Surviving the Side Hustle

From Adversity to Achievement: Austin's Guide to Resilience and Growth

• Coach Rob • Season 1 • Episode 58

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Have you ever faced a moment that forced you to re-evaluate your entire life? Meet Austin Page, a man whose journey from a small-town partygoer to a survivor of a near-fatal car crash is nothing short of extraordinary. In this episode, Austin shares the raw, honest story of his battle with severe injuries, infections, and the grueling rehabilitation process that followed his accident. Discover how physical therapy and a newfound commitment to exercise became the cornerstones of his recovery and personal transformation.

Our conversation shifts gears as we explore the powerful role of mindset and coaching in personal growth. Ever wondered how dissatisfaction with your current self can spark a journey towards lasting change? We'll discuss the importance of daily habits, routines, and personal standards in this transformative process. You'll also hear how coaching has evolved to foster not just superficial changes, but deeper mental and emotional shifts. Learn how creating a personal guidebook with clear rules can keep you aligned with your goals, and why balancing structure with flexibility is essential for sustainable growth.

Finally, we delve into the importance of mentorship and the transition from traditional personal training to successful online coaching. Hear the inspiring story of a personal trainer who found his calling through the guidance of an early mentor and later expanded his reach through online platforms. We'll highlight the success stories of clients who achieved rapid transformations and discuss the impact of appreciation and support in maintaining long-term success. This episode is packed with insights that will inspire you to take actionable steps towards your own personal and professional growth.

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Rob:

What's going on, guys? Today we've got this guy. He's incredible. His name is Austin Page. We were recently connected and I'm excited to have him on the show today and have him share a little bit about his story, struggles and secrets. Austin man, how are you doing, dude?

Austin:

I'm well. I appreciate you taking the time to have me on the show man, Looking forward to catching up and going through my journey.

Rob:

Yeah, man, yeah. So let's dive right in. I care to share a little bit about who you are and who you help.

Austin:

Yeah, man, so obviously you went over my name. It's Austin, but I am from a small town, born and raised, of Tappahannock. If you aren't familiar with that area, it's not much to do. It's a typical farm town. I think the biggest thing which is kind of cool depends on who you ask, but the biggest thing that came from Tappahannock so far is Chris Brown, the rapper. But I think my graduating class was like 90. So it was a pretty small school, pretty small county. So growing up there wasn't a ton to do.

Austin:

I found myself chasing the mob and following the crowd and not really having my own identity, knowing my true self, and I think that's a lot of people's journeys, especially young guys coming up. You're just finding your way, but all there was to do, and all I seemed to find myself to do, was to get into trouble, partying, looking for the next get together per se, and it was just leading me nowhere fast. So long story short, 2010,. May 9th, I went to a party and thought I was a rock star man Typically Thursday through Sunday, was looking for parties and thought I was a rockstar man Typically Thursday through Sunday, was looking for parties and thought I was 10 foot tall and bulletproof man Ended up drinking a shit ton on a beach near my house and I don't remember the night. Ended up getting in my car, supposedly, and trying to go home, and typical story where you make it a mile away from the house and ran off the road, wrecked and I don't fortunately don't remember any of it.

Austin:

But I came to in the hospital the next day and realized that things had taken a wild turn. So I'd broken both my legs from the knees down and ruptured my intestines, which left me with some severe infection, or what's called peritonitis, where just pretty much your guts dump out into the inside of your body cavity, your thoracic cavity, and just nasty shit happens, literally nasty shit, wow. And so they cut me open and left me open for a few days to clean out some of the bile, literal fecal matter and all that stuff. You said a few days clean out some of the bile, literal fecal matter and all that stuff. And you said a few days, yeah, if anybody's watching this, if you happen to go to my Instagram, I have a lot of videos and pictures from that time where my abdomen is literally wide open and they just like what the craziest thing is. Looking back. You know I was there and some of the pictures my eyes are open.

