Mental Conditioning Gym

To commemorate Father's Day, in this week's episode of the Mental Conditioning Gym podcast, Elliot speaks with Mike Dorsey. Mike is a Personal Development coach and host of the Black Father's NOW! podcast. When you have a Mental Conditioning coach and Personal Development Coach on the same episode AND speaking about such a powerful topic as fatherhood then you know this is going to be a GREAT episode filled with a lot of takeaways. Gentlemen get your pen and paper!

Episode Highlights:
Influences and examples of manhood growing up
Love is commitment
Manhood foundation for Fatherhood
What is a "quality" man?
Family Structure
Raising Sons
Raising Daughters

To learn more about Mike and his podcast Black Father's NOW! visit his website

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In this week's episode, Elliot speaks to fitness trainer and studio owner Brittany Cole to bring together the parallels of physical fitness and mental fitness.
 
Highlights:
Linking physical conditioning to mental conditioning
Being "wild" as a child
Effects from her parents divorce
Surprising career before finding fitness
Failure vs Setback
Joys and challenges about being a fitness trainer
Creating community and a "safe place" for women
Multitasking business with being newly married and being a new mom

Brittany's Fitness Studio---
Website: Killer Body Fitness 
Instagram: Killer Body Fitness

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May is the month to celebrate motherhood. In today's episode, Rhoda Brown-Blackburn shares with us her story of adopting her son. Elliot speaks to Rhoda about her family's road to adoption. This episode is for anyone that may be thinking about adoption or just curious how the process goes. 

Some highlights from today's episode:

• The mindset needed to prepare being an adoptive parent
• Rhoda and her husband's "WHY" for adopting
• 3 types of adoption
• Adoption misconceptions
• The selection process for choosing your child
• Being adoptive parents in their 50s
• The step by step process in adopting
• State adoption vs Private adoption agency
• Meeting their son for the first time
• Why their son chose Rhoda and her husband as his parents
• Dealing with the foster parents during the transition phase
• Advice for anyone interested in adoption

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In this week's episode of the Mental Conditioning Gym Podcast, Elliot is emphasizing what mental exercises are needed to build mental muscle in managing Mental Debt Consolidation. He uses the example of everyday financial issues to help you better understand the mind-set aspect needed. 

Highlights include:

• Mental Debt Consolidation vs Financial Debt Consolidation
• Bills = Life Challenges
• The Overwhelm
• Applying the 4 Principles of Mental Conditioning to help manage mental debt consolidation
• Mental Exercises to build Mental Muscle dealing with Mental Debt Consolidation

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This week's podcast, Elliot speaks with Clarine Henderson. Clarine is a Mental Health Awareness Advocate and an advocate for families.  Right in line with our beliefs here at the Mental Conditioning Gym and the Mental Conditioning Movement.

Some Highlights:
Being a Mental Health Awareness Advocate
The value of family
Being the oldest of 6
Managing anxiety as a youth
Men vs Women managing mental health
Mental Health Awareness and Dating
Conflict Resolution in relationships
Transitioning Careers
Managing Fear
Results from ignoring your mental health

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To learn more about the Mental Conditioning Gym and any upcoming events/trainings visit the  website. 

In today's solo episode, Elliot talks about how the Pressure of life affects us all.
Some highlights include:

• Evander Holyfield's interesting response to the "bite fight" with Mike Tyson
• The Will Smith-Chris Rock Oscar Slap
• The New York City Subway Mass Shooting
• Men are susceptible 
• Marriages are susceptible 
• We all have busted a pipe or two in our lifetime
• How we learn-- no judgement

You can learn about the Mental Conditioning Gym by visiting the website to get more information and see upcoming workshops/discussions. 
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This week Elliot speaks with two sister who both work in law enforcement. Take a listen to how this all came about and the mindset needed to make it happen. 

Highlights:

• Growing up in Harlem in New York City Public Housing 
• The inspiration and mindset for both to choose to work in law enforcement
• Middle Child Syndrome
• Youngest Child Syndrome
• Who sent who to the emergency room as kids
• Influences in life of what NOT to do
• Fulfilling childhood dreams

You can learn more about the host Elliot aka the Mental Conditioning Coach and the Mental Conditioning Gym by visiting the website.

You can support the podcast by subscribing, leaving a comment, and sharing an episode or two with others. Feel free to email us your feedback. If you want to be on the podcast or want to recommend someone please email mentalconditioningmovement@gmail.com

Welcome back to season 4 of the podcast. New name but same host and the same all important message on the importance of our mindset and mental conditioning. A place to build our mental muscle. Formerly the Life's GPS Podcast. 

