Mike, Kevin, & Stephanie

what saraphina and I were in a entrepreneurial book club where Stephanie never read the right book and Stephanie was terrible at this book club I really sucked at book club I did not fabulous I'm what I just had a visual just had a visual he proud of it hello and good morning for Friday I am joined in the studio by Mike and Kevin pumped to have you in and uh oh this is going to be a high energy Friday so get yourself situated for it all what's up Kevin how are youing oh my God holy cow so I'm gon to hand the the floor over to you Mike so maybe you can talk about uh your involvement the center which is going to be opening here in Mash on Route 151 we're really excited to bring a Wellness Center to our town and uh how you're involved with um um Kevin Currin in our studio right this knucklehead what I've realized though is it might be a little too early for Kevin I don't no no wake up people here we go never too early for Kevin kick the tires like the Flyers that's awesome oh I'm CJ Mike from uh what is going to be a wonderful new addition to our community the center for wellness and masp uh also the home of my Kung Fu family NB nbw K Family Martial Arts Academy we're so excited me myself my partner Bri Mo from brilliantly balanced uh Stephanie has been a big piece of our growth here she's introduced me to some great people giving us some great PR and we got our grand opening coming up on November 2nd from 10 three wicked fast you better get the date correct yes November 2nd um we're actually Fe featuring this guy right here he's going to open the show we're going to open the show with a lion dance go right into Kevin burm with Kars um Kevin and myself have created some kind of a weird relationship here where he what do you want you want to bring that up right now I don't think you want to bring that up on the radio I love it it's supposed to be clean I know right what's up Lauren we can't tell you what we do at the studio but it hurts and uh in a good way in a good yeah yeah honestly though in a good way in a very good way good good way let pain is weakness leaving the body oh yes as a classic Marine would say yes that's right get her done anyway okay big things 90day challenge Kevin has uh formulated a great 90day challenge he's had me on it for a couple weeks now and let me tell you something I've been doing this for over 30 years I've done everything from P90X to TRX to whatever else was The Fad back in the 80s 90s and all that I've never had had such an effective workout in my life all right not that's not PR and I don't blow smoke and I wouldn't have him here if I couldn't say this I'd keep him hidden over at my studio you know what Kevin I'm really excited to have you in Mash B uh you have h l a a storied life yeah it really and you've made books out of it so T I know Kevin Karns always picked last and uh that book was was read and you got a letter in the mail from a former first lady yes yes yes technically yes well you know and I appreciate C Joe bringing me down it's it's always strange you know I've been in the business now just as long as he has and that's not a dig that's just we it's on kind of kind of interesting I think we were other brothers from other mother yeah you know what I mean because he's Italian and Irish and I'm Irish Italian okay you know big distinction everyone Wicked big you know but see he was from doorchester he never went over the north you know over the tolbin bridge to to get to Everett and I never went past well you understand right when you're the NorthShore the not the not sure after the not sure the Tober Bri the world ends no the world ends that's where it is so when this when this came to light it was kind of interesting because we have a a program called self-defense for you which we were pushing to realist which we are still doing for the past year okay and then Karen introduced us who's one of his friends cust k conazo she a good Irish girl K Kar C Kar if you're watching thank you for this you sure about that thank you for that we're both on the board of the mashby Chamber of Commerce so I know Ken very well she's wonderful she's a great lady she found me in my space she that's amazing my Kevin hey no I don't think so anyway Victoria's gonna have a problem with that anyway um so what's up Don what's up when we got when we got introduced you know Karen wanted to bring me down the C do one of these things to self-defense for you and she's like I don't know we need to find a space and then all of a sudden six months later she met me at an exp event yeah and I kind of like better crushed it if these like this like 400 realtors in there like this well those events tend to get really stuffy so that was smart to have brought you in you think this one with the energy so this seal is okay to pull a team of of I don't even know what Navy Seals themselves Kevin's like get on my back let's go something to that effect well she came to goes I got a guy down the cape and he's doing this and I go okay we get on the phone like makes sense to me so we started talking back and forth and he knows my background you know I mean this this is always pick glass it's kind of interesting we kind of grew up the same way this that book is the original cry to kid they stole the movie from me I I believe it no they did no I believe it Ralph Macho I'm gonna sue you anyway they needed somebody taller yes what are you trying to say you 6 eight anyway what happened is you know got picked on the whole bit this that the other thing close my father died this is his ring okay it's been on since I was 12 my father died at 48 drank too much ate the wrong foods and what ended up happening is I I literally sucked at every sport got picked on the bullying got worse a close Uncle talked me to talk me the ti karate at United Studios of self-defense which you know I've discussed Char machera Paul Taylor they kind of built the foundation yeah didn't realize one of the best things cjo and I have talked about is one of the things you run in martial arts if you ractice you get better right and the teachers will take the time because when you look at martial arts training a lot of kids that aren't good at sports get into that or Sports athletes use it as cross training right and it took off and I've spent 40 years now from Kempo Karate to you know marel sit Tong mu Thai for the past 20 something years there's so many systems out there well the foundation is this and cidro will agree with me in this discipline honor character integrity self-control it's not about fighting it's about not fighting yeah now how do you fuse that together well I was lucky enough that you know I got into weight training got into personal training got my degree in exercise physiology and then ended up in you know I always tell people and C Jo and I have had multiple conversations about this about you know you have opportunities in life yeah and they you know you take them or you don't take them and there are choices in life so a lot of times you know I've done talks I work at B Boys and Girls Clubs in pck buan I'm working on a YMCA program it's a big conversation right now and I think that that's where it all began for you yes you were a kid from a household that you know had an alcoholic dad was very ostracized was teased and picked on these are