Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: What up, what up? What up? Welcome back to the Bad Podcast. Brad and Duane, back in here for another episode of the Bad Podcast. Bad Brad. Bad Brad.
What's going on, brother? What you got going on?
[00:00:11] Speaker B: Hey, man. It's the month of May, and it's a really important time to talk mental health. And we've talked about mental health in the past, and I want to, I want to, you know, relate it to my book prep, rep, repeat and talk about some things that we can do proactively that will sort of douse that. That mental instability, that mental. Mental, mental what? I've drawn a blank. Mental illness.
So, hey, guys, let's, let's talk about it. Remember, you are capable of emerging from darkness and finding your way into the light. All it takes is the first step forward. Yeah. I couldn't get out of my own way. Days turned into weeks, and weeks turned in months as I found myself drowning in a sea of mental anguish. Finally, I arrived at a crucial resolution. I had to redefine who I wanted to become. I resolved that my past accomplishments would no longer shackle me or, or hold me back from pursuing new goals. I was done reminiscing about my iron man, and I was ready to move forward.
[00:01:10] Speaker A: Let's get it. My mic was muted.
Are you ready?
[00:01:17] Speaker B: Are you ready?
[00:01:32] Speaker A: Be like, what it look like, what it do? Back in here, another episode of the Bad Podcast. Brad and Dwayne coming to you not live, but when you're watching this and listen to this, this is a Monday, man, and like Brad mentioned, we are in the middle of the mental health month, man, so we're definitely going to talk about that. But before we do, man, I want to plug 28 motivate, man. The, the regular E2M program.
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[00:02:50] Speaker B: Oh, you mentioned people pay, people pay big bucks for the, for the mental health coaching that we're offering as that big nutshell packet. People pay big dollar bills. And I, I've listened to some of our, our mental health coaches and they're just absolutely phenomenal. So that's our, that's our shameless plug.
I want to talk some real life skills, real life principles, standards, I guess that we could live by and, and really introduce into our lives to sort of come out of those dark corners of the world. And, and I, I mentioned it from my book there, that was the, that was page 181 out of prep Prep Repeat. I did find myself in, in darkness. And a lot of times we find ourselves in darkness because of living in the past, right? And I was living in the past and I was living off of a high. A lot of times we think, oh man, I was, I was living off a defeat, living off loss, but I was actually living off of a high. But I was shackled to that past version and I wasn't taking those steps forward to progress or proceed in the life's journey. So one thing that you need to do on a daily basis is take those steps forward. As far as nutrition goes, as far as physical activity goes, these are the two basic building blocks for getting yourself out of those dark corners. Put what you put in your body, what you feed your mind even, and what you're doing, as far as physical activity goes, and you're mentioning 28 motivate prime time.
I still, I still do a lot of the old school circuits like I, I, I do. And I don't enjoy them because they are tough. They are tough. They're as tough as you make them, right? They're as tough as you make them.
But I enjoy doing those old school circuits. So physical activity, if you're getting between 20 and 30 minutes of physical activity a day, guys, you're, you're literally part of a 5% group because they say that 5, less than 5% of people in the world do 20 minutes of physical 75 to 7 days a week. That's like mind blowing to me. Like less than 5%.
That's mind blowing. And if you can do 20 to 30 minutes of physical activity a day, That's. That's huge. That's absolutely huge. And the other one is nutrition. You know, what you're putting your body. I, I always like to say color your plate. And I don't mean get the Sharpie boy out and start coloring your plate. I mean, I mean, put some colors on there as far as vegetable goes, as far as fruits go. And if your plate. If you look at your plate and it's yellows and browns, get some different colors in there. Get some reds, you know, in. In peppers. Get some greens and peppers and lettuce and some oranges. Some, you know, color your plate. Some purples. Get some cabbage boy on there. Color your plate. So nutrition and physical activity, I'll pass it off to you, but those are the two basic building blocks to, to bringing yourself out of mental instability.
[00:05:32] Speaker A: And you don't mean skittles either. You know, taste the rainbow, yo. So that, that's, you know, that. That is so true.
