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Muscle Intelligence

Tools to Get Unstuck and Realize Your Greatest Potential | Dr. Barry Michels and Dr. Phil Stutz #242

Muscle Intelligence

Ben Pakulski

Alternative Health, Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.7761 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Is changing your behavior as easy as changing your mindset? Today's guests hold the stance that true behavior change takes more than just a mindset shift (and I agree). Dr. Phil Stutz and Dr. Barry Michels are absolute legends in the personal development and self-mastery spaces, and have both been in the private practice of psychotherapy for over 30 years.

I sought Drs. Stutz and Michels out to catalogue their tried-and-true techniques for facing fear and challenge, developing clarity around your deepest desires, and cultivating authentic connection in today's world.

You'll learn:
  • The KEY tactic to help you stop avoidant behavior, and tackle challenges head on.
  • A surprising path to awareness that allows for deep self-expression.
  • Why discipline and self-restraint are spiritual practices.
  • A framework to cultivate stronger connections and relationships.
  • The MOST IMPORTANT transformative skill to cultivate in your life.

Learn more about Dr. Michels and Dr. Stutz:

Get the episode guide for full details of the Tools and knowledge shared in this episode.  If you're the type of person who enjoys helping others become the best version of themselves, share this episode with at least one person.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Muscle Intelligence Podcast.

0:11.2

I am incredibly humbled and honored to host today's guest.

0:18.2

This book written by Barry Michaels and Phil Stutz has made a tremendous impact on my life,

0:24.4

and I truly feel humbled and honored to have them joining me today on the podcast. Dr. Michaels

0:30.9

is living in California as a functioning psychiatrist and just an absolute wealth of information.

0:36.6

He's truly a gift of a person. The information

0:39.3

and the knowledge and the wisdom he passes on to us is nothing short of remarkable. And Dr. Stutz,

0:45.8

who is the creator of the tools, which is the book I'm referring to, the fact that he was willing

0:52.7

to make time for us today to join us, truly speaks of

0:55.7

the man's character and his mission during his life. And as you hear during the interview,

0:59.9

Dr. Stutz is suffering from a little bit of Parkinson's. And at times it's challenging to hear

1:05.2

him. At times, his connection is an awesome, even cuts out for a few minutes. and then he joins us again, but we did our best

1:12.2

to edit the podcast because truly it's an incredible conversation. There's so much value

1:17.9

provided here by these two gentlemen, and I just didn't want to lose this information because,

1:23.3

as I say, the tool, the book, the tools tools first recommended to me by Brian Johnson of,

1:28.7

currently of the heroic app, was just an absolute game changer for me in understanding

1:34.8

how to get through challenging times, to think differently about improving myself as a person

1:40.2

and ultimately get through, you know, the darkness that we all have inside of us, the challenges that we all have. We talk a little bit about today, about the tools. We talk a

1:47.4

little bit about how Phil came up with these tools and how Barry continues to perpetuate this

1:52.5

message as we move forward. And in staying with the theme, the person who introduced me to this

2:00.2

book, as I say, was Brian Johnson through

2:02.3

his incredible platform previously called Philosopher's Notes, then called Optimized,

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