In this conversation, we are joined by Wendy Jones. Wendy is the founder of the blog, The Optimists Journal. She uses the power of her own story, which includes surviving divorce, parenting four children, overcoming PTSD after her son's near-drowning almost ten years ago, and parenting a child on the autism spectrum to reflect, heal and thrive. Wendy believes that we all have to choose whether we react to life's circumstances or create them with our mindset, practice, and consistency.

"Your philosophy is the foundation to align your thoughts to who you are, not coupling them to what you do."

The purpose of doing deep work is to align your thoughts, words, and actions. Aligning those three components forms the bedrock of how you think. The story that you're telling yourself.

Nick Buegel and Erich have a conversation about training the mind. In this episode, we go deep into how to train mindfulness. Mindfulness can be interchanged with meditation, but we use the word mindfulness to make it a skill-based practice. We try our best to get very practical from our own lives on how we have used mindfulness. We want to make mindfulness accessible to as broad an audience as possible.

Jordan and Erich discuss current music interests and nuance in performance. We meander into how music makes an impact and blending of genres. We end the discussion about taking in new information from books. We close with beer and food!

In this episode, Erich Wenzel and Jordan Criss are joined by Jorge Martinez. We open the podcast with a new form of discussion that we haven't touched on much Sports and, for this episode, Basketball. While Erich is not a nuanced fan of sports in general, he has a deep interest in what it takes to become a top athlete, which drives this conversation for him. Jordan and Jorge provided detailed information to paint the picture. Naturally, the conversation turns to trying to compare Michael Jordan and Lebron James. Finally, we think about what’s coming down the lane for Basketball.