Nurture to Hypeman

Aligning Your Beliefs with Desired Outcomes: Leadership, Fitness, and Personal Growth with Jimmy Knapp

In this episode, host Jimmy Nap discusses the power of personal beliefs and how they impact actions, decisions, and results. He uses his personal journey to illustrate the ripple effect on leadership styles, team dynamics, and personal health. Alongside, he elaborates on the key role story and belief creation plays in pursuing fitness goals such as attaining a six-pack, and leadership activities. Jimmy also shares his self-transformation from being externally reliant to adopting self-nurturing habits. He emphasizes on the need for leaders to lead with their hearts along with the importance of consistency and self-validation in achieving goals. Jimmy stresses the importance of aligning your story and beliefs with your goals to drive desired actions and results.

00:00 Introduction and Podcast Check-in

00:11 Understanding Personal Beliefs and Actions

01:29 Influence of Beliefs on Decision Making

01:56 The Power of Personal Beliefs

04:21 The Role of Beliefs in Leadership

07:02 The Journey from Nurture to Hype Man

10:46 The Importance of Self-Nurturing

15:19 The Impact of Beliefs on Nutrition and Performance

17:42 The Power of Changing Your Narrative

18:46 Conclusion and Call to Action

Transcript

Jimmy: 0:04

What's going on fam? It's another episode of Primal AF. It's your guy Jimmy Knapp. I got a pretty good one today. Uh, we're gonna be talking about how beliefs affect actions when it comes to leadership, when it comes to fitness, and a story of nurture to hype man. This is all stemming from things that I go through and that I have learned, but today's a good one. I want to check in with you guys, make sure that You guys know where to find me. It's Primal AF Podcast on Spotify and, and Apple. So, if you can, share this, like it, help a brother out, and uh, we're about to get poppin here. So, this topic, it comes, it's, pretty close to me. I'm a feelings guy. I'm an emotions guy. Um, at my best, do big hype man. type mentality. Uh, big, big team guy, especially growing up, always played team sports. And that's me at my best. So where does it all stem from? It stems from a personal belief and that impacts how I show up and how what I believe affects other people. So that's really what I want to talk about today. Let's get right into it. How does. What is the influence on decision making, and how does that correlate to what you believe in and to what actions are, are being made? What is the belief in, in the influence on the decision making when it comes to the behaviors and the belief and the, the actions? what is the power and the influence of all of this? Because a personal belief is essentially going to make the biggest impact on anything that happens in any input you have into any situation as far as leadership style, team dynamics, or even how you treat yourself and your body when it comes to nutrition, right? So if I have It starts with a story, right? It starts with a story, and that kind of molds the belief that you have about a certain topic or a situation which controls the actions and then you get the results after that. And then the story afterwards, after the results is either going to affirm or deny the initial belief. how does that look? really quickly, let's say that my initial story is because of my genetics, I cannot get a six pack. That is now my belief, right? The story is I was never, I've never been predisposed physiologically to have a body like that. So since that is now my belief, I might try an action like eating healthy for a week or two. And if I don't see any results, my story gets stronger on me, not. Being able to have a six pack, right? All of this takes consistency. That's the important part about this is the the Consistency about whatever goal or process is that we're going through so if I want to change this I have to change the initial story and belief my story or it's almost like a hypothetical is I can get a six pack or I can get a flat stomach the belief that that is possible is going to help my actions. Now my actions will, previously in the past is going to maybe get somebody that is a lot better at nutrition than I am. Right. And when I start losing weights and I start seeing that result. Now the story starts to change and it strengthens the belief, even at once it was hypothetical, it starts changing that belief that I initially, when I thought I couldn't get a six pack, right, now it starts changing that. So now this starts an upward, like, good spiral, good habits, and good intentions. So let's switch a little bit and let's see how we could switch gears. And if we started talking about other people, how this actually shows up here and, and what it means. So in leadership, we all know that leadership is more, more influence than it is, than it is anything else. So you're influencing, you're influencing a group of people towards a like minded goal. So the big key is for the leader