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Are there hidden stressors that are driving our epidemics of chronic illnesses, weight gain and poor mental health?
That's what we're going to be covering today.
In addition, we're going to be talking about some of these...
Things that are exploding in popularity that are supposed to be geared towards improving our health.
Like juicing.
And I'm not talking about the Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi kind.
The Mark McGuire kind.
I'm from St.
Louis.
That was an epic time.
There's even a highway named after him.
He hit 70 home runs.
We named Highway 70 the Mark McGuire Highway.
It was Big Mac Highway.
They changed the name after the news came out, though.
I'm not talking about that juicing.
I'm talking about juicing vegetables and fruits and herbs.
Is it really something that is appropriate for improving our health?
What types of juices are ideal, if any?
And we're going to be talking about this with the guy who really, this is real talk.
I've known this fella for 15 years.
He was there ushering in this movement towards juicing and making fresh pressed juices right at home.
He, for me, was really like a modern day Jack LaLanne.
Now, at this point, when I met our special guest, I'd already been on that juice life for a couple of years.
And I'm talking heavy.
I ran through some juicers, trying to get my own health together.
But it was so crazy because there were certain symptoms I would have.
Now my health transformed in the most amazing ways, but certain types of juices left me feeling like I had a crash of energy afterwards, where others made me feel vitalized and energetic for hours right.
And so what were those things?
What were those missteps?
Now that we have fresh pressed juices everywhere.
Is this a good thing?
We're going to ask the guy himself about it.
But again, we're going to be looking at the current state of affairs in our culture.
What are those things that, for many of us, are hiding in plain sight that can be holding us back when we have aspirations to transform our bodies and transform our health overall?
And so without further ado, let's get to our special guest and topic of the day.
Drew Canole is a health educator, entrepreneur, and founder of Organifi.
After gaining nearly 50 pounds as a new father, Drew discovered that real health isn't about pushing harder.
It's about removing hidden stressors, restoring essential nutrition and rebuilding safety in the body.
Today, he is fitter than ever and on a mission to help transform the health of our families.
His work focuses on foundational nutrition, nervous system health and helping people normalize their health without force.
Let's dive into this conversation with the incredible Drew Canole.
We've got my guy.
Yeah.
Drew Canole in the house.
It's good to be here, man.
15 years, man.
We've known each other for about 15 years.
Yeah.
I knew you back in Be Well Buzz days.
The Be Well Buzz.
Yeah.
I was the resident nutritionist.
Yeah.
If Larry and Oksana are watching this.
Yeah.
Shout out to Larry and Oksana.
They're probably DJing in Ibiza or something crazy.
Exactly.
But man, it's just been incredible because you were there in the early days and to be one of those people who helped to elevate this culture of juicing like you were really to me like a modern day, Jack LaLanne.
And so now like it's obviously everywhere, everywhere.
I just went to my son's basketball game at one of these schools he was competing with.
And even in these kids' lunch rooms, they've got like fresh pressed juices.
You know what I mean?
And so the game has changed tremendously.
But, having the guy here and to see the evolution of things, I wanna ask you about juicing, because a lot of people are doing juice fast, you know, right now, to this day.
They are looking to up-level their health to get a lot of nutrients in.
What are your feelings about juicing as it stands today?
Oh, gosh.
Times have changed.
I mean, you got oxalates now, which nobody was talking about back then.
Goitrogenic compounds, all this stuff.
But I'm still juicing.
Three, four days a week, cucumber, lemon, ginger, turmeric, mainly greens.
I wasn't really a big fruit juicer as it is but making immunity shots for the family every day, especially when the crazy weather comes in like we're in it now.
But I love it.
It's a great way to get micronutrients in.
Flooding your body with living light, as I like to say.
Now I make a lot of smoothies as well.
You probably do that as well, but it changes everything.
My energy shifts.
My body feels more alkaline first thing in the morning.
It's a huge part of my life, but also I'm not only doing like juice cleanses and juice fast, which people can do the wrong way.
Yeah.
Thank you for that.
So for you, it's like a great add in.
It's a great addition to your life.
100%.
And also you mentioned about the fruit juices, because I think that that's where things can get a little bit more sketchy is if you're juicing, you know, a bunch of pineapple, or just straight up pineapple or orange juice and things like that.
And just having that, you know, the insulin response and all those kinds of things.
So you're mentioning things like cucumber and ginger and celery, right?
But what about maybe like a little something to sweeten up a little slice of some green apple or something like that?
Yeah, green apple is great.
A little pineapple is not gonna hurt you either.
A lot of people pre-diabetic diabetes, you know you you juice something with a lot of fruit, it's immediately impacting your liver as fructose.
A lot of people have fatty liver disease non-alcoholic.
