Resilience & Mental Toughness for entrepreneurs

“Versus if I have this narrative that I am unblockable, I am comfortable in space, I am a seatbelt in coverage, I'm hard to deal with, I'm— I cause problems for the offense, I'm one step ahead of everyone. Like, you just tell these things to yourself.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 0:06· listen →

“I read this book, Psycho-Cybernetics. That was the book I read before my fourth year. I just had this like kind of— I revived my career. It was because of that book. And the whole essence of the book was like talking about reworking the self-image you have for yourself and how like you can only do as much as your self-image allows you to do.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 29:53· listen →

“And it was interesting when we started doing classes at Liberate, the curriculum would ask people to write down like 10 things they liked about themselves, and a lot of people couldn't write down a single thing.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 13:53· listen →

“Imagine you want that person to have it be 80% positive or 70% positive. You have to start changing the way you talk to yourself, cuz of course you're gonna have imposter syndrome if everything you say to yourself is like, oh, you're not good enough. Oh, she's smarter than you. Oh, that outfit's better. Oh, you shouldn't be here. Oh, what are you doing? Like, of course you're not gonna feel good.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 20:00· listen →

“Fight or flight is for we're in danger. Like, fight or flight is tiger chasing me and I'm gonna die. Like, that's what fight or flight is for. Fight or flight is not for everyday living. And that's why we're seeing the high amounts of anxiety.”

From Survival to Strength: Breathwork & Resilience · 16:46· listen →

“My favorite regimen because it's very easy and simple, I have 2 of them that I use in my practice, is the 5-5-7 breathing. And, that's in for 5, hold for 5, out for 7, 3 times, 3 times a day is how I usually start people.”

From Survival to Strength: Breathwork & Resilience · 24:30· listen →

“The idea of hormetic stress is consciously and intentionally inducing stressors in order to make adaptations. If you think about it in simple terms, it's what happens when you really strength train. When you lift weights, you're inducing a stressor to the muscles and to the fascia. There's a bit of inflammation because of that, and then you get stronger.”

Reset Your Nervous System for Peak Performance · 23:27· listen →

“3 minutes of deep breathing, strong, and you have to focus on it a bit, it can't be very passive, followed by a maximal voluntary breath hold increased circulating human growth hormone in the blood by up to 550% a half hour after that was done.”

Reset Your Nervous System for Peak Performance · 37:45· listen →

“So we call it heart coherence, heart-brain coherence, and there's been over 500 research papers now published on it since it was first published in the American Journal of Cardiology by independent researchers. So it's, it's a real key state for us to get a handle on our moods, emotions, and our health and well-being.”

Dr. Deborah Rozman: Heart-Brain Coherence for Resilience · 2:26· listen →

“High-performance states, you don't want everybody around the board table just in this relaxed state. You want them present, aware, accessing all their faculties. That's what coherence provides, is that presence.”

Dr. Deborah Rozman: Heart-Brain Coherence for Resilience · 20:37· listen →

“I've always stuck by the phrase of you'll flush it. That play's over. I'm going to flush it. I got to move on to the next thing... how do you have the mindset to just accept that, take the positive from it, learn from it and move forward and not make that same mistake again?”

Chris Streveler: NFL Mindset for Entrepreneurs · 62:48· listen →

“On top of my vision board, it says, this or something better... The universe says, no, no, no, this over here is gonna be amazing for you and you don't even know it yet.”

Positive Activity: Daily Mindset Habits with Lori Rogers · 18:42· listen →

“So the answer then is compartmentalization, and that's the shoeboxes. So the more compartmentalized these problems are, the less overwhelming they become. So I got this problem. That by itself is not overwhelming. And I got this problem. That by itself is not overwhelming. It's only when I let them all merge together that I get into trouble. So what I say to people that are overwhelmed, don't lump, compartmentalize, use your shoeboxes.”

Dr. Gary Sprouse: Realistic Optimism to Beat Stress · 34:04· listen →

“Marcus Aurelius's quote around that is interesting. He said, you know, the impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. So what stands in the way becomes the way because it's actually the impediment is what's going to move you forward when you're able to overcome it.”

