Athletes & Sports Performance for entrepreneurs

“Versus if I have this narrative that I am unblockable, I am comfortable in space, I am a seatbelt in coverage, I'm hard to deal with, I'm— I cause problems for the offense, I'm one step ahead of everyone. Like, you just tell these things to yourself.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 0:06· listen →

“I read this book, Psycho-Cybernetics. That was the book I read before my fourth year. I just had this like kind of— I revived my career. It was because of that book. And the whole essence of the book was like talking about reworking the self-image you have for yourself and how like you can only do as much as your self-image allows you to do.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 29:53· listen →

“I've gone as far in my later years of my career of like, how much can I amp myself up to feel exactly like I'm going to feel in the game? Breathwork, visualization, all of these things to try to simulate that feeling.”

Chris Streveler: NFL Mindset for Entrepreneurs · 53:33· listen →

“I'm so thankful that I was able to have that mindset, jump in headfirst into the CFL game, embrace it, because had I not done that, I probably would've never got that chance to go start those games. I would've never had success in the CFL. I never would've made it to the NFL.”

Chris Streveler: NFL Mindset for Entrepreneurs · 0:00· listen →

“As long as it's not the knockout punch and there's still time on the clock and there's still breath in my lungs and there's still this and there's— it's like, it's truly like— It's never too late. Like, it's really just never too late.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 31:24· listen →

“I've always stuck by the phrase of you'll flush it. That play's over. I'm going to flush it. I got to move on to the next thing... how do you have the mindset to just accept that, take the positive from it, learn from it and move forward and not make that same mistake again?”

Chris Streveler: NFL Mindset for Entrepreneurs · 62:48· listen →

“How do I find a way to provide value? ... don't worry about your role, man. Just worry about how can I provide value? What can I do to move the needle?”

Chris Streveler: NFL Mindset for Entrepreneurs · 75:47· listen →

“It's the same thing. You're already signaling to your brain in a very hardline way how you want to go forward as you get up.”

Reset Your Nervous System for Peak Performance · 43:04· listen →

“Because hard choices then are happening when discomfort happens, some self-control happens, and we are more aligned with the long-term vision for ourselves and wait for the reward. It's really hard to do it, hard to save money, let's say, and put the money into retirement and wait and have that vision and connection all the time to the future.”

Jerzy Gregorek: Hard Choices, Easy Life Explained · 0:31· listen →

“Definitely, the goal that helps with hard choices has to be really the big goal. We want big things. And even if they take 5 years, they can help us with those hard choices now and develop this microprogressive system to get there.”

Jerzy Gregorek: Hard Choices, Easy Life Explained · 18:45· listen →

“My purpose was to find money to drink, right? If I could find money and the money I could find with other people, somebody was paid, somebody had some things, and we always found these people who had money.”

Jerzy Gregorek: Hard Choices, Easy Life Explained · 6:36· listen →

“Environment drives behavior. And is the biggest influencer on behavior that people don't talk about more than anything else. Myself, people say, oh, you must be so disciplined. You must have high willpower. I have neither, nor do I want either.”

The ROI of Health and Fitness for Entrepreneurs · 26:38· listen →

“We have nociceptors that are threat receptors. Touch a hot pan, threat receptors take the information, the threatening heat, danger. That sends the signal afferently to the brain, and really through the spinal cord and the brainstem. The brain then makes processes and makes a decision on the pain perception to come back out.”

Reset Your Nervous System for Peak Performance · 8:44· listen →

“The idea of hormetic stress is consciously and intentionally inducing stressors in order to make adaptations. If you think about it in simple terms, it's what happens when you really strength train. When you lift weights, you're inducing a stressor to the muscles and to the fascia. There's a bit of inflammation because of that, and then you get stronger.”

Reset Your Nervous System for Peak Performance · 23:27· listen →

“I would see these blips throughout the day in the glucose monitor that were in the normal range, but that it wasn't associated with food... there are cortisol pops to increase glucose... So it wasn't that I am super chill... I was completely unaware of the physical impact that was happening on my body.”

The ROI of Health and Fitness for Entrepreneurs · 12:40· listen →

“The number one predictor of longevity is muscle strength and partly because you keep your balance, you don't fall over, everything stays upright.”

