Wim Hof Method & The secrets of successful entrepreneurs

- I think what's really we're seeing here in the breath work

is something else that's really special and powerful

and that's the release of emotions that have been stored.

The second round here today

I was so happy that I started crying

because I recognized how often in my life

I'm not that happy.

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- So we're in a room in Poland.

We're sitting with Wim Hof

who just led us through a breathing exercise,

if that's what you want to call it,

more of a spiritual experience,

and we just finished

and we wanted to share our experience,

what opened up for us,

and before we do,

can you share in a couple of minutes

context of what we actually did,

what is the purpose of it,

why you do it

and how it helps people heal themselves?

- The breath,

we have shown in science as the first ones

to reach into the autonomic nervous system,

thought of inaccessible as humans, and now we are.

So we are using the breath

not only to go into these deeper systems of ours

to bring it within our willful control,

we are here to show that the breath

actually is the carrier of consciousness.

And with that consciousness,

we are able to go any place in our bodies,

in our brains,

the seat of the mind,

and with that, to get a comprehension

of what is the soul in the moment,

right here, right now,

nothing abstract, a feeling.

Feeling is understanding.

So I see you guys here

coming all big guys and influencers and all.

So great, it is great,

I got a new insight,

I always keep on learning.

I'm very thankful that we have come together

to show that we as big men

are able to become every vulnerable.

There is the strength to not be a need to stay in control,

to go past the control into vulnerability

'cause you want to branch into something else

than is given us by our schools, our teachers,

our doctors and so forth.

That's why we have come together

and now I would love to hear what is your experience.

- And the biggest thing that opened up for you

during either this session or the first two and a half days.

So gratitude, why you decided

to come experience this with Wim

and what opened up for you so far in this breathing

or this time.

- Well, one of those questions is really easy

because this was an easy yes.

Not only did I know a couple people here already

that I consider friends and brothers

but I've got to spend time with Wim Hof himself

and Enahm as well

and got to meet his family

and have been practicing the method,

not as much as I will after being here,

'cause I think this is one of the big lessons

that I've learned is I have a lot of the tools,

and I've been on the path of learning,

discovering my soul, my spirit,

what that essence is, consciousness, your higher self,

whatever you want to call it,

there's a million words that inadequately describe

the ineffable essence of who we really are,

and I've been on the path of seeking that.

But I don't always remember that,

I forget it often

and I forget it easily

and to be reminded that it's just a sequence of breaths away

and to be able to do that in an environment

with people that are becoming brothers,

some came in as brothers,

like yourself Lewis,

and now everybody becoming brothers,

it's, I'm happy, I'm happy,

and I don't know if I'm always happy, to be honest.

And like this now has shown me

that happiness is not something that's ephemeral,

it's not something that just comes to you

or it doesn't come to you

based on some external thing.

You can create it.

And you created the container

by bringing all these people together

and then we're creating the internal state

with our own breath.

And it just gives control back to something

and I think society and the world

has told us it's out of our control.

And so we get our control back

by using the method

and it's just the best.

And then you look at the priorities of your life

and you're like, huh,

like what am I doing everything I'm doing for

when everything I'm doing is not yielding

this kind of happiness that I've had here

with this group of men and this method

in a couple days?

And it's just a great reminder

about what's really important

and which way to steer life from here forward.

So I'm just incredibly grateful,

grateful for life and grateful for our bodies

and grateful for teachers like Wim

that can help us get back and remind ourselves

who we really are

and how to get back in touch with the animal

and the spirit that's inside all of us.

- Nice, nice.

Steve.

- Man, I'm super thankful for tribe.

I grew up my entire life an athlete

and then when you retire,

it's not built in for you.

So just to become here

and to tribe up with a lot of people

that I haven't met before.

I really only needed to know like one guy was coming,

and that was you, Lewis,

but it's cool to see what you've created in this tribe

and we'll never have another experience like this.

So for me, the actionable steps I'll take

with this experience

is for me to be better

at keeping the main thing the main thing

'cause I think a lot of us

with the big dreams

and the big desires of our heart,

we go so deep and obsessive towards that,

and as husband and as fathers,

dude, when I get home,

and I put my truck in park.

I walk in the door,

I'm bringing that stuff with me.

I don't want to

and I don't want to show up that way

but that's the world we live in, man,

we're trying to get things done,

we're trying to create legacy,

and that does require obsession,

but just super thankful Wim,

that you've used your whole life to figure this thing out

and now it's like a popular cool thing

to do what you've essentially delayed

your entire gratification of your life

and now people are finally starting to listen.

So just honored to be here

and to help spread the word

over on the west side, man,

'cause we need the help.

So thanks for having us.

- Thanks Bailey.

- I'll go the other way around,

I came because I didn't want to come.

When you sent that text message and you said,

"Hey, getting a bunch of guys

"and going to see Wim Hof,"

I googled Wim Hof and I was like hell no.

And then in the back of my head it's like

that's a hell yes,

your fears are your compass, right,

it's gotta let you know where you gotta go.

So I said yes before I could change my mind,

bought the ticket before I could change my mind.

It's been such an amazing thing.

I think the gratitude I have,

and I've heard a lot of people express it is brotherhood.

This is a brotherhood that is being formed,

not simply 'cause we're all in the same room together,

it's because we're sharing unique experiences together.

We've had, you never forget your first.

That was the first time I jumped in water ever.

- [Lewis] Wow, cold water or water?

- Water.

I've never jumped in a pool.

I've never jumped in water, I can't swim.

- [Lewis] Wow.

- And I was telling some of the other guys

and I've backed out of it

and I've not regretted backing out of it

and this time was the first time I was surrounded by people

that were just completely encouraging,

walking up and Mike immediately being like,

"the secret is don't think about it,

"just get to the edge and jump."

I didn't take his advice

and I overthought it

and I heard our voice like,

"All right, Humble, you can do it,

"three, two, one."

And I didn't jump.

