Passion Struck with John R. Miles - Philip Anthony Mangan On How to Create Your Best Life EP 52

Episode Date: August 10, 2021

Philip Anthony Mangan joins John R. Miles to talk about how he overcame his directionless Van Wilder life to become an actor, model, personal trainer, and coach. We discuss how after college, he was living the party lifestyle through his party bus company, how he discovered through a failed relationship the courage to turn his life around and create the best life possible for him. The steps he took on the journey including having to fire his best friend and the opportunity he took moving to New York, and how it altered his life trajectory.  Do you like this topic? If so, please subscribe to the Passion Struck Podcast on iTunes, and join me on my new platform for peak performance and personal growth: https://passionstruck.com/.  What Does it Mean to Create Your Best Life? As humans, one of our biggest goals is to live a fulfilled and passion-driven life. One that reflects your true values and desires. A life where you wake up happy and filled with passion by doing what you believe makes a difference to the world. That is how you create your best life and become passion-struck in the process.  New Interviews with the World's GREATEST high achievers will be posted every Tuesday with a Momentum Friday inspirational message! Enjoy HOW TO CREATE YOUR BEST LIFE SHOW NOTES 0:00 Show Intro 2:41 Introducing Philip Anthony Mangan 5:39 Living the party boy life 11:51 How is summer travel changed his perspective 15:12 Why did he cut his hair which was was a major part of his identity 17:35 How he faced his brutal reality and realized he was not living the life he wanted 20:30 How he chose to change his life through a relationship he was in 27:07 How he went about self-reflection 29:14 Quieting the noise through mindfulness 33:24 The door that opened for him in New York 36:22 How he got into modeling 41:26 What led him to become a vegan 43:46 How he became more mindful through diet 48:58 How he helps women with weight loss 50:03 Becoming a personal trainer 53:29 How he customizes his program for clients 56:22 Why you need to push yourself PHILIP ANTHONY MANGAN RESOURCES Philip Anthony Mangan, a.k.a. The Wellness Wingman, helps overwhelmed women lose weight & regain control through daily personalized support. Philip is a model, commercial actor, an environmental activist, and a Certified Personal Trainer & Fitness Nutrition Specialist. *Website: https://philipanthonymangan.com/ *Hire him to model: https://philipanthonymangan.com/portfolio *Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philipanthonymangan/ *Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philipanthonymangan ENGAGE WITH JOHN R. MILES * Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnRMiles * Leave a comment, 5-star rating (please!) * Support me: https://johnrmiles.com * Twitter: https://twitter.com/Milesjohnr * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Johnrmiles.c0m​. * Medium: https://medium.com/@JohnRMiles​ * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/john_r_miles JOHN R. MILES * https://johnrmiles.com/my-story/ * Guides: https://johnrmiles.com/blog/ * Coaching: https://passionstruck.com/coaching/ * Speaking: https://johnrmiles.com/speaking-business-transformation/ * Gear: https://www.zazzle.com/store/passion_struck PASSION STRUCK *Subscribe to Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-passion-struck-podcast/id1553279283 *Website: https://passionstruck.com/ *About: https://passionstruck.com/about-passionstruck-johnrmiles/ *Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/passion_struck_podcast *LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/passionstruck *Blog: https://passionstruck.com/blog/    

I started the business in 2009, 2014, I met this girl, I started dating her at the beginning of 2015, you know, the breakup happened. And at this point in time, I was running the business but I'm more of a not as invested into it as I was before. I was really kind of seeing if I can branch it myself out to a certain extent. And I remember thinking this at the time, I

don't want to not know what I could have done with that business if I was clear headed. If I had the right tools, if I built the team, if I really took control on a grander scale, and I remember thinking, if I choose to do that, I'm going to have to push away some friends. Okay, the number one person I had to push away was my best friend, my business partner, because I know he was hindering the growth of the business at the time. And it was either me give up because of someone else or me take charge and eliminate someone else. And as hard as that was, it was the best decision I made because even at the time,

I was, it was causing me a lot of stress. It made me see what I was made of. And that was the, that was probably one of the more powerful things, even though there was many points in time where I was questioning like, I lost the love of my life, lost my best friend, and what am I doing?

It's like you're kind of dismantling this community that you have of people that you've known and that have given you this love and I'm pushing everyone away. But I realized as I was pushing people away, it was making me stronger, me more mindful. And that's kind of exactly what I needed to do. I just didn't see that before

because I knew it was gonna cause me some sort of pain and I wasn't ready to face that. Welcome Visionaries, creators, innovators, entrepreneurs, leaders and growth seekers of all types to the Passion Struck podcast. Hi, I'm John Miles, a peak performance coach, multi industry CEO, Navy veteran, and entrepreneur on a mission to make Passion Go viral for millions worldwide. In each week, I do so by sharing with you an inspirational message, and interviewing high achievers from all walks of life who unlock their secrets and lessons

to becoming PassionStruck. The purpose of our show is to serve you the listener by giving you tips, tasks, and activities. You can use to achieve peak performance and for two, a passion driven life you have always wanted to have. Now let's become passion struck. Thank you for joining me on the PassionStruck podcast. Roy T. Bennett said, you will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind. What an amazing quote and lead in to our episode today with Philip Anthony Megan.

