Inside The Mirror

Be an Intentional Man w/ Jonathan Mcginley

April 09, 2024 10:00 - 49 minutes - 22.8 MB

Hey friends! Back with an episode for the men specifically today. Men, this one is RICH with wisdom so you probably want to take some notes. If you're a woman listening, I hope you hear the heart Jonathan has for men here and ask yourself if you know a man that could use a coach to help them find their purpose and mission in life and level up their personal growth and success. Jonathan is the go-to guy when it comes to helping men live intentionally in all ares of their lives, ph...

"I plead the F.I.F.T.H." w/ Johnson Tran

April 03, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 28.2 MB

Hey friends! Hope you're all healthy and well! REALLY excited to share this conversation with you. This episode was with my friend and someone I now refer to as the "millionaire mindset next door" Johnson Tran. 😎 Johnson and I had a fantastic conversation, starting with his humble beginnings as a first generation Vietnamese American coming out of a tough upbringing in Houston to being unofficially retired by 36. He laid out for us the simple money principles his Dad taught him as a youn...

From almost dead to thriving health w/ Anthony Rocca

March 12, 2024 10:00 - 44 minutes - 20.6 MB

Hey friends! Welcome back to another guest filled episode. 😎 This week I had my friend Anthony Rocca on the podcast. Anthony has a wild story of health and healing, going from hospitalized at 85lbs, with a crippling diagnosis and close to dead, to now thriving, strong and healthy just a few years later. We talked about his journey of healing himself outside of the conventional medical system, his advice to those who are sick and seeking answers, the things he's done to figure out the ri...

Making Strategic Decisions

March 05, 2024 11:00 - 15 minutes - 6.96 MB

Hey friends! This weeks episode was inspired by a conversation with my Dad last week where we were talking about being strategic in making decisions. Lets be honest, we all struggle at times to make the best decisions for ourselves and we often wish we could go back and make different decisions in hindsight. In the moment it can often be hard to make decisions that are strategic for the future as we are often making quick, emotion driven decisions. That being said, in this episode I wante...

Your Attitude Determines your Outcome

February 27, 2024 11:00 - 18 minutes - 8.33 MB

Hey friends! Have you ever heard the phrase "Your inputs determine your outcomes?" While I agree with this in many ways, I think a key factor that is often missed in life is our attitude. I believe that one of the main factors in our happiness and fulfillment in life is our attitude. So in this weeks episode I wanted to talk about how our Attitude determines our outcomes. Our attitude effects the majority of our experience in life and our ability or lack thereof to have a positive atti...

What really matters in life w/ Derrick Jewell

February 07, 2024 11:00 - 48 minutes - 22.5 MB

Hey friends! Know I haven't had a guest on in awhile so super excited to be back with a guest! Really enjoyed this conversation with my friend and hip hop artist Derrick Jewell aka Whyte-out. Derrick and I met many years ago when we were making music and doing shows in Colorado. Derrick is an incredibly talented artist and has worked with artists like Twista, Jellyroll, Rittz, Krayzie Bone from Bone Thugs n Harmony and a lot more! In this conversation we got deep, Derrick talked about h...

How to handle Election Season

January 30, 2024 11:00 - 18 minutes - 8.58 MB

Hey friends! It is election season in America, and you know what that means... Anger, arguments, division and overall a lack of unity and ability to see those we disagree with as human. In my opinion, if we were all able to calmly listen and communicate with one another, we would find that 99% of us all want the same things. Freedom to speak and do as we please, systems of money, healthcare and government that will work for us and to protect us, politicians that will fight for us and make...

Slow down to speed up

January 16, 2024 11:00 - 16 minutes - 7.54 MB

Hey friends, Hope you're all healthy and thriving! This week I wanted to just unpack some of my thoughts and personal focuses recently around the way I spend my time and how I evaluate the things I'm doing that are moving the ball forward in my life. Here's the reality, we're all busy. We live in a busy society that tells us we need to always be going to achieve what we want in life, I've bought into this as well in life and filled my days with busyness. But the more I live the more...

