Show Notes
Mo Brossette is an extreme athlete and a mindset and human performance coach. In today's episode, we sit down with Mo Brossette in Billings, Montana. Mo spent nearly a decade as Director of Mindset at Dallas's Adaptive Training Foundation, helping veterans and adaptive athletes walk again through breath, language, and belief, and now coaches men through WATT's two-year leadership program. It's a wide-ranging conversation about why men are conditioned to bury their emotions, why someone always has to go first, and how the worst moments of your life can quietly become the foundation for everything that comes after. Along the way, Mo opens up about the night he got jumped outside a bar that changed the entire course of his life, losing a friend to suicide and the phone call that pushed him into breathwork, the father he never met (a police officer who died three days after Mo was conceived), and the ayahuasca ceremony that finally brought him peace.
Key Moments and Highlights: Why someone always has to go first when it comes to men opening up Losing a friend to suicide, and the call that pushed him into breathwork Teaching people told they'd never walk again how to stand back up Getting jumped outside a bar, and why he's grateful for it now The father he never met, and the ceremony that brought him peace Turning down bigger paychecks to keep doing work that mattered "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional" The manila folder: figuring out what actually matters Redefining success as service, not commas in a bank account
This conversation happened during one of the best weeks of my life, surrounded by guys I'm genuinely grateful to call brothers, and this episode was the perfect way to close out the week. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Thanks for listening. Be Where Your Feet Are.
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From the Episode:Adaptive Training Foundation: https://www.adaptivetrainingfoundation.org One Tribe Foundation (formerly 22Kill) the veteran and first responder suicide prevention nonprofit founded by Jacob Schick: https://1tribefoundation.org
Episode Chapters: 00:00 – Intro: What men get wrong about their mental health 02:48 – Giving a room of 32 men permission to open up 04:24 – The power of WATT's mini-mastermind format 06:34 – Why somebody has to go first 08:12 – Taking the "perfect" pedestal away 09:20 – Perfection is an illusion 11:21 – Reframing failure and quitting as growth 12:32 – Mo's path from exercise science into holistic health 16:30 – From building good athletes to building good humans 17:17 – Losing a friend to suicide, and the call that changed everything 20:29 – Teaching paralyzed and amputee athletes to walk again 22:31 – Suffering is optional 23:39 – The night he got jumped, and why he's grateful for it 26:41 – His father, a police officer who died before he was born 30:41 – A ceremony and "he's been here the whole time" 35:46 – Defining success as doing what you're called to do 41:24 – The bigger paycheck he turned down to keep building his own thing 47:12 – Choosing a $30K salary at the foundation over a bigger opportunity 55:51 – "Exactly where you're supposed to be": a mushroom journey and 51 years of timing 57:19 – The manila folder: figuring out what actually matters 1:07:18 – "I am, I can": the power of your words 1:13:30 – The fall risk bracelet, and the stories we let define us 1:20:31 – Refilling your bucket before the world fills it for you 1:30:28 – What does success mean to you 1:33:52 – Where to find Mo and get involved with WATT
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