Podcast appearances and mentions of sam falsafi

What is the single hardest thing a man can do in his life?Today is going to reveal the answer to that question, and while that question may yield some subjective answers, I know that the answer herein has been the biggest challenge in my life, no question.

Would you want to know if you were full of shit?"Fine" has become a knee-jerk response for a lot of us when asked how we're doing. Much the same way, most people would say that they're happy. But are they really?Today, we're going to trigger some folks by having them take a hard look in the mirror and see if they're wearing a mask they label as happy when, in fact, they are anything but.

What if a man's inability to say what he's feeling isn't a matter of choice but a matter of psychology?How many men have been falsely accused of not 'opening up' by their partners? I really hope that anyone who has ever accused a man of doing that listens to this episode because it will sprinkle some much-needed compassion on a man's inability to express his emotions.

Why do most of us quit doing things we say we want to do and know we should do?Is it a lack of willpower, discipline, or desire? I don't think so. I know that's not the case because one other simple yet powerful tip has helped me stick with habits you once upon a time couldn't pay me to do.That's exactly what we be tackling in Day 21 of the 24 Before 2024 Challenge!

How do you keep going when life keeps knocking you down? You can't just stay down forever, and we can only structure so much in our lives before someone or something throws a wrench in our plans. So what do you do when shit just doesn't go as planned?That's exactly what we be tackling in Day 20 of the 24 Before 2024 Challenge!

What do you do when you hit a wall and want to quit? Pushing through it won't work. Giving up isn't an option. So then what strategy that works wonders inside the gym can we take and use outside the gym?That's exactly what we be tackling in Day 19 of the 24 Before 2024 Challenge!

For all the men out there who think you can just put your head down and work through your problems, you'll want to listen to this one.What if taking 5 minutes a day to do one simple thing was all it took to get your shit together and improve the quality of every area of your life?That's exactly what we be tackling in Day 18 of the 24 Before 2024 Challenge!

What's one of the hardest things about becoming a better man? Practicing the shit that helps us become better men!That's exactly what we be tackling in Day 17 of the 24 Before 2024 Challenge!

How are you about asking for help, my Brother? That was a rhetorical question. You suck at it.But what's the real benefit that you may be overlooking when it comes to asking for help? That's exactly what we be tackling in Day 16 of the 24 Before 2024 Challenge!

How are you about asking for help, my Brother? That was a rhetorical question. You suck at it.But what's the real benefit that you may be overlooking when it comes to asking for help? That's exactly what we be tackling in Day 15 of the 24 Before 2024 Challenge!

Settling down is one of the worst things a man can do.I'm not talking about getting married. I'm talking about settling for the status quo because you've forgotten that once upon a time you had a little something called ambition.So how do you get it back? That's exactly what we be tackling in Day 14 of the 24 Before 2024 Challenge!

If you suffer from depression, anxiety, or stress, is there ONE THING you can shift in your life that will completely change the game when it comes to your mental health?That's exactly what we be tackling in Day 13 of the 24 Before 2024 Challenge!

If what you do on your bad days is more important than what you do on your good days, how do you start having better bad days?That's exactly what we be tackling in Day 12 of the 24 Before 2024 Challenge!

Porn, social media, alcohol...how do you sedate to escape reality? More importantly, is your sedation element of choice the sign of something more serious?Hearing another man talk about being 'comfortably numb' and what that looks like in practice was an eye-opening moment for me, and I'm hoping after listening to today's episode, it will be eye-opening for you as well.

What excuses are you making a part of your identity that - you may not want to hear this - are bullshit excuses?Mine? 'I'm depressed' is one of the big ones, until I realized that while it may be a serious mental health condition that requires professional support, for me at times it's the ultimate 'out' when it comes to keeping commitments to myself and others.

Is your wife or girlfriend your BEST friend? If so, you could be in trouble.As much as I love Jennilee, it took us breaking up to realize that I need men in my life to help carry the weight and pressures of being a man. Putting everything on Jennilee - my business ideas, my fitness ideas, my life challenges, EVERYTHING - was not fair.So what did I do about it, more importantly, if YOUR wife or girlfriend is your be-all-end-all (or you have a Brother who fits that description), you'll want to stay tuned for this one.

Are you like me and most other men in that you're a fixer? You know...your wife, partner, or Brother comes to you with a problem, and even before the words are out of their mouth, you're already thinking of (or worse yet, telling them) the solution?What if there was something so simple and so obvious that would make your life WAY easier while ensuring the other person doesn't end up shitting all over you for offering your help? That's what we'll tackle in today's Challenge.

How many times have you been in a difficult conversation with your partner only to be totally surprised (and perhaps pissed off by) the way that they react? Are they the problem or are you?Rather than play the blame game, wouldn't it make more sense to see how you can not only handle the situation better the next time around but maybe...just maybe...prevent the house from burning down in the first place?

How would you know if your partner feels loved and supported as opposed to neglected and unimportant? Go ahead and assume your partner feels loved but I'm pretty sure that assumption was made by almost all of the 70% of men who's wives initiated the divorce.Whether in your romantic relationship or with your Brothers, you'll rarely go wrong when you become aware of the little things you can do that will have the biggest impact.

How do your relationships affect your mental health? Or is it the fact that your mental health affects your relationships that you need to be concerned with? While I can't tell you what the answer is for you, I can tell you that you'd be dangerously foolish to think that it's not a two-way street. 

How do your relationships affect your mental health? Or is it the fact that your mental health affects your relationships that you need to be concerned with? While I can't tell you what the answer is for you, I can tell you that you'd be dangerously foolish to think that it's not a two-way street. 

Can you measure metrics that will tell you how much of a man you are? According to myself and Mr. Andrew Romeo, there are. So what are they? Tune in to not just hear about them but determine what they are for you and how to begin measuring them to Ignite the Impact you wish to see in your world.

If knowing, living with, and fulfilling your purpose is an integral part of making a man a 'Man' (which, of course, it is!), how do YOU define Purpose?This is yet another question with seemingly infinite answers but today we're going to bring it home and make it much smaller and more impactful than perhaps you've considered in the past.

What makes a man a 'Man'? When do YOU feel like a man, and what keeps you from fulfilling your purpose as a man?While this is an endless rabbit hole (great bourbon, by the way!) we could go down, you'll see inside this episode that being 'The Man' - while not easy - is very simple when you get clear about one thing - your VALUES.

No doubt, 2020 came out of nowhere, and, for a time, human potential and momentum were seemingly put on pause. Human beings were “forced” to take a step back and revisit their strategizes and plans for the year. At the end of the day, it all comes down to focusing on what matters. Welcome to the 100th episode of Warrior Week: Parables From the Pit, with head coach, Sam Falsafi, in this very special father-son edition with guests Mike Hardy and his son, Jacob. warriorweeknow.com   Parable #1: Warrior Week 29 & 51 Before Mike entered the gates of Warrior Week 29, nearly five years ago, he was in a place where he knew he needed to change his thought process. Work was becoming all-consuming, and he was aware that he needed to reprioritize and realign his role as husband and father and his entire life. Warrior Week 29 was perfect timing for Mike because it helped him get centered, focused, and clear on the things that were really important to him. Why return to Warrior Week 51? Mike realized that if there’s no intention to grow with a healthy environment, it’s part of human nature to easily slip back. “Warrior Week 51 was almost a recommitment to “no compromise” in all areas of life. Things were moving in a good direction, but I think I needed to re-anchor the foundation, and get to a place where I had a higher level of certainty, and double-down on what worked.” QUESTION What caused you to enter the gates of Warrior? Parable #2:  Letting GoK Often we will stay in a place of comfort for years. However, in order to grow, it is imperative that we learn to let go and step out of that comfort zone – especially if it’s working for us – and have the courage to step into the new. The hardest part of getting to great is giving up good. Mike: “One of the things I’ve always struggled with is that I am a very calculated risk-taker. Through the Warrior training, I’ve learned to slow down long enough to take that quiet time (meditation) every morning to listen to that still, small voice, and then act on that, which is not always logical. There are windows in time, like a strong intuition, that open up worlds of opportunity that I would have completely missed out on had I not slowed down and listened.” QUESTION Where in your world do you know it’s time to let go and step outside your comfort zone? Parable #3: A Father’s Impact Coach Sam recalls something his father told him on his wedding day that has stayed with him throughout the years. “Living a life with someone is easy, but building a life with someone is difficult.” When things get heated between two people, he realizes that he could live with someone for a very long time, but to build something and have common projects is something entirely different. Mike’s son, Jacob, is currently nineteen years old. At the time of his father’s entry into Warrior Week 29, he was fourteen. He recounts several projects he and his father have worked on together throughout that time, notably fixing up his first car. “He let me just kind of figure it out, and then I worked through it.” Currently, they are working towards getting their pilot’s licenses. QUESTION What message from your father has remained with you throughout your life?   Parable #4: The Pit “There is a miserable process that takes place on day one of Warrior Week that’s long and goes into the night. It’s called the Pit. It makes us face things and feelings that we’ve kept inside, things that we regret, relationships that caused us harm, and the pain that resides deep inside. No matter what man you look at, all of us have this pain inside of us, but the majority of us are not willing to feel the pain. The first night is a transition into allowing a man to feel some of that pain.” Coach Sam “There’s a heightened learning experience that takes place when I’m pushed to my limit. There are things to let go of and lessons that can be absorbed that just wouldn’t happen otherwise. There’s a catharsis from being able to let go. My belief is that it’s almost impossible to really grow into who you’re supposed to be, and experience what’s possible for life if emotional baggage and anchors are holding one back.” Mike QUESTION What emotional baggage are you hanging onto? Parable #5: Exposed Mike recalled his experience during one of the evolutions, where a picture of his family was presented to him. “There’s something about when what you love most and have to fight for, a human being can make anything happen.” Knowing that intellectually, he experienced it firsthand during this evolution., “It was like a little microcosm for my capacity of what I can do for my family.” From the beginning of time, every generation faces a heavy crisis that they have to go through. Ours is COVID. Mike sees this as a gift, not a curse. “When there are challenges, people will fall to the level of their foundation or their base systems. Everyone is being exposed right now for who they really are. As Einstein said, within every challenge is an opportunity so great that it will literally dwarf the problem itself. Look for the gift and the opportunity.” QUESTION How has 2020 exposed you? “Parables From The Pit” “There is nothing more powerful in this world than to train your brain in gratitude. If your brain is trained in gratitude, it will be a weapon in this society.” –Sam Falsafi “When something is in front of you, and you feel it welling up, it’s there for a reason, and you’re supposed to act on it. When you feel it, you just GO!” –– Mike Hardy “While I’m working on my car, my dad walks in and asks me, “Are you winning, son?” –Jacob Hardy