Highlights:

• Why the name change?
• Composer reveal behind the new intro/outro music
• What is the Mental Conditioning Gym?
• How we all have a Mental Conditioning Gym but don't realize it
• Season 4 expectations

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For more information visit the Mental Conditioning Gym website. 

In today's episode of Life's GPS Podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing Kateri Clark. Kateri is the creative brain behind the design our first Mental Conditioning Gym. I had a vision of how I wanted things to look and she made it come to life. Such a talent!
 
Some highlights of what we discussed:

• What led her to becoming an artist?
• What is her creative process?
• What are some influences in her life?
• Mindset being a Millennial

You can listen to today's episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or directly on the website www.mentalconditioningmovement.com

In today's episode I share details about our first physical space-- Mental Conditioning Gym. This type of gym is the first of it's kind in NY and maybe even in the United States. A place to come and work out your mind and mindset.
I also answer some frequently asked questions I've been getting recently. Those start at  20 minutes in. 
You can find out more details on the website www.mentalconditioninggym.com

In today's episode, my wife Michele is our special guest. Michele (with some input from myself also) discuss what it's been like being family caregivers to aging parents these last 10 years especially in the last 1 year. We discuss what we've learned and she gives us some tips to help you if you too are in this phase of life caring for aging loved ones. 

In today's episode we have special guest Julie Cunningham of Julie's Star Travel Agency and Star's Spice N Tea Shop in Elmont, NY. We discuss how Julie pivoted in her career/business over the years and especially during the Covid-19 Pandemic. We also tackle the current state of the travel industry during the Pandemic. 

It's been a while and I apologize for the unplanned hiatus, but life took my family on a rough journey these last 6-9 months. In today's episode I do a quick recap of the Life's GPS podcast and what the purpose is for the podcast. In this episode I share some great clips from past episodes over the past 3 seasons that help showcase Mental Conditioning and how we all have it. 

You can listen to this episode and any other past episodes on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or directly on my website www.mentalconditioningmovement.com

In today's episode, Elliot speaks with Brian Adams. Brian is a former professional boxer. Currently he does boxing commentating and is the Community Liaison for the NYPD. Mindset and Mental Conditioning is covered from childhood foundation to present day.
Today is Part 2 of 2.

In this episode we cover
Goals
Traveling
Business of boxing
Boxing commentating
Mindset to deal with a loss
Transitioning out of being an active boxer
Being a Community Liaison with NYPD

You can hear this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or directly on Elliot's website www.mentalconditioningmovement.com/podcasts

In today's episode, Elliot speaks with Brian Adams. Brian is a former professional boxer.  He is currently a boxing commentator and the Community Liaison for the NYPD. Mindset is covered from childhood foundation to present. This is a 2 part episode.

In today's episode they cover
Growing up in Brooklyn, New York
Childhood Influences
Thinking QUICK vs Thinking FAST
Influence from his parents
Winning vs Getting Beat
Mindset Needed to Train for a fight

You can hear this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or directly on Elliot's website www.mentalconditioningmovement.com/podcasts 

In this week's episode of Life's GPS, Elliot shares about the recent passing of his older brother over the holidays. He shares how he's been getting through this time of grieving and shares some tips that can help the next person going through a loss of a loved one. 

In this week's episode, I had the pleasure to interview one of the best DJs I know and respect... Jarell Greene aka DJ CEO. We talk about all things music and dig deep into his foundation. We covered many things including...

• How DJ CEO got started?
• Growing up in talent rich Brooklyn, NY
• The influence from his Dad
• When he realized he interpreted music differently
• Having 2 "first gigs"
• The vibe he gets when he dj's
• Music's effect on society and radio

You can follow him on IG @DJ CEO 

In today's episode, I discuss ways to do goal setting and how I set my own yearly goals. Let me know if this episode was helpful starting off 2021. 

This is a dual episode with our sister podcast You Gotta Love Love. My wife and I were fortunate to have Ken and Janice back on for a second show but this time we focused on parenting and in their case parenting with adult children. It was a great episode with many ah-ha moments (as Oprah would say). In this episode we discuss

• what a quality parent was to them when the kids were babies and now as grown men
• raising African-American boys
• raising boys to become men
• how respect is maintained in the home
• parenting adult children

Ken has a new children's book out titles "The Me That Needs To Be".  You can purchase on Amazon.
Janice is a interior, floral, and event designer. You can see her amazing her on her FB or IG page Janice Harvey Designs. You can also visit her website www.janiceharveydesigns.com for more information on how to work with her. 

Hello everyone. Life challenges in 2020 but Life's GPS is finally back and we're back for SEASON 3! In today's episode I discuss what to expect from this season.

You can email any questions or feedback at mentalconditioningmovement@gmail.com
You can listen to current and past episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or directly on our website www.mentalconditioningmovement.com