It's like gone up big time, not only from drinking juices that are filled with all these fruits and sugars and fructose and everything else, but also buying the drinks in the cans at the store where it's all processed pasteurized, heated up.
So you're losing the enzymes, the aminos, all the good stuff that you and I love anyway.
But having walking out to, let's say, my pomelo trees that I have at the farm, grabbing those, putting those in the juicer in the morning that I pick them,
I mean, they're picking up the biophotonic field of the humans that are living on the farm.
So that's medicine for me, specifically for me.
So making that first thing in the morning and drinking it, that's liquid sunshine, man.
And then also staring into the sun while you're doing this, filling your body with the light from the sun and also the juice from the farm.
It's an experience I can't explain on video to have people grasp it enough.
Like we need to be in touch with our food.
We need to be living close to our food.
Even if it's just herbs in your kitchen.
Maybe you're not privy to a little hobby farm like I have or whatever, but even having celery and cilantro and parsley and thyme and rosemary, it's so easy to grow in your house and just sprinkle it into your food.
And it's giving you so many benefits.
Yeah.
Amazing.
Amazing.
You know, you also slid in there and how we impact the food that's around us as well.
And so this is something again, slow down, Drew, slow down.
All right, now we've got data on this, even from the US government running experiments decades ago and seeing how we impact the, in particular, we see plants as basically they're not sentient beings. right but there's this context to where all life really on planet earth has intelligence and it's just we are really geared towards and even what we see is really geared towards our own kind of human senses and so this brings me to another thing i want to ask you about which is you know the original internet essentially which is the the mycelium network in a forest right and that data exchange and there's so much information coming out about that now and paul stamets has been one of those leading voices in this and just understand even with with mushrooms in the context of mushrooms they're more similar to human dna than they are to say what we label as a plant like some spinach or something you know it's something really interesting there's this there's an energy that really binds us all here and we've kind of separated ourselves from it.
And so my question is what happens when we separate ourselves from the source of where our food is coming from?
Is this one of the things that is unconsciously contributing to our poor health struggles with weight gain?
Is there something missing in our relationship with food?
You already know, but you're setting me up, which I appreciate.
It's devastational.
So you and I are big proponents of safety feeling safe in our bodies, having the nervous system feel great.
So when you're eating food that's loaded with glyphosate, you're disrupting your gut.
Most people have leaky gut right now.
Your nervous system's going haywire.
You're ungrounded.
You're getting all the blue light, all the flicker from all the lights in most people's homes.
It's LED lighting.
They're tanking their nervous systems.
So you can't function as a normal human, a light being, when you're surrounded by all this stuff.
So it's good to be connected to your food so that your nervous system can actually ground down and heal.
If your body doesn't feel safe, there's no way you can truly heal and be an optimized human being.
So safety, number one, that's why I do eat organic food.
That's why I know where my food is coming from.
I know most of the farmers that I buy my meat from, I have like 50 chickens.
So now the eggs, I know what they're eating, you know, the worms and the oyster shells.
I play my hand pan for the chickens.
I'm playing music for them, right?
They like know who I am and it's this beautiful exchange.
Most people have become so numb to just going in the store and I'm going to buy this chicken that's been bathed in chlorine you know, taking a bath in chlorine and then I'm going to eat that and expect myself to be healthy.
No, that's why cancer rates are up from people eating conventional chicken breasts and all of the food that we've been disconnected from.
So the minute you take ownership, you start feeling safer.
In your body.
Your body heals from things that maybe you've been struggling with your whole entire life, or even the past five, 10 years.
It goes away because the body heals itself through principles, not products.
I am the product guy, right?
I run Organifi.
You know this.
We've been working together forever.
But if you don't have the principles in place, I encourage everybody don't buy anything that I'm selling because your principles aren't there yet.
So, which is why it's so important for people to listen to your show.
And we're aligned on what we say, because this is the real work.
The stuff that you're giving to them every single day, the information.
80% of the nutrition we absorb in our bodies is not from food.
It's from the environment and the information that we're taking on.
Be it light or be it the voice of Sean.
Right?
Oh man, I appreciate that.
Yeah.
And also, speaking of you, got a great story that happened recently with your daughter and the chickens.
Oh yeah.
Share that for me.
So my daughter's two and a half and I had 10 hens in a smaller coop, you know 12 by 15 coop, not that big.
They weren't free range yet because they were pullets and their babies they're growing so i moved them to a much bigger coop with about an acre and a half of the best.
It looks like it's in new zealand, in california.
Here and as i'm walking my baby girl over, i'm holding her and she's looking me in the eyes and she puts her hand on my chest.
She says daddy-o.
She calls me daddy-o.
You're so generous And I was like full stop.
I'm done.
I could retire today.
It's that one little affirmation from my baby girl that just, that's it.
And what two and a half year old even uses the word generous, you know?
