In this episode of #TBNE Rob chats with Integrative Health Optimization Coach Mitch Webb, Founder of Primal Lift Health Coaching as he shares his story of overcoming setbacks, health issues, and trauma to find his passion and purpose as a Health Coach. This is a great episode where we talk about the power of purpose and setting intentions. Don't forget to subscribe and leave a review.
In this episode of #TBNE Rob chats with Integrative Health Optimization Coach Mitch Webb, Founder of Primal Lift Health Coaching as he shares his story of overcoming setbacks, health issues, and trauma to find his passion and purpose as a Health Coach.
This is a great episode where we talk about the power of purpose and setting intentions.
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EPISODE 86_MITCH WEBB
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Rob Napoli
How we doing, Bear Nation? We are back again for another episode, The Bare Necessities podcast. I Am Your host, Rob Napoli. And today should be a fun one. We're going to be talking with a fellow coach, friend of mine, Mitch Webb, who empowers others with the belief and skills necessary to look, feel and perform the best they can to live the life they deserve is the owner of Primal Lives Health Coaching, and we'll get into his journey here in a second.
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Rob Napoli
But he's had an amazing, transformative journey in his own life that led him into wanting to be a coach for others. Mitch, welcome to the show. I appreciate having you here.
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Mitch Webb
Rob. Appreciate you, man. Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor to be hanging with you.
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Rob Napoli
I know. I love every time I get on a call like for our listeners at home, every time Mitch and I get in the call, we realize that about an hour and we have to talk some business and it's like we push it for an hour. It's like, wait a second, what just happened? Where at the time, you know, we should probably talk a little business.
00:01:02:24 - 00:01:26:19
Rob Napoli
Yeah, I know you're here first, so hopefully that's not a foreshadowing to come on this episode. But, you know, Mitch, you know, you're down there in the Raleigh-Durham area and you know, and I know you like to cook up a little barbecue, which I have a soft spot for, is being a missouri boy myself from Kansas City. And, you know, I love that barbecue.
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Rob Napoli
Why don't you tell us a little bit about your journey? I know it's a bit long, but hitting the high points of of your health journey, what you kind of overcame, I think that's a good place for us to start.
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Mitch Webb
Yeah, man, it is. It is quite the journey. And thank you for giving me an opportunity to share. I'm just going to give you the high level points and then we can get to the two providing value for your for your audience here. So my journey started, I was normal guy college. I was partying in Europe. I fell out of a second story window.
00:01:56:04 - 00:02:25:11
Mitch Webb
I had a TBI that resulted in panic attacks, insomnia started having autoimmune symptoms. I had psoriasis like dry skin all over my body at one time. And then I moved into a house that had black mold, developed Lyme disease. I found out that I had heavy metal toxicity, I had diabetes. I was about 50, £75 overweight. I had another TBI, all kinds of gut issues, this hormone disruption.
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Mitch Webb
And I had three covers. Two of those were long haul, so I had symptoms for about two years, and now I'm at the best shape I've been in in over a decade. So I'm super thankful for that. And that's because of the team, the people that I surround myself and the work that I'm constantly doing and now sharing with others.
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Mitch Webb
Wow.
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Rob Napoli
I mean, I'm following out of a second floor window and your up has to be scary. Crazy and and a wild thing all in itself.
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Mitch Webb
Yeah. Especially in your 20 years old. I was.
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Rob Napoli
Saying. Was that a college story?
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Mitch Webb
Oh, yeah, it was the World Cup. It was World Cup. And we were there. I was there for, say, six or eight weeks for a study abroad. And I was in Germany. Germany was, I think they guess, third that year. And we were partying. I was drinking. I fell literally was torqued, pulling a bottle back and fell two stories and hit my head.
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Mitch Webb
I woke up in the everybody is kind of asking me what was going on and yeah, it was it was scary. I didn't tell anybody. I didn't know what to do. I was afraid. I thought that I was going to get in trouble. Yeah. And so you get off walking.
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Rob Napoli
To the hospital. Get that freak out. Get out!
