COMING UP CLUTCH™

If I asked you to hold your breath for 1 minute, could you do it?  Most people can’t. That’s why I was so fascinated when I learned that U.S. National Record Holder, Erwan Le Corre, could hold his breath for almost SEVEN minutes (yes 7!). But what was even more fascinating… Learning that we could […]

I had it backwards for so many years… Told myself, “Hey, man…when you ‘make it’…when you’re successful, THEN you can take care of your family.” Boy was I wrong.  Now that I know the truth, I’ve decided to call this the Runner-Up Mindset… Because as long as you have it, you’ll never achieve what you

How many times have you heard, “Just take one day at a time.” Ha!  Everytime someone says that to me, I want to 🥊 them… Not because it’s annoying as hell to hear it… But because it’s the cold, hard truth.  I lost count of how many times I’ve been so derailed because of my

When’s the last time you took inventory on what it’s like to be led by you? Here’s the problem I’ve run into plenty of times… I get so caught up in what I’m LEADING my wife, kids, clients, ________ to, that I lose connection with how and why I’m leading them. Next thing you know

“I can’t let them know how bad I’m doing. I’ve been having too much success.” Those were the words I kept repeating to myself seven years ago. My anxiety and depression had gotten so bad that I was spinning out of control. I was embarrassed.  “People with your education, training, and network shouldn’t be going

The best leaders seem to have an innate instinct. You know, the ones who stand up when everyone else stays silent… The ones who charge an airplane hijacker while everyone else enters into a panic… The ones who show up for their kids even though they’re running a 102 degree fever… In today’s episode of

How easy is it to have faith when things are going good, but freak out when things aren’t? My faith gets challenged with a capital C when things are rough – just being real. So, how do you keep the faith when everything around you seems to be on fire? I sit down with spiritual

“We’re never going to pay my school loans off” “So much for financial independence by age 40”  “There’s no way we’re going to pay the bills next month.” And on and on it went. At one season of my life, these were my beliefs. And guess how life and our finances went in that season?

Like anything in life, your resilience has everything to do with the actions you take. I haven’t met anyone who’s told me, “J.R., I want to fold when it gets tough.” But I’ve met a ton of people who tell me they want to be more resilient, but don’t know where to start.  In today’s

What if you were told that your best friend, spouse, and parent to your kids had just 30 days to live? Just typing that question is tough for me to stomach. This is the reality that Mike Fumagalli faced, with one exception… He didn’t know his wife, Kirsten, was going to pass just 27 days