Podcasts about Stride

ITB's Eagles beat reporter Andrew DiCecco gives his insights and observations from covering the Eagles on a daily basis. #eagles #flyeaglesfly #philadelphiaeagles #jalyxhuntIn this episode, he answers questions for his first "Dicecco Daily" mailbag.

Former NHL coach Bruce Boudreau (12:25), who works as a studio analyst for NHL Network, joined Dan and Shawn to dive into the playoffs and touch on all four second-round matchups and provides opinions on the Capitals poor first game, the defensive strategy against Oilers and Stolarz/Bennett incident.  The guys go deeper into the Maple Leafs and Panthers second-round series and what they're seeing from the Oilers so far during the playoffs. They also discuss the New York Islanders winning the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NHL Draft Lottery and what changes the Los Angeles Kings need to make as they begin a search for a new general manager to replace Rob Blake.

Itaconix PLC (AIM:ITX, OTCQB:ITXXF) chief financial officer Laura Denner talked with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about how the company is navigating the shifting landscape of global tariffs and what that means for its detergent polymers business in 2025. Following a company update on the recent US tariffs, Denner explained that multiple tariff rounds—starting with a 10% import tariff on Chinese goods in February and followed by additional measures in March and April—are impacting raw material inputs. "One of our minor raw materials has a pretty significant impact from these tariffs," she noted, while other materials remain exempt. While there have been no direct negative effects so far, Denner said the company anticipates a 5% to 15% rise in production costs by year-end due to tariff-related pressures. However, she highlighted that itaconic acid, their key input, is still priced lower than during the pandemic period, helping maintain manageable cost structures. On the upside, the strengthening euro and a shift of detergent production to the U.S. are providing support to margins. The company is responding by reviewing pricing, pursuing domestic supply chains, and negotiating better logistics terms. Denner concluded: "We are off to a very strong start for 2025" and remain confident in the year's outlook. For more in-depth interviews, visit Proactive's YouTube channel. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and turn on notifications for future updates. #Itaconix #Tariffs2025 #DetergentPolymers #GlobalTrade #RawMaterials #SupplyChain #ChemicalIndustry #CFOInsights #ProactiveInvestors #ManufacturingCosts

Episode 63 - Break My Stride:   It's the pod after London Marathon and Brett and Andy chat Andy's green fingers, Brett's sore legs and his injury update, Andy's training and his secret race at Coventry Half, going into races with a positive mindset, listener comments and emails, Manchester Marathon results shout outs, London Marathon results shout outs, Brett's London Marathon recap, taking advantage of the free goodies and we finish with 'The Strava Segment'.   Question of the pod:   Have you entered the London Marathon ballot?   Do you have a question for the pod? If so, comment on the YouTube video, send us a message on Instagram or email it to runningtheredlinepod@gmail.com   As runners, we all challenge ourselves in ways we never thought possible. Pushing the boundaries of what we're capable of to smash through targets and set ourselves new bigger and better ones.   This awesome hobby we share gives us one thing in common and it brings us together as a community. Whether you're working towards completing your first Parkrun, or you're a veteran of the sport who's run 100 ultra marathons, we all know the feeling of reaching that maxed out effort and our own Red Line.   Welcome to our podcast where your hosts Brett Elesmore and Andy Maguire discuss the struggles, the successes and everything in-between on our running journeys as we all work towards the next time we're Running The Red Line...   Andy's Channel: @itsonandy Brett's Channel: @ob1brand

What happens when the fastest woman in the world steps into The Coop? You get a no-holds-barred conversation that's equal parts jaw-dropper, life coach, and soul shake.Featuring Olympic gold medalist, WNBA pro, and fellow Tar Heel, Marion Jones—a true legend who has lived the highest highs and lowest lows on a very public stage. A woman who soared, stumbled, and showed up with more heart than ever. From field day phenom to global icon, prison time to present-day purpose, Marion's story is one of grit, grace, and finding your second wind.This isn't just an interview in The Coop—it's a masterclass in starting over, laughing through the mess, and owning every single chapter of your story.In this episode:• The 9-year-old chalkboard prophecy that sparked a gold medal dream• The time her dad showed up at a game—and she never saw him again• What it feels like to be in the starting blocks at the Olympics• What really happened with the federal investigation and prison sentence• 49 days in solitary confinement: how it broke her down and built her back up• Motherhood, mental health, and rewriting your story at 50Plus: prison fights, creatine gummies, and the wild “Prudes vs. Nudes” UNC track meet-up you didn't know you needed to hear about.This episode is fast, funny, and full of feeling—and proves that failure doesn't define you.

AP correspondent Haya Panjwani reports on a woodpecker invading a Massachusetts town.

Rockets Tonight! Astros Catch A Stride, Rockets Legend Vernon Maxwell Joins The Show

Rockets Tonight! Astros Catch A Stride, Rockets Legend Vernon Maxwell Joins The Show

This week, we're joined by Kirk Miller, founder of Built to Last, who unpacks the mindset and strategy behind charging £5,000+ for high-impact coaching. Kirk has coached hundreds of clients through real, lasting transformation—and now he's lifting the lid on the money mindset, personal development, and pricing structure that fuels his premium offer. If you're stuck undercharging or unsure how to sell your value—this is the wake-up call you need. This episode is proudly sponsored by our partners at Stride. If you would like to find out more, check out their website here: https://www.getstride.com/ and their Instagram here: instagram.com/get_stride Key highlights of this episode include: ✅ Why your belief in your worth sets your price ceiling ✅ The journey from £25/hour to £15k coaching offers ✅ How most coaches undersell the true value of transformation ✅ The “cost of doing nothing” that your clients already pay ✅ Why world-class coaching demands world-class investment If you enjoyed this video and want to find out more information, click this link to view our website: https://bit.ly/3U2ofN8 WE HELP GYM OWNERS, PERSONAL TRAINERS AND COACHES GET MORE LEADS, SIGN NEW MEMBERS AND GROW THEIR BUSINESSES! Visit our website to learn how we can help you grow your gym business: https://bit.ly/3U2ofN8 Be sure to subscribe to learn how to successfully scale and grow your fitness business. Where to follow FMA? Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/fitnessmarketingagency/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fitnessmarketingagency/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fitnessmarketingagency/ Website: https://bit.ly/3U2ofN8   #fitness #marketing #gym #fitnessmarketingagency #gymowner #personaltrainer #fitnessbusiness  

Details on the Stride for 2nd Chances Run/Walk with Arlen & Sarah FisherSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We put on our space cowboy outfits for this great episode! The main topic centered on the almost-ubiquitous use of higher carb intakes in recent races, from the Canyons 100k to the Boston Marathon to the cycling classics. What once seemed optional is now mandatory. Where do the next breakthroughs come from? We outline some ideas to try to catch the waves before they become obvious.There was also some fascinating science on warm-weather and metabolic processes, showing reduced carb oxidation rates in heat. That could have big implications for how fueling and GI training changes with harder efforts.And this one was full of the best topics! Other topics: Megan's heat suit debut, our current thinking on heat suit guidelines, David's 50k race, what he is learning approaching Western States, fluid intake, a study on intense PM exercise and sleep, the wild Canyons 100k, Kilian's fascinating training approach for Western States, a follow-up on the shoes dominating the road scene, the Breaking 4 Project, and putting power in your stride, plus a Q+A on steep vert, Jess McClain's Boston Marathon training, and fueling from gas stations!You are all heat champions to us. May you be blessed with the stickiest treadmills.We love you all! Huzzah!-Megan and DavidClick "Claim Reward" for free credit at The Feed here: thefeed.com/swap Buy Janji's amazing gear: https://janji.com/ (code "SWAP")For weekly bonus podcasts, articles, and videos: patreon.com/swap

Dukes and Bell come back with some more brief Braves talk and agree the team has yet to hit their stride and believe what they heard from Brett Boone in which he told them he believes the team has yet to get into their groove and will likely be battling the Mets for the division. Then with more talk on James Pearce, they discuss whether or not the Falcons had tunnel vision when it came to drafting James Pearce Jr. They then get into 4th and 1 and react to Dianna Russini reporting some NFL executives saying Shedeur Sanders treated team meetings like a recruiting trip.

#100: Stride Soles: Dr. Zac Cartun, MDHad a great time chatting with Dr. Zac about the Stride Sole product. Stride soles is an orthotic insert that is fully custom made, using the 3D recognition technology that your smart phone already has built into it. One of my favorite benefits of stride includes the materials used and the design of the orthotics.  They aim to be an "active" orthotic- which helps the foot muscles strengthen over time... with the goal of eventually "growing-out" of it, and no longer needing the orthotic.  Very similar to the same principles that make barefoot shoes a great option for many people. This concept really fascinates me and I personally have tried and loved their product. Guest: Check them out at https://stridesoles.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stride__soles/ Host:Give Matt a follow: @mattsweeney.dptGive Strength and Sport Physical Therapy a Follow: @strengthandsport Now Streaming full video version on Spotify & Youtube. Audio only version on Apple Podcasts.Only on the Rhody Strength podcast. @rhodystrengthpodcast

We hope you enjoy this podcast brought to you by Nick Conner and Danny Motta! We hope to cover all your favorite anime as well as any current noteworthy news! New episodes will be releasing each week, hope to see you at the next one!Danny Motta's Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@DannyMottaNick aka Nchammer23's Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@NCHammer23Otakus Anonymous Highlights Page:https://www.youtube.com/@otakusanonymoushighlights1698Become a Patreon and get access to the Discord and livestreams!https://patreon.com/user?u=103227750Buy OtakusAnonymous, NCHammer23, or Danny Motta merch: https://otakusanonymous.net/Edited with love by: Stanktheanimedude0:00 - The Boy's Think They're Kratos4:08 - Danny Went To Wrestlemania!18:10 - We Saw The Minecraft Movie!26:21 - Thanks For Watching!27:57 - Mha Needs To Chill33:10 - Fire Force Is Scaring Us40:16 - Lazarus Is Still Here!46:29 - To Be Hero ASS1:09:40 - They Are Gonna Watch Yaiba.... Eventually1:10:34 - DMC Has Been A Fun Ride!1:30:03 - Wind Breaker Is Hitting It's Stride!1:39:50 - Danny Missed An Important Last Of Us Ep1:54:57 - Our Easter Game!

