Experiencing the highest of highs on Earth and the lowest
What he and his wife are surprised the fight about now
What really matters in life
Running away from and to God
Having the freedom of not having to understand why good things and bad things happen to us
Assumptions we make
How Walker values humanity more now
Getting over yourself
The importance of stopping and serving others
Choosing the best outcome vs fearing the worst
Being a humble parent
What Gary’s mom told him when he was 10 that has stuck with him
Quotations:
“I got to do a lot of fun things in high school. But I always knew I was gonna be playing offensive line because as soon as schools started recruiting me, that’s what they told me I was gonna be playing.” ~Mike McGlinchey
“That’s why football’s the greatest game in the world. It’s a team game, and you can’t let your brother and your teammate down, and you’re one 11th of an operation, and everybody’s job is of the same importance.” ~Mike McGlinchey
“The ultimate goal isn’t looking good on Instagram like these kids worry about, you know, I didn’t worry about that when I was in high school, but it’s a different generation, right? And it’s not about the scholarship offer; it’s not about all those. Obviously, those things are fruits of the labor that you put in. But at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is winning.” ~Mike McGlinchey
“The motivation has to come from inside.” ~Mike McGlinchey
“He [Tom Brady] was the GOAT at staying on top of the mountain.” ~Mike McGlinchey
“My grandfather always said, ‘You’re a great teammate first, and that’s the most important, important thing.’ And I’ve always tried to live like that.” ~Mike McGlinchey
After redshirting his first year at Notre Dame in 2013, McGlinchey played in all 13 games with one start in 2014.[3] In 2015, he became a starter and started all 13 games at right tackle.[4][5] Prior to 2016, he moved from right to left tackle.[6][7] McGlinchey said he would be returning to Notre Dame for his fifth year of eligibility.[8] He was named a team captain. He ended his collegiate career appearing in 51 games with 39 starts.[9]
The San Francisco 49ers selected McGlinchey in the first round (ninth overall) of the 2018 NFL Draft.[12] McGlinchey was the first offensive tackle drafted in 2018 and was the second offensive lineman selected, behind Notre Dame teammate Quenton Nelson (sixth overall).[13]
On July 23, 2018, the San Francisco 49ers signed McGlinchey to a fully guaranteed four-year, US$18.34 million contract that includes a signing bonus of $11.41 million.[14]
McGlinchey entered training camp slated as the starting right tackle, replacing Trent Brown, who departed via trade. Head coach Kyle Shanahan named him the starting right tackle to begin the regular season, opposite starting left tackle Joe Staley.[15] As a rookie, he started in all 16 games for the 49ers.[16]
In 2019, McGlinchey played in 12 games and helped the 49ers with 13 games. He missed four games during the season due to a knee injury. He helped the 49ers beat the Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers to reach Super Bowl LIV. However, the 49ers lost 31–20 to the Kansas City Chiefs.
On May 1, 2021, the 49ers picked up the fifth-year option on McGlinchey’s contract.[17] The option guarantees a salary of $10.9 million for the 2022 season.[18] He suffered a torn quadriceps in Week 9 and was placed on injured reserve on November 10, 2021, ending his season.[19]
Experiencing the highest of highs on Earth and the lowest
What he and his wife are surprised the fight about now
What really matters in life
Running away from and to God
Having the freedom of not having to understand why good things and bad things happen to us
Assumptions we make
How Walker values humanity more now
Getting over yourself
The importance of stopping and serving others
Choosing the best outcome vs fearing the worst
Being a humble parent
What Gary’s mom told him when he was 10 that has stuck with him
Quotations:
“There’s more life than life.” ~Walker Hayes
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions, at the mercy of my circumstances. I don’t want to be changed by what I create every day. Like I don’t wanna write a bad song and then come home and be mean to my kids and my wife and be sad. I don’t wanna write a great song and come home with my chest and my nose up like I’ve done something. I don’t wanna respond to my circumstances and my emotions like that. I just wanna look up at the father with gratitude.” ~Walker Hayes
“The biggest miracle, you know, a success story for us was just our salvation. Just the day we trusted in Jesus.” ~Walker Hayes
“Money doesn’t fix anything. Hey, this doesn’t fix anything. But as a culture, We look at someone successful, and we can’t help but go, how’d you get all that awesome stuff? Can you give me like, can you gimme the three steps to that? And even the guy that you’re asking is going, trust me, is not that important.” ~Walker Hayes
“Us losing a child has defined us.” ~Walker Hayes
“Your attention to someone could be life-changing.” ~Walker Hayes
“What could matter more on Earth than serving someone.” ~Walker Hayes
“The Enemy would love for us all to get on this exhausting wheel of the chase.” ~Walker Hayes
“The only hope I have is that when God looks at me, he doesn’t see Walker, he sees Christ, and that all that manipulation that we’re like you said, we we’re masterful, we’re the kindest manipulators on earth. Like I, I know how to get anything I want outta life. Trust me, I’ve gotten it, and I am rescued from that cause God sent his son to, for all those sins, all that nastiness.”
