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**Move The Chains Podcast | Unlocking Your Full Potential with Ryan Munsey**

Ryan Munsey | Human Performance Specialist & Podcast Host.

The podcast for you high achievers striving for peak performance, and those committed to breaking through mental, physical and emotional barriers in the pursuit of growth and excellence.

I sit down with professional athletes, special forces operators, world class leaders, best-selling authors, coaches and more to help you discover the keys to overcoming self-doubt, emotional decision-making and excuses in order to to unlock your full potential.

Learn the secrets of the world’s highest performers so you can build discipline and consistency, while replacing shortcuts with sustainable habits that enable you to build momentum, resilience, and purpose for a more fulfilling life. #MoveTheChains

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Latest Episodes:

BHP Shorts 065: Understanding Risk Feb 13, 2020

Show notes

It's only dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.

Or is it?

Risk is a tricky thing, and in some instances impossible to eliminate completely, but it's not impossible to navigate.

Let's look at driving.

There is a certain level of risk involved in driving your car across town today (and everyday) no matter how good of a driver you are - or how high your car's safety rating.

But how does that risk change if we're distracted? (You know using our phone for directions while talking and trying to take a sunset photo?)

And how does that risk change again if this time we trust that same daily commute to your 11-year-old nephew?

Due to his lack of knowledge - and experience - the risk level of riding in the same car, on the same roads, at the same time of day, significantly increases.

The takeaway: certain variables dramatically increase or reduce the risk involved in every situation.

When we sense risk, dig deeper.

Why do certain situations, scenarios, or decisions seem riskier than others? How can these answers serve us?

Usually, our lack of experience or expertise increases the associated risk. (See: 11-year-olds driving cars)

If awareness is the first step, then the second step is to identify our own gaps that make these scenarios seem high risk, then do the work required to close those gaps.

Like you've (hopefully) done to mitigate the risk of being behind the wheel of hunk of metal hurtling almost 100 feet per second, it's time to learn, accumulate reps, and work towards a level of mastery that significantly shifts the odds of a favorable outcome in your favor.

Risk is inevitable. How we identify and prepare for it determines how it will effect us.

As the Navy SEALs say, "we don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to our level of preparation."

PRESS PLAY to tune in.

Links & Resources

Follow Ryan & The BHP

Ryan Munsey | Website | Instagram
Better Human Project on Instagram
Master Your Mind Online Course
F*ck Your Feelings on Amazon or Audible

BHP Shorts 064: Advice to 20-Year-Olds Feb 11, 2020

Show notes

"Becoming yourself is a beautiful struggle." - Forrest Limon & Nathan Wagner

A few weeks ago I had coffee with two young entrepreneurs who, at just 20-years-old have already published their first book, are speaking to large groups of high school and college students, and are pursuing day jobs on Wall Street and Aerospace Engineering.

The morning we spent together was energizing and inspiring. I won't bore you with details, but Forrest and Nathan wrapped up our conversation by asking me if I had any final advice for them.

In today's BHP Short I recount how I answered that question along with some of the other advice I shared with them during our morning coffee.

PRESS PLAY to tune in.

Links & Resources

Follow Ryan & The BHP

Ryan Munsey | Website | Instagram
Better Human Project on Instagram
Master Your Mind Online Course
F*ck Your Feelings on Amazon or Audible

BHP Shorts 064: Advice To 20-Year-Olds Feb 11, 2020

Show notes

“Becoming yourself is a beautiful struggle.” – Forrest Limon & Nathan Wagner

The morning we spent together was energizing and inspiring. I won’t bore you with details, but Forrest and Nathan wrapped up our conversation by asking me if I had any final advice for them.

In today’s BHP Short I recount how I answered that question along with some of the other advice I shared with them during our morning coffee.

PRESS PLAY to tune in.

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BHP Shorts 063: Nutrition Q and A Part 2 Feb 07, 2020

Show notes

We're back with another edition of Nutrition Q and A.

In this episode, we're talking about sleep, digestion, and probiotics.

I track my sleep, but I don't get enough REM or Deep sleep. How do I improve sleep quality?
My favorite sleep supplements and why I'll never take melatonin to help my sleep.
My digestion is messed up - and stress seems to make it worse? What should I do?
I get overwhelmed in the Probiotics section...what do you recommend and how can I find the right one for me?
I want to optimize my gut health, where should I start?

You guys could not have given me a better group of questions for this episode! The relationship between all these areas of performance and health is so intertwined that I couldn't answer one without covering the others.

PRESS PLAY to tune in.

Have a nutrition or performance question you want answered? Send it to me via email or Instagram DM.

Links & Resources

Follow Ryan & The BHP

Ryan Munsey | Website | Instagram
Better Human Project on Instagram
Master Your Mind Online Course
F*ck Your Feelings on Amazon or Audible

BHP Shorts 063: Nutrition Q and A Part 2 Feb 06, 2020

Show notes

We’re back with another edition of Nutrition Q and A.

In this episode, we’re talking about sleep, digestion, and probiotics.

I track my sleep, but I don’t get enough REM or Deep sleep. How do I improve sleep quality?
My favorite sleep supplements and why I’ll never take melatonin to help my sleep.
My digestion is messed up – and stress seems to make it worse? What should I do?
I get overwhelmed in the Probiotics section…what do you recommend and how can I find the right one for me?
I want to optimize my gut health, where should I start?

You guys could not have given me a better group of questions for this episode! The relationship between all these areas of performance and health is so intertwined that I couldn’t answer one without covering the others.

PRESS PLAY to tune in.

Have a nutrition or performance question you want answered? Send it to me via email or Instagram DM.