In the right context and everything, you know, it's just a testament, man.
I'm so happy for you.
You know certain people, it's just like You know I was also waiting.
You know like when is he going to have a little cannoli?
When is it going to happen?
And because you were just meant to be.
Oh, thank you.
You were meant to be a dad.
And, you know, she's so blessed and you're blessed to have her as well.
100%.
And you know, just with that said, this is a big part of helping to heal, and to heal our nervous system and our societies.
And we're going to dig more into what that means.
Yeah, a big part of that is our relationships and a big part of the dissonance is our relationships as well.
And so in this context of safety signals, and so let's dive in a little bit deeper with that.
So I don't, well, I already, I know this to be true because I went to a conventional university.
I was taught calories in, calories out.
If you want to lose weight, simply expend more energy than you're taking in.
And that has been the, the dogma that we've impressed upon our culture.
It's just a simple equation.
It's a simple math equation.
Left brain, like very mechanical.
And it's well intended and it has a part, but we're taking out something incredibly important, which is our bodies evolved to survive.
And it doesn't always operate as far as this calculator or this manual says it's supposed to.
And so our bodies can literally hold onto or resist weight loss or resist weight gain when we are in a state of chronic stress, right.
We know that our metabolism literally changes.
And so let's talk about that.
Let's talk about why sending our body safety signals is so important in the context of better health, but in particular, with weight loss.
Yeah, that's the new game, man.
How safe can you feel in your body?
How at home can you feel as you go throughout the day?
So most people wake up, blue light on their phones, TikTok, Instagram, getting the dopamine rush.
But instead, how slow can you move?
The slower you move, the more your nervous system is, I'm okay.
I got this.
I can heal, whatever it is.
How much can I laugh throughout the day?
How present can I really be?
Like, do I need my phone in every conversation because it's a coping mechanism for checking out?
Or do I put my phone away?
I have a rule when I have a man cave that I work in.
And then when I come back in the house, wife and baby, no phone.
Because I know that I'm going to be drawn to that, that electronic tether.
If I can get rid of that, I'm going to automatically be safer in my field, which impacts the coherent field of the entire house.
So that's as men and as leaders as our family, I believe we get to really create that safety.
So when we do that in our body, cortisol levels go down.
We've seen that.
Even just breathing.
Couple times in long breath out.
You do that every hour.
Schedule it in your phone.
Have a reminder.
Pop up 55 minutes in every hour.
Do that breathing exercise for three minutes.
Your life will radically change.
It didn't cost you anything.
You just turned your parasympathetic on more often throughout the day, which creates more coherence, which creates more connection, more presence and ultimately gives you what you want more of, which is more love and more togetherness with the people that you care about in this life.
So when you're sitting in that state, I've seen miracles situations people enter my field versus trying to push.
So, which is why I was gonna play my first song that I ever made for you.
It's called, Let Go and Let God.
Because when we truly let go and we let spirit God, I believe take control of our lives, everything just becomes effortless.
It's no more Drew pushing, which when you met me 15 years ago, there was a lot of pushing.
There was looking at the analytics every day.
What can I do?
How can I be clever to be noticed, to be seen, in a marketplace that was just starting out 15 years ago?
Now it's how can I get so still and just allow whatever is meant to be will unfold.
And I've seen more happen in my life from that standpoint than anything I've ever tried to force.
Being a CEO running multiple companies.
It's just letting go and getting out of the way, and the nervous system loves it.
Sideline benefit.
Weight will fall off, issues, disease in the body will start to fade away.
And you're the science guy, so I don't have to tell you this.
There's science now backing it up, which is so cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know I've got to circle back because one of the greatest takeaways from this episode already is to set a reminder to breathe.
Yeah simple, you know, and would do whatever that looks like for for everybody listening that message, that the timer that can pop up on your phone could be something pleasant like hey beautiful, remember to take a breath.
Or it could be like Hey fool breathe, remember to breathe, fool.
You know whatever that looks like, but it's a great reminder because, especially as we go through the day, we start to just tighten up.
Our breathing gets shorter and shorter and our nervous system.
Like it's so rare that we can be in that parasympathetic during the day for the average person.
And to couple that with something that induces more parasympathetic activity, you put your hand and I'm on video so you guys can see this on your prefrontal cortex of your brain and you put one in the back.
This gets rid of headaches, by the way, too.
But you put it on your occipital or right above your atlas, and you just hold here, and you breathe.
If you've ever done craniosacral with a experienced expert, you'll notice your body just starts to melt.
Do this for yourself.
Take some breaths.
Two in.
Longer breath out.
And you literally feel like you're being held by maybe a parent that you never had.
I didn't really have parents that did that for me.
And I do that now as a man.
I'm holding the little boy inside of me.