Alissa Coram and Ken Shreve analyze Wednesday's market action and discuss key stocks to watch on Stock Market Today.

This week, we're joined by Matt and Hebe, the duo behind a thriving online coaching business and successful gym. Together, they reveal the honest truth about launching a gym with zero local leads, building a personal brand under constant pressure, and managing burnout as business partners. Matt and Hebe have helped hundreds of Gen Pop clients transform their lives—and in this episode, they're just as real about the transformation it took for them to succeed. This episode is proudly sponsored by our partners at Stride. If you would like to find out more, check out their website here: https://www.getstride.com/ and their Instagram here: instagram.com/get_stride Key highlights of this episode include:  ✅ Why starting a gym after online success nearly broke them. ✅ The link between body image, engagement, and business growth. ✅ How emotional regulation impacts entrepreneurial performance. ✅ Why your clients leave when they "run out of future." ✅ Systems that create real transformation—not just results.  If you enjoyed this video and want to find out more information, click this link to view our website: https://bit.ly/3U2ofN8   WE HELP GYM OWNERS, PERSONAL TRAINERS AND COACHES GET MORE LEADS, SIGN NEW MEMBERS AND GROW THEIR BUSINESSES!   Visit our website to learn how we can help you grow your gym business: https://bit.ly/3U2ofN8   Be sure to subscribe to learn how to successfully scale and grow your fitness business.   Where to follow FMA?   Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/fitnessmarketingagency/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fitnessmarketingagency/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fitnessmarketingagency/ Website: https://bit.ly/3U2ofN8   Follow Matt and Hebe on Instagram below Matt: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/mattyloaderpt⁠ Hebe: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/hebehiompt ⁠ #fitness #marketing #gym #fitnessmarketingagency #gymowner #personaltrainer #fitnessbusiness  

In this episode, Leticia and Jordan interview Whitney White about her journey in theatre, her artistic craft, and the potentials and possibilities of Black theatre.

A new show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music explores what it means to be a powerful woman through the lens of Shakespeare's "Macbeth." Writer and performer Whitney White discusses her show "Macbeth in Stride," running now at BAM through April 27. Plus, White discusses directing the Broadway musical "The Last Five Years."

Welcome to the latest episode of Exploring Humanity Through Sci-Fi, where we dive into a special cause close to the heart of these Star Trek actors raising awareness and funds in the fight against pancreatic cancer. This episode brings together an extraordinary panel: Team Trek captain Kitty Swink, her husband Armin Shimerman, Jonathan Frakes, John Billingsly, and Juan Carlos Coto, joined by host Tony Tellado. They share a candid and heartfelt conversation about their personal experiences with pancreatic cancer, the progress being made in research and patient care, and the power of coming together—whether it's at the annual Purple Stride walk or by supporting Pancan.org online. You'll hear stories of loss, hope, community, and the drive to make a difference, not only for those battling pancreatic cancer but also for families and caregivers. The team discusses advancements like robotic Whipple surgery, the importance of early detection, and how organizations like PanCAN are changing the landscape through research and support. It's an episode filled with warmth, humor, advocacy, and an unbreakable sense of camaraderie. So whether you're a Trek fan, someone touched by cancer, or simply inspired by people uniting for a good cause, this conversation is one you won't want to miss. purplestride.org/teamtrek

This week, Ben and Charlie break down the psychology behind buyer behavior—and why so many gym owners and online coaches fail to convert interested leads. They dive into the invisible “chains of belief” keeping people stuck, and the one framework you must use to break through resistance and grow your business. Whether you're running ads, writing emails, or just trying to stand out, this episode gives you the blueprint to do it better. This episode is proudly sponsored by our partners at Stride. If you would like to find out more, check out their website here: https://www.getstride.com/ and their Instagram here: instagram.com/get_stride Key highlights of this episode include:  ✅ Why your business model might be sabotaging growth. ✅ The 22 emotional reasons people actually buy. ✅ How “chains of belief” are killing your sales. ✅ Why Hook, Story, Offer is the only framework you need. ✅ When it's really time to scale your marketing. If you enjoyed this video and want to find out more information, click this link to view our website: https://bit.ly/3U2ofN8 WE HELP GYM OWNERS, PERSONAL TRAINERS AND COACHES GET MORE LEADS, SIGN NEW MEMBERS AND GROW THEIR BUSINESSES! Visit our website to learn how we can help you grow your gym business: https://bit.ly/3U2ofN8 Be sure to subscribe to learn how to successfully scale and grow your fitness business. Where to follow FMA? Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/fitnessmarketingagency/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fitnessmarketingagency/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fitnessmarketingagency/ Website: https://bit.ly/3U2ofN8   #fitness #marketing #gym #fitnessmarketingagency #gymowner #personaltrainer #fitnessbusiness  

Paul Skenes caught too much of the plate in his worst start, but did a better job of utilizing the zone with his changeup and splinker. Ke'Bryan Hayes' defense has been elite and his expected batting average is .305, despite only hitting .232. Henry Davis is going to play more with Endy Rodriguez hurt and has a chance to gain more confidence.

Hour 4 with Joe Starkey: Ke'Bryan Hayes' defense has been elite and his expected batting average is .305, despite only hitting .232. Some hitters are in-between. Sidney Crosby has once again been named the NHL's most complete player with 33.8% of the votes. Joe thinks Kyle Dubas has failed to surround Crosby with talent in his final seasons to try and win another cup.

Tristan Gammons, AFS sales agronomist, and Aaron Kaiser discuss Stride Bio.  

Thank you to today's sponsor: PrizePicks! – Go to PrizePicks.com/Gyrostep and use code GYROSTEP for a $50 bonus when you play $5!The Milwaukee Bucks are red hot entering the 2025 NBA Playoffs, clinching the fifth seed and winning their last 8 games including a very fun pointless one on Sunday afternoon.Ti Windisch and Rohan Katti discuss their biggest takeaways from this run, including point Giannis Antetokounmpo putting up Nikola Jokic numbers as a heliocentric first option, a balanced supporting cast who have been able to make the shots he opens up for them consistently, the high level of point guard play Milwaukee continues to get from Kevin Porter Jr and Ryan Rollins, and whether Doc Rivers will utilize the forbidden closing lineup of KPJ/Gary Trent Jr/AJ Green/Giannis/Bobby Portis that has dominated fourth quarters recently even more often in the playoffs. GSPN's Bucks podcasts are presented by PrizePicks – Go to PrizePicks.com/Gyrostep and use code GYROSTEP for a $50 bonus when you play $5 for the first time! Pick more. Pick less. It's that easy.Visit GSPN.info to find GSPN's homebase, including the new GSPN Premium! For $8 per month, GSPN Premium subscribers get a bonus podcast episode from the GSPN Crew each week, access to a premium podcast feed with commercial-free versions of Gyro Step, Win in 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra, bonus premium content including videos and written articles, and more. GSPN Premium Founding Members get all other GSPN Premium benefits as well as a shoutout here! Thanks to Michael McQuide, South Loonier, Justin Saeian, and Ben Kolp for being Founding Members.GSPN is proud to call Blue Wire's network of podcasts home. You can (and should) follow Rohan, Ti, Adam, Jordan, Andrew, Numac, and the Gyro Step , Win In 6, Crewsing for a Brewsing, and Talk of the Tundra on Twitter. Don't forget to leave a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!

The TAP-IT, STRIDE, FreshUP, and SINGLE SHOT CHAMPION trials are discussed by John Mandrola, MD, in this week's podcast. This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only. To read a partial transcript or to comment, visit: https://www.medscape.com/twic I TAP IT  TAP IT trial https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.124.073521 II STRIDE LANCET Ref 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)00509-4 SUMMIT HF https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2410027 III FRESH UP No Need to Restrict Fluids in Stable Heart Failure https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/no-need-restrict-fluids-stable-heart-failure-2025a10008bu Nature (Trial) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03628-4 SODIUM HF https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35381194/ IV PFA for AF ablation SINGLE SHOT CHAMPION https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2502280 ADVENT https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2307291 Foy et al https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11852674/ MANIFEST REDO Study https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euaf012 You may also like: The Bob Harrington Show with the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, Robert A. Harrington, MD. https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington Questions or feedback, please contact news@medscape.net

This week, Jesse Stanislaw of Stride Baits gets a time-traveling Corey Feldman on a sick sheepshead bite, we shamefully cover our faces with a striper dripping with Italian dressing, catch a record weakfish after losing 200 jigheads, and take panoramic photos of a bowfin that ignored every lure we threw at it. 

4.11.25, Lynnell Willingham who is filling in for Kevin Sheehan today talks about the Capitals hitting their stride going into the playoffs after clinching the first seed in the east.

John Billingsley, Kitty Swink, Armin Shimerman, Jonathan Frakes, and Juan Carlos Coto join Anthony and Laurie to talk about the upcoming PurpleStride march to raise money and awareness for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. They talk about why it’s so important, plus key changes in research and funding over the past year. Then the gang segues into Star Trek, speculating on the state of the franchise, what caused the end of Berman-era Trek, streaming TV and the era of shorter seasons, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, and Jonathan Frakes’ farting chair.

John Billingsley, Kitty Swink, Armin Shimerman, Jonathan Frakes, and Juan Carlos Coto join Anthony and Laurie to talk about the upcoming PurpleStride march to raise money and awareness for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. They talk about why it’s so important, plus key changes in research and funding over the past year. Then the gang segues into Star Trek, speculating on the state of the franchise, what caused the end of Berman-era Trek, streaming TV and the era of shorter seasons, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, and Jonathan Frakes’ farting chair.

