The Seamus Fox Podcast.
This podcast has been created to share real life experiences from inspiring people in all walks of life, those who have engineered change in their own lives through a shift in thinking and beliefs. I want to share my own journey and have others share theirs so that it can help inspire others to crete the internal changes thats needed to create long lasting life changes.
The Seamus Fox Podcast.
Are You Fulfilling Your Purpose or Someone Else's?
You know, write out every single morning what would I absolutely love to do in my life and get handsomely paid to do it, and see what pattern keeps appearing. See what keeps coming up. You're going to see that same pattern that might be in that thing. Am I doing that thing right now? Well, if I'm not doing that thing right now, how can I master gravity towards getting to do that thing that I'd love to do every single day of my life and get paid to do it? Meet Seamus Fox.
Speaker 2:I'd love to do every single day of my life, and that's when you pick the two. Meet Seamus Fox. Seamus is a seasoned coach, entrepreneur, tedx speaker and a podcaster with over 20 years' expertise in the personal development industry, working with all things mindset, human behavior and personal performance. Throughout his career, seamus has worked with high achievers, from elite-level athletes to top tier business leaders, helping them unlock their true potential and elevate their success to new heights. Whilst working alongside hugely successful individuals, seamus brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise that cannot wait to share with you. So grab a cup of coffee, grab a cup of tea or whatever you fancy. Prepare to be inspired because you're watching the official Young Hunger podcast. My name is Michael Burgess and we're here to do Mr Seamus Fox.
Speaker 1:Hey guys, my name is Seamus Fox and I am a coach and mentor to CEOs and business leaders, and I'm really looking forward to speaking to Michael on today's podcast. Mr Seamus Fox, how's?
Speaker 2:it going. Sir, all good man, all good, thank you for coming down or us coming to Derry. Yeah. This is your hometown.
Speaker 1:This is my hometown. Yeah, we're in the Amp here in Eppenson, in the watershed in Derry. Yeah, so you grew up in the AMP here in Eppenson in the Watershade in Derry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you grew up in the 80s. I think the 80s born in the 80s 1981.
Speaker 1:I'll be 44 next month for this. Thanks for bringing that up, Michael.
Speaker 2:But you grew up in the 80s, the troubles, I suppose, was all popping off in Derry. Yeah, how was that growing up?
Speaker 1:Well, I suppose, grew up with the tail end of it all. Really Do you know what I mean? So I was born in 1981. So when I was coming into the late 80s, 90s, things were beginning to change. I'm the youngest of seven, so all of my older siblings definitely went through A lot of the worst times and the troubles here in the north for sure. So they were all born in the 60s. They lived in the Brandewale on the Bogside in Derry at that time when it was pretty rough, my parents kind of seen that, knew that, understood what was going on and moved them out. And we moved to Gilead, which is kind of on the outskirts of Derry really. So they moved them out. So when I was kind of coming through 80s, early 90s, things were kind of beginning to change. Obviously you've seen your fair share of stuff that was going on and there was still a lot of troubles that was going on. But gladly I kind of escaped a lot of the worse parts of the troubles. That definitely went on for sure.
Speaker 2:What was it like? I suppose you were maybe finding yourself in groups of young boys and maybe how do you say it? The wrong type of crowd. Maybe Did you ever find yourself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, look, as I said, like when I come out through school, I left school at 15, 16, didn't really get school. To be honest, I didn't really enjoy it. There was nothing in school that kind of I didn't really enjoy it. There was nothing in school that kind of that really inspired me. And if I look back, I thought I always kind of see myself as pretty bright, but I didn't get anything from school. There was nothing there that I wanted to study. There was nothing there that I wanted to learn.
Speaker 1:So when the opportunity came to leave school, I was out of there. In fact, coming on the fifth year, I just probably wasn't even there a lot of the times. Anyway, I was kind of in one time was back out again, didn't sit any qualifications or any GCSEs et cetera, left and just got into trying to get a job as a librarian and all sorts. So when you're 16, 17, you think you know it all yeah, I thought I knew it all as well. And you think you know it all yeah, I thought I knew it all as well.
Speaker 1:And then get lost just literally lost and fell in the different types of environments as you say and the circles when I grew up. I grew up in Gilead and Gilead is still probably one of the most kind of economically deprived areas in the north. So my environment at that time was just kind of again same types of people going out and partying and doing the thing and just trying to find their own path and trying to find their own way. And for sure I got caught up in a lot of different circles and kind of caught up in certain environments that as a parent I definitely wouldn't want to see my kids kind of in and around.
Speaker 1:So but I learned a lot of valuable lessons at that time as well too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what was in the head of Seamus back then? What was the dreams or goals?
Speaker 1:To be honest, if I'm being totally honest, I don't know if I had any really big dreams or goals when I was younger. It definitely was all around sport. I played football from a young age of seven right through to about 17. Loved football, loved sport, did a bit of boxing. I've always been involved in sport. That was always something that was present all the time, but there was no way in terms of like a dream or goal or vision or anything. I was literally just trying to find a job. I was loving it me own from a young age 17, 18. So I was trying to find work, trying to find money, trying to find that something that was giving me some sort of sustainable income. Yeah, that's kind of what I was trying to find work, trying to find money, trying to find something that was giving me some sort of sustainable income.
Speaker 1:That's kind of what I was trying to do for the first. I'd say the first part after school for a few years, just literally trying to kind of find a path, trying to find out who am I, what am I supposed to do, what is it that's really important to me, and it took a bit of time, to be honest.
Speaker 2:I did a wee bit of research on you and I seen you do a book, you have a book and stuff and it was like the car crash. Yeah. Was it 21 or 22 or something?
Speaker 1:Yeah, about 23. What happened there, or how did?
Speaker 2:that I guess affect your life.
Speaker 1:Come about, yeah, yeah, yeah, so as I said, probably from about 17 to about 20, I was trying to find work, trying to find a job, and the career, for the want of a better work, was selling counterfeit goods all around the markets in Northern Ireland they were selling them. In Oma we were selling tobacco and fives and all that sort of stuff, and again just trying to make a pound. So know what I mean trying to make a pound. So we were selling tobacco and cigarettes and CDs and all that sort of stuff. I was probably about 18 or 19. And a lot of my thing at that time, mick, was just go to work, get a few quads, go to the weekend and party and that's kind of what I was doing. But it was probably around 21 22 that just started to become no, it started to become a real kind of negative, destructive pattern. It was going on a wee bit too long. Um, and it was probably, I think, around 22 23 it spent.
