How To "DO" Personal Development ft. Sean Pastuch
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
If there's anyone who isn't afraid to share his opinion, it's Dr. Sean Pastuch.
Sean is the owner of the world-renowned gym ActiveLifeRX, known for smart programming and getting people to continue to live the life they want pain free.
In this week's episode, Sean joins Michael to discuss the recent changes to the CrossFit community. First, the changes came to Regionals. Then, CrossFit's social media accounts went silent, leaving the question of what's to come for the future of the sport and where the fitness industry is heading.
With so much up in the air, Sean and Michael share a message for gym owners to improve their gym, become more self-aware and why they need to start a mastermind group.
Topics:
03:50 – CrossFit leaves social media
12:50 – Future of CrossFit
22:50 – Message to gym owners
29:24 – Self-awareness and intent
48:50 – The value of feedback
56:50 – Creating a mastermind group
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Books:
Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.4 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, 2012 and 2013 CrossFit Games Channel, Michael Cajou. |
| 0:19.6 | Mind, Body, brute. |
| 0:25.6 | Hello and welcome back. |
| 0:27.4 | This is Michael Cashew, and you're listening to the Brute Strength podcast. |
| 0:31.1 | This week I've got Dr. Sean Pastoge on the show. |
| 0:34.3 | Today, we start out talking about why CrossFit is off of social media. |
| 0:41.1 | Sean has been known as a polarizing figure in the fitness industry, so I wanted to hear |
| 0:46.3 | his take on what he thinks about the recent changes in CrossFit social media. And then we |
| 0:52.8 | spend the majority of the time talking about personal development. |
| 0:55.6 | When I met Sean, he was very ambitious, very driven, very successful. But it seemed like he was |
| 1:02.6 | somewhat cold and unaware in some ways. Now he is one of the most dialed in people I know, |
| 1:09.9 | one of the most self-aware people I know. |
| 1:12.0 | And so we talk all about his journey. |
| 1:13.5 | We talk about what he's doing now and how he's gotten here and what he's doing that's working so well. |
| 1:19.0 | So without further ado, please welcome Dr. Sean Pestuch. |
| 1:24.4 | Hey, before we start this show, I want to let you know about something I'm super pumped about right now, which is that I started a second podcast. |
| 1:31.4 | It's called The Wag Podcast, and I do it with my wife, a D. Casu. |
| 1:35.2 | And the reason that we started this second show is because over the past few years, I've had the opportunity to interview some of the best and brightest in the health and fitness |
| 1:44.8 | space from New York Times bestselling authors to Olympians and CrossFit Games athletes, to NFL |
| 1:52.1 | coaches, to sports psychologists, you name it, a lot of the best and the brightest. And I have also |
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