Determined Society with Shawn French | Adversity & Mindset - Finding Hidden Gems with Travis Wallace: Uncovering the Best-kept Secrets and Unexpected Adventures

Episode Date: November 25, 2024

In this dynamic episode of The Determined Society, host Shawn French engages in an inspiring conversation with Travis Wallace, a reinvention specialist who shares his journey of overcoming personal challenges to help others reinvent themselves. From navigating life-changing experiences like his father's imprisonment and a brief marriage to transforming lives through a unique 100-day reinvention formula, Travis dives deep into the significance of self-love, personal growth, and the power of connection. Whether you're seeking to better yourself physically, mentally, or emotionally, this episode offers invaluable insights and practical advice to guide you on your own path to becoming a better version of yourself. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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How the hell do you think you're going to feel? Is it perfect the way you are? Hold on. Why are you there? Why are you there? Please. No, you're fucking not. No. Like my girlfriend, Sophia, when she reinvented herself. Let me take what she hears her love.

Oh, you looked amazing. You look amazing both pictures. Just so you know, you were fine before, but I love you. It's like, that's not the point. The point is she wanted to become a better version of herself than you have, you know, I'm canceled. I'm canceled. I'm canceled.

What's up? Everything I'm doing. Welcome back to another episode of the entirety. I'm putting an overtime. I'll be working. Just know I'm a go for mine because I earned it. They watch and I know it's time. I confirmed. I confirmed. follow all that kind of good stuff. Follow all of our socials too at the Determined Society on Instagram and the Sean French on Instagram as S-H-A-W-N, by the way. Today I have with me an amazing guest my boy Travis Wallace.

I was introduced to him by our mutual friend Michael Little. We're doing an event together which we will talk about but he is a reinvention specialist. He's a total badass. I absolutely love him. Travis, man, welcome to the show.

Appreciate you having me. Appreciate that, dude. It's crazy, man. we were connected. I'm like, man, I dig this guy, but I didn't realize you were in Miami. I started watching your, you know, I'm like, who is this? Okay, I started watching everything you're doing on Instagram, all this kind of shit. I'm like, there's a lot of beaches. Okay, those are not, those are not California beaches? I'm like, dude, where are you located Miami? And then I'm in Fort Myers, Naples, and now we're sitting here in person, man. Power

of connection, dude. Appreciate you. I appreciate you having me. As soon as you, as soon as you message me, I said, oh, it's a no brainer. No brainer. It's funny because like we, we talked about early on about, you know, good connections, right? And I think it's something that, you know, when we were talking about off air just now, I want to bring it to the audience right away, is there's no small moments. You know, everything is big.

Every introduction, every conversation, every relationship can potentially be that one, right? So how do you think about that on an everyday basis? Because for me, it's natural, right? How do you go through that? So I actually like live by a saying, lot of people do, but it's brick by brick. And I think that is extremely powerful because it always reminds you, like, there's not one brick that's more important than the other, you know. So obviously,

you got to lay the foundation, but I think a lot of times people look at the big picture of things. You look at the big picture of anything, you're going to get lost. You know, I've all, you know, I've been coached to think like, don't worry about how you're going to do. Who can help you do something? And when you start to focus on the who can help me, who can teach me, the answers will be there. So there's no small, there's no small, you know, they're all big wins. They seem small, but they're all big because it's literally taken to where you're trying to get to. I went to this local event yesterday.

Friend John Huffman, put it on. And at the beginning, he said, don't think about what you need. Think about who you need. Powerful. And it do, like, it's funny because when you're in the grind of building or reinventing your body, reinventing

your financials or your career, or just really building a brand of something like this, you tend to look at, or I tend to look at that big mountain top. And it's like, holy shit, look at that big mountain. That's Mount Kilimanjaro. How the fuck am I going to get up that thing? But the point is, right, you take that brick and you lay it. Then you lay another one. And then you focus on the systems and the processes. And so, but God dang, dude, I want you to, first of all, I got audience, my apologies. Let me back up. I want you to, you know, give the audience a little bit

a background on you, who you are, what you are doing, and what you're an expert at. So I'm a former Division I one athlete at the University of North Florida, played basketball there, and then played pro. And I'm going to take you a little bit through the story because of my background of why I'm so passionate about helping people reinvent themselves. So first, but at age of six, before we even get to, when I was a colleague, my father was served at life sentence in prison. All right. So at the age of six, I was automatically forced to have to reinvent myself obviously didn't understand what that was in six years old. Your fault was just taken away from you. I never forget today where my mom sits me down. I talk to speak about this in my book.

My mom sits me down and where the Franklin Park is due in Boston, Massachusetts. And she whispers in my ear, hey, your dad, you know, he got some trouble. He's going away for a while. So good thing for him in Massachusetts, life sentence is 15 years. I say that's good, but it's better than sitting there forever. So, but I remember her telling me, like, my whole world just completely turned upside down. Like, I'm six years old at that time. When you're when you're six, your dad is Superman, you know, and hopefully people still feel that way about their father, but, like, that was my Superman. Like, that's the dad who's driving without his hands, but he's driving with his knees, and you're too young to realize that. Like, that's who he was. So he went

away and realized, you know, I'm growing up without a father, you know, and I'm growing, I'm seeing my friends, and they're playing basketball, playing football, their parents are at the game. My mom's only there. Sometimes she has a nine to five, so she may not be able to make the game. So I was that kid. So that was, like, my first time of understanding that, like, you had to become somebody new. Obviously, I didn't understand what reinvention was. By the age of 22, my whole life has been basketball. High school, basketball star, go to Division I, play University of North Florida, go play pro and Phelan in Slovakia. All of a sudden, I'm like, I can't do this forever, man. Like, I'm not making life changing money. I live in Slovakia. Like, it's nothing,

you know, it's like, yeah, like, come on now, let's be real. You know, so. I'm throwing shade, but like, what's it like? Mr. Third World is legit. I'm out of. Finnna was nice. That's bad. Slovakia, Finland is going. because, you know, the Western, but you get to Eastern Europe, you plan with fire. So I got there, I'm like, all right, I'm not trying to be soft,

but I can't live out here. Like, this is, like, you know, so end up coming back home. And when I came back home, I had to get a job. I live with my mom. I got a job. So now I'm at Home Depot,

at the local Home Depot of where I went to high school. So now I'm at the Home Depot and I have a hood on the entire time. You know, that's Travis Wall. It's like, though, aren't you in Europe playing? Aren't you? I'm dealing with that. I got an apron on, I got the hoodie on, so people don't see my face. So I had to build myself back up.

