The C.I.A. Model To Get Us To Move w/ Former Operative Michele Rigby Assad

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🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Would you like to be better at getting yourself to move? When you have an overall desire, but find yourself struggling to take the first step and just get going? I think we all do in certain areas of our lives and from what I experience it is getting worse. So I’ve brought on an expert and we’re going to exaggerate the point to help us better conceptualize what is happening when we don’t move and progress, and some different ways to go about it. Michele Rigby Assad was a normal person like everyone else. But through some circumstances you’re about to hear of, she became a CIA operative and spent a decade working in the Middle East. She took part in the high-stakes missions you would expect from working in the CIA, where your life or other’s lives are literally on the line. The place of danger they referred to as the X, and their training was that no matter what, they had to be able to get off the X. Michele has outlined the concepts with some intriguing stories, in a new book titled, Get Off The X: C.I.A. Secrets For Conquering Obstacles And Achieving Your Life’s Mission. In this conversation, we don’t spend time talking about the CIA, if you want to view that, she says go watch Homeland or The Agency. We talk about how the concepts of getting off the X relate to all of us. We live lives that feel high-stakes for us, and we need to…move. Progress. Get off the X’s we are stuck in. I found Michele’s guidance helping me not feel I needed more motivation or inspiration, I just needed to have some pragmatic tools and perspectives to employ. Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome. I'm Kevin Miller. This is a podcast for your personal evolution. In this episode,
0:07.1	the CIA model to get us to move. I mean, would you like to be better at getting yourself to
0:13.2	move? You have an overall desire, but find yourself struggling to take the first step, just get going.
0:20.0	I think we all do in certain
0:21.7	areas of our lives at certain times. And from what I experience, I feel like it's getting worse
0:27.3	culturally. So I brought on an expert and we're going to exaggerate the point to help us better
0:32.2	conceptualize what's happening when we don't move and make progress and some different ways to understand going about it.
0:38.7	So Michelle Rigby Assad, she was a normal person like everyone else, but through some circumstances
0:44.6	you're about to hear of, she became a legit CIA operative.
0:48.1	Spent a decade working in the Middle East.
0:50.2	She took part in the high stakes missions you would expect from working in the the CIA where your life or others' lives are literally on the line.
0:58.6	The place of danger that they referred to is the X, and their training was no matter what to be able to get off the X.
1:08.1	Michelle has outlined these concepts, along with some intriguing stories, as you can imagine, in a new book titled Get Off the X. Michelle has outlined these concepts, along with some intriguing stories, as you can imagine,
1:12.8	in a new book titled Get Off the X, CIA Secrets for Conquering Obstacles and Achieving Your Life's
1:19.1	Mission. With this conversation, we don't spend time talking about the stories of the CIA. If you want
1:24.2	that, get her book. Or she says, watch the movie or the series, I guess it is,
1:28.3	Homeland or a new one that's called the agency that I've seen really like it. But we talk about
1:33.7	how the concepts of getting off the X relate to all of us, our lives. We live lives that we feel
1:39.9	often are high stakes for us. And we need to move, progress. Get off the X's that we're stuck in.
1:46.7	I found Michelle's guidance helping me not to feel like I needed more motivation or inspiration or
1:52.4	some mission impossible song to get me going. I just needed to have some pragmatic tools and
1:57.6	better perspectives to employ.
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