Hayes and his wife moved to Nashville in 2005, hoping to get in the country music business. He landed a job writing songs for a Nashville publishing company and then signed a contract with Mercury Records Nashville, though he was quickly dropped and moved to Capitol Records Nashville. In 2010, he released his first single, “Pants”. It debuted at No. 60 on the Hot Country Songs charts dated for the week ending September 18, 2010. Kyle Ward of Roughstock rated the single three-and-a-half stars out of five. Hayes debuted the video for the song in December 2010. Hayes also appeared on an episode of 19 Kids and Counting, singing a song he wrote about Jill and her now-husband, Derick’s, proposal. “Pants” and a second single, “Why Wait for Summer”, both appeared on an album for Capitol Records titled Reason to Rhyme.
Hayes co-wrote and sang guest vocals on “Dirty Side”, a cut from Colt Ford‘s 2014 album Thanks for Listening. He also co-wrote Rodney Atkins‘ late-2014 single “Eat Sleep Love You Repeat”. After losing his contract with Capitol Records, Hayes worked at Costco to support himself.
In 2016, Hayes signed a publishing and production deal with Shane McAnally and SMACK/RareSpark, through which he released two extended plays: 8Tracks Vol. 1 and 8Tracks Vol. 2.This was followed by his first single for Monument Records, “You Broke Up with Me“. It appears on his first Monument album, Boom. It would be his breakthrough hit on the Billboard charts. “Craig” is the album’s second single.
In August 2018, Hayes released a single titled “90’s Country”, whose song lyrics contain multiple references to titles of country songs from the 1990s decade.
On June 4, 2021, Hayes released the EP Country Stuff. One of its tracks, “Fancy Like,” became a viral hit through TikTok and reached number 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart, becoming Hayes’ highest-charting effort to date. It was subsequently released as his next single to country radio and debuted at number 53 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. He currently lives in Franklin, Tennessee with his wife, Laney Beville Hayes, and their six children: Lela, Chapel, Baylor, Beckett, Everly, and Loxley. Their seventh child, a fourth daughter Oakleigh Klover died hours after birth on June 6, 2018.
This week’s guest is the music superstar Elle King! She has a new album coming out called Come Get Your Wife. While it’s a shorter conversation, it’s packed with several topics I know her fans are going to love hearing, such as how the name of the album even came about and how much her tongue gets her in trouble.
In this episode:
Her new album, Come Get Your Wife
The attitude in the album
Being yourself
Working with Charlie Worsham
Ironically incredible things that came from her concussion
What made her forget to play some of her songs
Slowing down and taking care of herself
Touring with Chris Stapleton
Quotations:
“I’m a maximalist, so I’m either like 110 or asleep.” ~ Elle King
“I love working with people that lift you up, and you can learn something from.” ~ Elle King
“I just try to find the beauty and everything.” ~ Elle King
“I can be very insulting when I drink.” ~ Elle King
“This tongue of mine has gotten me more trouble in the last four or five months. That’s my New Year’s resolution – quit sticking my tongue out.” ~ Elle King
About Elle:
Her site: https://www.elleking.com
(From Wikipedia) Tanner Elle Schneider (born July 3, 1989), known professionally as Elle King, is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Her musical style is influenced by country, rock and blues.[1]
In 2012, King released her debut EP, The Elle King EP, on RCA; one track from that EP, “Playing for Keeps”, is the theme song for VH1’s Mob Wives Chicago series.[2]
She released her debut album, Love Stuff, in 2015. It produced the US top ten single “Ex’s & Oh’s“, which earned her two Grammy Award nominations. King has also toured with acts such as Of Monsters and Men, Train, James Bay, The Chicks, Heart, Joan Jett, Michael Kiwanuka, and Miranda Lambert. She is the daughter of actor and comedian Rob Schneider and former model London King. King uses her mother’s surname to distinguish her career and identity from her father’s. “People know who my dad is,” she told ABC News, “but I think that my voice and my music speaks for itself: that I am my own person.”[3]
Matthew has traveled the world in pursuit of universal truths that all religions seem to point toward. Hypnotherapy, when performed in safe environments with medical supervision, can guide humans to a sense of peace that Matthew strives daily to share with the world. Take comfort in the years of research he is willing to bring to the table and offer free to anyone who takes the challenge to look deeper inside themselves and simply sit.
