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[00:02:26] Speaker B: At least 300 times.
So I promise you there will be no math today. Well, I hope my guest promised me that there's no math.
I don't know what the probability of that is, but we shall find out.
And before we get started, I know I'm just gonna get started. I'm gonna skip my regular spew and just because I feel like that.
So today my guest, she has many different hats and she's very passionate about mental and physical wellness.
So let's just welcome her out today.
Hello. How are you?
[00:03:15] Speaker D: I am good.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: So before we get started, can you tell us a little bit about who you are, what you do, how you got started, and why you got started?
[00:03:24] Speaker D: Sure. My name is Andrea Johnson and I am the intentional optimist and I work with other people to actually I work with leaders. I like to help leaders go from what I call disempowered where they have like responsibility with no authority and they may have gotten degrees in things that didn't really get them A better job. And I help them become what I call impactful or magnetic leaders by uncovering who they are at their core. I am a John Maxwell team speaker, trainer, and coach, so he's a international leadership guru, and I'm a disc consultant. So I like working with people on behavioral communication, behavioral analysis, so that we communicate better. So I. I work with people on all different levels, both in person and online, and I kind of specialize in communication and team building.
[00:04:18] Speaker B: Wow, that's a lot.
So what made you want to get into all of this? Did you decide, like, hey, I want to help leaders grow, or did you want to just be a very impactful person from day one?
[00:04:38] Speaker D: I think we all want to leave an impact, don't we, Jimmy? I mean, that's what you do here, right? And I love how you talk about how you. You do healthy living through specific. A specific lens. And many times we don't consider seeing anything through another lens. We only want to see through our own lens. Right. And as I worked for over 25 years in the university medical system, I was sharing with you before we started recording that, I didn't know I was going to. I thought I got a business degree, and I didn't know I was going to be working for these university medical schools where I was working with clinical trials and research administration and getting grants and funding and doing budgets and that kind of thing. But I figured out pretty quickly when I started managing people that I don't like, that I don't like keeping the status quo. I like to stir the pot a little bit. You know, I like to make things better. I like to take something from a 5 and go to a 10 or an 11. I like to find somebody's strengths and help them realize their goals and their dreams. And so as I continued to work in that system, which is a great system, I worked for two wonderful universities that still do fabulous things today.
I just realized that's not where I wanted to be. And a friend of mine, I told my husband, I said, I just want to help people.
And that's not really a job description.
And so friend introduced me to John Maxwell and to the leadership principles that I had kind of already been studying. I just didn't realize that I could actually be a consultant or a coach or a teacher, if you will, of adults in order to help them do that. And so for me, it was just looking for fulfillment for me in order to help other people. And usually that's how it works. We help others, and we find that it also helps Ourselves.
[00:06:27] Speaker B: That's amazing. You know, I. I kind of want to be.
I want to kind of do the same thing. Like, I want to, like, I'll say I want to help people, but then, you know, I'm one of those people who always looking for how to improve things.
Like, I get an example.
So I just spoke on a recent summit, a virtual summit. I talked about how the healthcare system is dangerous to people with extra challenges.
Is.
And I'm not gonna go into all details about it, but. And I was like, you know, if I could get somebody to start talking about changing this garbage system because, you know, not being political or anything, because I don't like any of the parties whatsoever, because I just.
I just make that whole disclaimer because I don't like any of them. They don't do anything for me. They don't help me in any single which way.
So I just.
But, you know, I think pretty much every single candidate is like, I'm going to prove this, I'm going to prove that. And it's like it's been on the same hamster wheel over and over and over again. And I was like, if one, if one more person tries to run on it, I have this BS button at home and I mean really says BS on it, I will take it to some kind of rally and blow it, like, literally, because it's like, bs, this is not working.
And it's like. And so I'm always looking for ways to how it's like, can we make the system better as.
Because, like, here's like, I'll give you the. I'll list two examples here. One, there's too many of those portals, so I was on the same page. And two, this.
And then there's too many denials of home insurance, like, on the statistics. Oh my goodness, there's that word I
[00:08:39] Speaker D: promise that you didn't promise.
[00:08:45] Speaker B: And so, so on this numbers, I found that 60% of people with extra challenges get turned down by their health insurance. And then it's like they don't understand the specialty care that we need. And it's like. And there's no average person and there's no average number. How do you measure that? So I'm like you. I want to change something and I want to be able to. I was like, yes, that's going to be a long, big goal. But you know what, if I can somebody higher up than where I am to start getting talking about this, yeah, maybe he'll start going to the right direction because, well, let's Just say, the bar is so gosh darn low.
[00:09:27] Speaker D: It is. We, you know, we really don't have. We don't have much to overcome as far as getting, you know, we. It wouldn't take much to do better, would it?
Fortunately, I will say I wasn't in the healthcare industry. I was in the university side. So I was like, research.
But it just takes so long for research to get to the patient. It takes so long for policies to change inside big institutions, and there's great things that they can do, but at the same time, I just realized I can make a difference someplace else.