We start out this interview with him going over the start of his life when he ran a party bus company. And his realization that there was more to life than parties, booze, and self-numbing behavior. All a relationship helped him to understand the new course in life that he needed to take. And even though that relationship didn't go the way he intended, never looking back

and taking the important steps needed to focus on his own self-narrative and where he wanted his life to go. He talks about how he confronted his inner demons, how that work has led him to his new career, becoming a vegan, his road to activism and so much more. Now let me tell you a little bit more about today's guests. Philip Anthony Megan, aka the Wellness Wingman, helps overwhelmed women lose weight and regain control through daily personalized support. Philip is a model, a commercial actor, an environmental activist and a certified personal trainer and fitness nutritional specialist. He is the founder of a holistic health and wellness coaching business

that focuses on providing people with the control, clarity, confidence they need to make lasting changes in their lives. The three-step method emphasizes that building simple and consistent self-care habits are the key, long-term success by encompassing the practices of slowing down, biting the nose and opening your mind. Now, let's become Action Strong. I am so excited to welcome Philip Anthony Megan to the Passion Struck Podcast. Welcome Philip to the show. Thank you John, thanks for having me on. As I was looking through your background, which I went over before I brought you on, activists, vegan actor, mental health, guru, trainer, etc.

I think there are so many things here that our listeners and watchers can learn from you. I'm so excited to have you participate. And thank you again for joining us. Thank you so much. It's my pleasure. I thought a good starting point for the audience would be the transition that you made for the life you have now. But I thought we could go back to when you were operating the company and running Party Bus, which many people would think, man, I would absolutely love to have that as a job. So can you talk about how in the world you got into something like that and then kind of the ramifications that come with it over time? No, it honestly, it kind of just happened to be, I never like, I guess to put it simply, I never knew what I wanted to do with my life, even growing up, I never knew throughout college

it wasn't a clear vision of, this is the direction I wanna go. And, you know, even though like, that kinda is frustrating at times when you look at other people that are so sure about what they want, I don't think it really, I don't think I ever let it really affect me negatively. I just kind of rolled with it. And when I got into the party bus business, it was honestly because I enjoyed partying. It was I enjoyed having a good time. And I actually had a hospitality degree

that I graduated with and a marketing degree, but the main reason actually why I got the hospitality degree was because I wanted to bring the party to people. I wanted them to enjoy themselves as much as I enjoy myself. And I didn't know I didn't want to work for a hotel or a restaurant or any of that, but I was like, this is a good degree for me. And then marketing also as well, because I'm really passionate about, you know, bringing something to life, a brand, and portraying it in a certain way. But when the party bus business actually happened, it was because I was actually working at a private jet company in 2007, after I graduated college in the, you know, right around that time,

the economy just took a dump. And this was a startup company. And of course, I got laid off because they want bankrupt. But I was, you know, collecting unemployment money for a year, kind of just not sure. I mean, even I was looking for jobs, couldn't really find anything.

And I kind of came into the party bus business through my friend, one of my best friends at the time who owned a bus in the past and was kind of, I saw like the vision of it and I was very passionate about it as well. I was like, hey, maybe this will, this will work. We live in this party town. I was living in the college town still that I went to Florida State University. And just kind of invested my unemployment money into creating something. And I didn't have a plan laid out, no business plan, nothing. It was just like, let's just get the bus and figure it out. And honestly, for the probably the first man, for the first, man, for the first probably,

year, year and a half, it wasn't much of a business, to be honest, it was just more so the, the partying and the enjoyment from that. And we would make a little bit of money here and there, but nothing really to survive off of on a grander scale. I mean, it was because the way we kind of operated, we were just kind of not serious with it. And over time, we learned and kind of adapted and saw what the possibilities could

be. But that was kind of really my starting point of seeing that you're never going to have it all figured out from the beginning. So why not just dive into something and you can figure it out along the way. Yeah, it's great to have a plan, but sometimes you just got to pull the trigger and pull the trigger on it and maybe it didn't work out as quick as we'd like, but you know, we were channeling a lot of joy during that time, and I think when you're channeling joy and you know, in all that, you're not in a rush to figure it out on a grander scale, but there's inner desire for, you know, creating something more out of it. And when you see it start seeing things click, and during that time, I ran the business for seven years. And think about that. I went to school, and then I started

this business. So it's, I'm almost basically getting three college careers in, you know, if I'm, if I'm, you know, doing, I actually went to school for five years, I got two degrees. So basically a total of 12 years between that and the party bus business. That's a lot of party, party, and because it's, it's a lifestyle business. Well, I've got this picture in my mind of Ryan Reynolds and what's that, what's that movie then? Van, Van Wilder. but yeah, that was, that's funny, we got a lot of comparisons to that at the time

and we were like, man, we are probably crazier than Van Wilder because we're actually living it and we're actually, this is a real life kind of situation but honestly, is gray as it was, the partying aspect it kind of catches up to you and you start seeing that it's destructive. And in a lot of times during that party bus phase was me noticing that there's a lot of things wrong when I kind of got sober from, you know, from not partying. So I would have this

like initial kind of like slap in the face of, man, things just kind of seem off a little bit. But then the next day you go back to to parting and you kind of push that down a bit and forget about it. And I think the one thing actually that really helped continue to drive that was I was surrounded by the people that, you know, my friends were doing the same thing I was doing. I was surrounding myself in that environment by getting the clients and all that. So I really didn't know anything outside of that on a grander scale. And I thought it was okay to continue on that way to a certain extent because everyone else was doing it. It wasn't like, hey, Philip, you maybe you should look at things differently.