"Okay, Humble, you can do it, three,"

And there wasn't any shaming,

I didn't feel like I was surrounded

by a bunch of alpha males

who were trying to peer pressure me,

and I think that brotherhood,

I see in my history,

'cause I grew up with only sisters,

how often I got myself in trouble

chasing a brotherhood,

looking for it in all the wrong directions.

And to be in a circle of self-aware, honest, super strong,

and I think, as Wim said,

true strength is vulnerability

and to be in this room

and see super strong people

and have these conversations,

the spectrum is, it crosses everything.

We're talking about the silly fun stuff

and we're talking about the deep stuff

and we're shedding tears

and we're getting technical.

And I think to have access to that is just,

I'm forever grateful for it.

And I've received so much

that it is my privilege but my responsibility to

I got to put it out there now.

You got to put it out there on a local level

with my peoples

but also with my community

and the folks that look to me and it's just,

it's overwhelming and this experience of breathing,

as Aubrey said,

it's almost unfair how lucky we are

to have all these tools and they're there,

and it's nothing mystical.

I've been in some form of meditation since I was eight

and often it's sit quietly, close your eyes,

'cause your mom will slap you if you move.

And to see this is,

and to hear Wim just say,

hey, let it figure itself out

and the pressure, the shoulders relax

and the pressure goes away

and it makes room

and to say even simple things like we're gonna build it up

or tear it down,

whatever needs to happen.

I think so often we're told this is the way to do things

and we get in our own way.

And I think I'm so grateful for this opportunity

to clear some of that.

As I was saying yesterday,

the ice melted our anxieties.

- Well I don't want to speak for you

but I love how you said

you've never been around a group of guys who were supportive

without pressuring you or saying like,

come on, don't be a wussy or don't be a whatever,

like jump in the water, don't be scared

and you said you've never experienced that

where it was just like supportive encouragement.

- Yeah, a friend yesterday's like,

oh, I see on Instagram,

you're with a bunch of interesting guys,

hopefully that makes you interesting

or hopefully that turns you interesting.

And again it's how they were raised, it's tools

and I got out of that and I'm grateful for it

but I notice here too a lot of people here

may be family rich and resource rich and experience rich

but as another much more talented bearded poet said

people don't grow on trees.

And I'm so grateful that all these people came across,

you can't buy brotherhood,

you can't buy brotherhood

and you can't form a brotherhood by force,

you gotta sit in that ice together

and let it develop

one freezing second by one freezing second.

So again, Lewis, thank you so much for having me

Wim and everybody, thank you for being here.

- [Lewis] Snakebite, Posner.

- Snakebite in the building, what's up,

Michael Robert Posner, Detroit, Michigan.

What I'm saying?

- [Lewis] What you're grateful for,

why you came and the biggest lesson so far.

- I'll start with why I came.

It's similar to Aubrey,

it was an easy yes

and Jesse text me, he's like,

"Man, it's a once in a lifetime, bro."

I was like I know.

And by the way, I was pressuring Jesse to come,

I was like, dude, he's like, I got a speaking engagement,

I got a move.

I go, dude, you gotta move it,

dude, I'm in 100%, come in, you in.

And a few days passed and he text me back,

"Double the insurance policy, I'm coming to Poland."

But yeah mean, it was an easy yes, man.

I heard about your work for years, Wim,

and the opportunity to come learn from you first hand

in an environment like this, such a small group,

is just exactly what Jesse said

once in a lifetime opportunity,

and I knew that the practices would help me,

with some of the projects I'm working on in the short term

but also in the long term for my whole life.

So I will say flipping in the question to,

I'm grateful for the opportunity 100%,

grateful for you Wim.

I think Steve said it really well,

you spent decades alone in that fucking ice,

nobody was with you, man, yeah

and you just figured it out on your own,

there was no book.

So I think everybody that learns from you could be grateful

that you had the courage to spend that time alone,

figure out your own shit,

tear yourself down, build yourself up

'cause without that none of us would be here

learning this amazing stuff.

- [Lewis] Biggest lesson for you.

- The biggest lesson?

Yes, it does feel like unfair, almost silly

how powerful this stuff is

that requires no anything.

Everybody that's alive has their breath, pretty much,

unless they're on like life support.

So the fact that we're able to go that deep as we just went

without taking a drug,

without fasting, without,

it's like Aubrey said like a few minutes away.

It feels almost like cheating.

But hopefully that could become

a part of more people's daily lives.

Myself today, I feel like I went

to a whole different state of consciousness,

just a different place, different mind state,

hard really to explain.

When I finished doing the breathing exercise I start crying

but I couldn't really tell if I was laughing or crying

and it was really interesting 'cause it was absolute,

Jesse asked me what were you thinking about

when you were crying?

I was thinking about absolutely nothing.

There was absolutely no mental story or memory

attached with my emotions.

I don't know if that's just cause

it's pent up in there or what, maybe Wim can tell us,

it just came out.

It was really powerful for me

and again, Humble said man,

this group Aubrey said, I feel happy too, bro,

just being around you guys has been amazing, amazing.

So thank you, Lewis, thank you, Wim,

thank you all you guys who showed up, appreciate you.

- Thank you, guys.

I don't know, for me personally,

I don't want to be the 80% version of myself.

When I look back when I'm 85 years old

and when this thing is all over,

I don't want to be like yes, man,

I was 80% of what I could've been.

And when you have the opportunity to learn

from the best in the world at what he does.

There's seven billion people on the planet

and one guy stands out,

you have to grab that opportunity.

And for me, I'm super aligned

with the way Wim thinks, relates to nature.

When I was a kid and I went outside,

my mother was like bundle up,

put a scarf on, put a jacket on,

my teacher's like, don't go in the water, it's too cold,

don't go outside, you're gonna get sick,

and here's a guy through science, innovation, mindset,

has proven the opposite,

and in a world where everyone's getting sick

following directions of the scientists

and the leaders and the pharmaceutical people, whatever,

out comes one man who says there's a different way.

And with one out of four American men getting cancer

and all the illness,

I'm drawn to that energy,

I want to learn from that energy.