is. He has to fully believe and be in charge of the decisions and wholeheartedly lead with the belief of success. Whether it's in business or if it's a common goal of any sort. So this is how it looks and this is how it doesn't look, right? This is how it doesn't look. So, if I want to influence a large number of people, what if I hand select two or three leaders for me to influence. If my belief is that they are not capable of the communication or the information to travel downhill, then my actions are going to be limited and I don't feel like that's going to give me the results that's needed from me holding back in that situation that is going to confirm my story or I'm sorry affirm my story that they don't have The skills needed at that point, another way to go about this is if I take this same group of people and my belief is because of the communication, the skills that I give them, that they are fully capable of influencing the people around them, that I'm going to full send it to them. That is the action, right? The results is they feel like I. empower them and I give them everything that they need so they are in turn going to Work as a team for me and whatever story I believed in that time that these guys are really capable And everybody is on the same page Then that kind of helps no that doesn't kind of that helps that story of what I created So how leaders show up and their influence? is massively important. The leader has to lead with his heart, not with his brain, so it's not like a logistical situation. It's more a feeling from the heart that I fully think that these guys or I fully know that these guys are capable of what they're doing. So this is getting kind of juicy on essentially my topic of nurture to hype man. This is all stemming from things that I've learned about myself and how the leadership or just how I show up, how those beliefs manifest in actions and, and it helps shape what or how we act. First, just learning that a belief is just any action that we believe to be true. I think that's important to say. The things that I've learned and through growth, this really goes across all of the fields and all of dynamics that I've been involved with from Uh, OCR racing to training, to nutrition, to leadership all across everything. What my belief was initially was I needed to be essentially nurtured and I'm putting the air quotes in and I needed to be nurtured. And what that felt for me was that I needed. peace and I needed rest, I needed to be congratulated, I needed pats on the back, and I was looking externally for those, and when I didn't get it, I didn't feel validated, and I didn't show up at my best. My best, again, was that hype man energy. And when I say hype man, it's, it's a little bit more than that. That's the general term. It's more self accepting, it's inter directing and authentic. It's everything that it seems to be. It's modest and charitable, um, using a lot of humor. There's a lot of joy, um, gentle and benevolent, uh, really. energetic, self assured. These are all things that that hype man energy brings across all the domains. Um, I really believe in myself and my own value. I'm adaptable, I'm desirable, I'm charming, I'm gracious. These are all, these are all things that I felt that I needed from the nurturing. So the story was, for me to be at my best, I needed, I needed somebody To give me those things. Um, otherwise I'm not at my best. So you could see how across, let's say, um, leadership, if I am talking to a group of people and I wasn't get the, getting that validation externally, how that could be a detriment to whoever I'm speaking with. This is actually a brand new finding, even though I've been practicing. This for a while and just in just strengthening this month muscle, but the nurturing that I was looking for through Through retreats and and talking with like Marty and Aaron Which are great advocates for my growth Where every external validation that I needed was actually something that I needed to tell myself and for me that was like earth shattering news I'm like, what the fuck that was crazy I'm like, well, how do I do that? Right so Going through the stories and beliefs. I had to start with the actions. So the actions now are Giving myself the nurturing that I need. So these are meditation This is daily affirmations, can't exactly massage myself, so, um, I book those like once, once every, once every other week, but getting to that place of nurturing myself, again, these daily affirmations, they're huge, specifically for me. So that gets me what I need there, but what it also does is it levels up on me getting to my best, my best version of where I can be helpful to help other people. now my belief here is, is so strong. It's, it's almost, it's written in stone that If I am able to get to a place to where I could be really, really kind to myself and just enjoy the process, enjoy what I have achieved already, when I get there, then, then my inspiration to, to others and my influence to others. is