Speaker 1:I had a flat in in gala. I had a bottom floor flat in gala and it was called all care, if anybody's familiar with it, and we were partying on there for about two or three days. No real recollection of getting into the car. Um, it was a Saturday morning, 10, 30 am, and the next thing I kind of really remember was that the airbag smashed me in the face and literally, literally woke me up. I don't know if I was sleeping or whatever, but I just went straight into a wall at the Brandywale Stadium in Derry and when I got out of the car it was just commotion ensued. There was a guy there that thought that I was a joyrider. He came and smashed me. I smashed my head off the floor, off the concrete Deservedly so, you know, looking back me as an adult, looking back Deservedly so, looking back me as an adult. There were kids going to play football. Parents were taking their kids in to play football. It was a Saturday morning and it was a busy area. And there I am cruising through the road and going straight into a wall. So that was a massive wake-up for me. I tried to run away at that time, tried to get away from the police. The police were coming and the police arrested me and thankfully they arrested me. It took me a long while to kind of realize that, but looking back, it was kind of a turning point. So they arrested me, took me to the police station, the Strand Road in Derry, put me into a cell, took me back out again, they did my bloods and then they let me out. And they let me out that night.
Speaker 1:The next morning I woke up in the flat and I was covered in blood and I was like what just happened, you know, really, starting to ask myself these questions like what went on? What happened, what am I doing? You know, like, really, what am I actually doing with my life here? So it was a massive wake up for the weeks after. I was as low as a snake's belly Guilt and like what if this had happened?
Speaker 1:What if that had happened? A real sense of gratitude as well that something worse didn't happen. A couple of scratches and stuff like that. That was all I was also then like at the same time, due to my work and so called career, I was in court for nearly a year for another like I was caught basically selling counterfeit goods. So I was trying to get that out of the road and I remember like going right, once I get this wrapped up, I'm going to create some sort of change. I want to do something different for myself, like I need to. It was kind of at that point there was a bit of necessity there. It was like really and I love that quote by Jim Roney says change happens through inspiration or desperation, and I felt that that was the point I was at. I needed to change something. And it's funny and we can talk about this as we go one of my highest values has always been health and fitness.
Speaker 1:One of the things that I've always loved has been health and fitness and when that happened I got back into training again. I got back into going to the gym again. I stopped going out, I stopped like partying, I was like separated myself from a certain environment and I got back. I got into bodybuilding kind of for the first time and there was a guy here he's a friend of mine, like Dave Fox. He owns a gym called Pro Gym and I got into that gym and it was all bodybuilders and I was this wee, skinny, scrawny guy getting into this gym full of big bodybuilders at that time and I was like these are kind of scary dudes. They looked scary. They weren't, they looked a wee bit scary.
Speaker 1:But I remember going to a show in Belfast. Actually there was a place called the Park Avenue Hotel and it was a NABBA, northern Ireland competition and I remember sitting with Dave and said, jeez, I'd love to step in that stage next year. And he says, well, if you put your head down, go and do it. So I did. That was like a wee switch for me. I was like, right, okay, that's what I'm going to do.
Speaker 1:And it was literally about a year, maybe 18 months later I competed in that show. I won the first timers nabemist in northern ireland and one of that show gave me a platform. It gave me like some sort of credibility almost in the fitness space, and then that's how things began to shift and change. I started then as a personal trainer and then a career started to kind of shape and form out of that. So, looking back at that incident sometimes and I wrote a book on it, as you said, from self-sabotage to success that event was something that really began to get me back in the alignment with who I really am, what I'm supposed to do, and understanding what my purpose is, and from that point onwards it kind of created a career of coaching for the last 20 years if, if the crash didn't happen, where do you think?
Speaker 1:you'd be exactly, exactly. So that's what I mean. Sometimes you can look at some events in your life and think it was a crisis, but there's always a hidden blessing. Yeah, yeah for sure, and that's why even I've changed my terminology of sabotage. I don't believe there is such thing as sabotage, because we only do things if we perceive a benefit in it.
Speaker 1:And even the most destructive thing that we might get caught up in, there's a hidden benefit in it. There's a motive there for us in some way or form. So, even though that was destructive in its nature, it was also a blessing, because it got me aligned with being me and understanding what's most important to me and beginning to create the things that I needed to create in me. And beginning to create the things that I needed to create in order for me to change the path that I was on.
Speaker 2:Physically, I feel like that crash nearly had to happen for you to be.
Speaker 1:To make some changes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, what was?
Speaker 2:the thinking of the you then and then like to compare that to the you now. Yeah. Like that's mad, Two different people yeah.
Speaker 1:Like, as I said, I'm 44 next month. You know I've gained a lot of years and wisdom and studying and understanding from that point. Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's literally two different people Like that was just a lost kid, that's who. That was Just a 23-year-old lost kid, didn't understand himself, hadn't really got any knowledge of his own potential or who he was supposed to be, and just kind of caught up in the patterns and the environments of everybody else. I wasn't any different from anybody else. Most of the people that I was running around with were just caught up in the same patterns partying and doing all that same stuff.
Speaker 1:So from who I am now to then, it's just literally two completely different people.
Speaker 2:If that guy had seen you now, what do you think he would say? Is there anything you'd be like? You think he'd believe it? I don't know if he'd believe it.
Speaker 1:I think, deep down if I'm being totally honest, like deep down, I always thought I should be doing something different. You know, I always wanted to do something different. I wanted more for myself. That's why I was selling all those things that I was selling in the markets and trying to make a pound, always working. You know, like from from a young age, my older brothers were like either doing milk or they were like bread deliveries, or they were out doing something. Yeah, they were doing some sort of work and I was alone. So I would have been out in the milk run with emmons, maybe throughout the week, or I was out in the bread run along with those guys as well, throughout the week. So I was always working, like selling papers and doing something. Yeah, I was always like trying to create something for myself. So I've I've always had a, let's say, a good work ethic, you know. I mean, I've always had that for sure, and I've always wanted something for myself. I've always wanted to be my own person.
Speaker 2:Um, and even though I was doing those jobs, you know, I was still just trying to create something for myself did you ever find it hard to break away from the environment you were in um then, because in a way it's like you're the average of the five people you hang around with and things. How did you break away from that?
Speaker 1:essentially, and that's the thing Now. It's so different. You can go on to social media and you can pick up information from this person or from that person. You can go and listen to podcasts, I guess, and learn from somebody person or from that person. You go and listen to a podcast, I guess, yeah, and learn from somebody. Like there wasn't really an environment that I could have maybe looked at. At that time I went right, I'm going to go and speak to this person, or I'm going to go and speak to that person, or there's a coach, there's a mentor.