[00:09:59] Speaker B: And plus, you know, we are. We always. Well, we just recently learned that research is not always accurate. Etter.
[00:10:10] Speaker D: Shocker.
[00:10:11] Speaker B: I know.
I just said. I just said shocking evidence. Whoops.
You mean the weather is not 100% accurate?
[00:10:25] Speaker D: Yeah, just look outside a minute. Yeah, that's always fun.
You look at your app and you say, oh, it's going to be raining here. It's supposed to be raining here. And you look out and the sun is shining. It's like, there's no clouds in the sky.
[00:10:37] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, fun fact, before I ask you the next question, you know, I had this one weather app that says, like, we're super accurate. Well, one day I was in my dad's office at home, and he says, like, it's gonna snow.
It was perfectly sunny. I was like.
I was like, are you sure you have my right location?
And he was, yes. I'm not in Canada.
I was like, do I have to set up my time zone?
I'm not sure, but, like, some. I think a satellite is broke from outer space, so I need to go back up to fix it.
So my next question for you is, when you help people, what are some of their.
What do they want to change to make a difference? Or what kind of. What kind of stuff do they struggle with?
[00:11:35] Speaker D: That's a really, you know, for y' all listening. If you haven't already given Jimmy five stars, you should just pause and go back and scroll down and give him five stars. Because on whatever podcast app you're on, of course I'm speaking Apple language. Sorry, but that is a very good question. Because, of course, every client is different, but most people in general want to do well if they know how, and they don't always know how. Right. And we think that if we get a specific type of education or if we get a certification, like a master's in business, an mba, or if we get, like, in.
In, you know, like a project management certification, or if we work longer hours, maybe they'll recognize our hard work. And they never do, right? Working longer hours makes us bitter. Getting extra certifications makes us poor. Sometimes it gives us an education, but a lot of times it just makes us frustrated. And so my. What I do is I take when people feel that way and they come to me. My goal is to help them look inside and say, so what are my. Who am I really? And so I start with them in three major areas, and I look first at their core values. And that's something that we all have. We may not always recognize what they are. We may not always.
They're not usually honored. There are some people who can honor their core values. And those people live very. What we call authentically. And it's amazing when I get a unicorn who already knows their core values and can live with them. But most of the time, people really are trying to conform with society or with whatever their job or their education says they have to do in order to get where they want to go. And so they think they can't be themselves. And so what they do is they compromise on their own core values. Things like, for me, it's like freedom of thought, like, don't tell me how to think, right? Just don't even start.
Or belonging. I want to belong, right? I want to feel like I belong in every conversation, and I want everyone to feel like they belong in a conversation with me. But I also want to be authentic. So those are my core values. So I start with people in that area, because that's usually the one place that people have kind of given the world or themselves permission to not be themselves. So I think that's an important piece to start with.
And that's kind of what. And the other piece, too, Jimmy, is that some people. I don't know if you've heard this, but we do this a lot in business. We do it in universities, we do it in government. But we promote people because they've done a good job at a lower level.
So we promote them to a higher level, but we don't always train them. And so that's the other type of client I get, is somebody who's been promoted to a higher level but doesn't really have any leadership skills or training. And so they kind of need to understand what are the principles of leadership, how do I engage my staff, how do I make sure that I have.
That I'm doing things that's going to produce a really good culture in my team. Because the last thing you want is a really bad atmosphere where people are unhappy and then they just leave or they do a poor job. Right. So those are my two basic things.
[00:14:47] Speaker B: Well, I didn't comment on one thing on the. I mean, a few things on that one there. I met so many. I'm not going to name any specific companies or I'm going to try not to. I met so many company. Some people, I mean, obviously on the customer service side that there's some managers or some other people that I was like, how did you get this job?
And then they argue with you and say, my manager would say no to the.
Well, not Lowry would say the same exact thing as I am. As I. Well, there's a reason why you're not the manager.
And I mean, I'm not being a tool or anything, but the.
But it's like there's a reason why this.
That person's not in the manager position because one, he's not thinking, hey, how can I help this customer? I'm just thinking, hey, what's the quickest way I can get off the phone with this person?
[00:15:49] Speaker D: Wow. And those are pretty basic skills, right? I mean, so there are times I do communication workshops with organizations to make sure. Like I did one with a veterinary hospital. Like, I did some work with a veterinary hospital, and one of them was a team leader who was consistently working with her team. That was all customer facing. It was, imagine people bringing their sick animals in and having somebody not you. Good customer service. I mean, you want your animal, you want your pet to be taken, your family member basically to be taken care of, but you also want to make sure that you're taken care of. So those skills are important at any level. And if we don't teach them, people may not know them.
[00:16:28] Speaker B: Yeah. And I also agree with you about if you work longer and harder and whatnot, you get burnt out and then also just irritated because, you know, I've been seeing a pattern these last couple of months in my math semester is.