While enjoying drinks on the Monarch Resort’s patio in Dana Point, Matt and his college buddies, who had gathered for their once-a-year guy’s weekend, were intrigued by the sight of a bunch of men dressed in black doing some sort of “clap and boom” not too far from them. Unbeknownst to Matt, this would mark the beginning of his Warrior journey. Welcome to this episode of Warrior Week: Parables from the Pit, with your host, Sam Falsafi, lead trainer, and his special guest, Matt Davenport, graduate of Warrior Week #60. Parable #1: Two-Clap BOOM! While enjoying drinks on the Monarch Resort’s patio in Dana Point, Matt and his college buddies, who had gathered for their once-a-year guy’s weekend, were intrigued by the sight of a bunch of men dressed in black doing some sort of “clap and boom.” Curious about them, Matt was told by their server that it was a secret business group called Wake Up Warrior. Upon returning home, his google search led him to watch video after video with messages that spoke directly to him. “I felt like someone had read my mind.” QUESTION How did you first encounter the message of Warrior?   Parable #2: From Denial to Awareness At the time of entering KingsKit 3, Matt’s life was in a pretty dark place, including his marriage. “The whole idea of telling the truth had me start looking in the mirror. It brought awareness of all the things I needed to change in my life, which was overwhelming at first.” It was through his association with men inside of Warrior that Matt felt he could be authentic and totally honest, and that the change he was witnessing in other men’s lives could be his experience as well. He was willing to do whatever it took to start making changes in his life, including attending Warrior Week. QUESTION Where in your world do you know you’re being authentic? Parable #3: Tell the Truth, Burn the Past It was that first night in the Pit where Matt realized he had been living his whole life seeking things that he thought would set him free and make him happy. He had tried everything except telling the truth. It was in the Pit that he discovered, “until you tell the truth, there is no way out.” Looking back on his life with regret and shame had become the go-to pattern for Matt. It was through writing down and burning a list all of the things he was going to let go of that put into motion the process of setting himself free. QUESTION What is something you know you need to burn from your past? Parable #4: Before & After Matt came out of Warrior Week renewed, reframed, and excited to leverage himself and his power. It definitely proved to be a pivotal point in his life. “Who I have been as a father to my girls has been life-altering.” Before Warrior, Matt explains, “I was always sedating. I was a workaholic, always watching TV, always distracted, never present, and always wanting to escape.” At the time, alcohol played a huge role in Matt’s life. Today he is alcohol-free which has profoundly affected how he shows up as a father. QUESTION Who are you today vs. the man you were before Warrior?   Parable #5: Warrior Week Plus Warrior Week has shifted into a virtual experience. “It’s amazing to see how we are able to create the same conditions and feelings virtually as we did in person, ” comments Coach Sam. He further explains that it’s the space and energy that the men allow themselves to experience that creates the conditions for their Warrior Week, whether in-person or virtually. QUESTION When will you experience Warrior Week Plus? “Parables from the Pit” “We are brought up with this condition where the only gear we know is the gear of the past, the grudge’s gear.” –Sam Falsafi “Going into Warrior Week, I felt like I was a prisoner of my past. Walking out of Warrior Week, I felt and believed that I was a new and different person; that I could create whatever life I wanted, and that the past no longer had power over me.” –– Matt Davenport

In this episode of Habit-Based Lifestyle, Jesse interviews best friend and Lead Trainer of Wake Up Warior Sam Falsafi. Do you sometimes reminisce about the unproblematic times before the COVID-19 outbreak or the protests? The thing is, the world already had these problems back then, but nothing was exposing them enough for everyone to think about and reflect. Understand that there were stress and issues back then, but it didn't matter because it wasn't that much of a big deal. Now that a pandemic has risen and societal problems have started to appear left and right, the population's two primary responses became fear and hate. As a society, it's easy to get caught up in both emotions, especially when everybody else feels the same way. Listen to today's episode and help yourself understand and address your current feelings. - Are you looking to connect with a group of like-minded habit hacking people? Join my private Facebook group along with 100's of others in my habit-based lifestyle secrets page https://www.Facebook.Com/groups/307809586529906/ where I'll be dropping daily habits, tips, and tricks every single week.     Want more information on our programs and other ways to get involved check out my website http://jesseewell.com/ or www.Habitbasedlifestyle.com

The powerhouse of a podcast Every Man should listen to and deeply consider right now.I speak with Sam Falsafi, Head Coach of the hugely successful men movement Wake Up Warrior.Through Covid-19, human momentum is on pause and it is forcing many to face your truth. The truth you have been potentially avoiding through the lies upon which you build the stories you tell yourself – the defence mechanism of choice for so many men whether they admit it or not.Sam talks through the process of accepting what you see in the mirror to unlock a greater, more expansive awareness of identity that is built on your truth and then applying it to your well-being, relationships, business and connection to something bigger than yourself.Interestingly, Sam highlights how the full nature of the Covid-19 impacted world is exposing the true leaders in our communities and those that have a solid connection to something bigger than themselves.Sam is a straight talking and direct man – simple as that – he tells it like it is based on his wealth of experience both personally and in his role as Head Coach for Wake-Up Warrior.For the listener this will either be welcomed listening or difficult listening, but either way it is an invitation to expand your identity to something much, much bigger.

Parable #1: “Who the Fuck Coaches You?” As a student and leader inside of many transformational trainings throughout his life, Demian had always been a seeker of growth and improvement at a fundamental level. However, once he found himself smack dab in the middle of the “trifecta of insanity,” aka a married businessman with children, it became apparent that what had been working was no longer working for him. Through the conversations, arguments, and collisions with his wife, it became clear to Demian that something needed to change and shift. Having been instrumental in the breakthroughs of hundreds if not thousands of others, one day, his wife asked him, “You coach everybody else, but who the fuck coaches you?”  QUESTION How do you open yourself up to coaching when you are the one usually doing the coaching? Parable #2: Rise & Remember When the conversation of Warrior entered Demian’s world, he had been dabbling in some old patterns and behaviors that weren’t at all serving him. On top of that, things were fizzling out sexually inside of his three-year marriage.  About this time, a video on Facebook caught Demian’s attention showing men in extreme conditions who were being called to “rise and remember that you are a king.” Over sushi one evening, he shared this with his wife – an intuitive – who blurted out, “That's it! Sign up right now!” What Demian experienced in the next 45 minutes was a foreshadowing of the wild, life-altering adventure yet to come. QUESTION Describe your intro to Warrior. Parable #3: Buried Alive It was during one of the evolutions at Warrior Week 49 that Demian came face to face with one of his greatest fears. After being blasted with water while reciting Invictus, Demian was immediately taken to a plot of ground where he was instructed to dig his own grave. His greatest fear? That of being buried alive. And yet, that is exactly what happened next as dirt began covering him, and men started piling on top of him, all the while a muzzled German Shepherd began barking ferociously in his face. At that moment, in order to survive, Demian disconnected from the chaos and panic. What happened next proved what would be a pivotal moment for him. QUESTION What is one of your greatest fears? Parable #4: That One Time in India… During his travels to India ten years ago, Coach Sam had a very unusual and memorable experience. As he sat on a park bench one morning, he suddenly heard all of this laughter and set out to find out where it was coming from. Imagine his surprise when he discovered a group of people being led in a laughter meditation! After joining in the contagious laughter, Sam asked the guru a question that had been burning inside of him for a while. The guru answered Sam’s question by sharing an unforgettable story. QUESTION What burning question do yoi have inside of you? Parable #5: Discover the Gift In 2011, Demian’s movie, “Discover the Gift,” screened at the Sundance Film Festival. During the Q&A that followed, Demian heard a loud noise followed by someone suddenly standing up and abruptly leaving the room. A few minutes later, as Demian stood outside the theater, a large, tall man wearing an intense expression on his face came barreling towards him. Demian instinctively raised his hands to protect himself. But as the man drew closer, he noticed tears running down the stranger’s cheeks as he asked Demian, “What did you do to me?” QUESTION How did you feel when you heard Demian recall this story? Parables from the Pit“ “You truly don’t know another man if you don’t know his pain.” —Sam Falsafi “…as your father, I will always love you. As your king, I command you to rise! Rise..and rise again!” –Demian Lichtenstein   warriorweeknow.com

Guest - Sam Falsafi of Warrior Week, author and fellow podcaster comes buy finally to just shoot the shit and talk a little more about his journey in the warrior way. Eating his own dog food as we'd like to say.