In this episode:
Matthew’s Spiritual Awakening: His Doorway to Hypnotherapy
Guiding Ourselves Out of Fear and Back to Love
Samyak Darshan: The Soul’s First Glimpse of Itself
Meditation: The Universal Truth of Just Sitting
Living in India: A Spiritual Center of Humanity
Medical Miracles and the Importance of Willingness
Matthew’s Spiritual Mission
Watch the video version here:
Quotations:
“Our childhood is a huge part of those blockages. So, if we’re not willing to look and acknowledge that we have a personal self that needs work like we need some healing to occur- If we don’t want to look at that, all we’re really doing is delaying something that I believe inevitably needs to occur, which is eventually we’re gonna let go of what we’re not, find out who we really are, let go of all that fear, and return to love. It’s really a simple model.” – Matthew Brownstein
“And the more I stay in the present moment, I realize: There’s love right here! There’s joy right here! It doesn’t require actions. It doesn’t require getting new things. It doesn’t require anything but being immensely present in the moment.” – Matthew Brownstein
“One of the things I do is even these conversations. The centerpiece of this entire podcast is that sharing our stories unlocks the essence of being alive for all of us.” – Gary Scott Thomas
“Literally, the simplest teachings which can lead you to the most profound realizations and the most profound experiences is Sit Still. Five Minutes. Morning and Evening. Sit with a straight spine. Watch your breath. You can count your breaths from 1-10 and then start again at 1. And if all you did were that, you’d be doing what some of the most advanced Zen Monks are doing all around the world: Just sitting. So, In Zen practice, (…) one of the most refined versions of Buddhism is Zen Buddhism. And that’s not theistic in any way. It doesn’t go against Christianity because a Zen Meditator just sits down and sits. And actually, that’s just, ‘Be still and know that I am God.’” – Matthew Brownstein
“I realized the mind is the cause of human suffering. Like, we are just causing so much pain and distress unnecessarily because we have these untrained minds that don’t know how to tap into peace. So for me, instead of just focusing on the problem, I decided to focus on the solution, which, really, again, is the mind. So, as long as I know that I’m doing something to relieve suffering, then it’s nowhere near as devastating.” – Matthew Brownstein
“Miracles absolutely do occur. Yet what you’re talking about is the essence of it. We need to be in a state of miracle-mindedness and miracle-readiness. So the attitude is everything.” – Matthew Brownstein
“I’ll be on the meditation cushion, and God is like, ‘Alright, go write that book.’ I’m like, No! I just want to meditate. ‘Nope. Go write the book.’ Eventually, you just have to listen.” – Matthew Brownstein
Guest’s Bio:
CEO and Founder, Anahat Education Group, Inc.
Executive Director, Institute of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy
President, International Association of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy
Founder, Interpersonal NLP Society
Co-Founder, Illuminated Mind Podcast
Founder, IGE Networking Groups
Founder, Anahat Education Group’s Life Mastery Course
Founder, The Anahat Meditation System, and OnlineMonastery.com
Publisher, Silent Light Publishers
Author, The Sacred Geometry of Meditation
Author, Interpersonal Hypnotherapy
Author, The Sutras on Healing and Enlightenment
Author, The Anahat Meditation System
Author, Peace Under All Circumstances
Keynote Speaker
Former Member, The Starchild Project
Teacher, A Course in Miracles
Master NLP Practitioner and Trainer
Certified Clinical and Transpersonal Hypnotherapist
Reiki Practitioner – Levels I and II
Attended University of Florida – Religion and Philosophy
Attended Florida School of Acupuncture
Attended Southwest Acupuncture College
Over 25,000 Hours of Hypnotherapy Classroom Training and Private Practice since 1997
Matthew J. Brownstein’s journey into spirituality, health, and healing began in 1992 with a profound spiritual awakening that made him seek the truths of all the world’s great wisdom traditions. This sudden shift into a spiritual view of life led Matthew to change his major in college to Philosophy. Yet, in time it became clear to him that Philosophy was too intellectual and did not offer the direct experiences that he sought for. Changing his major to Religion, Matthew soon discovered Mysticism and the more esoteric branches, which led to his increased spiritual experiences. Not knowing what to do with this knowledge, he went to his first Acupuncture College to learn more about how energy blockages keep us from health, wholeness, and spiritual realization.
