161. How Neil Hills Purpose and Passion Took Him From a Modest Life in Wales to an International Success
The Kris Gethin Podcast
Kris Gethin
4.9 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Every individual has gifts and talents that can make a lasting impact.
However, only a minority of people utilise those gifts and talents to live up to their full potential. Tying your gifts and talents with your personal purpose not only leads to a more successful career, but a significant one.
Neil "Yoda" Hill is a bodybuilding legend in the United Kingdom and the founder of Y3T, his signature training method, as well as a coach to some of the world's most elite and successful athletes.
He has spent 33 years in the bodybuilding and fitness industry, and has more than 30 years of experience coaching athletes and clients from around the world.
Neil was born and raised in Tenby, Pembrokeshire in the UK. Having grown up in Wales and coming from a low-income household, he saw his opportunities as limited.
When he was younger, he struggled with dyslexia, which caused him a great deal of frustration and insecurity. He had the impression that he was different.
As much as he liked certain elements of school, he couldn't stand the fact that he couldn't progress due to his disability. So he threw himself into the things that he couldn't accomplish academically. For him, he has to be good at something to feel better.
He began working as a paper round at the age of nine and spent 16 years as a technician in the motor industry before settling into kitchen and bathroom design, which he fell in love with because it allowed him to be more creative. This made him feel wonderful and fulfilled his life's purpose. That kept him motivated while he was succeeding in sports, as a professional bodybuilder, and other things he excelled at.
Neil is now based in Las Vegas, Nevada, and has achieved international renown as an instructor. He was also a very successful and competitive IFBB amateur and Pro Bodybuilder.
He began to apply his knowledge and experience as a full time professional coach to help other aspiring athletes and fitness enthusiasts. With hard work, passion, time and a solid track record, Neil quickly amassed a reputation for getting results. This blend of experience, knowledge, and an innate ability to motivate people has made Neil a much sought-after coach.
Over the years, Neil has climbed the ranks of the coaching world to become one of the world's most recognised names, and as a result, has won multiple personal global awards and athlete tiles.
Listen to this episode's interview with Neil Hill as he shares his journey of discovering his life's purpose and passion, which led to his international success!
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Chris Gethyn and I've been voted the world's number one trainer on platforms such as |
| 0:07.6 | bodybuilding.com, the governing body PT Academy. I am the co-founder of caged supplements. I am the co-founder |
| 0:16.6 | of the Chris Gethin Jim's franchise and I'm the co-founder on my online coaching platform. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm also a hybrid athlete, a pro natural bodybuilder, competed in many different events, |
| 0:29.9 | such as Iron Man Triathlon, Ultramarathon, and what I aim to bring to you with this podcast is inspiration, motivation from clients, testimonials, |
| 0:41.5 | biohacking, anti-aging, everything that will allow you to evolve as a human being. |
| 0:49.6 | Hello everybody, Chris Gethen here and welcome to the Chris Gethen podcast. |
| 0:55.0 | Phenomenal episode that we have for you today. |
| 0:57.0 | This was from Las Vegas with my very good friend, fellow Welshman, Neil Hill. |
| 1:04.0 | So Neil Hill is one of the very, very top trainers in the world. |
| 1:09.0 | Trained a lot of athletes, bodybuilders, celebrities, even royal family. |
| 1:15.6 | You'd probably know him as one of the first clients that he had and still has is Mr. |
| 1:21.6 | Flex Lewis, who has won the 212 Mr. Olympia many, many times, another fellow Welshman. so it was great to go to Vegas and catch up with |
| 1:30.7 | Neil we but you know he lived in Wales when I first met him and this is going back to oh 2005 |
| 1:38.9 | 2006 and we've been good friends and he is just a wealth of knowledge what I like about |
| 1:46.3 | Neil is that he loves his job it's definitely its purpose he works more hours than he |
| 1:53.0 | needs to because he puts so much into a client because it really you know seeing their |
| 1:59.3 | results and hearing their results really matters to |
| 2:02.2 | him. And there's no surprise that he has like a 95% retention rate with his clients because |
| 2:09.2 | he does such a phenomenal job. And I say what he does verges on the verge of obsession and in a good way you know he's obsessed in a good way anyway |
| 2:21.6 | this was an interview that we did in Vegas just before we went and had a phenomenal chest |
| 2:26.9 | workout which will be on my YouTube channel and might be up there already so if you haven't |
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