It's those basic principles that help on so many levels when it comes to the mental health aspect of it. You know, things that, that, that. That are often neglected and overlooked, you know, as simple as. So working out. Working out. Let's. Let's kind of dig in there, man. There's so much science about the endorphins that's released about, you know, how the mood is, is increased. You know, even, even the boss man said, you know, it helps him with PTSD and, And anxiety. You know, there's so much that comes from working out that helps with the mental. You know, we even talked about it last week. We see the guy in the gym with the hoodie and the headphones, like, he. There's mental issues going on, right?
He's processing, you know, and that's how a lot of people process and they kind of get over stuff. But when that blood flow starts to, To. To. To. To pump through your body and through your brain and release, you know, all of those different hormones into the right places and help balance you out.
You know, it helps with sleep. You know, it helps with, you know, just a whole lot of stuff, man. So, you know, I really hope people.
I mean that if you're listening, and that's one of the issues. We're not saying this to solve all, be all, but taking that step in itself is going to help help you mentally when it comes to just trying to, you know, overcome any kind of depression, any kind of anxiety. You know, being physically active is just one of those things. It's one of those home remedies, you Know that anybody could do. Because, Brad, I mean, you're a runner, I'm a walker. But there's nothing like a nice walk to kind of clear your mind. You know, I do it all the time, man. I mean, we're blessed to be able to work from home. Like, if I'm in here and it's kind of. It's a fog going on or I'm stuck on something, man, I hit the block, man. I got a loop, you know, in my neighborhood and just. Just getting out there and just breathing the air and getting my lungs pumping and. And getting a walk. There's something about it, man, that, I mean, and it's not something. It's how we was created. We was created to be active, and those things just help balance this out.
[00:07:45] Speaker B: Yeah, and I want to go right to the root of that. You know, it comes down to behaviors and habits. Right. You have the behavior or the routine, rather, you know, to put your shoes on and go for that walk. When you're feeling fog or when you're feeling some sort of way, you know, you're discouraged or whatever, frustrated, you have that cue at that point to say, hey, I need to put on my shoes. I need to go for that walk. That's a hard thing for some people. We all have behaviors and routines. Some people don't have those good routines, like legit. All you got to do is put your shoes on and start and then let your body, let your behaviors take over from there. Okay, I'm only going to do two minutes. Oh, you. Oh, you think so? Your mindset. Oh, you're only going to do two minutes? No, we're going for a walk now. Now that you got yourself to this point, now we're going to carry on. And it brings me to my, my, my next point.
Reduce your screen time. So when you're feeling some sort of way, we're, we're very attracted to screen time. We're very attracted to cell phones, video games, television, computers. We're very attracted to those things. And a lot of the things that we're attracted to in life, they don't provide a whole lot of value. Now, am I saying the screen time doesn't provide value? No, I'm not saying that. But what I'm saying is we're attracted to over consumption of screen time. So limit. Start limiting your screen time. Like you're listening to this on Apple. Apple Pod. You listen to this on YouTube. What I encourage you to do, post, post, podcast, shut off the screen, disconnect completely for the screen for 30 minutes and engage with the outdoors or engage with the. With a treadmill. Go, go and just do a walk. There's no just going for a walk because the. The mental. The mental stability, the mental endurance, the mental strength that you get from these, from the workout and for the reduction of screen time. That's. That's. That's the big bang here. You know, a lot of people think, well, I gotta. I gotta go train for a. For a marathon. No, not necessarily. Not necessarily. Disconnect from the screen. Go for a 10 to 15 minute walk.
