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This podcast is for you, the Modern Man. I'm Dr Anne Truong,

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your host. I'm an intimate health medical doctor and best

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selling author of the book, Erectile Dysfunction Fix. I'll

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do a deep dive into sexual health and performance and how

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it affects men of all ages and backgrounds. So let's get

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started, and be sure to visit my website at

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sexualhealthformenpodcast.com for more information and

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resources from the show. See you on the inside.

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Hello there, Modern Man. In today's episode, I have Jim

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Edwards, multiple serial entrepreneur, one of my coach to

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help me with my marketing and copywriting. And he had so many

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accomplishments it's hard to even list. But the reason why

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he's here today is because I've asked him to come and share how

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an entrepreneur journey is, and if ever, how he maintain his

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health to the best possible shape he is. I can tell you,

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seeing him personally, he is in pretty good physical shape. And

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I'm gonna dig and find out how he does that and leading a busy

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business as well, and kind of see what the intersection

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between sexual health and entrepreneurship is at this

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point, coming from the famous Jim Edwards. Jim, welcome.

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Well, thank you, Dr Anne. I'm excited to be here. A little

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nervous about what you might ask me, because I know you'll ask me

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anything. So I'm excited to be here, and thanks for having me.

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Okay, so let's dive into this. Jim, how do you keep in such

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great shape and have a successful business? What's your

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secret?

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A few things. One, I go to bed at the same time every night,

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and I wake up at the same time every morning.

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What time is that? What time you go to bed?

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I go to bed at 8:30 and I get up at 10 minutes to 5. Okay, so

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I'll read non-fiction. I get in the bed at 8:30 I'll read non

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fiction for about 10 minutes, until my Kindle slaps me in the

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face, and then it, you know, it's like, "Okay, time to go to

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sleep." And then I wake up at 4:52 actually. I know that

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sounds weird, but this 4:52 is what I have my thing set to. I

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get up, I take my dogs out, I stand in the yard and while

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they're doing their thing, I visualize my perfect self for

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about 10 minutes. I literally stand there and visualize not

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what I'm going to do today, not the stuff that I'm going to

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accomplish, not my goals for pre five and 10 years down the line.

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I visualize myself as my perfect self, the person who's capable

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of handling anything, the person who calmly achieves, the person

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who works out, the person who maintains control over what he

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puts in his mouth. Then I go upstairs, I drink black coffee,

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I sit on the pot, and then I go work out. I try and be in my

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home gym by six o'clock, and I work out for anywhere from 60 to

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90 minutes, then I sit in the sauna for 30 minutes. And when

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I'm sitting in the sauna, I'm usually working on that's like

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the beginning of my day. So I will think through stuff. I will

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have conversations with myself about thinking things through. I

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have special paper that I write on that I get from a place

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called right in the rain. I found that when I used to sit in

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hot tub, but then I got, I got a sauna, which I love more than

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the hot tub. Then I have the thing that I've been thinking on

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all night while I was asleep, usually that just like pours out

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of me while I'm sitting in the and they've shown something

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really cool about the sauna sitting there for a limited time

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with that raised temperature, for whatever reason, just really

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engages my brain. And I do some cool thinking. Then I go back to

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the house, take a shower, take the dogs out again, and then I

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come over the office, and I try and be in the office by quarter

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to nine. I don't always make it by quarter to nine, you know, 9,

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9:15, so somewhere in that 30 minute window, and then I feel

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pretty ready to take on the day. And then you're talking about

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health stuff, but the health and the entrepreneurship and the

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making money and everything it's everybody thinks of it as

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separate. So you hear of like work life balance. And no, it's

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all life. There's no such thing as work, life balance. It's just

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life. How are you living your life? And so I actually don't

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see a difference between when I'm working out and thinking or

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I'm running down the road and thinking as when I'm sitting in

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front of my computer and thinking, you know, sometimes I

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do my best thinking when I'm doing pull ups. And then I have

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flip charts set up in my gym. I have flip charts and whiteboards

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everywhere. And ideas come to me, I'll stop in the middle of

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working out and outline the entire thing, and then keep

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working out. And then, as far as, like, what do I eat? I've

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struggled with the over the years with my weight. I'm in the

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process of losing 25 pounds. I got six to go. When my dad died

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last year, and then my mom got sick and a bunch of other stuff.