You were born to be Great!

January 11, 2024 11:00 - 13 minutes - 6.37 MB

Hey friends, Welcome back to another episode, I'm FIRED UP! You and I have believed a LIE and I want to expose it and speak out against it. The lie comes in many forms but they tell us that we weren't made to be great. The lies say that we aren't good enough, pretty enough, talented enough, that we should be average, don't be too disruptive, you can't change the world etc, ALL LIES! We were all created uniquely withe potential to make a huge difference and change the world, the enemy doe...

Be proud of yourself and your progress

January 03, 2024 11:00 - 11 minutes - 5.29 MB

Ayo, Happy new year friends! It's pretty wild how fast the time passes in life but here we are. Hope you're all healthy and well and ready for a year of growth and blessings. For the first episode of the year I wanted to touch on something that I feel is frequently overlooked, especially as a year ends and everyone is planning for how to do more and be better in the next. I want to talk about recognizing the progress you're making in life and being PROUD of yourself and how far you've...

The pain of change vs the pain of staying the same

December 20, 2023 11:00 - 22 minutes - 10.5 MB

Hey y'all! This weeks episode may be a bit convicting for some and I hope it is, it was for me too. I'm talking about the pain of staying the same vs the pain of changing. We all have areas of our lives we want to improve or we just aren't satisfied with where our lives are at and we want it to change. That's a great starting point, wanting more and not being fully satisfied with where we're at, but the problem is, too often we choose to stay in the place we're at bc it's more comfortable...

Why you should stop taking other people's advice...

December 12, 2023 11:00 - 19 minutes - 8.78 MB

Hey friends, hope all of you are healthy and well. Let's get right into it, here's my thought. I don't know about you but I have gotten SO MUCH advice in my life from all kinds of people, especially the people close to me. While this can be a good thing, this week I wanted to talk about why I believe you actually need to listen to less advice from the people around you, not more. Most people are giving you advice from a genuinely good place but most often they are telling you what the...

How to handle adversity, a framework for hard times.

December 07, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MB

Hey friends! I've had a wild past week, from wrecking my car to thinking I killed my sisters cat, I'm glad it's over, haha. In this episode I wanted to share what all happened the past week, what I learned and the framework I think through when adversity and hard times hit, as they inevitably will. There are very few things promised in life but adversity and struggle are a few of those things we WILL face over and over. Learning how to face hard times and move through them is critical ...

I started and shut down a business in 12 months

November 29, 2023 11:00 - 26 minutes - 12.1 MB

Hey friends! This week I wanted to share the story if the business I started and shut down 12 months later. In 2020 I saw and opportunity to start a business and I went for it. In this episode I share the story of it all, what I learned, what I would change if I could go back and my thoughts on why there is no such thing as failure when you take action, you win or you learn. Hope you enjoy the story and learn from my experiences. Feel free to share this with someone you think this could...

Why you shouldn't listen to peoples opinions

November 22, 2023 11:00 - 14 minutes - 6.7 MB

Hey friends! This weeks episode I unpack why I think it's important to be able to filter the opinions and advice we get from other people. “Don't listen to other people's opinions" is pretty typical advice that gets spread around. But why shouldn’t we listen to them? Are they stupid or trying to hurt us? Are they always garbage opinions? Probably not, I think there’s more to it. I believe the reason we should often ignore the opinions of others isn’t because they have bad intentions...

Red Meat is under attack. 🥩

November 15, 2023 11:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MB

Hey friends, hope you're all healthy and well! This week I am coming in HOT with an episode on red meat and some of my thoughts on why red meat is under such attack in the US. Although it’s one of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet, for some reason recently red meat has been more and more demonized, although we know for a fact it is one of the most nutritious foods humans can consume. We’ve been eating it for 1,000’s of years all over the world and it has sustained life and all...

