Move The Chains Podcast | Unlocking Your Full Potential with Ryan Munsey

Andy McCloy is the founder of BCI Sports Performance and one of the world's leading Strength Coaches. He has worked with hundreds of athletes ranging from middle and high school to the Professional levels, including the NFL, MLB and NBA. We're not talking sets x reps today, because as you'll hear, Andy knows there is different kind of programming that molds young athletes into champions on and off...

My working title for this episode was "Are You a Lion or Zebra?" But as the lessons in this BHP Short unfold, I was reminded that life isn't so binary. There are times in life when we are the lion, and then there are times when we are the zebra. Both scenarios will require us to fight for what we want. Sometimes we're fighting to avoid pain, defeat, or literally for our lives. Other times, we're f...

"Seek more meaningful moments." That simple and powerful phrase is one of the (many) memorable lessons I pulled from a recent conversation with Dr. Russell Jaffe right here on the BHP. Reflecting on that mantra recently, I was reminded of one of my favorite books I've read in the last few years: Chip and Dan Heath's The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact . If you'r...

"My tribe is weak. How do I elevate my social circles?" A few weeks ago I got this question via email from a reader who was listening to F*ck Your Feelings on Audible . I get this question a lot - so I turned my response into this BHP Short: The people with whom we spend our time have a powerful influence on our values, choices, and behaviors. These social circles and the beliefs and actions that...

When practicing their putting, pro golfers often putt to tees in the ground instead of an actual hole. Snipers pick a button on a shirt. The best hunters pick a hair, not an area. All three are utilizing the same strategy: Aim Small = Miss Small If you've seen American Sniper, you may recognize this advice. Turns out, this phrase is more than a catchy maxim. Studies on shooters support it. I'll ex...

Two weeks ago, Steve Smith and I team taught a High Performance Practices seminar for the Fairfax County Police Department. Steve, aka @fuelingperformance on the IG, has worked as the resident chef and nutritionist for the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder, the NFL's Houston Texans, and the most elite operators in our nation's Special Force Operations. For this seminar, we spent two eight-hour days work...

Life is a constant series of ups and downs. One mantra that helps me accept and cope with these swings is this: "Enjoy when you can. Endure when you must." I first heard this advice from long-time T-nation writer, Chris Shugart who shared this phrase sometime around 2007 or 2008 but it dates back to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who left us quite a library of powerful quotes . We all go through phas...

John Zeratsky is a writer and designer on a mission to help people make time for what matters. He's the bestselling author of Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days  and  Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day . John's writing has been published by The Wall Street Journal ,  TIME ,  Harvard Business Review ,  Wired ,  Fast Company , and many other publica...

Want more peace, love, beauty, and fulfillment if your life? I'm willing to bet, it's already there. We just need to look for it. We see what we want to see. Our biology is wired for survival, and this means we're wired to see what's wrong. For millennia, seeing what was wrong - the threats that could end our lives - kept us alive. If you're reading this, chance are, your life is not in immediate...

Which are you chasing: Stimulus or Adaptation? One will keep you busy and spinning on hamster wheel - possibly going backward. One will make you better. Which do you chase? When we chase the stimulus, we're being driven by our emotional/limbic brain's desire for an adrenaline rush, the dopamine hit, feeling "busy", and the NOW. When we pursue adaptation, we're guided by the process, the actions th...

On our recent travels, Donna and I encountered a Buddhist Monk who offered us some advice: "Work smoothly. Lifetime Peace." In a world that increasingly makes us feel as though we need to scream, shout, push, hustle, and elbow our way into other's attention, this token is a welcome reminder to focus on our own work, at our own pace. Don't force it. Learn acceptance, pacing, patience. Appreciate, d...

This edition of BHP Shorts builds on the theme of connection and contact that we explored in BHP Shorts 039: Contact Vs. Stance with a powerful observation from Dave Chappelle and Jerry Seinfeld. As Dave puts it, "superheroes need to hang out with other superheroes". But it's not about forming a super-alliance that fights crime together. Rather, it's a support group where humans can relate to othe...

There is a saying in both baseball and golf that how we make contact is more important than how we stand. This lesson holds within it, several deeper lessons about connection, communication, leadership, and impact. Whether we swing a stick at a ball or not, I'll argue that this adage can help us create, connect, communicate, and lead more effectively. After all, how we make contact with other huma...

