Tell me about your vision, man.
Yeah, my vision, you know, since having kids really has enveloped into a much different
way of life.
So I have three little girls, eight, six, and four, and I got a wife.
And just my vision in terms of like what it means to be a man has just completely shifted
over the course of raising these girls and just being a husband.
So my vision for my life, I have a mission statement to empower and encourage others
so I can leave a positive generational legacy.
What that means, I just want to be a massive encourager every day.
I want to have a, I want to go out with a massive amount of positivity.
And then how do I implement that?
Well, my main structures are through fitness.
I'm a big believer in when the body moves, the mind grooves.
So I believe in the ultimate strength of how I can be a model for my children and my family
and be a model of health.
And then secondary to that is really once I get that in place, it comes in my faith
is a main antithesis of that.
And then how I control my mindset.
And so what is that mindset?
And that's ultimately what I'm influencing, putting in my brain the words that are coming
out of my mouth.
So I keep it pretty basic.
I think my mission statement encompasses what do I want to achieve on a daily basis?
Am I encouraging others?
Do I have a happy heart?
How am I parenting my kids first and foremost and my control was within my four walls.
But yeah, that's ultimately vision.
And then it goes outside of my four walls into my business, in my businesses, and then
into the people that I just encounter on a daily basis.
Gotcha.
I like that.
What you said, when the mind moves, when the body moves, the mind grooves, right?
Absolutely.
That's great, man.
Where did that come from?
What started this vision of athletic and being motivated to move, giving you the courage
to keep going in your day to day?
What did that come from?
Yeah, it came from a dark spot, to be honest with you.
I was a pretty good athlete, coming out of high school, got a couple looks to play collegially,
but had a super bad attitude.
I had a super sullen attitude, thought I was better than everybody.
Nobody was better than me.
And so I just, through the course of my early 20s, I felt like it was this game that I was
playing that I was living in my past and never in my future.
And the best days were behind me and not ahead of me.
And so I just, in my mid 20s, I literally, I went into the Celebrate Recovery Program
that I thought was for drug addicts.
And I'm like, God, take control of my heart.
I got to figure this thing out.
Had just gotten married.
And really, I think that's where the motivating standpoint.
It was the first time really I got into a Bible.
I read it all the way through.
And that kind of churned my love for reading.
And so I just became a massive reader up to that point.
So when I was 26, I just wanted to read books, business books, just Napoleon Hill, Stephen
Hawkins, all the good books that I could nurture my mind with and grow and absorb their knowledge.
That's why I'm just a massive believer in books.
If somebody took the time to really sit down and really put their thoughts on paper in
depth, man, I should probably give the good ones a shout.
And so right now I'm into, I just finished a book with Peter Atiyah, Outlive.
And just over the course of last really 12 years, as I've nurtured my mind that way,
through reading, reading scripture, reading books, where I just become, don't get me wrong,
sometimes get stressful.
That's the whole thing in the Nutrisus logo is that you're going to go through the valleys
too.
But how do I just maintain my edge?
And one of the big ways to maintain my edge is to maintain my body and my mind.
There you go.
I like that.
It seems like every entrepreneur has a book that they fall back on or they recommend this
and they recommend that.
And it sounds like you recommend the Bible is your book to recommend up front.
And that's a good way to look at it, man.
Do you have any other books you recommend for people?
Yeah.
You know, one book that was really, really life changing in terms of how I structure
my day to day and micro movements.
To be honest, it's How I Keep the Six Back, Volume.
But Atomic Habits is a great way to habit stack things.
And so when you, we are creatures of habit, whether we like it or not, we have bad habits
and we have good habits.
And how do we just start blending in more of those healthier habits?
And so really Atomic Habits, I would recommend by James Clear.
He says this quote, you don't rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level
of your systems.
And so what systems are you putting in on a daily basis that allow you to rise?
And so this is just a super basic one, but getting up and drinking water, even adding
a little sea salt.
That's a system in the day to keep your body hydrated with electrolytes.
Before I get into the shower, I have to pump out a hundred crunches.
And so I do that because you know why?
I'm getting into the shower, I'm getting sweaty anyway.
Why not get myself a little bit more out of breath before I hop into the shower?
So those are just like some really basic things that you can put in as systems that are ultimately
going to age your body and live a healthier lifestyle.
Absolutely.
That's great.
I mean, setting up systems like that, doing a hundred crunches before you get into the
shower is something that I've thought about before doing workout right before.
I mean, you're already getting, you're dirty anyways.
You're about to Ross off something that I've started doing every morning is I wake up at
seven a.m. whenever the dog starts jumping on the bed needing to go out.
And so then I'll take the dog out, let my partner keep sleeping, take the dogs out and
then we go on a walk around the trail around the property.