Austin:

I was pretty doped up but I do vaguely remember that time. It was four to five days where they left me open and all they did to keep me sort of covered was like maybe medical grade saran wrap. So if you look at the pictures it's just like literal kitchen saran wrap. They'd wrapped around my stomach and just a big old gaping hole with a vacuum hose or a suction hose coming out of it sucking juices out, took a real bad turn that night and ended up in the hospital for about six weeks in the ICU, fought. The infection came back. Blood work was starting to turn back around because for a minute they were hey, we're unsure. The next day we're unsure if you're going to make it, because my white blood cell count was through the roof. Infection was not really stopping. My parents and I vaguely remember it but it was all a blur because it was so doped up and whatnot, from just the painkillers and anesthesia, but they had called the chaplain in and all that type of stuff. So they were unsure if I was going to pull through. But just one day I woke up and things were starting to turn out for the better.

Austin:

Long story made it through hospital for about six weeks and then they moved me to a rehabilitation center to where I learned how to walk and do normal things that we do on a daily basis over two months. So I lived there for two months. Wow, yeah, learned. And that's sort of where my journey to where I am now sort of took sprout, sort of sprouted off, and started to grow. Took sprout, sort of sprouted off and started to grow.

Austin:

Because during that two months that I was living in that rehab center, every morning, once I was able to, the physical therapist would come to my room. They would say, hey, get your ass up out of bed, hop your ass into your wheelchair because I still wasn't able to use my legs at that point and we're going down to the gym, we're going to get you moving. And most days I would fight it because I really wasn't into working out back then to begin with, but also I was tired. Still in pain was 110 pounds, just no strength at all in me. So the last thing I felt like doing was working out. But after a few days or a few weeks of doing that it became a habit and I started to see the results and strength that I was gaining from it, and not only that, but the confidence in myself and regaining that strength and ability. But they would take me down. I would get on the cable bars, I'd lock my wheelchair in place, bang out some curls, some tricep extensions, I was doing some pushups off of these parallel bars and you know, it became, like I said, a habit and I really started to like the way I felt.

Austin:

After that and after I was released from that rehab center I realized my direction, my path and my focus should probably change.

Austin:

And it didn't take a 180.

Austin:

I was still young and dumb and I was still finding my ways, wanting to go back into partying even though I almost just lost my life from it.

Austin:

But my first job out of that rehab center and getting back to normal life was at a local gym there in Tappahannock and fortunately they gave me the front desk job to where it came with a free membership and I realized that's where I was going to spend my days moving forward. It kept me out of trouble for the most part and it gave me something to focus on. I think, like any younger guy or girl having something to focus on, to take up your time. A little bit keeps you from the idle time and finding your way into trouble. And I was 20, 21 at the time when this happened, so I wasn't too young, but I was young enough to still find my way into trouble. But after that time, I started to work out with a few people there, and especially some of the trainers at that gym, and I realized that I enjoyed watching them, what they did, and I realized how much it helped me that I ended up pursuing that and, uh, getting into coaching training back in 2012, 2013. And I've been doing it ever since.

Rob:

Ooh, so that's what I currently do now. That's how I help people. Yeah, that's an incredible story. That's just that's just incredible from start to finish there. Glad you're alive and glad you're here to be with us and share your story. I want to ask, though, a quick question. You mentioned that you weren't really into working out or exercising before the accident. For me and a lot of my clients, I use exercise and fitness to kind of start to build some of that resiliency so that they can endure a lot of different things that they come across, whether it's emotional, financial or physical, just through the entrepreneurial world. So I got to ask where did you get that drive, that motivation to keep pushing when things were so rough, when you were there in the hospital and you didn't want to work out? What really motivated you to keep going in?

Austin:

the hospital and you didn't want to work out what really motivated you to keep going. At first I don't think I realized that the true fire that had gotten me going and kept me going until this day and it only gets hotter and hotter is I didn't like the person I was and I think for a lot of people, especially some of the clients that I work with, they end up getting to a down spot in their life, whether it's a financial thing pops up or a relationship thing, a breakup, whatever, and it's typically due to some type of inaction or lifestyle habits that they have that have gotten them. Our current state of our lives are the compounding effects of our habits and our actions and our decisions over the past 30, 60, 90 days a year. It takes time to get to a point like that, to where you're like damn, I don't really truly like the way I'm living. I don't like the way I am currently and I think I don't think I noticed it was that at that time to flip the switch.