Let's be honest, life can sometimes feel crazy, chaotic, even overwhelming. In today's BHP Short, I'm sharing two of my go-to strategies to protect my sanity and productivity - Buffer Days and Brain Dumps. These two tactics - used in tandem, or by themselves - help us hold the space for ourselves that is required to identify, prioritize and execute the best uses of our time. Block out the noise an...

Josh Mantz is a West Point graduate and former Major in the United States Army. He's a recipient of the Purple Heart and Bronze Star with Valor for wounds received in Baghdad in 2007. This is also where the the seeds of his current work in moral psychology were first planted. A mong the nation's leading speakers on psychological trauma, moral injury, and leadership , Josh is the CEO of Asymmetric...

Those who WANT to swim in the deep end, usually jump right in. When I owned my performance training facility, House Of Strength, I had countless potential members tell me they " needed to get in shape before they could workout here ." I say the same thing now that I told them every time: I'm calling BS on that one. First of all, great coaches know how to meet you where you and help you progress fr...

Mental Health, Awareness and Consciousness When I spoke last month at Buckley Air Force Base outside Denver, Colorado, I shared the stage with a great friend and amazing human, Mr. Rick Alexander. Halfway through the event, while the attendees were at lunch, we looked at each other and simultaneously said "We're onto something here! How do we do more of this?!" Last week, Rick and I sat down in fr...

Mastering Transitions or The Nowhere Between 2 Somewheres **This originally appeared as a post I made on IG last year and the concept of mastering transitions is something we touch on in the Better Human Workshops.** The Nowhere Between Two Somewheres This is the space that most requires us to trust the process. It could last 0.2 seconds or 20 years, depending on the pursuit. Whether it's a new ha...

Matt Kreutz, founder of Oakland's Firebrand Bread, is passionate about people and community. He's pretty good at baking bread and building a business too - Firebrand has grown from a single baker to more than employees and now supplies well-renowned Chef Michael Mina and Oakland area Whole Foods their daily breads. Press play to tune in to this inspiring conversation about doing the right thing, b...

Austin Powers & The Wolves of Yellowstone When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995, researchers and Park Rangers chose to number the wolves instead of naming them. This decision was made as an intentional precaution to reduce emotional attachment and possible human intervention. They understood that naming the beings increased attachment and reduced their ability to be pa...

The Rule of Thirds comes from Major League Baseball, where even the best teams lose about 1/3 of their games while the worst teams win about 1/3 of their games. What separates the "good" teams from the "bad" teams, is what they do in the remaining 1/3 of their games. What happens in those remaining 50 games determines the success (or failure) of their seasons. The analogous carryover to the human...

42 years after it's release, Jimmy Buffett is still singing Margaritaville at Every. Single. Performance. Think you're tired of that song? How do you think HE feels? Yet, there he is… night after night, 40+ years down the road, still playing the hits. We all have a tendency to downplay or move past our greatest hits. Maybe we're humble, or maybe we're searching for the next developmental opportuni...

Angelo Sisco, host of The Alpha Hippie podcast and founder of Chicago's O'Hare CrossFit, joins us on the Better Human Project for a gripping conversation about life, relationships, mental and physical health, consciousness exploration, and the pursuit of our greatest selves. Show Notes Lessons from Angelo's 100-pound weight loss journey Growing up with a father in federal prison What we can learn...

Let's pretend you have a piping hot, mouth-watering pizza in front of you. If I ask you to give me 100% of your pizza, is that a possibility? Absolutely. (Is it likely? Not so much, but let's stay focused.) NOW, if I ask you to give me 120% of your pizza, is that possible? No. Where would the other 20% come from? If I ask you to draw a circle graph that represents 120% of your energy, can you do t...

Meet the humans behind "The World's Best Health Newsletter", Co-Founders of the experiential wellness brand Live Better, Jason Loebig and Bret Gornik. These guys are Nike trainers, Yoga instructors, and Barry's boot Camp instructors, who want to help you have the best day ever - every. single. day. When they're not training what seems like half of Chicago's population, they're busy building their...