Brian Keane
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176 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When it's very difficult to figuratively move that ladder against another wall and start climbing again, starting new is difficult. A career, a breakup and then into another relationship, a business venture, entrepreneurship, fitness, weight loss, body composition, Ironman, ultramarathons, they're difficult. New things, most things that are worth doing are difficult to have.
If they weren't, everyone would do them and then we wouldn't put any value on them. And that's an important thing to understand. So I think a combination of those two things, especially that the time is going to pass anyways, because there's someone listening here who's waiting for either the lights to go green
all their ducks to be in a row, or they're just stuck in the closed mindset that, well, I can't do that now because of X, Y, or Z reason. And outside of some biological and genetic limitations on certain goals, 98% of them you probably could do because the time is going to pass anyways.
The Brian Keane podcast is what I love. I'm on Instagram. I do a lot kind of fitness-based content, a little bit of mindset stuff. It's a lot more surface. We tend to go deeper on the podcast. I like to have that little bit of a barbell approach in terms of it's super deep on the podcast, a lot more lighthearted generally on Instagram.
So just where people want to check out, but the podcast for sure.
Thank you so much again. This is an absolute ball. Really, really appreciate it.
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