May 26 | The Monday Report

When I let my ego inflate, filling my head with grandiose ideas, I'm setting myself up for a hard fall. It's like climbing a wall I shouldn't, only to tumble down painfully.

FITLETE Professional Update

The Resource Nexus

— Happy Memorial Day to everyone in the USA! I want to use this holiday weekend to help feature the Live Education Map. This is a long(3-day) weekend with Monday being a federal holiday and a lot of people have the day off.

Perhaps this is the time of year for you as a coach to attend an in-person event. Using the event maps, you can filter through the options to search for events that begin around the weekend. (Like this picture below)

If you ran this search for only the United States, you would find:

• One event starts on the 22nd

• Three on the 23rd

• Nine on the 24th

• One on the 27th

If you're in the United States and want to travel around the world for the event because it’s a 3-day weekend, then you would have found a total of:

• Still one on the 22nd

• Eleven on the 23rd

• Thirty-nine on the 24th

• One on the 25th

• Three on the 26th

• Still the one on the 27th

I’m using this example to emphasize that you can plan to attend future events based on the times and dates when you know you’ll be available. Outside of holidays, our schedules tend to follow cyclical trends of availability and unavailability. In the same way you can plan for vacations and time to relax, you can prepare for learning, travelling for learning, and if you travel, to do so within your budget.

FITLETE Radio

— I know I’m on here every week, but I wanted to give a little more of my voice through this and experience what it’s like to answer these questions I have been asking other coaches! A big thanks to my wife, Nikki, for hosting this episode for me. If she didn’t want to do it, I would have had to speak in an accent 😂.

Apple | Spotify | Snipd

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Fantastic podcasts I heard last week:

1. Founders— #388 Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters: All of Them!

   1. To read Jeff Bezos’s shareholder letters is to get a crash course in running a high-growth internet business from someone who mastered it before any of the playbooks were written." That is the best description of Bezos's letters I have ever read. I just finished rereading these letters for the 4th or 5th time. With clear thinking and ferocious intelligence, Bezos provides a masterclass in building a customer-obsessed, enduring franchise. With relentless repetition Bezos teaches us about the importance of invention, risk-taking, wandering, differentiation, technology, judgement, high-standards, customer obsession, long-term orientation, and why value trumps everything.

2. Plain English with Derek Thompson— Plain History: How Norman Borlaug Stopped the Apocalypse

   1. Today’s guest is Charles C. Mann, a journalist and author. We talk about the long history of the Green Revolution. Who was Norman Borlaug? What did he actually do? How did he do it? What does his accomplishment teach us about science, invention, and progress?

3. Your Fitness Money Coach Podcast—From 150 Sq Ft to Trusted Advisor with Kevin Dineen

   1. Kevin Dineen is the founder of Structure and the St. Louis Fitness Conference. He got his start at Equinox before launching his first training space—a modest 150 square foot facility in New York City. From those humble beginnings, Kevin built a multi-location business, trained high-level clients (including celebrities), and relocated to St. Louis, where he continues to serve his local community.

4. Sigma Nutrition Radio—#563: The Financialization of the Food System – Prof. Martin Caraher

   1. Understanding the financial mechanisms shaping food production and distribution is highly relevant for health professionals, policy makers, and researchers concerned with nutrition, equity, and global health systems.

      This episode urges a critical re-evaluation of current food policies and invites consideration of more ethical, resilient approaches to safeguarding food systems.

5. How to take over the world—“You Couldn’t Pay Me to Stop” — David Senra on Obsession and Great Founders

   1. David Senra of the Founders podcast joins to discuss the most important attributes of great founders, how to find purpose, whether chicken fingers is a worthy dream, and much more!

Here’s a link to download Snipd, the podcast app I use to make a “notebook” of A.I. transcripts, bookmarks within episodes, and take notes on each podcast I hear! They have a free app you can use or, with this link, you get 1 month of their Premium version for free: 1 Free Month Of Premium Snipd.

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Personal Update

— I was on a Podcast!!!! Emma was also one of my original 30 in the Trainer Spotlight series on my podcast. She was Episode #16.

🎙️ Episode 021: From Training to Tech - How George Pagan III Built a Fitness Business from Scratch

I have been thinking more about where I spend time outside of working with people. I feel like I’ve been on here every few weeks talking about social media and my relationship with it, and knowing that, paired with how I have used it in the past, I’m happy knowing that I use it less and less. I had to eliminate the FOMO of not seeing things from friends and around my industry. Luckily, that was quickly adjusted, but then I had to find ways to still use it for business without having access to it all the time. Luckily, I was able to find easy workarounds that don’t cost more time or money, but they are different than just popping open the app. Now, IG is entirely off my phone(I’m not using the other ones like I would use this one), and I have relegated its availability to be entirely on my laptop.

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