Can't Be Broken
Can't Be Broken
Closing a Chapter: Celebrating the Journey and Gratitude of Can't Be Broken Podcast, C-Monster Edition
A reflective journey through the closing of the Can't Be Broken Podcast highlights gratitude, resilience, and the importance of tough love. The episode emphasizes personal responsibility in achieving success while cherishing the memories made along the way.
• Reflecting on the journey and emotional farewell
• Gratitude for EA Essence and podcast supporters
• Acknowledging the vulnerability of guests and their impact
• Offering coaching services to aspiring athletes
• Emphasizing the importance of leaving a legacy for daughters
• Encouraging young adults to avoid quitting and fight for their goals
• The significance of hard work and preparation in building confidence
• Final thoughts on love, community, and facing life's challenges
Welcome to another episode and the last episode of the Can't Be Broken Podcast, seamonster Edition. I want to just express that this is possibly the last time I will be doing the Can't Be Broken podcast. In general, nothing's set in stone, but I know that I'm going to be taking some time off and it could be the last one that I do, and so I'm just going to go ahead and roll with the things that I needed and want to say before I close this chapter. In my life, I've been blessed to experience this, to try something new and different and something that I had no clue how to get going off the ground, and I want to, first and foremost, thank EA Essence for his push, his drive, his support. Him and I started this in the garage here, learning, arguing, debating, trying to work with so many different things, of aspects of how we wanted the show to go and what we wanted to talk about preparing, and then the most and the hardest part of all of it was trying to get how we were going to, was trying to get how we were going to relay this onto Spotify and editing and Apple. I mean going through everything that we had no clue of what to do, from buying a microphone to everything. So he is the push, he is the drive for his support. I want to thank him specifically. I've had him on here, very knowledgeable, I go to him for guidance and his family is Um and I just want to say personally thank you. Thank you for being the ignition in this podcast, thank you for the support, thank you for allowing me to learn from you in so many different ways and I appreciate that, brother Um, you know I do, um, so thank you. I also want to thank all the guests that either EAS and to myself head on or myself that when I continue this journey by myself head on, everybody that took their time or took time off from their busy schedule to join me for an hour, hour and a half or two to share your experiences, your journey, your knowledge and everything with people unknown that you don't know, and for being vulnerable. Thank you very much for coming on the show, for allowing me to interview you and ask the hard questions.
Speaker 1:I learned a lot. I enjoyed it. I think we at times cried together, we laughed and we shared, and I hope that I know that some of you guys' messages um got in touch to other people and, uh, that was most important. Uh, and that's what the show's about. So I want to thank you, um, personally, all the guests that came on. I also want to thank all the listeners, everybody who supported the show, everybody who reached out to me and enjoyed either a guest on the show or the Seamonster Mindsets, everybody who gave me feedback that I should do this, this way or that, or I should be on YouTube or whatnot. I appreciate it. Thank you for your feedback. Everybody who gave me good feedback, bad feedback, um, um, feedback that was instrumental in growing this and, um, everybody who shared the episodes, who reposted, who, um, sent that out to their family members. Um, thank you very much. I appreciate that. If I'm missing anybody or anything, I am sorry, but I want to thank everybody who had anything to do with this growth of the Can't Be Broken podcast, which now is, I think, in its third year, but, like I said, it should be my last one. Yeah, you never know where it might pop up again, who knows? But either way, I'm very grateful, blessed, to have gone through this journey, a big chapter in my life. I love it and for those, I also.
Speaker 1:You know, part of this podcast was to help others. That's the main focus, and so I want to share with you that there's other services. If anybody's seeking services for hitting, for fielding, for catching, for pitching people that I have met throughout my journey you can go and reach out to. You can seek David Lusk at PFA, rox Arroyo, who, when he's in town catching lessons. You got Ho Sui, one of my boys pitching coach. I think he's now at PFA. You got Doug Latta, who's also a hitting instructor down here in the valley. You got Uplifted Fitness and that whole team over there, from DJ to everybody, the owner, um Brian, and then, um, you can reach out to them for your journey in health and fitness. Um, I appreciate them. I appreciate everybody who has had something to do with my journey of health and fitness, um, and people that I've had on the show, and if you guys are seeking any of those things, reach out to them or reach out to me and I'll put you in contact with them. I also want to let those people know that, if they don't know and they just listen to the show that I offer services of strength and conditioning.
Speaker 1:I've been doing this for almost 10 years now and I do strength and conditioning for athletes, specifically or mainly baseball and softball players. That is my bread and butter. I also obviously do triathlons, marathon training, running high rocks and whatnot, but my bread and butter is baseball and softball. I played Division I baseball for Cal State Northridge in 95 through 97, I believe 96, 97, whatever those years were a long time ago. I do some hitting lessons. Here. My main focus is strength and conditioning, getting people stronger in functional movement or optimal movement towards their craft to enhance their skills. And not only do I do that, but I offer advice or guidance in mental toughness, grit and overcoming adversity as part of the whole mind, body and soul journey that I do here at Ultramath League Gym. So for those seeking any strength and conditioning services or hitting, I do do some fielding at times and it just all depends, but my main 95% of my business is strength and conditioning. I go under UAG Fit U-A-G-F-I-T on Instagram you guys can find me there.