Speaker 3:Nobody was even coaching or mentoring yeah, at that time really, so it wasn't really a thing.
Speaker 1:The only thing that I got myself involved in in terms of getting myself out of that environment was was training. I just dedicated myself to competing. I dedicated myself to getting myself in the best ship that I could possibly get into and by naturally doing that it naturally kept me away from those other types of environments and those other types of groups. Again, no blame, no fault of anybody's, but I just wanted to do that thing and by naturally doing that I started to move away from everything else. That wasn't that was there anything that?
Speaker 2:naturally drew you to the gym. Was there anything that?
Speaker 1:I wanted to put on a bit of size. Yeah, I wanted to get a bit of muscles, to be totally honest, because I was skinny and scrawny, yeah, um, even from like playing football, and from a young age I was kind of skinny and scrawny. I would have got a lot of stick about that as well too. You know what I mean, coming up and growing up like about being skinny and scrawny, and I just wanted to get a bit of size and get a bit of muscle on. Yeah, um, so that was the thing. But then once I started to get into it I think unconsciously there was something there for me where I was looking at going right, okay, this could be something else.
Speaker 1:Initially it was to get a job in pro gym, literally just to get a job in the gym, which I did. I used to just work behind the reception and just work in the gym, and I loved it. I absolutely loved it. I used to cycle down to the gym in the morning and get my cardio done. I would have cycled back up again and then I used to go back down at around 12 o'clock, one o'clock, train, lift my weights, go back up and then come back down at four and then work from four o'clock to nine o'clock and I did that every day, um training with Dave and just working in the gym, and I absolutely loved it. To be honest, I was, I was happy out. I was like, right, I'm good, I'm just getting to train, I'm getting the aid and getting to do the thing that I'm loving yeah and I loved it at that time.
Speaker 2:To be honest, what about actually saying you did like a post the other day. It was like, um, something about you, bodybuilding, and you were saying that, like it takes a particular person to, it's the mindset behind, yeah, bodybuilding building. I actually didn't appreciate it until I was reading your post. Yeah, and you were saying now, like how regimented the, the diet and all is and the fitness is, and then you were saying something about arnold and as well, and I thought myself, wow, like so much goes into that to actually do it successfully you want. You won a competition.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I won that I only did one. I won the. It was a nab in northern ireland. It was the first timers category. There's 15 in the category and I won that competition and as a hundred percent like that post. What I was talking about was the discipline I suppose it's required, like every meal was cooked and measured, every meal was on time. I was eating like literally every grain of rice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, a 100 percent, yeah every morsel had to be weighed and measured before you you put it in your mouth. Um, no going out, no drinking, and at that time the nutrition, I think the information and the knowledge is completely different than now. So there was a lot more. It was a lot more regimented, like things that you were not allowed.
Speaker 1:I remember in the mornings, like especially kind of getting closer to the show, I was like blending up 100 grams of porridge with water, throwing like a couple of spoonfuls of udduz oil and it, drinking that and then half even thinking about it now, like and having boiled turkey, 200 grams of boiled turkey with vegetables, and then every two hours after that I would have turkey or fish and veg, chicken veg closer got was all kind of turkey, just kind of really low fat. The last four, four weeks, three to four weeks were so challenging, like really really challenging. You're talking about the mindset. I remember, like Dave at the time, like sent Dave a message and text him going. I'm fucking going up a wall here I just want to eat this.
Speaker 1:I just want to eat that. He's like no, hang on, we're nearly done, you're nearly finished. But I remember even times like looking up the stairs and going, how am I getting up them stairs? And this was me trying to get my stuff ready to go to the gym. So there was definitely a mental challenge. Um, that was needed and a mental kind of discipline that's needed. And for people that do that for their lives, fair play like yeah, I did it once, really really enjoyed it, love the discipline around it, and I can see so much of what I took from then into my business and coaching and even still just with my health and fitness. Now I'd be pretty disciplined in a lot of those areas still.
Speaker 2:You said about not drinking and things there. Yeah, you've come up on like a thousand days sober yeah, sober yeah.
Speaker 1:How's that feel?
Speaker 2:or how's that journey been?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's been. The initial part of it was definitely challenging for sure, like trying to get sober and trying to find more reasons to not drink than to drink. At the start, around 2019, I was off it for a year, lockdowns happened, went back on it again, but I've always had that kind of internal. There's always this is the way I've kind of explained it there's always this voice going. If you want to kind of get to the levels you want, you need to stop drinking. If you really want to excel, you need to stop drinking. You really want to push on, there's always that internal intuition, that real voice. So 2020 had a good kind of stab at it, ended up having drinks again. I was off for six months, again back on it and then about three years ago, um, I was like right, this just doesn't work anymore. Why am I doing this? I just don't enjoy it anymore. Um, it was leaving me just questioning myself. It was affecting my self-confidence. It was affecting my energy. It's unpacking my energy more than anything, um, and there was things that I wanted to do. There's goals that I wanted to achieve. There was plans and things that I wanted to do. There's goals that I wanted to achieve. There was plans and things that I want to move towards, and I always felt that that was just a massive drawback. Did those things.
Speaker 1:About three years ago, as I was telling you before we come on, a friend of mine part of them, sure, of your familiar room with them Pat Devlay organized a weekend away and I went to that weekend away and I did a plant medicine journey, and one of my intentions going down to do the plant medicine journey was to take away the need for alcohol. I had a couple of different intentions. I wanted to get something from it. It was probably about six weeks after that. I just stopped drinking and I haven't touched a drop since, and there's a lot of people that I know want to do the same thing. There's a lot of guys that are my age. There's a lot of guys your age as well, too that want to do the same thing, and all I can say is give yourself the opportunity. Give yourself the chance.
Speaker 1:It's not going to be easy, but I think one of the biggest things that I really looked at was what do I get to gain Now, instead of thinking about what I'm losing, because most people think I can't go out now with my friends. I can't go out here. What about holidays? What about Christmas? What about birthdays? What about all these things? What do you get to gain from not drinking? I got to gain better sleep, better energy, better health, more focus, more productivity, growth of my business, more opportunities. I find myself in environments that I wouldn't have found myself in if I had been drinking, because I would have been putting things off, procrastinating more. So it just kind of got to the point where I was like no, this isn't what I want to do anymore and I need to make that decision.