You know, how to build myself back up and understanding, you know, like, who am I? I had to create a whole new identity. Like, I don't even know who I am. I mean, you're a former athlete, so you understand it, dude. It's nothing to play with, like, I think a light truck, Beau. People understand. You think, you, shit. MLB, I'm going to the MLD.

Nobody can tell me. What do you mean? What if it doesn't happen? You're talking about. You talk about. Then I found myself I'm driving a tow truck. I don't know how to do this shit. Oh, man.

But I mean, and to your point, dude, like, I can imagine because like, when you're talking about that, I'm like, oh, man, he's sitting there in his hometown, working at Home Depot, and you're getting these people, dude, aren't you fucking professional basketball player? You're like, no, I'm an employee at Home Depot. And that's the reality of it, right? And, you know, I was lucky enough to where, you know, when I did my stint as a tow truck driver, it was here in Florida. I grew up in Cali. So anyway, I don't want to interrupt. But that's the point, right? Like, that's the fucking moment.

Like, we all are forced to do things sometimes that we don't want to do. So, yeah. So, you know, life forced that upon me. And I'm like, all right, I'm at Home Depot trying to figure it out. Like, like I said, mind-blowing. Third one I'm going to speak on, and I also speak on this in my book. At 30, I got married. I got married at 30 years old.

Okay. I had a gnomon in two weeks. Two weeks. Two weeks. The nomad was already in there. We'll give it a month, but it probably got spinalized in a month. But like about two, three, it was over. It was done, huh?

And what happened was I got married for the wrong reasons. You know, I've only known it for eight months. I was moving. That was the only way she was going to move with me through religious, you know, religion and things like that. So I was like, you know what? I'm a married. You know, hopefully, you know, throughout the time of, you know, the marriage, I will start to feel a certain way. So now, imagine people fly down to your wedding, family, every, come on, man.

Dude, I'm sorry. I love you. Come on. I'm fucking laughing right now. Like, eventually, maybe I'll like this chick, though? Like, but when we're young, we do shit like that. So, and this is the thing, 33. This is, this is three years.

This is about three years ago. So, okay. It's, my thing is, you go through that situation where, you know, you call, like, I can't do this. This is not what, you know, I didn't know whatever that was doing. Like, people flew to your wedding. People do it. You're embarrassed. People calling your phone.

Like, yo, man, how was it a month in? in marriage. So now I'm like, all right. Who am I? Who do I want to be? What do I, like, what do I stand for? Because certain things that have happened in my life, that doesn't define me. These are things that happen. So as I get into why I'm so passionate about that and why I help people reinvent themselves because I've been, I've been there. And I've been there. So that, that's why I'm extremely passionate about it, like helping people and, and letting them see, like, who you are now. That's not who you are. You are who you will become. Dude, this is one of my favorite conversations, and it's no shock that we're actually going down this road.

Because I think reinvention, and you've mentioned your book, you have a book coming out. So I want to give you an opportunity to talk about that because the word reinvention, I think, used in the right way and in the context that you are, is super powerful, right? We are dealing with who we are at the current moment is a list of beliefs that we have chose to subscribe to. right and and I think in everybody's life I know this is true for me that I'm on Mount Kilimanjaro in some areas and I'm at the fucking base level in other areas and it's hard and the hard part is is trying to reinvent the person at base camp to reach the guy at the top of the mountain right so how in your book do you do you go through how to get different aspects of life on the same level for sure uh So when I speak on reinvention, so we call it a formula. I have the formula to reinvent people in a hundred days. And how we explain the formula, it's a battle between reinvention and stagnation. So that person at the bottom is probably experiencing some type of stagnation.

Like they just won't move, you know. And then you have a person who's at the top of in your life where they've constantly reinventing themselves to get to the top. So as we're sitting here and I'm looking at this beautiful place and we're speaking and you plug out, is going well, you've continuously reinvented this aspect of your life. It hasn't stopped. It hasn't stopped. But as we all have, there's some place in our life where we're like, that place is extremely stagnant.

Yeah. Stagnant. And what I do is I help people understand, like, there's a whole cycle. And we're speaking on the reinvention cycle. We always start rewire. You have to rewire your thoughts. You have to rewire like how you feel about yourself, how you look about yourself, before you do anything.

All right? So as soon as you finish, we have to recommit. Now you have to recommit to the promise. The promise that you made to yourself, we have to recommit to whatever that is. And we actually go through the reinvention process. That is the actual getting your hands dirty of whatever you're trying to do. So, hey, you tell yourself, hey, I want to start a podcast. I'm going to be one.

I'm at the best podcast out there. You're telling yourself that you're wire yourself. You recommit. Now you recommit to the promise. You're doing the things that, you know, you know you need to do reinvent is actually making to come to life. And the last cycle of the reinvention cycle is the repeat. Now, the beauty of repeat is you go back to rewire.

You challenge everything you've learned, everything that you've went through in terms of to reinvent yourself. So it's a continuously cycle. But the thing about the cycle is when you go back to the top to rewire, you're not just doing the same things over again. So when you go through this cycle with the podcast, you can't start from here. Let's do it all over again. What can I be better at? What can I do to help this grow? You're not just being stagnant.

And the stagnation cycle, I'll go through that really, really quick. It's first it starts with satisfaction. People become satisfied. Oh, life's great. life can't be better, this is it. All right, then you into a standstill where you don't move. Now you're stuck in mud. I like to call it paralysis prison.