It sounds woo, but you'll notice immediately, I need to take a nap.
You know what I'm saying?
Which probably isn't the time to be doing this on the show, because I'm already feeling relaxed.
But there's things we can do that are free, that align the body, align the nervous system and ultimately give you what you want.
Yeah, thank you for sharing that, man.
Thank you.
I want to ask you about, you know, with our just again, we are kind of um saturated in all these newly invented chemicals and complexes and and obviously, stressors and fields.
You know we got 30000 wifi.
You know going all this stuff.
You know like we're, we're existing in very different conditions than even a few generations ago.
And so I wanna ask you about the impact of these stressors on our sexual function.
And because in the context I'm asking specifically in regards to not just sexual health, but even in the context of weight loss and energy, it still has a lot to do with having good sexual health.
And in particular, the role of testosterone, which this is critical for both men and women.
So can chronic stress my bottom line question contribute to dysfunction when it comes to testosterone and sexual function?
Absolutely.
I've I've been saying this for the past decade.
But if you're not horny, you're not healthy.
So waking up with an erection turned on for life like where are you not turned on?
And then analyze that is that you're thinking, start to address those.
So then we go into um, what kind of food am i eating?
What's the etheric energy from the food, more importantly than the biology right?
So where am i getting it?
Do i trust the source?
How is it impacting me?
Am i allergic to something?
Or is it really the frequencies?
Am i in a house with black mold?
Because molds everywhere?
Eighty percent of houses now have some type of mold stocky botrys, different types of mold that are impacting people big time, microplastics.
As we know, sperm counts have gone down one percent every year since what?
1950 or something insane 70.
So testosterone's through the floor, stress levels are higher than they've ever been and it's all fragmented, artificial stress.
It's the flicker, it's the frequencies, it's the having to keep up with the joneses, It's the constant pursuit and chase of never feeling in your body, never feeling home.
And if you don't feel home in your body, then you're gonna develop an autoimmune disease, an issue if you're not speaking your voice out, like the.
I don't know if you saw this study, but it was women that never really owned their voice and then they developed autoimmune issues.
And it was a study.
I was pretty remarkable.
Actually, it was like tracked over the past 30 years, so i forget what it was exactly.
But owning your voice, getting rid of uh, any anything that could be bogging you down relationally spiritually mentally, emotionally all of the the different aspects I think it's super important.
Yeah.
By the way, if people are watching the video, we'll put the study up for everybody to see that you're referring to.
And again, these are things that we don't think about because we're so busy with the tactical things, right?
And we're not thinking about our thinking, right?
And how we're relating to ourselves and how important that is.
And I wanna ask you about this because I've I first saw the guys, our brothers, at Mind Pump talking about the Shilajit.
And this was something, again, I've been in this field, it's getting close to 25 years for me, man.
It was crazy.
My wife pointed it out.
And you know, Sheila G was one of those things, probably about 20 years ago, that I didn't discover.
Obviously it's been around for thousands of years, but it was presented to me and I started to research it and there wasn't a lot of data right as far as like, peer review, published data on it.
But there is this like treasure trove of anecdotal information and then just the historical use in the ayurvedic system in particular.
But now let me tell you this man
So this particular study was published 10 years ago.
This was 2015.
Again, this one that published data on Shilajit was just starting to come out.
And the title of the study is Clinical Evaluation of Purified Shilajit on Testosterone Levels in Healthy Volunteers.
And the test subjects were between 45 and 55, which this is one of those well-established age 40 of 40-year-olds have erectile dysfunction.
50 of 50-year-olds.
40%.
Yes, yeah, and it just keeps on elevating from there, but this is just what's normalized.
It doesn't mean necessarily that it's normal.
And so, looking at this particular age group, this is a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study, And treatment with Shilajit was for 90 days consecutively.
And what they found was that test subjects had a significant increase in total testosterone and in free testosterone compared to a placebo.
All right, there's something remarkable about Shilajit.
And so my question for you is, What the hell is Shilajit?
Yeah, Shilajit is a microbial community developed thousands of years, normally found in the Himalayas.
So you gotta think about everything it's gone through to create itself.
It's minerals, it's decayed rock, it's light that's been mineralized, turned into this goo.
It's 84 minerals, humic and fulvic acid, which actually is what really allows it to do the work.
Because you could take salt, Celtic sea salt, pink salt, throw it in water.
I do that first thing in the morning to get some electrolytes and some other minerals from the salt.
You could also take trace minerals from the ocean.
But when you have sea legit in its raw form or put into a gummy, like we did at Organifi, You're getting all the minerals, 84 of them, the humic and the fulvic acid actually shuttle it into your body.
So that's the magic.
Most minerals, you're just peeing out.
But when you take the Shilajit you're actually getting it full force in the body and it makes all the other supplements you're taking more effective.
