The Be That Guy Podcast

If someone said you have 30 days to change your life, what would you do? This episode is that answer. 30 days to shock your life with discipline, the ultimate key to getting anything you want.

My goal was simple. Create a podcast about something I was passionate about and let it rip. Be honest, be vulnerable and maybe it will help someone. 52 episodes later it inspired me to end 2022 in the most self-disciplined way I know. Listen to see how to finish a year right.

We are emotional beings that think, we are not logical beings that have emotion. Under every decision we make there is an emotion that is driving that decision and behavior. In this episode I tell a story that shows how our emotions truly dictate our behavior. This will help you realize why you make the decisions you do. 

We have all experienced social anxiety in some way, a free opportunity for all of us to be judged and others to created opinions about us. What if we took a step back and asked ourselves, do we really think that's what's going on? What if we asked the people closest to us a question to help us better understand that people that aren't that close to us...the people who we see in these social settin...

I picture Hell being a place where every day I am forced to watch what I could have become. I think about this saying a lot as we are in charge of creating the version of ourselves we want to be. If we don't make a conscious effort to create ourselves everything else will consume our time and energy. We will miss the opportunity of being the person we know we are capable of becoming.

We think that speakers, coaches, books and movies can motivate us, but they really don't. The ideas these sources give us make us feel something, almost like a spark that we then put into action. In turn there is only one person who can truly motivate us to take action, change and become something great. In this episode I outline that person.

We talk a lot about gratitude and appreciation, yet do we really understand just how lucky we are? The fact that we have clean water, clothes to wear, phones to communicate with and cars to get us from point A to point B show us just how great we have it. We often focus so much on everything that's going wrong that we forget just how great our lives are. The goal of this episode is to remind you o...

If you do not make yourself uncomfortable the universe will do it for you. I heard this saying from a mentor of mine named Brent Kocal who hosts the Everyday Discipline podcast. Discipline is my ultimate favorite skill; it is the key to getting what you want. In this episode I discuss the importance of staying disciplined with deliberate discomfort in your life in order to experience a more comfor...

Social Media is a tool. The way we use this tool determines the effect it has on us. The way we are currently using social media is the problem, not social media itself. In this episode I highlight the positives of social media and why it's great and the negatives of social media and why it's bad. After listening ask yourself how do use social media?

Events happen to us in our life, initially we label these events to give them some kind of meaning. You break your leg, that's bad, you get a raise that's good. Yet what if after breaking your leg your doctor discovers a life-threatening disease? What if that raise required more responsibility and work and you ended up regretting taking it? We don't know what is good or what is bad, all we can do...

We have all heard of New Year's Resolutions, that one thing you want to bring into your life in the new year. Depending upon when you decide what this new goal is there can be some time to when you actually take action towards that goal. Waiting until a new year to do it is not how high achievers operate. In this episode I debunk New Year's Resolutions and hopefully inspire others to start acting...

I had a conversation with a mentor of mine around self-discipline and realized something interesting. Self-Disciplined people are very structured and routine because they are trying to avoid something, in a way that "something" scares them. In this episode I outline a couple examples of how to become a more self-disciplined person by reflecting on what you are trying to avoid.

I was sent a video this week by my sister that displayed an incredible metaphor about life. About two days later I listened to the same lesson randomly on a podcast and thought this is a sign. In this episode I outline this incredible metaphor for life and what areas we should truly focus on.

We interact with people every day. Some people we enjoy the interaction...others not so much. Specific qualities in someone cause them to be a more attractive human being. Whether you are looking for a relationship or a friend we look for specific examples of these qualities in others. Today I breakdown these traits and highlight the 8 most attractive qualities in a human being. 

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. We have heard this saying countless times and it refers to the only thing able to hurt us being physical. We live in a time now where every day we are exposed to negative news, social media comparison and numerous emotional avenues that have nothing to do with physical impact yet we feel more anxious, stressed and fearful than ever...

In this episode I tell the story of the 5 frogs. This story shows the difference between thinking about getting what you want and actually getting it. It teaches us an incredible life lesson that if nothing changes...nothing changes. Action and physical movement aligned with our empowering decisions will get us what we want. You can check out the 5 frogs' video as well.

In order to improve our physical health, we practice physical fitness. Physical fitness is deliberate physical stress we put on our bodies in order to make it more fit. So, what do we do to improve our mental health? We practice mental fitness, which is our ability to handle the unpredictable waves (stress/anxiety/overwhelm) of life with more emotional resilience. In this episode I breakdown this...

Vulnerability is our ability to connect with our true-self and align our behavior with our core values. Vulnerability today may be seen as weakness, showing emotion or openly discussing your failures, challenges and scars. In order to connect and inspire humans you have to be one. All humans have their moments of pain and conflict that can be strategically used to not only connect with others but...

We say things happen as a coincidence yet what if it was actually all planned? The Universe, higher power, spiritual energy whatever you would like to call it speaks to us in ways that if we aren't aware of may miss. If we miss these signs, people and moments we are missing out on answers and guidance from a higher power. This may be a little out of what you want to believe but why not believe in...

If you want to increase your confidence, discipline and mental toughness, 75 Hard is how to do it. 75 days of specific tasks to help you build a stronger mind and healthier lifestyle. I completed this challenge this past week and in this episode, I outline some interesting pieces to the challenge, what I learned and why everyone should do it.

We will all have moments of stressful and anxious thinking. The key is making a decision of how long we want this negative thinking to have control over us. Using a combative technique that fights against these negative emotions we can manage the duration of time we experience these feelings. In this episode I explain this technique and show real examples of how I have used it in my life. This tec...

What are the three things that everyone wants? Some may say happiness, success, love, prosperity...and the list goes on. What if we went even deeper? What if we went to an emotional level by understanding what we want to feel? In this episode I outline the 3 things that all humans want on an emotional level and most importantly... how to give it to them.

Mental McDonalds is a term we use to describe the negative mental input we feed our minds from old limiting beliefs, mainstream news and social media. If we start to consistently feed our bodies McDonalds, we will start to see a decline in our physical health. The same concept applies to our mind and mental health. In this episode I outline the value that both the actual McDonalds and social media...

What can you teach me? If someone was to ask you this, what would you say? I asked this question to 3 individuals and the answers I got were not what I was expecting. In this episode I outline the 3 answers I received from asking this question and what it showed me. We are all far richer intellectuals than we think, and these answers show why.

Time Management is a concept that is misunderstood. Time is like the weather, it's always there and we must work around it and with it in order to utilize it. Priorities are what we decide to make that time consist of. When we reflect on priority management vs time management, we can see what we apply our time to. In this episode I deconstruct the concept of time and introduce priority management...