conversations that are still and unfortunately in our schools every single every single week every single month you're seeing workshops on how we're we can deal with this better and I think it's now worse because it's social constant social media correct social media kids are doing own scary stuff now and um what the kids are doing because of the bullying now is way more scary it's tougher and they're going inside they're they're on their screens they're doing things that I didn't even know about when I was you know we we would go outside and play and and stay away from people yeah because we could shut it off small moments small windows and the embarrassment fact that goes through the roof I mean you know you look at everything that happened the past number of years mental health challenges are through the roof I Le for my own struggle that's my second book with the light in the tunnel I mean also a conversation yeah that is a big conversation right now is mental health and how we're addressing that and we do a poor job of it in the United States and I think that this is really wonderful that you're showing this Progressive journey to figure out how do I help myself we're always looking for ways to do that absolutely and I I would agree with cjo that you know you of going through my own struggles for divorce and everything else and believe me my my divorce is like a DAT line episode trust me he and I have had conv about this yeah no no joke in 2019 it was it was really bad about a year after my divorce and the scar on my left side of my neck is real I tried to attempt suicide and then came out of that and than God for mlan then I wrote a book on it then I decided to really help people with the mental health that's why I'm trying to do my first Ted Talk yeah because the idea behind the Ted Talk is true mental health through physical health because he and I both know we've lived kind of the same lives you have to put that time aside into your physicality to get yourself mentally it's a good conversation to be starting because I think that it we are not addressing whole Wellness no well we try and fix the one small issue whether it's alcoholism or whether it's your your mental health or whether it's X Y and Z but when we're not addressing the whole human we're not going to be fully fixed like like CJ mentioned this the other day I don't even think he said it in P him what's the root cause right let's get to the root and it's almost you start looking at martial arts well what's your root what is your root what is your foundation Foundation come from so think that's and I think the other thing the idea behind this with the 90day challenge is get people kind of the kickstarter is it is it a 90-day challenge or is a 90-day lifestyle yeah well that's it you're not somewhere yeah exactly Sam says hello and good morning Bella and Anthony say good morning Kelly said I'm so glad that you survived and thrived you have a great spirit and a good energy I try I make coffee nervous yeah right good morning Sarah and Trish Bev what's up um John I can't even believe you're visiting us on your vacation and uh Chris Ball I know we're in Cabell right now Cobo Cabo Cabo Lucas how come we come on I know we're sitting here in a basement on the C extra for the challenge she comes back and Lauren also says you know same thing shitty childhood um you know hey M Clean fam in the house like these you're you're talking to other people that have walked this you know that's it's a it's a great subject and you know C Joo and I have talked about it I think it's impossible to get past age 30 without some trauma now what's the best way to do that physicality is one of the best way I mean if you if you talk to any psychologist you've talked to people see Joe I know you have too and you sit there and you go okay they say you know I remember remember years ago this the psychiatrist you say punch a pillow punch a heavy bag pillow don't do it well after this workout today CJ's going to punch me but that's besides the I kind of like he won't be able to lift his arm it's fine that's what I'm hoping for any you know what it brings us to um and the funny part about this whole thing is maybe four months ago 120 days ago none of this was in my life yeah you know what I had to do to affect all the positive change and the things that are coming my relationship with Kevin my relationship with Bri with you and being here because I made a change I got out of the rut that my life had brought me into MH you know growing up we we come from the same place I come from the city I I grew up in a very I guess you could call it strange household but we it was normal to us we're weirdos we get out here in the world and and that's all we got to go back on is how we were raised thank honestly thank God I went into the Marine Corps yeah and the Marine Corps was the physicality I didn't know that the Army also helped me I feel like that discipline absolutely it kicked me in Marine Cole was unbelievably physical and what I realiz now knowing what I know now is that that's what I needed to kick me to the right road yeah because I could have very easily gone down the wrong road kick you in the ass once again it's a system it's one of those things where you're just out there flailing and you don't know what to do and this is why people buy the P90 XS this is why people buy into these things looking for ways for help oh absolutely help me help myself how do what do I do what do I take there could be a big conversation that I'm not going to get into about their methods and their methods well 100% because we don't know any better it's marketing also so it's one of those things but you don't know it until you live it they broke us down for three days they broke you down and they started with putty that they could mold and ke Kevin's kind of picking up now with 30 years later he's picking up the P that's left and and reshaping me and this is reshaping me and we have to look at the whole person and the physicality side is where we have something in common we met for the first time out in Plymouth it's at a restaurant and and I I literally said to to my wife when I left I think this guy's my brother from another mother it's nice when you connect with someone else like that and it doesn't happen often and sometimes we don't let ourselves do that as grown-ups like we have our people we have our tribe we have our Squad I me kind of stay stagnant and Lauren said a great thing continue to make changes every day in order to live your best life and you're doing it well I'm doing it I I think the big thing is and I I tell is the kids and I say and CJ would say the same thing I'm sure you would do too Stephanie what's your why yeah you know I've got seven tattoos this one of my arm is my saying hold your vision keep your passion maintain and invest in your perseverance no matter what anybody tells you so I think that's the big connection and I also want to go back to what in Dov tail you said about discipline okay one of the greatest quotes I think Joe Rogan a friend of mine said this and he said when motivation dies motivation is great yeah but discipline has to take over and what is people give such a bad word that's that's that to is discipline people give such a bad kind of connotation but discipline but what is it following a