Mike Bledsoe: The Hardest Thing I Ever Had To Do In Business — The Strong Coach #19
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2019
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Empowering the body-mind connection is an absolute must in Mike's (@mike_bledsoe) world. A lifetime of athletics and training, along with being a coach and entrepreneur for the last decade, he has tapped into parts of himself that were once unknown.
Simultaneously competing in the sport of weightlifting, coaching national caliber athletes, running a 7 figure business with 20+ employees, and hosting the #1 rated Fitness & Nutrition podcast on iTunes (Barbell Shrugged) took a lot personal growth just to keep up.
After hitting the ceiling of capacity many times over he discovered and distilled the processes that create the greatest expansion for capacity and growth.
In the last year Mike launched The Strong Coach, a program for personal professional development for coaches, which has already begun transforming the way coaches interact with their clients and build their businesses. He is also in the process of building a new brand called Enlifted. It is a mindset program for athletes and coaches.
Mike is a US Navy veteran, holds a degree in Health & Human Performance, and has accumulated numerous health & fitness certifications. He spent the last 7 years traveling the world interviewing the top athletes, coaches, scientists, and researchers to find what creates a successful athlete and entrepreneur. Through the journey of studying what they do, to the underlying principles their actions are based upon, to digging deeper to find what is actually creating success, he has found clear distinctions and practices that separate those who live an optimized lifestyle from the rest of the crowd.
In this episode Danny interviews Mike about the hardest thing Mike's ever had to do in business, what happens when you create from inspiration, Mike's current projects and why they are all successful, the power of asking for help, why you need to be paying your coach more than what you charge your clients, why focusing on where you're going, not how you're going to get there, will lead you to where you're supposed to be, and much more.
Come join us at www.thestrongcoach.com
-Mike
Episode Breakdown:
⚡️0-10: Growth never happens in a linear fashion, the hardest thing Mike's ever had to do in business, and what happens when you create only on inspiration
⚡️11-20: The inspiration for Enlifted, Training Camp for the Soul and The Strong Coach, why all Mike's recent projects succeeded, and Mike's why behind creating Training Camp for the Soul
⚡️21-30: How to make a global impact, changing the way people view the world, the secret sauce for scaling business, words direct your attention, and the creation of Enlifted
⚡️31-40: The creation of The Strong Coach, float tanks, and the realizations that led Ashley and Mike to where they are now
⚡️ 41-50: The power of asking for help, the people Mike enjoys spending his time with, how Danny got his start with The Strong Coach, and discrimination and delegation
⚡️51-60: Take the opportunity to invest in yourself, shining light on the dark parts of life, everything is possible when you start taking care of yourself, and why focusing on where you're going, not how you're going to get there, will lead you to where you're supposed to be
⚡️61-70: Going back to the fundamentals, complex vs. complicated, what you're perceiving vs. what's happening in the background, and why we retain best what we teach
⚡️71-82: Why you need to be paying your coach more than what you charge your clients, how hiring a coach can change your life, the path to coaching and business mastery, and where to find Mike
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| 0:00.0 | Today, I have a big announcement to make and it's a special show. |
| 0:06.5 | The show is special because Danny Rios, the head coach for the strong coach, is interviewing |
| 0:11.2 | me. |
| 0:12.2 | And for the announcement, I didn't see it coming until it was right on top of me. |
| 0:17.5 | Last month during one of our training camp for the sole retreats, I spent five days listening |
| 0:21.7 | to my heart while co-facilitating our students to get in touch with theirs. |
| 0:26.8 | There was a battle. |
| 0:28.2 | The battle was between my heart and the mind and the mind had been dominating for months |
| 0:33.3 | until a single moment. |
| 0:35.3 | It hit me like a ton of bricks. |
| 0:37.5 | In that moment, I knew. |
| 0:39.8 | I knew that it was time for me to step down as CEO of the Shrug Collective. |
| 0:44.4 | It was time for me to forge a new path to take my life and business in a new direction. |
| 0:50.4 | I am putting more of my attention into the strong coach, into enlisted, and into training |
| 0:55.5 | camp for the sole, into human development, to dig more into human performance inside |
| 1:00.8 | and outside of physicality, to dig into the relationships between mental, emotional, and |
| 1:05.8 | spiritual aspects of this experience. |
| 1:09.1 | The Bletto Show will continue on my own channel and it will still be aired on the Shrug |
| 1:13.7 | Collective until the end of June. |
| 1:15.8 | You can join my newsletter at theblettoshow.com that's stay up to date on what I'm up to. |
| 1:21.9 | I'm handing the direction of the company to Doug Larson and Anders Varner. |
| 1:26.2 | Doug has been my partner for over a decade now and Anders for over a year. |
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