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Mitch Webb
I stumbled around the city drinking Coca Cola and and eating like Big Macs the next day and was just puking. I couldn't eat for like two or three. That didn't go well. So puking, not eating for two or three days. But the doctors told me that I was able to avoid a stroke, likely because the amount of alcohol that was in my body at the time.
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Mitch Webb
So, hey, there is there's some silver linings in that.
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Rob Napoli
So, you know, you've had all these kind of health issues and you surround yourself with the right team and you went on kind of your your your journey, right, to get healthy. What was what was the moment when you said to yourself, I need help?
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Mitch Webb
Well, when things weren't right, right. Like I would I remember I guess the first time I reached out for help, it was because I knew something was wrong, because I stayed there for an additional 6 to 8 weeks. You know, that was like night two or three, continue to drink and have a good time and just thought that I can cope.
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Mitch Webb
I thought it was a bad hangover. Right? Well, I got home and I wasn't sleeping and I was using alcohol or cannabis to to kind of put me to sleep. And I was like learning to, you know, very alcoholic tendencies. I didn't know. I mean, everybody's drinking in college. I thought it was kind of normal, but I was using booze to go to sleep and not not too much so that I wouldn't have a hangover, but enough to get me to sleep.
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Mitch Webb
So I wouldn't feel bad the next day. And, you know, if I didn't do that, I was just laying awake, staying silent all night and lights were flashing. I felt very uncomfortable in public. I'm usually, you know, like for the party loving to share. And I went to the on campus doctor and I said in there and I kind of told my, hey, this is that I have tightness in my chest.
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Mitch Webb
I don't feel comfortable and in public situations I'm not sleeping. And he wrote down, You know what you have? So I got my first label, which I'm a big not a big fan of this. And he wrote down the word anxiety and me. I had no idea what that word was. I've never heard of it before. I was very ignorant to that and I took that on as a label and use that for years to, you know, to describe what was going on to doctors when really there was there was head trauma that needed to be addressed.
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Mitch Webb
So that was my first time reaching out.
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Rob Napoli
And so when did you you know, when did you find out you had the TBI and when did when did that kind of come to light? What happened? Well.
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Mitch Webb
You know, back then, TBI, it wasn't TBI. It was like you got your bell rung, you know what I mean? Like it just like, oh, if you play I think he's played sports, right?
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Rob Napoli
So yeah, I played football. I played college football.
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Mitch Webb
Yeah. Like what you got? You got your bell rung, and that was like a rite of passage, you know what I mean? Like, I went to a thing. I went got like a CT or an MRI, like, right when I got back and they were like, Hey, you got you got no down breath, man. Like, you're good to go get back in the game.
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Mitch Webb
And that same thing happened my second head injury where I was hit by a dump truck about three years ago. And if I mention that but same thing here. I got a brain scan. I came out and they were like, Hey, everything's good. Like you. You have no permanent brain damage. But I guess I had a post-concussion syndrome for about a year and it was a lot more normal at that time.
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Mitch Webb
Movies like Will Smith, the the TBI movie, I can't remember what that was. And your CTE and those things have been popular. So there's the book. If anybody does have a TBI, I would highly recommend the book. The Concussion Was it the concussion protocol or something like that? I can remember the guy's name, but it's like the. Anyway, I'm butchering that, but it's something like the pickup, the.
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Rob Napoli
There's a concussion right there.
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Mitch Webb
Yeah. The concussion repair manual. That's what it is.
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Rob Napoli
Yeah.
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Rob Napoli
Yeah. So when you're going through this, right, and you're finding all the stuff out, there's also the part that you are overweight and you lost this way. What made you when you went through all this journey? Right. You come out the other side. What made you decide, like, I want to leave my, you know, strong, solid corporate account, executive job and help others overcome things like I did.
00:07:39:06 - 00:07:52:17
Rob Napoli
And like, what made you make that switch to wanting to become a coach and a health coach at that? What was there? Was there a moment? Was there it was it just like a thing that kind of happened over time? What was that calling? Yeah, man.
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Mitch Webb
Lyme disease is pretty nasty and, you know, there's doctors out there that don't recognize it. They'll tell you you're crazy. It's in your head. They don't treat you. The longer you're not treated, the worse it gets. So, you know, it goes from like a by a tick bite and a bull's eye rash to like neurological issues. And, you know, you basically your body and brain shutting down and everybody's different.