Speaker 2:And that's been three years ago now, it's hard to leave, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, again, I think if you give yourself a chance and give yourself 90 days, even even six months, you'll feel what that's like. No, there's just literally no comparison, even though it might only be a Friday night or a Saturday night or whatever it might be. Some people would say but I don't really drink that much. But if you feel that you need it and you can't go without it every weekend, you know it's something to question. Or if it's impacting your energy and your focus and who you are and how you're showing up, maybe with drink or even after it, you know. Again, it's something that you might want to question. Again, I'm not preaching anything to anybody about alcohol again is something that you might want to question. Again, I'm not preaching anything to anybody about alcohol, but for me, from my experience, the difference between drinking and not drinking is literally 90 mm-hmm life change nearly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it can be for sure 100%.
Speaker 2:I feel like the the positives are so massively away, the the negatives or the benefits of drinking, because what is it really to give you confidence and let loose a little? Other than that, what else?
Speaker 1:and there's a thing like and that's such a good point, because most people will maybe have a drink because they're feeling anxious, which just makes you feel even more anxious yeah, yeah some people have a drink because they're feeling a wee bit no down, and then the dumps it makes you feel even worse yeah, yeah, you think it helps. Yeah, yeah, you're feeling even more depressed after.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so a lot of the things that we go towards alcohol for actually just exacerbates it and makes it even worse, which is like what are we doing for then?
Speaker 2:I know it's such a social thing. I feel like would you still get temptation and things? Is it always there?
Speaker 1:no, it's not now, don't get me wrong. Sometimes I look at a nice pint of Guinness and it's like, oh, zero, zero, that looks good. Zero, zero Creeps on then at that time. But other than that, no, because what I automatically do is I just think about the next day. I'm like if I was to have that pint now, I know what I'm going to feel like the next day, I know how that's going to turn out. And another compound effect from that again, because anytime that I have done that, it ended up back in a spiral again where it took me months and sometimes years to get back kind of to the point where I was like, right, enough's enough. So for that wee fleeting moment to have a nice pint of Guinness, yeah, I'm like no yeah, no again am I saying that it's always going to be a good?
Speaker 1:no, because I've done that before yeah yeah, never drank me again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they'll drink again. Yeah, it felt like it's what?
Speaker 1:no, I just go. You know what? For now I don't need it.
Speaker 2:I feel like a lot of guys I know from personally my age drink for confidence in the good conference. Yeah, to talk to girls and stuff. Yeah. And then if you said you weren't drinking, they would nearly take the piss or joke about saying, oh, why are you not drinking? And then what I realized is like you don't actually need it. It's actually so much easier to talk to people, I find, whenever you don't need it 100% and the confidence is.
Speaker 1:It's not really confidence You're not being yourself. No, especially the stuff that you can end up getting into when you're overloaded and alcohol. It's not real confidence. If you can learn to be yourself and if you can learn to go out and just be yourself and understand who you are and not try to be a version of somebody else, you can really get to be yourself. Because most people are comparing themselves to somebody else, especially if you're young, especially if you're going out. I think I need to be this guy, or I think I need to be that guy, or I need to be this girl or whatever.
Speaker 1:No, you just need to be you and if you can go out and just be you, then the need for something else that gives you the stimulus to be somebody else, you don't need it, yeah. So it's really like understanding, kind of, who you are and who am I and do I really need this? If you can and you want to go and have a drink and enjoy it, and it's not a problem, bring it but if it is then again maybe take a wee look at it for sure.
Speaker 2:I seen you doing like a TEDx talk in Derry not so long ago or a couple years ago I did TEDx with.
Speaker 1:Gary Doherty ran the TEDx here, I think it was again. It was around lockdown. Yeah 2020,. I think it was.
Speaker 2:How'd you find it? I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, really, really good. I liked the whole process of it Again, kinda met a lot of good people through it. There was a vocal coach there kinda helped us with it as well too Camilla Long. I learned a lot from her. I enjoyed it. It was supposed to be to a live audience but then lockdowns happened and, um, that wasn't going to happen. So instead of a light audience there was an x in the wall, wasn't it a red x in the wall? I spoke to 10, 10 minutes.
Speaker 2:They read x in the wall, but, um, really good process yeah, I really enjoyed it because that's when you talked about, like the crash, the success and things yeah and uh, I was just saying there, like if you can elaborate a little bit on, like the adversity of how that's or everything, just the tedx talk and everything shaped your like coaching and journey.
Speaker 1:I suppose, um, I wouldn't say it's shaped my coaching journey. I would say what I spoke about, probably shaped my coaching journey. For sure. I started as a personal trainer and just shortly after that crash.
Speaker 1:I started as a personal trainer. I did the show in 2005, which is literally 20 years ago this year, and then I kind of started personal training just after that. That was in a place called Fitness First in the Strand Road in Derry. So I started personal training on there. One day, one was loving it like beforehand, I was working in the gym and I was working as a taxi dispatcher. Yeah, I was getting paid 350 an hour or three pound an hour, um. And then I'm in the gym like personal training clients and all of a sudden then people are paying me at that time like 20 pound an hour and 25 pound an hour and I was like, right, I'm actually getting paid no decent money for doing something that I really love doing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah if someone I hear this all the time people like struggle to do what they want to do, I feel like you find that back then things, there's anything people can do, or how do they find that? How did you find your thing in fitness?
Speaker 1:I found my thing kind of through everything that happened. But every single person lives by a unique set of values and a unique set of priorities. They're intrinsic to every single one of us and they're unique to every single one of us and you find your thing by understanding yourself and taking a wee bit of a deep dive and looking and seeing what your life is really currently demonstrating is really important for you. Most people, especially in society not most, but a lot live with the injective values of somebody else. They think they should be this person, they think they need to be that person and they're not getting to fulfill what's maybe most important to them. They're not getting to do that thing. So like sitting down them. They're not getting to do that thing. So like sitting down, I suppose, to give you advice. I didn't have that advice back then. I didn't know that. Back then I just naturally gravitated towards what I loved.
Speaker 1:And it's funny because when you're doing the thing that you actually really love and value, your actions will be kind of spontaneous. You'll naturally want to go and do that thing. So for some people, that may be health and fitness, it may be training, it might be in speaking, it may be in writing, whatever it might be like. If you were to take a step back and go, what would you absolutely love to do with your life and get handsomely paid to do? What would that be?
