#947: Steve Kuclo - From World Renown Bodybuilder to CEO
Choose Hard
Cody McBroom
4.8 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Today's guest is an American professional bodybuilder, entrepreneur, and life coach who spent two decades of his life becoming one of the top 10 best bodybuilders in the entire world! Steve Kuclo is the guest today, and we dive deep into his story, pulling out all the lessons, the struggles, and the victories.
Steve shares how he maintained a successful bodybuilding career over 20 years and how he transitioned from a professional bodybuilding athlete to a successful entrepreneur. Steve also gives his perspective on the bodybuilding scene nowadays and how social media has made everything easier for fitness enthusiasts. He also talks about how he teaches his clients to be more intentional, have more accountability, and overcome different obstacles. Tune in!
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Timestamps
[2:57] - How Steve started his bodybuilding career;
[10:07] - Maintaining a bodybuilding career for 20 years;
[16:17] - Building a mindset for results;
[21:05] - Growth really happens when the failure comes;
[27:30] - Transitioning from bodybuilding to entrepreneurship;
[35:09] - How bodybuilding has changed over the years;
[45:46] - What inspired Steve to create his business;
[48:58] - How to be more intentional in life.
Episode Resources
Follow Steve on IG: https://www.instagram.com/stevekuclo/
Steve's Website: https://www.upgradedhumanmastermind.com/
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| 0:00.0 | and where most people will give up but if you have the grit and the fortitude to push through to that |
| 0:05.1 | 11 12 even get one more 13 rep like that was the kind of guy was I was like I want to get one more |
| 0:10.2 | rep even though I'm shooting for 12 all right man as I was kind of mentioning before we hit record and I wanted to wait a sec. |
| 0:23.3 | This is really cool for me because I legitimately remember. So I got into some background for you because you don't obviously know too much about me yet. |
| 0:32.5 | But I got into fitness and training and stuff really inspired through like your era of bodybuilding so I'm 31 |
| 0:40.1 | and I never lifted a weight my entire life until after high school so after high school I was |
| 0:44.2 | doing nothing in my life was like I got to figure something out lose some weight and get in shape |
| 0:48.0 | and I worked at a ride aid out here so like a CVS or Walgreens or you know but I would always look at the muscle magazines |
| 0:55.2 | and get like inspiration from that and I like I remember just dude it was just countless times |
| 0:59.8 | of like you, uh, Jay Cutler, a little bit of Ronnie towards the end and just like some of the |
| 1:06.5 | people coming up, Flex like looking at Flex magazines magazines muscle and development magazines like muscular |
| 1:12.1 | development magazines but like seeing you in the magazines and on the cover and stuff like that |
| 1:17.1 | it was so surreal because that's that's the steve i know and then not too long ago this year in |
| 1:24.7 | june i i go to church i'm out in te out in Texas and I go to church and then I'm, |
| 1:29.8 | I jump back to Steve Weatherford's house who I was there to visit and hang out with. For those |
| 1:36.6 | listening, Steve's a ex-pro football player. I would consider him like a personal development, |
| 1:41.7 | coach and mentor and very, very enthusiastic guy, a great guy. |
| 1:45.4 | And he decided to do a baptism in his pool after a church. |
| 1:49.2 | We all had bag. |
| 1:50.3 | And I'm standing next to you and I'm looking at you. |
| 1:52.1 | And I'm like, God, this guy looks familiar and really big. |
| 1:57.0 | And I leaned over to my buddy and like, you walked off and I was like, I know who that was. And I |
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