00:08:13:13 - 00:08:30:11
Mitch Webb
And so I was I was getting treated for that. And I honestly, I did not look I didn't like the labels I mentioned that I would not go on and look in forums and see what how that manifested or what are the signs and symptoms. I didn't I didn't care. I just said whatever I'm going to do, whatever I need to do, tell me what I'm going to do.
00:08:30:11 - 00:08:54:23
Mitch Webb
I'm going to get better. And those are the type of clients I like. But what I noticed as I was doing my own research too, like I was diving in, you know, Hey, I live here in the South. And at the time some of the cutting edge stuff that I use ketogenic diets, fasting had, I mean, high intensity interval training, I was really into, you know, hyperbaric oxygen and cryotherapy and infrared light and all kinds of flotation therapies.
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Mitch Webb
I was trying everything right. And so I had a good team of doctors around me. And but I would be sitting in the waiting rooms. I'd see other people that had Lyme disease. And I feel like I was the only one that was getting better in the office. And I just I want to I want to help those around me.
00:09:11:00 - 00:09:24:09
Mitch Webb
And so I would I would see these people in the office, the waiting room, and I just really sad and upset. And I would say, hey, man, like, what's going on? And they would tell me, like, I'm I've got this symptom in that. And I'd say, Oh, hey, like, have you tried this this work for me? Whenever I feel like this, I do this and I do that.
00:09:25:03 - 00:09:45:24
Mitch Webb
And here's my number. Call me, you know, tell me what's going on. Maybe we can support each other, if anything else. And when I felt really bad, helping someone out to made me feel better. And there's so many things that I would say that I've overcome like that are quote unquote impossible. That I realize that if I can get better in these really shitty situations, that anybody can.
00:09:45:24 - 00:10:03:17
Mitch Webb
And I felt like it was my purpose and passion to, to, to help other people. And so I was working in the corporate world. I was working my family business. It was a lot of stress. And I just I realized that I wasn't going to thrive or get better in that environment. Yeah, I'm kind of asked questions later, guy.
00:10:04:09 - 00:10:23:02
Mitch Webb
So I took that idea of, I want to help other people that this environment's not good for me. And I left and ask questions later. You know, there was a chiropractor at the time that I was meeting with who, you know, could hang with me when we were talking about some of these advanced stuff, like we were on the same page and I was like, Man, I love what you do.
00:10:23:02 - 00:10:38:07
Mitch Webb
I love that you get to do the things that you love and help people at the same time. But I had no idea where to start in like this health industry. Like what am I a nurse? Am I a doctor? Like, what the hell AMA? And he's like, Dude, you got an awesome story. You've ever come out of the things and he's like, You're your health coach?
00:10:38:07 - 00:11:01:04
Mitch Webb
And I said, What is that? And I went, He goes, Go get your certification. I will. I'll send you. I'll send you my clients. You can work with them. I think you do a great job. Now, we were also going to open up like a recovery business with all these fun toys that I mentioned that never worked, but the health coaching did, and that's I was already thinking about leaving and it was hard to walk away at 25 years old from a six figure income.
00:11:01:04 - 00:11:19:02
Mitch Webb
And, you know, it is my family business so it's know a lot of promise and taking over a well-established business and but I was I was focused on healing and so that's all I needed to hear to to make the leap. And it was the best thing that I ever did. I mean it. I go and get my certification and started working with clients and you know, here I am today.
00:11:20:00 - 00:11:47:16
Rob Napoli
And, you know, that's a, you know, as a as a coach myself, as part of my business. And, you know, there's a lot of stigma around coaching and getting a coach right, which is wild to me because the best athletes in the world have coaches. They've got strength coaches, nutrition coaches, health coaches, the biggest investor in those in the world, a guy like Hire Tony Robbins, he's like $1,000,000 an hour to be their coach.
00:11:47:16 - 00:12:07:16
Rob Napoli
Right. And do these things. But yet the everyday person, the stigma around coaching, similar to what we see in therapy, is why would I need a coach? So how have you kind of overcome the stigma of being a coach when people bring that up to you? Or do you feel like there is a stigma, especially about being a health coach in your industry?