Grant McAuley stops by to recap a big win for the Braves and how they build momentum off it

This week, we're joined by Endy, founder of a premium fitness and physio business in the Netherlands, who managed to scale a business surrounded by 150 competitors—while working less. After hitting burnout, Endy made big changes to how he operated, hired smarter, and systemized his business. The result? A team that runs the gym without him, clients that stay for nearly a decade, and freedom to travel while growing revenue. This episode is proudly sponsored by our partners at Stride. If you would like to find out more, check out their website here: https://www.getstride.com/ and their Instagram here: instagram.com/get_stride Key highlights of this episode include:  ✅ How he systemized his gym to run without him.  ✅ Why 150+ competitors didn't stop his growth.  ✅ The hiring moves that gave him peace of mind.  ✅ The onboarding strategy that builds long-term clients.  ✅ From burnout to balance: How Endy reclaimed his life. If you enjoyed this video and want to find out more information, click this link to view our website: https://bit.ly/3U2ofN8 WE HELP GYM OWNERS, PERSONAL TRAINERS AND COACHES GET MORE LEADS, SIGN NEW MEMBERS AND GROW THEIR BUSINESSES! Visit our website to learn how we can help you grow your gym business: https://bit.ly/3U2ofN8 Be sure to subscribe to learn how to successfully scale and grow your fitness business. Where to follow FMA? Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/fitnessmarketingagency/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fitnessmarketingagency/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fitnessmarketingagency/ Website: https://bit.ly/3U2ofN8   #fitness #marketing #gym #fitnessmarketingagency #gymowner #personaltrainer #fitnessbusiness  

In this episode, we're launching Stride, our new CRM built specifically for land investors. We've spent the past year building this from the ground up to solve the problems we've both faced in our land businesses.(Show Notes: REtipster.com/CRM)Even if you're not looking for a new CRM, this episode dives deep into lead generation, follow-up systems, automations, and the tech advantages that can help you close more deals with less stress.We talk about the crazy stats behind follow-ups, why most CRMs penalize growth, how to automate entire workflows (like sending contracts with one click), and why Stride could replace $4K+ in tech costs.Whether you're a solo investor or running a 50-person team, this episode lays out how to bring structure, clarity, and serious efficiency to your business.

Title: The Shepherds Way | Pastors Harrison and Kristie Chokka

I didn't realize how bad my form was… until I slowed it down.What happens when a run coach steps into the athlete role and gets his form analyzed? In this episode, I react to a full slow-motion breakdown of my running stride—flaws, habits, wrist flicks, helicopter arms and all. With the help of a top-tier running physio, I uncover the subtle inefficiencies that were holding me back (and might be holding you back too). This isn't about perfection—it's about small shifts that stack up. Coaches need coaching too, and this one got me where it counted: my stride.Key TakeawaysCoaching others doesn't make you immune to hidden flaws in your own form.Seeing your stride on video gives feedback no cue or drill ever could.Small changes like cadence and trunk angle can have outsized effects.Timestamps[00:00] Why a run coach got his form analyzed[01:19] Who Ben Liddy is and what he looks for[02:05] First impressions of my form[03:01] The helicopter arms and flicking wrist moment[04:10] Am I heel striking too much?[06:15] What elite runners actually do with their feet[07:06] Tight hips and forward lean[09:29] One cue that changed my stride[11:03] Why form tweaks alone aren't enough[13:07] My cadence and the 1% better mindsetLinks & Learnings

This week, we're bringing together an expert panel to break down what truly separates high-performing gyms from those that struggle to grow. If you've been stuck in a cycle of client churn, low profit margins, or ineffective marketing, this episode will change the way you approach your business. This episode is proudly sponsored by our partners at Stride. If you would like to find out more, check out their website here: https://www.getstride.com/ and their Instagram here:   instagram.com/get_stride We cover:  ✅ Why gym owners struggle to break past revenue plateaus.  ✅ The retention strategies that create long-term, loyal members.  ✅ How to position your gym as a premium brand.  ✅ The biggest hiring mistakes holding fitness businesses back.  ✅ The marketing shifts that will drive real business growth.   If you enjoyed this video and want to find out more information, click this link to view our website: https://bit.ly/3U2ofN8   WE HELP GYM OWNERS, PERSONAL TRAINERS AND COACHES GET MORE LEADS, SIGN NEW MEMBERS AND GROW THEIR BUSINESSES!   Visit our website to learn how we can help you grow your gym business: https://bit.ly/3U2ofN8   Be sure to subscribe to learn how to successfully scale and grow your fitness business.   Where to follow FMA?   Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/fitnessmarketingagency/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fitnessmarketingagency/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fitnessmarketingagency/ Website: https://bit.ly/3U2ofN8   #fitness #marketing #gym #fitnessmarketingagency #gymowner #personaltrainer #fitnessbusiness  

Rachel Reeves entered her first Budget with a familiar refrain—blaming the Conservatives for the difficult choices ahead. But now, the focus has shifted to her own decisions, particularly the impact of tax rises on business confidence, jobs, and growth. Can her latest fiscal measures break Britain free from economic stagnation, or have they only deepened the challenge? CapX Editor-in-Chief Robert Colvile leads a live discussion with Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride, David Miles from the OBR Budget Responsibility Committee, and Alys Denby, Opinion and Features Editor at City AM. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Send us a textEpisode 112 - Top Papers from the 2025 American College of Cardiology (ACC) SessionWelcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with a special Rapid Fire Podcast! This week, Drs. Mike and John Fralick discuss top papers from the 2025 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Annual Scientific Session. Hot off the presses, here we go!Extended Reduced-Dose Apixaban for Cancer-Associated Venous Thromboembolism (0:00 - 5:55)Dapagliflozin in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Implantation (DapaTAVI) (5:56 - 9:51)Oral Semaglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes in High-Risk Type 2 Diabetes (9:52 - 14:04)Semaglutide and walking capacity in people with symptomatic peripheral artery disease and type 2 diabetes (STRIDE) (14:05 - 18:36)The Good Stuff:The Studio TV series on Apple (18:37 - 19:11)Cardiology Trial Files (19:12 - 20:40)Questions? Comments? Feedback? We'd love to hear from you! @roundstable @InternAtWork @MedicinePodsSupport the show

Send us a textWelcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with a special Rapid Fire Podcast! This week, Drs. Mike and John Fralick discuss top papers from the 2025  American College of Cardiology (ACC) Annual Scientific Session. Hot off the presses, here we go!Extended Reduced-Dose Apixaban for Cancer-Associated Venous Thromboembolism (0:00 - 5:55)Dapagliflozin in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Implantation (DapaTAVI) (5:56 - 9:51)Oral Semaglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes in High-Risk Type 2 Diabetes (9:52 - 14:04)Semaglutide and walking capacity in people with symptomatic peripheral artery disease and type 2 diabetes (STRIDE) (14:05 - 18:36)The Good Stuff:The Studio TV series on Apple (18:37 - 19:11)Cardiology Trial Files (19:12 - 20:40)Questions? Comments? Feedback? We'd love to hear from you! @roundstable @InternAtWork @MedicinePods

Howie and Harlan are joined by Alexi Nazem, a Yale-trained internist who co-founded the healthcare staffing company Nomad Health and now leads healthcare investments at AlleyCorp. Harlan reports on new research from the American College of Cardiology meeting; Howie examines the consequences of vast staffing cuts in the federal healthcare infrastructure.  Links: Research from the American College of Cardiology Meeting “Semaglutide and walking capacity in people with symptomatic peripheral artery disease and type 2 diabetes (STRIDE): a phase 3b, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial” “Early Intra-Aortic Balloon Support for Heart Failure-Related Cardiogenic Shock: A Randomized Clinical Trial” “Extended Reduced-Dose Apixaban for Cancer-Associated Venous Thromboembolism” Alexi Nazem The Human Genome Project Institute for Healthcare Improvement “100,000 Lives Campaign: Ten Years Later” “Continuous Improvement as an Ideal in Health Care” “The Science of Improvement” Health & Veritas Episode 145: Max Laurans: An Entrepreneurial Life in Medicine Nomad Health Yale School of Management case study: “Nomad Health: The disruption of physician staffing services" “Staffing Marketplace Nomad Health Raises $105 Million As It Expands Beyond Travel Nurses” “America Is Running Out of Nurses” “Staffing Marketplace Nomad Health Lays Off 17% Of Workforce” “Why AI deals in healthcare have grown faster than other areas of tech — and what VCs are paying close attention to” Turmoil at Federal Health Agencies “Mass Layoffs Hit Health Agencies That Track Disease and Regulate Food” “The top FDA vaccine official is forced out, cites RFK Jr.'s 'misinformation and lies'“ “NIH cuts halt 24-year program to prevent HIV/AIDS in adolescents and young adults” “Princeton's US grants frozen, follows Trump actions against other schools” “Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services” “Texas measles outbreak grows to 90 cases, worst level in 30 years” “As Trump pursues his policies, Democratic states block his path” “Proposed foreign aid cuts could lead to millions of HIV deaths, study estimates” Learn more about the MBA for Executives program at Yale SOM. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.