structure following a structure you know I had the privilege and honor of working with 15 UFC athletes Co how'd you get there go right place right time opportunity and then I saw an you know a hole in that whole idea of their training because they were training like bodybuilders right came up with a system put it on DVD on a shoe string and it went Global I went okay right and then we turn into a certification something there but you look at that and you look at the discipline these guys they're doing as you know I you've seen Fighters two three times a day and you know not to get any other sports athlete but you look at you look at Fighters I mean there is no day off yeah and the discipline gasoline and and you and you literally have to just discipline yourself but the the thing that coo and I agree on is the big thing is I always saw and I know he said it for years and I've said it for years a melding of martial arts in Fitness Together okay because some people think well it's martial arts this is Fitness I go why can't you combine the two yeah why not it works yeah and what Kevin's doing is what I've been trying to do for a long time those of you who know me you remember Marshall Fitness you remember Studio X cardio kickboxing back in the day on Route 130 at Bowden Road over at Dino's Plaza I've been trying to do these things and I saw somebody who's done it he's where I want to be and you know what you don't hang out with people who where you want to be right absolutely you are the sum of the people that you hang out with 100% hang out with and let me tell you something I've cut some people out and I've added some people in and look where we're going well I mean I think that you're a true Testament to I'm not gonna give up I'm not you know he is he's like back on the horse again and I'm doing it again and I I love that though I think it's important perseverance is another one of those things see it's another one of those things that you can't teach you just have to go through it you just have to do my my favorite thing to hear is and every time I hear it I make more money I'm too old to do this oh my God I love it I love it too old okay right right I'll remember that and Abraham Lincoln was 47 we became president which was was considered old and he was a failure to everything else right so I mean it it is out there and it is part of taking that first step and there's a reason why these systems do work it's called a recipe and yes when you make a recipe usually it turns out the way everybody has that plan yes can you create things without a recipe sure well I I think I I love that idea and to dubtale on C joo's thing I think the one of the I think one of the key Concepts especially in martial arts self-defense training whatever you want to call it martial Fitness all of it it's all the same is there's no judgment yeah we don't care what size you are when you walk in the building right see Jo he walked in he's got a halo around his waist you're what 20 years old at the time and and and first thing the his tongue food teacher say he's talking about a medical thing he doesn't have a Halo here no way wait a minute neither do I anyway an external fixator device okay when he when when he almost died and the teacher and his teacher said put the put your Walker aside he was told that he was never gonna walk at 35 yeah okay 35 how I thought you 38 you told me you're 38 you liar God but you look like you're 38 well what's up Seth Hi Lis I know that sit at the table with people who support each other absolutely that's exactly what we're doing I I appreciate that Lisa here here's one of my favorite quotes and not to get political because believe me we're not even gonna go down there JF I believe it JFK said the rising tide raises all Bo that's it the rising tide we have to work together as a community you know sometimes I laugh I joke around my girlfriend U Sarah I say you know and mik c and I have had this conversation I think you know people say oh the aliens are coming I go they're not coming they're probably looking down us go you didn't get it yet that money doesn't matter and race and all that that doesn't matter can you guys all work you think they want to invade us what are they they're gonna go they haven't figured it out yet maybe another a thousand years you know so let's all work together for making people healthy not just physically but mentally and emotionally at the same time so you've got this amazing background of entrepreneurialship mixed in with some of your life struggles and you've made it you made it your your life well let's take a page from that you're an entrepreneur C's an Entre an entrepreneur I am what is entrepreneurship yeah but struggles yeah you know self what is it small businesses account for what 55% of American businesses yeah and you look at that you're going to fail but I you know I I have one of my talks I do at schools at corporations how do you know what shop is until you cut yourself I know what hard is until you burn yourself I know what failure is until you fall flat in the face you have to have the ability to get back up and keep going forward yeah or as Dr Wayne Dy would say there is no such thing as failure you just produce results you didn't expect right there you go surprise this is where I'm going today it's only 99,999 light bulbs that that I didn't make right this funny story it's like if you if you listen to uh I think cjo listened to this too WD40 you know why it's called WD40 because it didn't work 39 times I like that true Post-it notes he was trying to make a permanent that's it that's true that's it you know what up to Sara it comes down to this if you're afraid to fail you're never going nowhere I've probably failed that more things how many people have that in the back of their head that let them not do things how many excuses do you make for yourself that you not let yourself fear right fear fear what is fear if you look at you know the great the great motivational speaker Zig Ziggler false evidence appearing real look it is scary life is scary it's just the way it is it's more scary than it used to be we've social media we get botbot with this we don't know we don't there's no more Walter cronite we don't know what to believe in the news nothing it is scary but you either stay in your house or move forward yeah Mo forward I know and that taking that first step maybe talk about that a little bit and how you get people to say I'm gonna go burn with Kerns today I'm gonna take that first step how did you take your first step when you're like that's it I'm gonna make this Center I'm gonna put this together how did I do it yeah I had no choice I was like I'm looking around what am I doing here what am I doing here I was going nowhere um I was spinning my wheels in my martial arts studio I was spinning my wheels in my career I had no career because I wasn't teaching for a career but you've done that before you're like I've done that before I can do this again let's get this Engine moving again a lot of people may have never done that how do you encourage somebody to say all right I'm gonna try this I'm gonna throw myself at this and really give it a shot when Opportunity Knocks he was just saying it before you see that opportunity you have to take it you have to be scared as hell and take it in 199 97 