Stoicism for Entrepreneurs: Lessons from Ken Davenport · 28:20· listen →

“So it's like focusing on the end goal, you know, it's focusing on what matters and why you're doing it is really important for resilience. And then just being flexible, you know, things may not come to fruition in the exact way that you had imagined, but it doesn't mean that whatever you accomplish isn't a success.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 28:35· listen →

“Can I be more resilient through joy, through the things that enlighten me and light me up and also light up other people? And that's what the whole premise is about. And you know what I found out? Because I'm a big nerd, there's facts that having more joy in your life leads you to success.”

Nicole Van Valen on Joy, Spirit & Resilient Leadership · 11:12· listen →

“And so, yes, there's nothing wrong with vacations. And there's nothing wrong with checking off boxes and all of the external things. And those will make you happy for a moment until when is that next thing? But joy, joy is eternal. Joy is constant. It is what lives within.”

Joy vs Happiness: Shari Alyse on Finding Light in Pain · 10:58· listen →

“Because hard choices then are happening when discomfort happens, some self-control happens, and we are more aligned with the long-term vision for ourselves and wait for the reward. It's really hard to do it, hard to save money, let's say, and put the money into retirement and wait and have that vision and connection all the time to the future.”

Jerzy Gregorek: Hard Choices, Easy Life Explained · 0:31· listen →

“So when you expect what I call the decline aging mindset, which has a beautiful acronym of DAMN, when you think, damn, I'm getting older, everything's going to be worse. I'm going to be less relevant. I'm going to be less quick. I'm going to be less effective. I'm going to be less attractive. When you believe that, that is really— that comes to pass.”

Joyspan Over Lifespan: Dr. Kerry Burnight on Aging Well · 15:00· listen →

“We were sitting at the dining room table, the whole family, my parents, my grandparents, and there was a knocking on the door. We didn't expect anybody, so we didn't open because it was a bad time, you know, these days. And they started knocking louder and kicking, finally kicking with their metal boots in the door that came down. And we knew what was happening then, and they took everybody away.”

From Nazi Orphanage to Vitamin Empire: Charles Van Kessler · 0:49· listen →

“It was an incredible undertaking. Incredible. Yeah, I don't know how many times I wanted to quit and just jump in the water, you know, whatever. But I did it. I prayed about it. I did it. And I knew I was close. So Then it came together and my first customer was Regis Philbin.”

From Nazi Orphanage to Vitamin Empire: Charles Van Kessler · 11:05· listen →

“Close your eyes and think that you're starting a new business, you have 2 kids, you have a mortgage, you had a stable job, and you decide to quit your $150,000 to $200,000 job. You take a mortgage on your house. You have absolutely no idea if you're gonna make income. Then how do you feel about it? Does it excite you or does it scare you?”

Georges Karam: From War to Wealth to Purpose · 5:45· listen →

“Did I want to come back? And I was like, no, like this, this is amazing, this feeling. And I heard voices that told me that I needed to go back, that I had children and that I had a purpose.”

Ashley Black: Necessity, Near-Death & High Vibration Living · 4:11· listen →

“You have to jump, you have to elevate, right? The whole idea is to solve the problem from a place that it wasn't created.”

Ashley Black: Necessity, Near-Death & High Vibration Living · 31:23· listen →

“The Stoics were essentially focused on this basic question that you cannot control what happens to you in your life, but you can control how you react to it. And in this age of social media and technological kind of overkill in terms of information, I think we're all struggling to figure out how to make sense of our lives and how to create control where we can.”

Stoicism for Entrepreneurs: Lessons from Ken Davenport · 1:50· listen →

“Here's what I say. So humans like to feel like they're in control. And so when you're in a startup business, you don't really feel like you have a whole lot of control here, right? So where our control comes from is through our choices.”

Dr. Gary Sprouse: Realistic Optimism to Beat Stress · 22:55· listen →

“We need to be very agile how we navigate in those times. To be agile, we need to be in that growth mindset, in that abundant mindset. So the framework helping me to pause, observe, and decide, that framework, if I practice it, I enter quickly into the abundance mindset and get out of the fear of the survival mindset.”