If all your friends that you're surrounding yourself with are in that same way, you feel that community and that connection to them. Then you don't really think that you're missing out on anything else, but at the same time, I understand I was very, very selfish at that time in my life. When I look back, especially with my family or even the people I dated, a lot of the relationships I was in were affected by my mentality during that time of really kind of and it was really manually because I was numbing myself. But to speed up this story, I think it was around like 2013 towards the end of the summer, we would always go on summer trips

with the bus. We take one across the country and just so I can get a feeling of what this bus is. Is this a school bus? Is it a big? We had six school buses by the time the business ended. So we had all school buses that we bought from the school board. And we just bought them pretty cheap. And we just got it them out and painted them like bright, crazy colors on the outside and made them limo style seating on the inside and put a sound system in it.

And there is one bus that we turned into an RV basically and we used to travel a lot during the summer and I think that kind of opened up my eyes to a lot more during the summer trips that we took, you know, we live on the bus because we had bunk beds and it was, you know, kitchenette area, all that. But I think like when I was taking those summer trips, it made me see that there was more outside there. And we did a lot of different adventuring to national parks and stuff. So it wasn't just like, hey, we're going to go party for X amount of time. It was, let's go explore and adventure around. And I think a lot of my desire came from those trips of being able to want more. And I just didn't really know what it was at the time. But I remember that last trip that we took was 110 days. We want 12,000 miles on this bus. And we want to probably almost every state. I mean, obviously not like North Dakota, South Dakota, Hawaii, Alaska, but almost every state.

And I remember coming back from that trip and was thinking like, I'm done. I'm done with like this kind of repeat fashion of we're working all year to go on a trip all summer. There's got to be something else. I remember like thinking about that on the drive back. There's some desire in there for change. I don't know what it means, but I just know I don't want to keep repeating the cycle. Yeah, and I think it's an important topic because I'm imagining there are some viewers or listeners who are hearing this who are probably living

a pretty lifestyle themselves. In fact, I know people whether they're in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, who constantly parting, whether it's alcohol or drugs or combination of both, and living this late night life. And I've recently had a couple guests, one on Tuesday, who, you know, she said when he was, she was under 20, his whole life was all about Prada, Praseko, and parties. And I have a guest coming up, Sasuke Lightstar, who, you know, talked about before getting cancer, she lived in South Africa.

I was the life of the party, but both of them said that inside, they felt completely differently. And I think that that's something that probably a lot of people who are in this situation are actually experiencing. Maybe on the outside, you look like the life of the party, and that's how you might come across, but inside, you could be facing a lot of mental turmoil and self-doubt. Is that kind of what was happening with you? Oh, yeah, 100%. I mean, I think because I got caught up into like,

I never really party before I went to college. And then when I got into college, I saw how, you know, drinking and made things almost a little bit easier to meet people and kind of socialize. And I think that's kind of where it all started for me. Just, I think we do a lot of things we do, just basically because we want love. So I felt like I was getting more love from doing that.

And it just kind of became a part of me. And I honestly didn't, over the years, as it continued on, I didn't really know who I was without it. It really was kind of like, this is an ice-dap, like shoulder-length long hair. I used to dress in these crazy outfits all the time. And I was like living this lifestyle as this crazy guy, crazy party guy, and that was really what defined me. And I didn't really kind of know who I was deep down

on this grander scale anymore. And there's a lot of times where there's just just this mental struggle to wanna keep going with the business because I knew something was off, but the thing is, even if I wanted to, I thought about like escaping, but you don't really know how to escape that at the time. Like especially when you're in a hole,

it's like you don't know how to escape. Everything seems so big and large. So it's like where do you even begin to escape? And I remember like I had a grand desire to move to New York for a long time. And I tell more about that, how I reached to that point a little bit after, but as much as you try to fill yourself up

with these things at the end of the day, you still gotta face yourself. And even though there was some point and I could see, I mean, I don't think I was an alcoholic as an addicted, I didn't have an addiction problem, but I think I was Addicted to the to numbing myself in a certain way So it wasn't like like I can I never want to like a or anything like this after I got sober

But I mean, I'm not even completely sober now like I have a glass of wine here and there and I am fine with drinking But I just think I was the way I was operating was a lot because it's all I knew. And I was doing it because I wanted love and it was easier to do that than face myself. And when I actually tell you about like that desire ahead in my 2013 on the way back, it was, okay, I think I want to try to face this. Yeah, and at that point, what was the thing that was keeping you up at night? Like, what was this thing about facing yourself that you were most scared to do? I think it's just because when you're so used to being a certain way for so long, it's scary

to face yourself and try to like maybe dissect that and see what what could be different and and honestly It's not like it was keeping me up all at night. It was the fact that I Was really numb to knowing that Of like the issues that maybe I needed to face so So it was really the thought process behind it was, okay, I'm not feeling. I'm like, I remember dating a girl and basically telling her, I dated her a year and a half

and I didn't say I loved you to her and I said, I don't want to continue this on because I feel like I'm hurting you. I can't feel anything that I'm doing and I don't want to continue like dragging you along in this relationship. So I remember when I broke up with her, that was a telltelling sign of like, whoa, you can't feel. I want to feel. And that's where I think what was keeping me up at night is like, how do I gain the feeling back? And even though it really wasn't keeping me up many nights,

because I would just continue to go back and forth. So I took a step ahead and maybe and then two steps backwards. And it was like that for a little bit of time, but I think because I had the desire and I didn't give up on the desire to even though it wasn't going as fast as maybe one would like, it eventually led me to a situation where I think it was able

to help me or guide me out of that. And that was dating a girl that didn't really, it wasn't really into the party scene. And it allowed me the more I spent time with her, the more it made me kind of be able to feel. I guess that's the best way to put it because I wasn't going out as much. I wasn't pounding myself with everything that I thought defined me before. And that was where really I think the turning point was with my overall outlook on life.