Get righteously pissed

October 24, 2023 10:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MB

Hey friends! That title might have throw you off, so here's some more context... Recently I've been super frustrated with where I'm at in certain areas of my life bc I'm not where I want to be. I feel like my back is against the wall in several situations and I'm being forced to take action and go to the next level of my own personal growth and development. This isn't a bad thing, I think anytime you are seeking to grow and level up in life things will seek to hold you back and make it di...

Be Kind, Not Nice

October 11, 2023 10:00 - 10 minutes - 7 MB

Hey friends! Welcome back to another episode of Inside The Mirror. In this weeks episode I wanted to touch on a topic I've been challenged on the past few years and something I feel is important for all of us to focus on. I'll start with a question, are you nice to the people around you, or are you kind? I've learned there can be a big difference between the two. Being nice is easy and usually involves keeping the peace with people and not necessarily saying the things that need to be ...

It's not that serious

September 26, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutes - 4.93 MB

Hey y'all! I've been thinking a lot recently about how serious I take everything in life, even the things that are somewhat meaningless. We all have things in our lives that we stress about and spend a lot of time or energy on that ultimately just aren't as important in the long run as they may feel in the moment. I want to learn to be able to hold things more loosely and not take things so seriously if they really won't be that important in 50 or years when i come to the end of my life....

We have a responsibility to grow

September 19, 2023 10:00 - 11 minutes - 8.24 MB

Hey y'all! Been thinking a lot about how my personal growth affects the people around me and the people I influence so wanted to talk through some of that in this weeks episode. I think many times in life we only think about our personal growth as affecting us and our lives, but what we may not realize is that our personal growth directly affects the lives of those around us, our families, friends, coworkers etc etc. When we are not growing and becoming better, we can hold those around us...

Living w/ Excellence

September 12, 2023 10:00 - 11 minutes - 7.68 MB

Hey friends! This week I wanted to talk about something that has been top of mind for me the past week and I've had multiple conversations about it. The idea is living with excellence. Excellence is the quality of being outstanding or extremely good at something. We live in a time where we glorify the achievements of celebrities and sports stars and business people who accomplish grand things, but what about the rest of us who have things every day that we have the opportunity to be exc...

One Day at a Time

September 06, 2023 10:00 - 11 minutes - 8.08 MB

Hey friends! in this week's episode I wanted to talk about an idea and a way of living that has helped me SOOO much when it comes to how I approach life and how I manage my days and my stress. It's the idea of living one day at a time. We've all heard that and probably agree with it in theory but are we actually living our lives just one day at a time? Or are we stuck living in the past with all of the things we can't change, or the future worrying about all of the future worries and pro...

Don't let your feelings run your life

August 22, 2023 10:00 - 12 minutes - 8.41 MB

Hey friends! Today's episode is on a topic I have and still struggle with at times, letting my feelings run my life. One of my favorite quotes about feelings is from Jonathan Pokluda. He says, "your feelings are real, just not reliable." I've found this to be so true in life and you may have too. If I don't feel like exercising so I choose not to, over time I will become unhealthy. If I don't feel like paying my bills bc they're too expensive, eventually I will not have anything. The po...

What do you run to when it's hard?

August 15, 2023 10:00 - 8 minutes - 5.59 MB

Hey friends! Lately I've been thinking a lot about the things I run to when life is difficult or uncomfortable, I've been asking myself, "what are the things I seek comfort in?" Are they good for me? Are they harmful? Should I change them? We all run to certain things when life or situations get hard or uncomfortable, it's normal and natural. The question is are we running to the right things or are we running to things we probably shouldn't? Today I shared some of my thoughts and my ex...

What is your lightpost?

August 08, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutes - 5.05 MB

Hey friends! This week wanted to share something that I was told by a leader in my life that has really helped me relax a lot more mentally, at work and with different seasons and decisions in life. The idea is that of the light post. When runners are training and get tired they will often make their intention to run to the next light post ahead. There will then stop, rest and decide where to go from there. The idea is that when we don't have clear timelines on things in life we will of...