Yeah.
So we are voltage beings, right?
We are energy beings.
Most people are so mineral deficient.
There's not as many minerals in our soil anymore.
In the 1950s you could have an organic piece of lettuce that was worth 40 heads of lettuce today, right.
So adding minerals back into your life, people feel it, man.
I've seen adrenal burnout, like all these other things people are dealing with.
They get on the Shilajit gummies and it's like, they're a different person.
I have so much energy.
Like.
I've talked to clients on the phone that have been taking it for months on end and I'm blown away at the life difference that they have now just by adding something like Shilajit in.
It is wild.
Before you guys put together the Shilajit gummies, I would add it to like my coffee, things like that.
I've get it from, you know, different sources.
And it was like, sometimes it'd be like a resin, right?
And I put it in my coffee.
Hard to stick with.
For me.
I found a way to dial the flavor into where it was enjoyable, but you put it into a package of what so many people are leaning towards today, which is utilizing different supplements and things like that in the form of these gummies.
And so can you tell people about the Organifi Shilajit gummies?
For sure.
And by the way, you can get them for 20% off when you go to Organifi.com forward slash model.
That's O-R-G-A-N-I-F-I.com forward slash model to see it right here.
20% off and tell them about the gummies.
Yeah, so two gummies a day, you're getting 500 milligrams of SheLegit.
By the way, in this study, it was 250 milligrams twice a day.
So that's exactly right on the money.
It's either 250 or 500, two gummies.
I take four a day.
So I'll take some at night before my workout in the afternoon.
What I've noticed is my sleep's improved.
I've noticed more mental clarity, more energy.
I've even noticed I don't need that second cup of coffee because I feel like the stimulant.
Or even I wake up three o'clock in the morning sometimes and I write, I make music, I write, I create video scripts.
So by 12 to one o'clock being a lion chronotype, I start to fade.
But taking the Shilajit gummies gives literally like another two or three hours of boost that I didn't have before.
So take it.
It's good for your ATP, good for your mitochondria, your energy.
I notice it in mental clarity, my sleep, like I said.
What I've really seen is moms new moms taking this stuff too that feel a little burnout with a kid being in hypervigilance, constantly watching the little one.
They take the gummies and it helps their nervous system too.
So feeling safer, feeling more grounded, which is what some of these minerals can do.
Yeah.
So what makes it different is if you can form a habit around it, a ritual you're going to stick with it which, if you stick with this for six to eight weeks, that's really the magic sauce.
I'm a big placebo guy, but also I feel things I'm sensitive.
So I felt it right away when I started taking these gummies, um, But you'll notice it.
You'll notice the mental clarity with the 250 milligrams just too.
If you're a guy with low testosterone before even entertaining TRT or something like that, I would literally commit to eight weeks.
Do this for eight weeks straight.
Clean up your diet.
Do some strength and conditioning.
Lift some weights.
See what happens.
Because naturally, we are supposed to have 700, 800 to 1,000 testosterone levels well into our 40s.
And the fact that most guys are probably flatlining around 400 or 500, it's just unacceptable.
Yeah, that part well into your 50s.
Yeah, well into your 50s.
You know, and and this is still seen in cultures that are still, you know, living more traditional um lifestyle, and you know, this is the cool thing is that we have access to things like this, and one of the things that has kept us connected for so long is your dedication to quality as well and sourcing, because this isn't any Shilajit off the streets.
Yeah.
Made in a bathroom somewhere in China.
Yeah.
And who knows, maybe it's a clean bathroom, but I'm not, nothing against where it's from.
But when you do the triple test, you look at the COAs, which we do three different times.
We source Prima V Shilajit, which is the best um, it's clean.
We use all organic ingredients.
Even setting up the gelatin molds like there's a process around making sure that there's no pufas or anything like that.
We do it and then we also test afterwards to see the validity of how much is actually in it, because you want the active uh levels, which even for creatine is a big problem, because we create creatine gummies 1500 milligrams of creatine per gummy, three grams per two gummies and they taste delicious.
But most creatine that's put into these is absolute crap, not to mention it's they cook it in the creatine that they're using.
It loses its efficacy after it's heated up to form the gelatin anyway.
So there's just a lot of things you have to look at when making physical products, like Organifi does, for you to make sure it's the highest quality and the best.
I'm glad you brought that up.
Yeah.
And it's a great segue mentioning the creatine because-
When you shot me a text this morning, you actually just you had quite a trip to get up to LA today, but you were in the gym.
Yeah.
So tell me about your fitness regimen.
Like obviously.
I mean if people see, obviously you're about that life when it comes to strength training.
So why is that something for you that you've consistently had as a part of your life?
Um, it is a non-negotiable working out six days a week, lifting weights uh cardio, inclined cardio.