So that's why I'm here

and I'm a big believer in the more you experience,

the more you have to offer,

and the more compassion you have,

the more empathy you have,

the more you can share,

and I recently sat with a financial advisor

and he asked me if you could leave your kids

a boatload of money or a boatload of experiences,

what would you want to give 'em?

Of course, you want to give 'em experiences.

Man, what in the world is a better experience

than coming to Poland with 13 self-starters

and 13 guys that are eager to learn?

And as you get older,

I'm the oldest here other than Wim,

as you get older,

it's hard to create newness in our life, man.

How do you get newness?

You have to work towards newness.

And this was something that was new, extraordinary,

and to get an opportunity to learn from a guy who's

in some ways a hero

and in some ways that's taking on the establishment,

and for me that translates beyond cold water.

It translates to business,

how I raise my kids,

what kind of friend I am,

what kind of husband I am,

and what this man has really done,

and I've learned in a short amount of time,

it's not about cold water, man,

it's about your mind

and how can you take that out of the cold water

and apply it to your daily life.

So the lessons that I've learned are,

and I'm on a quest for more.

I'm an ultra runner, I'm a dad,

I'm on a quest for more.

My biggest fear is I don't live up to my potential.

And what he has taught me is that

the potential is bigger than we all thought

if we tap into what we can control.

And for that gift, I thank you, Wim,

and Lewis and everybody else.

And the last thing I just want to say is

this is five days in one.

Every one day is like five days.

If I stayed here for 40 years,

I'd live to be 200 years old.

So I might move to Poland

and be the oldest man in history to live.

But thank you for hosting this--

- [Lewis] How does this compare to,

for those that don't know,

you've done tons of endurance races,

you've got your own mountain adventure race,

you've done Last Man Standing,

you've done so many different challenges,

extreme physical and mental challenges,

how does these first couple days

compare to all the different challenges you've done?

- They're all unique in their own way.

What's special about this is what Wim brings to it

and there's so much conviction.

And conviction can take you a really long way.

I've built my career on conviction,

and he just reemphasizes that.

But what's different about this

is the 13 guys in this room.

- [Lewis] Yeah, it wouldn't be as special

if it was just one or two.

- No, and the challenge with this for all of us

is when we go home and Aubrey's got a huge,

the guy's got big followings in this room,

Matt, you Lewis, everybody,

is trying to how do you even convey the experience

and you can't.

But what's amazing about experiences is

40 years from now if I see Steve

or if I see Humble, Mike, whatever,

I'm rooting for all you guys,

I'm sure you guys are rooting for me, I hope,

it's unbreakable, man, it's unbreakable.

So I'm just excited to stay,

Ansel you too,

I know you came outside, you'll get your chance,

I don't want to hog the mic here, it's unbreakable

and you don't get that in a fucking textbook, man.

You don't get that watching the Kardashians.

You get that by going out in nature,

suffering, experiencing, et cetera.

The last thing I'm gonna say

is the best part of this is the fear.

We talked about the cold water,

and I was scared to, all this stuff, it's the build up,

and then getting over the hurdle,

and it's no different than starting a business or whatever,

it's the fear, getting over it

and setting your standards really high.

Wim has set his standards higher than high.

There is no standard,

it's just like,

if you told me Wim Hof landed on the moon with his own arms

'cause he flapped his arms really fast,

I'd be like, I believe that.

And that's the standard we should all strive for

is like how far can we push the limits

before it's over

'cause nobody here signed up for 80% of themself.

- I'm grateful for the opportunity and the health

to be able to come and be with you guys

and to experience this with you guys

and I'm also grateful for the fact that all you guys

as we are men and alpha,

we're taught to be like tough

but you guys have been vulnerable enough

to open yourself up to be not so alpha

and just let your emotions go.

And why I came is several reasons

but all play into one.

Since I was a kid,

I've always felt like you know,

I can't explain my journey,

I just always feel like it's just guided by a higher being.

For example, when I was a kid,

I told my mom I was gonna play in the NFL at eight years old

and she said, "Only one in a million kids

"play in the NFL."

And I'm like, "Well I'mma be that one" at seven years old.

It's something that guides you.

And going into when I was younger in my teenage years

I always knew that I wanted to have twin boys,

I want to have twins, I want to have twins

and ironically enough I have twin boys

and it's crazy, it's insane

and also they play into a reason why I came here is because

as a kid, I was teased and

and bullied a lot and

as a dad and as a father

you want to be able to shield your children away from that.

So it scars you as a kid,

you take that with you as you get older

and I want to find out my faults

so I can teach my kids

not to take the same path that I took.

My wife called me yesterday,

she text me yesterday

and she said one of my boys was at school

and a kid at school was teasing him

telling him he had curly hair

and that it wasn't cool.

(mumbles) 'cause my wife is white

and my kids are biracial

and when I heard that it sensed me, it enraged me,

and I wanted to let him know that,

and not to sound boastful

but my kids are very good looking kids,

very good looking kids

and let them know that it doesn't matter,

'cause I've learned in life

what people think about you doesn't matter

'cause you only got so much time on this Earth

that if you waste your time

thinking about what everybody thinks about you,

you're gonna waste your time and your energy.

So that's one of the main reasons why I came

was that I'm trying to find myself and my faults

so I can see the faults in my kids,

'cause my kids, my twin boys,

one is built like me physically

and one is built like me mentally.

So I have to, I can see everything in 'em

and I want to be able to show 'em the right way

and the biggest lesson that I've learned

is that you don't need all this crazy stuff,

you don't need all this technical stuff

to advance yourself and make yourself feel better

and improve yourself.

What you need is inside of you

and it's very simple.

Grieving is simple.

So that's the biggest lesson I've learned is that

you already have the tools,

God put you onto this Earth with the tools that you need

to be successful.

It's on you to find a way to access 'em

and to put it out into the world.

So I'm very thankful for that.

- That's beautiful.

My name is Matt, AKA Cesar, as Lewis calls me.

I'm grateful for the opportunity,

as simple as that,

to be surrounded by a group of guys

who are passionate, wise, loving, vulnerable.