00:12:08:10 - 00:12:27:16
Mitch Webb
Well, I think first, I'm a I'm a big believer in pain to purpose. Right. And I think there has to be enough of a pain that the person recognizes that they need help. And I think what we do as coaches is we're saving people time. We're giving people the shortcuts. Yeah, you can go. I tell people all the time, you don't need me to do this stuff.
00:12:27:16 - 00:12:48:21
Mitch Webb
There's books, there's courses. It took me more than a decade to figure out how to do this correctly. And now that I've worked with a lot of different, there's not everybody is the same and that's a big part of my course is working with individuals. But I've seen enough that I have some clues on where to go. And so if you want to start and learn all of this by yourself, I would point you in the right direction.
00:12:49:02 - 00:13:06:21
Mitch Webb
I'll give you books and courses, but if you want a shortcut, you want to save time. You know, if I can take ten years or 15 years of experience and distill that into six months of a year, and maybe you don't reach your goal. But I get to teach the lifestyle in a way of living and being in a process to to help yourself.
00:13:06:21 - 00:13:17:04
Mitch Webb
That's what it's all about. It's about self-empowerment. I'm not going to be the one that's going to help you. You got to help yourself. And I can certainly share and like the way for for that journey to start.
00:13:17:18 - 00:13:32:07
Rob Napoli
I love that. And I think it's even important to say, like, there are no shortcuts in life, but what the coach does is allows you to not make all the mistakes. I guess it is kind of a shortcut, right? But like you start to put in the work but like you're going to make these mistakes. Took me 10 to 15 years.
00:13:32:19 - 00:13:47:23
Rob Napoli
Why don't I just save you 10 to 15? Maybe it's a two year journey and it be a fucking journey. Yeah, right. Yeah. It's business that I get to understand is that a lot of times people I remember when I first started coaching, you would hire me to ask me questions to fix things for them, and they wouldn't put in the work on site.
00:13:48:01 - 00:14:04:08
Rob Napoli
Oh, that's not what I coaches. A coach's job is to ask questions like Andy Reid. I always use the Chiefs because I love, you know, my hometown is right there. Good. Andy Reid is the guy that, you know, him and his staff, they put the players in the position to make players, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Garcia, all these people.
00:14:04:17 - 00:14:18:13
Rob Napoli
But Andy doesn't go out there on Sundays and play. He does not put the work in on Sundays to play. He can scheme up a great game. He could do all the things, but he does not play the game. Yeah. So when you hire a coach at any level, the job is not there. Don't come in to do your job for you.
00:14:19:02 - 00:14:40:18
Rob Napoli
Right. They're doing their their job is to help guide you and put you in the position to be most successful. And you just kind of share that. And, you know, that's where I think you really help people. And I think that's such a it's such a hard thing for people to acknowledge that I'm going to hire somebody. So I have to put in the work.
00:14:40:18 - 00:15:00:12
Rob Napoli
But I think those that do and get it, we all need that kind of accountability, right? We need someone to help us through it. I think sometimes it's just a matter of needing somebody because I mean, you you mentioned in your story, if it wasn't for the people around you, it might have been a different ending to your story.
00:15:00:23 - 00:15:21:18
Mitch Webb
Yeah. Yeah. It's making that shift from a victim who needs rescuing, who's constantly sabotaging themselves to becoming the creator of your life. And, you know, having someone to hold your hand through that process, you know, you don't need a savior. You know, you just need a path to take, a system to implement, and you got to do the work yourself.
00:15:21:23 - 00:15:40:08
Mitch Webb
And the cool thing about that is as soon as you start to see the results and see that and you start to feel that empowerment building that, hey, if I do, if I do something new, I get a new outcome. Or if it's almost like you get hooked on that, like, okay, give me some more. And so that's what we do like, like Cheerios coaching, right?
00:15:40:08 - 00:15:56:04
Mitch Webb
So a kid got a bowl of Cheerios. What's a kid going to do to put a big bowl of tears in front of me? He's going to, like, splash all over the place. It's going to be overwhelmed. And he's, you know, probably maybe stops, you know. So what we like to do it, Cheerios coaching is giving one giving one cheer at a time.
