The Be That Guy Podcast

Are we using stress to feel significant? We will all struggle with difficult moments. Some people will take intentional action to try and better manage those moments. Yet do we ever deliberately keep our manageable problems? In this episode I discuss how stress may be something we are holding on to for a specific reason.

Adversity is here, it's on its way or it just left. This was said by Tim Tebow to communicate how challenge will always be a part of our lives. Yet haven't we always gotten through whatever challenge we've faced? Maybe not the way we thought we would but yet we still got through it. In this episode I talk about the concept of life working for us and only giving us challenge that we can...

At the end of our life, we will look back and think why did I do this and why did I do that? This may even cause us to feel some form of regret, that we had done something differently. In this episode I highlight the top 5 regrets of the dying and how to get in front of them.

Changing someone's life can be much simpler than we think. It can happen in an instant and can have a lasting effect we never expected. In this episode I give 2 examples of this phenomenon and how to do it yourself.

Over the past 3 years I have studied some of the world's most successful people from coaches to entrepreneurs. I noticed one thing that was rather simple and common amongst all of them. In this episode I explain that thing and how to get better at it.

In this episode I walk you through a quick exercise I learned from the book The Gap and The Gain by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy. Making this exercise simple and to the point will immediatley flood your body with appreciation, give it a listen to see how.

There are things in life we can control and there are things in life we can't control, yet we have a choice of what is hard in our lives. Whether it be diet, money, relationships...let's get more deliberate with our choices and what we choose to be hard.

When we are stressed, we aren't really stressed...there is something more that is lurking in the shadows. In this episode I walk you through a quick exercise you can do to help understand what is really causing you stress.

We will all encounter difficult people. People who are angry, mad, passive-aggressive and all sorts of mean and they love throwing it our way. In this episode I highlight 3 strategies you can use to effectively handle difficult people.

Nutrition will be in our lives forever and if we aren't deliberate with the food we eat it could really hurt us. In this episode I outline a simple hack you can use when eating to get a better understanding of what you are actually eating and how this can lead to looking better and less stress.

I had an event happen to me in college that changed my perspective about how safe I was choosing to play my life. In this episode I outline this event and what it taught me about adventure and risk in correlation to the impact we have with our lives.

I wanted to do a better job of explaining the difference between what Acres of Diamonds believes in and what toxic positivity is. As I learn more about human behavior and emotions, I realize just how painful it can be to be told to "stay positive" when you really need help.

Personal responsibility is something that gets lost in victim hood, we go around blaming others and pointing fingers at people or reasons why we don't have six pack abbs, a mansion, a beautiful and thriving relationship and so much more...whatever happen to personal responsibility? In this episode I breakdown how we are the solution to all of our challenges by taking personal responsibility fi...

We have beliefs and opinions about certain things in our lives. If we never allow ourselves to see other perspectives to those opinions, we will loose the opportunity to grow. In this episode I discuss the idea of "strong opinions loosely held."

We often try to control what we can't control and that causes us stress and anxiety. What if in order to control that stress we focused primarily on the things we can control? In this episode I outline what we can control and how to better leverage it in our lives.

If we don't define what we want we may never get it. Human beings operate better with a target and defining what we want is that target. In this episode I outline a simple and effective exercise to help you gain clarity towards what you want.

There is one thing that we all have that we don't want. The interesting part is this one thing we need in order to develop relationships and trust with others.

Remember what you wanted what you have right now? Every day we use things unconsciously that give us so much value we just expect them to be a part of our life. In this episode I highlight 10 things to be more conscious of and grateful for.

So you just found out someone doesnt like you. Now what? In this episode I outline 3 ideas to help you overcome this.

In this episode I have on one of my best friends Jack Anten on to discuss how his life changed for the better during quarantine in March of 2020. In this episode we talk about music, the dangers of comparison, instant gratification, the importance of choices and how one musical instrument changed Jack's life forever.

We remember the big moments in our life but what about all the small ones? If 99% of our life is lived in the little moments could we do soemthing with those? In this episode I outline what you can do with those moments to be a happier person.

There is one skill that allows for deeper connection and more meaningful interactions. This skill will make people want to be around you more. In this episode I outline this skill and 2 simple ways to incorporate it into your life.

Language is powerful and the language we use has a great impact on the way we feel and our results. In this episode I highlight 3 language hacks to help you feel more powerful.

Some people think manifesting your ideas into reality is not real, others do it on a consistent basis. In this episode I talk about the importance of manifesting targets in your life to help create your reality instead of it controlling you.

In this episode we have on Dave Vaccaro to discuss 75Hard and how this challenge can help make you a more disciplined person. We discuss the value of discipline and how it can allow you to have more freedom and the difference between consistency and discipline.