Yeah, where, you know, if you ever has sleep paralysis, you can't move, you're up and you can't move. That's like standstill. Standstill is like you just won't move. And then you go into suffer. Now you're dealing with whatever pain you're dealing with and then that sequence, the last epic sequence. And how this all started to kind of rewind it back a little bit is

the fact that I've got to work with professional athletes, NBA champions, Olympians, Hall of Famers for the last 10 years, years of my life, this is how they, this is how they are. This is why they separate themselves. They constantly reinvent themselves. The money don't matter. The car don't matter. The house don't matter. None of that stuff matters. So me having that, you know, unique background and experiences, I try to implement that into people. Like, the materialist of things aren't going to do it. I've seen people who, one of my $30 million a year playing a game he loves, still trying to get better, still trying to get better. So if I can, you know, deliver that to people in their own life to get

them, you know, out of stagnation and just stop accepting, you know, what their life has become. Like, you have so much more that you could be. It's crazy. Like, I think stagnation comes from the fear of things not working. You know what I'm saying. Sure. Right. It's like, well, why would I go do that? Because what if it doesn't work? What if I just end up right back here and then that fear sets in? What, what have you seen as the kind of root cause of stagnation? Other than, you know, being satisfied, you know? I think the biggest thing is, you know, I think the biggest thing is, It's belief, man. Like, it's, people don't believe in themselves.

They don't believe they can do much. Yeah. You know, they don't, it's just, it's a scary, it's a scary place to be. And it's like, if you never, like you said, they're scared they're going to feel, whatever it may be. It's like, well, how are you supposed to succeed? People have to understand. In order to succeed is something that has to be a risk of failure. It's, it's impossible.

So a lot of people want something where it's just 100% success. Well, I mean, that's going to be tying the- What's the fuck is that? That's going to be put on your T-shirt. That's going to be stuff that doesn't require my trip up, putting on my t-shirt. And you didn't. I still feel like I did. So, yeah, I think my biggest thing that I deal with is, like I said, getting people from being stagnant, getting them to move, maybe even helping them realize like they're stagnant. And one thing that I deal with, and I'm pretty sure you can have some, you know, some saying this in terms of your life.

But I can have people contact me and say, hey, I want to reinvent myself. Like, I've seen all the things you're doing. I want to do it. not pull the trigger. And then six months later, they're still, the same problem you told me you had, I can look at it and you still have the problem.

So it's just like, how do you get people to move and how do you get people to understand? Like, you are stagnant in that area that you ask for help, but it's, I don't know if I,

I see these pictures on, I don't know if I can do it. Oh, you can do it. I don't think they're willing to do what it takes, right? I think that's where I get stuck. Like, look, I mean, dude, you know,

you could look at pictures of me a year ago to now, and you can say, like, okay, you're not doing the consistent audits for your meals that you did a year ago. So I think there's a choice of like, and people going, well, you know what? In this season of my life, I'm just truly not committed. And it's sad and it bothers me personally every day, right? And again, like, the audience listening and watch it. Like, I'm always real on the show.

And I always talk about my struggles because I think what is most annoying for everybody is when people that have podcast or have big brands, they act like they don't have any problems and like everything's great, making all this money, you know, lovely, lovely, lovely. And that's not the way life is. We all struggle with shit. And my whole life I've always struggled

with that fluctuation of weight, right? And I know as soon as I stop subscribing to that low-ass temperature and crank it up and become that person, everything else in my life will even sore even more. because that's the only thing hold me back in my life. 100% of great. Dude, that that's the only thing.

And I know that. And I just think some people, whether it's, they're not willing to do the work or they might look at the price tag, like, fuck, I'm not worth that. I can't do that. And that's the scary thing to me.

You are like, what you're telling, what they're telling somebody, if you know you need help with something. You know, look. And the thing about reinvent yourself physically, yes, a lot of stuff happened mentally, but when you release yourself

from being, you know, having confidence, like you go and gain confidence, the world opens up. Yeah. The world, you know how many people won't get in front of a camera? A lot. And they have a business, but they won't get in front of the camera.

The problem is it's not that you don't want to get in front of camera. You won't take care of the thing that you know you really need to take care of. Yeah. Because you're trying to get around everything around there and you can never get to the center. Where it's like, that's why I've helped people. Like, I don't care what you do.

We can get you to fall back in love with yourself and have self-love. The floodgates open up. Okay. for the people listening, like if that's a big thing right there, is being able to fall back in love with yourself, for some people have never been in love with themselves. And I think that, you know,

there's always been a negative connotation in this world, but you love yourself too much, you're conceded, this and that. But I think there's a healthy aspect of loving yourself. For those that have either A, never loved themselves, like you're talking about, or that need to fall back in love with themselves, what are some of the strategies that you could share with on the show?

I mean, there's a million of those is getting people to fall in love back in themselves, but, I mean, I think that's why, like, for me, it's like the first step you can do is it doesn't have to be with me. Like, just doing something for yourself, invest in yourself. There are so many people who wake up, go to work, produce everything for something else, and come home and leave themselves with nothing. You know, so I'm just like, let's just start by doing something for you, for you.

You know, when's the last time you've done something for you? And I don't want people to think it's a selfish act because the better I am, when you invite me to your podcast, the better I can perform for you. Exactly. Everything I do and everything we try to do, if you just think it's self-centered, it's like, I don't look at it that way.

But why is being selfish labeled bad? Because let's think of this. Because, oh, this is a hot topic here. Right? This is a hot topic. I have three beautiful children and I have a beautiful wife. Okay.

If I'm not the best version of myself, which I'm not right now, they're getting a lot from me and everything in our house is just fine. but don't they deserve more? And the only way they can get more is if I demand more of myself and I'm more selfish with my time

and it could be from the hours of 3.30 a.m. to 6 before they're even awake. But I'm being selfish at that point, right? In selfish, it's a nasty word, but if you break it down, it's self-ish. You're about yourself in this particular moment. What are your thoughts on that word, man? Because I just don't think it's a bad thing.

So when people end in my program, it's funny you say that. In 100 days, you have to be selfish. It's the only way you're going to succeed. You have to, I have to give me 100 days of you being selfish. Now, what does that mean? I'm not going to party with you. I'm not going to drink. I'm not going to do things that I know are going to, you know, be a detriment to me

as I'm trying to rebuild or reinvent myself. So you have to be selfish. You know, you have to have those moments where you're like, for this 100 days, and hopefully it lasts longer that, but just doing my program, you have to be. to be selfish so you can help other people. If you never help yourself, you can't help people. And I think that's the message that people kind of forget sometimes.

It's like, a lot of my clients throughout the program, they're like, I've lost friends. I've lost this. They just don't understand what I'm trying to do. Like, you know, they want me to party. They want me to drink all the time. It's just like, you know, you have to pick, you have to pick a side when you're trying to reimbic. Is that typically the one thing is the drinking and the party?

