In this Season Finale episode of the Full Force Life Podcast–Coach Jason takes the hot seat and gets interviewed by Special Guest Host, Shane Austin. Shane is an Extreme Focus Coach and Professional Quarterback who questions Jason on the power of state management, dealing with adversity and creating a compelling vision. Full of fun, laughter and insights from two high-level athletes and mental skill trainers–an episode you don’t want to miss.

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We are doing something definitely different, something new. With the wrapping up of the World Series, I’ve decided to call it a season as well as far as the podcast. We’re going to be taking a little bit of a break over the next couple of months. I’ve got some really cool projects that I’ve just started doing. Something that’s going to help serve young athletes to develop these mental skills to take the big speeches and the motivation and everyone who talks about why mental skills are so important, why the mental side of the game is so important and actually put it into a format, into a training system. An online program that is not going to just be about why it’s important or talk about how other athletes do it, but do a step by step program that is going to train each athlete who follows along. It’s going to build. It’s going to strengthen. It’s going to develop their own mental skills. It’s going to condition their peak state.

What I wanted to do for this last episode of the season is bring in a special guest host and interview me for a change. Let me take the easy side of it and I don’t have to come up with the questions or take the notes and just follow along. At first, there was no else I’d rather ask than Shane Austin, Extreme Focus Coach but also a professional quarterback. I keep seeing the work that he’s doing. As time goes along, he and I keep becoming better and better friends as well. I love how he sees things, how he helps people, and just the true leader that he is whether it’s on the field or off of it. He’s an impressive dude. I asked him. When I asked him he’s like, “I love to help you out but why do you want me to interview you? Why don’t you just talk like the normal ones?” There were some feelings inside and I knew that being asked different questions, I believe you want better answers, you need to ask better questions. Sometimes I talk, I talk, I ask myself questions all the time about how to better help people, how to better run my business, how to live a higher quality of my own life. Sometimes we keep asking ourselves the same questions over and over and over again and I didn’t fully get it.

I knew that this was important. It’s something I needed to do was that bring someone else to come interview me because what I found out after doing this podcast which is phenomenal, you’re going to love it, we have a freaking blast on it. By being asked new and different questions, questions in ways that I would never ask myself, new stuff started coming out. He put me in a different state. When you put yourself in a better, a higher quality state, a peak state, you get new insights, new distinctions. Better distinctions than you’ve ever had before. Him leading me and taking me to that place, I was able to articulate. Just remember, recall information that I hadn’t thought about in years. That was why I want to have a special guest. That’s why I asked Shane because I knew Shane would ask some pretty darn, intelligent questions and be able to pull and extract some new ways of helping people, some new stories, new ideas. I think this is going to be an episode that you’re going to love, you’re going to want to listen to over and over again. I’m just smiling thinking back to it as well, just the amount of fun that he and I had. Big thanks to Shane Austin, Extreme Focus Coach and former guest on the show. We were thinking back it was episode number nine, more than almost 30 episodes. What a blessing, what a gift to be able to do this for so long.

Probably, I’m not going to take too much of a break with the podcast. I’m going to do plenty of recordings so we can hit you guys strong with great guests, great content come sometime in the spring when the seasons are kicking back up on both in the softball, baseball world, and other sports as well. Feel free. Repetition is the mother of all skill. Go back. Start the podcast all over again. You’re going to hear new things. 38, 39 episodes, you are a totally new and different person than you were six months ago. When you go back and you listen from the beginning, you’re a new person and you’re going to hear new things. New things are going to be relevant to your life. New things are going to be important in your life. You’re going to start picking up and making your own new distinctions. I cannot wait for what’s in store for you in 2018. Not only with the podcast but with the online training program and a lot of the other things. The peak state clinics that are beginning to pop up all across the nation, exciting things. I just feel so grateful, so blessed to each and every one that has helped me along in this journey and that includes you.

Without any further ado, I guess it’s time to call up our special guest host. He can make the introductions on who is this 15-year pro, former Texas Ranger, very large guy who loves to talk. We will see you on the other side.

 

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Guest Host Shane Austin interviews Jason Botts on Peak State

This is Shane Austin, a special guest host on the Full Force Life podcast. I’m excited today because we get to turn the tables a little bit here. Jason is usually the one hosting it and he has given some great questions but now, the tables have turned. Jason, you are now the passenger. This is my show today. I get to ask you some questions. We’re going to pick your brain a little bit today. Are you ready to go?

When I wanted to do this special guest host thing, there were thousands of people that I probably could have picked. I wanted to reach out to you because I knew you could deliver and I’m glad that you are proving me right.

I’m a little nervous. You put a lot of pressure on me. Hopefully, you can coach me through how to handle pressure. Maybe we can get through this together.

That’s why I picked you because I know you can handle pressure. All those late game comebacks as a professional quarterback, I know you can handle. When the clock is ticking, I know you can come through. You are the man to be put on the spot. I do know that.

I was fortunate enough to be on your show as a guest. It was a while ago. I think it was last March. I think it was all the way back at episode nine. My background is in football. I also do the Extreme Focus coaching. Jason works with a lot of baseball players but today, hopefully we can bring in the best of both worlds and how we can apply it to wherever you’re at right now today. Let’s jump right into some questions now that you’re on the other end. I hope you’re a little nervous. Maybe I’ll just tease some up at the beginning, give you some slow pitches but then I’m going to start bringing in the heat and hopefully, we can get into some good stuff today. We’ll give you some slow pitches right off the bat. How are you doing today?

I am doing phenomenal. I’ve been just waking up in a great mood, great state. I’ve had the boys and we’ve got into this new routine where we get up, we get dressed, we get fed, and then we actually get to dancing. We have a little dance party. We hoop and we holler. Lincoln, my eight-year-old son, out of nowhere created a list of goals. It was dinner time. It was a Friday night. I’ve rented a movie and I was excited about renting this movie and he wanted to write down his goals. I was like, “We’ll go and do that.” Performance coach Jason was tired. Daddy was tired. I just want to sit down, finish my dinner, and watch a movie that we had picked. I think it was A Dog’s Purpose or something like that. Lincoln wrote down his goals and they were beautiful, beautiful goals. He wrote down what he wanted to accomplish by the age of eighteen. He wanted to deadlift 440 pounds. He’s really got into working out. I know eight year olds don’t really workout but in his mind, he’s doing his pushups every day. He likes to go on for runs and sprints.

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