Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua and this is episode

2000. I'm not going to overthinking. I'm not going to overdo it. I've gotten a lot of phone calls,

a lot of emails, people I've met in person who've asked me what I'm, what I'm,

what I'm going to do in episode 2000 and I'm going to be honest. I wanted to stick with the

script and keep it simple. But there have been a few of you who have reached out and

said a couple of things that you really want to learn. And we're just going to keep it simple

with that. This episode is going to be a little

bit longer. I don't want to feel like I'm rushing through it. But I want to share with you why I

started the Increase Your Impact podcast. Where did it come from? And then four lessons I've learned

doing 2,000 episodes. So the reason I started doing this is very simple. Years after I, so I was with

the military at first as a performance enhancement specialist working with combat medics,

military intelligence, and warriors in transition, then went to the IMG Academy. And then it was when I was with the Boston Red Sox as a mental performance coach,

I got a lot of DMs asking to work with people's children, teaching them the mental game

and teaching them how to quiet their minds, how to win on their personal scoreboard.

The reality was I didn't have the time to be able to do that.

And I felt bad, to be honest. I wanted to be able to do so, but I couldn't. So what I decided to do

is say, you know what, I'm going to start a podcast. We're going to keep it simple. And I'm going to

share with families, children, youth, of all ages, all of the principles, all the strategies,

all the techniques that we use with professional elite athletes in every sport,

we're going to share it on the Increasing Your Impact podcast, and we're going to provide

it for free.

And after 10 episodes, I thought, okay, I'm going to finish at 100. Okay, we're going to finish it at 500. We're going to finish at 1,000 and 2,000 episodes later. We're continuing to go. And so thank you all for your continued support. I've always been, it's always been about trying to help people and to serve them the best that I possibly can.

...