00:15:56:09 - 00:16:08:20
Mitch Webb
Yeah. And so the mountain is yeah, the journey can be hard but how do you how do you eat a bear? Right. It's it's one bite at a time. And before you before, you know it, you've taken a couple of bites. You look down and you're halfway up that damn mountain. Yeah.
00:16:09:15 - 00:16:24:18
Rob Napoli
Yeah. It's funny because I talk about it and like, you know, we always like to say, I'm going to plant like these big goalposts is like going climbs up, down and put up and it's like, no, like plant your flag in the sand. Like, it's like, okay, here's the first marker and you get to it. And then the second.
00:16:24:18 - 00:16:35:07
Rob Napoli
So don't put it all the way up there because that is exhausting. You're never going to make it, but just put it two feet in front of you and like, let's move that two feet and then that two feet and then that two feet. I love.
00:16:35:07 - 00:16:50:03
Mitch Webb
That. And where people it's about meeting people where they're at. Right? So you can't start everybody off at the same point. It's it's having that individual conversation, understanding somebody at such a level that you know where they're at and you know what that what they can handle and what that next step looks like for them.
00:16:50:16 - 00:17:10:00
Rob Napoli
Yeah. What is it? You know, when you, when you think about the clients that you work with and that is health coaching journey. You know you met that chiropractor who who you know, you're asking about your journey and really kind of put you down this journey. When you look and talk to your clients today, you know, what do you look for?
00:17:11:16 - 00:17:23:23
Rob Napoli
What do you look for in clients? You know, you talk about meeting where they are. What do you look for? What do you what are you looking to see that they they have in them to decide whether you want to work with them or not?
00:17:23:23 - 00:17:43:18
Mitch Webb
Well, I think first is is a strong lie right? Like, usually people come to me and there's a presenting problem, but I'm more about root causes. Right. So the presenting problem is typically I'm overweight, I'm sick, I'm tired, I'm not performing the way that I want to. But that's not the root cause of what's going on. That may be why they reached out.
00:17:43:19 - 00:17:53:14
Mitch Webb
And so we're going to dig down and see what's the root cause and address that. Right. Remind me the question again. I kind of went down a rabbit hole.
00:17:54:06 - 00:17:56:08
Rob Napoli
Yeah, that was the question is, what are you looking for?
00:17:56:15 - 00:18:18:18
Mitch Webb
Oh, yeah. And I'm also looking for like I'll look for that. Why? So they've got to have a strong why everybody wants to lose 15 or £20. But I'm not hiring somebody that wants to lose 15 or £20. I'm hiring. I'm letting someone hire me that wants to lose weight or or reverse a diagnosis or feel better so that they can perform better, so they can be there for their family, so that they can have longevity, so that they can fulfill their purpose, whatever that is.
00:18:18:18 - 00:18:35:09
Mitch Webb
And so they've got to be motivated. They've got to be I was going to say they had to be willing to do the work themselves, but that's something that we can teach as well. So it's motivation, it's why it's, it's a being able to demonstrate, a willingness to change.
00:18:35:15 - 00:18:55:05
Rob Napoli
Yeah. And one thing that I like to talk about is that, you know, the cord, the wire, the willingness to change, but I call it that that intrinsic versus external motivation. Right. And they have to have enough intrinsic motivation for the external motivation to work. We have two types intrinsically an external external motivation is what we get from outside world.
00:18:55:14 - 00:19:14:00
Rob Napoli
It gets excited, but it doesn't carry us through. They've got to have that in a fire that's burning inside of them so that you can give them the right external motivation there. I got it. So that flame just goes comes to life. And I think so many people want to they want to make changes, but doing the fucking work scares them and there's no intrinsic motivation to make any changes.
00:19:14:13 - 00:19:39:24
Rob Napoli
So I love that you look for that and that's hard, right? And so, you know, you have that in that eternal flame, that intrinsic motivation to make big changes, right? There is all these things you got labeled as this and labeled as that, bouncing around from doctors, trying to figure things out. You know, what advice would you give to somebody to take that first step to say, hey, I want to go on this journey personally and I need help?