How to do what you say

July 25, 2023 10:00 - 14 minutes - 9.73 MB

Hey friends! Back this week with something that has been top of mind for me on my journey of looking to always improve and live a life I am proud of. The thing I've been thinking about is why do we do things we don't want to do or don't do the things we do want to do and how do we reverse that? What I've found most helpful for myself when it comes to making the right decisions is to focus on the end result and not how I feel in the moment. Often times we don't do things we should bc we do...

I can't do it alone

July 18, 2023 10:00 - 13 minutes - 9.37 MB

Hey friends! Hope you're all doing great. Today I wanted to talk about something that life has taught me the past few years that I'm still learning. What I've started to realize is that I can't do it alone. You and I were not created to just live life alone and isolate, moving through it with just ourselves as our guide, that's a hard an impossible task. We were created to live in community and exist together and learn from one another. Life is already hard enough but trying to do it all ...

You're doing better than you think

July 12, 2023 10:00 - 12 minutes - 8.4 MB

Ayo! Welcome back friends, I'm super passionate about what we're talking about today bc I think so many of us need to hear it, and it's this, "You're doing better than you think." Most of us are doing much better in life than we think we are. We are our own worst critic and we tend to be super unkind to ourselves in the way we think and speak about ourselves. The reality is, most of us are doing the best we can with the information and circumstances we have. So today I wanted to unpack t...

You don't need motivation, You need a plan

July 05, 2023 10:00 - 10 minutes - 7.36 MB

Hey friends! Welcome to back to us all, lol. Know I've been off for two weeks so excited to get back into it with this episode. This comes from something I've been thinking through the last few days personally and thought would be helpful to share here as I'm sure I'm not the only one who needs to hear this,. Here it is, We don't need more motivation. We have access to unlimited amounts of motivation through, Youtube, Podcasts, Social Media, etc. If we're not where we want to be in a ce...

How are you treating yourself?

June 13, 2023 10:00 - 8 minutes - 6.21 MB

Hey friends! I've been thinking a lot recently about how I treat myself, and honestly, I'm not very kind to me most of the time. Don't know about you but I really don't want to be so harsh to myself but it's become such a normal way of behavior that I rarely even think about it. Today I wanted to talk about how we treat ourselves and why it's so important. I believe there's no one we should treat better than ourselves. If we aren't able to care for the 1 person we are responsible for fo...

What's your WHY?

June 06, 2023 10:00 - 10 minutes - 7.24 MB

Hey friends! In today's episode I ask the question that we should all contemplate at some point, "What is our WHY?" By this I mean, Why do we do the things we do, what drives us? I've found that without a deep Why that drives my intentions its very difficult to sustain through hard and challenging times. We must be clear on WHY we do what we do, whether that's our jobs, relationships, dreams, goals etc, WHY do those things matter to us, WHY are they important? Knowing our why will help u...

Who are we trying to keep up with?

May 30, 2023 10:00 - 10 minutes - 7.37 MB

Hey friends! Quick question for you, Who is the person that you always compare yourself to? Who do you look at on social media and wish you had their money, their looks, their career, their relationships, their following etc? We all have specific people that we compare ourselves to and our lives to. Most all of us realize this is unhealthy but we do it anyways. It makes us feel like we are behind and need to get the things this person has or be at the place that this person is at. I...

You'll never have it all figured out

May 23, 2023 10:00 - 10 minutes - 6.96 MB

Hey friends! This episode was inspired by a thought that's been swirling around my head a lot the past week or so. The thought is this, we will never have things all figured out in life. We are all chasing a point in life where everything is "perfect" and we've got everything "figured out," the right job, relationships, amount of money, health, etc. Ideally we would all reach a point in life where we've "figured it all out" and everything is as it should be, that day is unfortunately, n...

