Beyond the Rut: Create a Life Worth Living in Your Faith, Family, Career

Living Her Own Dream - Rina ChongRina is a born-and-raised Calgarian, whose wisdom stems from growing up underprivileged as an only child raised by her single mother, which conditioned her with a victim mentality, she followed the typical ‘system’ and realized that she didn’t fit the corporate mold broke free from the walls that confined her and set off on her own mission. Serendipity has played a...

Our First Mud Run - Thunderdash 2016We're running our first mud run 5K called the Hill Country Thunderdash located in Comfort, Texas. Brandon has been running, getting ready. Jerry has not. Who will win? Who will die? This will be just the first of a series of 5K challenges we put ourselves through. Part of our story in this episode includes our attempt to carb load the night before the race. Bran...

Life is Unfair and Filled with OpportunityIn 2007, Jerry was the top real estate sales agent in his company. The market tanked the following year and he struggled every year until he found his true passion in education/performance consulting. Matt Miller found himself in a similar situation in 2003. He was top salesman for his company. A manager desired to capitalize on Matt's success and increase...

Building a Culture of ActionBusiness consultant Erik Chaplen overcame an abusive, fatherless home growing up. Today, he coaches others to succeed in business and life. He's mastered the ability to succeed with what he has in front of him and showing others how they can do the same in their own lives. We live in a world that is saturated with information, and little action is taken to make a differ...

You Gotta Enjoy the DetailsEric Giuliani is back to share with us how he prepared for the launch of his dream. Eric shares how we need to care about the details and wenjoy the details them as part of the process. Eric's Biggest LessonsHe's 6'9" and lives out of just two duffle bags living life around the world. What were his biggest lessons that can relate to your life? What happened to him in Vie...

Traveling Tall Around the WorldEric Giuliani once worked as an education consultant. He had a great paycheck, company car, and traveled around the United States at the whim of his company. A leave of absence spent traveling his dream vacation opened up his eyes to the world of color around him. Eric returned to his place of employment. His company fired him rather than honor the leave of absence....

Your New Year's resolutions may have stalled out early in the year. When most people find themselves in a rut with their goals' progress, you don't have to wait until another new year rolls around. Every September in the United States, a wave of new beginnings sweeps across the country. New clothes, new friends, and new opportunities. Listen to this episode to see what that wave of momentum is and...

Why Have an Accountability PartnerHave you ever heard about a successful self-study program of Alcoholics' Anonymous or Narcotics' Anonymous program? No, their success completely depends on addicts working with an accountability partner called a "sponsor."Would a fitness trainer let you to lie about your weight, the number of reps you completed, or the calories you ate? NO!Successful fitness train...

Marcia Upson has helped over 25,000 people lose weight by teaching them about the eating habits of the naturally slim. Brandon and Jerry ask Marcia about the eating habits of "True Thins", the term she uses to describe those who seem to eat what they want and never gain weight. Also discussed: How to eat at a buffet and still lose weight What is most important in a food labelResources and LinksNat...

Show Notes at BeyondTheRut.com/048Part 1 - The JobRecent guest, Jamie Rodriguez, put the challenge to Brandon after she interviewed with us on Beyond the Rut. She left her job, then told Brandon to be the next one to pursue his dream. So...Brandon got a new job, and shares how it came about. By the time you listen to this episode, he will have left his previous gig and transitioned into his new ro...

What are the stages a thriving marriage experiences? How does a couple survive the empty nest phase in life? How do I strengthen my marriage? What is the right way to start a marriage? What if I didn't do that? That is why we have author, speaker, blogger Jackie Bledsoe on the show to talk about how we can get out of and avoid ruts in marriage. Our relationships succeed or fail gradually then sudd...

You may have stumbled into your first job right out of high school or college and knew from the start that the work would suck out your soul. Fast forward a few years, and while it has paid well enough you wish you were earning more and doing work you actually enjoy. You may feel like you're in a rut in your current career. Where do you go from here? What if you really could have that job of your...

If you only have five years to live, what would you do with that time? What is most important to you? Where would you go? What needs to be set up for your family's future? That's the direction of today's conversation between Brandon and Jerry. Dismissively call it a mid-life crisis if you like. The reality for many people is we are stuck on Someday Isle, "Someday I'll do _____." This is a rut in o...