Speaker 1:And this is something I actually give to my clients and say write it out. You know, write out every single morning. What would I absolutely love to do in my life and get handsomely paid to do it, and see what pattern keeps appearing, see what keeps coming up. You're going to see that same pattern that might be in that thing. Am I doing that thing right now? Well, if I'm not doing that thing right now, how can I naturally gravitate towards getting to do that thing that I'd love to do every single day of my life and get paid to do it? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So for me that was coaching at the time, which was through health and fitness. That kind of gravitated then into growing a business and fitness business and building gyms and stuff like that. But the last 20 years of being coaching it's slightly changed in the different forms, more around from health and fitness into just mindset and human behavior, but it's always been there, I suppose.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the last 20 years. I actually have a really good quote of yours that sort of fits into that. It says like the only three things you can control is your perceptions, your decisions and your actions. Yeah, whenever I heard that, I was sort of like, sort of it made me deep, you know, and sort of I can relate to it, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not my quote. I've taken it from my mentor, Dr Demartini, but it's so true, yeah. You know, those are the three things that you can control. Everything else is outside of you. You can control your perceptions. Your perceptions is then going to control your decisions, and your decisions are going to control your actions, and all of those things that are outside is just noise.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and all of those things that are outside is just noise, so anything that's happening around you, you can still choose to see it in a certain way, you can still choose to perceive it in a certain way, and you can still choose to decide or not, act or not. So it doesn't matter what else is going on around you, you can interpret it in whatever way, shape or form you want. So, again going back to some of the things that we discussed.
Speaker 1:No, at the time it might have seemed like a crisis, but there's always a hadn't blessing, and if I can go back and find the thing that I thought was challenging and see how it served and my perception of that thing just completely shifted and changed, so maybe the negative emotion that I had around it now he's neutralized, I can see that I had a massive benefit that helped me on the way to becoming who I wanted to become, and everybody can begin to do that. I'm saying that it's easy sometimes not depending on the event, but there's no such thing as a one-sided event mm-hmm but often we want it to be that way yeah, we want
Speaker 2:to have the positive without the negative.
Speaker 1:We want to have the support without the challenge, the pleasure without the pain yeah but they come entangled and our perception is the way to begin to shift and change how we view whatever it is that's going on. It's like the law of polarity.
Speaker 2:You think law of polarity, isn't it? Yeah, it's mind blowing, isn't it? When you think about it 100%.
Speaker 1:You can't avoid it. But as but as human beings, we naturally try to seek the one side. Yeah, we naturally want all the happiness and nothing else. We want all the positives without the negatives. But if we can embrace the support and the challenge again, if we can embrace both sides, then you're going to be more neutral, I suppose, which means you're not going to get the emotional volatilities, the picks and troughs, a lot of the times, that most people experience because they're wanting a one-sided universe which isn't there.
Speaker 2:You actually touched on something interesting there about John Timortini. Yeah. You had an event with him?
Speaker 1:Yeah, back in last month at Titanic. Last month, february at the Titanic, yeah, it was fantastic.
Speaker 2:How did you find that? Or how did you find it? It was amazing, not an event yeah, it was an amazing event.
Speaker 1:It was really, really good just to bring him here to to Belfast. It was fantastic. We had the full day, was we had podcasts going on and we had VIP round tables going on, and then we had the event then itself. He spent 90 minutes doing a talk and we had a sit down kind of similar to this like a Q&A style podcast after in the hall at the Titanic, and then he had another VIP roundtable after as well too. So, yeah, getting him over was fantastic.
Speaker 1:Spent a good couple of days with him. What I really, really loved about the couple of days was actually getting for me and my wife and my daughter just to spend some time with them over breakfast and lunch and just some of his stories and him imparting some knowledge and yeah especially my daughter. You know, like he's a mentor of mine, he's someone I greatly admire, but getting him to have a conversation with her and impart some wisdom and yeah again just having a bit of crack as well.
Speaker 1:So it was was fantastic. Yeah, it was a great event.
Speaker 2:Where did your guys' relationship, I guess?
Speaker 1:start off 2016. Well, 2008, the Secret.
Speaker 1:Everybody's heard of the Secret, so he was one of the philosophers in the Secret. And then 2016,. My father passed away with Parkinson's and there was a friend of mine at the time said get the book the Breakthrough Experience. And I got the book book the Breakthrough Experience and I got the book the Breakthrough Experience and that kind of shifted my perspective on a lot of things at the time where I was at and some of the stuff that I was going through I probably didn't really like get the most from it that I probably could, but it definitely planted some seeds. 2019 then I started getting more in these work. 2020 did his master planning for life and then I did the the breakthrough experience course in 2020 and some of the shifts that I got from doing that breakthrough experience course. I was like I want to know what that was like. What was he doing, what was that tool? What was he teaching? As a coach, I'm always looking for something that I can take and learn and implement and to work on the clients.
Speaker 1:Well, that's been. I've done hypnosis, nlp, breath work facilitation, all the different things I'm looking for, different things that I can take on and then use.
Speaker 1:And that weekend I was like I want to know what that is yeah so after that the weekend I inquired then how do I become a trained facilitator, how do I learn that method? So I signed up and did. It was like five, 14 hour days um studying, and that was your entry in the studying the Demartini method, which has had a massive impact on me as a coach. As a person, it's had a massive impact on my business Studying John's work really. And then since then I've done multiple different courses, got to facilitate at the Breakthrough Experience in London last year, did another four day course within there on value application and life and business. So I've been studying his work now for the last five years, just doing different courses, and it's been transformational, to be honest yeah, how is your life changed?
Speaker 2:I guess from his teachings, the tools.
Speaker 1:I suppose, is really my perspective, no, my perception, and in terms of how I see myself and how I see things, that's going on around me, yeah, it hasn't really really changed. So, like, a lot of his teachings is around like again, seeing like things from a different perspective, seeing things, uh, as, instead of wanting it to be this way, looking at how you can begin to use a certain situation and find the opposite in it. How is that actually serving? How is that helping? How is that benefiting? So I think the tools that I've learned from them has really shifted my perspective. It's taken my awareness up, I suppose. So, when things happen, I'm able to deal with those things that put easier in my own life and then, as a coach, working with business owners and CEOs and so many different people, I can take those tools into their lives and help them in a coaching experience to deal with some of the challenges that they're going through as well.
Speaker 2:You probably couldn't get a better location than the Titanic Hotel as well, so much history there. It was class. You know what I mean. Drawn rooms, yeah.