That was definitely by no means the correction for it, but I was an opening, it was an open door to it. And I think that's where I always think about that. It's like that was the turning point to exploring myself on a greater scale. Yeah, the motto I use for this show is I say you've got to make a choice and then that's when the work begins. And you've got to do that work and step into what I call your sharp edges or it's those daily things of discomfort that you have to put yourself

in in order to do the work. And so it sounds like in that period of time, you took that first step that you made the choice that you were going to change. Yeah, I made the choice, but it was still like, it was almost kind of like an inner battle too, still to like, because I would go back and get back into like being around the friends and then I was like, this is who I am in front of these people. How do I kind of adapt to being comfortable as in this person that I am in like that these people, how do I kind of adapt to being comfortable as in this person that I am in like that I want to be now that I'm striving for and being more, I saw myself being more at ease and more calm like rather than like feeling like I needed to be the the crazy

guy. It was more of like I felt this peacefulness or the zen-like feeling of, this is actually the pace I'd like to operate on. Not that craziness over here. And I think honestly, the real, real work that you're talking about really begin actually after I dated the girl. She broke my heart. She broke up with me and it was painful. But I mean, now I don't

even, I'm not even sad about it anymore. I was sad for a while. But at the same time, I made the choice to not revert back when she broke up with me. I made the choice to continue my growth alone and actually not leaning on someone else that is inspiring me. So I think that was when really the major turning point came and the choice came because no one was leading guiding me in that manner to, hey, this is, I'm doing this because someone else is inspiring me. It was my choice to do it or not.

And I made the choice to continue on with my growth journey then. Yeah, one of the first episodes I did, I do the interviews on Tuesdays and then a personal episode on Friday. I called it the mosquito principle. And I said, on this journey, you're going to face a point where you have to conduct a mosquito on it. And what I meant by that is there are people, influences, and activities that happen in a person's life. And until you start facing them, and I define three of them, pain in the ass,

the invisible suffocator, and the blood suckers. And until you start dealing with those things, it's hard to advance because they keep pulling you back to where you are. And did you find in one order for you to fulfill this change, did you have to move away from some of those friends? I'll obviously get away from the activities. Yeah, yeah, 100%. So just to give you a little timeline here, so I started the business in 2009.

2014, I met this girl, started dating her. At the beginning of 2015, you know, the breakup happened. And at this point in time, I was running the business, but I'm more of a not as invested into it as I was before. I was really kind of seeing if I can branch it myself out to a certain extent. And I remember thinking this at the time, I don't want to not know what I could have done with that business if I was clear-headed, if I had the right tools, if I built the team, if I really took control on a grander scale.

And I remember thinking, if I choose to do that, I'm going to have to push away some friends, AKA the number one person I had to push away was my best friend, my business partner, because I know he was hindering the growth of the business at the time. And it was either me give up because of someone else or me take charge and eliminate someone else. And as hard as that was, it was the best decision I made

because even at the time, it was causing me a lot of stress. It made me see what I was made of. And that was probably one of the more powerful things, even though there was many points in time where I was questioning like, I lost the love of my life, lost my best friend, and what am I doing? You know, it's like you're kind of dismantling this community that you have of people that, you know, that you've known and that I've given you this love, and I'm pushing everyone away. But I realized,

as I was pushing people away, it was making me stronger, me more mindful. And that's kind of exactly what I needed to do. I just didn't see that before because I knew it was going to cause me some sort of pain. And I wasn't ready to face that. Yeah. So if you're someone kind of going through this because there you are, you had all these friends, you had this fun nightlife, everything else. And now, all of a sudden, I'm guessing as you're starting to push people out and other things, you're getting more and more time on your hands. And people go through fear of missing out, they go through what do I do with myself? Because it's, you know, I'll tell you, for me, it was

an interesting thing. When I got divorced, you go from me having someone around me for 20 years, plus two kids all the time. Do suddenly I had all these periods of time where it was just me. And in that situation, what people do is they get into this serial relationship thing where they bounce right into another relationship because they don't know how to be by themselves.

And in my case, I started doing that. And it took me finally reaching a point where for two years, I just decided I wasn't gonna date anyone seriously. I was gonna focus on myself and really go in because I, at that point, I wasn't too happy with who I was, but I really came to the realization and until I was kind of myself and started really knowing what made

myself tick, there was no way I was going to make someone else happy and I'm sure that relationship was somewhere, a relationship I got out of that was painful at the time, but looking back, it was probably one of the best things because it allowed me to do personal growth. Yeah, it sounds like for you. You know, it's great that you knew what you needed to. Like, you know, you needed to take the time for you. I definitely felt that way from the beginning. I couldn't even imagine connecting with someone else

at the beginning there. It's funny because obviously I think I was just more broken on the inside and I was trying to pick up those pieces. And to thought about actually even bringing someone else in and having a relationship again never really even kind of across my mind, I guess, that's the best way to put it because I just didn't think I had any feelings for, I couldn't feel someone like, like that for someone else, I guess. So it kind of led me away from like that aspect of jumping back into a relationship and more of into kind of what you just explained

into facing myself and seeing, okay, well, why don't I kind of dissect myself a bit more and figure some things out? Maybe why the relationship didn't work. I mean, and that took a little bit of time too, because I think now I know like we're all on different growth levels. So maybe I just didn't see that at the time, because I was now I know like we're all on different growth levels. So maybe I just didn't see that at the time because I was blinded by love. But for me, it made me kind of see certain things that maybe I need to be looking at that I wasn't looking at before. And one of those things for me to begin with, it was always like just to try to find some sort of fulfillment from what I'm doing in my life. If you don't have something driving you on a grander scale,

you know, like that you wake up in the morning for, it's gonna be easy just to float along and be mindless with a lot of other things. And I think that's kind of what I was searching for by investing that energy into the business. When I, you know, when I had to, when I fired my business partner I think that's kind of what I was searching for by investing that energy into the business. When I fired my business partner and kind of took control of the business on a grander scale, it was, I took this bad situation and I'm going to invest my energy into it and not go back into the, you know, to what I was doing before and to the party scene. I'm going to feed this business and see what I can do. And that was that was the therapy for me.