Fear Can Waste Our TimeMany people waste their life and time in fear of failure or fear of success. The interview with Jamie Rodriguez in BtR 043 reminded us that life is too short to let fear keep us from doing something worthwhile. Yes, technically Darius Foroux mentioned it first in episode BtR 042 the week before. The point is that we've picked up on a theme here. We can accomplish things bigg...

Friend Jamie Rodriguez joins us on Beyond the Rut taking on the hot seat. She'll share how her vacation to New York City became a turning point in her life bringing her perspective and courage to pursue her dream. In a sense, she's officially the first person who has taken our advice and applied it...that we know of. Some of the questions Jamie answers are the following: Have you come across naysa...

Retrain Your MindOur minds betray us. We wish to live a life of significance, but find ourselves putting off the steps that will get us where we want to be. We may be living in a state of learned helplessness after years of failure after failure. Fear holds some of us back before we ever give our dreams a shot. Fear was a powerful tool for survival thousands of years ago. The emotion that once was...

A small drip of water, consistently hitting the same spot on a rock over and over, every day will eventually cut a deep channel into that rock. It's the little things that make a big difference when we do them repeatedly over time. Brandon and Jerry take a few minutes to reflect on how their relationship with Jared Easley began and reflect on their Episode 39 interview with him. Jared Easley is th...

Singing Pocketful of Sunshine Can you imagine Brandon jamming out to Adele or singing Natasha Bedingfield's "Pocketful of Sunshine"? That has been just the start of his father-daughter vacation with Maddy as they drive from Texas to New Mexico and on a loop back to Texas. After seeing sites like the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico and the Bottomless Lake, Brando...

#DoYouEvenRutellaBro?!Host of Starve the Doubts podcast and founder of Podcast Movement conference joins us to talk about success through collaboration. Noticing the work of others and helping them is his secret to being noticed. Topics discussed: How Jared is often misnamed as "Jerry" and Jerry is often misnamed as "Jeremy," "Jeffrey", or "Steve" #DoYouEvenNutellaBro Getting Out of the Rut Can Be...

Vacation With Your Kids Before It's Too LateBrandon goes out of his way to connect with his kids with quality one-on-one time. He has to when he has a blended family with five children. It's easy for any one child to feel left out when we are doing everything we can to provide the best life for them. Whether you have one children or more than five, Brandon and Jerry talk about why you should plan...

A few weeks ago while recording episodes 35 and 35 of Beyond the Rut, Brandon noticed that Jerry had been getting thinner. In fact, by that time Jerry had lost 16 pounds since the start of 2016.Here's the crazy thing. Jerry did not adopt any gimmicky diets. He didn't go Vegan. He ate whatever he wanted and simply changed the when and how he ate. Brandon and Jerry discuss how to lose weight without...

Connect with us. Email a comment or question for the show, info@beyondtherut.com. Or, call and leave a message to play in a future episode, (361) 596-3788.Our Story with Former NFL Player Jason BrownMost people we know hate being told no. We recently reached out to former NFL player Jason Brown. He's the player who gave up a multi-million dollar contract to take up farming for a cause. You can rea...

Connect with us. Email a comment or question for the show, info@beyondtherut.com. Or, call and leave a message to play in a future episode, (361) 596-3788.Lessons LearnedSeven months ago, we launched Beyond the Rut Podcast after eight months of planning and replanting. There were successes and failures along the way. While we gave advice and encouragement, we also found ourselves faced with discou...

Beating Self-DoubtWe bring Davidson Young back for another interview on the show where we ask him to tell us about the most common leadership rut his clients find themselves. While the host of The Leaders Foundry didn't share a common rut, he did identify the most common root cause. That common root cause of leadership ruts according to Davidson is self-doubt. It often sets in when a leader takes...

Who is Bert De Vera? Just weeks after getting married to the love of his life, Bert De Vera immigrated to the United States from the Philippines to fulfill a contract to work for a physical therapy practice. He was reunited with her in just under two years. As his career gained traction, he found himself concerned about being stuck in a rut where his family's well-being hinged on his ability to wo...