EP 78 The High Performer's Mindset and Testing Genetic Potential, Struggles and Vulnerability, and Recovery Tips and Advice | with Russel Orhii
EMBody Radio
Emily Duncan
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Do you want to be the best? Are you afraid of saying that out loud? My guest today has that exact mindset and confidence with the results to back it up. His name is Russel Orhii and he is the 2019 83KG IPF World Champion and world-record-holding powerlifter. Russel is someone who is as genuine and joyful in person as he is on social media and we get into a lot of mindset talk today that you will love especially if you are someone aspiring to be the best at what they do.
Topics covered today include:
- Where Russel Came From and His Nigerian Family
- How Russel Got Into Powerlifting
- The High Performer's Mindset and Testing Genetic Potential
- Transition From Team to Solo Sport
- Competition Breeds Excellence and the Competitive Mindset
- Struggles and Vulnerability
- The Birth of "Get Better Today"
- Recovery Tips
- Fasted Power Lifting
- Russell's Lasting Legacy
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? Welcome back to Embody Radio. A couple of awesome things going on this week, so I figured I'll just give you guys a little life update before we get rolling with the show. |
| 0:10.0 | So for one, I finalized my move out slash move in date. |
| 0:14.4 | So for those of you guys who've been following along on my |
| 0:16.7 | Instagram and Instagram stories, and if not, follow along, |
| 0:21.0 | the link will be in the show notes, but you know that Louisville, Kentucky, which is my current home base, has been feeling less and less like home these days. |
| 0:29.0 | So, my move is finalized and I'll be spending these next few weeks saying all of my necessary |
| 0:35.3 | see you later to my loved ones here packing up my plants and my pup and the rest of my life |
| 0:40.4 | and heading off to start a new adventure so that's pretty neat. of my Lightroom presets, so if you're not familiar with what presets are, they're basically like |
| 0:54.4 | advanced very adjustable filters that you can use on photos. I get a lot of questions on how I edit my |
| 0:59.7 | Instagram photos along with the filters I use. So we teamed up and we created some based |
| 1:05.0 | on my feed and what we thought you guys would love especially if you are |
| 1:07.7 | somebody that you are trying to whether run a brand or a personal brand or both because a lot of our brands these days are personal |
| 1:15.5 | brands. I do think having a cohesive well put together nice looking feed is a really important |
| 1:22.0 | aspect of your business. |
| 1:23.4 | It's kind of like your storefront. |
| 1:25.2 | So having something like a cohesive theme, color scheme, stuff like that can really, really |
| 1:29.6 | help just with the user experience and it's just fun to do so Lightroom presets are a really great way to do that. |
| 1:35.4 | If you guys want to check those out for yourself and maybe grab a pack to dress up your own feed you can follow our |
| 1:40.8 | preset specific Instagram at Em M and Darby presets so at |
| 1:45.0 | e m a and d d ar b ar b y p r e s e t s on Instagram for some of the photos and the |
| 1:52.3 | edits and a link to purchase all that and we will also pop the link for you to purchase in the show notes. |
| 1:57.0 | And on Wednesday, so yesterday I launched the Become Your Own Crown, which is based on my Wonder Woman mentality. |
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