Speaker 1:As I was saying, I had no clue. It was a drawn room for the Titanic Up the Titanic organizing this whole event with the drawing room for Titanic, up the Titanic organising this whole event. And then, when we get into the drawing rooms for the event, martin Irvine was saying he says do you know that this is where the drawing rooms where they actually drew up the plans for Titanic? I had no clue. I actually thought this was just Baltic.
Speaker 2:Oh, no, no. But there's one thing as well. You do like a podcast, yeah, and I've seen and you've had loads of different guests. There's ones like Kim Calvert. You were saying, yeah, john Growny, mccoy, phil, graham, yeah, coach Owen, Roddy, keir, daly. Yeah, where did your journey with podcasting begin?
Speaker 1:2020. Through the I think it was just under the start of like one of the lockdowns I wanted to use a podcast as a way for me to get to speak to other people inspirational people and financial people, yeah, and I suppose I used it, to be too honest, as a way to get networking. So I wanted a network. I wanted to get into other people's environments, um, and I looked at the podcast as a way of doing that. I was getting doors opened to speak to people that I probably wouldn't have normally got that opportunity unless I had to go and actually meet them or knocking doors, etc. Especially people from all our ends of the world.
Speaker 1:So I've had guests on from literally all over the world yeah and from different walks of life, from business to gangsters, the like people here that spent seven, eight years in prison. I've literally spoke to a wide variety of different people and I felt the podcast was a really good opportunity for me to get into those people's, like those, and pick their brains and learn from them, and that's what I actually kind of had the podcast started for, which was to share stories of inspirational people that have created changes in their lives as well.
Speaker 2:Is there anything you've taken in particular, like one major thing you've learned on a podcast from someone that you've really really taken away in particular?
Speaker 1:One major thing from oh that would be hard to pinpoint, to be honest, because there's been so many different people. Um, one of the guys that I had on in the podcast a couple of years ago stands in mind, um, which was a guy from belfast, sam miller. He'd spent seven or eight years, um on the blanket blanket as part of like a political struggles at that time and I think just the what I took from that was like what's a person's willing to go through for a cause, know what a person's willing to suffer for something that they find meaning and purpose and a cause, and you know what those guys experienced, the like, what that depravity was like. You know, living in those cells for such a long period of time. Um, I think that definitely that conversation definitely kind of stood out for me. But then there's been loads of other conversations that I've had with different people that have also had an impact.
Speaker 1:I think, the big thing, I suppose, has just been again going back into it, the mindset around what people will be able to endure and move through for them to get to where it is that they really want to be, you know, for them to create the changes in their lives, for them to create the changes in their business, whatever it might be. I think I love speaking to people who have have done something, created something, um, and kind of went through the peaks and troughs and everything else, but are still on that path, doing something that they love, do you?
Speaker 2:you think there's. After talking to all these people, do you think there's like a common thread or something that they all do that makes them successful at what they do? Is there something that they each all have like a trait Purpose?
Speaker 1:Having purpose and meaning, like if you have something that you find purpose and meaning every single day, if you find something that is of high value for you. No, that's the thing that is going to help you keep moving forward, no matter what, because anybody that's created something in their lives, whether that is in their health and fitness or their business or even in, like a relationship it's challenging, um, but when you're doing the thing that you actually really love, you're willing to pursue the pains and the pleasures and just pursue it. You're willing to go through the challenges and the supports and just pursue it. How you know something is really really valuable for you and to you is you're going to go through those things and keep moving forward.
Speaker 1:It's not that important. You'll get out at the first hurdle when it starts to get challenging. You want a way out, but when it's important for you and you really really value it and something that's highest in your priorities, you'll be willing to pursue the pains and pleasures, the supports and the challenges, the positives and the negatives in this pursuit. And speaking to a lot of those guys, that's the thing that I noticed with them all is they find something that they really want to do. It's not always easy, but it's important for them and it's something that they're dedicating their life towards and they're doing everything that they can possibly to make that happen.
Speaker 2:Podcast is good because you have that sort of give and take. You know, you're offering someone to have spread their knowledge whilst also getting an hour of their time for yourself. You know what I mean. It sort of works both ways. You do an academy as well, isn't it? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Is it the mindset junkie? It used to be called the mindset junkie, yes, the fitmind academy. So I had the the mindset junkie academy through the lockdown um, and then the academy that I have now at the moment is called the fitmind academy talk to me a little bit about it if someone hasn't heard before.
Speaker 2:Yes, the Fitment.
Speaker 1:Academy is for generally kind of business driven people or career driven people who want to tap into again some of the things that we've even discussed here, which is different ways of looking at themselves, beginning to get themselves really aligned with understanding their values and what's actually really something within them themselves that they want to follow and bring out. Getting to understand those processes that take everybody through those processes, how they actually determine their values, understanding what those intrinsic drivers are, and then how to begin the map out a vision for yourself that's going to be in alignment with those values. So that's done in a group environment in the academy. They have a portal with health and fitness and sleep and nutrition and all sorts on there, and then they also have all the kind of deep dive into human behavior and mindset lessons that's in there, um, and then it's just a good community as well there's good crack in there.
Speaker 1:There's a good bit of banter, a good bit of a good environment. We hook up on calls every single week and we discuss some topics. We discuss life, we discuss challenges. There's live opportunities, q&a to get coached by me every single week, and that's what the Academy is about and it's it's thriving at the month. There's a really good group of people on there that just want something more for themselves. Well, that is, in their health, the fitness, finances, business, whatever it might be.
Speaker 2:It's crucial to get around the right type of people yeah, in order for that to happen, yeah, yeah, getting yourself with the right people, right environment, right everything.
Speaker 1:Really, it's the same wavelength, yeah as James Clear says, environment is an invisible hand. It shapes human behavior. You have to get in the right environment If you want to grow. It's essentially get around the right people who think in the same way.
Speaker 1:And there was one thing we think I picked up here is that repetition is the first stage of learning yeah, yeah, because at the start, when you're trying to create some sort of change, like if you, you drive a car, yeah, so when you start to drive a car, how many lessons do you?
Speaker 2:do, yeah, it's repetitive.
Speaker 1:It's the same thing over and over, and over and over again now you don't even subconsciously, just yeah, now it's unconscious. Most of the time you're driving down the road, you're not even thinking about driving you literally aren't your head's away on the, probably thinking about this podcast? What am I going?