I mean, I've been getting very irritated because I'm working with this annoying online program and. And before somebody says to me, and I know somebody probably will, is it's always that one peanut gallery person out there. It's like, well, why didn't you take this in person?
Just because I take it in person doesn't mean I'm going to get a helpful professor. Does not mean.
[00:17:11] Speaker D: Right.
[00:17:12] Speaker B: It's going to be easier. Me and numbers do not work together. I can understand numbers and I can understand positive and negative and whatnot, but word problems and whatnot. And then this in the calculated. This a reason why I'm never going to be an accountant.
[00:17:33] Speaker D: Me either.
[00:17:35] Speaker B: Yeah. So anyway, and I just want to piggyback off, one other thing going backwards real quick is that, you know how I said I'm always looking for some way to improve these things? Like one of the. One of the problems I had to do was enter into a spreadsheet. And it's like, and my brother's an accountant. And it's like, if this is what my brother has to do all day, I really feel so sorry for him because it's like, this is the most tedious crap I ever did. And these numbers weren't just like three numbers, like three on one side, three on the other. They gave me the longest list as 20 numbers on each side. It's like, this is tedious. It's like, if I could hardly make this thing right now, I would.
But. So, yeah, I know I'm a little off topic, but I just wanted to go back real quick. But.
So starting from my train of thought. But that's where all my thoughts are going today. Backwards, forwards, up and down.
Welcome to my brain.
[00:18:43] Speaker D: There you go.
[00:18:45] Speaker B: So my next question for you is, what are some ways people can find their true purpose and leadership ways in life or want to create a bigger impact than just doing the 9 to 5 or do what everyone else is doing?
[00:19:09] Speaker D: Well, Jimmy, I like to talk about it in not a word problem, I promise, but a little bit of a story of being able to go from, you know, if you have somebody that says, like, if you're raised in a certain way, that says you have to do things this way, and then you realize that doesn't work for me. And then you turn around and say, you know, what if I do them? And you said, I like to find a better way to do things, so you turn around and do it a different way. That's like moving from imitating other people's principles and priorities to defining your own priorities and your own for your own principles. For what I call sustainable, impactful leadership. When you can actually do it over and over and over again, and you can do the actions associated with it, the thoughts associated with it, the energy that it requires, when you can do all of that over and over, then you've got what I call sustainable leadership. And when you enjoy your work, it's amazing, right? When you have the authority to act according to your convictions, the things that you really believe in and that you're passionate about, that's when you can do the work that makes a bigger impact. And so what I do is I help people figure out what their core values are so that they don't stay stuck in those myths of working harder or getting an extra degree or even just, you know, we get in this growth mindset, we say, oh, I have a growth mindset. I'm going to learn forever. But if you don't ever apply that learning, then it doesn't really do anything for you. So that's what I do is I help people figure out who they really are. And I do that with their core values. I do that with their disc communication style. Whether or not you're a storyteller or a bottom line person or a detail person or, or a like a steady person that likes to just like keep the peace, the peaceful person, I help you figure those things out. And that combined with your core values kind of gives you a direction. Because, you know, there's probably any number of things that I could do for a living that would fulfill me as long as I could stay true to my core values.
I was. My son and I. He's 15, we watch F1 races together. And I love racing. I like to drive fast. I drive a BMW. I like to drive fast on curvy roads. I really like the way it hugs the side, you know, it hugs the road. I love all of that. And I was watching that the other day and I thought I could work for an F1 team. And then I realized that would mean I would be away from home a lot. Like, well, that's true. But at the same time, there's things that I would love about it and things that I would hate about it. But there's probably five or six different careers that I could have with my core values that I could stay true to me and probably still enjoy my life.
And I think that's really more of what it's about rather than worrying about finding my true life's purpose. Because our life's purpose is to live out who we are. That to me, it's that simple. It's to just be the most Andrea or the most Jimmy that we possibly can and therefore bring everything that we were created to bring to our environment and our surroundings and our family and our friends and anybody who else who will listen.
[00:22:15] Speaker B: I agree with that especially and also about the part where you said if you never apply that knowledge, then you never go get well anywhere or where you want to be. And I, like, I.
I actually took a few.
I went to some webinars in the Last couple months and I haven't applied everything yet to it, but I'm one. I decided I'm gonna wait to apply everything once I finish a semester, which is like.
I mean, it's almost. It's like next Monday, I'm finished. So it's like, yeah, you know, it's way this long. And I mean, and I have everything I'm recording, so it's not like I'm right. Like I can go back, listen to it, reapply my knowledge and whatnot. So it's like, I'll do it, but it just. Right now I just like, it's crunch time and everything else.
[00:23:19] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:23:20] Speaker B: So. So I'm. I'm definitely going to look, look into it. And I've been beating myself up lately because on the ratio of.
Let's say, may not use the word ratio, but I've been spending, like, probably 90 plus hours on math and like 10 on my business. And it's like, I hate this so much, especially because if I. Well, I can't say this out loud, but let's just say if I try to put it in words that don't make it too obvious, but let's just say if is this, this, if it was like an even 50, 50, 50 this, 50 that, even, you know, even 60 and 40, I would have been like, great. But I feel like I'm spending all my time on math and I'm.
