugly fruit before there’s the big, beautiful fruit. You might see the end fruit of the guy who’s the millionaire, but he started with the ugly fruit at some point. It’s the ugly fruit that showed him what to do to produce the bigger fruit. QUESTION What illusion or fantasy are you creating in your life by not being honest? Parables from the Pit: “At the end of the day, the reason why relationships don’t work out is because of the shit we don’t talk about; the fact that we lie.” –Sam Falsafi “So many people rush into a real situation believing the fantasy because no one ever talks about it.” –Kevin Voisin  

Coach Sam and Coach Kevin have a conversation about how the recent addition of Warrior Woman has become a powerful part of the Wake Up Warrior empire and is empowering women to find their voices and own their worthiness. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Parable #1: Warrior Woman Movement For more than five years, Warrior has been delivering their message to thousands of men. Many women have desired to be part of this conversation but were excluded from playing the game of the ‘men only’ Warrior’s Way until recently after it became clear that it was time to invite women to have this experience. Garrett J White, found of Wake Up Warrior, thought he had created it to lead elite men, but what he found was a way to lead an elite human being. Warrior simply acts as the container for that creation to take place for men and women inside their families. QUESTION What is your experience with Warrior Woman? Parable #2: Sex and Collisions Coach Kevin Voisin, who has been an integral part of assisting thousands of men in Warrior Week,  first felt a calling to teach and lead women in the Warrior’s Way a year ago and is now the head trainer for the Warrior Woman movement. Coach Kevin:  The first thing we’re seeing is an increase in sex across the board. We’re also seeing massive collisions inside of their families which is a result of arming the women with the tools to use their voice in communicating what they want when in the past, they have kept their desires silent. QUESTION How has the increase in collisions in your relationship changed the dynamics of your marriage? Parable #3: Speaking the Same Language A lot of men use Warrior to hide and will tell their wives, “I’m doing my CORE4 and Warrior shit.” Now with both the husband and wife living the Warrior’s Way, there’s no place to hide. When Coach Kevin and his wife, Whitney, who is also a trainer inside of Warrior Woman, recently had a fight, she told him to “go fucking Stack that shit and give it the title, “I’m Acting Like a Fucking Toddler.” QUESTION How has home life changed since your wife returned from Warrior Woman? Parable #4: Finding Their Voice When a man enters the house all emotional and upset, many women and children believe it’s their fault and look for ways to fix it. Warrior Woman is teaching Women to find their voice inside of this, helping them realize this behavior belongs to the man, not to them. QUESTION Gentlemen, how often do you blame your wife or children for your emotional outbursts?   Parable #5: It Takes Two When a man goes into the Pit, which was co-created by his wife, he leaves her in there while he climbs out, yet one of man’ s biggest drives is to have connection with his wife. Your wife will pull you back into the Pit because you’ve trained her to control the fucking Pit. Your best version as a married and family man is directly proportional to the best version of your wife. QUESTION What are you hearing from this conversation?   Parables from the Pit: “At the end of the day, every man came from a woman, and there’s nothing you can do to undo that. The Universe has already created that blueprint of creation.” –Sam Falsafi “One of the big benefits we’re seeing is that men and women are finally speaking the same language.” — Kevin Voisin