I think at the at the starting point, I think at first it was to try to prove something. But I realized that no matter what I did, if I was trying to prove something, like I should be doing it for me, I think it was at first it was a little bit driven by, hey, I'll show this person what I can do, but at the end of the day I knew I needed to do it for me and I think that was kind of what led me to eventually leaving the business because I knew it didn't align with me anymore. Okay, and for someone who's listening to the podcast, you have any advice for someone's in that same situation and they're trying to take that first step of Reexamining their self narrative. What advice would you give them? I would take time for yourself to slow down and quiet the noise each day. I would take try to set a time aside where you sit with your thoughts and journal. Honestly, even if you don't never journal before, it doesn't have to be anything structured wise, but I think if you don't

take the time and slow down and quiet out all the other noise in your life, you're never going to be able to think about and or feel what you need. And I'm now, that's what I do every day. I start my day off, not touching my phone, go out, journal, at the beach, at a quiet area. And I try to dissect what might be going on inside of me, am I feeling good? Am I feeling off? Is there something that needs to be corrected? Am I feeling great and just want to keep doubling down on that great feeling? But if you don't take the time for yourself, you don't take the time to shut down and separate yourself and slow down, then you're never going to kind of be able to let life guide you or let yourself.

You're entering being guide you on a grander, because you're going to be following what other people maybe have for you that you desire because you see on, you know, in societies pushing this and you think that you need this or you think that you want that. You got to think about what you want to need. And that's, that means shutting everything else off. Well, you just hit one of my biggest endpoints that I talk about.

And I think that is people live by beliefs instead of values. And to me, the difference is beliefs are everything that society tells you about yourself. And it starts with the zip code you're born into, your parents, you're growing up. But then your friends are with social media says, whereas I think you took the step of figuring out, you know What are what are my values? What's really important to me? And when you make that shift

It it allows you to get rid of those beliefs because you can focus on what's important instead of all this crap That's that's out there that's limiting you from where you need to go. Did you know that Forbes Magazine recently cited that 70% of individuals who do personal development, masterminds, and one-on-one coaching, benefited from better work performance, increased communication skills, and overall better relationships. And we at PassionStruct are obsessed

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And how did that come about? Well, it was when I was closing down my business. Well, and I think, I think I like when I had a desire that I wanted something like, I've spent all my time here like that I've needed, you know, doing the thing that I guess the best way to put is like, I've yielded all that I could from this business.

And I'm ready for something, a new challenge. And I think when you kind of throw that out there, then life shows up and kind of guides you. And the insurance rate came back at the beginning of the year after me putting out that. And it was super high. And I kind of made the decision to, hey, well, this is probably a sign.

And I don't feel resistant. Like I'm losing something. I feel more of like it's opening a door. And it opened up a door for what I told you about my maybe my desire to live in New York. I remember at that moment, I was like, wow, like imagine what the possibilities could be. Let me see, you know, I'm excited about

what whatever our job I might be doing and ever had a desire to, like I said, kind of do certain specific things. I just knew I ran my own business for seven years, and I had two degrees. So I'm not afraid of getting a job anymore, because I feel like I knew my value. And that, when I went to New York,

I moved to New York in 2016, and I just was very, very open-minded, I think, with being in a place that I wanted to be at. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but at least I knew that I wanted to be in New York, get that experience. And I was really excited and happy in channeling joy at the time, because, think about this, like, I just went from not even thinking I would hit that point to looking

back about how long that took me to get to the point. I think I had that desire to go to New York for almost like 15 years. And then to actually have one of your dreams start coming to life just to get to live there, that's a real powerful feeling. And I think that's kind of what I leaned on. I leaned on the confidence in that. I leaned on the confidence when I cut my hair like the summer before I moved. And it was, I remember my hairdresser saying like, you cut your hair, you can do anything. And I literally harness that feeling because that's kind of what defined me. My hair for like the 15 years that I had it was, you know, you're, I'm letting go of this person in a certain way, this part of me and not afraid with becoming more of myself and feeling like what aligns with me. And when I had that, that whole kind of

greater confidence and openness, I got into the modeling industry when I first moved to New York. Never had a really set plan with that or anything, but it, I think when you're open and life is funny, it guides you and things start clicking and it clicked for me. It literally, I mean, it was, it took effort and work. No one just said, hey, here's, on in. I had to get in. But at the same time, when that door opened to that possibility, I wasn't close-minded. I wasn't closed-eyed. I literally saw, Hey, wow, and I leaned towards the feeling and the feeling felt really good with what I was doing with that. And I thought, Well, this might not be the end all, but this, I want to explore this and see where it takes me. And that was the very starting point of everything

that I've been doing now. And okay, so you, so just back cracking, when you had the longer hair, at that point, you weren't doing any modeling at all. Moved into New York and it kind of all came together there. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. And I mean, honestly, there was there's many moments in time through like my college days or whatever that people would be like, Oh, you should do modeling or something. And I just be like, Yeah, okay. Well, like, you want to be my manager, do you want to like, I don't know anything about that stuff. You know, like, Hey, I'll jump in if you want to like guide me through it. And but like, it wasn't like even my intention to go to New York and do that. It was just like, I was ready to cut my hair at the time. And I cut it right before my