It's their friends. Friends is the number one. It's the number. And after, I'm so glad I'm not in that world anymore. And after that's not it for me. And after they're done, after they're done, they transform their body, they transform their mind. They start to look at their friends differently or their friends differently.

And I say, you know, it's funny. Those were your friends, which means that's how you thought. That's how you were. So don't just start, you know, all these things. You was one of them. Yeah, don't judge. You was one of them. You just went through a process.

You had somebody coach you and help you reinvent yourself. But you have to understand where they were. at because you were once there and same thing goes for me you know what I'm saying I was once at certain places like when I started I've been in different places yeah but I'm not going to look back at those people like that was with like oh you don't know I just did the work to build myself up it's funny because I think when people choose to not drink and go out and party and eat clean and not go out to eat there is that judgment from society and it's like you know I talked about this on my last show with Levi Kelly

It's like, why is it that the people doing the right things and doing the right shit are being labeled as the tryhards, right? And getting a black eye, so to speak, amongst leaders in their company or even coaches. Because sometimes coaches can get turned off by somebody who works hard. It's like, wait a second. Aren't I your model player? Like, I'm, you know, when I'm not at the field, I'm hiking or working out or doing something. I just feel that, you know, that's always going to be a point of contention for some people. And I'm just so grateful that through, there was a time probably 2000 and, well, 2020 through

2020, I was very focused in on all that, right? Very focused in on, you know, barely any cheap meals, no drinking. And I really don't drink now. Like if I go to a wedding, like I'll have some beers. But what happened is I started naturally just weeding people out and they never got back in because I just didn't like waking up with a hangover anymore. I was excited about waking up and being coherent. For me, what's crazy is that's not what trips me up. It's how I feel my life is just busy, busy, busy. It's like, okay, oh shit, if I don't eat now, okay, I didn't prepare, now I got to go

eat something bad because I need something convenient because I have to fill myself the rest of the day because I'm not going to do this and then there's gymnastics and there's soccer then there's baseball. That's where I get tripped up. I get tripped up on the daddy duties, right?

You ever deal with married couples that in the mom or the dad has issues scheduling their time? Because a lot of the listeners like this is why I ask these questions right? Because a lot of my listeners were like me. Like, okay, how can I make my day more organized

so I can actually put myself first and get some fucking results? looks that last. And we actually, you know, in our program, we have people who are just had a, it's not really the marriage,

it's more of just had a new, have a newborn. So, so, that's, that's, and we, we've,

that's some wild time. That's a wild time. That's a wild shirt. Because you're dealing with somebody who's mentally just went through, you know, a pregnancy. The dad, right?

No, not, we, I'm not fucking with him. By the minute, went through the, the, uh, the pregnancy. Then you have,

you know, her, I'm canceled. I'm canceled. Her body's changing. Yeah. So it's just kind of, you know, helping them, you know, understand that, like, one, it's just going to be a slow process or them. But I think a lot of times where, you know, you should use your words wisely, but like women never recover, you know, and we're trying to build those habits back in before it's, you know, quote unquote, too late. Because a lot of people, you know, have kids and then everything just goes to be about them. And then they lose themselves and they have as a mom. And it's just like, you still want to be a, you still want to be.

an example for your daughter or your son or whatever it may be. So then you want them to see you striving to, regardless if it's a 20-minute workout. I say, you know, my mom, my mom's always working out. And they grow up and they see those things, you know? So, I mean, it's difficult. But before I lose training, I thought you said something that was really important. And when we reinvent people, I don't tell people, don't drink. I don't say any of that stuff.

I don't say, don't smoke. I don't, that's not how I run my program. I treat you like an adult. but in order for you to do what I'm going to ask you to do, things have to get weeded out, like you said. You can drink. You can do that.

But you can figure it out on your own. Yeah. Right? Yep. And all of a sudden, as I trap, you know, I realized that I told you because you want this and your actions and your habits are this way. And now,

of a sudden, the more you climb to, you know, your reinvention in a hundred days, you realize that I can't go that way. It's going to make it too difficult for me. And that's how, you know, you end up on the other side. So when you, You said that it really hit me because it's like slowly people start to weed out.

And it's just like, you don't do it purposely. It's like, hey, bro, let's go out Saturday night. I'm peek up at 11. It's like, I'm supposed to do this thing in the morning. Then he asked you again next week and you said no twice. Now the third week he doesn't ask you. Next to you know, it's like, I ain't talked to him in a month. No, it's been six months.

So that's how it happens. Yeah, that's how it happens. And it's never a disrespectful thing is your life goes in different ways, man. And I think that people that are looking to better themselves, whether starting a business, you know, reinventing themselves physically. It's like, you're going to make decisions that are best for you in your immediate circle, right? And then eventually what will happen is you'll find other interests that support that. And then you won't go in those other environments.

Like, yeah, let's, okay, like, cool. Like, we're going out at 11 p.m. And I know I got something at 6 a.m. Like, why, like, how is that going to work? Because if you're going out 11, you're not going to eat in before 2 or 3, then you got something at 6. And that's why, like, when I speak on investing yourself, I call it layers, you give, you create a layer for yourself to have that. People continue to make the decisions because they don't invest in themselves and they don't create a layer.

So let's say, I wanted, or we're in a podcast, so I'm going to bring another podcast and I put the money up front to rent the space or whatever it may be. What am I going to start doing? I'm going to start utilizing the space. Oh, of course. Because I just invested in it. Yeah. But when there's no investment, when people, because they don't want to invest in things because, they want to constantly have a choice

where they don't have to battle it. It's like the more you invest in yourself, the more choices you have to make. Yeah. And when you, when you invest it, he's like, okay, well, I have to do this. I have to do this. I have to do this.

And next thing you know, all of a sudden you start elevating and even, you know, you're building something now, as I can see. Yeah, it's, it's crazy because I put myself in situations with the show that my wife will look at me. God bless her.

She'll look at me, what are you doing? I'm like winning. This is winning. This is winning right here. It is what we're doing. You know, and it's typically because it's like the financial aspect, right? It's always financial, right?

It's always a conversation. But what I've done is I've elevated in certain areas with the show and brought on the right groups and people and have the right guests on and in this beautiful, you know, studio. And then you just realize that. you know, everything's fine. Like, I'm gambling on myself, so to speak, right? I'm gambling on this show because I know the trajectory of it.