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It just I started stress eating, and I just decided that I was

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gonna, you know, life's not perfect, so when half stuff

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happens, I just said, "Okay, this is the day I'm gonna do

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it." I actually started using the Weight Watchers app and just

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to create that mindfulness of what I was putting in my body.

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Anyway, I mean just being mindful of what I eat, going to

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bed on time, getting up on time, having that schedule, taking my

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vitamins and good stuff like that.

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Okay, so congratulations, by the way, for working on the weight

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loss. It is not easy, being an entrepreneur, yeah, it's getting

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harder getting older, but working and weight loss. Because

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when you're focusing on your business, the stress level goes

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up, cortisol hormone goes up, which then increases weight

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gain, because it really created imbalance in your testosterone

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hormone, especially for men. But one of the things that you do,

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what I'm seeing, is that you spend like, three hours in the

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morning for you. Well, yeah, taking care of yourself from

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5am, you don't get to the office until 9, so it's really all

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three hours investment in your health.

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Yes.

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Is that every day?

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Monday through Friday, and then on Saturday, I usually sleep in

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and snuggle up with the wife. And then I my wife, not any

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wife, and then I try and get in the gym for like, an extended

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cardio session, or just to make up for something I might have

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missed during the week by eight o'clock. And then Sunday is like

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completely nothing. No working out, no work. The only

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technology would be my XBox. I have one complete full day of

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rest every week, minimum. Preferably two.

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Okay, I love that one complete full day. So I really want to

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dive into what you just said earlier. So essentially, the

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bottom line is that you spend three hours a day dedicating to

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your health. Mental health, as well as physical health, and

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which is not easy. But then you get up at 5am so you create,

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like a jump start for the day. I love that. And so what you said

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was that you spend visualization of your perfect self. Can you

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kind of dive into that, what that means?

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Sure, so in order to create anything, first, you have to be

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something. In other words, you can't create value if you're not

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already a person of value. And so a lot of people visualize

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their goals, which I do that as well, you know, like cars and

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money and vacations and shit like that that is very fleeting.

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If you want to take it back a step, in order to create that

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stuff, you have to be the person who's capable of creating big

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things. So instead of visualizing big things

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exclusively, I visualize myself as capable of anything, and then

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that creates the momentum and the confidence and the magnetism

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to attract those bigger things, and that also gives me an

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opportunity to work on things that I might struggle with, like

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charging high enough prices or increasing my prices, or

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patience. Because I know it's hard to believe Dr. Anne, but I

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can be impatient sometimes. You've never seen that side of

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me, but just working on patience or understanding or empathy,

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those kinds of things. A lot of times, I'll choose one thing,

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and I mean, it would get kind of weird with it. Sometimes I, if

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there's something I'm doing that I don't like, I will envision it

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almost like a tumor or like a substance I have to get out of

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my body, and I will visualize excising that, whatever it is.

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And if there's something I want to install, there's something I

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want more of, I will visualize it as like a glowing orb or

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glowing substance that I literally either install in my

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heart or install in my head. I know it's out there, but I mean,

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it works for me. But if you think about you can't accomplish

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anything if you are not the person who is able to accomplish

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it. So why wouldn't you visualize being the person who's

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capable of accomplishing anything before you envision the

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other stuff? So, it's worked for me

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But it's like you're focusing on yourself and kind of like your

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future self or the self that you want to be, but not so much the

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goals to get there. Is that right?