You know, it's like, no wonder why I absolutely hate math even more.
[00:24:16] Speaker D: Yeah, well, I mean, you're not getting to do what you love, right? And so. But going back to that idea of applying what we've learned, many of us take webinars all the time. And I'm. And I have a shelf over here full of books, but if I just read, and I never apply anything that I've learned, or I take these webinars and I never go back to them. You know, John Maxwell says experience is not the best teacher evaluated. Experience is the best teacher. And it sounds like that's what you're doing. And you're being smart, too, by setting aside. It's like, you know, obviously that this statistics class is taking. It's like eating your lunch, right? So you just let it just like, I'm almost done.
And then you'll get back to it and build your business the way you should.
But you know, Jimmy, if we, if we never.
If we never try those harder things, then we never know whether or not that's the direction we need to go. We never know what, what we are capable of. Right. I mean, it's like, obviously this is developing persistence in you, and so. So keep going.
[00:25:23] Speaker B: I'm like, never again.
My tutor said to me, it's like, I wish I kept on track. How many times you said, I hate math. And it's like, it would have been a very impressive number, like a billion. Now he's like, I should have a nice clicker. Click, click, click, click, click.
[00:25:45] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:25:47] Speaker B: So my next question for you is, why do you think people don't try something out of the norm to go to live the life that they want to live? Because, you know, there was a time, and I'll admit this, I saw some of my other colleagues and some of my other friends, they.
At their jobs and whatnot, and I was like, maybe I should go follow what they are. I mean, not like, particularly what they're doing, like, in whatever field that they're in, but like, should I just go get a job and just get a paycheck and here I have some money. But then I said, it's like, I've been working at this for many, many, many years already, and if to throw that all away would be.
School would be just terrible.
[00:26:43] Speaker D: Yeah.
Well, I think that the biggest. The word that I would use is that we're conditioned to think certain things, right? We're conditioned to go to school, get out of high school, go to college. You know, like the normal path is to go to school, go to college, get a job, have a family, whatever. You know, it's like the whole American dream of the 2.2 kids and the white picket fence, that of thing. And the reality is that doesn't work for anybody. And you. You mentioned earlier, use the word. You use the phrase, there is no average patient. There is no average human. There is no. I mean, an average. Is this conglomeration of everybody on all the extremes. And without the extremes, you would have no average. Right. I mean, I promised I wouldn't talk statistics. I'm sorry.
But shows you that we can use it, right, in ways that you don't expect. But. But I think the reason why people don't try new things is because we've been taught that it's. Number one, it's not okay to fail.
And number two, that we're supposed to do things in a certain way, and anything outside of that is different or weird. And breaking down that conditioning in our brains, let alone in society, is hard. And you're on the front lines of that kind of thing. My son has adhd, and so we're Constantly advocating at the school for things. And I just interviewed a gentleman earlier today who's 84 years old, and he discovered he had ADHD at 57. And part of what he discovered was the reason why he was so successful doing certain things is because of his not normal brain. Right. And so being willing to say, all right, am I okay with going against what I have been conditioned to believe?
And sometimes that's hard.
I've done that in several areas. I've done it in my religious understanding of the world. I've done it in, like you said, there's no politician and there's no political party that meets your needs. I'm like, I'm right there with you, brother. I don't, I don't. I don't agree with any of them. My husband will say something like, well, they're a politician, you know, and my sister, my sister thinks I'm cynical. But the reality is I've decided I don't buy into that system anymore. It's a conditioning piece that I don't want to have.
And so I think being. Taking it back to your original question of how do you help people or encourage them to do that is to give them the. To empower them and give them the kind of knowledge base that they need to have the courage and the confidence to break out of that conditioning. Because that's actually the harder work. Breaking out of the conditioning is the harder work.
[00:29:22] Speaker B: I love that you said that because that there's no average brain. There's no average person.
Especially because, you know what?
I have a weird brain that makes it me. The crazy fitness guys says it all right here. And then two.
You know what I think?
I don't think there's. There's no such thing as normal except for the setting on the washer machine and the dishwasher. But other than that, I haven't met any normal people. I mean, what does normal look like? Can you describe normal for me?
No.
[00:30:03] Speaker D: Exactly.
[00:30:05] Speaker B: And, and then I also wanted to piggyback off of the fact that, you know, there. Everybody has different uniqueness. And, you know, I, like, like you were saying. And I was saying, you know, there's, you know, the political parties don't do for me.
My parents more political than I am.
I was like, eh.
And it's like, since I had to.
Since they're not making anything easy for me with healthcare and whatnot, getting the tests, I need to keep watch on my neck issue. I'm like, like. And they can go, go away, go to hell. Whatever they Want me to.