somebody said to me and it was that instructor that told me to put my Walker in the corner and he told me I would be fine if I did what he said in 97 he said well you're not even a black sash yet and you still run another business but I don't want this group school anymore do you want to take it and and not take it give me 20 grand so I had to come up with money I didn't have take over a school that I wasn't ranked high enough to take over and take over these students that had no respect for me they didn't even know me but I looked at it and I said you know what I need to take this opportunity that school failed yeah but that was my first one if I never did that I'd never be successful I've been as I've been as high in the martial arts world as couple Studios over 100 students instructors working for me and I've been as low as three students in my basement that don't even pay me anymore yeah and you know what I'll take the three students over the 150 that left me when times were hard and now this this thing that I'm building now I've this is my fourth commercial Studio that I've opened I know a lot of the mistakes was leaving the floor open at times our egos get in the way you know not that there would be any egos at this table but no but I mean it is it is difficult it is tough wrangling a lot of strong human beings yeah well you just got to remember your ego is not your Amigo there I like that I'm G to use that or as as Dr Wayne D would not to get not to get religious as Dr Wayne D would say edging he go stand for edging God out yeah well I think I think c joo's big thing is this and I think I followed it Stephanie you've done it too you know there's an old saying when your heart speaks take good notes now if you're from Boston you would say if your heart when your heart speaks shut the you know what up you don't listen to that you got to listen to it and you know they've now done all this research and you know martial arts has known this for years yoga people have known this for years that your heart is not just a pump it actually knows yeah it knows what's going on if I if mean he and I can share stories for hours and hours and hours like when I first did the the Burman basement tapes the MMA conditioning series we had $25,000 to do three DVDs in 2007 in October do you remember what happened in November the economy crashed yeah we lost the sponsor literally lost the sponsor and I'm sitting there going now 25 Grand now you gotta remember we didn't have these phones all this fancy stuff we had to hire somebody edit the whole bit 25 Grand was a good budget you know one of my main Fighters Kenny Floy was going to Kenny floring was going to be it and I sat there and I lost it and not only that we had the fit pack which we're doing at the 90day challenge which was a medicine ball band in my first DVD 30 minute Co strank workout which nobody knew who the hell I was and yeah that's the way it is we that in a second so I sat there and I go okay now we've got this this project with the with the basement tapes it's it's kind of blown up we have the the fit pack that I literally had 5,000 boxes sitting in a warehouse in in Toronto in zelers which is like Walgreens was going to do a Pro was going to do a prototype a test Market 2500 units one week later they pulled the rug off from under2 so I had two things go bang bang I was like jabc cross I'm like okay yeah and I went to my ex-wife even though she was in the throws of her own alcoholism I went to my ex-wife and I said I gotta do this I pulled $10,000 out of my house did three DVDs on a shoestring Y and I went yeah and it and when one week we made on money back yeah just you gota you know there's an old babe Ru had a lot of saying as you know I think babe Ru said it best they somebody asked him one day how'd you get 500 home runs you know what he said I freaking swung yeah right you don't swing that's the way to do it sweet take the chance you can't hit a home run if you don't get up to that no and this time I had made my relationships and you work on your relationships your whole life yeah right and I've been saying a BRI for over almost six years now I'm really not sure why we met because me and Bri have hit on a couple different things we did the wine thing we've done product sales and nothing ever really matters and we sometimes wouldn't see each other for six months but when you get back together it's cool yeah I'm like this is this is why I sat down with her one day uh we had a 30 minute conversation I didn't want to put Kung Fu out there that's my ego saying oh Kung Fu everybody want I know everybody wants kung fu I know everybody needs Kung Fu they don't know that though right so when they when they read like everybody needs the 90day challenge everybody needs the 90day challenge Shameless plug and and it's it's a lifestyle challenge not just a weight loss challenge anyway um I said you know let's do something the whole Community can see the whole Community can use we let's talk about Wellness let's talk about the whole person not just the physical but the internal we have wonderful internal classes going on the soundbass that we're doing some great instructors and and people that really we don't have a a bunch of instructors or a bunch of people in there that are in this for the money they're they love what they do they're so excited to have a place oh I can really do this they also do need to get paid though so there's that they do need to get paid well we have to pay our bills okay wait those see the space though come see the space it's amazing as a matter of fact at 9 o'clock today you should come over there and work out with burn with Kars right because he's gonna have me over there doing foolish things with medicine balls I thought you said there was like nine people coming they're supposed to be let's see if they come my daughter should be there and I know know that Sam can't make it because she had an unfortunate situation with a friend who who's in the hospital it's all good it's all good we'll be there well you know let's let's go let's go back to what you said not long ago you know everybody needs Kung Fu everybody needs why don't they you know why everybody needs everybody needs something internal and external why don't they right so I think you have to I think you know one of the biggest things and C Jo's heard me say this before in classes and I've say this is what's wrong with sweating and smiling with people like he'll say the same thing and I know he's heard it relationships built on the mat last forever yeah what I like it is it's a non-judgment Zone A lot of times within respect okay and he's absolutely right Eagles can get involved because we evolve scene like everybody gets another stripe then their their gut gets a little bigger right on the floor I got lot stri so well no not yeah but I thought you brown belt taking them off they taking them off but you know I think I think people when once you get somebody decondition condition uh you know late bloom or anything like you get them moving and improving everything gets better yeah so you have to have that kind of mentality and I think it's the martial art mentality especially that martial art yogurt I and I'm I'm a big Yogi now 16 years and I used to call it yogurt back in the day it's like I did I did it was like one of the