#104 - Q1 Reflections: 6 Lessons on High Agency, Burnout, & Winning in 2026
Choose Hard with Cody McBroom
Cody McBroom
4.9 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
As we move into the second quarter of 2026, Cody McBroom reflects on the 6 most critical lessons that have shaped his business and personal life, so far this year. This episode is a deep dive into the psychology of high performance, moving beyond surface-level tactics to address the core mindsets required to win in a crowded industry.
Cody explores why "high agency" is your ultimate competitive advantage, how to distinguish between genuine burnout and the frustration of losing, and why the marketplace is currently shifting toward raw, authentic community over polished, AI-driven content.
- The Power of High Agency: Why the ability to find a way, regardless of circumstances, is the most vital trait you can develop.
- The Burnout Truth: Burnout is often a byproduct of stagnation; when what you are doing is actually working, "winning" provides the energy to keep going.
- Navigating Seasons: Accepting that life moves through cycles—good, hard, boring, and great—is essential for long-term consistency.
- Integrity as Currency: In business and life, your word is all you truly have; follow-through is the foundation of trust.
- Action Over Information: You cannot consume your way to success; stop letting "learning" become a form of procrastination and start doing the work.
- The Craving for "Raw": Why people are rejecting filtered perfection in favor of real coaching, authentic content, and genuine community.
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| 0:00.0 | The more you can do inside your business that people can see and feel and know without a shadow of a doubt that it is real. |
| 0:06.9 | It is raw. |
| 0:07.7 | It's transparent. |
| 0:08.6 | It's authentic. |
| 0:09.3 | That is what is going to work, 2026. |
| 0:11.6 | There's ways to make everything you do faster using AI and you should absolutely do that. |
| 0:16.4 | But if you are using it at the expense of maintaining your authenticity and your realness as a human, |
| 0:23.0 | you're going to lose. |
| 0:29.8 | Welcome to the Choose Hard podcast. |
| 0:32.7 | I am your host, Cody McBroom. |
| 0:34.3 | I am a father, husband, entrepreneur, and the founder of tailored coaching method, |
| 0:38.6 | a world-renowned online fitness and nutrition coaching company, helping average people all over |
| 0:42.5 | the world achieve above-average physiques and live above-average lives. Today, I want to share six. |
| 0:50.6 | We'll see if a seventh one pops up during the podcast. This is one of those episodes. I'm just going to rip. I'm just going to kind of, I got some notes and some things I want to share and talk about, but I just want to kind of just dive in and rant for a little bit, if you will. This is going to be a diary episode. But I think you're going to get a lot out of it. These are six things that I wrote down that I think are really powerful. And I have |
| 1:11.6 | learned more so in the year of 2026 than ever before. They're very relevant to the time right now |
| 1:19.0 | we're in. And they have everything to do with success in life, not just business, not just coaching, |
| 1:26.4 | not just fat loss. It's just in life. |
| 1:28.3 | I think these things are unbelievably important in general. And because of that, I want to share |
| 1:32.6 | them. I want to share them because it is, I just, there are things that have just been like |
| 1:36.1 | stewing on my brain. And I think that I have learned these things just through trials |
| 1:43.6 | and tribulations, right? I've just learned these things through |
| 1:46.0 | the grind and the hustle and it's crazy to me that it is even so it's April 8th as I'm |
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