almost stronger. It just like bleeds from me and I'm able to lead almost wholeheartedly there without any restraints and the actions are almost unquestionable and I get the results that I'm looking for. So this is, this is my almost my progression from somebody that thought that that they needed to be nurtured, um, to, to where I'm at. Now as that elevator of sorts and not, not in the sense of, you know, going up and down and pressing buttons, but somebody that brings people up when I'm in a group of people that I feel is one of my best strengths is, is talking not so much, you know, inauthentically and just typing people up for just to, just to gas them up for no reason, but really holding people accountable and, and helping them level up and seeing how I could be assistance When I do that, um, I think that's something that I find great joy in whether it's performance or whether it's um nutrition and I think the biggest difference between You know managing the expectations and influencing the expectations is i'm not going to tell anybody what to do I don't think that's that's not my Not my my niche there. I I like to show people and And, and show them, you know, the, the direction that's why all of the, the stuff on Instagram and even this podcast, it's more about accountability for me. It's about sharing what I've learned and how maybe I could help somebody else. And also took me a while to. Um, get my soundboard back unscrewed up from when, uh, Brody and Cameron come up in here and play and they press all the buttons because it's like, it's flashing, it's lights. Um, it took me a while to do that, but, um, but going back to. To where I show up as a leader and even I, more importantly, I show up to myself, the more I take care of myself and the more I'm, I'm nice, uh, the more that I'm, I'm speaking nicely to myself and treating myself better, the better I show up for other people. It's just like, you know, treating myself as my best friend or even one of my kids, I would never say. You know, dude, good job on on accomplishing this goal, but that's not good enough. Um, it's almost cringy to say, and it kind of makes me feel bad, but those are the things that I was saying to myself before I wouldn't, I wasn't taking time to appreciate the performance that I have done and the goals that I have achieved. So, um, going over to. The nutritional side and the self discipline, like how do these beliefs affect us nutritionally, or maybe health and sleep patterns, or even, uh, even performance when it goes into training for obstacle course racing. So the example from before and how where the story starts off is, I remember specifically When I was training for 50k saying that I am not a long distance runner And I think it was about a year and a half ago. I made a I read I've read a book, but I made a An Instagram post about what in the world was I thinking? like how How detrimental is that when I go out and my story is I'm not a runner and I'm actually training for a running race you could see Already how that starts to turn me from my overall process and my overall goal that makes the running a little bit more mature than it is, uh, training and believing in the process. So that story created was not serving at all, especially as I was training for a 50k. I mean, come on, what the hell? So what I ended up having to do or not having to do, what I ended up doing was changing this story and. I'm changing the belief and I'm telling people, yes, now I am a runner. So when I went on runs, I remember specifically going on vacation with the family and I got up really early before the sun came down and I went running through the rainforest and it was such a, almost like a freeing experience. Of knowing internally that I enjoy this stuff and you know, I'm getting all the benefits out of it, but that was a big turning point of my beliefs on saying, I am not a runner. This is something that I enjoy. I'm running around this island in the, I don't know if it was a rainforest or jungle, wherever it was tropical, but it was really cool. But that changed the story of I am not a runner. And every time that I go out and train now, it's almost a, a joy to do it. If it's not joyous, then I don't do it. So what this is all getting to is, you know, be careful of the story that we're creating and having the results affirm or deny the belief. The story creates our own narrative, and our narrative is what we're telling to ourselves. So, to achieve a goal faster, and to enjoy a process, Your beliefs have to align with your outcomes. So, what that means is, be careful of the story that you're telling yourself. You're essentially selling yourself on whatever you're telling yourself. We have to align the story to the goal. Once we have that, our actions and our results will start to be in the line. Guys, thanks for joining me on this one. Uh, this one was near and dear to me. If, if it touched you the same way that, um, hopefully I'm, I'm communicating it to you. Like it. Share it. Thanks guys.