[00:09:41] Speaker A: Yeah, no, that. And I remember when you did that challenge, man, that was a big hit, man, because so many times we. We don't think about that aspect. You know, that's part of. So it's become so ingrained in our lives. You know, it's our alarm clock. It's the, you know, the first thing we see in the morning, last thing we. Before we lay down. But taking that break, man, is super imperative for just, I mean, mental health, you know, because I know people that. And this is why we have a hard time with our program. But we're working on that. But people are traumatized by Facebook because Facebook is a. You know, if. If you allow it and see, I'm put a pim. I'm come back to it. But people are traumatized by Facebook because they're. They're new their time timeline. They see, you know, what happened, who got shot, killed, robbed, stabbed, you know, and it caused anxiety. And, you know, taking a break from Facebook, taking a break from those screens is super helpful with that. But depending I'm gonna go back to is you control your newsfeed. So that's a lesson for y' all. You control your newsfeed. Facebook is a business. It will show you what you spend the most time on. If you don't like something, swipe past that bad boy or even block it. You know, if you do that, you control your feed, man. And that's. That's one of the. That's a tech lesson for the day, whatever. Like, because my wife do it, she'd be like, man, why this keeps showing.
[00:11:03] Speaker B: Up on my phone?
[00:11:05] Speaker A: I can't. I like, babe, you telling Facebook you want to see it because it's staying on your screen and you showing me. And you sending it to me. Facebook. Oh, she must like this. No, that's. You control your. You control your feed by anything that's negative that you don't want. You swipe it away, swipe it away. Keep moving. And. And what you like and what you want to see more of, you like it. You save, you share. And while we're talking about that, make sure you follow us on Instagram e2m premium at e2 and premium follow us on Instagram. Eager, Eager. What is it?
[00:11:34] Speaker B: Eager to run.
[00:11:36] Speaker A: Is that it?
[00:11:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Either we got it, we gotta change. Eager to run.
[00:11:40] Speaker A: Eager to run into One Fitness. Dwayne 21.
What's your Brett, what's yours?
[00:11:47] Speaker B: Bradley Dean. And then don't ask me what's after that, it's just Bradley Dean, something something.
It was the only thing available, man. I. I had a snatch.
[00:11:57] Speaker A: But yeah, so. So if you want your newsfeed, you want your feed to be positive, man, you follow positive people, you follow positive stuff. Brad, I'm throw it back to you. My. My eggs are going off. I need to catch.
[00:12:08] Speaker B: Very good, man. And one thing that Dwayne had said months ago is something about algorithms. You're in control of your algorithms, and not just on social media, but in life. And you can actually. You can actually take it a step further. Your Facebook or your Instagram, your social medias in general, they have defaults, right, where you can literally shut down your algorithms and go back to the default setting. Well, you can do that also in life. You can go back to that default setting. So if you're a. Where your focus goes, your energy flows. We've said that time and time again. Eric Thomas says it. Tony, Tony, Tony, Robin says it. But that the same applies here. You can go back to that default setting at any time. If you're pouring your. Your time, your focus, your energy into people that are. That are vampires sucking your energy, and those naysayers, those doubters, you can say, hey, you know what?
I love you so much, but I can't be around this until. Until I have the discipline, until I get myself out of that dark corner, I can't be around you. You doubt me every step of the way. You say I can't do this, you say I can't do that. I need to cut you out for a couple of days. I need you to cut you out for a couple weeks. Once I can establish my footing, once I can start to gain some traction, I start to get those positive algorithms, then. Then I. I'll accept that back into my life slowly. But you know what?
My man, Jamal King, I've been. I've been hot on Jamal King lately because, you know, he's somebody that I really inspire to be like and, you know, just really enjoy listening to. But one of the things that he says is your obedience is connected to so many others destiny. And the reason that he said that is because there's so many people that will start a journey, right? There's so many people that will start a journey and they'll, and they'll just kind of fizzle out. But, but you don't realize the impact and the positive influence or negative influence. You don't understand the impact or the influence you have on so many other people's destiny. And the reason that I continue to show up, whether it's physically or whether it's a motivational post or whether it's a silly story about my kids or my past, like the reason I continue to do that is because I know that somewhere along the way I may just inspire one person, encourage one person to take one step out of the darkness. And sometimes that's all you need. You need to take one step out of the darkness to create that momentum to get yourself on the, on the right path.
