Episode 33 Embrace Pain & Avoid Suffering with Brian Bogert

In this episode, John talks with Brian Bogert. Brian is a passionate performance coach, motivational speaker, business strategist, top sales professional, and philanthropic leader who believes in helping growth-minded individuals achieve the best version of themselves: their most authentic selves. He teaches how to leverage radical authenticity and awareness to create the intentional life you've been dreaming of, but have struggled to create on your own. Here's a sampling of what this episode offers … [01:30] - Brian's background and upbringing. [04:34] - Give in or give up. [08:29] - Leverage radical authenticity and awareness. [12:43] - Finding role models that can show you what you want to see. [15:32] - Revolutionary strategy — embrace pain to avoid suffering. [18:23] - Wisdom in growing through your pain. [20:23] - Finding a straightforward and simple fix for many problems. [23:30] - How to be empathetic and understand one another. [30:20] - Why comparison can be good. [39:23] - Seeking possible solutions in all things. [41:23] - Achieve the success in life and business you always wanted. QUOTES: "How powerful our narratives can be. People thought I was good. I was strong. I was capable. I didn't need help. And now I'm in one of the most vulnerable periods of my life and nobody's there to help me because they figured I was good." "What we tend to do is we put clarifying words in front of pain to make ourselves feel better ... like acute and chronic. What happens when we put the word chronic in front of pain, it immediately changes the definition." "When you start with the who, when you start with what, you know, what you're clear on, what you want to accomplish, the path that you want to serve, the goals you want to accomplish, then anything alternative of that is suffering." "What we all know, and this is why new year's resolutions fail consistently, is experts in habit formation will show us that there's always an up-front energy tax." USEFUL RESOURCES https://brianbogert.com  https://www.instagram.com/bogertbrian/  https://www.facebook.com/brian.bogert.3  https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianbogert/  https://twitter.com/BogertBrian  https://tinyurl.com/OwnTheMicrophoneBook  CONNECT WITH JOHN Website - https://thejohnhulen.com  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/johnhulen  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/johnhulen  Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/johnhulen  LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhulen  EPISODE CREDITS Intro music provided by Tony Palacios - https://www.instagram.com/tonytonedog/  Outro music provided by Jeff Scheetz - https://jeffscheetz.com/