I run Lewis' business, School of Greatness podcast,

and I just appreciate every single one of you

just embracing me

and just allowing me to be me on this trip

and it's been a powerful experience for me.

Why I'm here, duty, requirement.

At the end of it, Lewis said, you're going.

He's like there's no two ways about it,

and my mom, my wife, they're all freaking out,

you're jumping in these ice baths,

you're gonna be jumping into a freezing cold river,

what are you doing,

do we have enough life insurance?

You're going overseas,

you got medical insurance, all this craziness,

and Lewis just said you're going

and I acknowledge you and appreciate you

for pushing me out on the skinny branches.

We need friends like that.

We need to support each other

and allow each other to see what's possible in our lives.

So my biggest takeaway

is that this method, Wim Hof method, is,

and I can attest to it in my short experience here

is supportive both mentally, for your mental health,

and also physically for your physical health.

I had a feeling for mentally

because I had done Wim Hof method before

in the States with Lewis,

but physically, I'm sitting here with the dog

and my dog allergy's gone.

- Really? - Fuck you.

- [Lewis] He's never been able to touch dogs.

- And I love dogs,

I absolutely adore dogs,

I've loved them since I was a kid

but my parents couldn't get one because I was allergic.

Now I can be around dogs,

I can take,

after this exercise, I can take full breaths

whereas I would've had to go outside,

get away, take a shower.

- [Lewis] He couldn't touch a dog

without it swelling his face, sneezing.

- [Wim] That's the same thing with fibromyalgia,

the histamine is out of control.

$500 to say that.

Bad joke.

Great.

- So I'm grateful to be here

and I'm gonna pass it to Enahm, my man.

- To me, I can pass it through.

- [Lewis] What are you grateful for,

why are you here

and biggest lesson so far

from this group of guys being here?

- I'm here because I wanted to protect all of you guys

from this man.

(laughing)

No, no, so with Lewis,

we have been a couple of times on his podcast

and last time we were there was, like Lewis,

the way he received us,

the way he let my dad come forward

and it's an art to also

to have the best come out of someone

and it's there,

and my dad said, hey, let's do some event,

and I was like totally open for it,

because normally I'm very closed, I'm behind the scenes,

I built a big wall towards these kind of things,

because yeah, I'm basically

working with my dad for nine years

and you get to see a lot of bullshit out there.

And that being said,

here I normally never participate in anything.

I wear a scarf right now

because hey, it's nice, comfy, I don't care

about what that says,

but yesterday going into the ice bath,

and I was like also I don't take ice baths,

it's like part of my dad's show with my dad.

Is anyone doing here what their dad is doing?

I don't know.

But me not.

And I was there with you guys in the ice bath

and it was like insane.

I don't know what happened there

but if I go in for two minutes or three minutes with my dad,

the biggest motivator and teacher with the ice,

I get like painful as F

but with you guys it was like a piece of cake,

and maybe not a piece of cake

but I felt confident,

I was there, endured it,

and it was a great feeling.

- I saw a different Enahm yesterday,

amazing, I loved it, yes.

- And also with this group of guys,

I haven't looked into it too much

but now I'm adding all of you

and I'm seeing a certain thing coming forward

on the social media and on anything,

and what I see here is man,

you guys are great with your social media

but what I see here is even better, man,

and you guys are the real deal

and I'm very grateful for that.

So it just blows my mind.

So you guys say it's a once a lifetime experience,

fuck that man,

any time you guys want to do something, we're here.

So thank you for being here

and opening up, it's insane.

- Could you share with us the different,

you said your son was different yesterday,

I'm very intrigued by that

because I have a similar relationship with my son

and I try to motivate him

and he doesn't take it from me

but he'll take it from my friends.

So what was our tribe able to bring out in your son

that you hadn't seen before?

- Energy, power, empowerment, just that.

He never does this with me,

he never does it,

but you can heal anything with this

except for father, son's relationship.

And yesterday, you guys brought it to him

'cause you guys are,

he's also big guy, like in his way, handsome and things

and no inhibitions, making big business,

and shutting out everybody

with a lot of success.

I had 12 managers before him

and I had only a 30,000 Euros of tax debt,

that's what I had of those 12 managers.

Then he came in and he took it all along,

now we got so much and it's all coming.

Now I don't care

but what I see in him,

how he is for the first time yesterday changed,

he's a different man now.

And I think he's gonna,

he wants to take me on.

It's good, it's good

if the son wants to take on dad,

I got more power,

then I did a good job.

So two, three minutes,

it's gonna be 20 minutes,

I don't know what he's gonna do.

I thank you guys

because you guys got the quality and the energy, the power

and good looking

so yeah, you got him convinced where I could not.

- You also just looked really happy in the ice.

You were just smiling,

you were like this energy

radiating from your chest and your face.

- I normally look at everything from outside

and I like that position.

I like to have the overview,

yeah, I am not used to this stuff,

I like to have the overview,

I like to see things outside,

we had a couple of conversations here to say

why are you not doing the breathing exercise?

Fuck, I need my traumas

because I need to perform-- - You need your traumas?

- Yeah.

- [Lewis] Why do you need your traumas?

- Well, like I said,

these things make you like,

I don't think fear is a bad thing.

It makes you like cautious about things

and my dad always talks about love

and we're creating something beautiful.

To break that down,

it's like can go really quickly,

to build something up, it takes years.

So I always want to be not in the middle of a,

I need to be outside of that.

I don't want to be walking around

like a hippie hugging everyone,

that's what this does, man,

and it's beautiful

but I need to be like,

I have a role within all what we do

and I need to maintain that role.

At least that's the way I feel it

and that's why I built these walls.

But yesterday I could break that wall down for a moment

and that's why I was smiling and being happy.

I felt like at ease,

that's priceless, yeah.

Thanks.

- Yeah, I'm Nick.

I'm here for you guys.

Lewis texted me

and said we're gonna have this retreat in Poland,

I'm like I've been to Poland

and he said, well Wim Hof's gonna be there,

I'm like oh cool, and he kind of gave the rundown.

