14. Your Loyalty To Truth Can Hurt You w/ Jesse Elder

Do you get angry over small things? Can you instantly change your thoughts to be more empowered? Does loyalty to some idealogy or “truth” get in the way of what’s actually useful for your life? Jesse Elder is a fascinating man. His inspired, and improvised, mind-vitamin wisdom videos have been viewed by over 60 million people across the social media world. Jesse’s background is in martial arts where he honed much of his embodied wisdom through decades of training and teaching and fighting in actual hand-to-hand combat, in both official martial arts competitions but also in underground fight-club like experiences where men fought for the win with no protective gear, no weight classes, and no rules, save I’m guessing for no death grip moves on each other. In this conversation, in fact, Jesse tells a powerful story about how getting his head smashed into the pavement at a party after hitting on someone else’s girl early in his martial arts career offered him a powerful lesson in the difference between truthfulness … and usefulness.  Jesse, also known as the “Time Piercer” for his elastic perspectives of time, exudes the calm presence of a master teacher, and he is a master teacher. After building a multi-million dollar martial arts school franchise, he sold it to a business partner and launched himself full-time into sharing his wisdom through coaching, teaching, speaking, and his mind-vitamin videos. I believe you’re gonna be deeply served by your time with Jesse Elder and I today, for we talk about the power (and pitfalls) of mindset, simple road maps to living freedom NOW, what it means to not merely face reality but actually create reality, and more. Definitely stay tuned for Jesse’s 5 Key Takeaway’s at the end of this episode of Men, This Way … Alright … Let’s dive … SHOW NOTES 5:22 ~ Getting angry 8:03 ~ A significant event in Jesse’s early life 13:06 ~ Disempowering thoughts or beliefs in our lives 16:51 ~ Homeschooling and empowering a child 21:36 ~ How to change repetitive thought patterns 26:53 ~ A transcendent experience at 135mph 31:03 ~ What’s true versus what’s useful 36:19 ~ Realizing one is an elder 40:21 ~ The biggest challenge facing men today 42:55 ~ “5 KEY TAKEWAYS” FINALE 43:02 ~ KEY INSIGHT: Question authority 43:52 ~ KEY MAN TO LEARN FROM: Jesse’s father & Mike Kemski 44:55 ~ KEY RESOURCE (most impactful, inspiring book, movie, podcast): Interstellar (Movie) 45:19 ~ KEY INVESTMENT (the best thing you spent money on, under $10,000): Facebook advertising as a means of scaling sending his message, and booking a first-class, one-way ticket to somewhere I’ve never been. 46:19 ~ KEY PRACTICE (7-day challenge to the men listening): Meditation OTHER LINKS AND RESOURCES Find Jesse @ www.JesseElder.com Jesse’s Mind Vitamin Videos On Instagram @JesseElderLive Jesse Elder on Facebook Jesse’s Prime Light Meditation @ www.JesseElder.com/products/ (note: this is currently a $700 offering. Should Jesse make this available free exclusively to “Men, This Way” listeners – we’re currently waiting to hear back from him on this – we’ll put that new link here. Keep checking back.)