What Does It Mean to Be a Strongman Beyond the Physical?

Big Tommy Burns, strongman athlete, gym owner, father, author, and community leader born and raised in Flint, Michigan. Tommy grew up surrounded by love but also by poverty, addiction, violence, and devastating loss. He lost his mother to a heart attack at 29 when he was just 14, and his father to suicide in 2020. Despite all of it, Tommy never lost sight of a dream sparked at seven years old watching the World's Strongest Man on TV. In this conversation, Tommy opens up about his divine assignment on earth, how faith pulled him back from the edge of suicide at 14, why fasting became his secret superpower during one of life's lowest points after graduating college in 2008, and what it truly means to be a strongman beyond the physical. He also shares the healing conversation he had with his father after a cross country move unlocked buried childhood memories, and how he brings that same depth of transformation to his gym, his book, and his growing community of athletes of all ages.Have you ever taken a moment to ask yourself what your real assignment on earth is?What does love actually look like in the environments you have been shaped by?Is there something you have been avoiding that might be the very thing that breaks you through?What does strength mean to you beyond what people can see on the outside?Is there someone in your life whose role in your story you have never fully acknowledged?Have you ever been at a low point where something unexpected showed up and shifted everything?What version of your younger self still shows up when life gets heavy?Get the book Fasting I'ssa Superpower, A Guide to High Impact Fasting at highimpactfasting.com. Find Big Tommy Burns on all platforms at @bigtommyburns and at bigtommyburns.com.