Speaker 1:to say how's it going to look all these different things your head's away in all different directions. So reputation is the first stage of learning because, especially as an adult, we've learned so much that, so much that has maybe not served us in a certain way, and sometimes it's changing those patterns. Sometimes it's changing our perspective and things. Sometimes it's changing our values. You know, the hierarchy of your values dictates your destiny and if you've got things that are lower in your values but you want to shift and change them and it's a repetitive process they find the benefits of changing that. That gets you to ultimately change um, which is basically what a habit is. It's just something that you repeat kind of unconsciously a lot of the times. So repetition is the first stage of learning, for sure, and what we kind of dedicate ourselves towards and what we repetitively do over time is who we become I have a couple questions here.
Speaker 2:We ask on every podcast yeah but um, yeah, but again, there's something you said I thought was really interesting. It was like why we do what we do and the internal mental blueprint, yeah, that we have. Why do you think we do what we do?
Speaker 1:why we do what we do is because of our values. Ultimately. So, as I said there, our values are dictating their destiny. So whatever we find most valuable, most important to us, most priority, is what our life is currently demonstrating, and your life will always demonstrate. What you find as a real priority and why we're doing that is because of the voice that we're trying to fill. So the voids are the experiences that we've had in our lives, the judgments that we've had in our lives, and those voids are the things that we think are missing, and whatever we think is missing now, or what we thought was missing most, we're trying to fulfill. So the thing that you deem a real priority, the highest value that you have, is designed to fill the biggest void that you had. So, ultimately, why we're doing what we're doing is because we're trying to fulfill voids. We're trying to fulfill the things that we think is missing or thought was missing most.
Speaker 1:As an example, let's say, in business, you've a lack of leads, you've a lack of sales coming on, you've a lack of opportunity. Well, there's a void there. I know. Start to value, put myself out there more, and I start to value making contact with people and I start to value getting some sort of work. In getting money, in getting income in, you're filling that void. If there's somebody that's not in a relationship and they want the relationship, there's a void there.
Speaker 1:But we have thousands of voids from the day that we're born. In fact, there's science and study that shows that there's epigenetic voids from the day that we're born. In fact, there's science and study that shows that there's epigenetic voids that go back generations. So we have like epigenetic tags. So we're, in a lot of times, fulfilling voids that have been experienced generations before us. So, ultimately, why we do what we do is because we're attaching purpose and meaning to the thing that we're doing, because, in some way or it's following something that we thought was missing or currently experience, and what we think is missing and a void is basically a judgment and it's missing information, essentially. So our values are dictating how we perceive, how we decide and how we act.
Speaker 1:You filter your information, you filter your reality according to what you truly value so the eyes, so does every single person, part of our brain and scholar to take their activity system that felt. There's information and the night, according to what we truly value. So you perceive the word differently, compared to me, compared to Ross, compared to every single person is bond and how we perceive the Satan act is based on. Will this bring me a greater advantage according to what I value most, or will it bring me a greater benefit according to what I value most? So every perception, every decision, every action, every single thing that we do is based on. Does this bring me more benefit than drawback, advantage over disadvantage according to what I really prioritise?
Speaker 1:And no two people have the same values, because every single person has a different void and a different experience coming through life and if we can get to understand the thing that's most important to us. We can get to understand how we start to map out our vision, our goals, our aspirations in and around what we actually prioritise, because most people are trying to be a version of somebody else instead of being themselves, and the most authentic version of you is when you begin to understand what you truly value and map your goals and your aspirations in your life and your vision and accordance with that.
Speaker 2:that's when you're going to feel like yourself do you think people struggle to be themselves whenever 100?
Speaker 1:yeah, for sure, because they get caught up in the shoes needs to have, to, must. So it's called imperative language, which is usually injection of values of somebody else, the injective values of society, maybe parents, teachers, preachers, whatever it might be. Yeah, and if you constantly love with the injective values of somebody else, you cloud your own judgment and you cloud your own vision, because if you're basically trying to be a version of somebody else, you're not being yourself, so you're not getting to fulfill what's most important to you and you don't want to create a vision around doing stuff you don't do yeah, you're not going to think about like creating a big vision around the shit that you get stuck on, that you don't like yeah, yeah
Speaker 1:but when you start to wake yourself up and get clear on what it's most important to you and you start to see what that is, then you want to create a bigger vision, then you want to do more of it, then you want to actually bring that forward. When you're doing stuff that you love, your energy expands. You want to radiate that energy out. When you're doing stuff that you don't, it contracts. You get smaller. So the higher you go up in your values, the bigger you get. Let's say, the more you want to expand that energy out, the lower you love in your values, the more you do, contracting gets smaller. You get smaller in your energy, you get smaller in your thinking and a lot of those behaviors will be destructive. They'll be so-called self-sabotage patterns, procrastinations, hesitations, frustrations or some sort of immediate gratification but.
Speaker 1:If you ever found, when you're doing something that you really really love like maybe sitting and having these conversations or doing something that you feel inspired by you're not really thinking about anything else, you just wanna do that thing and your energy's always there for it as well.
Speaker 2:Is what you're doing with your coaching and all this. Is that what you love or what is? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So for me, coaching, speaking, teaching those are the things that I really, really love and those are the things that I automatically, naturally, like, spontaneously, want to go and do. When I'm doing those things, my energy's always there. I've always got energy for it. So I'll give you an example On Thursday I was down, I was given a three hour workshop for a company in Dublin.
Speaker 1:I met up with a client in Dublin, went and trained at the gym, went and did the three-hour workshop and then we had some conversations. After I went to the client's home and did a training session with them and I drove home and my energy. I got home at a half eight, nine o'clock and I still felt like, right, I could, I could keep doing more of this. My energy was there, your energy is going to be there, it's going to be high, it's going to be present when you're doing the things you love and it's a real like not subtle, but it's a real signal that's giving you an example and it's giving you feedback automatically of am I on point or am I not on point? Am I doing the thing that I want to do or am I not doing the thing that I want to do? Your energy will tell you.
Speaker 2:There's other things that you can look at as well, for sure, but your energy is a telltale sign the one thing I was going to say is the way I ask in every podcast is that do you think you're? Would you? What is success to you?
Speaker 1:success again. It kind of gets banded about. This is something um and to be honest, I don't really I don't, I'm not really too concerned about it, to be totally honest, that I'm more interested in doing the thing that I love you know if I'm doing the thing that I love, if I'm doing the thing that I want to do, if I'm coaching, teaching, speaking, if I'm having that unpacked and my business is growing because of that, then then technically I'm successful hmm, you know?