Speaker 1:And lastly of thanking people before I sign off. Here is this whole show started with EAS and myself and why we wanted to start it and to help others and all that. But the main focus for me has always been, and still is, that I wanted to leave something for my daughters, my two beautiful girls, and I want to say thank you to them, thank you for their support, allowing me to take time out of our time to do this, to be vulnerable, to expose certain things, maybe, that they didn't know, but also for them to go back and listen to their dad's voice and understand certain things of where I was coming from. Hopefully, I left something positive for them to go back to. It'll be out there, obviously, on Instagram, it'll be out on Spotify forever, and I just want to say that I love them, that I appreciate them, that I have admired them blossoming into young, beautiful ladies, and I love their how they've been growing, adapting and becoming themselves. Keep being you, keep grinding. There is no free lunch and you guys keep doing great things. I appreciate you, love you, girls.
Speaker 1:And lastly, look, this world is fucking tough. Life is tough and for those of you who crumble, you who crumble, who want to blame somebody else or something else or want to fucking go to plan B, knock it off. Knock it off. Times are changing and it's easy to fucking bounce to school and get into the portal and fucking. I don't like this coach, so I'm going to move. Well, I'm not starting and I want to play, so I want to fucking go to another team. Knock it off. You go to that school.
Speaker 1:There are certain exceptions why you should leave, obviously. But if it's those reasons, get better. Fight for your position. Fight for a fucking win. Fight to win To make the team better. Fight for your position. Fight for a fucking win. Fight to win to make the team better.
Speaker 1:If you're not good enough, accept that. Say I'm not good enough. I'm going to go somewhere where I believe I can start because that's better for me. Let me drop in division, let me go here, let me go there. But knock off the plan B, knock off the I plan B. Knock off the I quit easily. Knock off that mentality of like I'm just good, I can just transfer, I can just enter portal. Knock off the the. Oh, I'm signing, so I go to a private school and today's signing day, so I must sign somewhere where I have no fucking idea, where I'm going to, like some school in South Dakota or some school in fucking whatever. That has no fit for you. You have no understanding of how cold it gets over there, you have no fucking understanding of anything and you're going to the school just so you can look cool on Instagram and have a signing day.
Speaker 1:Take the JC route if you're not ready. And if you're not ready, ask yourself the tough question how come? Because you're fucking around with your friends, because you're on the fucking Nintendo or whatever you guys have right now playing video games? Because you didn't work hard enough, because you didn't seek advice or information from somebody who's been there to get better, because you didn't do the hard work, because you weren't obsessed with the process, because it was hard, because you fell into motivation and your feelings. Now, if you didn't do all that and you're like, fuck, I'm not ready, then go sign wherever the fuck you want and go do that. But don't take the easy way out. Stop, knock it off, sack up, be better, learn, accept competition and win it. That's how you'll know, that's how you'll be a better person. Stop falling into this shit of leaving, quitting, stopping.
Speaker 1:These kids nowadays including mine, you know whatever I mean they don't play sports, but they're staying at home, living at home until 30. I was gone, 18. Bye, see you later. Different times, I get it. Different shit's going on, I get it. That doesn't mean that just because we're in a different generation, when we're in this technological AI situation, with portals and different things happening, that we can't still fucking fight for shit, that we still can't man up for stuff, that we still can't take ownership and be better and fight for shit. When did that stop? When did that stop? I've never believed in, if there was a portal back then that I would have used it. No, I would have fought for my shit. I know that because I know myself, and you should all fucking know yourself and say I'm going to fight for what I think, where I want to be, where I think I should be. Unfortunately, it's not happening because of my decisions. That's ownership. We should take more ownership.
Speaker 1:Outwork everybody. Do the work with intent. Love what you do and do what you love. Do it with confidence. And how do you get confidence? Do shit more often. Confidence increases in direct proportion to the amount of preparation put into your endeavor. It's that simple. The more you do something, the more confident you'll be. Visualize, visualize yourself. Have the energy, good vibration, energy. Put it out there in the world, talk about it, think about it, be about it. Sooner or later, you're going to be where you're supposed to be. And, lastly, find peace through internal love and happiness.
Speaker 1:Don't listen to the noise out there, the noise of social media, of haters, of people hating you Because you're moving up, because you're better, because you're confident, because you have some pizzazz. Don't let them affect you. Where you want to go and what you want to be, they're not your friends. The people that support you, that level you up, that are loyal, that are honest, those are the people you want to hang around with. I've had a blast doing this. I want to thank you all for listening and I just I'm humbled. I know I may come off as arrogant or a certain way, but no, I am not. I am confident. I am confident. I believe I have great energy. I want to give back. I forgive and I love. I love you all. Don't be afraid to reach out to me. I appreciate you all and remember there's no free lunch. You got to earn everything. Lastly, you can't be broken.