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Right. Because I want to focus on who I need to be to

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accomplish all of the things that I set out for myself,

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whether it's my to do list for the day or my plan for where I

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want to be in the next five years. That's the thing that

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people don't do. They visualize their goal in trying to attract

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their goal. But if you don't become the person who's capable

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of manifesting the goal, you're never going to get the thing you

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want. You're not.

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I love that. Oh, we have to quote that line. That is one

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line that we got to quote that line. So to practice that, and

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it seems like you mastered that, how would you recommend somebody

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dealing with anxiety?

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So what is anxiety? Anxiety is fear about something that you're

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afraid might happen. And so fear is based in either false

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evidence appearing real. It's fear of something that might

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happen, or fear that something's going to keep happening. But

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either way, you've got to become someone or to recognize that you

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already are someone who is capable of dealing with it if it

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happens, or is capable of changing the circumstances if

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it's happening right now. So again, dealing with anxiety,

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typically, I have found if I'm feeling anxious, it's because

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there is something that is undone. I have not done it yet,

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or something I have not learned yet, or something that I am

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afraid I won't be able to figure out. So I've also reprogram my

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mind that wherever there is resistance, that's where I need

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to lean in. That's actually a clue. That this is an area not

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to run from, but to run to, so that you can solve that shit and

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get it off your plate. Because most people run away from their

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problems instead of turning around and punching their

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problems in the face.

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Because it's easier. It's easier to do that. So how do you get

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the courage to do that though? It's easy to say, and the reason

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why I'm kind of diving into that is that that's a subject that I

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hear a lot from the men that I work with that are entrepreneurs

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and executive, is that performance anxiety in the

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bedroom, but also just anxiety and stress that they're dealing

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with. That is flowing into their personal life as well.

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So couple things. One, anxiety also is comes from when your

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focus is not in the present that you can control, but it's either

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in the past, where you're worried about something that

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happened and whether it's going to catch up with your ass. Or

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you're worried about something that's going on right now that

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you haven't done anything to address. Or you're worried about

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something in the future that might happen but might not

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happen. It's also about getting very present about where you

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are, what you're doing, and what you can control right now. And I

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have found, as far as anxiety is concerned, is that if I know

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that I have done everything I could do today, to the best of

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my ability, 99 times out of 100, when my head hits the pillow,

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I'm able to sleep just fine, because I know I did everything

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I could do and should do today and tomorrow I will do the same.

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So part of it is just being really present and being very,

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very purposeful in your action, because that anxiety is coming

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because you haven't taken an action you should take, or

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you're worried you won't take action when you should, or

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you're worried about actions you did take, and it's just worrying

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about crap, handle it. And you say, you know, it's easy to say

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and it's hard to do. No, it's not. Stop being a wuss. Too many

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people are like looking to make excuses or have just you can

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make excuses, or you can get results. You can take action, or

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you can sit there and whine about it. And I think that's

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important to understand, is that it's not easier to say than do.

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It's actually easier to do than it is to say, even if you're

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doing in a half assed way, because a half hearted action,

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at least getting you know, I can say I worked out today if I did

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a push up. But if I'm out in the gym and I'm dressed for the gym

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and I do a push up, I might as well do another one and crap.

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I'm already down here, so let me go until I can't do any more and

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crap. I've you know, it's just get the momentum going. So I

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don't think it's easier to say than to do. I think it's stop

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being a wuss. We got a lot of wussies in this world.

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I like that, we got a lot of wussies. So how do you manage

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stress?

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Part of how I manage stress is that three hours that we talked

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about. get enough sleep. Don't do dumb stuff. Don't do shit

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you're ashamed of. Half the reason why people can't get

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enough sleep is because they're doing stuff that they know

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either isn't way, or they're only making halfway action, or

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they're doing weird stuff. If someone were to follow you

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around with a camera for a week, would you want to publish that

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documentary or burn the film? You know, are you doing

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everything you can every single day? I can't answer that. Every

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day that I do it, I fall down in my sin, but that's the ideal

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that I strive towards. Plus, if you work out consistently, you

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eat right, you treat people right. You know what the hell

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you're trying to do in your life. You've got a purpose. You

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stand for something, you got morals and all this stuff, and

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hey, man, I'm a screw up too. The better I get, the more I

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realize I have to learn. But when you do those things that

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automatically handles a whole lot of anxiety. But okay, if

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you're fat, you eat wrong, you're wasting time all day.