Nicholas Klingensmith says that he grew up a punk and not so nice kid. As he will describe, he was quite self centered, but it was all a façade. He will tell his story of finally realizing that he needed to change both his thinking and his concept of himself. Nick is a type one diabetic. He also is a 4-time cancer survivor and he has a number of herniated disks. He also is a recovering alcoholic. Nick finally realized he had to change after being thrown out of a Las Vegas hotel the night before he was to deliver sales speech. Nick was ejected because he was in, as he says, a “drunken haze”.   Today Nick is a successful author, a public speaker and a successful obstacle course racer and so much more. He also is a survivor of the October hurricane that struck near his home in Tampa Bay Florida.   We talk about all of this during this episode. Nicholas talks about resilience, controlling fear and even why he and his wife made the conscious decision not to evacuate their home as the hurricane approached. Nick offers many insights about how we all can learn to control fear and not only survive obstacles that are put in our way, but he will talk about how we can truly overcome them. As he will tell us, it is all about choice and making informed decisions.   This episode to me is especially poignant because so many of the things we discuss are illustrations of what is going on all around us. I think Nick's experiences and the stories he tells about them are the kinds of things to which we all can relate. I hope you like Nick's discussion and that you will let me know your thoughts.       About the Guest:   After being thrown out of a Las Vegas hotel in a drunken haze, jeopardizing his career and relationships, Nick Klingensmith had to make a change. A 4-time cancer survivor, type-1 diabetic, recovering alcoholic with herniated discs, nerve damage and sleep apnea, he defies it all when he finds Obstacle Course Racing. Refusing to accept his limitations, he's completed over 100 Spartan Races, 6 Major Marathons, several Ultras and scores of other obstacle and endurance events.   As someone who has walked the path of a sales professional, Nick is an expert in propelling other achievement-driven professionals and leaders to overcome fear and rejection and push past self-limiting doubts, by inspiring them to take purposeful action towards their goals. Nick is a raw and passionate storyteller who holds nothing back when revealing who he used to be and the person he is now.   A true testament to the power of resilience, with an unwavering belief in his purpose to overcome obstacles and inspire others to do the same, Nick delivers powerful and transformative speeches, drawing from personal experiences to illustrate the extraordinary potential of pushing through adversity. 1)    The power of perseverance: Pursuing personal growth and overcoming obstacles for success 2)    Pursuing Something Greater: Taking Risks, pushing boundaries and exploring your unlimited potential 3)    Living Inspired: Embracing Purpose, overcoming adversity, and finding belonging   Ways to connect with Nick:   Instagram: @stridemotivation https://www.instagram.com/stridemotivation/ TikTok: @stridemotivation https://www.tiktok.com/@stridemotivation?lang=en Twitter: @stridemotivatio https://twitter.com/stridemotivatio YouTube: @stridemotivation https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOiV2sNB3g4meufvBg3a9sA Threads: @stridemotivation LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nklingensmith/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069207242260 www.stridemotivation.com Email: nick@stridemotivation.com   About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast   If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset .   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review   Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.       Transcription Notes:   Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset, where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet unexpected. Boy. It's been a crazy time in the world in general, and for our guest, Nick Klingensmith, it's really been kind of unexpected. Nick lives down in the Tampa St Pete area, and we as he knows, and I know, just went through a week ago hurricanes down there, which tells you about when we're recording this. He lost power for a while, but Nick is a pretty resilient guy, and he's going to going to talk about some of that. He's a keynote speaker. He's an author. Does a lot of different kinds of things. He is a coach, conducts master classes, and some things happen along the way that caused him to get to be where he is today. So we're not going to give any of that away. I want Nick and and while I'm Nick to talk about it and you to hear it, so we'll leave it at that. Nick, thanks for being here, and welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're glad you're here.   Nick Klingenmith ** 02:20 Michael, thank you so much for having me. I'm I'm really excited to be here today,   Michael Hingson ** 02:24 and I'm glad I was out in Southern California. Actually, that's not totally true last week or when the hurricane hit. I was in Kansas City and so but I one of the people who spoke when I was there was an economist who lived down in Florida, and I don't know exactly where she lived, but she went out as soon as her talk was over to get back to Florida, because she felt that her home was right in the middle of everything. So gosh, what do you do?   Nick Klingenmith ** 02:53 I'll tell you. Man, with the hurricanes, the most dangerous thing you can do is the reactive decisions before the hurricane. And part of what I'm talking about is being right where we are, right just north of St Petersburg, just north of where ground zero was supposed to be, right up until the like the late hour. You know, there's a lot of factors you have to consider when you like what want to evacuate or not. You know, we have a senior dog. We can't we can only drive so far with him. We have a reactive dog. There's only so many places we can take him, and if you didn't leave early, you risk running out of gas on the side of the highway. So there comes a point where, you know, we decided it our house was as secure as a home can be, even for a direct hit, we're just going to ride it out. We buttoned down. We were as safe as we could be. But, you know, with people telling you, like, run, run, run, right? Like, well, I have a friend who evacuated to Sarasota, where the direct hit actually ended up being, you know, I mean, where was I going to go to? To Orlando. It was directly in the path of the storm. Where was I gonna go? To the mountains? Because clearly, that's not so safe after all, the 72 hours leading up to a hurricane where just everybody panics and, you know, I think honestly, and this is what we'll unpack here, what I've learned from what not just not what I've been through, because what I've been through didn't teach me anything. It was what I had to what I had to do to put it all in perspective, and didn't understand it, but all those lessons in resilience give you the ability to pause and make better decisions in the face of adversity well,   Michael Hingson ** 04:32 and that is absolutely true. You know, should you have evacuated well? You know, as you said, there are a lot of ways to go. And the question is, where could you really go? You'd have to leave really early to make sure you could evacuate far enough away. But then, as you said, you have a dog that that can't travel this far, and that becomes an issue. Just, you know,   Nick Klingenmith ** 04:56 I'm not Florida. Man, all right, right. I am. Out three and a half miles from the shore. Yeah, I am just beyond, like, the line of demarcation, but if I was on the other side of the bridge, there's no way I would have stayed. Yeah, you   Michael Hingson ** 05:12 know, well, you know, you can only do what you can do and decide what you can decide. But the real issue, as you point out, is being able to pause and analyze it. And one of the things that I love to tell people is I love information. For me, when September 11 happened, there were a couple of times I asked people like an FBI agent, what's going on, and they wouldn't tell me. And I understand why, intellectually, they wouldn't because they didn't want to cause panic. As we were coming out of the stairwell, none of us knew what happened. The hundreds of people on the stairs didn't know. Of course, people always say, well, you're blind. You didn't know. Well, that has nothing to do with it. The plane hit on the other side of the building, 18 floors above us, and you know, the reality is, we don't see through concrete, steel and rebar. So the bottom line is, none of us knew, and when I asked, he said, Well, just no time to tell you, but I'll take you where you need to go, me and other people who are with us. I wish he had told me, it would have changed some decisions I made, but I also understand why he didn't. He didn't know me. He didn't know whether I panic or go crazy or whatever, and and so he did what he did. And actually, I shouldn't say that I would change what I did and the direction that we went I might have. But the bottom line is, it's all about being able to pause and analyze, and you have to have the information to do it. And you clearly were in a position to have as much information as you could have and make the decision that you made.   Nick Klingenmith ** 06:48 You know, when you hear seals describe like certain engagements and these split seconds that go by, and just the decision making process and the the way that, you know, time slows down for that. I mean, that's what they train for. That's why they train through adversity, and that's, that's how I look at more adversity now. And it's not that I welcome it. Don't get me wrong, you know? I mean, who really wants bad things or uncomfortable things? You don't want them. But I like to say this because somebody had asked me once that, if I wasn't a diabetic, would I be a better athlete? And I said, No, if I wasn't a diabetic, I wouldn't be an athlete at all. I wouldn't have become one so. Well, why is that I have these tools? I've accepted that life is always going to keep coming, so I just don't need to panic anymore. I know I have the tools and ability to slow down and make that decision making tree to get through it.   Michael Hingson ** 07:46 Yeah, okay, and that makes sense, but it is this, we, what if everything in the world anyway, too many people, what if everything, well, what if you weren't a diabetic, would you have done? You know, we, we, we always have to see those questions coming at us. And it's unfortunate that all too often we What if so much that we create a lot of fear that we don't need to create, yeah, which you know, makes sense. Tell us a little about if you would. I love to start out this way, the early Nick growing up and all that, and kind of what, what started you to where you're going and where you are,   Nick Klingenmith ** 08:26 man, I was a little shit. There you go.   Michael Hingson ** 08:29 That's Thanks for being on the podcast. Nick, we just summarized. No, no, go ahead. I   Nick Klingenmith ** 08:35 was such a punk, not a bad not like a I didn't like to get in trouble, but I, I was a little punk, you know, from the time I was a little kid. And I think I realize now, you know, part of, part of what I've uncovered in my history here is that my my father left me, left my mom, not me at a very young age. I grew up on an island, all right, it wasn't an after school special. He moved down the road, but the problem was that my mom wasn't she was still active with drugs, and she simply just wasn't capable of actually like caring for me. And so I grew up not necessarily looking for other people's validation so much as trying to prove that I didn't need it. So, I mean, I had a, I like, I was, I had a side hustle when I was in the second grade, like, I was hustling kids playing cards out of the playground, like, I just kind of like to buck the rules. I liked, I liked the bad guy in the movies. You know, it was, that's who I related to. But that, that sort of grittiness, actually turned into something after a while, because as I continue to look at myself as more independent and having to do it on my own, I also started working at a young age. I went to a boarding school for high school because I wanted a better education. Something else. I sought out myself, financial aid. I sought out myself. I went to college back. At the University of Massachusetts, and I also paid for that. Paid my own way through summer jobs and well, the last 20 years. So that was all working for me as something for a very long time, I was active in life. I like to play sports. I played competitive beach volleyball for 20 years. I I like to I liked to socialize. I often find myself in relationships, and there just came a point, though, where that sort of me against a world attitude changed. It was something that was giving me fuel and armor for a long time, right when I found out is that it was actually more like the rally cry of the victim mindset that I had been developing.   Michael Hingson ** 10:45 So what happened that brought that realization and that change?   Nick Klingenmith ** 10:51 I needed to start having real things happen to me, such as the four times I've been diagnosed with cancer. I'm a type one diabetic. I just celebrated 10 years of recovery from alcoholism. I have seven herniated discs from two different rollover fatality car accidents, nerve damage in several areas, sleep apnea. I almost died from meningitis. All those things had happened, and all those things had only contributed, though, to the victim mindset. It wasn't until I became an obstacle course racer, until, actually, after my boss walks in my office and challenges me to do a Spartan Race. And this was at a time where I was on top of the world. At that point, I was two years sober. I was a VP of sales. I was doing really well in my career. I was in a new relationship with an amazing woman that's now my wife. And I had just decisively beaten cancer for the fourth time, and I was I was kind of stuck, and so when he challenged me to do this obstacle course race with him. I knew I needed a change, and I didn't know what it was, so I said yes to this event. And it was through that process that I began to defy everything that I had previously believed about myself. I had created such limiting beliefs. I had created this narrative again, me against the world. I'm the victim poor me, right? I was convinced that I couldn't run because of my diabetes. I couldn't adventure because of my sleep apnea. I'd always be a piece of crap because of my addiction. When I went out there and I did my first obstacle course race. So I'm out there in the woods, crawling under barbed wire, carrying heavy objects, climbing up ropes, swinging from things, just like a little kid out there in the world with no fear and no doubt. And it wasn't me against the world, it was me in the world. And I felt just liberated. And I realized that everything I had convinced myself before of that had been a lie, and I didn't know yet what I had just, you know, told you about the victim mindset. It was just that point, I realized I was capable. I had this blank slate in front of me, and so for the next six, seven months, I got into this world of endurance sports and obstacle course racing. And I was improving through better nutrition, better exercise, yoga, meditation. I was improving through mind, body and spirit in all aspects of my life. And that's when I was in a second car accident, and that's where I got several more of my herniated discs, and that's where I got nerve damage. And the same day that happened, my cat of 12 years died, and 10 days after that, the lady who hit me died. And even though all I was doing was sitting at a red light when that happened, I felt responsible, and I was home couple weeks later, just heartbroken and devastated. You know, the last six, seven months have been like a dream to me. I felt like I was becoming this better person in all aspects, and now I felt like it was being all taken away from me, and you want to give up. And I'm sure I'm not the only person who's ever felt that way. I just didn't know what that meant. So I kept going to work. So I keep taking showers, I keep walking the dog, I keep meeting my responsibilities. And so I decided to put another race on the calendar, and when I was trying to train. I just I wasn't in it, and I was listening to this, like motivational compilation on YouTube, this guy's going back and forth about, are you a survivor? You are or victim? Are you a victim or survivor? And that's when I realized that even though I had already been progressing and I had just like found this new found lifestyle that I was still playing the victim. I was still saying, Woe is me, why me? Why me? And I? When I recognized it, that's when I realized that it's also a choice. You may not have chosen to be a victim, but you do choose to remain one, and I decided that that point that I will not be defined by my adversity, but rather. They're my triumph over it, and so it's been a decision. I have to only what. There's only one way I can tell that story, and it's a long version.   Michael Hingson ** 15:07 No, that's fine. You know, one of the things that that I realized during September 11, and it was partly because as tower two was falling and I was falling and I was running away from it, one of the things I said to myself was, God, I can't believe that you got us out of a building just to have it fall on us. And I'm a guy who has a lot of faith and so on, and I don't tend to panic. But I said that, and then immediately I heard in my head of voice as clearly as you hear me now, that said, don't worry about what you can't control. Focus on running with Roselle, who is my guide dog, and the rest will take care of itself. And I've adopted that mindset, which is really what you're saying. Focus on what you can control. There are things that happen to us that we didn't and wouldn't have any control over them happening. I've been well, I'm still yet to be convinced that we truly could have predicted September 11 as a country and stopped it. I don't think that we had the information, which says something about what a team dedicated to trying to create so much chaos and destruction was able to do because they functioned as a team. But the bottom line is that they did what they did. I don't think we could have stopped it, but what I do have control over is how I deal with what happened. I couldn't control what happened, but I can deal with what happened, and I think that's the important part of it, you know, I think   Nick Klingenmith ** 16:42 part of what you just it's not that you can do with it. I think the difference is you recognize it as yours to deal with. That's the first step. You know, too often we we refuse to recognize that we have an option, just because we don't like the options and dealing with it. We have to accept whatever happened happened. I have to accept that I'm a diabetic. I said this in a speech the other night. I said, like it's I'm not to blame that I'm I'm a diabetic, but when I take responsibility for being diabetic, I can be an ultra endurance athlete. Gotta accept our starting line, whatever, whatever that is. And, you know, there's a friend of mine, she's also a diabetic. She has a kind of a special something. I don't really understand diabetes thing, but, you know, she she, she struggles because she tries to control it, instead of just manage it, or instead of live with it. You know, they're basically kind of, now I'm going to mess this one up, but she doesn't focus on what she can control. She's so focused on what she can't. Mm, hmm. And that's what keeps   Michael Hingson ** 17:57 her stuck, yeah, and it happens so often, which is one of the things I talk about in my new book that we published in August of 2024 the book called Live like a guide dog, is that we What if everything to death. And the problem is well over 90% of what we what if about we don't have any control over. And that's the difference between us and dogs. Dogs don't do what ifs. And on September 11, when I was working with my fifth guy, dog, Roselle, nothing directly, really threatened her, and so as soon as we got home, she is ready to play. It was all over, and it's because she doesn't deal with it the way we have taught ourselves, or have been taught, to deal with things. And we What if everything so much that we create a lot more fear in our lives than we need to have, which is, which is so unfortunate, if we could learn to step back from that the   Nick Klingenmith ** 18:52 the speech I gave the other night told my story, as well as centered on a couple of themes that really would have resonated with that particular crowd, but one of them we talked a lot about, was fear was one that they kept kind of bouncing around after the fact. And I say that fear only exists in my imagination, and it's only power sources me, and it's that we suffer more from our own imaginations than we do reality. Sure, we create these things, but if we take just even a moment, and it's hard, even if you think, even if you think through logically, I don't think you can necessarily think through fear. And I'll, I'll speak to that in just a moment, but look back at all the times we were afraid. I found no monsters under the bed or in the closet. Like 90% of the things that I've been afraid of. Also, not only can I get out control, but they also haven't happened, right? Most of them will never manifest. You know, that said, the reason I think that you can't net even though you should be able to logically think through fear and understand that it probably doesn't exist, fear also hits on our emotions and stuff like that. So you. The I do believe that we can then move beyond fear, and therefore action is how we conquer fear.   