Dr. Mihir Patel: Muscle Strength, Longevity & Joint Health · 44:03· listen →

“Flexibility, I think, is part of the key here. As we get older, staying as flexible as we can, as loose as we can, doing the stretches, even though I don't like doing them, it just seems like a waste of time. I'd rather be evaluating a company or doing something else versus stretching, but that keeps us from getting stiff, and stiffness leads to injuries.”

Dr. Mihir Patel: Muscle Strength, Longevity & Joint Health · 0:00· listen →

“Hip fractures, if you look at the medical studies out there, it's a 90% mortality rate at the end of 1 year.”

Dr. Mihir Patel: Muscle Strength, Longevity & Joint Health · 5:45· listen →

“I used to tell patients it's kind of like a toilet bowl. You're spinning up on top and then all of a sudden you spin down into the gutter. And so here you're breaking that cycle and you're out of that toilet bowl at the end of the day. And so you can get stronger.”

Dr. Mihir Patel: Muscle Strength, Longevity & Joint Health · 16:10· listen →

“If there was a drug that you could take to make you better at all those things... We have that drug. We have that with fitness. We have that with exercise. We have that with nutrition.”

The ROI of Health and Fitness for Entrepreneurs · 2:36· listen →

“What we saw was, as you'd expect, people who were more consistent saw improved results. But the group that had 29 to 50% consistency still saw statistically significant improvements.”

The ROI of Health and Fitness for Entrepreneurs · 23:36· listen →

“And that always stuck with me. It's like, we already did the hard part. We made it to the NFL, which no one thought we could do. You make life-changing money. Let's get really good at saving before we ever get good at investing.”

From NFL to Entrepreneurship: Justin Pugh's Playbook · 8:21· listen →

“How much does it cost to be Justin Pugh or whoever's listening right now? Most people at home probably can't even tell you that. The NFL player just had a bunch of money over a very short period of time. And they didn't know how much it costs to be them.”

From NFL to Entrepreneurship: Justin Pugh's Playbook · 10:50· listen →

“I said, hey, if you don't like this idea, just gimme a quick no. Like, I'm not, it's no skin off your back and no, like, I just, I need to know so I'm not hanging around the hoop waiting forever because it's going to slow me down.”

From NFL to Entrepreneurship: Justin Pugh's Playbook · 19:54· listen →

“Something about the construction, it, it just speaks to me. Like right now my goal is I want, when I'm done playing, I want to, one, I don't want to take a pay cut, which like that's a very high bar. And then 2, like, I, um, I want to be passionate about what I do, um, but I want to— I want to also make mailbox money.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 40:23· listen →

“One of my non-negotiables is working out in the morning. Like before I do anything else, I get up and I work out and that's either a run, that's a lift in the gym, but just like getting my blood flowing in the morning is my form of caffeine.”

Jack Adler on Building Out2Win and Raising $1.3M Young · 17:53· listen →

“Now, like, wanting it more doesn't actually make you better. It's all the other stuff. Like, are you staying consistently focused on the right goals? Are you working on the right goals? Are you efficiently using your time and your energy?”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 23:17

“You might have this occupation that tells you this is where I'm at, this is where I need to be. But don't let that ever, ever, ever get in the way of your vocation, of your purpose. And I felt like, you know, I started playing football. It was a scheme to make friends, win influence, get girls, all the things.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 36:22

“It's important just when associating yourself with an athlete and having them represent your brand to the public eye that you just have the full 360 view of like, where are they going to be showing up and how are they going to be showing up? Is this who I want to represent my brand?”

Jack Adler on Building Out2Win and Raising $1.3M Young · 4:28

“It was kind of just this process of feeling out the market, feeling out the feedback that I was constantly receiving. And kind of like you said, just being open-minded, not being stubborn, listening to what people said and taking it, not necessarily taking everything I heard, but recognizing patterns and applying them to where I wanted to take the business.”

Jack Adler on Building Out2Win and Raising $1.3M Young · 6:00

“So much of it's about storytelling and in a way, vision dumping, because that's what gets people excited. That's what gets people to buy in. And that's a lot of what I was doing in the early stages of raising money. It was really just pitching the vision that I had for where this could go.”