Austin:

But looking back, I wasn't happy with who I was and what I was doing, and especially with it almost taking my life. I realized something needed to change and I during that time in that rehab center, I realized how good it made me feel. It upped my energy, my self-talk, my self-worth per se, building myself and going to do that every single day. I almost became addictive. It definitely is.

Rob:

It still is Daily, building myself into a person that I would admire so I gotta ask you a little bit about what it is you do. Do you help other individuals also kind of identify, uh, these new versions of themselves, or is it strictly just like fitness and nutrition? What is? What does the coaching look like in working with you?

Austin:

so coaching it's? It's funny because it was very elementary and juvenile. When I first started it was very just hey, we're trying to get a certain look, a certain goal weight. It was very low-hanging fruit and it wasn't very deep. And now it's definitely evolved over time. It's evolved over the past decade plus. But when I first started it was hey, we're just trying to drop some body fat, we're just trying to get 30 pounds off or 10 pounds off. Hey, we're just trying to get this bench up, whatever the little, small micro goal which is important still.

Austin:

But over the years I realized most of these people, they would get to this goal or they wouldn't even get to it. They would start it and fall off, fall through. It's because they hadn't built the mindset behind it, is because they hadn't built the mindset behind it. And over time it has become more mindset coaching in my perspective, at least for the way I coach than it is the physical. The physical builds the mental and vice versa. But it's definitely a lot more focused on the mindset building the individual, the habits, the lifestyle or daily process per se. That keeps you accountable, keeps you aligned with the person you want to become, and it's different, you know person to person, whatever that process may be.

Rob:

Yeah, I love that, and that falls into one of the principles that I coach with my clients and individuals is really building that efficiency through their rules and their routines. What I like to say, so what are their habits and what are their schedules like and how do they make it as efficient and optimized as possible so that it helps them move towards whatever it is that they might be working towards?

Austin:

I like that word. You used rules. I got what you said before every individual.

Rob:

Yeah, rules and routines I'm a big. I'm a big on um acronyms and uh rhyming and a bunch of things like that. So I um, um, but I gotta ask you.

Austin:

So oh, go ahead I I apologize, uh, it made me think. I I use something I guess similar as far as like rules. Uh, lately, to help, like, give an analogy or break it down for people my clients that work with me on like having a rule to follow or your set standard, personal standard you follow is what does your guidebook look like? What does your personal brand book look like? Like, if you think of a brand book for a company or a business, this is what they do. This is what they don't do. This is what they look like. This is how they show up. These are the do's and the don'ts of how they operate.

Austin:

Do you have a certain guidebook for your own life? The do's and your don'ts? Are you perfect? No, nobody's perfect. I'm not a saint either, but do you have any type of guidebook to keep you on your path or at least aligned with that next level version of yourself? And it's, you know, falls under the rules? Like, do you have any rules for yourself, you know? Do you have yeses? Do you have no's? Do you have you know? Do you have any thought process behind it at all or is it just on the whim?

Rob:

yeah, I love that you said the guidebook too, because that really goes hand in hand with with a lot of what I'm teaching myself for myself personally and for a lot of other clients too.

Rob:

Like you do have those rules, you do have the habits that you kind of follow and you have the expectations of the things that you want to go through and follow out and follow up on on all your commitments, but at the same time, there's wiggle room. Like you got to be human, you can't just be this rigid machine all the time. There are different seasons for different things, but there's got to be that level of intentionality behind it and and I'm finding more and more that intentionality is really the key to getting you to where you want to at the appropriate speed too. A lot of times people guns, guns, blazing and then they come out burnt out on the other side or they don't push themselves hard enough. And it's really about identifying that intentionality and understanding who you are. Could you speak a little bit about that, on how you bring intentionality in for yourself and then even some of your clients?