I just think some people are really good at that in certain areas, but in other areas, like I said, there's like that investment's very, very difficult, right? Because those conversations are hard to have with your significant other. I think that's the most real as I can get because I talk to a lot of people that are, you know, fitness coaches. I went labially you as a fitness coach. I wouldn't because a fitness coach to me, and sorry, it's more on the outsides.

Yeah, you have to make some changes mentally, but I think anybody can get in shape in 90 days and stay there for a month, but to reinvent and to completely rewire your neuroplasticity, your brain to a point where this is who I am, I think that is a bigger approach, right? But I lost my train of thought. But essentially, you know, when we're making these big moves, there's a lot of thought that goes along with it and there's a lot of there's a lot of risk right even with reinventing yourself so when the person comes to you and they're nervous because there's someone listening right now that is like I need to get a hold of this Travis guy right now and by the way

don't worry his handles are going to be everywhere you can contact him and you know you can you can buy his book and all that fun stuff and work with him and at the end of the show he'll tell you where you can connect with him but um and what would you say to that person that's just that is right on edge that wants to invest themselves, they just haven't found the right person, you know, what's that final loving nudge you can give them? Especially, I think prices is usually some speak on that. You know, usually a lot of people, yeah, stop a price. And then I always ask myself and dumb is, what's the price of not reinventing yourself?

What does that cost you? A lot. But they don't, but they can't quantify it, right? They can't. They can't. So it becomes like, what's the price if you, so you came to me with the problem. Right.

Because you know I can help you. You've seen people that I've helped. What's the price of not doing it? Mm-hmm. I think that price let alone is where a lot of people start to really reflect and like, okay, the price is this. So depending on what package you get, if I don't do this, if I don't do this, my life is going to continue the way it's going to continue.

And the beauty of, you know, why I enjoy what I do is because I want this to expand in outside areas of your life, you know, like I have police officers, I have teachers, I have real estate ages, I have people from all walks of life that come and become, you know, a client. And it's like, now I want you to walk into the house, that $3 million house, and I want you to feel confident, I want you to know you've done the work, you feel good about yourself, and you sell it like you've never told it before. because you believe in yourself now.

You've transformed yourself. You continue to be the same person every single day. When you look in the mirror, you're going to view yourself as that same person every day. What if I could just change you completely, physically, mentally, emotionally. You're not that person anymore. I never talk about the anonement.

That's not even me, so it's easy now. Yeah. I'm not that person anymore. Yeah, exactly. I never thought it's part of your story though, and it's powerful. But I was embarrassed by it. Yeah.

Because I was too close to that person. We were still kind of, I had some of him, you know, I'm trying to create somebody new. Now that that entire person is gone, it's easy for me to speak on and be confident about it because that's not me anymore. And I think that's the missing piece for a lot of people is that they don't understand. When you create a new you, the things that used to bother you were happening. It doesn't mean as much just because I'm not that person. And I think physically is the best way to do it.

So you can see it. I don't look the same. Yeah. And it shows you that there's different underlying habits. There's different processes in place, right? And I think what you're talking about as far as, you know, you're not that person anymore. As you elevate versions of you die constantly, right? So we're always searching for, you know, the next version of ourselves.

And I think that's good in some ways, right? I think it's, well, I mean, a lot of ways. I think where a lot of people can get stuck is if they aren't moving as quickly, you know, they can get depressed and they get, like, oh, this isn't working. Like, you know, I'm stuck here, right? But, man, sometimes you just got to let that past version die. I love everything you're saying.

And I just spoke on this today. So I said, people are like, when you reinvent yourself, let's say you read a book right now that you'd never read. That's reinventing yourself. Like, it can be that, quote unquote, small of a step. You read a book that could help you elevate in life. You've learned, you are becoming somebody different. just gathered new knowledge, and I speak on that a lot in the book.

Like, everybody thinks it's like, you have to make this dramatic leap right away. Hey, I'm going to start reading. I'm going to start meditating. I'm going to start, you know, I drink Monday through Friday, Monday through Sunday. I'm going to go to Saturday night. That is reinvent. That is reinventing yourself. I didn't eat chocolate last night.

Hey, there you go. And I'm not making fun of it. You want that damn Halloween candy is in my house. Someone, man. And I didn't, I didn't have one last night. I didn't have any last night. I had three good meals today. You're like, you know, so I think it's about stacking habits, right?

We talk about like, you know, James Clear, you know, atomic habits. That's really what that's really what everybody needs to do. But a lot of times, I spoke about this on the last show, it's like everybody sees Goggins. Yeah, everybody sees them. Let me go be that, motherfucker. Like, do not. Do not go and try to be David Goggins. There's one motherfucking David Goggins that is David Goggins.

Sure. Yeah, sure. Stack your habits. find a system, you know, employ a coach, someone who's going to help you along the lines, whether it's business, you know, certified financial planning, find people that can help you get you in a better position by making small tweaks, those compound. But people don't see the value in small, the small things.

And that's one of the things that we talk about off air is small things are big things. And, like I said, going back to my background, working with athletes, it's like when you get to the NBA level, they have a chef, they have a financial player, they have a strength coach, they have coaches, they have all these things surrounding them. So when the lights come on, the bright lights on, you see that person around. There's 10 to 15 people as a physical therapist that we're surrounded. So that I have that background. I was one of those 10 to 15 people. I'm like, the most successful people are employing other people to hold them accountable. So when we land somewhere and it's 8 p.m.

And Kyle doesn't, the guy trained, doesn't feel like lifting weights. I'm like, y'all just brought this dude with me to Marbea, Spain. I'm going to, you're going to do it. Yeah. Now, all of a sudden, you keep doing those over and over again. The season's ready. You're ready. You didn't take those days off that you wanted to.

That's what it's about. It's about creating your own environment. So I just want to be a small piece to somebody's success. Exactly. I just want to hold you accountable. I just want to show you how people do. do with make these changes. And I think that that's the biggest thing I learned. Everybody around them has a team. Exactly. And I think it, and it's so funny because I want to address

this right away while the audience is still stewing in this because they're listening right now. I'm like, okay, here's my out. I'm not an NBA player. I can't afford a chef. I can't afford all the support. But you can't afford small things. And just like Travis said, listening to the show right now is reinventing yourself. Reading a book is reinventing yourself. going for that morning walk. We're talking about small things. And the small things of accountability and people holding you accountable

doesn't have to be people you pay a ton of money to. It could be that friend that you trust. You know, it could be even the boss that you're button heads with. Because, hey, you know what? I know I realize we've been button heads lately and I think it's because you're really upset with my production.