[00:14:28] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And see, even for me, I, I'm actually thinking about not the person that I might be inspiring, but the fact that someone is actually watching me. Yeah, that's, that's, that's my, like, I, I, I know that people watch, you know, and they're, they're watching me. And you know, whether, whether it's out of love or out of hate, you know, they, they're both, are both our audiences, you know, and so that, that's one of the things that motivate me to keep going and that's why I'm so transparent online when it comes to my fitness journey, is because, you know, when, when you put yourself out there like that, like people be checking for you, like people, you know, it's, it's so funny. We go to meetups and I'd be trying to like, you know, have a small talk, tell people about stuff. They'd be like, oh, yeah, I know already. Like, oh, like, like, like they're already a part of my life because, you know, I put so much out, you know, and so, you know, that aspect of it is just, you know, is one of those things that, that, that will also help on the mental, you know, if, if you are, if you are out there and you're social, you know, that it's, it's almost like a, it's almost like positive pressure, you know, just a little bit of positive peer pressure, a little bit of positive pressure. And, and that in itself will help.
[00:15:44] Speaker B: You excel just to tie in what you're talking about and One of the things that I, I've been preaching big time lately is just connection, right? The insulation that we have in our lives, but the connections that we make throughout this journey are so, so, so, so, so valuable because the people that we're connecting with are very like minded, right? And those are the people that we need to be around. We, we can't be around the naysayers anymore. Like there's, there's too many naysayers in the world. Like an iron man. Well, hey, Brad, you know, maybe you should do a half iron man or maybe you shouldn't do it at all. Like, that's really hard. Yeah, I get it. Like, I want to write a book now and, and you know, this goes way back to high school, man. I, I was a junior in high school and I went to my English teacher. I was like, hey, I want to write a book, I want to publish a book. I want to be an author. And she laughed at me. She like low key was like, hey, that ain't for you. That ain't you. And like the thing is, is like when you have somebody that you look up to or somebody that you, you know, you, you kind of value as far as being a leader, being your teacher, really, it really puts a scar on you, man. It really leaves a lasting impact. And so she told me pretty much, no, that's not for you. And I was like, if she, if she tells me it's not for me, it's definitely not for me. Like, she knows, she knows far more than I'll ever know. And then fast forward a cars 20, 18 years and I, I stand in front of the screen now as a published author and, and I'll never hold it over her head because I just think that that dream was too big for her. It was, it was never too big for me. It was always too big for her. And I think that's where we get caught up sometimes. Because you, you talk about those haters, they, they're not really low key hating. What they are doing is they don't want you to level up because it's going to force them to level up and they're going to have to go through that pain, they're going to have to go through that discomfort, right? They, they don't want D to level up because that means, oh man, he's, he's leveling up.
I should probably try to level up myself. And, and some people just, they can't even comprehend what it takes to level up. And they don't, they don't Want to level up, man. So that's why I think a lot of people like to, to drag us down.
[00:17:44] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, and, and you just, like you said, project their fears on you. You know, I always bring up, I don't always, but I bring up the, the story, you know, Jay Z was talking about his uncle, you know, and he told his uncle he wanted to be a rapper. You know, he's like, man, you, you know, you're not good enough to be a rapper, you know? No, he said he wanted to sell a million records because he was already out. He's like, I want to sell a million records. He's like, man, can't sell a million records. There ain't no way, you know, and he was like, man, I sold a million records a million times. Like, like, you know, it was his fear, you know, and, and like he mentioned in the interview, it wasn't that his uncle didn't love him. It wasn't that he wasn't, you know, he was trying to hate on him. It was just, he could. It. It didn't make sense to him. It was his fear that he was projecting on him and he didn't want, you know, he didn't want him to fall short, you know, to that goal. So he just kind of like, oh, let me, let me level you out a little bit, you know, and to your teachers, you know, to, to hurt her, her decision to say that you got. We. We're in a different time as well. So, like, it was much harder to get published back then.
[00:18:50] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I'm sure it was.
[00:18:52] Speaker A: Right?