cousin's wedding. And I remember I showed up there and surprised everyone because it was like, no, I never didn't tell anyone. And but the thing is like, it literally, a lot of people And but the thing is like it literally a lot of people are kind of same way with my business. When I cut my hair off, I wasn't like, this is part of me. I was like, I feel like the weight lifted, same as with the business. Wasn't like the insurance rates come back 80% higher. I know I'm probably not going to have the business anymore weight lifted. So that's where I think a lot of that confidence came from, like, I felt less pressure and it allowed me to be more open. And did that lead you then directly into the

acting or did that come? Yeah. Later on. Well, I started doing the modeling and then I got in 2017, I signed with two agencies and they just started sending me auditions for like different little acting things and I was like thinking to myself, I don't even know what I'm doing and no one's taught me this, no one even, but I kind of leaned on the same thought of like no one taught me modeling, I kind of just like I learned what I needed to do and I did it and I'm leaning towards feeling where what feels. But with the acting thing, I mean, I don't really call myself a like a greater actor because I don't think I have a desire for that. I do commercials and I like the challenge of it. That's the thing because I like the

challenge of it because it's in the creativity of it. I give it to the people that want to act on TV shows and movies and all that because that's their passion. And I think it's important to know if I don't have that passion, then I don't want to just do it just because I want fame and fortune. And I think that really kind of, I took that mentality from the start is people would say, oh, you should do this or that. I'd like to learn the tool a bit better, but I don't know if that's like something that I feel ad urge to deep down that, you know, I desire. And I think that goes back to what we were talking about with, you know, don't let society kind of guide you lean towards like what you know on the inside and take the time to get to know yourself and what you're passionate about. Because the people that

are going to make it are the ones that will keep showing up because they're passionate to learn, to keep handling the rejection, all of that. So the acting thing is just on a minimal scale. It's, I've done commercials, had a couple little small lines here and there, but it's nothing that I don't think is a really huge part of me. I think more so. I'm more looked at as a model because I do more modeling jobs and acting, but it's still a great outlet. Is there still a great tool and I still love to do it? So I think that's the number one thing I've learned with the modeling and acting is, I don't think I'll ever stop doing it because I enjoy it. So even maybe I do it less than more I build up my coaching, but why stop doing something to be enjoyed?

You know, you're known as the vegan model. So I wanted to hear that story because I have a 17 year old and from kind of the period that she was like 11, maybe 15 and a half, she went through the, going from a vegetarian to a certain vegan. And then in her case, we've had to kind of pull her out of it because at one point her blood work was showing that she wasn't getting enough protein

and the nutrients into her system. So, you know, I'm guessing throughout most of your life, you are not a vegan. What, how does that to happen? Well, I was kind of go back to this and I say, you know, when you make one change in your life, the changes that follow become a bit easier. And I was just on this changed train back in, you know,

2016, 2017 where, you know, cut my hair, moved in New York and get in the modeling industry and right at when I got in the modeling industry, like I remember watching a documentary what the health and one vegan the next day, it spoke to me. But I think also too, like what got me there was being open, connected with myself. I can feel that now. And I think that's where the more I dissect my past, and the more I kind of look at what's worked for me is, and that's what I teach people now, is like, if you're not open to hearing a message, you're not connected to you, you're never going to be able

to maybe pick up on the message. So the vegan thing came right around the time where I was just really channeling this openness flow. And I mean, I still, I'm channeling it now, but I mean, it was one thing after the next with that. And when I did it, I had no clue about anything about vegan life. Honestly, I just think that there was something, and when I really kind of look back at this moment,

because I just hit four years of being vegan, like I think it was like two days ago. But when I look back at my very starting point and what kind of led me to doing it, I remember for a while since I was really in tune to how I felt, you know, just getting really more in tune to how I felt, I was always feeling kind of like there was, I wasn't getting satisfied.

And, and something was like, I was always hungry. And it was this, so I was willing to try something different. That's the best way. So I was looking for, hey, maybe there's a better way to doing this. And that's kind of where the openness came from, like the vegan documentary that I watched was based on nutrition. And I, and I've been really passionate about learning, you know, how to better my nutrition for years. So that was where the beginning point started with it. And I just used my free time, you know, in the modeling

industry, you know, you're not working a nine to five. I used a lot of my free time to do research and teach myself about it and how to do it. And I was, I let my interest guide me. And that's, and I think that's the, the way I was able to thrive with it, because I wanted to do it right if I was going to do it. I didn't want to, I wanted to do it right if I was going to do it. I didn't want to, I wanted to know make sure I was getting enough nutrients, make sure I was getting, you know, and what, how could I get them and all of that. So I put a lot of work into it or effort into it figuring that out and that's what I think has allowed me to kind of thrive with it on the grander scale. For yourself, whether it is lead, cognitive ability, energy level, what have you

noticed in these four years since you went vegan? Because each person has a different response to diet. So for you becoming a vegan, what has it changed about how you feel and how you've formed? Yeah, becoming vegan for me. It never had, I never had this mind blown, like bodily change of like, wow, I have so much energy. Because I was eating pretty good before. I was eating pretty clean. My feeling came in the mind. I became more mindful. It opened up my mind to so much more, and I'm more connected to myself. So it made me more clearheaded. That's where my feeling came from. From eating, not just eating the foods, but from learning.