00:19:41:00 - 00:19:46:22
Rob Napoli
Or if what advice do you give to somebody to they'd start?
00:19:46:22 - 00:20:03:09
Mitch Webb
Well, you know, I think it's it's all about, you know, setting an intention and knowing, you know, start with the the mind. I think Stephen Covey says that. Right. So so really get a picture of what that looks like. Visualize it. Okay. What is it that I want and how is it going to feel to have the thing that I want?
00:20:03:09 - 00:20:29:20
Mitch Webb
So it's like basically anchoring. Is it worth it? Right. So what's cool about setting an intention and then coming out with the emotion? What's the emotion that you expect that you're going to feel when you have the thing that you want, right? Is it is it joy, gratitude, love, freedom. Freedom is a big one for me. And if it means enough to you to have those things, get in touch with that feeling and set that intention.
00:20:29:20 - 00:20:44:03
Mitch Webb
And that's like kind of plugging in where you're going to go into the piece. It's like, what is it when you when you're in a plane? A lot of people will say, Take action first. Just take action. Just take action. Well, if we don't know where we're going and we're just taking action, is that really moving the needle?
00:20:44:03 - 00:21:05:14
Mitch Webb
We want to be going towards something. So so be sure that that's a worthy goal and something that's going to benefit you. And the more you can get in touch with how that's going to change your life and how that's going to make you feel getting in touch with that, why you're going to have to remember that at different points in the journey, but you best start with it as well so that we know where we're going.
00:21:05:16 - 00:21:23:22
Rob Napoli
Yeah, I love that. I think it's really easy to say let's, you know, take action. And yeah, you need to take action. Sometimes taking action will guide you down a different path, but you have to understand what the goal is like. Where? Where is that you want to be? What's the intention? I like I use the word and it starts with intention.
00:21:23:22 - 00:21:45:06
Rob Napoli
Like what intentionality is there, right? Oh, I mean, I would love to lose weight. I always talk about it, but I also like food, right? And I want my healthy balance is for myself and what my confidence is at a sitting weight of where I'm at today. Right now, I struggle with all time body dysmorphia. But, you know, I'm comfortable and confident about where I sit.
00:21:45:22 - 00:22:02:00
Rob Napoli
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like, yeah, I want to lose weight, but my attention, there's no attention to it because like, I don't feel bad. Like I'm healthy and I'm, I feel good. I move while like it's really important to understand what the intention is before you can just say, oh yeah, let's lose weight because somebody tells me I need to.
00:22:02:01 - 00:22:15:06
Rob Napoli
I am a little overweight for my body mass index. Like, how do you feel in your, you know, your skin? How do you feel daily? Do you feel good? You feel bad? Do you feel that you need to make these changes? And why are those changes happening? So I love that you say start with intention.
00:22:15:22 - 00:22:34:03
Mitch Webb
Yeah. And by setting that intention to we will see a little road. Road I say like robots are along the way. Signs and symptoms that let us know that we're making change like weight loss is an easy one. Like, I want to lose weight. How do you know you're losing weight? Well, my clothes are fitting better. Okay. We have to celebrate those.
00:22:34:03 - 00:22:52:08
Mitch Webb
When some of my clients, we do a book of proof. And so you can get all these signs from the universe. And if you don't, if you're not clear on what you want, those signs are going to grow right past your head. Head right. You're not going to catch them. Right. And if you don't catch that and celebrate that, that is a huge part that that tells your subconscious, I.
00:22:52:08 - 00:22:53:01
Rob Napoli
Want more.
00:22:53:01 - 00:23:09:22
Mitch Webb
I'm on the way, I'm fucking doing it. And you write that, down you go. I always tell my clients, like, figure out what that reward is for me. If I sign on a new client, like, dude, I'm by myself a stake, right? Like I had had a client that every time they had a sign, they would put some money in a jar.
00:23:09:22 - 00:23:28:15
Mitch Webb
And it was for their their honeymoon that was coming up. Right. Whatever that is. Be clear on what you want. Look for the signs when you see them celebrate. And like even those those signs can show up in our negative self, our ego, whatever you want to call it, can come up with other with other ideas, like negative.