Michael Hingson ** 20:07 Well, I think that, I guess I differ just a little bit. I think fear is a real thing in a sense, and partly it's a physical physiology, physiological reaction. I will never tell people not to be afraid, because I don't think that overall, we can do that. But what I tell people absolutely is you can learn to control fear and use it as a very powerful tool to help you. If you choose to do that, fear is is something that can cause you to focus, or if you don't learn to control it, it will overwhelm you, or, as I put it, blind you or paralyze you. But it is, it is there, and maybe the time will come when we can completely eliminate the concept. But mostly it's there, in part, because it's a physiological thing that we also encounter. But again, you mentioned the seals earlier, and they've learned to control fear. They're not going to tell you they're not afraid, but they're going to tell you that they can control it and use it to their advantage. Um,   Nick Klingenmith ** 21:12 we don't. We don't differ at all. By the way, the because I didn't fear itself isn't, isn't real. It's our fears are liars, those, most of the time, are the manifestations of the doubt. Fear, of course, is a real thing. Here's what I like to say, Okay, I'm with you, yeah, because I'm afraid of snakes and heights, yet I spend my weekends crawling around swamps and climbing up mountains. But it's not because I'm unafraid. It's I move beyond the fear. I do it anyway, and it I'm still afraid. I'm never going to handle a snake if I see one on the course, I'm going the other direction as fast as I can. It's just that I've, I have to find a way to not let it prevent me from living my life. And so I look for those things to you know, whatever I step into fear, I create. I make my world broader. But I don't know if you ever read the book, fear is fueled by Patrick Sweeney, great book, but he really talks a lot about the difference between fear and courage. Because or being fearless, you'd have to be a sociopath. Yeah, you'd have to have a complete disconnection from reality. And plus, like you said, Fear is very healthy. It is a good idea to fear the hot flame over the stove. It's a good idea to fear the Mack truck going down the highway if I want to go run into the street. Also, fear can be an indicator. You know, I when I was afraid for my job, I knew it's because I wasn't doing it. If I'm afraid for my home, it's because I'm not financially prepared. You know, if fear tells me what's important to me as well. So it's not always a bad thing, like, like we've been saying, though it's what you do with it or what you do about it. So   Michael Hingson ** 22:51 you wouldn't even want to pick up a garden snake or a king snake or anything. Oh, no way, huh?   Nick Klingenmith ** 22:57 I don't care if it had, like, tickets for Vegas and a cure for cancer in its mouth. Put that demon thing, that demon cord away.   Michael Hingson ** 23:07 Well, I have, I have played with some snakes, but I also recognize that they're, they're not like me, and you have to be cautious even among the most non poisonous snakes, and that is something that we have to deal with. But I guess I don't fear them. I'm probably more cautious around a black widow spider than a snake than my wife. There you go. Well. But the other part about snakes is, of course, not knowing necessarily, if I encounter snakes, what they are, I'm going to probably avoid them until I know a whole lot more from somebody else about them. And if I hear rattlers, I'm going to definitely deal with that accordingly and freeze or whatever. So   Nick Klingenmith ** 23:55 that's why my fears are rational, because you would be naturally afraid of the potential consequences of the snake, which is what we should be afraid of, right? If we're getting afraid of something, right? I'm afraid of the snake. I'm afraid it's of its sheer existence. My   Michael Hingson ** 24:10 My brother in law, when he was a kid, my wife used to tell this story, and her parents told the story, and they all passed now, but he came in one day, or came from somewhere, and he was holding a Black Widow and going, Yeah, that's really strange, but eventually he let it go, but he was just holding on to it and showing it to everybody. Fine. I don't think he would do that today, though. Yeah,   Nick Klingenmith ** 24:41 Mo, I feel like again, maybe logic and thinking prevents us from doing really silly things like that from time to time. Yeah, there   Michael Hingson ** 24:48 is that. On the other hand, I've never been a skier, and I'm not afraid of skiing, but I love to tease people and say I'm not going to go skiing, because I know what happened to Sonny Bono and I know. Those trees are out there waiting for me. And no matter where I am in relation to the trees, they're going to come out and get me. And in reality, I know intellectually that if somebody said, Come on, really ski. If I were up in an area where there was a ski resort and we had snow and all that sort of stuff, and there was a reasonably gentle ski slope, I would try it, but it's fun to tease people and say, heck no, I'm not going to go out there and let those trees get   Nick Klingenmith ** 25:28 me. I think what you just said is kind of important, because I look at it like hot sauce, all right. I when I was younger, I could eat the hot or the hot. Nowadays, not so much, but I still enjoy hot sauce, but if it gets too hot, I can't enjoy it at all. It will ruin the entire meal. I can't even eat it. And that's sort of where the fear comes in, or doing things that we're fearful of, because if you just throw me right into it, that's not going to be exhilarating, and that's not going to be something I'm going to come back from and want to come back from and want to do again and say, I conquered that. That's not going to expand my universe. That's going to send me crawling under the bed. So, yeah, if you don't like the ski, if you're afraid of the trees, the bunny slope is where you need to be. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 26:14 having having never skied, I would want to start out there anyway, but, um, but I know intellectually, I'm not really afraid of it. I've just never really been around skiing. Now, my wife was in a wheelchair her whole life, so we really never were up visiting her, her brother, my brother in law, or in any other area, when we were really around in a skiing environment, which is what it's really about i i would never avoid skiing, but it's just not the thing that is the most exciting thing for me to do. I've ice skated in my life, and I was out on an ice skating rink for a few hours, and at the very end, I fell and sprained my ankle. And I haven't really been ice skating since, but I am, but I I'm not afraid to go do it. It's just again. It's not something that that I've done, but I, I think life is an adventure, and I love to explore things. And you mentioned hot sauce, there used to be a show on Food Network with Bobby Flay, and I'm forgetting the other guy, who was, oh, I'm blanking out on his name, but it was called grilling and chilling. And he was from, he owned a restaurant down in in Philadelphia called Jack's Firehouse. And we ended up having to go there. Well, we'd end up going there. Didn't have to go there, but Karen, my wife, and I, went there. They have something there, which is made of the hottest peppers and so on that. You can imagine. It's called hot lava, and they bring you a bowl of it, and I touched my finger to it, and then just tasted my finger, and I went, I'm not going to eat that stuff. That's just too hot for me. But again, I can say safely that if I had to, because I didn't have any choice, I wouldn't be so afraid that I wouldn't do something like eat it if it had to be on something to make it edible or whatever. But I do think you're right. I think that fear is really all about what we do and how how we learn to control it, and that's the important part about it. And all too often, we just don't learn to do that. And so as you point out, well over 90% of the things that we fear never will come to pass, never have come to pass, and we're just the ones who are creating the environment that makes it so much scarier for us.   Nick Klingenmith ** 28:36 Plus, are we really afraid of the thing, or are we afraid of the consequences of the thing, yeah? You know, when you really take it all the way back down to the thing you're most afraid of, you may realize what you're most afraid of is a nuisance and not a catastrophe, right?   Michael Hingson ** 28:55 Yeah? And, and for me, um, I'll, I'll face consequences, and what I the only thing I want to as much as possible know is what the consequences are, and then I'll make a, what you would call a rational decision as to whether I want to do it. But I can take the basic fear out of the situation and turn it into making it somewhat analytical. And the result of that is that it becomes what we're talking about here, which is a choice, you   Nick Klingenmith ** 29:29 know, I'll take it back down in the beginning, because I'm sorry, did I cut you off just now? No, no, okay, you know the decisions that went into the storm, right? So we, I gave you the reasons as to why we were there, but why we decided to stay. But then there were other things to consider. Um, I mean, the house is, like, rated for whatever the wind the windows go 140 like it's a new roof, blah, blah, blah, like it's, it's about as safe as it can get, all right, we we weren't going to die. We weren't going to get flooded. We sandbagged. Everything we did, all this, whatever. So then the decision had to be like, if it is bad, we have to understand, if there's like, catastrophic damage to the area and something goes wrong, they're not going to be able to get to us. So we might be without days. You know, we know. We knew we would lose power. We might be without food, water and access to other human beings and communications for up to, like, a week. So we prepared for that. That said, right, we were as logically prepared as possible. When you're sitting in the middle of a cat four hurricane, I'm not going to tell you I wasn't scared. I mean, like you could look out the window and even the middle of, I mean, it was, it was late when it hit, I mean, trees that don't move were swaying hard back and forth, and you weren't totally unsure that one of them wasn't going to end up in your living room. So those were completely natural fears, even though I was as secure as it could logically be. It's a cat four hurricane, and it can do what it wants.   Michael Hingson ** 31:00 Did did you though, while that was happening and you were seeing all that, did the thought also flash in your mind? Yeah, but I did make the choice to stay here so I can deal with it, or I will deal with as best I can. I   Nick Klingenmith ** 31:13 was already prepared for, you know, in my mind I had, I mean, by the door, we had two doors that were accessible because we barricaded everything else up. And by each of them were, you know, shoes, towels, wet gear, things of case I needed to, case a tree came through and crushed and I had to do something I don't know, whatever, like, you know, the the car was in a position. If we had to bug out, we could bug out. If it, you know, we kept the lifted vehicle here, move the other one down the road. Preparations were about as made. But this is where obstacle course racing literally taught me the process to this. Because I love running Ultras, 50 Ks, you know, 70 obstacles up mountains, 10 to 12 hour days of just misery, because everything will go wrong. Everything will go wrong. Whatever your race plan is, things are going to go wrong. And so I've literally just been practicing tackling one unexpected obstacle at a time, and that's all it is. It's a mental process of right? You prepare for what you can and when things happen, you have to just pause and say, what is the obstacle? What is the challenge I'm facing? What is the outcome I need, and what needs to be done to achieve it? Go   Michael Hingson ** 32:29 deal with that obstacle, and then go to the next one. That's   Nick Klingenmith ** 32:33 That's it. I mean, if, if Windows got punctured out, and then we do this, if something else happened, then you begin to prioritize, protect the dogs. My wife is fully capable of taking care of herself and also doing things to protect the home. So we had our assignments, but instead, you know, because of that, she fell asleep in the middle of the worst of it, which is a good thing. The dogs were comfortable. Nothing bad happened. And I mean, we lost power. But whatever that happens.   Michael Hingson ** 33:01 I was in a sports car rally once, and I was the navigator, so the the course, the instructions were in braille, and I started to read it, and then, and I was reading to the driver, so that the driver followed directions, and I started to get a little bit ahead, and the driver said, no, no, no, don't do that. All I want to know is, what's our next job? And that struck a chord with me, because I I realized, Oh, he wants to focus on just the one thing which makes perfect sense. And that's been a and I was like, 13 at the time. That was a life lesson, though, that I that I really took to heart. Again. You can think about all sorts of things. You do need to make preparations, but when you're in the middle of something, ultimately, you've got to deal with it one step at a time. It's   Nick Klingenmith ** 33:57 It's like chess. You want to consider all your moves, but you only make one move at a time, and I'll tell you, this is something that is so idiot proof I hate that it's taken me 45 years to really get the hang of it, but there's been no better teacher for me in that than sobriety, because I truly learned one day at a time, living and as an entrepreneur and A new speaker and a new coach. This past 18 months, it's sometimes been hour at a time living because life continues to happen, but the way that I will solve most of my problems is with the new action. And so I and you can't just ignore things all the time, but I can say for one hour, I'm focused on this right now. And I literally will say out loud often, no, I'm doing this right now. I'm doing this right now. Even on my run, sometimes I'm like, nope, hey, I'm here right now.   Michael Hingson ** 34:51 Do you do things like, when you're running, listen to podcasts or anything like that, or do you just focus on the running? Neither I listen to music and day. Mean, okay, well, so you you do other things while you're running. Okay, why? I shouldn't have just said podcast. But rather, I pay   Nick Klingenmith ** 35:07 attention to because I run by heart rate. So it'll be like 10 minutes at this zone, 10 minutes at this zone, back and forth. So I have to pay attention. But I set my watch to heart rate. I don't even look at the pace and and so I have to monitor that loosely every, you know, just a little bit at my watch. Also, I will have to look at my diabetes, my blood sugar, every 10 minutes, 15 minutes or so. But beyond that, glucose monitor, yeah, I have it on my phone, yeah. So I'll do that. And then, other than that, I listen to music, and my playlist is very eclectic, but I, I will daydream of things, you know, this is where I set and just daydream of really big goals, or race goals or life goals, and just just fantasize like just, let's say it drift away into that. But running   Michael Hingson ** 35:59 gives you the opportunity to do that, which is what's so cool. I There are things that that I do that I call them sort of brainless activities, but I do them with the idea that while they're going on, I can be thinking about other things. I don't have to focus my full attention on them. And the result of that is that I do accomplish other things, or I set goals, or, as you say, daydreaming things happen because of that.   Nick Klingenmith ** 36:28 And for me, I learned a long time ago. Even though I can be a fierce competitor, I'll go back to my beach volleyball days. Let's say you and I met before the game. You were we're going to play against each other, and I liked you. We were casual with each other. Whatever I would play great. But let's say for some reason we didn't like each other, and then all of a sudden I was kind of pissed off. I would play terrible. I I don't play well, like that. I play well, and I'm loose having fun, yeah. And so since I run my heart rate, I am acutely aware of what a negative a negative thought does to your body, because I literally will turn my thoughts to something negative. And even though I am not making any more effort, I'm not running any faster, my heart rate is jumping six to eight beats a minute. Yeah, so that's also why I don't want to solve problems when I'm out there. You know, that's where I do want to drift away, because when I'm in my work day, right? I'm not daydreaming, I'm working. I'm focused on tasks and things that I can do with other people or places that are required to do during work time.   Michael Hingson ** 37:37 But it's great to have the opportunity to just let your mind go. And I think we need to do more of that. One of the things I also advocate a lot is that people should take time at night, when they're falling asleep or just before, and be introspective, think about what happened during the day, and do it in a in a constructive way. Never say, why did this fail? Why was I a failure here? But rather, what can I learn from this that didn't go as well as I expected? I've learned to not ever call myself my own worst critic anymore. I'm my own best teacher, and that's the way it should be, because first of all, it's a positive thing, and secondly, I am my own best teacher. No one could teach me anything. They can provide me with information, but I really have to teach myself and understand it and emotionally and intellectually deal with it. But I think it's it's so important to have that time just to let your mind go off and do things.   Nick Klingenmith ** 38:36 One of the worst things as people that we do is we start the day with yesterday, yeah. And one of the ways to prevent that, which takes practice, because we're used to it, is we also have to finish the day the day before. So like you're talking about, and this is part of my sobriety, too. It's take that daily inventory, and then I like to after doing sort of doing that exercise myself, I'll also say a nightly prayer, and then I'm going to meditate for at least five minutes, sometimes 30 to 45 probably five. And at that point I'm not trying to think about anything. And I go that that point is when I'm I'm listening or, right, you know, just trying to clear it out. But I think I remember a couple years ago, I was training for this race, and it was a big race, 50k mountain race, and I started to kind of have a panic moment of like, Oh, my God, I have to do all this training. What am I going to do? How am I going to prepare for this? I'm never going to do it in time. And so I asked myself, well, what's the most important thing I need to do right now to hit my goal? And the answer was, I needed to make sure I woke up to do my training in the morning, because that's the only other thing I can impact right I can't do anything about the next three months. So then I asked myself, well, if I need to make that happen, what is the most important thing that needs to happen right now for me to hit my goals? And this is when I was stretching and meditating at night. And I was like, well, I need a good night's sleep so I'll wake up and exercise. Okay, what's the most important thing I can do right now to make sure I have a good night's sleep? Go to sleep. Mountain came down to one breath. Yeah, I hear you. And that's it. I mean, it's I have it written on my whiteboard over here. It says, break things down to the stupid Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 40:26 and eventually get to sleep.   