E171: My Life is a Blessing - Interview with Brian Kennedy

In this episode, Pete speaks to Brian Kennedy, a dad, runner, husband, speaker and coach living in Dublin. They talk about his childhood, pressure, mindset and more.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Brian feels like he is truly blessed for what he has in life. Although he had the traumatic experience of bank robberies, a complicated relationship with his father and suffered a mental exhaustion in 2010 he feels lucky to have experienced what he has and for his beautiful wife and children. The past 10 years of his life have been the happiest in his life, he lives in the present and doesn’t pine for a future as he is living in the now, something that took him a long time to learn. Brian’s mother brought him up to have great respect for women and how to manage relationships. He unfortunately didn’t have a god relationship with his father due to him being an alcoholic, it also led him to be scared about becoming a Dad as he didn’t want to become his father. Brian got a job in 1978 working for hallmark cards and it was an eye-opener for him even though he had worked in a pub previously. He was shocked at how badly his supervisor treated people, he knew if he was in a position of management he wouldn’t treat people in that way, he knew it wasn’t right. It was important for Brian to not disappoint his mother. His drive at a young age was that he just wanted his mum to be proud. Later in life he realised that she would have always been proud of him no matter what. It took Brian to have a crisis in his life to reflect on his Dad’s mistakes and behaviours and then learn that he would not repeat the generational trauma. In Brian’s head he felt like he needed to earn ‘big money’ and provide above and beyond for his family and children. He puts this down to his upbringing and anxiety around money growing up. It simply was not the case though, his families best memories were nothing to do with wealth and things.   BEST MOMENTS  “I’ve always felt blessed with meeting my wife” “What is it that was driving you to be the best that you can?” “I had no idea this meant so much to my kids” “If I had a princess then I needed an empire” VALUABLE RESOURCES Subscribe to Fire In The Belly Podcast on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fire-in-the-belly/id1499375061) ABOUT THE GUEST Brian Kennedy ABOUT THE HOST The ‘Mighty Pete Lonton’ from the ‘Mighty 247’ company is your main host of ‘Fire In The Belly’.  Pete is an Entrepreneur, Mentor, Coach, Property Investor, and father of 3 beautiful girls. Pete’s background is in Project Management and Property, but his true passion is the ‘Fire in The Belly’ project itself. His mission is to help others find their potential and become the mightiest version of themselves. Pete openly talks about losing both of his parents, suffering periods of depression, business downturn and burn-out, and ultimately his years spent not stoking ‘Fire In the Belly’. In 2017, at 37 years of age that changed, and he is now on a journey of learning, growing, accepting, and inspiring others. Pete can connect with people and intuitively asks questions to reveal a person’s passion and discover how to live their mightiest life. The true power of ‘Fire In The Belly’ is the Q&A’s - Questions and Actions! The ‘Fire In The Belly’ brand and the programme is rapidly expanding into podcasts, seminars, talks, business workshops, development course, and rapid results mentoring. CONTACT METHOD https://www.facebook.com/mightypetelonton/ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mightypete https://www.facebook.com/groups/430218374211579/ Support the show: https://www.facebook.com/groups/430218374211579/