We're under attack

May 16, 2023 10:00 - 17 minutes - 12.1 MB

Hey friends, Thanks for stopping by! In this weeks episode I wanted to talk about something I feel strongly about. If you saw the title, WE ARE UNDER ATTACK. From the foods we eat, to the medicines we're prescribed , to the money system we're a part of and more, we are being fed information and products that are not only not good for us, but actually harmful to our lives and our wellbeing. I want to bring more light to these topics bc as I've done lots of research and unlearning the pas...

Watch and learn from others

May 10, 2023 10:00 - 7 minutes - 5.37 MB

Hey friends! This one is short and sweet. Wanted to just share my thoughts real quickly on our ability to learn things in life just by watching and garnering learnings from the people around us. Most of us have people in our lives who have lived a decent amount of life and have made mistakes, had success and have experiences that we can learn from without having to go out and make those same mistakes or have those same experiences ourselves. There are knowledge, learnings and experience...

Are you being what others need??

May 02, 2023 10:00 - 9 minutes - 6.8 MB

Hey friends! Back this week with a question and thought I've been thinking about a lot the past week, and it's this: "Am I being what others need me to be?" I don't know about you, but I've realized that each person or group of people in my life needs something different from me at different times. Currently a group of people in my life need me to be steady, calm, and in control. Another individual in my life needs me to be a good listener, ask good questions and offer my advice, anothe...

Control the controllables

April 25, 2023 10:00 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MB

Hey y'all! Recently been thinking a lot about what is and what is not in my control in my life. Find myself stressed, anxious or worried frequently over things I can't control and it's led me to processing a lot about what I can and can't control. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think most of us struggle in some capacity with spending time and energy on things that we can't control, and it causes us to be anxious as well as holds us back from achieving all that we could, if we were just able to fo...

Why we should get uncomfortable

April 18, 2023 10:00 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MB

Hey friends! Welcome back to Inside The Mirror. This week I wanted to share my thoughts and some advice for myself and you all around the idea of getting uncomfortable. As humans we tend to naturally seek comfort. The problem with comfort is that it is the enemy of growth and progress. Therefore, when we seek comfort, we are inadvertently seeking to not grow and move in a direction that is better for us. Whether it is your fitness, finances, relationships, or any other area of life that...

Taking the right advice

April 04, 2023 10:00 - 10 minutes - 7.09 MB

Hey friends! In this weeks episode I wanted to talk about something that I've been thinking a lot about recently, taking the right advice. We live in a time where information is abundant and there are endless opinions and advice on any topic you can think of, which can make it hard to know which advice to actually listen to and take. I decided to share a few of my thoughts on how to decide who to listen to and what advice to take. Hope something I said here was helpful to you or someone ...

How to be Resilient

March 28, 2023 10:00 - 8 minutes - 6.01 MB

Hey y'all! This week wanted to share my thoughts around the idea of being resilient. We all face hard things along the journey of life, adversity, trauma, stress and things we weren't expecting. With that in mind it's critical that we all learn how to be resilient when unexpected and challenging things happen and be able to bounce back and persevere through the challenging times. In this episode I shared some of my thoughts on HOW to be resilient and not get stuck when hard things happ...

Hold things loosely

March 14, 2023 10:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MB

Hey friends! Back this week with something I've been thinking about a lot recently, holding things loosely... What do I mean? We all tend to want to control our lives pretty rigidly and that leads to us holding things very tightly in life. When things go away or don't go the way we planned we are often disappointed because we were so sure of something and by doing this, we create our own disappointments. I'm not saying we shouldn't be committed to things but the more we realize we have v...

Discipline & Vision

March 07, 2023 11:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MB

Hey y'all! Hope everyone is healthy and well. In this episode I wanted to touch on two things that I believe are critical to living a meaningful and fulfilling life and those things are, Discipline and Vision. I think both things go hand in hand, first you need a vision and then you need discipline to accomplish that vision, so in this episode I share my thoughts on how vision and discipline work together and why I think they are so critical. Also shared some practical things I think ar...