Jack Adler on Building Out2Win and Raising $1.3M Young · 7:37

“By putting too much weight on what you think could or hopefully will happen, you end up I think like almost losing track in what needs to be done right in front of you.”

Jack Adler on Building Out2Win and Raising $1.3M Young · 19:32

“I just think that there's such an opportunity as a student to go throw yourself into the fire and learn from what most likely will be failure... You have nothing to lose. And now is the time to go out and do it.”

Jack Adler on Building Out2Win and Raising $1.3M Young · 35:10

“I remember we're on a bus ride or we're on a train ride from New York to play the Washington Commanders. And he's telling me about how he lived in a car after Katrina hit when he was a little little boy.”

From NFL to Entrepreneurship: Justin Pugh's Playbook · 24:06

“There's a cover-your-ass culture in the NFL because if you don't have security or you haven't won recently, you're on the line. That's coaches, that's general managers. No one wants to tell the owner bad news. So it always is someone else's fault. So the spotlight's off them and on somebody else.”

From NFL to Entrepreneurship: Justin Pugh's Playbook · 28:22

“I started investing in my health. I had a hyperbaric chamber, the sauna, the cold plunge, massage twice a week, acupuncture twice a week, stretching, got a chef in-house. I told you, I had the ability to kind of invest in my health to play longer and I did that.”

From NFL to Entrepreneurship: Justin Pugh's Playbook · 42:26

“Yeah, I think whoever coined that phrase was just lucky enough to have something that they really liked that paid them a lot of money, right? Because you're right, the fact is, yeah, you have to pay your bills, right? So you've got to find something that's going to pay the bills.”

From NFL to Entrepreneurship: Justin Pugh's Playbook · 16:36

“So we said no, the strike happened. I was one of the leaders of the strike. And after 10 days, helicopter landed on the room or the roof, and then tanks moved in. And they took us out.”

Jerzy Gregorek: Hard Choices, Easy Life Explained · 10:14

“So that is the same thing. We go to the gym and we spend in the gym 5 years or 10 years, and we are the same or worse. A lot of people have experienced like that. Or you go to the gym and have the plan, have the strategies. You still go to the gym like others. You do the training.”

Jerzy Gregorek: Hard Choices, Easy Life Explained · 20:36

“3 minutes of deep breathing, strong, and you have to focus on it a bit, it can't be very passive, followed by a maximal voluntary breath hold increased circulating human growth hormone in the blood by up to 550% a half hour after that was done.”

Reset Your Nervous System for Peak Performance · 37:45

“The reason we don't take breathwork seriously is because we call it breathwork when in fact it's respiratory physiology. And if we could just understand that it's respiratory physiology and this is real and not woo, people would get more out of it perhaps.”

Reset Your Nervous System for Peak Performance · 45:27

“You have to bring other people along with you. It's not enough to just be a good player... if you want somebody to do something, set the standard for how it should be done.”

Chris Streveler: NFL Mindset for Entrepreneurs · 50:02

“What you put out there comes back to you... hard work is going to pay off in some way, shape, or form. Like it doesn't mean that you're going to go to the NFL, but you're going to learn a lot of lessons by working hard.”

Chris Streveler: NFL Mindset for Entrepreneurs · 82:56

“That inflammation, that baseline level inflammation, if you keep that at a minimum, at the end of the day, you end up remaining much more flexible... maintaining that flexibility, maintaining state and keeping that inflammation down at a reasonable level basically helps promote the ability to potentially live a lot longer and a lot more fruitful life.”

Dr. Mihir Patel: Muscle Strength, Longevity & Joint Health · 9:20

“Blood flow restriction is— think in simple terms, think a tourniquet. You put a tourniquet on your leg, you work out, and you get a burn a lot faster than you would otherwise because you've cut the blood supply off. But it's measured, it's calculated, and it lets you build the muscle but without the extra weight.”

Dr. Mihir Patel: Muscle Strength, Longevity & Joint Health · 43:30

“I was sitting maybe at 11, 12% body fat, which is by all accounts relative to the regular population, very, very lean. But I still had high cholesterol and started to do some more work there and realized this runs in my family.”

The ROI of Health and Fitness for Entrepreneurs · 9:46