Speaker 1:I mean I'm comparing myself to myself. I'm comparing my actions and my daily priorities to the thing that I want to do. If I compare it to somebody else, then I'm not going to feel successful. No, if I keep comparing me to somebody else, then I'm not being me. So if you can compare your own daily actions to your own highest priorities and stick to that and stop comparing yourself to somebody else outside of yourself, then you're going to feel more successful.
Speaker 2:Let's say that's interesting because every time we ask it there's a different viewpoint on. Yeah, I was just thinking like how is it maybe change with yourself from back? Then you know, back in the when you're 21, 22 young man looking for a purpose, I suppose, and 100.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, even then at that time, I suppose, trying to create some sort of business, trying to create finance? No, trying to create money for myself, no, trying to create a life essentially it was what I was trying to do and get. If I look back, though, even over the last 20 years, I think the big thing for me has always been having that autonomy to just do the thing that I want to do. No, that's what's most important. No, for me, that's what's most important. If I get to do the thing that I want to do and I'm not loving a life that somebody else thinks I should be loving, no, that's successful and whatever shape or form that might be for some people that's as a coach, as a business owner.
Speaker 1:For some people that's as a father, as a mother. Yeah, no, every single person is going to have something unique to themselves that they want to fulfill, and if you're getting to do that and you love doing that, well then technically you're successful last three for you yeah, is there something else?
Speaker 2:I'm asking every podcast, but is there? What's the best piece of advice you've ever received? Ever received um quite a broad brush, but anyway, anyway anyway, anyway, you think ever.
Speaker 1:I couldn't say that there's one single piece of advice that I've ever received has been like the most important, because I've taken things from so many different people that I've learned and I've used and I've implemented.
Speaker 1:But I would probably say, if I was to give a piece of advice to someone that would probably get them on not a better path, but getting them to be themselves is really beginning to understand your values, is really beginning to understand what your life has demonstrated and is most important for you. Really beginning to understand who you really are. What is it that you're trying to fulfill? What's most inspiring to you? Where do you have the energy? Where are you focused, disciplined, reliable? What is it that your life has demonstrated and is really important for you?
Speaker 1:And if you can get the understanding what those values are, then you're going to feel more like yourself. You're going to feel more authentic, because if you constantly minimize yourself to somebody else, you're going to keep yourself in a pit and you're never going to be yourself. So, understanding what you really really value and seeing what your life is demonstrating is most important for you, and then creating a life around that, mapping out your goals, your vision, your business, your family, whatever it might be, around the area that's most important for you. I would say that would probably be the thing that I've learned, and the thing that I love teaching other people is getting really, really clear on what the hair give your values actually are and then learning they create whatever is it you want to create, and then around that, because that's when you're going to find more momentum, you're gonna have more focus, you're gonna have more energy, you're gonna be more discipline and you're gonna want to do that and fulfill that mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:One more way if, all the way, the 21 or 22 year old version of you, or if a young person came up to you in the street asking for a piece of advice, maybe in business things, what would you say or what would you give them? Maybe the, maybe they don't know their purpose, or they don't know, maybe a bit lost in their direction. Is there anything you'd?
Speaker 1:say. I think that everybody knows their purpose. I believe that everybody, like I was that guy 100% felt lost, didn't know who I was. Listen to yourself, I think. Sometimes take that wee bit of a step back and listen. Your intuition a lot of times is screaming at you. It was screaming at me, I didn't know how to listen to it, I didn't know what it was.
Speaker 1:And your intuition is the unconscious information trying to become conscious and a lot of the times we have that information within ourselves trust yourself a wee bit more I think as, especially as a young person, learn to listen to what your intuition or your energy or whatever it might be, is guiding you towards now. You know within yourself what you feel is important for you. You know within yourself what you want to do. I think have the faith and the strength and the belief within yourself. They listen to yourself. Know, without having they go here, they're listening. All sorts of people they are. They're all needed.
Speaker 1:I've used and still use coaches and mentors a hundred percent, but I think if I was a young guy or young girl looking back and it's kind of feeling lost. Take a step back. Have a wee bit of faith and trust in yourself. Learn to listen to your initiation. Learn to listen to the subtle changes and nudges that you're probably getting a lot of the times that are telling you you're on the right path. You're not on the right path and, more than anything, no, I think. Learn that they understand that whatever it is that you're experiencing, you can use it.
Speaker 1:Whatever it is that you feel is challenging, there's also a benefit on it. How's that serving you? What are you learning? What are you adapting to? How would that benefit you now? How's that benefiting you in the future. What are the things that you're finding as a challenge right now? What is that actually teaching you? Is it getting you to move directions? Is it getting you to move into a different life, a different course, a different path, whatever it might be? Whatever that challenge, that setback is, find the benefit on it, find the hidden blessing, find how it's serving you and then use that for yourself to move forward. But I think, more than anything, have a little bit of faith, trust and belief in yourself and learn to listen to what that information is there within you, trying to become conscious and trying to engage you, and that's what your intuition is.
Speaker 1:It's the unconscious information that we all have trying to become conscious to get us to see both sides, and if you listen to that, it'll help gauge you on the path for sure.
Speaker 2:Seamus, thank you so much my pleasure is there any events or anything coming up? Is there anything that maybe coming up? People can maybe come and see you and talk to you, or there's a I don't know when this is going out.
Speaker 1:So there's a webinar I've got coming up on Thursday, but then there's probably going to be another event coming up I'm going to host for myself in Everton, here in Derry. Other than that, just in terms of my own podcast or coaching or the Fitmind Academy, etc. That's the only thing that's ongoing where people can either come and listen to me or ask for advice or coaching or something similar.
Speaker 2:Seamus, thank you so much. Thank you Really enjoyed it. I appreciate you taking the time out of your day on a Sunday as well for sitting down with us.
Speaker 1:I really enjoyed it, really good conversation. I hope that your listeners get something from it and it's like some sort of wisdom or no good or something, and create some sort of change themselves, if that's what they need anything you want to say when you're you're here, or anything, or anything. No, just again if you're looking for the, follow me and there's three my social media channels, like LinkedIn, instagram, facebook go on the podcast. If you have a question, if you're looking for some advice, reach out and have a conversation, for sure.
Speaker 2:Seamus. Thank you so much, my pleasure. I hope you guys have enjoyed Seamus' story, find out more about him, the events and stuff coming up. I think we'll probably release this in like a week or two's time or something we'll be able build up. But no, thank you so much for coming on and you guys have been watching the official young hunger podcast. I hope you guys have enjoyed. I'll catch you in the next one.