best things gentle movement and just a little bit of stretching goes a long way let me tell you something some yoga classes I look at the T-shirt like hold I'm like hold I'm like I'm going to kill her in about five seconds like chair for like three minutes that's also my experience with you Jen long says hello by the way she says I love Mike so glad to see his face this morning we she's coming in the workout go we got Kevin Kern's in the studio we've got Mike dagio in the studio we're talking about BM with Karn we're talking about the center which is about to open here in mashby Grand Opening is going to be November 2nd what are we going to be expecting from some of your classes and how do people start getting into your uh your tribe over there ah it's G to be scary like Halloween so we're going to have a mixture of what's called a 90-day challenge now what we do is functional strength training what is that I know the term has been thrown around the whole bit all right so we have a core principle effective efficient and safe that has to be it under those core principles is what we call the eight elements of Fitness you push every day you pull level change rotation Locomotion balance static strength and flexibility those are the program models so you're going to see a version of more core strength you know we're going to be using bands medicine balls you name we use everything and then you're GNA see another thing that we have that I know C Jo's di have me do it MMA fight or fit get fit without getting hit so I had a deal with bosu you can find the video up on YouTube was called MMA fighter fit get fit without getting hit literally hitting the bosu have classes like that if you don't know what a bosu is it's a half stability ball that you stand on for balance and you look kind of kind of cool that's it so we have those torture device why I think it's comy lay why would you say this I think it's lay we talked about this and then you know we have other classes like you know I do something called White call of Fight Club which is hitting and holding pads Focus Ms tpads the whole bit you know there's lots of stuff and plus you know his plethora of information well I think that that's it mixing it up for me I get bored I get bored easily and then I just like stop doing that I'm like that's boring there be no getting bored at the I I bring in 30 years of experience in traditional Kung Fu training which is awesome but it's not for everybody everything I'm learning with with Kevin I can draw a parallel line to to my martial arts training it's so functional and vice versa it's so functional it's so good for the body and I've always said if you're gonna sweat and you're GNA spend your money and and your god-given time doing something why not have the benefit being you could save yourself for somebody you love someday why just go there just to look better or just to say you're at the gym or just put your new yoga pants on or whatever although you do look pretty good in those new yoga pants anyway what's I'm not going to touch that actually I don't believe I just said I'm not gonna touch that but anyway no literally literally there's not a move that we do that I can't show you this is why we do this it's functional the interesting thing behind that too is is you know people look I'm not gonna bash any type of training maybe maybe maybe CrossFit but anyway um I don't care seriously I'll tell them nine ways to sign Sunday if you want to look like a bodybuilder fine fine do bodybuilding if you want to do CrossFit that's fine that's fine this is about I'm 58 yeah okay this is about functional strength training I came from the world of bodybuilding and gave it up most programming models are built more in bodybuilding that's fine at the end of the day though this is what I tell people I go this is this is reality okay you're going to a a serious business meeting you're in an ice storm you get a flat going downhill and it's 8:30 in the morning that happen to me and you know what I'm sorry but bicep curls aren't going to help me change the tire yeah I Lally walked into meeting soak and wet and ended up Landing the deal like what happened I go flat tire you Chang it I go yeah yeah that's what you have to think about you know fun life life is you know five uh 20 pounds of grocery in your three-year-old in one right exactly five flight of stairs that's life uhhuh it was at the beginning of this year where I decided to make that change again I'd let myself just be slob and it I'm increment small small changes all year long and it wasn't about the weight for me but it was like I I'm struggling to get out of my bathtub because I can't bend my knee anymore it was just one of those little things or like I'm having a problem putting on a sock like that is a problem take it take a I appreciate your I appreciate your I appreciate your vulnerability with that so let's look at this way this is this is a spin I always say to to to clients and customers every time you exercise every time you move you make a deposit in your Fitness Ira it's not just about lifespan it's about health span right you're living longer but I don't know about you but when I'm 80 I want to be rock climbing I want to be doing this I want to be doing that I'd like to live to then yes but also I don't want to be one of those ones that's just sedentary that just sits there I've always been an active human so it it was a shift exactly hats off to my my mother got rest of Soul until she was 88 that's when we had to put her in nursing home but she was going out she was line dancing driving her car playing bingo mom go y she was always active like that by the way shout out to everybody in our 55 plus Community Everly I will see you later for a little bit of music Bingo we always have a good time Brian's really really I love I love the Articles he sends me too because people start to think that you can't do things when you're 40 50 60 years old that it's not important for us people of my age I'm 57 now to do thing no it's important for us to maintain that yeah yes we got to be careful we don't want to hurt ourselves and we you know we getting fit without getting hit but the way Kevin's system teaches it it teaches you to know your limits to be able to push your limits but not exceed them yeah okay but you can't give up because you're 50 years old and say oh I don't do that I have a friend of mine who we just celebrated this past weekend when I was in Miami we it was her 60th birthday and she's lost 60 pounds and good for you so it was one of those moments where we've always made concessions around her not being able to walk around or do stuff and she was like powering through walking around the streets of Miami I was like do you want me to carry that no I got it I I can do it now and I'm like what it was really nice to see that shift in her ability at because before she was that person I'm too old for that I'm not gonna learn that I'm not gonna work out there's your key word the ability the ability to do stuff the ability to do stuff like you know when I've I know C Jo said this too I've talked to clients and believe me you gotta be careful you'll get in your own head he's got problems we all have problems yeah we all have stuff and can you put that aside can you sit with it and put that aside if you can take can't