You know what, you're right. I suck. Can you help me? Can you coach me? Can you teach me how to be better? Because I don't want to let you down. That's reinventing yourself. That's also dropping ego.

That's my fourth non-negotiable. See? I love your own negotiables every day. Good morning, man. Wind the alarm in the morning. Don't press snooze. That's the first thing that's going to happen to you. So I feel like if my alarm goes off and I press snooze, I just lied to myself.

That's the first thing I just did was lied to my... I told him, I made a promise to myself the night before. At 4.45, this alarm's going off. Snooze, I'm not doing it. All right, so now I'm waking up. I don't want that. Yeah. All right?

I'm going to win the meal. Every mail I eat is a real. reason I'm eating it, I know what I'm putting in my body, it makes me feel a certain way, and this is all my clients, I teach them what food is actually doing for them. Then we win the workout. Big one. Everybody thinks winning the workout is David Goggins. No, you don't have to train.

When your workout, I could be on the beach just walking. That's a workout. Meditating, that's a workout. When the workout does it mean, I go to the gym six days a week. Every client doesn't go six days a week. Hey, how can we make this win for you, all right? So win the workout. Four, like you just said, my fourth non-negotiable was I got to remove the ego.

I got to remove my ego every single day. Every day, like, if I want to do something, and why am I doing it? Am I doing this for me? Am I doing this for people? You know? So for me, like, with a book, I didn't necessarily want to sit down there and get a headache of writing a book. It's not as easy.

It's not as easy. I wrote one. It's not as easy. No. And you send it to the editor and they give you all this stuff back. And you're like, I kind of edit all that. Like, where are these red marks for you? You're like, what do you mean?

I'm like in school. I'm a C-minus student. Then you realize you didn't do this. You did the positive ear. I'm like, oh, my God. And the fifth one is win the decision to allow me to be my best version. But the funny thing about number five is if I do number one, I win the alarm, I win my meals. If I win the workout, if I remove my ego, I pretty much put myself in a position to be my best version.

Sure. Good day, bad day. I gave myself a chance to feel good about myself. And so when you speak on ego, I think, especially as men, man, it's difficult to remove it. It's difficult to remove it. But once you remove it, you know, the floodgates open up. Absolutely. I think we're going to be open to constructive criticism, open to people telling us what they see.

But then also open to ourselves to receive what we're actually thinking about our own self. There's been a lot of times I've sat there and, you know, sitting there on the couch and just like, man, I just feel bad right now. I'm like, you know, I'm feeling in some type of way. I'm like, what have you done today? You did miss the alarm. You missed the alarm. You know, like, how the hell do you think you're going to feel? But I don't think people are open to receiving that message from themselves.

And they need to be. They really, truly need to be. Because that is not you being hard. And the whole, you're the perfect the way you are. Hold on, hold on why you there? Why are you there? Please, man. No, you're fucking not.

Oh, let me tell you what we get the most, man. You're hilarious. I know. I should be a style of Santa bomb ears. When people sit down comedy. People reinvent themselves. Like my girlfriend, Sophia, when she reinvented herself. Her transformation was amazing.

Let me tell you what she heard. You were so beautiful. You were beautiful both ways. It's like, guys, you're missing the point. That's not the point. The point is she wanted to become a better. version of herself. Oh, you looked amazing. You look amazing. Both pictures. So you know, you were fine before, but I love you. It's like, but how about this? But what if she was it?

Yeah. The way you perceived her in buter, yes, you are fine. What if she, the person that matters has to walk around that person. It's not always about the way they look. Their habits, what they're doing internally, the way they're thinking. Like, that's why the reinvention happened. That's how it happens. Looking at a picture side by side, he just saying, oh, you're beautiful. No, no, no. My brain is completely different from that person. My habits are completely different. Yeah, I think it's important. I want to clarify, I think everybody should have some love for themselves, right? Because if you don't love yourself, then you can't, you can't get better. And yes, if you are a certain way and you're happy at that point and you are, you have mental clarity and you accept yourself and you love yourself

where you're at, then yes, you are perfect in that moment. But there is nothing wrong with improving yourself. Zero. Zero. And if you ever, have a thought that I could be better, then you can, then you should. And it doesn't matter what other people say. There's a lot of people in my life right now and say, you look great. No, I don't. No, I don't. This is bad.

It's bad for me. It's bad for me. And I don't expect anybody else to understand it. But I'm very open with it, right? I'm very open with my thoughts. And I think that's why, you know, the show's done well. is because they're not listening to somebody on the other end of the microphone,

telling them the way life should be and I'm perfect. But I have also had it weaponized against me too. There's been people recently in my life that, you know, said, well, he's just uncomfortable with his weight so he doesn't want to do this,

he doesn't want to do that. It was never that. I just thought what they were wanting me to do was horseshinned, right? But what we'll learn and what the audience I want to understand is when you're open with people, and you open up your heart,

it can and will be used against you at certain times, right? And you just have to stay steadfast. And you have to know yourself. And that's why listening to yourself is so important, right? Because if I believed him, that would have crushed me. 100%, man. 100%, you know? It's, it's, ew.

It happens in all of our lives, man. And to piggyback, like, so as an MBA trainer, and then obviously we're going to get to speak, you know, on, yeah, you can't wait in the area. That's going to be fun. But, so before I went into, like, building a coaching platform to help people, you know what people were saying to me? Why would you do all?

Why would you invest? You're an NBA trainer. Like, you travel, you do. And it's like, and there's improvement. There's more for me. So for me, going to get a coach, going to hire Coach Michael Bird to coach me and help me, I'm being vulnerable to say, I need help so I can help people. So I can, how do I become my better version so I can help people?

I need help in this area. I figured out this NBA world. but how do I really become somebody that can truly help the world? You say you want to help the world. Exactly. And so it's the same thing. So when I speak on reinvention, I'm like, guys, you guys are actually also watching, people who know me, you're watching me reinvent myself as I'm telling people to.