Sam Falsafi is the CEO of Wake up Warrior and Warrior Week. He is a graduate of Warrior Week 9.As a child of war, Sam and his family escaped the troubles of Iran and moved to Canada, where he lived for two decades, before moving on to the USA. As a software engineering graduate, Sam began his career in transportation tracking and tracing, where it led him to a lucrative business in the oil and gas industry. However, Sam felt that he had a different purpose in life, which he came to realize through Warrior Week and Garret J White. Now Sam fulfills his purpose by helping others come to realize what is holding them back in life, both in personal and business. “Once a man achieves the level of certainty to go after what he wants there is nothing that can stop that man.” How to achieve that? Listen to the interview! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Welcome to today’s episode of Parables from the Pit with your host and head Warrior coach, Sam Falsafi, and Warrior Week 51 graduate, Daniel Giordano. In this revealing conversation, they uncover the new language of man, unveil the modern currency, and discuss the reality that in a world of connection through technology, disconnection and the feeling of being alone is at an alarming all-time high. Parable #1: F-Bombs About five years ago, Daniel saw his first Warrior video featuring Garrett J White. He thought it was actually someone at the church he attended and wondered why the guy suddenly had a “potty mouth.” Keeping his language in check was important to Daniel at the time, so the Warrior videos became an instant ‘no view’ due to all of the F-bombs Garrett was dropping. With the passing of time, however, circumstances changed and Daniel was re-introduced to Warrior via Kings Kit. He knew it was time to make some changes in his life and figured since Garrett was still going strong, he must have something figured out. QUESTION Where in your life do you let your judgments about a person dismiss the actual message?   Parable #2: Just Like Dad From the firsts moments of the initial Kings Kit webinar, Coach Sam reminded Daniel of his dad because he was “screaming all the time,” which triggered the hell out of Daniel to the point where he had no desire to talk to Coach Sam for the Warrior Week interview. At the time, Daniel felt unworthy as a father and felt he had fucked up a lot of shit in his life. Deep inside, he knew it was time to do something different. The strong pull towards Warrior Week was completely undeniable. QUESTION Describe an experience or situation where you felt the undeniable pull to move forward with something.   Parable #3: A Time of Uncertainty A few years back, Daniel awakened one morning and said ‘fuck you’ to everything. He was tired and found himself falling asleep in the middle of the day. After getting tested, it was determined that Daniel had low levels of Testosterone. He began a regime that would ultimately bring those levels back up within the normal range. During this time, Daniel’s marriage nearly ended. “Things started to get ugly and I got to the point where I slept at my office for three months. To make matters worse, when we started to work on our marriage, we’d go out to dinner, have too many drinks, and things would get even uglier.” QUESTION How do you resonate with Daniel’s experiences? Parable #4: Daniel’s Pit Inside the Pit on the first day of Warrior Week, Daniel faced something that had taken place years before when he and his wife first got together. “We made some poor choices and she decided to have an abortion. It just killed me. We knew it wasn’t the right thing to do, but we did it because of what other people would think at the time.” His experience of facing this in the Pit “was freeing because I didn’t realize it was the big barrier between me and my wife.” Daniel was able to let go of the guilt and shame and turn his focus to his wife to see how he could help her deal with her feelings about it. QUESTION What have you been able to face and let go of?   Parable #5: Silence: The New Language Coach Sam: In a world of technology that enables us to be so connected, we are so fucking disconnected and so alone. How is that possible? If we’re all connected and have the technology to leverage that, how is it that we are more disconnected than ever before? As men, we’re alone, we’re afraid and constantly hiding what we feel. The new language has become silence where we don’t have the energy to put into others or into ourselves. Somewhere inside of our lives, we have forgotten ourselves and have been forsaken. QUESTION What is one thing you can do today begin opening up yourself to share another’s pain and joy?   Parables from the Pit: “You awaken to a new reality of what is and what you want it to be… and you remember what was, in order to continue to become.” —Sam Falsafi “If you’re struggling inside of your relationships and feel spiritually lost, get plugged into Warrior with a group of guys who genuinely want you to have it all. Show up, step up, be willing to fight for what you want, and start doing things differently.” -Daniel Giordano.

We all want to connect but often do you not know how. The winning formula is so simple! I learned this from my mentor Sam Falsafi. Love plus fun equals connection. So simple, so effective. To build relationships with your kids, your loved ones and yourself! Please subscribe, rate and review this podcast

There is a secret formula that was told to me by one of my mentors, Sam Falsafi. This simple formula has shifted my relationship with my kids, myself and ultimately any relationship that exists in my life. It is simple, powerful and has the potential to be life-changing. I share this with you today. Please subscribe, rate and review this podcast

Sam Falsafi is the CEO of Wake up Warrior and Warrior Week. He is a graduate of Warrior Week 9.As a child of war, Sam and his family escaped the troubles of Iran and moved to Canada, where he lived for two decades, before moving on to the USA. As a software engineering graduate, Sam began his career in transportation tracking and tracing, where it led him to a lucrative business in the oil and gas industry. However, Sam felt that he had a different purpose in life, which he came to realize through Warrior Week and Garret J White. Now Sam fulfills his purpose by helping others come to realize what is holding them back in life, both in personal and business. "Once a man achieves the level of certainty to go after what he wants there is nothing that can stop that man." How to achieve that? Listen to the interview!Listen on Show Notes Hi everybody, this is Warrior Family and I am Smillion Mori. I know that you are all here because you are sure you can create and live the life worth living, but in order to do this we have to do something about it. And my goal within this show is to bring you my guests, their strategies, their belief system, hacks, that you can make the life you want, and live the life worth living. And today I have a special guest, his name is Sam Falsafi. He’s from Iran originally. He’s the lead coach, lead trainer of ‘Wake Up Warrior’ movement, and he kicked my ass when I attended ‘Warrior Week’ a couple of months ago. .inf_infusionsoft .inf_infusionsoft_optin_41 .inf_infusionsoft_form_content { background-color: #ffffff !important; } .inf_infusionsoft .inf_infusionsoft_optin_41 .inf_infusionsoft_form_container .inf_infusionsoft_form_header { background-color: #000000 !important; } .inf_infusionsoft .inf_infusionsoft_optin_41 .carrot_edge .inf_infusionsoft_form_content:before { border-top-color: #000000 !important; } .inf_infusionsoft .inf_infusionsoft_optin_41 .carrot_edge.inf_infusionsoft_form_right .inf_infusionsoft_form_content:before, .inf_infusionsoft .inf_infusionsoft_optin_41 .carrot_edge.inf_infusionsoft_form_left .inf_infusionsoft_form_content:before { border-top-color: transparent !important; border-left-color: #000000 !important; } @media only screen and ( max-width: 767px ) {.inf_infusionsoft .inf_infusionsoft_optin_41 .carrot_edge.inf_infusionsoft_form_right .inf_infusionsoft_form_content:before, .inf_infusionsoft .inf_infusionsoft_optin_41 .carrot_edge.inf_infusionsoft_form_left .inf_infusionsoft_form_content:before { border-top-color: #000000 !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; } }.inf_infusionsoft .inf_infusionsoft_optin_41 .inf_infusionsoft_form_content button { background-color: #000000 !important; } .inf_infusionsoft .inf_infusionsoft_optin_41 .inf_infusionsoft_form_content button { background-color: #000000 !important; } .inf_infusionsoft .inf_infusionsoft_optin_41 h2, .inf_infusionsoft .inf_infusionsoft_optin_41 h2 span, .inf_infusionsoft .inf_infusionsoft_optin_41 h2 strong { font-family: "Oswald", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; }.inf_infusionsoft .inf_infusionsoft_optin_41 p, .inf_infusionsoft .inf_infusionsoft_optin_41 p span, .inf_infusionsoft .inf_infusionsoft_optin_41 p strong, .inf_infusionsoft .inf_infusionsoft_optin_41 form input, .inf_infusionsoft .inf_infusionsoft_optin_41 form button span { font-family: "Oswald", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; } Want To Read Full Transcript? Then Make Sure To Download Sam Falsafi's Show Notes DOWNLOAD SHOW NOTES NOW! Please provide consent.Yes, I consent to receiving direct marketing from this website. You have Successfully Subscribed!