out of your vocabulary if you can take should or could or would have because the worst thing I'm gonna tell you right now the worst thing you can live with is Regret I wish I asked them out I wish I asked her out I wish I started this company and how many times do you even start your day or end your day with a little bit of that conversation I should have done I wish I had done you can't live like that yeah I think it was Chon hon had said he goes I don't want to sit in my rocking chair and regret the things I didn't do I regret the things I did do yeah well I don't think you'll ever say I regret that I did that like honestly if you're continuing to move along with your life you're like well I learned a lesson there I think that that's the shift growing and learning right growing and learning how how else do we learn exactly one of one of my talks for schools and corporations is can you imagine if you took the think about this imagine if you took the two-year-old mind and put it into the 40y old body so I ask the listeners can you remember how many times your kid fell to walk no there's no ego the ego doesn't kick until they're like seven but now if you reverse that right think think about that having a 40-year old mind and a two a two-year old mind and a four-year old body it's like hey man I can do anything I can talk anything now if you reverse that you take the four-year-old one the two-year old body they fall down oh my God it looks stupid look at these clothes somebody's GNA push me around hey that's all great somebody's gonna wipe my butt somebody's gonna feed me yeah they don't care no when you're when you're when you're in that small human you just have to keep going forward you don't have a choice I want to be able to feed myself I want to be able to go to bathroom myself I want to be able to my way from school all that all all those small things we take for granted people forget you know yeah this stuff in life that's really scary everybody everybody has their fears are they founded or they unfounded most of the times they're unfounded what's up zavia lot of love coming at you for that one Kevin what's up Jenny how are you these are small incremental changes you can make Kevin Curr is here he's written the book always picked last uh you've written another book as well is light in the tunnel how to survive and thrive a depression yeah maybe you can talk about that a little bit what what brought you to that I know it's heavy it's it's you know it's funny because I've had people read my first book like oh that was uplifting read a second book wow it's kind of a downright go yeah but you know the good part about this I'm here but that's the that's what happens you've got these Hills and Valleys of life and you're going up this hill and you're like I'm I'm great I'm great I'm great I've got this wonderful book and everybody loves it and first lady sent me a letter personally and this is wonderful and then all of that Di and then like something happens in your life where you PIV and you're like what why am I here I was just up here now I'm here please so you look at it you know somebody somebody I knew for 30 plus years just kind of flipped the script yeah on me and you know I'm not gonna bash her she drank this that the other thing the marriage went down I finally tapped out and it really the the divorce was messy as messy as it can be yeah I mean Mike knows my situation you know my daughters haven't spoken to me in four years stuff like that and that's her doing not mine yeah and that's that's that's something I have to live with daily but going from like your dream house with your college sweetheart your two kids to 1100 foot apartment being broke and starting all over and then getting sick yeah because you know let's let's face facts you know talk about you know fear I'm like okay 52 starting a date again well that was fun not not I mean thank God it's taken me x amount you know taken me what five almost five four a process and it's not something you can rush and get out of this the best word a process I hate the word it is but it it is a process and the difficult thing was and I know C joo's been there and you have your own kids right Stephanie I do I think the diff most difficult thing for me was the first weekend not having my kids yeah it's like I've been a father for 15 16 what I didn't know what to do it myself I did not know what and you have to learn how to live on your own like I've I've traveled the globe been alone you know in in restaurants and this that that it's like this is your life and this is where you are right now and it's really heavy yeah and I'm like okay and things were you know I was getting worse the whole bit and then um at one point she conv us the kids to move out and that's when I went downhill yeah and that's when the attempt happened and every I tried everything else the pills the therapy this that the other thing and believe me if you haven't spoken to with therapist go into therapy it's great I believe in 100% And you know that that really pushed me over the edge in in uh December of of 2019 to attempt suicide and then thank God I ended up in mlan because of my therapist I literally woke up in mlan on 2019 Christmas Eve my mother's birthday and I woke up at mlan then I found out about ECT therapy and if I didn't take the shot talk about being scared you know oh we're gonna shock your brain I'm like okay I didn't know what it about didn't know but the weird thing is after three they said that you know usually 12 sessions you start feeling better three sessions like it was like the sky open yeah and then now I'm rebuilding everything right I'm out thank you for sharing that because I think a lot of people have been there or are there right now and don't know what to do when they are there and think they're alone you're not you're not alone the the biggest thing to realize is you matter have a support system whatever support system that is don't be afraid you know I think going back to what cidro said ego I'm like you know the whole time I was struggling with this some of my friends knew but they didn't know I'm like I'm coach current I've trained these Fighters I can handle it and and it's very much in C Joe no no offense to get gender bias C agre is very much a macho thing right I can handle it because especially our age gr suck up everything's fine everything's fine suck it up and you know you get to a point and the fun part is when I came out about that date I think I've helped 24 people between anxiety and suicide because I came out vly I'm like this is what happened to me I'm gonna be open and my phone started ringing off the hle yeah and I didn't do that for me I did that for like I did because it helped me too the weird thing is I get through that now I'm kind of rebuilding and then all a sudden boom Oh geez things hey let's throw Co at you too and lose 90% of your business yeah yeah yay we've all been right exactly well and that's where my journey began you know I lost a a 25 year career when covid happened and I'm like okay what the hell am I gonna do what am I gonna do well it's funny it's funny that you say that that was that was an old thing that that Dr Wayne D used to talk about he's like you know these people um it was like talk radio right and all of a sudden they sold the radio station