And so I was like, we can make this so much easier. And then I also want to say that, you know, everybody has their own gifts and whatnot. And it's like, and you, it's the people that. Who stand by your side are the ones who are more important to me these days, especially for those. It was like, yeah, Jimmy, go while you're in college, go try something different, etc. Yeah. And even if I have to do something down the road just to make ends meet, I would still keep my business because I wouldn't want to give it up for anybody or anything. Because. Because I love my. What I do, mom.
[00:31:46] Speaker D: Good for you.
[00:31:48] Speaker B: And it took me too many years to get to where I am today. So it's like throw that all away for a 9 to 5. No. And even if I'm working 9 to 5 myself, I'd rather be my own boss than listen to someone else and say, jimmy, you got to do it this way.
[00:32:03] Speaker D: Yeah, well, and how many of us live within somebody else's vision? Right? It's like I worked for two big, really nice schools of medicine, universities, and they had great vision and great mission and really good value, and they do great work, but it's not my mission and my vision. And I wanted to live my life with my own rules and my own vision. And, you know, you're going to have, at best, limited impact, impact on your world based on what somebody else tells you is possible. I mean, Jimmy, you know this. If you only did what other people said was possible, you probably wouldn't do much, would you?
[00:32:40] Speaker B: No.
[00:32:40] Speaker D: No.
And you've worked hard to get where you are.
So that's part of the work that I do, is help other understand that they don't have to take what society or they say or their teachers or their boss or whatever says is what's possible for them. I help them see what's really possible for them. Because a lot of times we just. We get in this like, little blinder rut place and we just can't see because we're just trying to get the paycheck or we're just trying to get the grade, or we're just trying to fit in.
And it's just. It's more important. It's harder and it's scarier to stand out, but it's more important to do that.
[00:33:19] Speaker B: I know what you mean by it's hard.
It's hard to be the one to stand up because I used to actually hide. Be. Well, not really hide, but I used to just have everything as my brand, never posted as myself.
And then one day where I took the leap of faith, lack of better word, I just, I. I posted a milestone from Crazy Fitness guys page. No one cared when I posted from my page. People's like, oh, congratulations.
[00:33:52] Speaker D: And it's like, right,
[00:33:56] Speaker B: like two and two
[00:33:59] Speaker D: more math.
[00:34:01] Speaker B: I know.
God, I hate this math. It's everywhere.
[00:34:07] Speaker D: You got this.
[00:34:09] Speaker B: I know. So my next question for you is, why do you.
What are some easy tips for people to start applying to?
Either start following the path that they want, or just changing something, whether or being a better version of themselves.
[00:34:33] Speaker D: Yeah, I think that the very first piece you need is awareness. So you need to want to know. And a lot of times we don't want to know know. That's the first step is we need to want to know who we are and how we tick. And so the easiest way to do that, from my perspective, is to find out those principles and priorities which I call your core values. I have a free download. It's like an easy button that you click right above an easy button and like your BS button. But it's an easy button right above my head on my website. It just is a free download and you can get started on that kind of an exercise. But the other piece is to you, in order to grow, you also have to know you. Who you are. So understanding your core values and your. Her disc. But once you can do that, then you can give yourself the authority to lead. You can lead with the authority that comes from knowing who you are. So the, the first piece is to be willing to know. And when I teach workshops on this, a lot of times I ask people, why have we not done this work?
And invariably people say, because I'm scared to know what I'm. What's in there. I'm like, but there's nothing in there that's bad. It's like the things that are in there are the things that you were created to show.
And because, like you've said this over and over, we're all unique. We've. We've been created uniquely. And if I don't bring what I am to the table, then what if nobody else brings that? And then we're all missing out. So I just want to encourage your listeners to be willing to say, well, what, what unique pieces do I have to offer? And then how can I offer them? And when we do that, then that can kind of unleash these authentic results that we might not have had before and gives us the ability to make an impact. Just being willing to talk to another person and see it from their perspective. That's also another good place to start.
[00:36:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Anyway, when I was actually changing five different majors in college, I was thinking, well, okay, maybe I should go in for some training. Well, I'm not good at math or science, so toss that out the window. Then I try game design.
Fun fact. My, my web design teacher had a friend at this company and one of the big companies ea and all he does all day long is make grass and games. And I'm like, if I want to make grass grow, I could go outside and watch the grass grow. And it's like, that's sounds absolutely boring. And it's like I would thought it
[00:37:04] Speaker A: would be like, hey, warriors, Jimmy Claire here. Tired of mainstream fitness bs? Unlock crazy fitness guys elite podcasts. You'll get exclusive merch, exclusive episodes and bonus motivation or divergent wellness hacks. Blow up your game. Now go to crazyfitnessguy.com and click on the mall link or click on the link in the show. That's to view pricing and more information.
[00:37:37] Speaker D: And here I am getting paid. Well, I'm not getting paid on your show, but I now get paid to share my opinion. And so a lot of times the things that other people see that are not our strengths, that are like something that makes us stand out in a way that they're like, oh, you should tone that down. Those are the things that are our strengths. And so capitalizing on the things that you do well is the smartest way to move forward. Bravo.