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Cheating on your wife, or you're looking at porn all the time and

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jacking off, or whatever you're doing, and you're wasting your

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money, and you're not being a good steward. You have no

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spiritual connection in your life whatsoever. Yeah, you

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probably ought to be stressed out, because there's a whole lot

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of singles signals coming at you that you're not living right.

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Interesting, interesting. So how do you define confident man?

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A confident man? A confident man, I believe, is a man that

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knows that he can be a protector, that he takes care of

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his family, that he is able to handle things physically. I know

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that if somebody attacked me, I could give them a run for their

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money. I mean, I might come up. No, I'm serious, if somebody

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attacked me, I'd give them a run for their money, and they might

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kick my ass, but I know that I would, they'd think about it

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tomorrow. And I know that I could protect my family. I know

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that I could drag one of my family members from a burning

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building. I know that I can handle myself in business. I

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know that I can stand up on stage in front of 5000 people,

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or stand in front of a room of third graders reading Dr Seuss

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and be just as impactful on them as I am on the 5000 people that

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want to learn entrepreneur stuff. So a confident man is a

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man that's living his purpose, who is the best he can be,

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physically, mentally, spiritually and financially,

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doesn't cheat on his wife and takes care of his kids and old

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people. How's that?

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Yes, I like that definition. And believe it or not, many men

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struggle with that and with our society nowadays, it's always

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been a little blur.

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No, there's not. No, there's not. I'm gonna push back on

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that. A tiny bunch of the population hijacked what a man

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is. A man is a freaking man. And you know what a man is? Okay?

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Because I can tell you what a man's not. A man is not a guy

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that acts like a wuss. Okay, yes, you can be sensitive, but a

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man acts like a man. That's when men feel the most fulfilled.

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That's when men feel the most impactful, and that's when men

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have the most positive effect on their families and on society.

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Is when a man acts like a man, not toxic masculinity. But we

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know the difference between being a wuss, being a man, and

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being a toxic asshole. Be a man.

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I like it how you define that. And so we're both entrepreneur,

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we both have businesses. How do you prioritize your health. Why

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is that important for you to do the three hours, five days a

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week, spending time on your mental health as well as your

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physical health? Why? Why is that and what prompted you to do

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that? Because when we wake up in the morning, there are 10,000

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things to do and so forth, and the first thing you want to

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compromise is your workout, right? You got a lot of things

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that you need to do.

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100%

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Yeah. So what prompted you, and then I know that you're very

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regimented. You do it every day. What prompted you to create that

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dedication routine?

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Because in my 30s, I was fat as hell. I was 260 pounds. I was in

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terrible shape. I couldn't walk to the mailbox without getting

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out of breath. I couldn't make love to my wife. I got out of

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breath doing that. And I had a doctor, I was diagnosed with a

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heart condition, and told that I had heart failure. And I said I

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was not willing to accept and I was making millions of dollars.

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I was very successful, but I realized that I could be

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successful and dead, and I also realized that if I'm broken

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physically, I can't win mentally. Here's the thing, I

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almost feel like I'm cheating when I work out and when I do

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this stuff, because it makes me so much more mentally sharp. I

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can do more in two hours than most people can do in a day. I

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can do more in a day than most people can do in a week, and I

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can do more in a week than most people can do in a month, and I

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can do more in a month than most people can do in a year. I can

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do more in five years than most people will do in their

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lifetime. And so it's a very selfish thing that I do when I

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take care of myself like that in the morning, because I am so

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primed when I get in here to my office that from 9 to 12, I

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crush what anybody can do in a whole day. I mean, I'm moving

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from one to the next to the next, and confidently getting it

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done. And the other thing I constantly tell myself, though,

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while I'm doing it, is that don't worry about what's next.