00:23:28:17 - 00:23:40:06
Mitch Webb
Look at it from a negative light. So say I want more money and I got a check in the mail, but it was really from my neighbor. Okay, so you can look at that and say like, fuck, man. Like I got I got money in the mailbox for my damn neighbor. Like, no, man, I got money in the mail.
00:23:40:06 - 00:23:46:05
Mitch Webb
Like, let's be stoked for that. The universe is responding. Give me some more give me some more reason to get excited and celebrate.
00:23:47:11 - 00:23:55:17
Rob Napoli
I love that. What was the scariest thing about starting your own business?
00:23:55:17 - 00:24:19:12
Mitch Webb
Not knowing that it was going to work right? Like I had this nice cushy job at 25 years old. I had a six figure income. I was building a house and everyone around me said, Man, you got the perfect life. Well, I didn't feel like I had the perfect life. I would go to Starbucks, Nancy, the barista behind the counter, smiling and serving coffee, and I start crying because I was so unhappy where I was at.
00:24:19:19 - 00:24:44:20
Mitch Webb
And so leaving that that that comfort, that was hard, you know, comfort. I mean, change is is is scary. It's cold, right? Like it's not warm in that pool. With that pool, it's called I call the people because everybody in the people keeping each other warm, peeing on each other. But if you want to change, you got to step out of the pool and into the breeze and accept that change is going to be hard, you know?
00:24:44:21 - 00:25:09:04
Mitch Webb
And so then then it's about again being clear on what you want, working towards it in those little wins over time, if you keep what is it like the the how do you say that a thing that you push anyways. It's like, like a will for fortune or yeah. You push the will around once and you know, maybe the first year goes around one time, you keep pushing it, eventually it goes around twice before you know it.
00:25:09:05 - 00:25:18:10
Mitch Webb
The thing growing itself and it's awesome. But in that takes time and effort and not turning back when it's hard. So you got to embrace that, get embrace the cool breeze, man.
00:25:18:24 - 00:25:46:01
Rob Napoli
I love it. I love that. You know, I think it's really interesting because I think, you know, any entrepreneurship journey is hard. And when you especially when one is tied together not only from all the scary things of, you know, leaving a family business and the pressure and the money and all that, but also doing it because there is that purpose and that passion from something you experienced firsthand that makes everything and a much more just amplified level.
00:25:46:01 - 00:26:02:22
Rob Napoli
So I think that that's super awesome and it's exciting to see where your journey has taken you and on what it's going. So that's we look for, you know, look to 2023. What are what are your personal goals for next year? What one of the things that you're setting intention on for 2023.
00:26:04:11 - 00:26:38:16
Mitch Webb
Well, for personally, you know, that's it's continuing to improve my health. You know, that's gosh that that's a tough question man. Like right now I've just got into therapy and have seen that. I mean, I look at all kinds of modalities of healing and things that I've learned over the years. And I would say that digging in to the trauma that I've experienced from a lot of these health challenges that I was unconscious of, didn't know it was there digging into that, it's been one of the most beneficial things that I've done.
00:26:38:16 - 00:26:57:18
Mitch Webb
So it's continuing on that path. I've been doing EMDR and working with a trauma specialist and really getting clear and seeing one of the biggest lessons that I've learned so far is that when I get symptoms right, I'm learning to distinguish between what is physical and what is emotional. And a lot of that emotional stuff is coming up from past trauma.
00:26:57:21 - 00:27:14:00
Mitch Webb
And I've now asked for that change like give me an opportunity to heal that. And so something my therapist and I were talking about the other day is like, I call it stinking thinking. And so you guys, let's reframe that. So you guys know, that is not like when you're judging yourself or, you know, you're having certain it.
00:27:14:00 - 00:27:33:17
Mitch Webb
For me, I feel everything in my body. So it may feel like anxiety or depression or insomnia. And I'm learning that those things are trap trauma that gave them those labels for years. And so when those things come up, I pause, I acknowledge myself, I talk to my soul, whatever you want to say. I put my hand on my heart and I say, Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to heal.