I'm a big proponent of biggest bang for your buck.
First thing in the morning, 30 to 45 minutes, you know, the deal that sweet zone too.
I'm trying to get three, three and a half hours a week, and then strength and conditioning on top of it, because that's what gives me energy.
We are human voltage beings.
And like I said earlier, if you're not turned on, if you're not horny, you're not healthy.
Working out turns on your mitochondria.
Planting your feet in the ground turns on your electric body.
There's things that we can do throughout the day to have more energy.
For me, working out first thing in the morning and fueling my body with protein, you do the same thing, but a gram per pound of clean, organic grass-fed whatever I'm eating.
And I feel literally like I'm getting stronger, More tapped in, better mental function as I'm aging now I'm 44 than I ever have in my whole life.
But it's just about clearing out the noise, the things that didn't work and focusing on the things that do.
So working out, creatine works.
We know it.
I mean, look at the efficacious studies around creatine now.
Especially over the past year, it's just blown up.
You and I were probably taking creatine 15 years ago, right?
Yeah, for me, I was like 20.
It was like 25 years ago.
I remember it vividly.
My mom, Mama Cannoli, I was in the kitchen.
I was 16.
I started training with a Navy SEAL in the gym.
I was lifting weights and this guy, his name's Kelvin.
He was just jacked, bro.
Like he looked like Arnold's apprentice, you know, as a 16 year old.
I'm training with this 22 year old guy.
Loved hitting the weights.
And he had me on creatine at 16.
You would have laughed so hard.
My mom thought I was like taking cocaine or something.
She ran in the bedroom, took this big tub of creatine monohydrate.
I remember it like it was yesterday.
Dumped it down the drain.
She's like, you're not taking this.
This is not good for you.
Only if I could fast forward to today and say, mom, look at the news, like creatine.
I know about this El Chapo.
I know about this.
Not my dream.
It's crazy, man.
What are the odds?
Because for me, the person who had me take the creatine was this guy who was like a bodybuilding champion, natural bodybuilding champion.
He's a Nigerian guy. named Atta Ekong.
He worked with me at the casino and he could see that I was fit.
But he's like Sean, you should come work out with me.
Take it to the next level.
So he introduced me to drop sets.
All right, so we were doing drop sets.
Yeah, oh man.
You were way ahead.
It was like, yeah, it was incredible.
But just to see, and my wife would tell you too, like when she saw me on campus, I was walking around because this was the big t-shirt dance, by the way.
We had St.
Louis too.
They're coming back.
Nelly and, right, of course.
Yeah, that's all things do.
Everything circles back.
But I was just walking around. cock-dieseled, all right?
And it happened, I mean pretty quickly, by changing the way that I was training and also, of course, utilizing the creatine, thanks to the advice of, and shout out to Atah, wherever you are.
I know he's gonna live to be 200.
If he hears this, let's send him whatever Organifi he wants.
Come on.
If he's listening to this right now, we got him.
But you had the Navy seal.
I had the natural.
We were trained.
I think it was like Mr. Caveman Missouri.
He had won or something like that.
Oh, I'm so impressed.
That's hilarious.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's incredible.
Like it's so good.
This is a great segue as well, because something I wanted to ask you about and I've been thinking a lot about, and there's emerging data on this
I'm going to do more work around.
This is the importance of of having mentors, is the importance of having people in your life who provide, who don't want something from you, but just want to support you and to provide guidance and insight and to be able to answer questions.
The value of having a mentor is so important.
And this was something we just naturally had as a society.
As we evolve, you know again centuries ago, whether it's like literally you are an apprentice in something or you're getting into the family business.
But you know, you're just kind of learning the steps that are gonna be coming down the way.
But today there's so much.
There's infinite number of things that we can do, ways that we can think.
And it can be.
It can manifest in what we're seeing today more and more paradox of choice and paralysis, basically not knowing what to do because there's so much to do.
And I think that's another spot for having a mentor.
And so can you speak to, because this ties back to our earlier point about helping to support that feeling of safety right.
What about the feeling of lack of safety when you don't know what you're gonna do in your life or how you're going to make a living, or your purpose?
And this is where mentorship can be valuable.
100%.
I've had mentors my whole life.
I've been blessed to meet people that are of the frequency that I need at the time that I need it.
You probably have too.
I like to call people like us the shiny ones.
So when we're lit up, when we're enthusiastic even when I first met you when you were on Be Well Buzz, like doing that I'm like this guy's going places
I knew you were going to be massively successful and you're like just touching it right now.
Like there's so much more room that you're going, man.
You're like a rocket.
So I talk to people, I ask them questions, I meet people, and I'm interested.
So one of my mentors that I've been meeting with every two weeks for the past 12 years.
He's a Christian scientist, but he's 93.
He's got a beautiful mind.
