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Brian Keane

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
352 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

Now it's about potentially bringing her on some of these as she gets older and bringing people that follow me so that I'm able to show them what it's like. So it's so interesting how it does nearly, I wouldn't even say a full circle because it's not a full circle, but how it tweaks and changes and giving yourself permission to

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

Now it's about potentially bringing her on some of these as she gets older and bringing people that follow me so that I'm able to show them what it's like. So it's so interesting how it does nearly, I wouldn't even say a full circle because it's not a full circle, but how it tweaks and changes and giving yourself permission to

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

depending on seasons of life, that what once made me jump out of bed every morning, which was going to the Arctic, running a hundred miler, hitting these targets. I said for myself, I'm like, I would love to do this. I'd love to be a person that does these things. They don't light me up the same way anymore, but bringing a group of my followers up, Kilimanjaro or to Everest Base Camp.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

depending on seasons of life, that what once made me jump out of bed every morning, which was going to the Arctic, running a hundred miler, hitting these targets. I said for myself, I'm like, I would love to do this. I'd love to be a person that does these things. They don't light me up the same way anymore, but bringing a group of my followers up, Kilimanjaro or to Everest Base Camp.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

They're things now that make me jump out of bed in the morning. And it's just consistently tapping into that feeling with your training program, with your work, with your relationships, with your life in general. If you're jumping out of bed every morning and that's happening more often than not, you're doing pretty well at life in my opinion.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

They're things now that make me jump out of bed in the morning. And it's just consistently tapping into that feeling with your training program, with your work, with your relationships, with your life in general. If you're jumping out of bed every morning and that's happening more often than not, you're doing pretty well at life in my opinion.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

You did this, which is very interesting. I'm going to ask you this, Alana, because I was signed up to do the Ironman in 2020 off the back of the 100 miler. So I was pairing those two things together and it got pulled because of COVID. And I made two attempts for Ironman and both got cancelled with COVID. And I don't know if it's the same for you because that itch was so strong.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

You did this, which is very interesting. I'm going to ask you this, Alana, because I was signed up to do the Ironman in 2020 off the back of the 100 miler. So I was pairing those two things together and it got pulled because of COVID. And I made two attempts for Ironman and both got cancelled with COVID. And I don't know if it's the same for you because that itch was so strong.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

I was like, Ironman, that sounds amazing. And because it got pulled from me twice, it's kind of like twice bitten, you know, once shy, once bitten, twice shy, like whatever the line is. I haven't quite got the let's go do the Ironman again. I'm like, I can't have it pulled for whatever reason again. But I feel like it's one of those 97 year old things that will get ticked off at some point.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

I was like, Ironman, that sounds amazing. And because it got pulled from me twice, it's kind of like twice bitten, you know, once shy, once bitten, twice shy, like whatever the line is. I haven't quite got the let's go do the Ironman again. I'm like, I can't have it pulled for whatever reason again. But I feel like it's one of those 97 year old things that will get ticked off at some point.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

probably two things. One, that people are gonna have an opinion regardless of what you do, that you may as well do the thing that makes you happy. And two, the time is gonna pass anyways. And to give a little bit of context, The one about the opinions of others is something we touched on earlier that I probably don't need to flesh out much more.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

probably two things. One, that people are gonna have an opinion regardless of what you do, that you may as well do the thing that makes you happy. And two, the time is gonna pass anyways. And to give a little bit of context, The one about the opinions of others is something we touched on earlier that I probably don't need to flesh out much more.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

But what I didn't know 15 years ago, 20 years ago, was that whether you're living a life of purpose and passion, doing what you want to do or not, people are going to have an opinion on what you're doing. So you may as well do the thing that you want to do. The second thing is the time is going to pass anyways. And that's for those who are caught in the story of, well, it's too late.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

But what I didn't know 15 years ago, 20 years ago, was that whether you're living a life of purpose and passion, doing what you want to do or not, people are going to have an opinion on what you're doing. So you may as well do the thing that you want to do. The second thing is the time is going to pass anyways. And that's for those who are caught in the story of, well, it's too late.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

I can't do that now. The time is going to pass anyways. And you get to decide what you do. I do a lot of breath work. I meditate a lot on my first breath and last breath. There are two things, first breath when I came into this world, there'll eventually be a last breath when I go out. It's all the breaths in between that are important. And that time is passing whether I want it to pass or not.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

I can't do that now. The time is going to pass anyways. And you get to decide what you do. I do a lot of breath work. I meditate a lot on my first breath and last breath. There are two things, first breath when I came into this world, there'll eventually be a last breath when I go out. It's all the breaths in between that are important. And that time is passing whether I want it to pass or not.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

And I can either do it from a place of love and freedom and service, jumping out of bed every morning, or I can do it from a place of anxiety and hurt and pain. and scarcity. I get to decide that. And if I could go back, it's actually the advice I think I would have heavily listened to.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

And I can either do it from a place of love and freedom and service, jumping out of bed every morning, or I can do it from a place of anxiety and hurt and pain. and scarcity. I get to decide that. And if I could go back, it's actually the advice I think I would have heavily listened to.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

Because even at 23, 24, 25 years of age, the sunk cost fallacy of all the time, energy, and money I'd spent to become a teacher still held me back for a few years because I worried what others would think. I worried I had wasted time and I didn't want that sunk cost fallacy. That's a very horrible feeling, that ladder against the wrong wall.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
From School Teacher to Fitness Icon: What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting My Job | Brian Keane | E107

Because even at 23, 24, 25 years of age, the sunk cost fallacy of all the time, energy, and money I'd spent to become a teacher still held me back for a few years because I worried what others would think. I worried I had wasted time and I didn't want that sunk cost fallacy. That's a very horrible feeling, that ladder against the wrong wall.