Welcome to the 32nd episode of Warrior Week, Parables from the Pit. The show has a new format where every week the conversations will be driven by three lead trainers inside the Warrior Movement: Sam Falsafi, Jesse Ewell, and Kevin Voisin, who combined have led and trained thousands of men inside the experience known as the Warrior’s Way. Each week they will have a real and raw conversation about a specific aspect of the pain of the modern man. Today is a powerful conversation about the overall pain of all men, which is feeling alone and lonely. ________________________________________________________ Parable #1: Pain that Men Resist Coach Jesse: The pain the men are resisting that comes up consistently is the pain from a father. It comes down to the pain we experienced as a child that we carried for many years, almost like a weight on our back that we never let go of, and never learned how to work past it. Coach Kevin: The one pain I see across the board is that men are unable to endure the pain of vulnerability. Even if that feeling is having love for their child, they have a hard time expressing it because they’ve been taught that those feelings belong in the realm of women and not real men. QUESTION  What is the pain that you are resisting the most? Parable #2: Operating Alone Coach Sam: The current path of a man inside his pain is this idea of being alone – not socially alone, but operating alone. It ties back to no instructions from dad, and that emotions are not part of the playlist. Coach Jesse: Feeling alone is disconnection. When you’re alone, you disconnect from people and from the things in your life, and that is what gives you the feeling of being alone. QUESTION    What pattern have you noticed about yourself when you begin feeling all alone? Parable #3: False Feeling of Significance Coach Kevin: By believing I’m alone, my ego fucks me up and says no one has ever felt this pain before; that no one can understand. We give ourselves this false feeling of significance that somehow in the history of the universe, no one has ever felt this before. We had a miscarriage in our marriage, which was a painful loss. When I started opening up and sharing it with people, I was so amazed. It seemed like everyone had a miscarriage story. I wasn’t alone at all. QUESTION   What is something you have opened up about recently from a place of vulnerability? How did you feel afterward? Parable #4: Backpack Full of Pain Coach Sam: In certain areas when I feel that things are not going well, I have a tendency to get a backpack and put all of my pain inside of it and carry it alone. I have these old tendencies that have a major impact on me the minute I start feeling alone. Coach Jesse: A pattern we have as men is this feeling of alone that takes us back to the place where we first began feeling it, between the ages of seven and ten. We try to hide to make ourselves feel better about being alone. QUESTION   What’s coming up for you in this part of the conversation?   Parable #5: Share Your Pain Coach Jesse: When I feel alone, I close off everyone around me. It’s me not letting anybody in. I feel I’m not vulnerable enough to expose myself, therefore I’m all alone in my own Pit that I created because I wouldn’t let anybody else in. Coach Kevin: There is no reality in the idea that you’re alone. My father used to tell me: If God wanted you to do everything by yourself, he would have put you on your own little planet, and you could just do it all. Instead, he put you here with 7 billion other people. QUESTION   What is one thing you need to share with someone this week? ________________________________________________________ Question: “Where in your life are you feeling the most disconnected? As you feel that pain, what the fuck are you going to do about it? Are you going to give yourself permission to have a conversation?” Parables from the Pit: “The source of the pain of being alone is disconnection. We experience this trauma of disconnection many times and each time we do, we find ourselves attached to different things – any type of attachment that takes away the pain.” — Coach Sam Falsafi “The pain of feeling alone comes from the pain of not communicating that you’re experiencing feeling alone. Communication is the gateway to not feeling alone.” –Coach Jesse Ewell “Most men are sedating away from any emotion. They don’t want to feel anything. Even the positive emotions scare the fuck out of them because there’s been this conditioning that men don’t feel, and that to open up and be vulnerable is a weakness.” –Coach Kevin Voisin  

In this episode of the Next 90, Nick is joined by Kevin Voisin, his Warrior brother. Kevin is from Louisiana and shares with the Nation his journey to being a great Dad. Following a divorce and his kids move 9 hours away, the trek to see them every other weekend led to his awakening as a father. Now as the Head Coach for the Warrior Movement, Kevin is the light in the night and he wakes up fucking giants. He has leveled up his life in massive ways, he will awaken the giant within you.

Kevin Voisin, an 8th generation Louisiana oysterman and Terrebonne Parish Councilman, discusses current events concerning the Gulf oil-spill and fishing situation, false impressions about the Gulf and its seafood, and his optimism about the future, despite the setback caused by the man-made spill. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/radiorotary/support

