Toby Brooks

Hey friend, I'm glad you're here.

Welcome to yet another episode of Becoming Undone, the podcast for those who dare bravely, risk mightily, and grow relentlessly.

I'm Toby Brooks, a speaker, author, professor, and performance scientist.

I've spent much of the last two decades working as an athletic trainer and a strength coach in the professional, collegiate, and high school sports settings.

And over the years, I've grown more and more fascinated with what sets high achievers apart.

and how failures that can suck in the moment can end up being exactly what we needed to propel us on our paths to success.

Each week on Becoming Undone, I invite new guests to examine how high achievers can transform from falling apart to falling into place.

I'd like to emphasize that this show is entirely separate from my role at Baylor University, but it's my attempt to apply what I've learned and what I'm learning and to share with others about the mindsets and stories of high achievers.

Y'all, it's been a remarkably cool and dreary day here in Central Texas.

The kind of gloomy gray that takes me back to where I grew up in Southern Illinois.

Those long winter months of no sunlight, that low, depressing ceiling of clouds, and a kind of quiet heaviness that just seemed to hang in the air for months at a time.

And I don't know about you, but those early seasons of life have a way of coming back at unexpected times.

And today was one of those days.

Now, I won't bore you with the details, but it's been one of the more challenging stretches that I can remember.

The work has come hard.

The lessons have been painful.

And the pace at times has been relentless.

But I'm still standing, and it's Friday night at 10.20 p.m., and I'm still grinding, still working away.

Sometimes that's the best we can do is to just show up.

That said, there are days when it feels like I'm limping through life on two or three cylinders.