I'm like, dude, Lewis, you could throw this thing

at the LA County Dump and I'd be there.

I'm so grateful for this beautiful setting

and I've had a chance to explore

just the beautiful mountainside around us

but I'm here for you guys

and I mean it.

If this was anywhere else,

I would've been on the next flight

because I think I expressed that

I struggle with some self doubt frequently

and I'm on Instagram, I'm stalking you guys

and I'm like, these guys,

not an ounce of self doubt,

these are buildings, they're Snakebite,

these are bigger-than-life human beings

and I need to be there

to understand why these people are so perfect.

Talk about be the person that you want to be,

imagine yourself in that scenario,

imagine yourself in those shoes.

And I'm like I want to be like these guys,

I need to go and see what makes 'em tick

and we're downstairs and there's 15 of us

and energy's going back and forth and

it's easier for me to sit down with Jesse one-on-one

or Mike one-on-one

and pick up something from you

and then it's almost like it's overwhelming

and I have to go process it.

So like just talking with Mike

when he said I walked across the United States

because I wanted to be the version of myself

that I wanted to be,

I just like it was so overwhelming

I had to just throw my hiking boots on

and go walk for an hour.

Maybe it's the loneliness of the long distance runner

but that's kind of how I center myself

is just going out and being in my own head for awhile.

And I seriously yesterday for 90 minutes

just thought what does that mean

and what does that mean for me moving forward,

how do I apply it to my own life?

I feel like I've had a chance

to at least sit down with every one of you for

whether it's five or 10 or half an hour

and I've just taken a nugget,

one nugget from each of you

that is just almost overwhelming

and I have to just throw my hiking boots on

and go process it,

but I'm so grateful that if every one of you came out here

because it's really impacting me

and helping me in a major, major way.

So that's the gratitude,

and if there's one thing that I've really learned

in two days here,

the commonality between the breathing exercises

and the ice baths

it's that we've got monkey brains.

At the end of the day,

we're animals and as soon as I go into holding my breath

or the second I went into the ice bath,

I'm like fuck this, this sucks.

I want oxygen

or I want to get the fuck out of this cold bath.

That's my monkey brain

and then as soon as I push through

that first 15 seconds in the breath holding

or as soon as I push past

the first two minutes in the ice bath,

I settle into this really neat, happy comfortable place

and it gets bad again.

At three minutes or at seven minutes in the bath tub,

it gets bad again,

but it's maybe a lesson

to not always avoid painfulness,

not always avoid discomfort,

that there's a real happy place that can be found

if you embrace it initially.

So I'm trying to apply that lesson

in more areas of my life.

- Love that, love that.

I love that Nick was looking at all of us

thinking that we're hot shit

when he's a two-time Olympian and US National champion.

- [Nick] I was like,

why the fuck is Lewis inviting me to this?

Did you run out of people to call or something?

- No, I love your energy man.

You're an inspiration to me.

- [Nick] Appreciate that.

- And before you go,

what was the exact line that you said

about why you crossed America?

We'll pass the mic back to Mike.

'Cause I think it was a great line

and we all really resonated with that,

so the reason you walked across America.

- Yeah, I had to actually do my walk

to get to this answer.

When people asked me before I did it,

I didn't really know what to say,

I just knew I needed to do it

but there's a lot of time to think out there,

but when people ask,

why did I walk across America, I would say,

I walked across America

to become somebody I'm actually proud of.

The person that I want to be, he did that walk.

So let me go try and become him.

It's really the same idea

as what Jesse was saying earlier,

it's just different words.

It's like if somebody asked me

who my hero is

or who inspires me,

I love all you guys

but I don't want to fucking say,

I don't want to have to say Jesse,

I don't want to have to say Wim,

I want to be able to say fucking me, I inspire me.

So I try and organize my life

to where that dream,

that superhero version of me becomes real me

and it's an never-ending mission.

- [Lewis] That's right, I love that.

It's kind of like Snoop Dog.

- I got tired of watching podcasts,

docs of inspiring people

and not being one of 'em.

It was like fuck that, man.

- [Nick] 'Cause you are.

- I'm trying to, thank you.

Thank you.

- I love that Snoop Dog speech where he was like,

I want to thank me

for all the hard work I put in,

for all the late nights I put in,

for the effort,

I want to thank me.

- Hey guys.

I want to definitely thank everyone in this room

for like bringing me in

and tell you how grateful I am to be here.

It almost feels like an understatement when I say that

because I honestly feel like

the most fortunate person in this room right now.

The talent and inspiration here is like it's moving.

And thank you, Enahm

for probably letting me

slip through the cracks on this email

to get in here

'cause I don't know how else I would've made it in here.

Like being in a room full of guys who like

just want to see you get better is like

worth all the money in the world.

So I appreciate all of that.

I definitely came here like looking for

performance and along those lines

I'm really interested in it

and interested in all the things Wim's done

and I think what I got out of it was

just how much like baggage I've put up over the years

and levels of like stubbornness

that I've just layered on.

And so after today's session,

I feel like I was able to peer into somewhere

where I haven't been in a long time.

So yeah, thank you, Wim.

(clapping)

- My name's Taylor.

Lewis brought me along

to help document this experience

and help tell the story for you guys.

It's been incredible to watch all of you high performers,

thought leaders, just incredible human beings,

go through this experience and rally for each other,

seeing you all chant in the ice bath yesterday

and Mike singing some crazy notes

and everybody smiling and having a good time

and pushing through that pain together

and developing that brotherhood

in such a natural and powerful way.

It's been incredible to watch

and I feel so grateful

that I'm here to help tell that story and share.

I think my biggest takeaway

is that this stuff is powerful

and we're so privileged

and we've been given the responsibility to share this

and it needs to be out in the world.

And so I'm excited to see

moving forward, watching all you guys

support this mission and support this work

and really grateful that we had this experience together

to share it with the world.

(clapping)

- So quick story,

me and Lewis and April

got a workout in together

and I asked him, I said,

"Who's been inspirational in your life?