I went and got a coach. I'm speaking with you. The old me would just, no, I'm good. I'm trying. I'm doing it. Yeah. I'm showing you. I'm doing it as well.

I'm doing it with you. It may not be, you know, hiring a coach to, you know, help me eat or, you know, because I've had that before. Spice taught me, you know, now I have a coach in another area of my life. So it's just like, I'm reinventing myself as I'm telling people, I think the best thing to do is reinvent yourself because there are people at a higher level than me and have coaches. Yeah.

I think that was one of the craziest things I've seen. When I've seen people at top level, like, yeah, no, no, my coach. You have a coach? Yeah. Oh, I do. I mean, if you don't have a coach, I mean, if you don't have a coach. I mean, dude, Barry Bond's had a coach. Yeah.

Best base player of all time. that's my coaching him. Yeah, somebody coached him. Many coaches, right? And no, it wasn't the steroids, assholes. Sorry, I'm going to get fired up with that. You're good. We get fired up of Barry Bond.

I protect him, man. He's the greatest. So January, mid-January, me and you can be on sharing a stage together, bro. Life is serendipitous. Determine your destiny in Virginia Beach. So Norfolk, Virginia, me and you, Michael Little,

Dennis Gomez, and Michael Bert ripping shit up. No, man. God. It's amazing. I'm excited. Me too. What are you most excited about for that event?

You know it's my first time doing this. No way. First time. Guess what? Me too. My man. So it's just, we're going to say four months ago, I envisioned this. I envisioned that, you know, I'm going to start speaking.

I'm going to start doing these things to get out of my comfort zone. I'm going to start doing it. So when the, you know, when the flyer comes out, it's like, I told, I went to go reinvent myself. I went to go get the help. I went to go surround myself with my environment of people who are in this field. I mean, I remember the first time when I went to Coach Michael Burtz, I went to a boot camp. Oh, my, I thought I was speaking Chinese in there. I had no idea.

The process systems, I was just so out the loop, but people don't see that. They didn't see, they don't see how I felt when I left. I'm like, how am I going to be able to do this? Stayed in it. Stayed in it. It started to make more sense. I'm like, I get it. I get how I can use my experiences and my skills as a vehicle to help people.

But I didn't understand it. So yeah, this is my first time doing it. I'm excited. And it's a pleasure to be on stage with you guys. So funny. So four months ago, you decided this. Oh, four months ago, right? That's July.

It was actually August. August. Okay, so here's what's wild. All right. I'm going to give you this rundown. All right. So I have a really good friend named Brandon Burns. Okay.

he's Eric Thomas's right-hand guy. You know, he's a, you know, booking agent, all that kind of stuff. My show grew to a point where finally I could get Eric Thomas on the show. We did it virtually. Me and E.T. hit it off, bro. And he's like, you know, for this relationship, let's go change the world again. I'm all right, cool. So I asked Brandon like, what do we do?

What does this mean? You know, I don't want to blow the guy up on Instagram. So he's like, well, I just, I think you need to get to the next event that he's at. You know, you know, go do backstage with him. And I'm like, well, what's that's that can? I mean, that's got to be a nice investment. He goes, no, just get there. I'm like, well, when?

He's going to be in Traverse, Michigan in two, three weeks. I'm like, call my boy Pat, Ciccans. I'm like, hey, bro, you want to go, hey, how we eat? He goes, shut up. Are you serious? I go, yep, let's go. So I, you know, booked the tickets, got the hotel. You know, me and Pat shared a room because we're homies.

And we went and I met Michael Little, Tim Lewis, and they're, I feel so bad. I don't remember the camera guy's name. He didn't talk much though. That's not my fault. But I met them there. And shortly after that, you know, Michael and his team started, you know, doing the social media thing. I noticed that I was tagged in a lot of the videos.

And so I reached out. I was like, hey, man, what's up? So I want to do something. I'm like, okay, let's do this. And then now here we are. So right after, right before you decided, well, no, we probably inked it in August. When you were deciding it was inked

that we were doing, determine your destiny, the first location was in, you know, Norfolk, yeah. And I don't know what the plans are going to be. I know that we want, you know, kind of want to keep doing it, but I think it would be great if we did that and kept speaking together and keeping that unit. For sure. Me, Bert, and all those dudes.

For sure. Oh, man, but that's funny the way things work, dude. And let me tell you, this is even, you know, interesting part to us. So I'm at a, uh, I'm at the greatness factory with Coach Bert. And, um, I'm just, I mean, I'm one of his students. Or one-on-one with coach head.

He texted me the night, the night before the second day of the event. And he goes, hey, I want you to speak on how, you know, what you're doing is very valuable. I want you to speak in front of the people. Oh, wow. So I'm like, I text, I'm telling my girl, she's with me. If I'm like, you know, I got to speak to these people. Like, she's like, literally, I'm like, is this what you want to do?

So he calls me up there. I speak in front of people. Mike Little hears me speak. That's how. So he hears me speak. He hears me speak. Coach was like, hey, Travis is my one-on-one student. I want him to explain what he does and he broke it down.

I talked about how I reinvented me 100 days and all that. And that's his, and then Mike was in the stand and when Mike was sitting down, he spoke to and he was like, hey, man, I really want to. I was like, I never,

I'm thinking I'm just going up there just to talk. Like, I'm nervous. I'm like, yeah, like guys like, you know, coach,

if you ever been to coach Michael Bert, if you ever, if you ever heard him teach? And I got to go after him. So wish me luck. You know, but like you put me as the opener, bro.

I, I would open. I don't know if you guys. I would open before I go after him. You know, this dude is, I mean, he's been doing it for 30 years. Yeah. All right, guys.

I mean, I know, I know he, you know, you guys are still fired up, but it's, take him out of him out. So it's like, forget what that dude said is, is my turn. Exactly.

So, but, well, the more, it's like, he taught, I hope he was teaching all these people. And I'm usually, you know, we're the youngest people in the crowd, you know,

I'm only, I just turned 33, and it's like, I'm speaking to people who've built million-dollar businesses, and they're trying to take it to another level. So it's just like, but moral stories, Mike was there, and that's how. That's wild, bro. I mean, that's just the thing.

Like, you have to, and I told you about a little situation that happened to me in Jamaica that we're going through right now, and it could be a massive deal from the determined society. And I met, this is going to sound bad. I met a guy in a pool. Sounds really bad. It does. It's crazy. Just you and that.