[00:38:03] Speaker B: Anyway, I posted a tweet later that's scheduled out later today about.
I'm not going to name any names until later.
So I just found that one of my as a gift that somebody gave to me, these headphones, the leather on it was actually fake.
And how you can tell everything is peeling off. I mean it's unpeeling. It's never been sunlight. I have never sweat with it on. I mean maybe I did some yoga in it, but I don't sweat during with yoga. I just do it to stretch out my tight hamstrings and everything else.
But I was like, maybe I get a very low sweaty. But it's not as.
I mean it's not drenched or anything. So I was like, this is like my fake leather jacket that I had years ago and it was, I mean it was like 80 bucks. I'm like, this company costs like 300 something dollars for these headphones. It's like, oh, they're so toast. And I Was like, I'm a very fed up consumer. And so I said to my mom jokingly today, you know, as an invisible mission, not going to list it anywhere, but as an invisible mission in my own brain, I'm going to be the most transparent brand and other brands. And it's like I'm not happy with this person's product.
And it's like, because you want, I want to be one of those alongside those resources with people.
You know, I'm a consumer too. This company is not good for this. This company like for that. And I mean like it's not going to all be negative. Of course it's going to be about still healthy living and everything else. But I want to be transparent because then pay people's like, hey, I should keep going for this guy for doom because he hasn't steered me wrong yet. I wouldn't steer.
[00:40:15] Speaker D: Tell me the truth. Yeah, yeah.
[00:40:17] Speaker B: Because I'm a very brutally honest person.
Funny.
[00:40:22] Speaker D: Yeah. That's not terrible.
It's not.
[00:40:26] Speaker B: She's like, I don't think you should list that anywhere. It's like, I didn't say I was going to list it. That's why I said invisible.
[00:40:31] Speaker D: Invisible mom.
[00:40:35] Speaker B: Yes. I wouldn't line up the mission statement on crazy fitness guy. Right. It's like, why would I put that there? Does not make any sense.
My goodness.
And she thought I was crazy.
As you wonder where I get, where I get from.
So my next question for you is what are some good resources for people to start going looking for being the best versions of themselves and being your leader?
And what is your definition of leadership?
[00:41:17] Speaker D: Well, John Maxwell uses the definition very simple. It says leadership is influence, pure and simple. And it's being able to influence others in a good way. Not like to persuade them to do things they don't want to do, but to influence others to get together and do the work that they need to do or to follow along and learn or something like that.
I also like to say that we get to, to lead beyond basic decisions and vision and employee satisfaction or team satisfaction, maximizing our effectiveness when we are the most, like you said, transparent, authentic. When we are the most pure to ourselves and the most real as far as resources are concerned.
I have again, I have core values. Course I have core values coaching. I have DISC assessments, these kind of things like I said there. Well, I don't know if I actually said it that this way. My business is first knowing yourself, which is your core values and then we move on to understanding how you communicate all of that which is your disc assessment and it's how you like. It's almost like a special language that we all. Everybody has a pattern of speech that they use. And then the third piece is what I call intentional optimism. And these are attitudes and mindsets that help us do, well, what we want to do that help us live out our goals with ease and excellence. So as far as my resources are concerned, those are the resources that I present as as well as like I do masterminds where groups of us will get together and walk through a John Maxwell book. There are several that are phenomenal. If you want to develop good habits, I always recommend James Clear's Atomic Habits. And with John Maxwell developing the leader within you 2.0, he's got a workbook. I walk people through that in a mastermind setting and I can do it one on one with executive leadership coaching. But podcasts are a great way too, Jimmy. I mean this is a good podcast. I have a podcast called Stand Tall and Own it for people who just want to own the differences that they have and kind of literally just stand up and say, all right, this is who I am.
And it's been kind of geared towards women. But we have. I still have some. I have some men who listen, but those are some resources that I would suggest off the bat.
[00:43:33] Speaker B: Yeah. My definition of leadership is if you can't find your own advice, don't give people advice as well.
[00:43:41] Speaker D: I like that.
[00:43:43] Speaker B: I think I said it in a different way before, but I think this says something.
I forget the other way I said it just because my brain is just drawing blank today. Gee, I wonder why. Four and a half hour math quiz.
So that was my definition of leadership.
And then my.
And I think my core values would be.
Is not even thing. My core value is to be transparency for everything. Because there's a lot of brands that are not transparent.
Yeah. So I like to call brands out sometimes. But I've been in a beef with Verizon lately too.
Somehow magically, my Internet Internet speeds fluctuate so much these days. And like that's not suspicious. And then there's eight for. On the bills. They. They're changing it like $2 per month for.
For paper bills. I'm like, yeah, that's not extortion.
And then later, somehow I got like I reached 190 people with one of my posts against T. Verizon And I think 30 people have commented on it so far and say they are totally trash.
Hey, at least I'm not the only one.
I knew I was on something.