And he looks at the Bible, and he looks at life and he looks at reality through the lens of scientist.
He's literally a scientist.
So it's the deeper meaning of absolutely everything.
And I get on the phone with this 93 year old guy.
You'd never know it.
Sounds like he's probably in his forties.
He's so enthusiastic about life.
He's got so much love.
I've seen it and I've witnessed it.
He'll walk into a room and the whole field shifts.
It's like he creates safety in every single person that's in there just by being there.
He doesn't even have to say anything.
So having people like Frank, like I have my 93-year-old Sage, other mentors that I've had in business that have just come along and said hey, you're doing great, but there's a lot of untapped potential here.
And I started this company XYZ, whatever it is, and I just wanna help you for free, right?
Sometimes the best people in your life.
Like you said, they don't need anything.
They don't want anything, they've already arrived.
And just being in the field of somebody that's already arrived is completely different than somebody that's trying to go, trying to do, trying to get to that next thing, because they're really gonna give you what you need in that moment.
And it's beyond words.
It's just an energy.
Your nervous system feels it before you do.
Can you provide maybe some insight on if somebody's like, well, I would love to have a mentor.
So can you provide any insight?
Like, how did you get connected to Frank?
Um, I followed the golden thread.
Like we all have this golden thread going throughout our life and it's leading us and guiding us.
And if we just get still enough, we can start to see the, where it's headed next.
So for me, at the time I was working with a mentor who had he started dollar rent a car back in the day.
Brilliant guy, like super spoke five languages, classy.
Um, and I just wanted, I helped him.
I'm like, Hey, I'm gonna help you for free.
I don't need you to pay me.
And at the time I was probably broke, you know, or not where I am today, but let me help you.
And I just volunteered my time and he poured into me and he was like I actually want to introduce you to Frank.
He's my mentor.
So there's, you'll always meet somebody.
If you come with, what can I give?
Not what can I get?
I think that's the big thing.
And also find the energy that you're aligned with, right?
So if you're listening to Sean's podcast and you're like I need more people like this in my life, the more you listen to this podcast, the more your frequency is going to shift and the more opportunities you're going to have in your awakened reality to actually meet those people.
It's like waking.
I've been a lucid dreamer since I was five, waking up in dreams.
And I learned at five to start to wake up in reality, lucid living.
So the more you wake up in this reality, the more you start to see people experiences.
Situations that maybe you weren't open to before will just show up naturally.
And I think that's powerful.
I'd be nowhere without the mentors and Frank and the people that have helped me.
Because I didn't have it.
My dad was a truck driver, like I told you.
I didn't know anything about business.
Frank started JCPenney in Italy, like in the 70s.
So to get that perspective through another human being is super valuable.
So being open, tuning your field, working out, because I believe even the non-physical benefits of lifting weights and pushing your body and demonstrating, like what are the characteristics and qualities of pushing yourself beyond limits that you thought you could do before? know absolutely and and being in these environments that you're mentioning it's so amazing how these good things these seemingly synchronistic things happen right being at a gym that's where i met one of my like all-time heroes like when i was a kid yeah in st louis growing up in st louis two heroes wild michael jackson he's everybody's hero my hero too right i wore the thriller jacket to school not a good decision And Ozzie Smith, all right, the Wizard of Oz, shortstop for the St.
Louis Cardinals, multi, multi, multi-time gold glove winner, all the things.
I met him at the gym.
Of course.
You know, and he was one of my guests back in St.
Louis, you know, like to be able to speak to my heroes because I was in the environment.
Yeah, the environment.
But also, as you mentioned, is the focus, right?
These top of mind for me, you know, still aspirational in thinking about Ozzie Smith.
It was like one of those like, Like.
He was like a point of reference in my life for excellence, because of not just what he was doing on the baseball field but the way he went about it, his energy and just doing something unique right.
And so all these little things really kind of, you know, just stay with me.
And the same thing holds true.
You just mentioned a great opportunity as well, listening.
Truly, what are you immersing yourself in?
Because those, that energy, And it's gonna tend to show up in your life in some form or fashion.
And so, today more than ever, we have the opportunity to have virtual mentors, like access to the greatest minds in whatever respective field you know.
And oftentimes they have, you know, a podcast, or they're doing interviews or whatever the case might be, and you can immerse yourself in their world.
I'm a big fan of like picking one, maybe two people to really kind of focus on as your teachers for a certain amount of time.
I'm a big fan of that.
And I'm saying that from experience as well, because there's so many amazing people.
But for me, it was Michael Beckwith.
I just spent so much time with him virtually.
Bro, like- He's in your field for sure.
When I first, I saw the DVD, you know, I saw The Secret.
I was in Ferguson, Missouri.
Like my mattress was on the floor in the other room.