Nick Klingenmith ** 40:28 I mean, it's just the one, the baby steps that I can take. I remember, I was reading Miracle Morning at that same time, and I used to, because I was, I was struggling, and so I was using my meditations for visualization, and I was spending too much time there trying to create a future. And it wasn't giving me that relaxation, and it wasn't. It was actually stressing me out more, and I just needed to relax and just to focus on the single most controllable thing I could and just taking it, you know, take some pressure off myself, and that really was such a simple fix.   Michael Hingson ** 41:01 Yeah, I hear you, if I may, you've talked about being sober now for I think you said 10 years, yep, what? What led you to finally make that decision that you had to change and be sober.   Nick Klingenmith ** 41:17 My final drunk was very public. And by what I mean by that is I was supposed to be the speaker at my company's conference the next day in Vegas, and instead, I got thrown out of the hotel and trespassed in the middle of the night for trying to have sex with a hooker in a broom closet after apparently getting in a fight with somebody. Well, my girlfriend slept down the hall. I wasn't allowed back at the hotel. Told my boss, my lawyer, I lied to my girlfriend about whatever we were getting thrown out of. It took about five hours for us to get a new hotel, and when my head finally hit the pillow, I said out loud, I don't want to live this way anymore. But that was just the final moment. Because what led up to that was I was a very highly functional alcoholic, and I had been for only a number of years. To be honest, I had alcohol wasn't a big part of my life for a while, and then when it came back in, it came back in rapidly. And so really only a period about five or six years I became a highly functional alcoholic, and I mean highly my career flourished during this time, you know. And the thing is, I didn't I wasn't an everyday drinker. I didn't get drunk every time I drank, and bad things didn't happen every time I did, but more and more, my decisions were getting more selfish, my behavior was getting more destructive, and alcohol was just playing more of a bigger role in my life. So I it was when I got cancer the third time that gave me the excuse I needed to crawl deep into the bottle, because at that point it was already sort of critical mass. I wouldn't go anywhere unless I knew I was going to get drunk. Everything was selfish. I didn't know about it. I didn't think about it, and I was actually ready to quit because I didn't like the way other people would talk about me. So that sounds like a healthy reason, right? And so so I tried to quit on my own, and I spent a couple months just white knuckling it, and I tempted fate, and I went to every happy hour. I threw beer Olympics in my house. And I just, I think I wanted to prove that I could do both without, you know, be who I was, without being who I was. But what I also didn't realize at a time that alcohol wasn't the problem. Alcohol was just a symptom. Who I was was the problem. And so when I got cancer for the third time, they told me they couldn't operate. Um, spoiler alert, the tumor's still there. It's been there over 10 years, but that gave me an excuse to crawl deep into the bottle. And so for about a month, I mean, I just, I was drinking at that point, because who's going to mess with me, right? I have inoperable cancer. That was the excuse I needed, and it that's what really led me to take the gloves off, which led me to Vegas. So I tell you, this cancer saved my life, because I would have died for my drink and long before I would have died from the cancer. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 44:19 I hear you. Well, you've said that you recognize that you didn't overcome adversity. You survived it. What does what does that mean? And how do you overcome adversity?   Nick Klingenmith ** 44:29 I understand surviving it is when? How did I how do I say it for someone else? You know? It was because, as I'm standing there in the totality, here's the thing I told you, how I was growing up. You know, this sort of independent kid? Right child of neglect grows up to be independent, weird, right child with trust issues grows up to be self sufficient, cool, but at some time along the way, that just becomes resentment. It and fear, and it works against us, and that's what creates a little bit of the victim mindset, and so, and it's easy to get that way when bad things happen to us, we feel like it's unfair. I mean, it's just natural. Nobody's immediately like, oh, I guess it's just my turn. So I think living with all those things. But this is where, where part of it gets confusing is I survived something, and people would tell me how tough I was. I would all I did was not die from cancer. I didn't do surgery, I didn't prescribe treatment. All I did was not die. I didn't cure cancer for anyone else. So I survived it. I didn't overcome it. All I did was show up to a doctor's appointment like, I'm lucky that I got thyroid cancer and not prostrate cancer. That's it. So I didn't overcome anything. I'm a diabetic. I'm still diabetic. How did I overcome diabetes? By having it. No sir, I was surviving it. All I was doing was being diabetic, but the mindset of thinking that, man, maybe when am I going to get a break? All these things keep happening to me, happening to me. When you think that way, you're not overcoming any of it. You are just surviving it. And you know what? God bless you. Because I know it's hard for a lot people go through a lot, and it's sometimes hard to handle. To overcome it, though, we have to do something with it. That's how you overcome it. I'm a diabetic who helps other diabetics realize they can be ultra endurance athletes. I race with the words fuck cancer written across my chest. I'm currently fundraising for the American Cancer Society for men were pink. I do what I can to help other people who are hearing cancer. I have cancer for the first you have cancer for the first time. That's how I get back there. I try to help other alcoholics recover and get sober. I write books and share about my fears and things that other people can relate to in the hopes that they, too, can overcome those obstacles. And that's how I overcome it. Those things lose power over me now, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 47:08 and I think that last sentence is the real key to the whole thing. You're not giving them power. You're you're putting your power in your mindset elsewhere. You're not giving power to diabetes. Yeah, it's there. You're not giving power to drink. Since you become sober, have you ever taken a drink anymore? No, not at all. So you know you you took away the power, and you're putting the power into the mindset and all the things that you're expressing, which is so important, I think again, that's so much of what most of us tend not to learn, that a lot of the things that we deal with, we deal with because we give them the power, rather than moving forward and putting the power where it really needs to go.   Nick Klingenmith ** 48:04 It's we raise, we raise kids this way, man. And I mean, they're raising the moment to say it's not fair. Wait, everyone's supposed to get a turn, and that's not true. Well, everyone does get a turn, but they get it in a different way, and something I've come to appreciate, because here's here's something that if I wasn't a speaker, and if I had not written a book, I would never talk about cancer, because I feel like I'm sitting at the kitty table, and it'd be, quite frankly, like it's hard for me, like I had an easy road, considering cancer. I'm alive. I've had multiple surgeries, but I mean, God, compared to what so many people that I know have gone through and the people that we've lost, it took me a long time to be okay with the fact that I'm alive and to realize too that that's not something I need to apologize for, but especially if I'm gonna be a speaker and talk about having cancer, and in any way, let that, like me benefit from that, then I have to do something with that. That's what gives me the fuel. And I didn't know how to it was the first time that that I wrote f cancer across my chest. It was because a friend of mine had told me about their diagnosis and they were struggling with it, and I just, I didn't know how to help them, and I just, I just wanted to let them know they weren't alone. So literally, that morning, at five in the morning, I grabbed Sharpie and I wrote it on my chest, and I went out and I did the race, and I was expecting people, their kids around. I was a little iffy about using the F bomb, but I think cancer deserves all four letters, and everyone intended to agree with me that day, I was really surprised at just people tell me about their their loved ones they've lost, or the people struggling with it, or about their the people that have thrived. And I mean, I love hearing the survivor stories, because you don't hear enough of them, yeah, and it, what I've realized is you just. People know they're not alone. They just let it's like you're just letting people have told me about, like, their four year old niece while under the barbed wire crawl of a race. I mean, like, clearly, they they need to share. And so if that's if I help even just that little bit, then that's the role I get to play. And I say, get to play. And   Michael Hingson ** 50:19 I'm with you. I hear you. I talk about resilience, I talk about teamwork and trust. And, of course, tell my September 11 story. And I decided to start to do that. Well, first of all, it was my wife and I together. We decided that I should do that, because if we could help people move forward from September 11, and then, of course, later, from so many other things, teach people that blindness isn't the problem they think it is, and teach them about guide dogs and other things like that, then it makes life worthwhile. So I love to tell people today that what we decided was that selling life and philosophy was a whole lot more rewarding and satisfying than managing a computer hardware sales team and selling computer hardware, and it is   Nick Klingenmith ** 51:03 the other night. The conference I spoke at was a sales conference for a company in the logistics industry, but I've been in that industry for 20 years. I've spoken at least at a dozen conferences. However, all of them, except this one, were on sales or logistics, this one was on fear and overcoming adversity and finding purpose and finding purpose in your team and just thriving and leading the charge. And it was, it was such a different experience, and so much more fulfilling, yeah, in that 45 minutes than any of the time I'd ever spoken on another stage.   Michael Hingson ** 51:46 What do you think is your your greatest strength as a speaker? What do you really bring to speaking that makes you so successful at it?   Nick Klingenmith ** 51:56 I think that this will change over time as but I'm going to say right now, it's, it's simply my authenticity, and maybe not even that may not even change over time, but I'm very raw. I'm very vulnerable. I hold nothing back, and the thing I hear most about myself is that I'm relatable, and so I would say that would be be a differentiator, especially if you consider and this isn't a bad thing for someone who is far more known or professional or more of a brand name. It's not like they're not being raw and authentic, but it gets lost on their it gets lost on their audience over time, and you know, when they're more mainstream.   Michael Hingson ** 52:41 What do you think the the most powerful technique or tool is that you use that people do relate to in store, in in speaking,   Nick Klingenmith ** 52:53 I speak directly to them and share personal stories. Yeah, that's yeah. I mean, that's it. When I say I I should send you the link later, but I the talk I did the other night. I Maybe it's nervous energy, but I am just back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. But I'll tell you what, I made eye contact with every single person in that room, every other second throughout the thing I was I speak to them, and they are personal stories, then they're completely naked. There's nothing that I won't hold back because you know who I am now the obstacle course racing book, right? None of that matters if it's not, if I'm not completely honest about who I was, if I try to sell myself as having been someone else or something else, then I'm not going to help anybody. Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 53:46 Well, and I find, as a speaker, that stories, and they have to be authentic, has to be you, but that stories make a difference. And I've, I've been in situations where a speaker's bureau hired me to go and deliver a speech, and I get there to find out that the speakers bureau was totally inaccurate and incorrect as to the kind of the organization that it was that I was going to speak to. And it taught me to learn that I have to customize every talk I give, and I need to be able to adjust, if you will, on the fly. Sometimes, in the case of one particular talk that I gave, it was a totally different kind of environment. What I was led to believe, fortunately, I could find stories to tell these people that showed that I related to them, and I got invited back to other parts of the organization later because of that. But I think that stories are the most important thing that we as speakers can bring, and they have to be true. They have to be authentic. Can't make it up. People can see through that. A mile away,   Nick Klingenmith ** 54:58 I feel like I have to tell the. Vegas story. It's the lowest moment of my life, and if it just it also just speaks to all of it in one incident. So it's kind of like it, but if the person who needs to hear it, you know, I, I don't want someone to just see who I am now and not relate   Michael Hingson ** 55:22 well, this podcast is all about unstoppable mindset. What are some ways to develop an unstoppable mindset? Do you think   Nick Klingenmith ** 55:28 for one we got to go through to get through it, we have to develop what we've been talking about, this sort of obstacle immunity, or at least this understanding that there's always going to be a next challenge. If we ever think that the mountain will be climbed. We can't be unstoppable. We simply have to accept that the purpose of life is to continue to climb. That's that's one thing, and how do we keep how do we keep doing that? Then achievement. I'm highly achievement driven. You can call it motivated, but I don't think so. I have to look for carrots. So whether it be personal, professional, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, some sort of development is also how we continue to develop that unstoppable mind. Because the only way to be on there's we can't be 100% unstoppable. We always have to continue to progress and to toughen up and to keep moving for it, one of the things though, that has to be ultimately critical. And people talk about this, but I don't know if they really spend enough time on it. Self belief is the gateway to an unstoppable mindset. You have to believe it before you can see it.   Michael Hingson ** 56:32 Yeah, I'm listening. I just agreed with you. Yeah,   Nick Klingenmith ** 56:36 no, I know I was I was cutting, I was stopping.   Michael Hingson ** 56:39 Yeah, I agree, though. I mean, you've you've got to believe it, and you have to believe it intellectually and in your heart, you have to believe it emotionally as well. It is, as I said, if, if you're not authentic, people will see through you a mile away, no matter what I when, when I started selling, I took a Dale Carnegie sales course, and one of the things that I learned in that course is that the best salespeople are teachers. They're counselors, they guide, but because they're teachers, they also adopt. If they're really successful, stories, they can tell you stories that you, whoever you are, can relate to. And so they've they've analyzed and they understand what you need, and they can tell you stories to show you why what they have will work, or the other side of it is won't work. And I've had that situation happen where I've been selling a product and went into a meeting and learned that clearly what we had didn't work, and it's a choice. Do you still try to push your product on them or not? And I think that that's the worst thing that you can do, is to push a product that's going to jeopardize any relationship you have. And I've told customers in the past, here's why my product won't do what you need. Here's what will. And the result of that has always been calls later that say we really appreciated what you had to say. We've got another opportunity, and you taught us what we need to know your product is perfect. We don't want to put it out to bid. Just tell us a price and we'll order it today. Order it   Nick Klingenmith ** 58:23 today. In the book I published a couple months ago, selling inspired, I actually talk about what I call being a bar stool sales person.   Nick Klingenmith ** 58:34 Just tell personal stories like pretend you're at the bar talking to the prospect, and convey those things, because people do want to buy from people these days, it's tricky, because they are heavily gravitated towards convenience, but so we have to change our approach on how we get to know them, or, more importantly, let them get to know us, especially if you're buying virtually, like a lot of people are These days, it's not the bar stool salesman has to, has to become a social app sales person, essentially. But people buy from people make it easy for them to get to know who you are. Connect on a different level. Because, I mean, I'm even part of a a Spartan group. Excuse me. There's about 15,000 of us in this Facebook community, and we are very strict about not promoting businesses and services and stuff like that. You know, this is supposed to be about obstacle course, racing, tips, tricks, positive vibes, whatever. But I recently suggested, and we just actually implemented something that we're calling it the the What is your profession? Because there's 15,000 people. Now I don't know the 15,000 but I'm actually close. I know several 100, and I'm actually close with several dozen. If any one of those people has a service that I need, I'd rather buy from them, sure. And if any one of them is like, Hey, I do this, and that they're getting the message from me, like you. Said, Hey, Michael, can you do this? Here's my email. Send it done? Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:08 yeah, it's still connectionalism, and no matter what, you've gotta be able to connect or you've gotta create an environment where people want to connect with you again, though, that has to be authentic. You can't just fake it. That'll never work. It's   Nick Klingenmith ** 1:00:27 actually, it's hard for a lot of people. Now, I've been lucky for a while because couple things, going back in time, I've actually just been highly passionate about sales. So as far as like social content, I'd post sales, stuff, whatever. But I say that I'm lucky because of my story. I mean that would be like, you say your story. And what I mean by that is we have something different to talk about. I don't have to talk about being a speaker. I talk about things that are helpful to other people, and it just makes it easier, like, easier to engage now with, like, one of the guys that I'm coaching, he has no earthly idea how to start building or putting out any sort of content. And I'm like, bro, what do you like? He's like, like, just and so he actually posted something about the NHL that night, and it got decent content and feedback. Because I was like, he's like, You know what LinkedIn is not for? I go Shut up if we were at a standing at the bar together, like having a at a networking event. I don't want your spec sheet from your company. Yeah, I want to know what you're interested in and get to know you. So tell me, let people get to know you. That's it. Because when they click on your profile, if they don't, if all they see is your business brand, they're like, Okay, great, moving on.   Michael Hingson ** 1:01:34 Yeah, it is, it is. It is crazy. We you talked earlier about how we bring up kids, and we bring up children in such a strange way. They don't learn to overcome fea