And that's where I became the activist that I am, as in I want to live a better life for the planet. So I'm being more mindful about say, okay, you got a plastic cup. But and this is something as simple as this. I remember when I was growing up in elementary school, middle school, recycle, recycle, recycle, you know, plastics bad and this and that and it's on more of a minimal scale. Even when I was growing, you know, like in my party bus business where you have all these cups and we're throwing all this waste around, I didn't care one bit about that stuff. But when I became vegan and I started connecting to the feeling inside me, opening my mind to absorbing the information because I was taking care of myself at the time, I was able to look at it in a different way,

and see like, wow, I can now give a damn about something bigger than me. And that's where I say, the mindfulness started really coming into play, because if I'm taking care of me, then I can take care of something else. Before I couldn't have done that and I couldn't make that connection. So that's what really what veganism did to me.

OK, and I saw reading about you and your background that you do work for organizations like PETA, Compassion is beautiful, Fridays for Future, and then I noticed the lonely whale. And I wanted to ask you, I happened to see a Netflix documentary called Sea Spiracy. I'm not sure if you've seen it. I've seen it.

Yeah, great documentary. But for me, it was very eye-opening in many, many different ways. One of the most eye-opening things I've learned on truly what's killing coral reefs, what's the whole ecosystem of how the commercial fishermen can grow what's being classified is safe and humane fishing because they own those organizations who certify it, willing to find out and certify it at all. But it was just it was it's not opening that we're so over fishing that that over fishing

is causing in many ways climate change carbon dioxide to build up which is killing all the coral reefs. And if we don't do something about this, what I learned from this is if you've got dead seas, you're going gonna have dead population. Can you give your thoughts on that from the standpoint of some of the activism that you're doing? Okay, no, great documentary.

Like I'm glad you watched it. I'm glad you were able to like connect with it a bit. But so the activism that I do, and this is something that I look at in a very strong way is people, they're looking at the biggest part of everything. Hey, we need to make different laws, different things to, hey, how do we control the fishermen? How do we do that? Well, at the end of the day, what I find the most empowering thing is what you put on

your plate because you can control it. You can't control necessarily what someone else does, but you can control what you do, and that's what you put on your plate. Because that will create a ripple effect of the impact. So the thing is we have to lean towards the things that are in our control. We don't know what's going on out there, but if there's no demand for, then it's going to slow down. So if we want to really create an impact, it's about what we eat. And that's where I've really harness my activism work on is I not push you on a vegan diet on anyone. And I actually changed my, I got away from the vegan model name as branding myself that

way because I didn't want it to be a turn off with people. And I, and honestly, there's so much more that defines me than being vegan, but I think the, on a grander scale, we just need to eat less, like fish, we need to eat less meat. And that's not only just because of the planet, it's for even nutritional reasons, you know, it'll better, it'll, a, better our health. So you better your health and actually, it's cheaper too. So I always say it's like the trifecta. It's like you save money save your you know your health And you save the planet at the same time so that the thing is it's rather than looking at the things we can't control

We need to look at the things we can't control and it's it's what we put on our plate And then I'm gonna take you to a completely different topic Because I think the women who are who might listen to her watching and if they know who you are or anything about you, they're going to want to hear you talk about weight loss. You know, I know you're a physical trainer, but you will also are a health and wellness coach. And one of my favorite episodes I have done so far was with a young lady named MacBrazina and she brands herself the human builder and she has this concept that she went into it to be

a physical trainer and but she said you know when you're doing physical training it's really about an hour of a person's life but what do you do with the other 23 hours because that's where the magic happens and so you know that's where her whole thing is about it's yeah you can come into the gym but if you're not doing everything that you need you need to be doing those other 23 hours then you know what's the point so is this similar to the way you you are embracing your coaching? Yeah, 100%. The thing is, it's funny is I became a personal trainer and I got certified with never the intention to train people in the gym. I never had that intention.

It was to gain more knowledge and then to be able to gain another nutrition certification onto the personal training certification, which I have. So that was never my, hey, I think people need help with working out, because that's not my passion. It's never like to teach someone an exercise. I'm more passionate about teaching people the habits and teaching them how to self-discipline themselves

and to harness their control over certain things. And I think that's what she's doing is allowing very much with me because I teach more so people how to do everything outside the gym. Sure, I help them as well, give them maybe a plan to go about if they want to try to get certain, it depends on what their goals are, obviously. But if you are interested in weight loss, the biggest piece of the puzzle is what you're

putting in your body. And also what you're putting in your mind, you know, wellness, certain things like even a stress level can prevent you from losing weight, You know, there's so many different factors, but if you're not overall well, then you're never going to shed the weight in a way that is probably going to be, you're actually going to probably be approaching it wrong. If you're not looking at all the areas of your life through the sleep schedule to the morning routine, to what you're putting in your mind each day, to the habits you do, to what you're putting in your body each day. Yeah, it's interesting you bring that up. I was listening to a Tom Billy you impactary

podcast, one of my favorite when I can get a chance to hear him. He had a person on who had written a book, you know, and most people will say it's calories and calories out. And he was like, that's not it at all. Because maybe a tiny bit, he goes, but it's more what makes up those calories. That's important, you know, because you could be putting crap calories and you were, you could be, but he said, it's also, what's your cortisol level? You know, how a stress impacting in you are you getting sleep? Are you running time for mindfulness? He's like, yeah, if he is violent in his research, it's similar. What you're saying is it's a group of different things that all have to come together.