Matthew also studied Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Southwest College of Acupuncture, yet soon found Hypnotherapy and NLP and became fascinated with the mind’s ability to heal the body, clear emotional blocks, and restore one to their true self as Spirit. This led to a journey into Hypnotherapy which became a huge foundation of Matthew’s Life’s Work. Matthew’s primary inspiration and mentor for Hypnotherapy has been the late great Mr. Gil Boyne.
Matthew has in-depth training in Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Massage, Nutrition, Shiatsu, Reiki Levels I & II, Herbology, Homeopathy, Hypnotherapy, Breathwork, NLP, Yoga, Tai Chi, Chi Kung, Tai Chi Chih, Meditation, Past-Life Regression, Life-Between-Life Regression, Analytical Hypnotherapy, Hypnoanalysis, Gestalt, Ho’oponopono, and Radical Forgiveness.
Matthew is a monk at heart. He has lived for over five years in spiritual settings, such as The Temple of the Universe with Michael “Mickey” A. Singer, Zen Mountain Monastery with John Daido Loori, and Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Matthew has studied and practiced Yoga, specifically Ashtanga and Kripalu. He has practiced Tai Chi and Chi Kung through the teachings of Cheng Man Ching with the Yang Style Short Form. Today, however, Matthew’s primary form of meditation is The Anahat Meditation System and A Course in Miracles.
Matthew opened his first Hypnotherapy practice in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1997 and has since logged over 25,000 hours in the classroom and private practice. He opened the Florida Institute of Hypnotherapy in 2007, with the help of Mr. Gil Boyne, and became the first licensed Hypnotherapy School in Florida. Around 2011, the school moved to Tampa, Florida, and has now grown to become The Institute of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy, with teachers and practitioners that now span the globe. Matthew has taught hypnotherapy in Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, New York, California, Washington State, Utah, Colorado, Massachusetts, and Costa Rica.
Worth noting about Matthew is his involvement with the late Lloyd Pye and The Starchild Project. The Project attempted to prove or disprove the theory that a 900-year-old carbon-dated bone skull was of extraterrestrial origin. Matthew was considered by Lloyd Pye to be the “Businessman” for the team, as Matthew formed the legal and corporate structure for the massive fundraising endeavor. When Lloyd Pye passed, Matthew began more radio interviews, scientific experiments, lectures, and fundraising efforts. Within two years, with the help of other team members, the Project succeeded, yet the scientific report which concluded the Project said that the skull was indeed human. The Project was a success even though we were all hoping that the skull was otherworldly. The skulls (Starchild and Female Companion) were returned to Mexico, where they originated from, and The Starchild Project team was dismantled. For the final results, please visit https://thefieldreportscom.wordpress.com/2017/05/23/final-results-determining-if-the-starchild-skull-is-part-alien/.
Matthew always considered himself a monk, yet his mission kept calling him back into the world. He, therefore, established OnlineMonastery.com to support himself and others in a monastic path that is lived in the world. The Anahat Meditation System has become the foundation for Online Monastery, along with Matthew’s Meditations on Higher Consciousness, Peace Under All Circumstances, Out-of-Body Travel Teachings, Tantric Sexuality Teachings, and Advanced Teachings on Samadhi Meditation.
For 2022, Matthew’s projects include:
Basic and Master NLP Training through the Interpersonal NLP Society
Online Life Mastery Course Training
Online A Course in Miracles Training
Online Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Training
Continued growth of the Institute of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy
Rebranding all books and products, including new graphics for The Sacred Geometry of Meditation
An awesome May 2022 IAIH Online Conference called Synthesis
Matthew is available for private Hypnotherapy, Coaching, Mentoring, or Life Mastery sessions online through Zoom at $500 per hour. Sessions usually run for two hours. Please reach out to the Institute to inquire.