This week, we're joined by Jack Thomas to uncover game-changing insights from over 250 gyms worldwide. We discuss what separates top-tier fitness businesses from those struggling to grow, and why the smallest details can make the biggest impact. Jack shares invaluable lessons on sales, customer experience, and what it really takes to build a gym that members love and stay loyal to. This episode is proudly sponsored by our partners at Stride. If you would like to find out more, check out their website here: https://www.getstride.com/ and their Instagram here:   instagram.com/get_stride Key highlights of this episode include:  ✅ The sales gap that's costing gyms thousands.  ✅ How top gyms create an unforgettable client experience.  ✅ The power of personalization in gym success.  ✅ Small but crucial details that separate 5-star gyms.  ✅ Why gym owners must rethink their approach to customer service. If you enjoyed this video and want to find out more information, click this link to view our website: https://bit.ly/3U2ofN8   WE HELP GYM OWNERS, PERSONAL TRAINERS AND COACHES GET MORE LEADS, SIGN NEW MEMBERS AND GROW THEIR BUSINESSES!   Visit our website to learn how we can help you grow your gym business: https://bit.ly/3U2ofN8   Be sure to subscribe to learn how to successfully scale and grow your fitness business.   Where to follow FMA?   Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/fitnessmarketingagency/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fitnessmarketingagency/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fitnessmarketingagency/ Website: https://bit.ly/3U2ofN8   #fitness #marketing #gym #fitnessmarketingagency #gymowner #personaltrainer #fitnessbusiness