[00:45:22] Speaker D: Well, I like that. Transparency as a core value. I think that, you know, when that's. If that's something that you live on a regular basis and people can trust you to be transparent about the things that you promote and to be transparent about how you feel, then they know that they can trust you in all. In all areas. Right.
[00:45:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
Because, you know, I get tired of being the consumer, where I was like, great, this brain was not transparent with me. Like, I even had this scammer from last year, like, for instance. Yes. I admit that I pay the money to see if I.
If somebody could help me out with something.
I mean, it's a very long story. So I'm trying to make it simple, short as three as possible.
And so basically, I just, like, pretty much like five minutes after I gave payment, one of my colleagues said that this was not legitimate at all. So I just like, okay, I'm just going to open a dispute with my credit card and just get my money back. Well, she then said, I made up a lot of lies that.
That she gave me services and was like, no, you didn't. I had, like, five. I was like, There was like, the thing that she was doing was like, three, like, two weeks later. So, like, there's no transaction that occurred, so I should get my money back. And so basically, we went on back and forth and finally got the attorney General involved. And then she's like, here's your money. I'm like, oh, gee, I should have just went there with that first.
And it's like, but. And it's like. And then I. Ironically, when this was happening, I was in Ireland, so I was like, I should. And it's like, and. And I was being truthful, but I said to my credit card company, it's like, you know, I should have just. I was like, I could have just said, I lost my credit card. Somebody did this in Ireland. And.
But, I mean, I was too trans. I was transparent anyway. But I.
Gee, I should have just took the lie out, but instead.
[00:47:25] Speaker D: It's not always easy to do that, is it?
[00:47:27] Speaker B: No. Yeah, but it's like, gee, I got myself into this pickle damage. I was like, I'm trying to get myself out of this one. It's like, should I be truthful? I'm not truthful. It's like, just be truthful. It's like, I was like, I don't have to memorize any lies.
[00:47:41] Speaker D: Then there you go.
[00:47:43] Speaker B: Exactly. Because if you lie, you have to remember this, this, this.
[00:47:49] Speaker D: And it's like, my memory's not that good.
[00:47:51] Speaker B: No. I mean, it's one thing if it's like.
Like a very teensy, teensy little white light that wouldn't hurt anything or anybody.
But.
But something along with money and something else, it's like, this could hurt my reputation. So. No, it's like, even if I had to struggle for six months and back and forth, it's like I have all the time in the world.
I mean, I know not really, but. But. But after a few back and forth with this person, you could tell she was getting very clumsy with her wording because she kept on. Then she started calling me some really nasty stuff, which my credit card company could not tell me.
So I was like, cool.
And I just sat there quietly, like.
And it's like. So she just keeps on pointing fingers at me, like.
And I was like, so I'm just going to take this all in stride.
[00:48:48] Speaker D: There you go.
[00:48:49] Speaker B: Made her look the bad person.
[00:48:50] Speaker D: There you go.
[00:48:51] Speaker B: Because I'm not.
So my last few questions for you is, who's your favorite podcaster and why? And feel free not to say me.
I mean, the suspense.
[00:49:08] Speaker D: Okay, this is going to be a weird one.
I have been binging this podcast because I am. I'm a pastor's wife.
[00:49:15] Speaker B: Wife.
[00:49:15] Speaker D: My. I met my husband in grad school as a theology student.
And I just love it. Right? It's just like. To me, it's like some. You'd have a topic that you just eat up.
Well, there is a podcast that says over 400 episodes now. I am 200 and some odd in and it's called Bama B E M A And it is literally this guy walking through from the Jewish perspective, the Bible and church history. And it was. It's just so refreshing to me. And literally everybody around me is like, what a nerd you are. And I'm like, know. But I love it. So right now, my favorite podcast is ba Podcast. And Marty Solomon is the podcaster that. That does that. He's just kind of a teacher.
[00:49:56] Speaker B: I thought we were going to say.
That.
That person over there.
I'm kidding.
But I think my favorite podcast at the moment, I'm gonna get a little nerdy.
So I.
So I'm a fan of Avatar the Last Airbender. I'll see how much.
[00:50:23] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah, it was great. Yeah.
[00:50:25] Speaker B: Well, they have a podcast called Braving the Elements. And I've been.
I binge watch my binge listed and well, they're also on YouTube now, so sometimes I binge watch it. I have A TV right next to me. So.
So I watch it sometimes on YouTube. Not the show itself, but I mean, the podcast itself.
So it's not like I'm watching TV all day.
[00:50:50] Speaker D: Right. My podcast is also on YouTube. Your podcast is on YouTube. So you're watching our podcast on YouTube.
[00:50:55] Speaker B: Exactly. So.
But I just don't like to always watch it on my computer because, like, I'm doing six other tasks and, like, so many windows open. It's like, I can't really watch this on my computer at the same time, can I? No. Know.
It's like having it split screen. It's like, it's one thing to have in split screen if I'm just doing one task and that's it. But having six different browser windows open, it's like, what's going on? Where's. Who. Who's talking? Is this an advertisement?
