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The CrossFit Podcast

How to Get Out of Your Own Way with Mark England

The CrossFit Podcast

CrossFit LLC

Health & Fitness

4.3 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode, Denise Thomas sits down with Mark England, co-founder of Enlifted Coaching, to unpack the real meaning of “mindset,” not as a buzzword, but as the story you tell yourself.

A former MMA fighter turned educator, Mark shares how injuries and failure led him to discover transformational wordsmithing: the process of changing your internal dialogue to change your life. He walks through practical tools that anyone, especially coaches and athletes, can use to rewrite limiting stories, calm their nervous system, and reclaim control through language and breath.

This one’s part conversation, part masterclass. Grab a pen.

TOPICS INCLUDED

  • The link between words, breath, and awareness
  • How victim mentality is formed and how to dismantle it
  • The “soft talk” words that cause indecision and stress
  • Real-time application: Denise and Mark’s live exercise on rewriting limiting beliefs

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Mindset is kind of one of those words that is getting overused. Oh yeah. And becoming a little bit more of a

0:05.8

marketing pitch. Most people do not pick up a book on mindset or listen to a podcast on mindset or hire

0:11.6

a coach to help them with their mindset when the sun's out and things are going well. I think what

0:16.1

you're going to get out of this is some real tools, how you can start to take your life back. There are mechanics to the

0:24.2

story that we tell ourselves. And when you understand that, wonderful things happen.

0:35.6

I got to introduce you to the show, Mark.

0:38.1

I got to tell people who you are.

0:40.2

Not only do you have the best second name ever.

0:45.1

We have the monopoly.

0:46.9

You are the co-founder.

0:48.5

You're the head coach of Enlisted, Enlisted coaching, the Unlifted Method.

0:53.5

You did a TED talk on it, super cool. The only

0:56.2

problem I had with it, that it wasn't long enough. I just was like breadcrum, give me more.

1:02.2

You have a master's in education. And I think people will get, we'll understand this as we go on.

1:08.6

You were an elementary phys ed teacher.

1:12.4

Is that right?

1:13.2

Yep.

1:14.1

So you have been practicing and refining and researching and presenting

1:19.2

on this personal growth and development for like the last 18 years.

1:23.9

And I'm going to tell people at home this.

1:30.5

Grab a pen and paper right now because we're going to talk about a lot of stuff. But I think what you're going to get out of this

1:34.8

is some practical application, some real tools, how you can start to take your life back.

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