And then I go do pull ups on the bar that I have out there, pull ups, push ups, sit
ups until I hurt.
And then then I come back inside and shower off.
So kind of in that same realm, but that's a morning.
Every morning I'll start until I'm like, OK, that's enough push ups for right now.
And it's never an amount.
It's never a I'm never keeping track.
It's just go until fail or go until go until I stop.
Yeah, no, I love that.
I also do recommend, though, having a number in mind.
I always like benchmarking.
Right.
And so when you when you're able to track its data and so you're like, dang, man, I
did 20 push ups the other day.
And then when that's kind of like the benchmark and you're like, I'm going to pop out 10 more.
So just maybe a little bit of encouragement for you to set a benchmark because you see
your growth and you see your process over time.
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, that's something I'll add in, I guess.
I'll write down it.
I'll write it down somewhere and just keep it mental.
But getting back to you, I'm curious how you got started going from being in high school,
going into did you go into collegiate sports?
Did you say earlier or no, I actually did not.
So you know, I had an opportunity to play either Juco or D3.
My goal was always to play division one basketball.
I just wanted to play division one basketball my entire life.
I didn't get I didn't get offers.
D1 and so I was really that's really a sulky about it.
I probably could have walked on D2 and I had an opportunity to walk on at Oakland University,
which was a D1 University.
But I want them to offer me.
I was I had that mentality.
So no, I didn't I didn't play and I had the capabilities.
I just didn't have the mindset.
If I had the mindset that I had today back then, I probably would have.
But hey, man, I don't regret it.
It's one of those things that it's the narrative of the story.
And so I get to control my story and it's how I move.
How did you get started from that mentality into creating your businesses about fitness
and building the mind up with fitness?
How did you get started into that?
Yeah, that's a that's a really good question.
So I actually got into my first business was real estate.
And so I got into the Airbnb world in 2014.
So we started there and I just really didn't like my job.
I didn't have a passion for the nine to five.
It just like was not my thing.
Although I worked hard, it just was not, you know, sitting at a desk doing sales.
It just like wasn't my thing.
I want to work on my own.
And so in 20 late 2015 is when I started up getting into more of the kind of the scaling
side of the Airbnb.
And then I eventually went into syndications where I raised capital for multifamily.
And then we flipped a bunch of houses all over central Florida.
So I was doing that.
But one of the things that kind of derived out of that was children.
Right.
I started having children in 2016 and I wanted to make sure that I was keeping my mind and
my body sharp.
And that that was something that I was doing.
So I was a personal trainer for a little bit.
And it was just it was one of those things that was in my repertoire.
So it just over the course really 2018 is where I started edging into this biohacking
world.
I don't really love calling it biohacking.
I don't think you're hacking anything.
You're harmonizing it.
So you're harmonizing your body as you get older.
And so I started getting really nerdy into stuff started with cold showers, then led
into led into sauna, then led into how what are other therapies am I using to reduce inflammation
in the body?
I then got really last year I started getting into crazy crazy cardiovascular shape expanding
my deal to Max where I was pressure pressing myself.
So I've been doing kettlebell training for the past four years, but I wanted to run a
little bit more.
And then this past year, I set a goal for myself to just pack on more muscle and have
good cardiovascular conditioning.
So I set goals every year, but it really started the antithesis was like it started with just
like, you know, working out intentionally a little bit more than it then it gravitated
towards like, oh, I'm going to try this cold shower thing.
So about six or seven years ago, I started this cold shower thing every morning, which
then just has progressed, right?
So sauna therapy, cold water therapy, peptides, TRT, I get my blood work done every quarter
now.
You know, I'm strength training as well as cardiovascular training for recovery purposes.
So there's just things that I've added in these but it started honestly in that that
atomic habits world where just a small little daily discipline has led to other disciplines
where I can really, really be in tune with my body at 39 years old now.
That's crazy.
The amount of things that you have going into it and maintaining and then not even necessarily
maintaining but upgrading it feels like constantly you're not you're not standing still, you're
not stagnating, you're always pushing forward.
And that's something I hope to do with my morning workout and my morning routine is to
keep improving and improving because if you stand, if you stagnate, you stall out, then
you're just going downhill at that point.
Stagnation is declining in my mind.
Exactly.
That's a you know, and one of the biggest things is curiosity, just being curious, you
know, wanting to learn a little bit more.
And so that's that's where I'm at.
And so now we've just made a platform around it.
Yeah.
So we have full fueled which we coach guys, typically guys over 35.
We're coaching guys and mindset, nutrition and and and strength training, because we
do believe that strength, you know, muscle is the key to longevity.
Science has backed that.
So we focus on that.
And that's it just has evolved it like over time.
So we encompass and we encourage guys to just get better every day.
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