(This is an encore presentation of a previously published episode.)Your host Sam Falsafi has Warrior Guest Kelly Curtis on the call to face the barriers of race, culture, and religion and how becoming your own man based off of your own definition instead of society’s helps shape you into what you want to be in life.   Parable #1: Follow the Lead of the Universe Kelly’s journey to Warrior Week began in 2007 while attending a convention where Tony Robbins, Les Brown and a charismatic guy named Garrett White were speaking. Years later while surfing the internet, Kelly was surprised to find himself viewing a documentary featuring the guy who, years earlier, had made an unforgettable impression upon him. There comes a time in your life when a conversation takes place that is out of your hands, where the Universe is delivering a message to you that will either move you to take immediate action or lead you down the path in the direction that is meant for you to take. QUESTION Are you opening your eyes to the messages the Universe is sending you? What are some of the messages you are currently receiving? Parable #2: Own Your Truth While on a spiritual journey questioning everything he has ever believed, Kelly began owning the answers instead of relying on someone else’s idea of what he should believe. He was brought to a place of peace, yet felt like he was missing the Map of what to do next. Warrior Week provided the tactical piece of the puzzle that was missing, giving him permission to become the Seeker. In sharing the story surrounding the origin of the Muslim law established 1700 years ago forbidding the consumption of alcohol, Sam asks you to consider: What laws and beliefs will you follow today that will serve you as a man, husband and human being in getting what you want and putting you in a position of serving others? QUESTION Where has questioning your core beliefs led you? What beliefs and practices do you still hold onto that are no longer serving you? Parable #3: There Is No Finish Line In a grinding 12 hour day in the war zone during one of the most difficult and challenging experiences of his life, Kelly is able to stay in the grueling game by retaining a piercing and determined focus on the vision of his sons watching him, envisioning demonstrating to them what it looks like to do your best, give your all, and go all in. In the midst of a six-month audit, Kelly owned that he had nothing to hide. What separates him from his contemporaries in the finance world is the fact that he lives by a Code that says: Don’t Lie, Tell the Fucking Truth, and I will not ask you to do anything that I haven’t done myself. QUESTION Where in your life are you asking people to do things that you have not done yourself?   Parable #4: Religion, Race & Culture: The Big Dividers Of Humanity Judgment is the barrier that you put between you and another human being. As humans, we create labels which create the separation. Our backgrounds, race or culture should not create any fucking barriers to what we want or what we are ruthlessly committed to going after. By lying, we separate ourselves into these labels and circles. You can have an association that has the same religion, culture, and race, but inside of that, there is a major amount of separation taking place. On the outside the labels are perfect; on the inside, the love is not connected and the love is not real. QUESTION What are some of the ways you label, judge and categorize others? Does that make you feel more connected or more divided?   Parable #5: Freedom Has a Price In his travels outside of America, Sam observed behaviors and patterns that were symbols of restriction and poverty, wherein one city families were claiming poles in the street as their home. He came back home appreciative of the freedoms that most take for granted in America. At the end of the day, freedom is a fundamental need for humans. We are acting alone as men, feeling like there is nowhere we can drop the guilt, pain, and shame, where we are conditioned to mask our totality. The secret to not fucking living with guilt and shame is to give yourself permission to be free to own the light and the darkness within you. That is what we do inside the experience of Warrior. QUESTION What price are you willing to pay to experience freedom within yourself and in all areas of your life?   Parables from the Pit: “The reality is this: You are either my brother in my faith, race, or culture or my equal in humanity. Black, white – no matter what you want to call yourself – you are more than welcome to come inside this place and discover the permission to stop fucking lying and start fucking telling the truth.” – Sam Falsafi   “Brothers, I’m looking forward to seeing more of us – guys who look like me. A lot of times we just need to see it. Maybe I’m the guy who sparks the thought inside of you: ‘Hey, he looks like me and he’s doing this, maybe it’s okay for me to try this out.’ The message, doctrine and principles are universal and there are a lot of men out there that can use this across the board – any race or color. We all have the same problems and issues no matter who we are or where we are in the world.” – Kelly Curtis

Master Stephen Co is Coach Sam's special guest in this week's edition of Warrior Week: Parables from the Pit. Master Co is an expert in Pranic Healing and Arhatic Yoga and is the co-author of the books, “The Power of Prana” and “Your Hands Can Heal You." Since 1988, he has been traveling the world teaching and sharing energetic techniques based on ancient spiritual principles that can be applied immediately to transform one's life.   Parable #1: An Inspired Encounter Master Co has been traveling the world with Tony Robbins for the past two years sharing the Eastern traditions with the Western minds, something he finds most gratifying. Nearly a year ago, during Warrior Week 43, Coach Sam began writing “I AM THAT I AM” on a whiteboard, setting into motion a series of events orchestrated by the Universe, leading him down a divine path to an inspired encounter with Master Stephen Co. QUESTION Where in your world have you seen the hand of God or the Universe orchestrating events in your life?   Parable #2: Learn, Live, Teach Coach Sam: There comes a time when a man needs to identify a spiritual mentor because the idea of “I’m going to do it alone” is limited. What I have been learning from Master Co, I have been giving away to those whom I teach. Master Stephen Co: The more you know, the more you realize how little you know. As a man, a lot of times our ego tells us, “I know everything.” Humility, on the other hand, gives a person the self-confidence to say, “I want to be better; therefore, I will seek someone who has accomplished more.” QUESTION Who is your spiritual mentor?   Parable #3: Stepping Stones Thirty years ago,  Master Co’s wife fell fourteen feet onto solid concrete and broke her hip.  The doctors told them it would take 3 1/2 months for her to heal and to be able to walk again. Master Co searched for alternative solutions, which eventually led him to his mentor. He put into practice what he learned from his mentor – which is what he teaches today –  and in two weeks, his wife was walking; in five weeks, she was running. QUESTION How has finding alternative solutions changed the course of your life?   Parable #4: I AM I AM is the mover of the body, the creator of feelings, and the thinker of thoughts. If you don’t know who this I AM is, you become a slave to your body, to your emotions, and to your thoughts. By knowing who the “I AM” is, you regain your power and the inner strength to deal with life. To be emotionally stable, mentally clear, and to have inner peace is the desire of most human beings. If someone is not experiencing this in their life, they are in need of healing. QUESTION How do you live when you feel power and strength?   Parable #5: The Energy of Happiness Happiness is a feeling, a state; it’s a certain frequency of energy. When you’re with a person who radiates happiness, you begin feeling uplifted. And if you can keep generating that energy, you can permeate yourself and infect other people with that energy. When you’re happier, it’s easier to be compassionate. When you’re not happy, it’s going to be harder, but you can choose to be compassionate. In the end, it’s always a choice. QUESTION What is your experience being around happy vs angry people? How do you feel?     Parables from the Pit: “You never arrive at I AM. You find yourself in its presence, but there’s no arrival.” –Sam Falsafi  “Being a true man is being able to master yourself.” –Master Stephen Co

It’s father and son time in this week’s special edition of the Warrior Week podcast where Coach Sam and his nine-year-old son, Nickon, engage in a conversation about life and the life lessons they have been learning together. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Parable #1: The Hike When Nickon was six years old, he and his father went on a four-mile hike in the mountains, an outing that proved to be quite rigorous for Nickon. His six-year-old feet were tired, he was crying, and he didn’t want to go on. But he did go on and was SO happy he hadn’t given up. At the tender age of six, Nickon learned an important lesson that day that no matter what, you never quit – even if you’re tired, even if it seems too hard, even if you’re hurting – you just keep going. QUESTION Where in your world have you wanted to quit but persevered instead? What was the outcome of that decision?   Parable #2: Learning Through Experience In order to experience the lessons of life, one has to actually jump in and play the game. You can’t gain experience reading about something or sitting on the sidelines; you have to actually live that experience. Coach Sam: We understand these lessons if we experience them; if we don’t experience them for ourselves, we cannot learn the lessons.” QUESTION What is something you want to experience but have not taken the steps to make it happen?   Parable #3: Stay in the Game Nickon loves the video game, Fortnite; Coach Sam loves Call of Duty. Nickon is certain that if his dad were to play Fortnite more often, he would not only get better, he would learn to like it more than Call of Duty. Life lesson: In the beginning, if something sucks but you keep yourself in the game, you will become better, and chances are you will like it more. QUESTION What is your experience where staying the course has improved your skill set?   Parable #4: You Become Who You’re Around Coach Sam and Nickon had a conversation about spending time with kids who don’t want to do anything, who sit around complaining and making excuses. Life Lesson: If you hang around someone who doesn’t want to do anything, the chances that you will also end up doing absolutely nothing are very high. QUESTION Who are you currently spending time with where you are doing absolutely nothing? When are you going to change that?   Parable #5: Invictus At the graduation of each Warrior Week, Nickon dons a suit and tie and recites from memory the famous poem by William Ernest Henley, Invictus. “It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” QUESTION Where in your world are you not acting as the captain of your soul?     Parables from the Pit: “Sometimes I take the lessons I learn from you (Nickon) and actually teach them to the men at Warrior.” –Sam Falsafi  “What other people think about me is not important; what is important is what I think about myself. This is a lesson you taught me that I use at school a lot.” –Nickon Falsafi