Austin:

Yeah, as far as intentionality, it is dependent upon their particular goals, or even mine, my own. But one thing that keeps me intentional with my decisions or my daily actions is this I mentioned this a lot is alignment. Are the decisions or the actions that I'm taking today, is this decision or action I'm about to take aligned with who I want to be for tomorrow? Do I still indulge? Do I still fall off? Of course, but that is a question that I try and keep in the back of my head is would the person I admire do this, the person that I want to become, would they do this or would they not do that? And that sort of helps me stay intentional and not self-sabotage or take steps backwards, because a lot of people can fall into the same old habits that got them to the place of unfulfillment, unhappiness, unsatisfied, and not realize they're taking a step backwards more than they think. They're not asking this simple question of hey, is this aligned with my long-term goal or is this a short-term emotion?

Rob:

with my long-term goal, or is this a short-term emotion? I got that easy segue question for me to ask there is how often do you reassess or reflect on your goals and your action items? Is that something you do monthly? Is it quarterly? What does the process look like for you when you're establishing those goals and action items?

Austin:

I would say it's on a monthly basis, around about a monthly basis, and especially with my clients it's about monthly or every 30 days, and then you can add 30, 60, 90, but not typically much. I do have longer, bigger goals or longer term version goals than that, but typically when working with clients and even myself, it's 30, 60, 90 around that. You know, whatever falls within that window.

Rob:

And how do you? Oh, good, and that's how you realign and make sure that intentionality and you're focused on moving forward right?

Austin:

Yes, and what helps me stay intentional with that 30-day goal or that 60-day goal or that 90-day goal is having a daily structured process, like daily non-negotiables, of what Austin does to build the Austin he wants 30, 60, 90 days from now, does to build the Austin he wants 30, 60, 90 days from now, or whatever goal I'm trying to do, whether it's work on my real estate property or build my coaching business or other work side work that I do, it's a daily hey, checking off a list, a checklist per se, here's this task, here's this task, here's this goal for the day and checking them off like a checklist and it starts with.

Austin:

For me and the clients that work with, it starts with the process. It's like all right, let's figure out what we want at the end of the 30 days, let's backwards plan that. We need to backwards plan it so we can get the actionable steps in place daily, that compound, and each day that we can make a deposit into that process, the closer we're going to get to it or the quicker we'll get to it. Every day that we enact or don't take action or sidestep or take a step back, we're just prolonging that goal, which is okay, you know. We just got to be aware that every time we take a step back, it's pushing that goal a little bit further away, and you know there's give and take with that.

Rob:

Are you a big morning routine kind of person?

Austin:

Yeah, I'd say for me, yeah, and I kind of do it out of multiple reasons. It started off just because I wanted to lead by example. I was telling my clients you know my schedule. I could work out in the middle of the day if I wanted to. I could work out at night. I could work out right after this podcast. I don't, I wouldn't want to, but I could. If I wanted to, I could. I could go handle a lot of things. My schedule, as I've started to build my own business and work for myself.

Austin:

Even though I work all day, most days, I'm never not doing something for it. I mean not to say I'm like this hustle, grind culture, but there's always something I'm doing, whether it's sending an email, dming people, whatever. I'm trying to do something occasionally. But for me to be able to knock out everything I can control, and especially for my clients, is a talk of what can we control? You know a systems of control. We can control what we eat, we can control what we drink, we can control what we do with our body and we can kind of control our timeframe. Right, if you don't have time, if I hear, you know, when people join my group. You know. A lot of times they say, oh, I don't have time. And, yeah, there's some things you literally just don't have time for, and that's okay. We got to be aware with what we truly can. But if you don't have time, well, let's make time. Let's get up an hour earlier or let's stay up a little bit later if you have kids.

Austin:

I work with many people that have kids families, careers, businesses, entrepreneurs, small businesses and they find their process. We work together to build their process to say, hey, all right, we can find time here, and that's what backwards planning helps us do. We know what our schedule is going to look like tomorrow. Let's backwards plan that shit. All right, we work from nine to five. Let's get up at seven. Let's knock out that workout.