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Auston Matthews and the Leafs get a big win over Colorado, showing signs of hitting their stride at the right time. Alex Ovechkin seems to be calling his shot in pursuit of the NHL's all-time goal record—should he avoid an empty-netter for history’s sake? Josh Anderson escaped a major injury thanks to cut-resistant gear, highlighting the evolution of player safety. In Montreal, Kent Hughes preaches patience in free agency, amid rumours about a dream scenario involving Sidney Crosby. Plus, updates on goalie interference reviews and the NHL’s decentralized draft in LA.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week's Misfit Entrepreneur is Josiah "JJ" Hartling. If you've ever wanted to understand the mindset and strategy behind sustained high performance, JJ is the guy to learn from. He is the author of Stride and the founder of Compel Global, where he helps leaders and organizations harness their full potential through intentional action and discipline. But what really caught my attention is JJ's philosophy on the power of relentless momentum. In Stride, he talks about how small, consistent actions—taken daily—are what separate the extraordinary from the average. He shares how elite performers don't just wait for inspiration; they create it through habits and systems that keep them moving forward, no matter the obstacles. As he puts it, “Success isn't about speed—it's about stride. The right rhythm, maintained over time, beats raw talent every time.” That quote alone got me fired up to have him on the show. To see the full show notes and Misfit 3 for this episode, go to www.MisfitEntrepreneur.com. Show Sponsors: Entrepreneurs, what if there was a way to know you were hiring the best salespeople to drive your business? How much would that help your success? Well, with SalesDrive's DriveTest, you can! Drive is composed of three non-teachable traits shared by all top producers: Need for Achievement, Competitiveness, and Optimism. You can get a FREE DriveTest assessment to help you in your hiring efforts at www.MisfitEntrepreneur.com/SalesDrive 5 Minute Journal: www.MisfitEntrepreneur.com/Journal

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