Coach Sam welcomes Smiljan Mori to the podcast this week. When Smiljan knocked on the doors of Warrior Week, he was seeking tools and systems that would enable him to serve his family in the best possible way. What he found instead was the man he had always desired to be: himself. He has since moved forward with various challenges within Warrior and is on the path to becoming a Certified Trainer as of the date of this recording. ________________________________________________________ POINT 1: A Better Father As he held his newborn daughter in his arms, Smiljan promised himself he would be in her life more than his father had been in his. Smiljan’s memory of his father was that he was either away on business or arguing with his mother. Despite making that promise, it was seven years before Smiljan realized he never played with his children and wasn’t being the kind of father he wanted to be. Ask Yourself: What promises have you made to yourself that you're not following through with? ________________________________________________________ POINT 2: False Identity It was through his involvement with Warrior that Smiljan realized he had been running away from the responsibility of being a husband and a father, and with that realization came a massive emotional release. Coach Sam recalls how Smiljan's life was a reflection of his own: A man traveling in a different domain, an accent just like his, and traveling most of the year; a man with a sense of significance and a false identity, who preferred traveling to remote places all over the world over being with his family. Ask Yourself: Where in your world are you running away from your responsibilities? ________________________________________________________ POINT 3: Metrics At the end of every year, Smiljan tracks the metrics inside of his business. Since entering Warrior last year, the first thing he now tracks are the number of days he is away from his family, which number has been cut in half since Warrior, with a goal to cut that number in half next year. What has become more important than the revenue, the profits, or the Kings Cash, is not only tracking the number of days away from his family but the number of days he spends with his family. Ask Yourself: How many days you spend away from your family each year? ________________________________________________________ POINT 4: Making Tough Decisions As a successful insurance businessman, Smiljan was always willing to negotiate and make agreements with others to keep them with the company. The #1 gift he received at Warrior Week is that he is no longer afraid of making tough decisions. When he returned from Warrior Week with an increase of masculine energy, he was met with resistance. He was more straightforward, decisive, and demanding of himself and others. Amidst this newfound energy, he has learned he needs to have patience. Ask Yourself: Where in your world are you making changes within yourself that are causing resistance from others? ________________________________________________________ POINT 5: Lead With the Pain Smiljan is noticing a shift taking place in Europe at his speaking engagements and events. Where just a year ago 90% of the participants were women, the numbers are now more like 60/40, with more couples attending together. Smiljan has changed his energy and his message, which is attracting more men to his events. Previously, he didn’t like to share his pain because he believed that by sharing the pain, people would not follow him. However, he now leads with his pain right out of the gate. Ask Yourself: What pain are you afraid to share? ________________________________________________________ Parables From the Pit:   “I was the guy in the suit, and the suit was saying: I’d rather have the identity the suit is giving me than my family.”   --Sam Falsafi   “I don’t want to be perfect anymore.”   --Smiljan Mori ________________________________________________________  

Blake Bourque joins Coach Sam as they discuss the amazing set of circumstances that brought Blake to Warrior, which brought an energy of alpha yet honest men that have learned to not be saviors to others, but leaders instead. IN THIS WEEK'S EPISODE....   Parable #1: Pigs Don't Know They Stink The energy of Wake Up Warrior resonated with Blake and he was attracted to the fact that men were willing to be honest, no matter what. He had been living as a liar amongst liars for so long and was tired of stinking like a pig because pigs don't know they stink.  His encounter was unlike anything he had ever experienced in all his years in Corporate America and he wondered, "Could this be home? Have I found my people?" Blake: The Holy Spirit was bringing me to a place where my whole body was being crushed. Everything in my personal and business life was gone - everything. So when Warrior found me via someone sending me a link to a video, six minutes into it when I saw Garrett on stage saying "stop fucking lying," I was all in. QUESTION What was your first encounter with Warrior like? What resonated with you? What reeled you in? Parable #2: Look in Mirrors to Avoid the Tailspin of Sedation  Blake: After my wife and I lost our twin girls in 2009, in the midst of my grief I felt I had found my Purpose - I was going to go out and save lives. I began sedating myself from the pain with drugs and work, and in the process built a multi-million dollar business, yet with that, I lost my relationship with my wife. When you numb yourself against pain, the counter to that is you’re numbing yourself against joy. I looked at my wife every single day and didn’t know she was mirroring me. That’s what Warrior taught me - people mirror you. They mirror your energy, your grief, lies and pain. What happens is you see that mirror and you don’t like that mirror and then you get mad at them for that mirror. I would be pissed at her and would verbally take things out on her. It was a very dark period. QUESTION What are you seeing about yourself in Blake's experience? Parable #3: That's What I Did, Blake Blake: On the run up to Warrior Week while I was bonding with the men inside social media, I kept talking to my wife about it and she would say, "that’s what I did, Blake. I did yoga, I did meditation, I did journaling and writing. Do you want me to show you my journals? Do you remember when you told me this was stupid? A waste of time? That you didn’t want to do it?" "I’m going to let you do this. Not that I’m giving you permission to do something, because you can do whatever the hell you want. I’m gonna peel back my scars, I’m gonna rip open my wounds and I‘m gonna let yours stick to me so we can heal together. But if you fuck this up, if you don’t go all in and you leave me with open wounds again, it’s over." QUESTION Are you really seeing your wife? Your children? Are you really listening to them? Parable #4: Retrace, Face, Replace and Embrace In the darkness lies the truth. When we talk about the Pit, you have to go there and you have to look at an emotional  charge that took place at one point in  your life. What you were, what you are, what I was and what I am is a series of emotional charges that took place in us. Call them feelings, events - whatever the fuck took place at one time in our childhood or recently. These emotional charges are stored in the dark under the truth because they’re the facts. In order for us to process them, we must first do the work and retrace them, then we’re going to face them and most important of all, we are going to replace the story. This happened but the story that we fabricated that builds the truth around it needs to be rewritten and finally embraced. QUESTION When will you choose to process the emotional charges stored inside of you? Parable #5: Warrior Week is a Test of Your Heart Sam: Warrior is not a physical event. We are not here to present that we are military guys or that we know how to break you down. We are here to look for what you have inside of  your heart. Warrior Week is the test of your heart. Blake: Sedated men need to be woken up. If the Trainers don’t scream at you, you won’t wake up because there’s something inside your fucking heart that you’ve put to sleep - and Sam Falsafi is going to fucking wake it up. Warrior didn’t teach me how to be a badass with a boot on the back of someone’s neck, Warrior taught me how to give time, how to feel and how to tell the fucking truth. QUESTION What will it take for you to open your heart?   Parables from the Pit: "In this place, we will tell the truth as it happens. And the truth is very different from the facts. Between the facts and the truth there are a number of stories. Those stories are behavior justifications and assumptions fed by your ego, and in the midst of that lies the truth, which is the version that has always been there. We built this podcast so men can come here and share their pain, and through this sharing, the pain is divided one more time; but more importantly, it can pierce your heart and say:  I know you. I know you mother fucker. You have the same pain." --Coach Sam Falsafi "I need to find people who have been through similar circumstances. They don’t have to be exactly like me, but they need to be able to relate. I know there are people far worse than me and I want to be able to help them. It sounds strange, but it’s the truth. I want to meet people who have the same pain in their souls. Maybe they can help me or I can help them. I think that whole sharing process may be good for me right now." --Blake Bourque  (This was penned in his journal while on a silent retreat in 2009, four months after the loss of his twin daughters.)  