Just you and him, huh? I mean, that's what I'm going to tell a story. my wife was there his wife was there our kids were on the water slide going down and um you know i just pulled up next to him and someone just said talk to this guy and i talked to him and he's got me in contact with a lot of cool people lately that you know i can't talk i'm not yet but um it's a teaser guys it's gonna be hopefully this is i know it's gonna work out but there's no if your gut is telling you to do something and then you're subconscious saying don't is you're scared or or whatever it is, dude, just do it because something so cool can happen. I think so many people are afraid to take that leap, you know,

jump off the building, man, and just talk to someone random. It can change your life. You don't know who they know. Sure. One person away. One person away. But people really don't get that.

People really don't get that. You know, like, honestly, let's see how this goes. You spoke at an event, now we're speaking on stage. You're sitting in this room with me. We're going to be more lethal there now because we connected here.

And there's people in my circle that you're one person away from now and vice versa. There might be NBA athletes that you have them like, dude, I need him on the show. That simple. Could have never gotten them before. It's that simple.

But dude, like, that's the art of connection. That simple. But it's not, but it's not even. easy, right? And I think where people get locked up in is they try to judge every interaction before it happens. So you can never do that. You have to go into it with full intention that this is it. This is the next important thing. And if every conversation is the next important thing, then how can you fucking lose, man? So I have a kind of a deep question. Do you think, because I'm a big believer, you have to have value to offer somebody. Of course. I think a lot of

people in telling me how you feel about this, they feel like they have no value to, to give somebody which could create them from not, you know, introducing themselves or meeting somebody. You don't want to feel like, hey, I'm just give me, give me, give me. And the reason I'm saying this is because that's why I believe, like, invest yourself, working to yourself. So you have something that's it. That you can offer somebody to help them. Yeah, but see, that's it.

People think they don't have value because they feel like they're impostors. They feel like impostors because they're not doing the fucking work. They're not working on being proficient in something. So, you know, and it comes down to it, like you're very proficient in reinvention. You have that value. You know what that value is. I know what my value is here. I know what my value is on my show.

I know what guests get out of it behind the scenes. I know how many people listen. That's my value, right? So I think that, I mean, I know I agree with you, right? But I think it's deeper. I think that if you are feeling, if there's an audience member right now feeling like they don't have the ability to offer somebody something well then where is it where is it that you're stuck where is it that you're believing a fucking narrative that you don't need to believe anymore

because you can change it if it's because you aren't good at your job or you don't make enough money well figure out how to be better at your job so your boss offers you more money right so I think it's taking ownership so yes yes if you don't feel like you have any value to give is because you're not giving value of yourself. Boom. So go do that. There you go.

It's a fucking rap. It's not a rap. But that's what I believe. And then that's why I'm really big into that, like helping people understand, like you have value and you got to just get it up out of you, you know? And, you know, like I said,

you could be a businessman, you reinvent yourself. You can go help another businessman who's struggling. Like, hey, listen. this is what I did. This is how I kept a flow. You know, the money was great, but I just mentally, you know, wasn't there. This is what I, you have value now

because you can help so much. A lot of people, you know, I think that's where it starts. So good, man. I'm jocked about our new friendship, for sure. Jacked to meet Sophia and Miguel here today. A friend Steve came by.

I met yesterday to see all this stuff. And, you know, I just think it's, um, life is beautiful, if you let it be. and you know i want everybody as we wrap up the show here first of all um is to understand that in your life every single day there's moments of beauty and stop being so distracted by all the bullshit around you all the the comparisons or the expectations that you may think that you have and just live in the moment and just understand that there's a miracle that happens every day and that miracle is

waking up because people don't get to wake up every day. It is not guaranteed to stop living so fucking arrogantly that you're getting tomorrow because you don't know, right? Stop taking people for granted. And dude, I just loved having you on the show. I know it's going to be the very first of many things we do together because you are my people, dude. You are my people.

Tell the audience how they can link up with you and work with you and how can they get a hold of you. A lot of people with Instagram uses. My handle is Travis X. Wallace. So my first and then my first name, then X and then my last name Wallace. Theformula.com. So it's T-H-F-R, the number four, M-U-L-A. And, you know, we spoke on the four R's as far as to formula. So you go to formula.com and there should be a link in my bio that's going to allow people to pre-order the book when it's ready for you guys. So you can

pre-order, get on the list now. I have a master class that comes with the book as well for you. just so, you know, the people who need to reinvent themselves and they need to get into that, you know, idea they could become some idea. I'm actually going to, like I said, put a free masterclass in there for you to get your mind going or start rewiring that brain so you can enter the reinvention cycle.

I love it. We're going to make sure that's all in the notes so people can find it easily to where they can find, just click on it and go book a call with you and just learn about you and, you know, hopefully reinvent themselves, man. So, dude, it's been a pleasure. Thank you so much.

and guys um again Travis is sitting here and I'm sitting here with Travis because the art of connection every day in your life find people you can connect with um I've heard it in multiple places from Travis today and my friend John Huffman yesterday stop thinking about what you need and think about who you need to help you to get there and that is when you will find the what but until you find the who you ain't going to go anywhere very far or very quickly at all so again thank you guys so much for listening. Don't forget to subscribe. Leave a rating, damn it. I mean,

don't make me beg you for ratings. I want to know what you guys are thinking. I appreciate you guys. Love you. Take care. So I've tried a lot of protein. You know, what I've always found is all the flavors. You can taste artificial flavoring in them. With raw, it's exactly that. I don't taste that. It's a clean protein source. It tastes great. And I'm not putting a lot of things in my body that aren't good for you. The biggest thing that I will say that I love about raw nutrition and bum energy is they're all natural ingredients in the third party tested. So what that means is an actual lab test is to make sure what's in the product is actually what is stated on the label. And then you'll see on the website of raw nutrition that it is signed off on. So there's no

banned substances in these products. Athletes can use them safely and not get tested and pop for a failed drug test for performance enhancing, you know, ingredients. It's completely safe. Guilt free, baby. Shout French, what else? Luck and let the pain inspire me. I for my all and everything I'm doing. Up until it's done, I meet for the entirety. I'm putting an overtime.

I'll be working. Just know I'm a go for mine because I earned it. They watch and I know it's time. I confirmed it. A whole society determined.