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Focus on what you're doing right now. Don't look at your watch.

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Don't look at how long this is or isn't taking. Just focus on

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this task and doing this. Tasks to the best of your ability, to

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completeness. The other thing I do, it allows me to do is

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shorten that gap between moving from one task to the next. A lot

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of, Oh man, I'm glad that over shoo. I deserve a break.

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Bullshit. You don't need a break. You take about a five

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minute reset thing, and then you move on to the next thing,

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chucklehead. I mean, most people only get about an hour done

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before lunch and an hour done after lunch with three hours of

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bullshit on both sides. It's true, so it's very selfish for

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me to get the race car revved up and be able to run around that

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track at 200 miles an hour, instead of in the you go going

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25.

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And you think the secret of you being so efficient and your

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relativity is tied on to that three hour that you dedicate to

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your health.

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Yeah. Plus, I'll be 58 in November, I can do 20 pull ups

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in a row without stopping. That's pretty good for a 58 year

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old man. So it also gives me a lot of confidence and a lot of

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just pride in myself, not bragging and stuff like that,

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but just I feel good about who I am, and that lends itself to

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better performance at work and in the bedrooms.

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I'm glad to hear that, because that's kind of where we're

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heading that. So are you satisfied with how you are in

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the bedroom, and then I assume yes, because if you're

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physically taking care of yourself, then your bedroom

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performance will follow.

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Sure. I mean, here's the thing, though, also. Now my wife is

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eight years older than me, so she went through menopause, and

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our relationship has changed over the last 30 some odd years,

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we went from, you know, bunny rabbits to now, I get as much

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satisfaction from cuddling and being close as I do the other

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stuff. I just do. I mean, it's much more intimate in a lot of

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respects than the other stuff. Plus there's not the cleanup. So

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I'm not saying we don't, but I'm saying it has changed for me

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over the years as well. And so I grabbed my wife all the time and

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cuddle her and kiss her, and tell her I love her. And to me,

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that level of intimacy is on a consistent, multiple times a day

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basis, to really hold somebody, look them in the eye, tell them

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you love them, mean it. And everything, to me, is just as if

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not more important, because again, attaching the feelings to

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that and that sort of intimate emotional interaction is

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something that you can do for the rest of your life,

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regardless of whether the plumbing breaks down, or whether

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you're taking the blue pill, the yellow pill, or somebody's

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pissed off or wants to stay up and watch reruns of Conan. I

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mean, it doesn't, it's important, but it's physically

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not as important, if that makes sense. And I'm not blowing it

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off. I'm just saying that's kind of what I've seen. Everything

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evolving. I don't have to prove my manhood with my wiener, if

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that makes sense. You know, I don't get that sense of, you

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know, I have to feel like a man, because I can go for 17 and a

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half minutes while she's going, "Jesus, will he ever be done?"

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That kind of thing, it's just, it's kind of stuff you want to

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know or not.

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No, that's you. That's uniquely you. But I do want to circle

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back we said, when in your 30s, you in poor health. You weigh

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260 pounds. You even had ED then as well, too, in your 30s. So

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you make the decision to turn your health around. And what did

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you observe with your erectile dysfunction. What was the

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evolution that?

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Well, I didn't have ED. What I had was, like, I got out of

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breath. I'm going out and then like like I had to stop. Yeah,

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there wasn't an ED problem. There was cardio.

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It's a cardio problem. That's concerning. Yeah, 30s.