Austin:

Get all those things you say you wish you had time for done before you go to work, before the emails come in, before the phone calls, before the text, before the boss, before the clients start hitting you up, knock your shit out. So if the world burns up the rest of the day, if a shit bomb goes off in your lap, it doesn't matter. I got my stuff done earlier, so it could all fall apart and I'm not going to let my day fall apart and not get my things done, because I can backwards plan my day and I can take control of those things that I can like I mentioned earlier, so I'm a big daily process guy and a big morning guy.

Austin:

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Rob:

Yeah, I think that's powerful stuff because I feel like when you live more of that proactive lifestyle instead of the reactive and you really take it by the horns and you just tackle it first thing in the morning, it really helps get things done, not become a slave to my routine. I got into a period where I was like, okay, I'm going to practice my Spanish, I'm going to do my gratitude, I'm going to journal, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that. And then I had this long, long, long, long laundry list of items that I needed to do in my morning routine. If I couldn't get one of those done, it threw me for a loop. So I've been practicing now to minimize my routine but still have that structure. Practicing now to minimize my routine but still have that structure.

Austin:

I like that minimizing Because for a while and some people, it's all adaptation really. I mean, there is a certain threshold where it's just a workload. It's just too much. Right, you're adding too much to the plate and it does need to be. The fat needs to be trimmed down or it needs to be regressed. I guess a little bit, but what I try and tell some of my clients like there, there is a set like list of non-negotiables that I give most people that join my group. It's like all right, we're going to track our foods, we're going to track our water intake, we're going to have a structured program with training. Whether it's that, whether it's a movement for the day, whether we're going for a walk or weight training, doing whatever, we're knocking out these little checklists of non-negotiables for the day and looking backwards planning for the next day.

Austin:

But another one is reading 10 pages of a book or reading a nonfiction book, and some people, and even myself included, for the longest time and still some days, man, I'm dumb. I am dumb. It takes me a long time to read. I'm a horrible reader. Sometimes I'll read a paragraph like three times and I'm still like what the hell did I just read. I have to reread it again. So, and what I tell people is hey, one page is better than no page, right? Like it's all a deposit, like it's compounding. So one page a day over 30 days is 30 pages. If you just didn't do it at all because you couldn't read the 10 pages, you'd never get anywhere. Right, if you couldn't do, you know it applies to anything else. Really, you know, something is better than nothing, right? Like we shouldn't strive to be a perfectionist. It's almost like imperfect action will get the result. Still, I'd rather want imperfect action than no action at all.

Rob:

Yeah, I love that. I can't remember who said the quote, but I feel like I'm always saying it. It's like action alleviates anxiety and just instead of getting caught up in wondering and worrying about what to do, just do something. Just get you, just just go like, if you don't have your full workout, just move your body a little bit.

Rob:

you don't have time for a full hour exercise routine. Then just go do a couple things. Um same thing with reading, reading, writing. Whatever you're doing, just put a little bit of effort into it, let the juices start flowing, and then you get caught in there. And then next thing you know you're looking as good as you, man.

Austin:

No, thank you man. It's compounding time, dude. I haven't always been like this or taken my fitness this serious, even though I've been a coach for over 10 years. My first couple of years I was still lax with a lot of shit. I was still lax with a lot of shit. I was not leading by example.

Austin:

And it's like I said, my coaching has evolved over time and I've realized that I'm only as good as the example I set, not what I say. So am I doing what I'm telling these people to do or am I just telling them to do it? So I wanted to revert back to being a morning person. I never really was until the past probably three or four years. I would always be like I'll work out when I get up and get moving and when it's convenient. But now, if I'm not telling all these other people to go work out in the morning and knock it out before go win the morning type of deal, I got to be doing that shit myself. I can't just be the best way to lead, or the only way to lead is by example. Right, that's the best way. So to get to where I am now, it's taken a lot of removing self.