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 today's podcast, your host Sam Falsafi and Warrior Guest Jesse Ewell discuss the Warrior's Blueprint for Leadership - how it all begins with becoming a Leader within one's own home. Jesse has learned how to do this along with Sam through listening to the Voice within, which some may know it as the Spirit, intuition, or that gut feeling.    Parable #1: You Will Fuck Up Jesse’s path to Warrior began with some videos posted on Facebook by some of his fitness buddies. He found himself compelled to view the videos in secret, like someone watching porn. During the application process, Jesse waited over three hours to have a phone interview with Garrett, thinking that the waiting game was some sort of a Warrior test. A follow up phone call from Sam over two months later revealed they had fucked up. Jesse learned from his wife's counselor that she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, stemming from her fear of communicating her feelings to Jesse. Sam, having fucked up with his wife during a recent fight, had a dream where she was receiving advice from another man and recognized this as a sign that he is not hearing his wife. QUESTION: You have all of these checklists for being a good husband and father - but at the end of the day, are you really hearing your wife? Are you really hearing your kids? Are you hearing the Voice within and taking immediate action?   Parable #2: Beautiful Actions Must Follow Beautiful Words If, in your world, you are listening to beautiful words that aren't being backed up by actions, you are being fuckin’ lied to. You can fall in love with the beauty of the words, only to miss out on the beauty of the actions, one day finding yourself fucked up the ass where you continue blaming others - because you choose to tune in to this particular sound wave and ignore the pain. We don’t give ourselves permission to fail, so we wear this fucking mask. We come home, take off the mask and blow up on our loved ones. Why? Because we consider this a safe place to fail. Warrior Week was designed to interrupt these fucking patterns. QUESTION: What beautiful actions are you taking today that are following your beautiful words?   Parable #3: The Truth Is Revealed Inside The Pit About an hour into Warrior Week, it hit Jesse that his reason for being there had nothing to do with his business (which he had lied about in the first pace), and everything to do with his wife and family. Inside the Pit, he felt his wife’s pain, he felt his pain, and he also felt there was a way of working himself out of the Pit. Jesse returned home and started living the Warrior's Way at the highest level. Living the Warrior's Way in his household became non-negotiable and his family lived it through him, taking on the Warrior life and language. For seven months they experienced their own version of Warrior Week - massive growth, change, and pain. QUESTION: In what areas of your life are you lying to yourself and to others, that if you started telling the truth, you would begin seeing your life turn around?    Parable #4: Be Willing To Sit In The Pain Of The Pit As we begin to march inside our own Pit for the first time, we are actually giving ourselves permission to be in this unknown dark place. We don’t know how wide this place is, we don’t know the depth of it, and we stop at the first place in the Pit. It hurts so much that we are paralyzed, unable to go further and explore the Pit. Courage and certainty were injected into Jesse between WW 16 and WW 21 because he had done the work, which gave him a different experience inside of the Pit in WW 21. He realized there was a depth he hadn't reached during his first Warrior Week and was able to see two versions of himself inside the Pit. The second time it was more about finding his Purpose inside of the Pit. QUESTION: What are the gifts you have received by giving yourself permission to go inside your Pit?   Parable #5: Serve and Lead Your Family First Coach Sam: There is a Purpose in serving your family first. HAVE YOU DISCOVERED THAT? If you haven’t, you have no business going all across the world and serving somebody else. SERVICE BEGINS AT HOME. Jumping over the Pain to go deeper to find your Purpose is nothing but a False Lift - you lift yourself up only to feel better, look better and be seen as better. So many men go throughout life never asking their wife and kids if they're a good husband or daddy. They're fearful of the answers and don't want to face the pain of the answers they know they will hear. Chances are, your family is afraid to tell you how they really feel.  QUESTION: Ask your wife tonight: Am I a good husband? Ask your kids tonight: Am I a good daddy? What does it actually mean to your wife to be a good husband? What does it mean to your kids to be a good daddy?   Parable from the Pit: "Do you have the courage - do you have the fucking balls - to ask your wife and kids and truly hear their feedback? Ask every day, ask as much as you want. Ask and let them tell their truth. If it hurts, accept that and find the power on the other side of the pain by making some actionable changes." - Coach Sam Falsafi   "If your wife and kids say nothing, then there’s a fear inside of them to tell you the truth. Once you ask them this question, you have to shut the fuck up. You have to let them speak, and you just have to sit there and listen and take it. That is how you have to show up inside of this." -Coach Jesse Ewell     ________________________________   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 episode Warrior Guest Gus Van Dender joins Sam on the call talking about the importance of recognizing one's purpose in life. The best way to do that is through listening to the heart instead of the caution that the head is constantly saying to keep us safe. Growth within one's own purpose doesn't occur until we are willing to take the leap into following our heart instead.    Parable #1: When in the Deepest of Pits, Light Comes From Unexpected Sources Gus was deep in the pit - his business, marriage, spirit and health were completely broken. His estranged wife's 'chance' meeting with Garrett and a group of men writing in their journals on the beaches of Laguna created a curiosity on her part and, unbeknownst to Gus, would set the wheels in motion for his journey into the brotherhood of Warrior. While in the midst of his deepest pain and agony, a surge of hope arrives in a surprise text from his wife, with no other words written except a link to 'Wake Up Warrior.' This leads to a six hour marathon of videos where Gus feels his life is being displayed right before his very eyes in the form of Garrett J. White.   QUESTION: Think of when you have been in the deepest of pits and ask yourself: How did the Light arrive?   Parable #2: If the King Doesn't Rise, the Queen Will Gus had the false hope that he was ready for Warrior Week. His wife had taken over the role of leadership within the family because at the time, Gus was not in a place to lead his Kingdom. She wanted him to rise and be ready to receive the crown again, and also wisely knew there were steps he needed to take before making that investment into Warrior Week. In the conversation of Leadership: The King has the responsibility to lead the entire Kingdom. If you have delegated this important leadership role to your Queen, take a look at the patterns and routines in your life. The Queen didn't take the power from you, you handed it to her on a silver platter. If you are not operating as a King inside your Kingdom, and your Queen doesn't see the power in you as the King, she will rise and take over to protect the Kingdom.   QUESTION: When are you going to believe that you are the King?   Parable #3: Take Back the Kingdom Every fucking morning, Gus asks himself: Am I ready, willing, able and capable of doing what is required to sustain the Kingdom and remain as a King TODAY? He sustains his role by utilizing the tools within Warrior and doing the required work, which fuels him with energy and brings him to a place of power to take on that responsibility.  At the end of the day, it all comes down to this: You matter. Taking time for yourself to grow and expand every single day, matters. Remaining in the Kingdom sans growth and expansion with his Queen, a man is a peasant pretending to be a King. The number one mission of the King is to expand the kingdom for himself, his Queen, and his people.   QUESTION: If you believe yourself to be a King, are you able and capable of building your Kingdom for the next 60 years with your Queen?   Parable #4: It's a Matter of Heart In his experiences with Warrior Week, Gus learned how to accept and love himself, and how to give himself permission to just be him. The piece of the puzzle that was missing was connection with his wife, which was rekindled on the beaches of Laguna where she first encountered Garrett and the brotherhood - which experience was fueled by Sam's counsel: Open up your fucking heart and stop living in your head. Operate by the simplest rule in the world: say what's in your heart. We have years' worth of downloaded blueprints in our subconscious mind of how others believe we should be living our life. The casting of judgement from others, coupled with the pressures of culture, society, and parents creates limitations in our mind. The one place that remains untouched? The heart.   QUESTION: What are some of the limitations you have been groomed to believe about yourself?   Parable #5: The Purpose Has a Purpose In Warrior Week 40, the Pit came alive for Gus as he began reliving the all encompassing pain, shame and guilt of not being there for his wife and daughter. During the 'Hand of God Evolution' exercise, Gus felt an energy unlike anything he had ever before experienced, and found himself screaming out to that power,"Help Me!" His relationship with that power - The Voice - shifted that day and led him on the journey of finding his Purpose, which Purpose is driving him today. When you connect with your Purpose, everything you decide to do impacts others.  There is no one in the world that has your experiences and parables, nor has been on your exact path and journey that has led you to be where you are today. At the end of the day, Purpose is people, pain, problems, possibilities and the path. Be vulnerable, listen to The Voice, and then have the courage to act on the revelations it brings you.   QUESTION: Who in your life would benefit from having a conversation with you being vulnerable and speaking from your heart? When are you going to have that conversation?   Parable from the Pit: "When you understand and feel your purpose and it becomes clear, it opens the door for more passion, profit, and meaning in your life." Sam Falsafi   "Being the strong guy 24/7 was the image I was giving my wife, but when I opened up my heart and became vulnerable - which was really uncomfortable - everything shifted." Gus Van Dender         ________________________________   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 Episode....   Your host Sam Falsafi has Warrior Guests Troy Hoffman on the call to discuss the intensity and focus of Warrior Week, becoming exposed to what it was that he truly wants in life.   Parable #1: All the Single Ladies...Here's a Single Man Warrior Guest Troy Hoffman shares the impact of his Pit on today's call with Sam Falsafi, first being exposed to multiple experiences of Warrior Week about building a life with someone, being single at the time and seeking more within his personal relationships. The exposure that occurred was that this lack of personal relationships was showing across the board that Troy wasn't dedicated to anything in his life, bringing a tougher commitment of holding himself to a higher standard. QUESTION: What is the purpose behind considering change and transformation in your life, based off of where you're currently at and where you want to go? What are your current metrics within your Core 4 (Body, Being (Spirituality), Balance (Family), Business)?   Parable #2: Facing the Man in the Mirror When Troy first faced the realities within himself, the literal man in the mirror, he became exposed to getting a sense of clarity understanding where he's at in his life right now, still worried about the pain about being rejected. Until he was put into an environment that forced him to hold himself accountable, Troy realized how little clarity and truth he had in his own life, even though he could see it in others and not within himself until he was able to reconnect the child within and heal him. QUESTION: What is your biggest pain in your life today?   Parable #3: The Wounds of Unfulfilled Children There's a process of the impact of others around us to have the courage to see the power within us as we learn to heal the wounds of an unfulfilled child within. This requires a deep level of trust as an elite alpha to allow humbleness to come in to feel the pain of the Pit. Troy's father passed away in October 2016, and the impact that this had on Troy brought almost a form of relief because of the physical pain his father was in, learning to step up and be the dad that he would want his dad to know how much he impacted others, not really feeling like his dad had an outlet to put himself first. QUESTION: What do you think your father's biggest pain was/is? What is the one thing you would want him to heal from?   Parable #4: Facing OLD Pain Starting back up from the side, Sam shares his experience of being taken from a war torn country where his father had a successful business position to delivering pizza after escaping to Canada and safety for his children, showing a man that hustled for 28 years to take care of his family. Troy could relate to Sam's experience, and they see within their fathers the gift of growing up in poverty, producing a future of empathy to impact more lives to go further with a legacy that shows how to live and survive from that extreme level. QUESTION: What gift of poverty from childhood (whether actual or figurative) has made you become the man that you are today? What is the greatest memory that you have of your father?   Parable #5: Transforming #1 Regrets with Pain The greatest regret that a person has is not connecting with loved ones on a deeper levels, and with dads, it's even harder to connect with one's own father, especially by connecting to their pain. When we're willing to go through the pain within their lives, it transforms the systematic sedation within men that has been passed on. Not being able to talk about our pain and carrying it with us, it becomes a generational curse that will be passed on to our children, until we are able to transfer that pain to power by understanding and speaking our truth. QUESTION: What is ONE THING that you are aware is working in your life? How can that power transfer to other areas of your life?   Parable from the Pit: "Facing yourself in the mirror helps you get a clear idea of where you are in all areas of your life, extracting power in your body, your spirituality, with your family and your business. Being able to witness the sacrifice that your father had, even when knowing that they had or still have pain, there's a conversation that can be had to choose to fucking lead." --Sam Falsafi       http://warriorweek.com 