Your host Sam Falsafi has Warrior Guest Kevin Voisin join him this week in speaking about the impact that one's word has on their loved ones. There's great power between men when they're willing to share the power of learning how to be spiritual, and that all comes through listening to the Voice within and then acting on it.   Parable #1: Broken and Unspoken Coach Sam: So many men feel that their freedom has been violated: the freedom to feel, be and live. Yes, we have the basic freedoms here in this country, but there are a lot of men that are not free in their heart. They ask themselves questions like: Why did I get married? Am I even real inside this relationship? Why does this seem like it's a program that I need to be part of?  Life goes on for them and they pretend that one day things will be good for them. Kevin: When I first saw the videos for Warrior Week, I was trying to copy them for my business. But in order to copy them, I had to watch them. Three minutes into the video, I’m fucking crying and I’m connecting with something that’s from my past. Everything that Garrett was talking about, described the pain and the trap that I was in.   QUESTION: Have you ever felt that your life is some sort of a program that you are living inside of? Parable #2: Perfection is a Liar's Game Kevin: My response to an abusive mother was to keep trying to be good enough. If I excel at everything, then she’ll have to accept me, she’ll have to know I’m good enough. Between that and my strong religious background, I was pushed into this perfection game and I was fucking good at it. When you play the perfection game to win, you play to lie. Coach Sam: There is no perfection in your leadership at home.   QUESTION: Where in your life are you playing the Perfection Game? How is that working for you? Parable #3: The Checklist Kevin: When I met my ex-wife, there was this new form of gravity around her. The next step was to get married and have kids. Suddenly, there was this list we were supposed to start living: I stopped living who I really was and became the list, fragmenting myself into little pieces of Kevin to check off all of the boxes. The actual me? I was fucking all alone. Coach Sam: You are brought up under certain religious instruction, which is beautiful - and inside of that, you get married. It’s not your feelings that drive your life, it's a checklist: certain laws must be in place in order for your feeling to rise. And obviously, that’s an impossibility because your feelings are going to go against this checklist.   QUESTION: What checklist is driving your life? Parable #4: Cheating: A Family Affair Sam: I don’t know how you operate when you cheat, what pain you can cause, or how it can impact your family because I haven’t done it.  When you have an agreement and there’s a violation to that agreement, it's never going to be the same. Nobody wants to fuckin' feel violated, yet when you bring a lie into your home, everyone feels it. Kevin: I admit I took the coward's path when I cheated on my wife. Many guys who cheat on their wife also lose their relationship with their kids. With every unexplained emotion in the house, the kids will either think it’s their fault or that it's their job to fix it.   QUESTION: What lies are you bringing into your home and putting on a silver platter for your kids as truth? Parable #5:  I Knew You Would Come When Kevin’s ex wife moved herself and the kids nine hours away, it was in that moment he really became a father, realizing that what he had had right down the hall was now nine hours away - which distance he has been traveling every two weeks for the past nine years to see them. Love for his kids is what drives him to do whatever he needs to do in order to be with his kids and to always show up in their lives. Coach Sam to Kevin: That connection is healing your heart. That connection is Divine. It's not based off some check list or what you are 'supposed to do.' Inside your soul, inside of your identity, there is a man committed to love. Inside Warrior, there are men modeling your love because that is their truth. There are too many men who are carrying similar pain who are not speaking about it QUESTION: What actions are you willing to back your commitments with?   Parable from the Pit: "You will never put this Shuilt on me - it’s this shame and guilt. You will not put that on me and you won’t put it on Kevin. It’s not that we are some fucking super heroes, it’s because we have learned the skills of not navigating the invisible maze that goes nowhere and is feeding some other mother fucker’s interest. - Coach Sam "In the words of Malcolm X,  'No man can give you freedom; if you’re a man, you take it.'  I’m not afraid to take it anymore. I will have my freedom. I will love my children, I will love my wife, and I will do it the way I want to and I make no apologies. I think the fundamental difference between me now and when things weren’t right is, I don’t give a fuck about the invisible rules that you put on me. If I put it on myself, great. If I don’t? It’s not mine and I won’t own it." - Kevin Voisin   ________________________________   Every week, your host Sam Falsafi will be speaking about what it means to live the Warrior's Way, a belief system taught with Wake Up Warrior for married businessmen to live a life of having it all through what is know as the Core 4 within themselves: Body, Being (spirituality), Balance (family) and Business. Coach Sam Falsafi is a lead trainer within Wake Up Warrior and will be joined by co-host Garrett J White, the founder of Wake Up Warrior as well as guests from within Warrior that provide witnesses and case studies on what has occurred within their own lives.      http://warriorweek.com 

In this week's interview Kevin Voisin will discuss the sometimes-difficult choices you must make as a dad and stepdad—and how important it is to be involved in your children’s lives. He’ll talk about his parenting journey, the investment he made in his relationship with his kids and how he and his wife make it all work for their blended family. Finally, Kevin will share his thoughts on telling the truth and why men make ideal step-parents. POINT #1: Dads Have Choices, But Kids Usually Don’t * In a divorce, dads make the choice to be in their kids’ life. Stepdads also make a choice to make a commitment to their step-kids. * Children are usually along for the ride when it comes to divorce or remarriage, so it is up to dads to maintain/establish and set the tone for their relationship with their children. * Dads can choose to show up or run away. * When dads choose to show kids their true feel