Ep 136 w/ Joe Codiroli

February 28, 2023 11:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MB

Hey friends! Back this week with a conversation with a family friend and someone I really respect, Joe Codiroli. Joe has been a great supporter and friend of my family for several decades and has a lot of wisdom on business, faith, family and how to live a fulfilling and meaningful life. We talked about his origin story growing up in Jersey, his several decades working in the air force and his numerous business ventures that he has had as well as several he's recently invested in. Joe als...

My 8 year sobriety journey

February 21, 2023 11:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MB

Hey y'all! Back with another episode with just me. I had a friend tell me recently I need to share my story more so here I am. This week I decided to talk about my 8 year journey of sobriety. I checked into rehab on Feb 17, 2015 and it's been a journey of ups and downs ever since, but I'm super grateful for all of it. Every one of us has a unique story and journey and we also have a responsibility to use that story to help others, so this is a small attempt to hopefully do that. Thank...

Create a positive mindset & a positive life w/ David Gibson

February 13, 2023 11:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MB

Hey friends! Super excited to share this episode with you! In this episode I sat down with Entrepreneur and Keynote Speaker David Gibson. David dropped a TON of wisdom and practical steps on how to conquer your mindset and create a positive life by taking control of your thinking and your habits. Faith, fitness, mindset and creating a positive life are just a few of the topics David touched on here. I learned so much in this conversation and I hope you do too. As always, thank you so m...

Your Life is Your Fault (Daily Habits)

January 31, 2023 12:00 - 13 minutes - 9.18 MB

Hey y'all! In this episode I talk about daily habits and how the life we are currently living is a byproduct of our habits. We all have habits, things we do or don't do, ways we think or don't think, that we do daily that create the life we live. Each habit we have is moving us somewhere, in a good direction that we want or the opposite, in another direction, creating something we don't want. In this episode I share my thoughts on the importance of daily habits. Hope something here was...

How to Lead yourself w/ josh Hitchcock

January 24, 2023 12:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MB

Hey friends! In this episode I spoke with my friend Josh Hitchcock. Josh is a Maxwell Leadership certified speaker and the Director of Franchise Recruitment for Unleashed Brands, a franchise growth accelerator supporting growth-oriented brands geared at furthering child and adolescent development. Josh shared his journey of personal development and how he learned to first lead himself after being broke in college and losing his father. We talked about the importance of leadership and why...

How to use Spirituality in Business

January 17, 2023 12:00 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MB

Hey friends! In this episode I had a conversation with Executive Coach Chuck Whitley. Chuck works with CEO's and high level business leaders to help them have spiritual connection and direction in their life and business. The fast paced, high stress, always on, nature of top level leadership can easily lead to burnout and create a negative mindset. Chuck helps high level leaders align themselves with Gods call on their lives and drive innovation that aligns with Gods plan and ultimately cr...

Sociology, Psychology and Faith w/ Skye Gullatt

January 10, 2023 12:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MB

Hey friends! In this episode I talk with my good friend Skye Gullatt. Skye is a writer, has her masters in Psychology, is an ex college athlete and one of the kindest and most brilliant people I know. We talked about everything from atheism and her journey to her faith, to our modern culture, media manipulation and her experience playing college sports and SO MUCH MORE! Skye is one of my favorite people to have deep conversations with because she is incredibly wise but also willing to he...

Why your People Strategy is critical to your business

January 03, 2023 13:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MB

Hey y'all, Happy New Year! I'm excited to get this year rocking for you, for myself, and for the podcast. The first episode of 2023 is with my friend, Emily Harvin. Emily is the HR Director for a company called Caif. Emily and I met through business but connected instantly over our heart and passion for people in the workplace. Emily and I share a belief that people are the most important asset a business has and should be treated as such. (which is sadly often not the case in many mode...

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