In This Week's Episode....   Your host Sam Falsafi has Warrior Guest Nick Long on the call to discuss how everything in his life as a married entrepreneur is affected by his ultimate purpose, which is what he refers to as his WHY, which is his family.   Parable #1: Not Finding Fruit in Rabbit Holes Today's Warrior Guest Nick Long shares how he was searching for more over two years ago, told that he needed to check out Wake Up Warrior, and after nearly 4 hours of rabbit holes and videos, he made the phone call with Sam, in which even the price of the ticket didn't dissuade him from doing what he knew he needed to do by attending Warrior Week. Everyone wants to invest in the business instead of within themselves first, and yet as a business owner, you're the tip of the spear and need to learn to be willing to take risks on yourselves.   QUESTION: Where have you had to give permission to yourself to spend money on your own personal development?   Parable #2: The Facts of the Truth The truth becomes our interpretations of the facts within our life, where Nick had a transformational process of attending two very different Warrior Weeks because he was two very different men each time, seeking radically different things each time; for Warrior Week 22, he was dealing with shame and unworthiness, which then led to truth and vulnerability wanting to bond with other men. Sam then shares an experience of having a phone call with another man that applied for an upcoming Warrior Week, in which through an exchange of conversations, the applicant wasn't sure what he wants after having his wife domineer within their relationship for the past 12 years due to destructive but comfortable patterns that kept showing up.   QUESTION: Where are you more comfortable remaining in pain instead of being willing to face the truth in your life?   Parable #3: Seeing Inside of the Aggressive Alpha Pit Even though Nick became more willing to be vulnerable to share insights from within his experience at Warrior Week 22, no longer hesitating to invest in himself, he had this recurring theme of unworthiness as a pattern in his life to then take him to Warrior Week 40 to open up further possibilities after going back to the Pit, never thinking he'd allow himself to break commitments and trust within himself again, and yet he did. He was so scared that he'd go back to old patterns and losing his family, he self-manifested fears as an aggressive alpha, going back to old patterns until he was willing to live by the Code and stop lying to himself, unblocking the truth that he had blocked for years.   QUESTION: Where do you see patterns of self-sabotage in your life?   Parable #4: Conversations About Purpose and Lost Keys Without purpose, nothing that we do will matter. Nick found this ripped open within his second experience at Warrior Week 40, that his purpose, his WHY, is leading his family. Sam likens this to an experience that he had looking for keys, he learned that he had to retrace his literal steps, pleading to God to help him, feeling His presence for the first time, finding the keys right under his foot, confirming to him that God is listening to him, which shifted everything that he believes to this day, feeling joy in that confirmation.   QUESTION: Where have you had to retrace steps in your life in order to find keys to unlock doors that have remained locked in your life?   Parable #5: Facing the Biggest Lie with the Glue of Truth As simple as it sounds, Nick found that the greatest gift he's been able to give himself to awaken the greatest power within himself is to tell the truth. When he chose to stop lying to himself that everything was OK, he found that it's not easy to strip away everything that he has, creating a massive shift in everything that he does now by seeing his family as his glue to keep him together. There are no blueprints for wounded children to become fulfilled fathers after they grow up until they are able to lead themselves. This occurs by listening to the Voice inside of yourself and confronting the biggest lie that you've been telling yourself, whatever it may be.   QUESTION: What is your biggest fear? What is holding you back from telling the truth within you?   Parable from the Pit: "We're willing to invest in our business, but the number one asset as entrepreneurs is to invest in ourselves. We're the tip of the spear. I wasn't able to see the impact of what this means until I was willing to confront the life I've built and stripped all of it away, I had to go deep into that Pit within myself and anchor myself to my WHY, which is not losing my wife and children." --Nick Long   http://warriorweek.com 

In This Week's Episode.... Your host Sam Falsafi has Warrior Guests on the call to discuss how important it is to stop fucking lying, and the first person to start with is ourselves.   Parable #1: Dark Periods of Fog and Stuck In the Same Motions After watching some Warrior marketing videos, Rusty Rahm wanted to learn more until he had a phone interview with Sam shortly after he contacted him, feeling darkness on the inside even though everything on the outside looked ideal, not knowing how to get out of the fog that he had within. This effected his son Christian into escaping from reality and choosing to be disconnected with sedations in order to escape the Pain, in which neither one of them knew where to find a solution.   QUESTION: Where do you have pain in your life that you don't have a solution for?   Parable #2: The Process of The Shift The Pain behind the Stories becomes part of the process of The Shift that is required within us all, and for Rusty, being the owner of so many businesses he wasn't really used to being called out and yelled at by another man, breaking the ice that he wasn't alone, beginning the process towards healing after declaring facts that have impacted his life for years. Rusty was initially supposed to join Warrior Week 35, but he knew he had to stay with his son when they began to open up with their emotions, sharing a message from Coach Sam to Christian, seeing it as an amazing gift that came about through discovering tools (see video below Parable #4).   QUESTION: Who do you have in your life that can hold you accountable? Parable #3: A Long-Lasting Leader Listens to The Voice Even after the breakthrough that Rusty and Christian had while in the hospital, there was doubt within Rusty that the progress wasn't going to last, but he learned through the tools he gained before he even attended his own Warrior Week helped master ignoring the voices inside of his head that told him he couldn't change. Instead, he heard, "Here's your shot. Keep going." And he did. Rusty found a way to stop numbing the pain that he had for decades, creating a new frame to have his children follow him in leadership, even after having his own recovery with disk surgery in his neck for Warrior Week 36.   QUESTION: Who is affected by your leadership? Is is leadership that is serving them to become leaders as well? Why or Why Not?   Parable #4: The Pain Of Operating Alone Getting Replaced with a Daily Life Script All of the men that come into Warrior Week come into the program to deal with the feeling of mentally being alone, which comes about through listening to The Voice, which comes from within everyone's heart for a Higher Source, guiding us towards Gifts. The death of Rusty happened with his neck surgery, and the Warrior of Rusty became born, which spread itself over to Christian through Warrior X to keep getting better.   What can I do for myself today? What can I do for my wife today? What can I do for my children today? What can I do for my business today?   Parable #5: Two Ways to Lead as a Father There are two ways that you can lead your children through example as a father: 1-Lead through Sedation, whether it's hidden or not, picked up energetically by your children, OR 2- Lead through Power, creating frames for your children for empowerment based off of what you've discovered within yourself. Within Warrior, we call that 2nd Leadership living the Warrior's Way. The Patterns that Christian saw within Rusty that led him to Warrior X 10.0 is still felt today: "Be the first in the game" and "Go all in." It was the hardest reality to face for Christian, but it changed his outlook in life that he didn't need to hide from himself anymore.   QUESTION: What kind of power are you projecting towards others?   Parable from the Pit:   "There's this huge fog of avoidance that's taking place in society, and it begins in the home. This acceptance of avoidance through looking down at our phones instead of interacting with each other resides in our house with our closest relationships." --Sam Falsafi   "I got the tools that I've been searching so long for right inside of me. It took going to some really dark places through Warrior Week, but when I learned to trust the Voice inside of me, it takes me to whole other level. I was on the verge of divorce in 2016, yet in 2017 going through the Warrior program, it was the best year of marriage that I've ever had. I trusted the process and realized that I was only operating at 30% across the board. Now, everyday I no longer hear a voice tearing me down but a Voice that asks, 'What are we going to do today?'"   --Rusty Rahm   http://warriorweek.com 