"What are you doing this year that's pretty crazy?"

And he says, "Well someone that I'm really up to

"is Wim Hof

"and I'm actually gonna go to Poland with him next January",

so now and do some Wim Hof experience with him.

And I let no air in between that sentence

and I said, "I'm in."

- [Lewis] I didn't invite you yet.

- That was it, that was it,

I flat out said I'm in, I said I'm in

because just like you two said

there's not gonna be a day or a week

or a month that goes by

that I'm not gonna see the Mitch Matthews

that I know I'm on Earth to become,

no chance, it's not gonna happen.

And so hearing guys

who are a little bit older than me say that,

it's like I'm already there, I'm in.

You guys go on a run yesterday

and I was in the bathroom

somebody yelled out this idea and I scream upstairs I'm in

'cause I'm not gonna let someone twice my age

go get a run in

and I'm not freaking in.

And so I'm here to maximize my potential

and give everything I have to everyone

but I'm grateful for everyone's vulnerability.

Like there's freaking billionaire families here,

there's guys that have started crazy businesses,

there's humongous influence in this room

but to be able to hold each other in bear hug position

and pass out with each other is pretty spectacular.

To have that vulnerability is pretty spectacular

and I'm grateful to see that.

In my life, I look for challenges.

I've created my own challenges with working out twice a day,

healthy eating for 10 straight weeks

and things like that

and challenges like this,

I'm looking for those opportunities

but I'm grateful Wim for you in challenging us

to create something like an excursion

or some record-breaking thing that we're gonna do, I'm in,

that's what I say to that, I'm in.

I want to help you get this out

'cause it's changed me,

it's aligned me.

Usually when I go on vacations for three or four days

I get almost anxiety,

like I have to get back to work,

but I'm gonna go back to work and back to my business

and have anxiety that I'm not here with you guys

being vulnerable and changing myself.

So it's just realigned me to what's really important.

So thank you everybody for being here

and for letting me be all in with you.

(clapping)

- I'm Matthew Hussey.

In terms of what I'm grateful for,

I truly am just

grateful to be considered an energy that's worth having

on this week

this is rarefied air

and to be around you guys,

the greatest compliment I can receive

is that you thought I would in some way contribute to this

'cause I know you wouldn't have invited me

if you didn't feel that.

- It's just the accent.

- Right, we need someone who sounds intelligent.

So I truly am just grateful

to be in the company of you guys.

In terms of why I came,

I had a really difficult year last year,

it was really tough.

I didn't know what I would get out of this

but I did know for sure it would shake things up,

even if I had a terrible time.

I'm like it can't not shake things up

and I had a pretty terrible time

in several ways last year.

So I thought, well, it's not gonna,

another terrible time can't hurt me that bad.

- And before you go to the next thing,

one of the reasons,

I chose each person here for a specific reason, right,

you all have an energy or some reason

why I thought you would contribute

to the group, the collective group,

and the reason,

one, we're close friends,

we've been friends for years,

and we hang out in LA a lot,

but two is because,

I was with you through the pain of last year

on many different occasions

and I just knew that if I could get you here

maybe it's not gonna solve all your problems

but it's gonna give you a lot of tools to support you

in overcoming the pain better,

even if it's for a week or two or relief,

I knew it would give you something

to clear the energy, clear the mind

and move into a better year and a better decade

without the baggage of the past.

And so that's why Matt was in and then he was out

and then I was like dude, I want you here

because I know this will help you.

- Yeah, and the reason that I was in and then I was out

was because, I literally, Lewis texted me and said,

"Hey, I've got this thing."

I was in like a happy holiday mindset at the time,

I'm like yeah, let's do it

and then I actually watched some stuff.

- I sent him the link.

- It's not an exaggeration

to say I did not sleep that night.

I just thought what on Earth have I done?

And now I've got to embarrass myself

by going back to Lewis and backing out

and now how am I gonna remove myself from this thing?

But you know what,

one of the big reasons I came,

and maybe the biggest reason I came

was when you said this to me

and I had such a visceral,

really like deep, deep fear,

I didn't just think this would be uncomfortable,

it terrified me,

and that was enough to keep me up at night

and I thought how often in my life

do I actually genuinely,

I'm always telling people, my audience,

I'm always doing programs,

getting people to go and do things

that scare the shit out of them,

how often in my life do I actually do something

that scares the fucking shit out of me, really?

And I mean in my whole life,

'cause the easy answer is I used to do things that scared me

and then I built this successful business

and this audience

and I did all these uncomfortable things to get there

and now that I'm here,

I've not taken a risk in awhile.

That's the easy answer

but the truth is even the things I did to build my business

weren't terrifying to me

because I was good at them.

Starting business, going out and persuading people,

going and giving speeches,

those were things I knew I could be good at,

even when I wasn't good at them,

I had some belief that if I do this,

I kind of think I have an ability here.

So even those weren't truly scary.

This was something,

I hate the cold,

and I grew up,

like we would go on skiing trips

where out of my family,

my fingers, you nicknamed me extremities this week,

my fingers were the first thing

to send us back home,

'cause they were just numb and white.

And so I thought this is not something I can go

and be like I'm gonna be one of the best in the group.

And I rarely ever, ever, ever

put myself in situations that are genuinely terrifying.

It's always a fake terrifying.

Oh, this is uncomfortable,

but really, I'm still good at that shit.

So that was a big reason I came.

It was to genuinely scare myself

so that I have credibility when I do a retreat this year

and going to my audience

and I know there genuinely terrified of coming to my retreat

'cause they're gonna deal with real vulnerable stuff

that I have credibility standing there

and telling them to confront that.

In terms of what I took from it,

it's a self-help cliche that peer group is important

and I think in a way cliches are dangerous

because you forget how true they can be.

And to be around you guys

I realize how little of peer group I've genuinely fostered

in the last decade of my life.

