Welcome to a new episode of the Mark Groves podcast.

I am over the moon excited to invite Brandon Collingsworth to the podcast today.

Brandon is a Nike master trainer. He's a peak performance coach.

He's the founder of Warrior Retreats. And he's also a compassionate humanitarian. I love that

combination of all of those things. So welcome, Brandon. Thank you for having me, Mark. It's an honor

to be on your podcast. Oh, man, I'm so excited. You know, out of all those titles, because, you know, I know you as a friend and, and I'm so inspired by you, the transformations that you've done in your life. And I wanted to have you on here for so many reasons because, you know, you spoke at the conference that I did last year. I'm so grateful for that, and you had such an impact on people.

It's just like you walk around and people are in your energy

and they want to transform their lives,

which, man, if there's one way that you want to exist,

that's a pretty damn good way, right?

Yeah, it's a hundred.

A magnet of transformation.

I'll take that. Thank you. So, yeah, like, if we were to get a window, you know, because I'm guessing that, you know, you weren't born into, you know, like super one of the, what is it, five Nike master trainers in the world, you know, you didn't come out of a diaper doing freaking hands dance and shit.

So what was the beginning of B?

The beginning of B goes deep.

It takes us all the way back to the streets of East Las Vegas.

It took me a long time and a lot of work to be able to own my story. And then once I finally owned my story,

I was able to help other people really own theirs. And instead of it being something that I was

kind of ashamed of, it became a right of passage. And now I look at it as a necessary schooling to

truly, one, help me fly, but inevitably help others fly. So east side, Las Vegas,

so I grew up, you know. Which is like paint a picture of what that's like for people.

I'm from Canada. So if people are like, East side lost, that's just the other end of the

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