Links & Resources

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BHP Shorts 062: Are You Operating Out Of Fear Or Love? Feb 03, 2020

Show notes

ARE YOU OPERATING OUT FEAR OR LOVE?

I'm fascinated by what motivates and drives us.

Not in the sense of #MondayMotivation but MOTIVE, as in, why do we do what we do?

In most instances, I've found that our actions can be distilled down into one of 2 categories: fear or love.

Show me an action and I'll bet we can trace it's motive back to either fear or love.

So the developmental, or integrative question becomes: am I operating out of fear or love?

Our best selves, the version of us that we want to be operates out of love.
The version of us that we hide, chastise, loathe, etc: operates out of some type of fear.
It's important to note that we all fall into both categories. None of us exists solely in one place or on one side of this continuum - it's a dynamic thing and our mission is to stay ever-vigilant (aware) as we view ourselves from that witness/objective viewpoint. I've found that asking this question is a very easy way to check in with something very complex and crucial: Am I operating out fear or love?

PRESS PLAY to tune in.

Links & Resources

Follow Ryan & The BHP

Ryan Munsey | Website | Instagram
Better Human Project on Instagram
Master Your Mind Online Course
F*ck Your Feelings on Amazon or Audible

BHP Shorts 062: Fear Or Love Feb 02, 2020

Show notes

ARE YOU OPERATING OUT FEAR OR LOVE?

I’m fascinated by what motivates and drives us.

Not in the sense of #MondayMotivation but MOTIVE, as in, why do we do what we do?

In most instances, I’ve found that our actions can be distilled down into one of 2 categories: fear or love.

Show me an action and I’ll bet we can trace it’s motive back to either fear or love.

So the developmental, or integrative question becomes: am I operating out of fear or love?

Our best selves, the version of us that we want to be operates out of love.
The version of us that we hide, chastise, loathe, etc: operates out of some type of fear.
It’s important to note that we all fall into both categories. None of us exists solely in one place or on one side of this continuum – it’s a dynamic thing and our mission is to stay ever-vigilant (aware) as we view ourselves from that witness/objective viewpoint. I’ve found that asking this question is a very easy way to check in with something very complex and crucial: Am I operating out fear or love?

PRESS PLAY to tune in.

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Follow Ryan & The BHP

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BHP Shorts 061: Can You Live With This Decision? Jan 30, 2020

Show notes

Whether it's in F*ck Your Feelings, a Better Human Workshop, a podcast or a keynote presentation, much of my guidance centers around helping us understand our minds so we can make better decisions and ultimately align our actions with our values, not our fleeting emotional states.

But one of the most common questions I get is something like this: "When you're in the moment, how do you #FuckYourFeelings and act according to your values?"

While I prefer to focus on long-term solutions, like how awareness creates choice, cultivating this awareness, defining our values first so we have a filtering process, and several others…these require reflection, introspection, practice, and time.

They don't always help RIGHT NOW - especially if we're new to this type of work.

Perhaps the most immediately accessible tool is the question I'll share with you on today's BHP Short:

Can I live with this decision?

When my head is on the pillow at night, will this decision haunt me or will I sleep like a baby knowing I did the right thing?

How will this sit with me in the future?

When I look back on this moment, will I be proud of the choices I made or the way I handled myself?

This line of questioning removes us from the moment and allows us an opportunity to have an objective/witness perspective of ourselves and our options. We always have options.

This change in perspective reminds us that the moment is NOT YOU. The moment doesn't have/OWN you. It's just that - a moment you're experiencing/going through. "Going through" - the very words remind us that it will pass…

We will be on the other side of this. We will have memories and knowledge of how we handled this.

Will we like who we we were and how we responded/behaved in this moment?

TUNE IN to today's BHP Short for not one, but two stories of how I've used this mind game to remove myself from the emotions of the moment and make decisions that I'm proud of years later.

One of those stories is from SEALFIT in 2012, and the other in from my fitness modeling days in New York City back in 2008.

Links & Resources

BHP Shorts 006: Dishonesty Stems From Fear

Follow Ryan & The BHP

Ryan Munsey | Website | Instagram
Better Human Project on Instagram
Master Your Mind Online Course
F*ck Your Feelings on Amazon or Audible

BHP Shorts 061: Mindset Trick – Can You Live With This Decision? Jan 30, 2020

Show notes

Whether it’s in F*ck Your Feelings, a Better Human Workshop, a podcast or a keynote presentation, much of my guidance centers around helping us understand our minds so we can make better decisions and ultimately align our actions with our values, not our fleeting emotional states.

But one of the most common questions I get is something like this: “When you’re in the moment, how do you #FuckYourFeelings and act according to your values?”

They don’t always help RIGHT NOW – especially if we’re new to this type of work.

Perhaps the most immediately accessible tool is the question I’ll share with you on today’s BHP Short:

Can I live with this decision?

When my head is on the pillow at night, will this decision haunt me or will I sleep like a baby knowing I did the right thing?

How will this sit with me in the future?

When I look back on this moment, will I be proud of the choices I made or the way I handled myself?

This line of questioning removes us from the moment and allows us an opportunity to have an objective/witness perspective of ourselves and our options. We always have options.

This change in perspective reminds us that the moment is NOT YOU. The moment doesn’t have/OWN you. It’s just that – a moment you’re experiencing/going through. “Going through” – the very words remind us that it will pass…

We will be on the other side of this. We will have memories and knowledge of how we handled this.

Will we like who we we were and how we responded/behaved in this moment?

TUNE IN to today’s BHP Short for not one, but two stories of how I’ve used this mind game to remove myself from the emotions of the moment and make decisions that I’m proud of years later.

One of those stories is from SEALFIT in 2012, and the other in from my fitness modeling days in New York City back in 2008.