and people been there for 25 years that's exactly what happened to me and and then they find out they find out going to turn to gospel and his thing was well this is maybe the pivot you need to you need to make and think about it uh look who's taking over the radio station God that's God maybe he's trying to tell you something Jus Take the Wheel Jesus Take the Wheel somebody Take the Wheel by me so you know you look at that and you and coo knows you have to be able to Pivot yeah you know you you have to you know Marsh would say this and C would agree with me you have to know when to tap right you do have you're gonna break something you got know fold them no one to put it aside like I mean I Rogers over exactly no when to fold them no when to anyway I somebody would anyway um we're getting off track here no just a little bit when you look at when you look at the idea behind that you know why not write your book y right and you know what who cares if nobody reads it so what it's in you you got to get out of it you did it listen you think you think I'm a writer I'm a see Dr Vel uh Dr Vella from ever high rolls over and his great I've written 338 articles for five magazines since 2007 okay and and the way that started I had ultimate grappling Doug Jeffrey came to me after Kenny after Kenny floring second fight I started talking about weight cutting this is back in 2007 nobody really knew the science right say oh he's like can you write that I went yeah sure I'm like I don't know what I was doing and sometimes not knowing is the best thing but one thing I realize is like writing what writing does and I and I don't like this word and c will agree with me in this and you'll agree with me probably too I don't like the work expert because one of my hashtags is always a white belt you're always learning but you become an expert in that field well because you're a learner I think it's really important to sometimes just shut your mouth and listen when somebody that knows a little bit more about that subject and just take it in and then you're taking the piece of that that you need to do to fix the puzzle you know what I mean you're always molding yourself into something bigger and better so it's important to take that well look at look at one of the best podcasts out there I think she's in the number two now Mel Robin she says who am I to start a podcast who am I now she's number two who are you to start anything y you know it's like there's a well that's your imposter syndrome talking right there and that's a big thing we're not we're not that we're not taking it well once you know we're not taking it go go back go back go back to the laws right it's unproductive it's unproductive but go back to the laws like you know look look at how laws laws of physics or laws in general change yeah the law of flotation is you put stuff in water makes it float I don't know about you maybe CIO could explain this but can you explain this to me how an aircraft carrier floats the ks made out of cement I don't get it right exactly so you know once once what's out once what's was proven is disproven so you have to you have to do that to yourself yeah I can't write why not look at look at bezo now I don't like the guy but look at bezo I'm gonna sell used books people go what oh you do you hear of uh St sorry Tim Steve Steve wnc Steve was the X mother said people don't need computers they need Furniture duh bet yet let's look at Google imag imagine if I told you 20 years ago hey give me ,000 I want to put into Google what's that uh it's a uh search engine what the hell is that the thing that they all have in common is that they didn't quit an object and motion stays in motion and that is absolutely the law just like inves in the wellness center down to mass and see what happens so let's talk about the center a little bit C Joe what are people going to be expecting how do people get involved November 2nd is the grand opening yep we have our Facebook page the center um my Facebook page nbw Ka Family Martial Arts Academy is also connected our website will be up by the end of this week um the middle of next week excuse me we're thank you VY current yes thank you VY um how to get involved come by we're at 439 uh route 151 also known as Nathan Ellis highway right next to Pizza Guys right next to Fresh rolls white lion Bakery Beautiful Salon 151 the nail place so many things to do there come by talk to me talk to Bri talk to anybody involved in the company on Facebook Messenger call us get your name on the list because let me we have a full I don't know if you've seen our latest schedule it's very busy and what you're gonna have is you're G to have great classes traditional martial arts classes Fitness classes we have fitness trainers like Kevin we have fitness trainers like bis there's going to be something for everybody there and here's the cool part we're taking our our raiki workers our energy workers our yoga instructors myself I teach taii and chiong along with traditional martial arts and every month we're all going to get together and do something we're going to throw everything in the pot and see what comes out for a custom class where you'll have me for 15 minutes maybe Jane for 10 minutes maybe see my my wife for 10 minutes and we're going to create something you're not going to be able to get anywhere else that's for sure unless we open another Center in another town all right let's let let mean let's start somewhere are you talking franchise franchise franch look at this guy say that actually I'm excited you made it today yeah and we also want to let the people in town know that we're going to be doing monthly things for the community that will be no charge monthly women's self-defense monthly mindfulness classes we got art going there we got music going there y whole Wellness all the wellness things internal and ex external and that's the importance and that's one of the big differences internal and external you got to work the internal what if we want to burn with Kars if you want to burn with Kars you are in the right town because I'm brought him to mash that's amazing okay and we're gonna we we want to talk to the boys and girls club we want to talk to the real estate companies around here we want to bring all Kevin's um systems to our community because like I said I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel I could have spent years developing the demaggio system or whatever Kevin's doing it he's got proven results I'm bringing Kevin here he's going to certify me and we're going to do this I love it I really love it the center the center yeah I right we need something like that here in Mash B and I'm thankful that you're bringing it well than you know what you the that's the fourth time I've heard that today already the comments the community needs this and I never that wasn't my goal at first but like what this has grown itself me and me and Bri pushed this ball down the hill and now now it's this big and we can't stop it and we don't want to stop it but you got to get in there and you got to get on that 90-day challenge we're we're gonna have limited space all so talk to me about the 90-day challenge what is it so the 90day fitness challenge is is taken to a account everybody's different Fitness levels okay so do you remember I mean you're what 30 oh