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Yeah, I know. Yeah. I was fat and fat. So what did I do? Yeah,

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I made a decision that I was gonna get my ass up early in the

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morning and I was gonna walk. And so I said, Okay, I can get

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up. I know I can walk. I can walk. So the first morning I

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walked like 15 minutes, the next morning I walked 30 minutes,

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then the next morning I walked 30 minutes, but I walked about

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50% further than I had walked the day before. And so I started

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walk. I just walked every seven days a week. I was walking in

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the morning, and I started losing weight, and also started

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being mindful of my food choices. Then I decided, okay,

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my weight loss slowed down. And I said, Okay, this is what I'm

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going to do. You want detail? Here's detail. I saw the Boston

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Marathon bombing, and I saw a guy wearing a backpack, and on

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this thing, it said, tough rock. So I looked it up, and I learned

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about rocking, and I said, Okay, I can wear a backpack, and every

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pound I lose, I'll put a pound of sand in the backpack. That

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way I'll be carrying the same weight to keep my weight loss

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the same. And so I got up to where I had added 35 pounds of

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the backpack, and I was like, Shit, this is heavy. So I

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stopped adding more weight to the thing. And then I got

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involved with a company called Go Rock. I did started doing

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these challenges and stuff with special forces people, and I

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just kept increasing what I was doing to be in shape. I ran a

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half marathon, and then a few years later, I actually did the

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Boston Marathon with 35 pounds on my back. And so that was kind

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of a full circle moment with what I had seen on TV. That was

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the start of my fitness journey. So we did 26.2 miles in eight

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hours and five minutes with a fat toddler on my back.

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No, 35 pounds is a lot, but that was the weight that you lost,

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right?

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I lost more than 35 pounds. I got down to 190. So I lost 70

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pounds in about a year.

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You lost 70 pounds without medication.

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Oh, yeah, absolutely.

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Without taking medication. You did it the hard way, and

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obviously it's sustained until now.

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I've had three separate events where I got, you know, most

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recently, I got up to 230 but a lot of it's muscle. I mean, it's

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a different kind of 230 but it was still there's a lot of fat.

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I mean, I was like, oh, yeah, I'm just bulking up. No, I was a

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fat ass, again, to a degree, but I just made the commitment. In

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the last couple of months, I've lost close to 20 pounds. I've

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got six more to go.

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How'd you lose the weight?

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Moving more and eating less? It's not complicated. I mean,

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it's moving more and eating less, yeah, and eating smarter.

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I've learned you use the Weight Watchers, right?

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Yeah, I use the Weight Watchers app. You just track it up.

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So it's really going down to the basic. But the hard part is, you

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know, as an entrepreneur, you don't have a lot of time for

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that. And I guess you justify by saying.

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That's not true though, you don't have a lot of time for

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that. We all have the same 24 hours in the day. Elon Musk has

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the same 24 hours in the day that you and I have. It's how

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you choose to invest. And something I started doing a

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while back, I'm gonna show you this real quick. There's

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something else I do to be mindful. See, most people are

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not mindful enough of their time and what they're doing. You see

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those? Okay.

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What is is?

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Those are eight. She's like, "What is it Jim?" Okay, those

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are eight silver dollars. Even though they're $1 they're each

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worth about 40 bucks. And I have this stack of them on my desk,

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and I have a simple piece of paper with a vertical line with

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a vertical line on it, okay? And in the morning, all eight of

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these start out on the right side, and I give myself credit

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for the investment of an hour of my workout and stuff in the

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morning. So then at the top of each hour, once I show up over

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here and start working, you know, but I'm It's nine o'clock.

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It's not 8:30 It's nine o'clock. I have my ass in here. Okay, so

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at nine o'clock, I pick up one of these, and I ask myself a

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really simple question, did I wisely invest the last hour in

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my business? And if the answer is yes, it moves over to the

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left hand side. If it doesn't, it goes back on the pile. And

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every hour that I'm sitting here and I'm working at the top of

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the hour, I ask myself a question, did I wisely invest

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the last hour of my life? If yes, goes over on the left. It's

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a real simple little five second thing, but it forces me to

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evaluate whether I'm wisely investing my time or not. And

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I'll be honest with you Dr Anne, I never make it through the

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eight coins. I started doing that, I might sit my ass here

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for 10 hours, and I have never once made it all the way through

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all eight coins. Now what does that tell you? Are we investing

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the time that we all have every day to the best. I don't want to

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hear that bullshit of you don't have enough time. We all have

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the same amount of time. It's how are you choosing to invest

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it and use it. Sorry to correct you on your own podcast. But you

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want to know how I think.