I've been working,

seeing maybe the same two friends,

spending time with family,

maybe a girlfriend, and that's it

and I tell myself that's enough

and it's a very ignorant perspective

because I'm here and I see just amazing people

and insights and people who've done things

and people who just put me to shame

in all different ways in my life

and I'm like how ignorant have I been

in the last 10 years

that I haven't done more of this

and spent more time on peer group?

So it's a cliche,

I even talk about it being important

when I do programs,

how much of it have I really done in 10 years?

So that's been huge.

The importance of physiology

and how we always think we're gonna think our way

into a better emotion.

Let me logically process why this isn't a big deal,

why I should,

but actually just to change your physiological state

with something radical like this

and the effect that that can have

reminds me sometimes we just overthink everything

and we give feelings way too much importance

instead of just shocking our system,

whether it's working out, ice bath, breathing,

just gonna change our state automatically

without us having to think our way into it,

and lastly, speaking of hypocrisy in my own work

and things I need to do a better job of living up to,

there's a story that I tell on my retreat every time

that this program,

this experience has made unbelievably,

viscerally real to me.

There's a moment in the movie Lawrence of Arabia

where Lawrence is lighting matches

and letting the flame

burn all the way down to his fingertips

and when it gets to his fingertips it goes out,

and one of the other officers looks at him

and he's like how does he do it,

how does he do it,

how's he doing that.

So when Lawrence isn't looking,

he grabs the matches and he lights one up

and he lets it burn all the way down to his fingertips.

When it gets to his fingertips,

he goes (winces) and it burns him

and now he's angry.

So he looks at Lawrence, angry now, and he says,

"Go on then, what's the trick?"

And Lawrence says to him,

"The trick is not minding that it hurts."

And that to me, this week could not have been

more of a representation of

is that we spend so much of our lives trying to avoid pain

but the trick isn't avoiding hurt,

it's not minding that it hurts.

So thank you for making that not just a story to me

but something very, very real.

(snapping)

- Nice.

You're up.

- Well, I'm definitely grateful to be part of this.

I must say I'm still a little bit starstruck

being surrounded by these people this year--

- [Wim] But you area star of yourself.

What is your name? - Peter.

- [Wim] Peter the star.

- The camera guy.

Actually this talking to a lot of people

is my ice bath,

like I don't really feel comfortable doing that stuff,

that's why I chose a life behind the lens.

But we all gotta learn

and do things that are scary

and this is one of the things

and I'm grateful for spending these days with you

and that we're gonna climb a mountain tomorrow,

it's gonna be awesome.

- [Lewis] Big lesson, big lesson so far for you?

- From the last few days.

- [Lewis] From either what you've witnessed

watching behind the camera

but also you've experienced and participated as well.

So both sides.

- Well it's not something from the last few days

but just opening up, being vulnerable

has been the thing from the last couple years.

I've definitely learned that from working for the company

with Wim and vulnerability is key.

Thanks.

- I actually just met Lewis like a week before this trip.

So this is definitely new for me

but I'm super thankful that I got to meet all you guys.

And I think for me,

in high school, I heard this quote that was like,

leave the world a better place than you entered it.

And for some reason, I always remembered that,

and that's kind of been my goal in life.

So I think being 21 years old,

I don't really like a lot of kids my age.

I think a lot of 'em are lazy and entitled.

So if I can be that example that proves that wrong

and shows them like just how powerful being vulnerable is

and where hard work can get you,

I would love to leave the world

a better place than I entered it

and I would love to be an example for my generation

and spreading just more love and peace

and I don't know that's kind of just my mission.

And I do that through telling stories through video.

I like to capture stories

and document experiences like this.

And I get to learn a lot

by being behind the camera

and editing and watching these clips through 100 times.

And I think my biggest takeaway as of now

is to be more vulnerable,

the power of community,

and to rest a little more.

I overwork myself a lot.

So this has given me a lot of anxiety

the first few days

like not working at all

but when I get back I can't wait to

make this a monthly thing

where I go with friends and rest and talk

and be open.

So yeah, thank you guys

and I feel very grateful

to be in the presence of all of you so yeah.

- [Lewis] Awesome.

(snapping)

- I found brothers.

They are not looking up to me,

you are still looking up a little bit, yeah?

I mean I'm a simple guy, I'm humble,

I want to change the world

and now I'm going to change the world

together with all of you.

It's like almost boring

because I do it as a mentor.

I'm a man on a mission every day

and when I have the ability

to reunite with bigger forces, bigger powers,

then I'm the first one to take it on

and tell the story again.

If I go into an Uber,

I'm into the stories,

I'm into the mission,

and when he drops us off,

it's always embracing,

we are always hugging

because we end up in love

and changing the world

and until it's not done,

things like this need to happen

and being vulnerable,

I'm fucking vulnerable.

I'm getting older and I'm still doing this shit,

yeah man, I'm still doing this shit.

But now seeing you here empowers me.

And thank you,

not only from the heart

but yeah, let's make a lot more happening from here

and it's happening already

so actually sometimes I do not need

the need of words to tell

that I love this, I love this

and the world needs change

and we are able to give it.

So thank you, thank you very much

for kicking my ass too

because that's what you do too.

I'm always on top of it all

and oh shoot man,

the building is there,

I see everybody man, it's beautiful, thanks brothers.

- I think one of the,

I think a lot of people will look at Wim Hof

and they'll look at the cold

and that's an important part,

it's an important part to be able to push yourself

past your fears

and recognize it's something that's good for you

you may be afraid of

but if you push past that thing

it's gonna be good for you and beneficial.

And a lot of focus gets put on that

but I think

what's really we're seeing here in the breath work

is something else that's really special and powerful

and that's the release of emotions that have been stored,

of things that have come up.

I do breath work a lot.

The second round here today

I was so happy that I started crying

because I recognized

how often in my life I'm not that happy.

And that came up from the breath.

And why was Mike crying?

He doesn't really know

but there was something there to be released.

Why did Jesse see his face interposed with his child's face,

his younger face interposed,

why are these things happening?

There's things that are beyond just the cold

and just the simplicity

of pushing yourself past your limits.

There's a deep spiritual foundation here.