[00:18:53] Speaker B: Yeah, well, and I think, like, when you think of something like that, I just think that, like, it's so far outside the, like, the norm of reality. Like, you just can't even comprehend it. Right? Like, you can't even, like, it's just, I don't know, man. Like, it's like, it's like some of the relationships we have established over the last handful of years, like 10 years ago, I would have never dreamt or never imagined some of the conversations that we've, like, we've had. We've had NFL football players on this podcast. We've had professional speakers on the. We've had some really high level people reach out to us and say, hey, I want to be connected to you somehow some way. So that's a, that's a really neat thing. And this kind of brings me to my last thing that I want to talk about today.
And it's, it's be uncommon, you know, you Talk about Jay Z and his uncle wanted him to, like, kind of level out and like, just sort of fit in, right? And I think a lot of us are just trying to fit in. We just want to be like, we just want to be a rest of the. A part of the rest of the crowd. But today, I encourage everybody that listens to this podcast stand out, be a little different, be a little uncommon. Because those uncommon people that are not afraid to chase their dreams, those are the people that we're all talking about, right? Those people that are at the top of the, the totem pole, they didn't get there without some hard work and some, some self affirmation, some belief in their own abilities and their own uncommon will.
But it, it doesn't come without facing your fears, coming out of those deep, dark corners. And, and some of these people that we look at and they're like, man, that, that, that guy or that gal, mighty successful.
We don't know the time, the effort spent behind the scenes. We don't know that. Right?
And I'll use, I'll use Tiger woods for an example. You know, he was cream of the crop for many years, and then all of a sudden he kind of started to decline. Well, all of a sudden, not on the news, you know, things started to, to become exposed a little bit more. And you just never know what somebody's going on. But what's going on behind the scenes and in, in, in my, my, my, my tip of the day is, you know, like you had said, be vulnerable. Put it out on there on social media. A little bit of positive peer pressure. I like that.
And make sure that you follow up with your routines and your behaviors. Make sure you follow up and, and, and be obedient to what you said you're going to do. Follow through with what you said you're going to do and, and believe in yourself.
[00:21:16] Speaker A: I like it, man. I like it. All right, y' all, we're gonna hit this quick commercial break, and then we're gonna close up out of here.
[00:21:21] Speaker C: Oh. The virtual part of it of E2M is just amazing because I can just do it in the comfort of my own home. I wake up, I get ready, I stretch, I drink some water, and right in my other room, I just work out. And it's just so easy. And then I can go right to work.
[00:21:34] Speaker D: Helps me with my crazy work schedule that I can go back on replay if I can't make it onto the live sessions.
And there's just no excuses every time I want to make an excuse. Now I'm like, I can literally go anytime that I want.
[00:21:46] Speaker B: You could do it anywhere.
[00:21:48] Speaker A: Anywhere.
[00:21:49] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:21:50] Speaker B: Our living room became our gym. I was on vacation, and I just.
[00:21:54] Speaker A: Did the workout, and if you fall off, you can always get back on.
[00:21:57] Speaker B: That's the beautiful thing.
[00:22:00] Speaker A: Get fit at home with E2N Fitness.
All right, y' all, so listen, as we get ready to close it out, man, first of all, I. I didn't start it on the show, but I definitely love to thank you guys for checking this out, man. Keep commenting on the video. Liking and sharing that helps us humongously have to shout out my good friend Candy. She made a post, she commented, she was all over it this week. Big salute and shout out to you, my friend. Uh, she's actually not too far from me, Brad. She's from my hometown area, so. So big shout out to Candy Parker. But, yeah, man, I. I'm excited.
Just, you know, continue to. To jump on and encourage and motivate you guys and. And it's. It's a privilege, man. It's. It's a blessing. It's a privilege. And I do have some exciting news. This is breaking breaking exciting news. You guys are getting exclusive.
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[00:23:47] Speaker B: Love it. I was gonna give a shout out to Lashandra Parker, which just. Just happens to be Candy Parker. So shout out to you, Candy. I appreciate you guys, man. Man, be uncommon.
Plain and simple. Be uncommon.
Look to. Look to stand out a little bit more today than you did yesterday.
[00:24:03] Speaker A: I love it. All right, y' all, we out.
