TOUGH TALKS: Conversations on Mental Toughness

They say that The Green Berets are the smartest and most lethal fighters in the world. Our guest today is one of them and he’s here to tell us why connectedness, of all things, is critical to success in Guerrilla Warfare and in Executive Leadership (he has a Ph.D. in that, by the way). --- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-joseph-e-long-9021821a/ Cool Article on Green Berets: https://www.businessinsider.com/green-berets-army-special-forces-intelligent-well-trained-deadly-2013-3 --- https://christopherdorris.com/tough-talks-connectedness-guerrilla-warfare-and-eating-live-locusts-with-ret-green-beret-dr-joseph-e-long/ --- If you enjoyed this content and you are not getting notifications of new posts, then I invite you to signup to my list. Please also share this with the people in your world that would also dig this post and benefit from it. --- https://christopherdorris.com/lists

Today we get to hear what Mental Toughness means from Deb Lewis, a retired Army Colonel who was in the first class at West Point that ever accepted women, survived the 9/11 attack on The Pentagon, and teaches people (predominantly, but not exclusively women) how to leverage stress. --- Website: www.mentallytoughwomen.com LinkedIn: mentallytoughwomen --- https://christopherdorris.com/chainsaws-tragedy-magnets-and-mental-toughness-with-col-ret-deb-lewis/ --- If you enjoyed this content and you are not getting notifications of new posts, then I invite you to signup to my list. Please also share this with the people in your world that would also dig this post and benefit from it. --- https://christopherdorris.com/lists

This week we have put together another highlight reel from 9 more of our amazing guests who blessed us with their presence and amazingness on the show. --- Have a look/listen, and take some tools or tips or reminders away from it that can help you continue to strengthen your mind and build more Mental Toughness. --- Links to Full Episodes in Order Kelly Noonan Gores John Toomey Gary Mahler Chuck Bushbeck Devon Bandison Alison Arnold Ashok Thakur Garrett Richards Carolyn Freyer-Jones --- https://christopherdorris.com/best-of-tough-talks-4/ --- If you enjoyed this content and you are not getting notifications of new posts, then I invite you to signup to my list. Please also share this with the people in your world that would also dig this post and benefit from it. --- https://christopherdorris.com/lists

What if you didn’t need anything to be different in order to be a Micahel Jordan or a Richard Branson? What if you could simply CHOOSE to be that personality and act the way these winners act and create excellence for yourself from that way of being?! Dre is here to inform you that you can. --- Website: http://www.mirrorofmotivation.com Facebook: WorkOnYourGame IG: @drebaldwin YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/dreupt --- https://christopherdorris.com/tough-talks-borrowing-the-mentality-of-winners-with-dre-all-day-baldwin/ --- If you enjoyed this content and you are not getting notifications of new posts, then I invite you to signup to my list. Please also share this with the people in your world that would also dig this post and benefit from it. --- https://christopherdorris.com/lists

Some people use the term “soft skills” in reference to certain leadership competencies. Meredith Bell makes fun of that term. “There’s nothing “soft” about having the courage to have challenging conversations and proactively asking your people for their input on how you can more effectively lead them! --- If you’re a leader, this one’s for you! --- Website: https://growstrongleaders.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MeredithMBell LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithmbell Twitter: https://twitter.com/meredithmbell Our new book: https://amzn.to/3jL0pEI My Strong for Performance book: https://amzn.to/2YZze0G --- https://christopherdorris.com/tough-talks-the-loving-service-side-of-mental-toughness-with-meredith-bell/   --- If you enjoyed this content and you are not getting notifications of new posts, then I invite you to signup to my list. Please also share this with the people in your world that would also dig this post and benefit from it. --- https://christopherdorris.com/lists

I don’t always make fun of traditional psychotherapy, but when I do, it’s usually because it takes too long. --- Now I don’t know if she’s “traditional” or not, but our guest today is definitely a psychotherapist. And she gets results FAST. Which is what really caught my attention. --- We also have a special co-host for this interview, a former patient of hers who is now her current life coach! How wild is that? And he is also a former Tough Talks guest, Gary Mahler, who is going to talk story with her to get us started. --- Website: https://beainbalance.com/ Email: waitingforsushi@gmail.com Link to book: https://www.amazon.ca/Two-You-Work-Self-Conflict-ebook/dp/B008A0OX32/ --- https://christopherdorris.com/tough-talks-im-actually-interviewing-a-psychotherapist-with-bea-mckay/   --- If you enjoyed this content and you are not getting notifications of new posts, then I invite you to signup to my list. Please also share this with the people in your world that would also dig this post and benefit from it. --- https://christopherdorris.com/lists

Ankush is wizardly smart. And funny. He reminds us that stress is NOT our default state – that we must learn to stress ourselves out, in fact. And he teaches us how to begin the process of “cracking the coconut” or breaking open our faulty beliefs that would have us feel stress in the first place. --- Website: https://ankushjain.co.uk/ Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ankushkjain Biz Page Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ankushjainltd/ Instagram: @ankushjain LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankushkjain/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AnkushJainLimited/feed Link to book: Sweet Sharing  --- https://christopherdorris.com/cracking-the-coconut-with-ankush-jain/ --- If you enjoyed this content and you are not getting notifications of new posts, then I invite you to signup to my list. Please also share this with the people in your world that would also dig this post and benefit from it. --- https://christopherdorris.com/lists

You heard it. He said it. “Busy is Lazy!” --- Craig is a recovered workaholic turned Freedom Coach. He’ll explain what he means by all of that. --- In the meantime, suffice it to say, if you feel like your life is too “busy” (who does that apply to?!) have a listen to this cat. --- Website: www.johncraiggore.com Facebook: Craig Gore Instagram: @johncraiggore --- https://christopherdorris.com/tough-talks-busy-is-lazy-with-craig-gore/ --- If you enjoyed this content and you are not getting notifications of new posts, then I invite you to signup to my list. Please also share this with the people in your world that would also dig this post and benefit from it. --- https://christopherdorris.com/lists

This week we have put together another highlight reel from 9 more of our amazing guests who blessed us with their presence and amazingness on the show. --- Have a look/listen, and take some tools or tips or reminders away from it that can help you continue to strengthen your mind and build more Mental Toughness. --- Links to Full Episodes in Order Billy Woodmansee J’Lein Liese, Ph.D. Amy Slater Jon Hunter Jeff Ritter  David Earhart  David Jack  Taylor Stone Mike Garrick --- https://christopherdorris.com/best-of-tough-talks-3/ --- If you enjoyed this content and you are not getting notifications of new posts, then I invite you to signup to my list. Please also share this with the people in your world that would also dig this post and benefit from it. --- https://christopherdorris.com/lists

This week I have decided to switch it up a bit by flying solo. In other words, our Tough Talks guest today is me. I felt particularly compelled to share with my Tough Talks Tribe some thoughts I've been having recently on the relationship between Mental Toughness Training (aka, Emotional Mastery Training) and racism.   --- My content is my legacy in this life. It will live on long after I have returned to the non-local realm. And it is my sincere wish that this particular episode of Tough Talks becomes obsolete (at least the parts of it that are specific to learned racism) because racism has been completely eradicated from the planet.    --- I hope you find value in these thoughts and I would love to hear from you if you have any contribution, reaction, ideas, insights, opinions, rebuttals, questions, or thoughts of any nature on this.   --- https://christopherdorris.com/tough-talks-mental-toughness-and-racism-starting-with-same/ --- If you enjoyed this content and you are not getting notifications of new posts, then I invite you to signup to my list. Please also share this with the people in your world that would also dig this post and benefit from it. --- https://christopherdorris.com/lists