The couch I was sitting on was like- No way, during The Secret?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then when I ultimately met him, it was in Portugal and we're both speaking at the same event.
That's impossible odds that something like that can happen.
But I was there, I was like, this was the days.
But also undeniable.
Because of who you were.
That part.
Because you don't, he shared with me, you don't attract what you want.
You attract what you are.
Yeah.
Where you're vibrating.
Right.
And so I was listening during the days of conference calls, right?
You call into the line and you listen on the auditory, right?
And maybe you could push a button and then get on live and ask a question, right?
And so just following along in my journey and along with him and to have him to be one of my greatest friends and mentors and somebody who's really helped to affirm what I'm doing,
And even that sense of worthiness that you and I just talked about.
He's that person that just really helped me to reframe and to accept that I'm worthy of the blessings that show up in my life.
I don't have to have everything be so difficult because I come from difficulty.
And so I always would find a way to have another challenge so that I can rise to the occasion.
You know, instead of having more ease and grace and acceptance of the blessings,
And so that mentorship was again.
I spent a significant.
It was like my biggest focus as far as my education.
Not to say that I wasn't learning from other people.
So, If I can make a recommendation, choose somebody to really follow their guidance and their work and just whatever access that you can get.
But as you mentioned as well, if you do ever have that in-person connection, how can you add value?
Not how can I take? hey, can you fix me, fix my life?
What can you do for me?
But it's just, how can I add value?
And oftentimes even better than that with people who have a lot of stuff going on.
Save the value that you can add right.
Here's what I can do.
Yeah, there you go.
So back with Secret Days, you were sleeping on a mattress.
Yeah, on the floor.
My kids slept on an air mattress.
How many times did you watch The Secret?
I'd say probably three times.
Three times?
In those early days.
Wow.
Yeah, I watched The Secret.
I feel like I watched it every day for a year, dude.
I had every word memorized in this thing.
And the more I practiced it, how my thoughts create my reality, the more my life started to shift.
Even before I ordered the DVDs, because this was not streaming.
This is what you know.
It was way back in the day.
Pass around on the streets, man.
I was like I wish I ordered two DVDs.
Then two showed up because i wanted to give one away to a friend that was on the same thinking pattern.
So i sent it to my friend, julie at the time, and i that was revolutionary for me.
And uh, the fact that you had beckwith like that as a mentor, that golden thread man, that's amazing.
Yeah, so one of the things that i did as well, like from that, i read the books of the, the experts who were on there, whether it's michael beckwith and his life visioning process uh, it was joe vitale as well.
So i picked up, you know, a couple of his books bob proctor, who had the great blessing of having on the show a couple of times.
You know just people who figure some things out and they are willing to share, because it's not just about this kind of micro mission that we feel we might have.
It's about living a good life and also finding a way to be of service.
And the people that I've really resonated with, including you, are the people who are always giving and finding a way to go above and beyond.
They also have, because you tend to be very selfless, but you have your self-care practices where you're filling your own cup.
It's like this unique formula that I saw pretty consistently.
Yeah, you need them, man.
Like filling your own cup up first.
Do you know what your human design is?
Have you ever taken a human design test?
So it's important, especially I'm a projector.
So if I don't fill my own cup up, that's my nervous system will just tank out.
And then I'll end up, not feeling well for days on end or whatever else.
Not feeding the chickens.
Not feeding the chickens, not present with my wife and my baby girl.
So the more I fill my cup up, the more presence I actually have.
Super important to have self-care rituals and practices.
Taking a bath every day is one of mine.
So Epsom salt, baking soda, borax a little bit too.
You sit in there 25 minutes.
I swear it's even better than a sauna.
So you don't need to buy an expensive sauna even though you and i both have saunas probably cold plunges, all the things but just a bath man, just sweat it out.
It creates the electro current on your skin.
Your liver starts priming the pump and flushing out toxins.
Yeah, i think that's a radical act of self-love.
More people need to do it.
Bubble baths oh you, This is revolutionary stuff being said here.
It's easy.
It's easy.
Tough guys take baths too.
I love it.
You know Ice Cube is taking a bath.
Oh, for sure.
He's the biggest proponent of bubble bath time.
I had a rubber duck too.
Amazing, man.
You know, I could talk to you forever, man.
Likewise.
I appreciate you so much.
Again, can you let everybody know where they can get more information, where they can follow you?
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah.
Drew Canole on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, all over the place.
We'll drop that.
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My guy, I appreciate you so much.
Thank you for leading by example.
And yeah, can't wait to do this again.
I could literally talk all day with you.
It's easy.
Let's go.
As it should be.
We're in this together.
The one and only Drew Canole, everybody.
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Qualify yourself.
It's not about jumping onto any of these supplements.
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And so hopefully you've got some great insights and some inspiration from this episode.
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