Conscious Leadership: Deciding from Presence, Not Fear · 5:46· listen →

“Everything is a choice. Truly, everything is a choice to wake up, to say yes, to say no.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 6:12· listen →

“Now, like, wanting it more doesn't actually make you better. It's all the other stuff. Like, are you staying consistently focused on the right goals? Are you working on the right goals? Are you efficiently using your time and your energy?”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 23:17

“As long as it's not the knockout punch and there's still time on the clock and there's still breath in my lungs and there's still this and there's— it's like, it's truly like— It's never too late. Like, it's really just never too late.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 31:24

“You might have this occupation that tells you this is where I'm at, this is where I need to be. But don't let that ever, ever, ever get in the way of your vocation, of your purpose. And I felt like, you know, I started playing football. It was a scheme to make friends, win influence, get girls, all the things.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 36:22

“Something about the construction, it, it just speaks to me. Like right now my goal is I want, when I'm done playing, I want to, one, I don't want to take a pay cut, which like that's a very high bar. And then 2, like, I, um, I want to be passionate about what I do, um, but I want to— I want to also make mailbox money.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 40:23

“I believe every single human being has the beautiful power within them to transform, to come home to themselves, as I like to say. And so my role is really to provide the safety, the love, the education, and the tools that people need in order to kind of cross that bridge into self-transformation.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 2:25

“I said, okay, well, I see the divorce and I raise you. I'm quitting the job, selling the house. I'm gonna go on this travel sabbatical and just, you know, kind of my own little Eat, Pray, Love adventure because I knew that I could handle whatever came my way.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 14:50

“It's really hard for judgment and curiosity to coexist, 'cause if we can truly embody curiosity and say, huh, where does that pattern come from? Why do I think that? What am I afraid is going to happen? Then that's where we're really opening a door rather than judging something and closing a door.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 16:19

“I'm not going to go into the gym on day 1 and try to lift 100 pounds off the rack. You know, I'm going to go with a 5 or 10-pound weight. And then over time, I'm going to slowly increase the amount of weight that I can lift until I get to that 100-pound weight.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 22:30

“I also really love the one, worrying is like a rocking chair. It'll pass the time, but it won't get you anywhere.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 34:58

“You know, we move, journal, breathe, meditate to tone mental muscles, which are presence, courage, gratitude, confidence, and resilience. And within each mental muscle, there are different skills that you can cultivate and exercise in order to build that strength.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 11:05

“I think it's even harder too for younger generations with social media. Like, even if you're not being told you're not enough, you're looking at somebody else accomplish something and you're saying, oh, I couldn't have done that. There's like, it's just constant comparison, which really can create negative self-worth and negative self-talk and all of that. So stay off social media.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 16:27

“Or the other one I love is your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 23:58

“Even a successful entrepreneur has failed 1 billion times and been rejected 1 trillion times. Like, I have been rejected way more times than I have been accepted. I have failed way more times than I've been successful. At this point, I'm like almost immune to it, at least for the smaller ones.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 27:28

“How is this happening for me? Not to me. What is this teaching me right now? Okay, a little patience, a little calmness. So when your brain is working from a higher vibration and it's more positive and optimistic, ideas flow to you easier.”

Positive Activity: Daily Mindset Habits with Lori Rogers · 12:23

“Our brains work in the opposite way... Be it first before you see it, right? So I don't mean pretend, but I mean, go to the emotion of having it now and then see what happens.”

Positive Activity: Daily Mindset Habits with Lori Rogers · 16:55

“I don't know if I believe in balance. I think some days it's like 80/20 and some days it's like 60/40. We had this business now for 27 years... I never had balance. Somebody something always got left.”

Positive Activity: Daily Mindset Habits with Lori Rogers · 20:55

“I asked him one day how he knew so much about love, and he spelled out, I learned it from Jesus Christ.”

Positive Activity: Daily Mindset Habits with Lori Rogers · 32:14

“So we have the ability to envision the future so we could say, hey, I'm gonna meet you at 2:30 and we're gonna do a podcast. Right. And we did that, you know, a couple weeks ago. So we were able to envision the future. But the side effect is then we have to worry about it.”

Dr. Gary Sprouse: Realistic Optimism to Beat Stress · 2:15

“So in her case, she said, well, it's 100% chance I'm gonna get it. My mother and my sister both got it. And if I get it, I'm gonna die like they did.”

Dr. Gary Sprouse: Realistic Optimism to Beat Stress · 9:05

“Well, that's, I was talking about this earlier, like when you have a fear reaction, it goes on. So fear was really designed to last only about 10 or 15 minutes. So like if we lived in a jungle, right? And I see a lion, ah, right? My fear reaction goes off.”

Dr. Gary Sprouse: Realistic Optimism to Beat Stress · 17:46