But if someone tells you it's just calorie and calorie out, you can eat some pretty crappy calories. And I guarantee you, if you're not eating the right calorie intake, it's probably not going to do anything. No, exactly. And I think the funny thing is it's like all our bodies are we're all different. We don't approach things like that. You don't even approach it from like even like a in a school standpoint of growing up. Then you've got a elementary school or middle school or high school. But teaching everyone like they're on the same learning curve or that's how they learn. This is what maybe I learned differently than you or this is the way I like to be taught. But it's a standardized way. And even

when people, you find a lot of coaches out there, even from nutrition coaches or fitness coaches, any type of coaches, they'll want to put up a library of things. And so, hey, this is the best way to do it. How do you know it's the best way for everyone? Because we're all different. And what I like to do with my clients is I really like to dissect their lives and kind of and dissect them and try to get them to open up on a grander scale.

Because I think when you open up kind of what I told you before is how I made all the changes to my life, when you open up and, and keep peeling off those layers, that's when you can really thrive with your overall wellness. And the diet is just, it's a bigger piece, but at the same time, if you're putting up a block in other areas of your life, the diet might not do do you just this the way you want it to so I think there's a there's a lot of beauty around leaning towards the feeling too and I'm doing it out of joy Rather than doing it just to do it as in looking at it as work all the time. I had a client recently that you know she lost about 12 pounds in the first three months and almost mainly through the diet.

I think in a lot of the little small changes and I remember she told me like she started going to the gym and she was rushing out of the gym because she's on the time crunch and she, I think there's a lot of connection when if you're not being fully present to absorb that activity, if you're not being fully present to enjoy that activity, your body's gonna know that you're just doing it and you're not even, maybe your body doesn't even know that you really do it because it's just like your mind is somewhere else. If you actually

feel this some me up, I'm like more of a mindfulness coach because I really want our mindset coach because that's the foundation for your overall wellness because it's going to keep you eating the same thing. It's going to keep you like navigating towards, you know, the things that you enjoy, keep you on the right path all the time. So health coach, yes, my mindset is where it all begins though. For me, the gym is one of my most sacred time periods, and I know people who sing me in the gym wonder why I go at it so hard, because I work out hard, and then I do spin class, I do other things.

And I'm like, well, because I like to put myself intentionally in discomfort, because wakes up the body, wakes up soul, and it, you know, it makes me realize that who wants to do claims someday or military press or other things, even when I'm in the spin class, sometimes I'm like, this is the last place on earth, I want to be. But it's having that willpower to get through it and realizing that if you can get through that, then whatever else is going to hit you in the day, you can get through it as well. And I love that. I love that. That's kind of how I approach the gym is if I can do that one at I can do anything in the day. That's awesome. That's pretty much the same way I kind of go in.

That's my therapy. That was my therapy before. I started using a mental health therapist. This is my time to focus on me and to challenge myself. And there's this greater beauty behind pushing yourself past a certain point, especially when you don't want to do it. Or pushing yourself past a certain point that you've never don't want to do it, or pushing yourself past a certain point that you've never gone before. It's because it's very empowering.

You gain more confidence in yourself that you can handle anything and that you can do anything. That's where the connection really becomes very powerful is when you can align with all those things and keep, and you want to keep doing them because you say, okay, well, I didn't think I could get this far before. And then like, let me, let me keep going. And then that's where I think the, I approached myself growth from was, wow, I thought I knew myself, you know, a little bit, you know, a couple of years ago. And then now it's like, whoa, like now I know myself even more because I never stopped. It's just, you're opening the door and you wanna keep getting better.

And I think that's, honestly, I think that's the meaning of life is really how to do life better and how to be more present with it. Well, I'm gonna end there because I don't think you could say it any better. But I always like to give the guest the opportunity to give themselves a shout out and if anyone would like to get in contact with you, I'll put to give the guest the opportunity to give themselves a shout out.

And if anyone would like to get in contact with you, what are some, I'll put them in the show notes, but what are some mechanisms for them to do that? Okay. Well, I go by the Wellness Wingman and I would love to connect with you guys via my website PhilipMangin.com. I offer a free 30 minute coaching call and I call myself the wellness wingman because I really am a support system for people throughout their journey of change. I don't really just give them a plan. I guide them through it. I'm there. They're support system until they can fly on their own. If you want to learn more, you can go to my Instagram page, Philip Anthony Mangon. I do a lot of my coaching posts through that,

just mindset, anything nutrition-wise. So I'd love to connect with you, don't hesitate to reach out. Well, thank you so much for being on the show. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate you, John. I so much enjoyed that interview with Philip Anthony Mangon.

And we covered so much ground, everything from his party boss life to that kind of cool voice that he made to change his life direction. And now, by looking at his inner narrative, that opened up the universe for him and all these other possibilities that came into his life. And during today's episode, I talked about a number of other episodes that I've done leading up to this one with Villa that I wanted to give you some insight on if you want

to check them out. One of those was with Abigail Barnes and we talked about how her life changed in an instant when she had a stroke at 32. And how she went from living the life of Prada, Praseko, and parties. Similar to Philip Anthony Mandin today, to changing her complete outlook on life and reigniting how time matters so much and everything that she does in her life. And so that's what we talk about, how to be a scientist in your own life and earn your time into productivity. And I also brought up Sasuke Lightstar,

who underwent breast cancer and following that, completely changed her life's journey as well, through that encounter. And she's written a book called The Cancer Misfit, and now is such an inspiration to so many. So another great episode to check out. And then lastly, I talked about a four concept that I have called the mosquito principle,

one of my early and most listened to and watched episodes that I've ever done. And it's all about how you can do a mosquito audit in your own life. Thank you as always for listening and watching to this show and if you really loved it I would appreciate a five star rating and you sharing it with other growth-funded friends who could get inspired through today's message. Remember make a choice or card step into your sharp edges. Thank you so much for joining us.

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