In This Week's Episode....   Your host Sam Falsafi has a Warrior Guest on the call to discuss how important it is to stop fucking lying, and the first person to start with is ourselves.   Parable #1: Getting Punched in the Face with Applications for Worthiness Warrior Guest Dan Bednarski joins Sam Falsafi about not feeling worthy enough to become part of Warrior because nothing that he was doing was working in his life, wondering if he was even capable of doing in the application interview. The first question that is asked within the Warrior Week application interview is about being punched in the face, to find out that it's not talking about being punched physically but in other areas of life being punched, having the pain arise.   QUESTION: Have you ever been punched in the face by another man?   Parable #2: Confronting A Flood of Emotional Pain Dan could feel within his bones that the life that he knew and had grown accustomed to was going to fall apart, and there was nothing left from that world leading into Warrior Week, which made him feel unworthy for everything else. When it comes to Pain, no one really wants to hear your story, and part of that is because you need to face that Pain yourself. This is where we are dying without killing ourselves, having to live through this death of an old version of yourself and become reborn from it, paralyzing us until we change our perspective. No one can do that for us, nor do others want to be in the Pit with us either.   QUESTION: Where in your life are you lying?   Parable #3: Stop Pretending that You're Significant We may not have courage to visit the Pit until we realize that we need to stop pretending that we have any significance in being alone, realizing that others have Pits that they have buried within them as well. Loneliness is contagious because it's constantly being projected on your kids and wife, in which they feel the certainty or the hiding within you, regardless of how much you're trying to put on a mask.   QUESTION: What is the pain that you have continued to hide from?   Parable #4: Leadership Starts by Telling the Fucking Truth Your stories and assumption to protect your family from the truth is not only hurting you, but your family. Systematically, you must choose to rise from this place of lies that hasn't been serving anyone. Sam shared the last lie that he made back in 2014 to talk about the toxic energy that lies send out to the universe. The truth is a simple place to be, but it becomes one of the most difficult decisions to make when you start putting assumptions around it that it's OK to remain in the lie in order to protect others from who you are.   QUESTION: Where do you need to be ruthless and relentless in pushing yourself towards the truth?   Parable #5: The Pit of Being Alone Dan's Pit is being alone and going back to his experience at Warrior Week two years ago has become visceral, because they will never go away, having an opportunity to accept a different reality once he learned how to get out of the Pit. Feeling the Purpose for the Pit, there's a possibility that is seen for a greater version of yourself, having no idea how to get there, there's a feeling of pushing through it by being willing to DO THE WORK. You have to go through hell in order to get back; there's no other option.   QUESTION: What possibility is out there for you? What is the purpose behind the Pain you are going through?   Parable from the Pit: "Masculinity is about feeling the fucking pain that you've gone through. The most hurtful and paralyzing feeling that a man can feel is that feeling of being alone. Many have created assumptions and justifications for feeling alone, creating stories that are living in a fantasyland that no one else wants to go into with you. When a man decides to step into the Pit for the first time, it doesn't matter how great the pain is...we all have this common pain inside of the Pit that we feel alone because we're operating alone. Inside of Warrior we have this conversation amongst men that teaches us to experience the pain with others." --Sam Falsafi -------------------------------- "The pain doesn't ever go away, but it teaches me to become the man that I am. By going through this fact of life that we want to maintain what we have, I was forced within myself to step up and let myself have the opportunity to become authentic to myself. I am now willing to stand up for myself. The feeling of being alone will become your own reality and will continue to get louder until you are willing to tell the truth to yourself." --Dan Bednarksi     http://warriorweek.com 

In Today's Episode.... Welcome to the Warrior Week Podcast with Coach Sam Falsafi, CEO of Wk teaching "Parables from the Pit" with co-host Garrett J White, founder of Wake Up Warrior.   Point #1: CrossFit and The Guy in the Green Hat The Purpose of this podcast is to share the message of how men have discovered living the Warrior's Way within their own lives 2014 New Year's Resolution for Sam Falsafi to join CrossFit, learning more and more about it, demonstrating and showcasing interest in CrossFit and runs into a guy with a guy with a green hat.   Point #2: 5 Minute Video that Changes Men's Lives to an Interview on a Blue Couch Sam saw a 5 minute video posted from Garrett's phone to join Warrior Week, a program for eight married businessmen for the very first time. After seeing the invitation and communicating with Garrett, Sam had a rare face to face interview with Garrett to be accepted into Warrior Week, after sorting through hundreds of applications.   Point #3: The Good Principle Looking back now, Sam knows why he went, but at the time it was a magnetic pull to become a better man after living a good life, pulled towards greatness and awakened towards other possibilities. 50% of the men that arrive for Warrior Week now have found a way to numb out the pain, while the other 50% know that their lives are fucked.   Point #4: Warrior Week is a Living Organism Wake Up Warrior has its own pull; it's not Garrett but the program, which Sam experienced a massive reframe that everything, even the weaknesses that he sees within himself is part of him. That shift of certainty from within himself spoke to Sam's heart, finding something that makes him move.   Point #5: Reframe the Way You See Opportunities You will have new opportunities inside of the game of reframe and there is no one that has mastered this more than Coach Sam Falsafi because of his ruthless commitment to listen to The Voice. It came down to seeing the possibilities that Sam could access from speaking French, Persian and English and the power that thinking in all three of these cultures to look at life from three different perspectives.   Point #6: Lethal Interviewing The breakthroughs and distinctions that Sam found inside of himself came during the interview process, prior to the pit within Warrior Week. Warrior Week creates the structure after being pulled towards Wake Up Warrior. What's the cost of not doing it now? Once a man has clarity within himself after seeking for it during the interview, he has power. We are an interview organization to have a safe environment to share where you're at.   Point #7: Storytime with Coach Sam Parables from the Pit was the initial name that we were looking at within this Warrior Week Podcast about men and their journey into the Pit of their life and back through weekly stories and teaching towards True Liberation. When you want to live the Warrior's Way, it's about letting go of the way you were living prior to being part of Warrior. For Sam, he had to let go of the world that he knew, the identity that he had within himself based off of what was pulling him creates the biology on the thoughts around your heart, giving you courage to make decisions.   In order for a man to find the courage to purely let go, he has to remove layers and layers of stories within him that a man doesn't like to visit, which is what we refer to as The Pit inside of Warrior. To have the power to confront the stories within the Pit.   The Pit is a place within a man with profound incarceration into an unworkable life. Warrior Week was built as an experience and a rite of passage for a man to step from the place that he was today to step up to the plate as a modern man that lives by the Warrior's Way by choosing to step out of the shadows and towards a place of liberation.     Point #8: Taboo Conversations about Pain We're going to talk about the truth behind the perfect posts and the couple that has it all figured out and the smiles that everyone sees. That comes down to talking about the pain within a man, and there's a reason why the crucible of Warrior through Warrior Week works. We demand the same results or better for the men coming into the Game of Warrior by shattering today's perspective to see new light.   Point #9: Invited to Visit the Dark to Look in the Mirror There's a place that these men are able to see themselves clearly exactly where they are, beginning to receive the clarity that they need to identify what it is that he wants as a man. That clarity and certainty is obtained at Warrior Week, with a Gift that comes on the 2nd Day on the Mountain within the experience of Warrior Week, but no one will know what it is until he goes through it. Once a man morphs into this Gift, he doesn't have to follow anyone's checklist on what it means to be a man but for him to be himself, for some the first time in their lives, all within a sacred place where a man is no longer lying about who he is.   Point #10: Permission to Be All of Who You Are The truth is, be all of you, even if you're scared to death of who you are. Put all of the stories to show up as all of you that it's ok to be you. The greatest fear for a man is to die knowing he never took a stand. Inside of that death, to meet the man that he could have become. Looking back at the men we were before, these men that were guided  from who they were, Garrett and Sam included, to consider the life that would have been had they not leveled up in living the Warrior's Way. The man that you could become through Warrior Week will allow you to stop hiding from the greatness that you know is inside of you.       THE ONE THING FROM EPISODE #1:  What can a man expect as a listener from Coach Sam Falsafi?   Sam: The truth, whether it's ugly or beautiful. We're exposing stories and amongst all of the men and Warrior Week stories that we gathered, there is one common pain that all of these men experience, which is the pain of being alone. We will look towards the future by knocking on the door of the Pit, which has a guided path through Warrior Week. Most men don't want to knock on the door, so Warrior Week Podcast will bring tools to have you knock on the Pit, deleting the stories that are robbing the power from you.   No one is going to do the work for you. Every single action that is done as a man is for our loved ones and family; it's the whole purpose behind this podcast and what Wake Up Warrior is all about.   Garrett: The only reason I was even searching within myself was because I was searching for power inside of home. Warrior Week was built as an assurance to ensure the shift. A man needs an experience to discover himself, talking to you from the Pit every single week         Today's Parable from the Pit:   "In order for a man to find the courage to purely let go, he has to remove layers and layers of stories within him that a man doesn't like to visit, which is what we refer to as The Pit inside of Warrior. To have the power to confront the stories within the Pit."   --Coach Sam Falsafi   "The Pit is a place within a man with profound incarceration into an unworkable life. Warrior Week was built as an experience and a rite of passage for a man to step from the place that he was today to step up to the plate as a modern man that lives by the Warrior's Way by choosing to step out of the shadows and towards a place of liberation."   --Garrett J White   http://warriorweek.com