I love that yeah I thought so tell me more so it was it was born out of the fitpack we had these boxes and we didn't know what to do with it and a friend of mine in Toronto martial art school owner wasn't certified by me I'm I'm lucky that I've in 10 years I've certified 2,415 coaches and my assem and 15 Master coaches around the globe so I traveled a lot my friend in Toronto um I think he's living in Thailand I haven't seen him in years but he had this 90-day challenge thing and you know he did it to bring people Fitness people or non-fitness people and fitness people into his martial arts go introduce him the martial arts so we had the fitpack which which had a medicine ball and a and in my 30-minute course strength dvd one of my mentors Tim bashard Tim Bard's professional martial arts in New Hampshire said hey coach I got a great idea we charge $50 for your you know for your workshop for two hours for you know whatever Workshop he said what if we charge $1.99 and they get the fit pack because it' be a good way to introduce them into martial arts get and they have a few tools it worked so the idea is you'll pay I think our price point is going to be $99 you get the med Mall ban and then you'll have everything's going to be um my app's coming out in a couple weeks you'll have the app so you can literally work at the look at the workouts you're going to come in once a week on the first four on the first four weeks that'll be once a week you come in you do the 30 you do the 90day challenge with either Mike me or Bri whoever that's the idea behind it and it builds so a normal traditional strength training what happens if the exercise gets easier you with to increase the Reps or increase the weight we don't do that we call it a performance tweak so we'll use some of those princip Push Pull level Push Pull level change rotation Locomotion balance and static strength to activate that so you might do like you might do regular squats you do 20 okay now we're going to activate a jump Squad now the fun part about that is we've done this in a corporate setting the average weight loss is 13 and a half pounds over yeah over 90 days 13 and a half pounds with 20 22 to 65 year olds which I I have that we have that all all formulated statistics stats everywhere we have that so the idea behind that is to burn as many calories as possible in a short period of time so some of our programs like gas in a tank gas in a tank has been known to burn over 900 calories in 45 minutes with trainers okay so think about that 900 calories okay so if you want to lose a pound of fat we all learn the math you need to you need to burn 3600 kilo calories oh so great so if you come to one of our classes and you burn 900 calories to 1,000 calories for class you're more than halfway there that's the idea the idea is have functionality efficient effective and safe yeah that anybody can do anywhere we're going to be able now with zoom right we've already talked we're going to put them on Zoom so you can't make it it's gonna be on Zoom one of the benefits of being at the center and the diverse things we have there you come to my 90day challenge our 90day challenge you're not only going to get what we're giving you that one at least one class a week you're gonna get your fit pack for 100 bucks you're gonna sign up and it's going to be $100 per month during the challenge y but during that challenge you're not paying any more money you can come to three that's AFF for somebody absolutely you come to three Kung Fu classes I'm going to open up my whole Kung Fu program explore explore you want to try some yoga go to this yoga class you want to try some Fitness with brie her style of doing this Lauren says that Jane's gonna be there with her Crystal sound bath Jane with her Crystal sound bath hey Jane is a kung fu kung fu junkie now she loves she my newest can find her at Old challenge I mean my newest student Jane that's what I meant and I really me challenge so so mik my news challenge you know not only do not only do you get um Kevin's expertise this proven system you get a nice little package that you can put on your back and it says the center on it um you're going to get a diverse variety of classes available to you for 100 bucks a month yeah that's really nice you want to come five days a week you can do that with this 90day challenge well you will get at least there will be one 90day challenge workout per week that I will run Kevin will probably be visiting us every now and then if we let him come back over the bridge and where is it I don't know how to get there is he allowed this is the best time of year for you to be able to do so you can actually yeah it's really your your best um bang for the buck and you got to get on by Grand Opening or the day of grand opening because after grand opening prices are going up because the this the stuff that we're providing to people is not it's not cheap yeah and you're G to save huge money and as a matter of fact before grand opening I've been killing everybody everything's been free I don't know you know why isn't my room packed every single day but it's growing people don't trust free no they don't all right well bring your money then they got to C they got to have skin in the game 100% 100 taking skin on November 2nd bring your skin and leave it bring the checkbook bring your goats your chickens I don't care we're gonna have food there all the wonderful food establishments in the building are are going to be involved I'll drop in the chat where people can follow you on Facebook I'm really excited to see this come who's doing the food am I doing the food no you're not doing the food why am I doing the food because you're doing enough okay we're going to start the day with his big class and we're gonna end the day with I think the 90day challenge workout aren't we whatever we're gonna we're gonna figure it out when we get there well don't forget I'm the butt end of the Lion's Tail too lion dance we're putting him in the Lion's butt I don't even know what's happening over here all I know I got I got the booty for it I really wish I wasn't going to be in Nashville that weekend um if people know so get involved prior to or the following weekend there's no reason for you not to check out the center as they're opening and coming to our town because uh it is internal and external Wellness that you're going to want to find out more about the center Kevin curs siio dagio thank you guys so much for joining me this morning thank you ma'am we have a ton of events if you're looking for something to do I don't know why you are you just need to go to lemon ado.com and follow us there Hank is going to be back from vacation next week we've got a Full Slate of activities always follow us on Facebook events on capecod.com Lemon ado.com thank you so much for joining us today I will see you next week Kevin you want to uh give a plug to where people can find your book find you well you can go maybe it's a talk sure you can go to burn withth cs.com okay you can find my book on Audible you can find it on Amazon and if you want the audio video of This Book go to my YouTube channel excellent all right we'll see you guys at the center have a great weekend everyone bye- bye well that should wake everybody you think what what are you trying to say whaty of coffee oh Jesus