Austin:

And who am I. Are my actions or my decisions inspiring anybody? Are they inspiring my team to level up themselves, or is it setting a bad example? Is it holding them back? So that's where my thinking comes a lot nowadays, especially in the early morning workouts, because I'll have these conversations with some of my clients and they'll say Austin, how do you still get up every morning so early?

Austin:

I say most of the time it's not rainbows and butterflies. When that alarm goes off, I'm like shit dude. But I think I literally either have these imaginaries people that they're watching me not that they're hoping that I fail, maybe some days it's like that, but I have this who's watching me. That's a thought that comes to my head. I'm like let me slide my feet off the bed and get my ass downstairs. Let me get going. That's maybe something over time that I've just built. That's manic, but I have that feeling or that urge that people are watching. Am I letting them down? Am I setting an example? Am I inspiring? Am I letting them down? Am I setting an example? Am I inspiring?

Rob:

Yeah, I love that You're creating like another layer of accountability for yourself. Yeah, and I wrote down because I wanted to ask you a question earlier, because you said you had started working out with the other personal trainers when you were working the front desk at first and then you eventually were building up some of your own knowledge and became a trainer yourself and a coach. Um, so I got to ask, like, who are some of your early mentors and, and how did they kind of guide you? Like how did you who'd you learn from? Or whether it's mindset coaching, like fitness coaching, or just in general what, who are some people that you looked up to in the beginning?

Austin:

Or just in general, who are some people that you looked up to in the beginning. So there's a guy that definitely took me under his wing for quite a few years. Probably two or three years after getting into the gym I met this guy named Joe Godbolt and I haven't talked to him in years, unfortunately. But great guy and he gave me a ton of knowledge and wisdom and taught me a lot. But he was probably five, six years older than me at the time and was jacked like jacked to the gills and I just wanted to be like him. And again, my journey started off a lot elementary, juvenile. I just wanted to get jacked, tan and juicy man. I still want to for real, but that's not my main focus. I don't care if I lose size or whatever.

Rob:

Who doesn't, man, who doesn't?

Austin:

Yeah, but the goals have changed a little bit, but I still would like to be a little jacked, tan and juicy. I'd like to look good, but he was huge man and I just wanted to be like him. I wanted to get big, I wanted to get strong. I was like dude, show me the way. I'm going to be here at 5.30. Be here with the LiftStars without you. I was there every night, every night, just trying to take it in, following him Every set, every rep. I was doing it just like him. I think that was a great way.

Austin:

Looking back, if you wanted to be like somebody, you got to do what they do for the most part, not everything's cookie cutter like that, but you definitely want to, like you said, take action and just go and hung out with him for quite a few years. He was big into bodybuilding, so that got me into bodybuilding at 23, 24 years old, and I competed with that for four or five years and the last time I competed was in 2018. And it was off of a dare, but that's a whole long story besides that. But I haven't done it since, but I don't think I would be ultimately the person I am without Joe Godbolt and like to think of any other mentors having the right role models yes, yes yeah, so it sounds like you got lucky finding a good one.

Rob:

I know I've gone down the road a couple different coaching programs and such and, uh, you don't always get linked up with some of the best people who have the best intentions for you, um, so when you do find somebody who's got you in mind for the right moves, it's important to hang on to them. So I got to ask you you're coaching now. Is it only in person or how does? Are you working with people online, remotely?

Austin:

Yes, I do both.

Austin:

So I have my own like private gym.

Austin:

About two years ago I took the leap and quit my or a little bit longer than that ago, I quit my corporate training job at a Gold's and jumped straight into my own gig, got my own spot, bought equipment over time, more and more equipment.

Austin:

It's not a huge spot about 1500 square feet and enough for me to train and I have some other coaches there that help pay the bills as well, but they have their own clients and take care of themselves. But I've been doing that over the past two plus years and just this past year I started focusing with online coaching. So I realized that I can only spread myself so many hours of the day and helping people that if I wanted to reach more and help more, I would need to be able to go online with it and be able to find people that either know not know what they're doing per se, but feel confident enough to take the journey on themselves but have structure, advice, one-on-one calls with me, group calls with me, and we still beat the right path down but they do it on their own type of deal through a private app.