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That's right. Well, that's your perspective, and I totally

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respect that. That's your perspective. We hear that a lot,

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right? I don't have time. I don't have time for this. It's

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like, that's why it's so hard to lose weight, because you don't

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have time for this and that. It's really about prioritizing.

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I love your point idea.

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But if your perspective is I don't have time, your

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perspective is your reality. So if you constantly say, I don't

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have time, or I can't, guess what, you don't have time, and

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you can't.

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So before we end, I want to ask you, so this is one of the most

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challenging thing for men that we work with in the sexual

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health, is the performance anxiety. And oftentimes

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everything works fine, but then they start getting thinking

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about the what if or what has happened in the past. And

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oftentimes there's also the perspective that I gotta be rock

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hard. I gotta be satisfying her and all that. It's almost like a

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different perspective. And I see that more in actually older men,

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like in their 60s, which is even more challenge for them to do,

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because the older you get, it's harder to have a firm erection.

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In your opinion, how can a man, kind of reframe that to be more

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productive for him in a sense that he's not caught up in the

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what if and the past.

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That, to me, shows that you're focused on yourself. And if you

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truly are interested in taking care of your partner, then you

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should be focused on her and what's going to make her feel

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good? And here's the other thing, and I mean, again,

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there's this emphasis on your boner, but there's a whole lot

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of things that I can do to make my wife scream and have sparks

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shoot out of her butt that have nothing to do with my boner

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ability, quality, duration or other. And when I focus on her,

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I'm worried about her pleasure, not my pleasure. And if she's

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happy, I end up very happy. And so seriously, anxiety comes from

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not focusing on the present. It comes from focusing somewhere

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else. And so I would just offer that of your sexual interaction

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with your wife may, if you're worried about it, fold it in

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half, jam it in there. It'll probably work. But I mean, other

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than that, it's not just about the boner, it's about the whole

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thing. And if you focus on her instead of yourself and your

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worries about you, then that might get rid of fair share of

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that performance anxiety. For some people, I am not a medical

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professional and not qualified to give any type of medical

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advice. I'm just telling you from my personal experience,

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anytime I get all into me and my problems and my worries, nothing

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ever really works out. But when I focus on as an entrepreneur or

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as a husband or as a dad or as a grandfather, when I focus on

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adding value to those around me, I never end up on the short end

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of the stick.

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I love that. I love that. How you phrase it, and I asked it

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for everyone that I interviewed, everybody says almost similar,

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but a little different take, and I love the way how you approach

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it. So one last advice. What would you advise a man, how to

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stay feral, how to stay sexy, how to stay connected to his

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wife? What is your one advice you can give to the man

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listening to this podcast?

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If your wife is your best friend, which I believe she

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should be. If she is the one that you love the most in the

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world, which I believe she should be, then treat her that

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way. And if you do that, you'll do fine.

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And that is how we're gonna end, gentlemen. You have heard it

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from Jim Edwards, treat your wife like the queen, that she

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deserved. The love of your life that she deserved, because when

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you do that, she's happy, you're happy, right? And thank you for

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sharing that. So thank you for being here, Jim. I'm

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appreciative you share your wisdom, and I've actually

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learned something for you. I will copy your silver dollar

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idea and see how poorly I do, because I'm definitely not gonna

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get eight in a day, for sure. But it still will be something

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that it gives me quantitative data on how I'm doing. So thank

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you for sharing that I'm going to start doing that actually

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tomorrow. And so having said that, thank you for being here.

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And Modern Man, we'll see you in the next episode.

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