"I Sent It My Whole Life": How To Be The Best at Fitness And Business With Lauren Tickner— Real Chalk #63
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
We're flipping the script this week: I've just met Lauren (@laurentickner), and she's going to interview me on my own podcast. It gets deep, it gets weird, it gets a little spiritual—this chick is not afraid of asking probing questions. We dive into how I found my passion, what makes me relentless, and the things that scare me (spoiler alert: one of them is Everest). Lauren shares what being a mentor of influencers looks like, and we both take a look back on the ways our brands have evolved.
We've got lots of great advice on how to be successful at just about anything, but the one thing you won't find here is a shortcut to achieving your goals. If you want to see your dreams become reality, you've got to put in the work, and it won't always be pretty. But someone less qualified than you is already out there killing it—so what are you waiting for?!
Go start failing!
-Ryan
1:15 No pain no gain: Ryan as a child
5:30 The comp FOMO, how life changes
8:00 Where the drive comes from: sometimes you just know
14:15 The butterfly effect and where the best rushes come from
18:00 What's scaring Ryan Fischer? Everest.
22:45 How the brand happened, and why it's essential to be the absolute best
33:00 The evolution of programming—your workouts should be exciting
41:00 Why regular gyms are the worst, and taking drugs won't change your life
44:00 The correlation between success in fitness and business
46:00 Failure will happen. So go get started.
48:00 What mentoring influencers looks like
49:15 You don't have to be the best—just 2% better than someone to coach them
51:00 You heard it, now go live it.
52:30 Where to find Lauren
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, I am back. It's Tuesday. I'm so pumped to be on this freaking microphone. Every time I put this headset on, I just want to say all the things. I can't even say exactly what I want to say because there's just so much to say. |
| 0:15.0 | You know what I'm saying? I'm retarded. |
| 0:18.0 | Alright, honestly, seriously, let's get into it. Me, Lauren Tickner, sit down. We talk about this whole business thing. We go about it in our own way. |
| 0:26.0 | And there's so many just great one-liners of motivation in here. There's so many just really great ideas that you guys can use for your future business, for your future plans. |
| 0:37.0 | I mean, there's just a lot of stuff in there that literally will just work even beyond the business realm. |
| 0:43.0 | I talk about things that I'm scared of, things that she's scared of, talk about how to achieve our goals. And we talk about people who are out there achieving the goals that we want, and they're way less qualified than we are. It happens all the time. You guys just sitting there on Instagram, you're like, yeah, fuck this person, fuck that person. |
| 0:57.0 | Why is this person have all the fame? Why does this person have this? Why does this person have that? And in reality, it's because you're not doing. You're too scared to fail. |
| 1:06.0 | And my whole life, I mean, I always wanted to do, you know, but every once in a while there'd be some withdrawal. And I wasn't sure if I was good enough to do this. I wasn't sure if I was good enough to do that. |
| 1:18.0 | And every time I like decided I was going to do something, it worked out incredibly well. Now, it doesn't happen that way for everybody. We all have to have our own path, we all have our own work ethic. |
| 1:27.0 | And all of that comes to fruition in the way that it does, depending on how we do it and all of the other little circumstances. But the key term is, and the key take home message is to just get doing. |
| 1:40.0 | And we talk about that in so many different ways in this podcast. And I absolutely love it. There's so much good stuff in this podcast. |
| 1:46.0 | Before we get started, I'm just going to brush up on a couple of things that I have going on. I'm going to be the official sponsor for this show. Why not? It's my show. |
| 1:53.0 | So you guys can go on CrossFitChalk.com, click shop and you guys get 25% off any one of my e-books right now that are just fire all over the internet right now. |
| 2:04.0 | Kind of a real bodybuilding, the dumbbell book, the kettlebell book, someone recently message me on Instagram and said, hey, I was doing one of your dumbbell workouts in a hotel in Mexico traveling from across the world. |
| 2:16.0 | And they saw someone else in there doing the same freaking dumbbell workout that they were doing. They took each other's earphones out, looked at each other and said Ryan Fish, question mark. And they both said yes and nodded. |
| 2:27.0 | If that is not the greatest story of all time, I have to come up with better stories. That's a real story though. So there is that. |
| 2:35.0 | I have started throwing a carpsychling challenge, which is just exploding as well. It's basically my explanation of what I've been doing with my carbohydrates over the years. And I've written it down into a 30 page pamphlet so you guys can figure out exactly how to do it. |
| 2:52.0 | And exactly how to change like over time. So eventually you're going to get to the body that you want. You got to change those numbers. And rather than me giving you numbers personally and you having to buy templates. There's a bunch of programs out there right now where you buy templates over and over and over again. You buy my program one time and you are done. |
| 3:09.0 | And you will learn the skills that you need for rest of your life to get your body as lean as you want to be as big as you want to be. And all those tools are in this little 30 page pamphlet. Also, if you win, you get to split a $3,000 prize purse. So there's all sorts of incentives in there. |
| 3:23.0 | You guys can learn more about that by clicking shop on crossfit chalk.com as well. And it's called the carpsychling challenge. If you go to my Instagram bio Ryan fish RY and FISCH. You can click the link in my bio and I have a link that goes straight to the challenge as well. |
| 3:38.0 | Out of that guys, it's time to get into this episode. On this episode, I am actually sitting on the boat from water on the waves. And we are in the middle of the Bahamas somewhere. Hopefully not the triangle. So you guys get this information. And I hope you guys enjoy it. Let's go have a good week. Have a good listen. Your boy Ryan fish over and out. Love you. |
| 3:59.0 | What's up, chalk nation? I am in the middle of the ocean somewhere potentially the Bahamas, potentially the the Bermuda triangle, which means that we're lost. |
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