It's like, where. Where is this? I don't know. I don't know. And so I've been watching that. And then I'm also a fan of Lewis Howes, who's the school of greatness.
[00:51:39] Speaker D: Mm.
[00:51:40] Speaker B: And I actually interacted with him a few times on social media.
I said, it's like, you know, I said, one day I'm gonna be on his show, and he's like, I look forward to it. And it's like, that's a challenge.
[00:51:55] Speaker D: It is, Jimmy. And let me tell you something. As a podcast guest, one of and a business owner, I don't do a lot of social media. I just. I'm not very consistent. That's not a strength of mine. But a strength of mine is talking about. Right. Just like you talking is a strength. And so I decided that I was going to. My goal is 200 podcast interviews this year.
And what's interesting is that you will be surprised who will say yes if you ask. Right. So ask.
[00:52:24] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, that's what I did in one of my. One of my last.
I mean, one of my guests from last year.
If you ever seen the show Legend of Korra, I had.
Her name is Janet Varney, and she voiced horror. I had her on my show, and she's literally the nicest person I ever.
Well, I mean, one of the nicest person I ever met. I mean, especially as an actress and a voice actress. And I was like, she's so gosh darn nice. And, like. And during that interview, I had, like, I was just getting over. Over 100.4 degree fever, and she's like, do you want to reschedule? I was like, no, no, I'll show up.
And so I was like. And so, like, while I'm sick, it's like I'm enjoying every second of this.
[00:53:21] Speaker D: Yeah. I've been surprised who has said yes to be on my podcast, and I've been surprised who said yes to having me on theirs. So, you know, it's just when, when you are yourself, people will say yes, right?
[00:53:33] Speaker B: Yeah, especially because, like, how I.
I'm not gonna say how, how I pitched it, but I should. I remember there are like, a lot of details of like, as, like, as, like, I really love the legendary Korra Avatar, the last Airbender. I've been binge watching the.
Listen to the show, and it's like, I'm such a. A huge fan. And like, like, and I was like, not a weird fan, but, like, just such a huge fan. Well, I didn't want her to think I was like, she stalked me. I was like, I'm all the way in Pennsylvania. And it's like, I don't have. Literally have any time to stalk anybody.
It's like. And it's like. And after seeing so many police shows where people stalking, it's like, get a life.
Literally, get a life.
And my last question for you is, where can people follow you, find you, and learn more about who you are and what you do?
[00:54:30] Speaker D: Well, Jimmy, I am the Intentional Optimist. So you can find
[email protected] you can find me especially on LinkedIn or Instagram, the Intentional Optimist or Andrea Johnson. But Andrea Johnson's a very common name, so if you just search that, you're going to have a hard time. But if you put in the Intentional Optimist, you'll find me. And if you want to reach out to me, I am happy to chat you with. With you. I do so on. I respond to DMS on both LinkedIn and Instagram. I also have a podcast called Stand Tall and Own it, and that's also on YouTube, so you can put it up on your big screen. And I also.
And I come and I do. I will do workshops and stuff for you, so you can just email me at Andrea, the intentional optimist.com so reach out.
[00:55:14] Speaker B: Yeah, I hope we can stay in touch because I definitely would.
Here's a hint. I would like to be on your podcast.
[00:55:21] Speaker D: Aha. Okay.
[00:55:25] Speaker B: You said ask, so I'm.
[00:55:28] Speaker D: That's right. So tell you what, We'll. We'll. Let's stay in touch afterwards and we'll work on it. I Do about one guest a month.
[00:55:35] Speaker B: Well, well, that's less than me. But I have literally been.
I've been. Yeah, I do a lot of interviews among sand, but I did one show. I mean, did one episode a month for my podcast. That's why there's only 16.
Well, I'm not going to name the number, but however many shows that's on currently out there at the moment. Okay. And because I. That's my school. That's my school schedule. And I just say, yeah, if I'm going to do this long term, I got to be realistic with my time. Only one person. And if I didn't have the screen behind, behind me, you'll just see my bed. I don't. There's.
[00:56:18] Speaker D: This is my basement.
[00:56:20] Speaker B: I promise you, I don't have any robots working for me and I don't have any clones of myself. That'd be really awesome. They didn't even have to talk. I just like, go do this. Just plant life.
Hey, Apple and Google and Amazon, feel free to start making clones of me, please.
Not voiceover ones. Just, I mean, usefulness ones. Or just let me have like eight different arms just attached to my body or hold on.
We get me more done. Get stuff. More stuff done. So anyway, I would look like an octopus. That'd be kind of.
[00:56:59] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:57:01] Speaker B: Well, thanks for being a guest and I hope. Let's definitely stay in touch and I look forward to seeing collaborating with you in the future.
[00:57:11] Speaker D: Sounds great. It's been my pleasure, Jimmy. Thank you.
[00:57:13] Speaker B: Definitely.
I'll see you in a little bit. So that's all the time we have for today.
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