Rob:

Gotcha Very cool, and I know online and being in the online world myself, it's important to really focus in on who you specifically help the most, and so I got to ask who would be your most ideal individual. Is it somebody who does have that experience? Is it men who are looking for a new challenge? Or what is the perfect person listening? How do they know? Like, oh, I got to reach out to Austin.

Austin:

Or what is the perfect person listening? How do they know? Like, oh, I got to reach out to Austin. So thinking about the people that are the most, they get the most craziest transformations with me. Or lifestyle life 180s and I've mentioned this quite a few times on my social media. It's something I swear, it's a coincidence, something about entrepreneur, small business owner or high level management. They hit the ground and start running and their mindset's already there. They hear my lingo, they hear things that I say and the verbiage that I might use.

Austin:

I don't know. I guess because of the pressure over the years of them having so much pressure of management and having to take action themselves and lead, they are able to understand or accept it, be open to it and just hit the ground and run no questions asked usually and turn around crazy fast. But for most people turn around crazy fast. But for most people, anybody who has some self-limiting belief because that was me I know that really doesn't fall under the entrepreneur side, but they're the people that get the craziest turnarounds, at least in my history, with coaching and my client testimonials and whatnot. But everybody eventually does get results. It just takes longer to crack the code per se and finding where the lack of confidence is and how to build that and create momentum or cultivate it with themselves.

Austin:

And I would say, anybody that has any self-limiting beliefs on it not being for them, and more so self-limiting beliefs on it not being for them and more so self-limiting belief on if they truly like the position or the state of their life that they're in. It's like I'm not sure what I want to do, but focusing on you, the internal building you, a better version of you, can do anything that you choose to do better. So if you're stuck, you're unsure. So if you're stuck, you're unsure. You don't have much confidence or belief in what your path should be or where you should go. Start on the inside. Let's start building the person that can get the results or can get the goal that they want. You know it starts with the internal work. Our self-worth, or our self-worth is determined through our self-worth. So anybody that is struggling to find a path and create an identity for themselves, I think that's perfect.

Rob:

Yeah, I mean, there's certainly a lot of entrepreneurs and side hustlers who are listening and there you go. And if they are listening, where do they find you? How do they get in touch with you and how do they stay up to date with what you got going on?

Austin:

So I'm big, big, big on Instagram, or very active at least on Instagram. I post a ton daily, throughout the day as well, just showing what works for me and my daily process and giving any of my thoughts and perspectives on things. But you can find me on Instagram at a page man, and hopefully, fingers crossed, within about a week or so, I should have my website, finally, uh, polished off, which is wwwgymflowtrainingcom. But you can reach out to me on Instagram, cool yeah there you go, guys.

Rob:

Uh, reach out to him on Instagram for the quickest access to him. Um, very open and very uh quick with his replies on instant and social media. So, social media, instagram go right there and then, by the time this airs, hopefully we got that website up and rolling. You can go and check that out too. Um, austin, dude, I want to be courteous of our time. Thank you so much for taking the time today to share your incredible story and a little bit about your insights on what you've got going on and how you show up and how you help a lot of your clients and just continue to evolve yourself as a human. But before I let you go, I got to ask you what would be your number one piece of advice for an entrepreneur, side hustler or young business person just kind of getting out there and getting their feet off the ground and just get rolling.

Austin:

There's a saying I don't remember where. I saw it a few years back and it stuck with my head. There's a saying I don't remember where. I saw it a few years back and it stuck with my head the two most worthless days of the year are yesterday and tomorrow. Because we can't control. We can't change yesterday, we can't control tomorrow. All we've got is today. So what are you doing today? To move forward and make a deposit into yourself for tomorrow, one day at a time.

Rob:

Wow, dude, I love that. I've never heard that and that is actually really awesome. Thank you for sharing that. That is powerful stuff. That's great, awesome dude. Seriously appreciate you taking the time so much and looking forward to checking that website out and following you on social media. You got some great content, thank you Appreciate you, brother.