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You're listening to Power Athlete Radio, a podcast dedicated to empowering your performance every damn day.

Join former NFL Pro and Power Athlete founder John Wellborn as he dissects the greatest

minds in strength, conditioning, and more. So whether your goal is to be the hammer, destroy

mediocrity, or simply move the dirt, you've come to the right place. Now with the warm-up done, let the gains begin. Hey, welcome to another episode of Power Athlete Radio. I'm joined today by my good friend Sam Yo. Did I say that right? Yeah, did I say that right? Yeah, yeah? Yeah. Sometimes the names look very, very simple, and then there's some, like, little intricacy. But, man, I got forwarded your book, The Monk Mindset, and needless to say, I was hooked. I mean, we were kind of joking earlier that when people go to find themselves, maybe they go backpacking, and they go out and buy new shoes, you decided to pull the rip cord and go to a monastery, which I found extremely

refreshing and lightning. And I got to say, I was a little jealous. I was like, man, after dealing

with my wife and my two daughters today, I was like, man, a monastery might be the right place

for me to head too. So thanks for joining in. Thank you for having me.

So you're based in London? Yes, I'm in London. Yeah. It's five o'clock in the evening here.

Nice. And I've been looking forward to this all day. Awesome. Well, cool. Well, let's dive in. I want to

understand the motivation behind the Munk mindset and really what got you there and really just the path.

I'd love to start with like kind of a macro view and kind of get and understand who you are and what led you to this point.

And some of these kind of pivotal eight mile moments that allows you to write the book and kind of have this level of a reflection.

So like way back in those, I was 23 and, you know, and I was someone who, at the time,

looked like I was really moving forward in life, but, you know, internally, you know, I was

completely lost and disconnected with myself. You know, in the outside, you know, I had momentum.

I had, I was performing in like the biggest theatre in London, the West End, you know,

I was earning money, getting lots of attention and, you know, doing always things that I felt meant I was becoming.

Underneath that, you know, I didn't really know who I was.

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