00:27:33:21 - 00:27:53:18
Mitch Webb
Because I know that if I can heal that, then the reaction to these these traumas I'm able to deal with that better and it goes away. It's it's a beautiful thing. So personally, that's why I'm going with my business. It's just continuing to help people. I don't work with more than ten people at a time with people for about 6 to 12 months.
00:27:53:24 - 00:28:08:11
Mitch Webb
So really I'm looking for about five people every month. You know, that, that that's my goal for this year. I don't really do a good job in the past of setting goals. I just kind of let people come and go. And I've had big years and I've had slow years at last too, thank goodness, have been really well.
00:28:08:11 - 00:28:21:01
Mitch Webb
And I'd like to just keep that momentum going and keep pushing that that ring around so that it's I've got clients coming in each and every month that where I can use my purpose and my passion and help other people.
00:28:21:07 - 00:28:37:11
Rob Napoli
I love that. That's that's awesome. You know, I think it's really important. You know, you talk a lot about attention. We talk about our episode. So it was great to hear what your intention is for yourself personally and professionally next year. You know, as always, it's always so much fun catching up with you. And I appreciate you sharing and open up about your story.
00:28:38:03 - 00:28:56:24
Rob Napoli
There's a lot there and I think that, you know, for anyone out there that is dealing, you know, each of us as humans have some sort of trauma that we deal with on a regular basis. And if it ever gets to a point where it's really causing problems, talk to somebody. There's always something to listen. You know, absolutely.
00:28:56:24 - 00:29:13:00
Rob Napoli
The two of us, you know, will have our contact details in the show. Now, it's like the first step is talking about it. And, you know, having gone through, you know, my own challenges and you kind of share yours, we both know the power of the people around us. I mean, you surround yourself with good people that are there to help.
00:29:13:09 - 00:29:33:15
Rob Napoli
It makes a big difference. And I think that's you know, it comes out to this show. Your purpose and passion is to help others go through so they don't have to spend 10 to 15 years of wanting to to feel that right or feel on whole. So to feel whole again. I think that's really, really important. And I think that for everyone out there taking that first step, talk to somebody.
00:29:33:24 - 00:29:51:08
Rob Napoli
And that's what used to be Mitch or myself. We're here for that. I mean, I think that's such a great thing that you aren't afraid to talk about is that you you went and ask for help at every step of the way because it sucks being like that, you know? And I think so many of us are stigmatized too, to kind of man up, especially from a male perspective, right.
00:29:52:07 - 00:30:08:01
Rob Napoli
Which it's that's a whole other bag of worms. But I appreciate you sharing your story and opening up to us with that. With that, how can my listeners find you? Where where can they connect with you to learn more about your journey and how to get involved? Or How are you?
00:30:08:01 - 00:30:37:12
Mitch Webb
So best place to find me right now is probably LinkedIn under Mitch Webb. Instagram KMitch Webb. Obviously I'm on Facebook as well. I've got a private group called Health Trail Transformers that I'm happy to bring anybody into. I do have a website. It's Mitch Web.com and doesn't really represent me well right now. I'm working on that, so be looking for some updates for that towards the first of the year and I'm always happy to answer questions and provide as much value as I can promise.
00:30:37:12 - 00:30:57:10
Mitch Webb
I'm not going to sell you. I think everybody deserves to be healthy. If you got questions, the first 30 minutes are always free so you can shoot me an email. I'll get me an email at Mitch, at Mitch Web.com, contact me on any of the social media that I just mentioned, and I'm happy to help any way that I can.
00:30:58:05 - 00:31:15:24
Rob Napoli
Mitch, thank you so much for being a part of the show. I really enjoyed having you on. I'll make sure to add all of your links into the show notes they can get a hold of you. Bear nation. Thank you so much. Have a wonderful rest of 2022 as we close out. Have wonderful holiday season. Happy New Year.
00:31:15:24 - 00:31:28:22
Rob Napoli
Merry Christmas. All the things and be ready to set intention for 2023. This is your episode. If you haven't set intentions for 2023 yet, set up now while you still can bear nation. Thank you so much. Stay well and rise up.
00:31:31:19 - 00:31:41:06
Rob Napoli
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