There's some kind of magic that's happening

within the consciousness itself

and he's giving access to that,

through all the means,

and these means are free,

free cold, free breath and free medicine

and I think that's just beautiful

and I just hope that as everybody shares this message

you share not only the courage

to do the things that are hard,

because that's kind of easy for a lot of men

to do the things that are hard,

we've all done things that are hard

but also do the things internally

that release and open up those spots,

like hearing Mitch cry yesterday

and express that he wasn't proud of himself,

like fuck yeah, man, that's amazing,

every single person when they do that,

like Marq hearing you today man,

like that's the shit,

like I know you've run some long distances,

like I'm not that impressed to be honest

but I'm fucking super impressed with you

from what you just said there,

like I admire you for that,

like I absolutely admire you for that.

And the other stuff's rad too,

don't get me wrong, like that stuff

but that's like a special thing

and I think so it's just not looking at that thing

that might be the dazzling accomplishment

but knowing like internally the diamonds,

always talking about the diamonds,

where's the diamonds?

The diamond's in the fucking heart,

it's in the heart.

How much can you show of the diamond in your heart?

Like how bright can you let that thing go?

And if you have anything obstructing it,

any kind of mistruth,

any deception, any delusion, any projection,

you're gonna be clouding that diamond,

so let's polish that fucking thing

and let it shine for the world so bright

that it's a lighthouse for everybody to see

and the ships are crashing,

they can look up at the sky

and they see it and they know,

they know that the heart is there

and the heart is always gonna be there,

it's unborn and it's undying,

it's untarnishable, it's unbreakable,

and we all have it,

nobody's special, we all have it

and that's what we're here to remind people.

- Mmm, yeah.

(snapping)

- [Lewis] Nice, nice.

- [Enahm] That was a sermon.

- Any final thoughts from anyone

or anything else that opened up that they

didn't get to share? - How do you follow that?

- I know, right.

- [Marq] He only said it 'cause he meant it.

(laughing)

- I admired that too, that was great, that was great.

That was fucking great.

- What Aubrey finished on, actually,

in terms of no one's special is actually interesting

because there are certain,

nobody's special but there are certain people

who kind of take up the mantel

to come into a room and change the energy of that room,

and anyone could do that,

anyone could come in

and change the energy of an entire dynamic if they chose to,

that's what leadership is, right?

What's really interesting, Wim, about you

is there is a,

no matter how afraid everyone is,

you walk into a room

and everyone sort of feels safer,

you go sort of like we're gonna be all right,

and it is like,

there are certain things we do this week

that are terrifying

and I've watched, it's fun.

One of the things various people have said it this week

has been the most fun, Jesse you said it,

has been to watch all these grown powerful men

terrified out of their minds at different times

and to see that, that's been cool.

But Wim, you walk into a room

and your energy sort of announces you

as you walk into a room

and you know when you're in that room.

And that I think is really powerful,

and I think it's something we should all take back to--

- [Mike] You know he's in the house.

- You know he's in the house, yeah

and that, whether we go back to our families, Steve,

or our businesses or our audience

or our colleagues or our staff

knowing that we are each individually

these very important centers of energy

and to honor that by,

we think so much about ourselves

and what I'm afraid of, what I'm going through,

what I'm dealing with,

and it takes the focus off of

how am I changing the energy

of the room that I walk into

and what am I bringing to that room?

And your leadership, Wim,

is what makes this experience.

- The soul, that's it,

the soul is what you are going to bring

in every room you're gonna get in

and that's gonna make all the difference, yes, sir.

- Nice, anyone else want to share a final thought?

- Yeah, I can't relate to that

but I can relate to that with the rest.

- Okay, the love of the family,

the love of the family is the last bit,

I did the Kilimanjaro, as you know,

with 26 people with the cancer, Crohn's disease,

all kinds of things,

and we did it,

not in three days, we did it in two days,

more than successful,

we did not need any physiologists, doctors,

could have had the decency at least

to ask how did you do it,

how did you do it?

Because we are doctors,

investigators in life,

we want to improve healing and methods and all,

no question, no question.

But we did it

and I went to Serengeti, Serengeti

after the Kilimanjaro,

very successfully done,

it was already in the public

but I wanted to see the biggest elephant in the world,

which is 7.8 tons.

It's like 16,000 pound, is that true?

Yeah, something like, no, I mean huge mother fucker

and he is there

and I am able to go with the messiah,

the messiah, they are able to approach the animal,

the lions, without fear.

They have no religion,

but they have respect for mother nature

and they know how to approach the lion

'cause they have no fear,

the are divine.

And I go with them, they are my friends,

we go together

and they let me approach

the biggest elephant in the world.

And there it is

with this ultrasounds going on, this presence,

it is alive,

the being is alive,

there you get close,

you don't know what's happening,

you get these waves over you,

the ultrasonic, it gets into your brain waves,

your whole body,

you feel it everywhere

and I get close to his legs,

even bigger than the buildings,

columns man, columns, all alive,

his belly, it's a God feeling,

man, God is over there

and we are slowly but surely I get to the back

and I lift up his tail

and I see a big black hole,

it's a vortex.

I mean they can swallow you fully,

they can swallow you fully

if you approach it to much.

I was struck by awe, completely flabbergasted,

now my yoga control came in

and I kept the poise and the control within myself

and I went in,

slowly but surely away from that massive, big being

and (speaking in foreign language)

and I came back in the mosque

and I had reception on the telephone and I said,

"Enahm, we did Kilimanjaro,

"we were successful,

"in two days, not three days, all transformed

"and I saw the biggest one,

"the biggest elephant in the world,

"I saw the huge asshole,

"but you mother fucker,

"you are still the biggest mother fucker,

"the biggest asshole."

That's the love of the family.

- We appreciate you, Wim,

we're so grateful for your

taking the time. - More than thanks,

things are going to be done.

- Exactly.

So thank you so much.

I'm so grateful you guys were all here

and we got to jump in the hot tub now.

- Yes. - Hot tub, let's do it.

- Uncle Jesse's hot tub.