#1 The True Professional: Become the man that can't be beat.
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The host introduces a new weekly audio podcast dedicated to sharing transformative life advice in a casual, friendly format. The central theme is "Turning Pro" for 2026, a concept inspired by Stephen Pressfield's book. This follows a reflective contrast with 2025, a year spent pursuing hedonistic freedom through travel and partying, which ultimately led to a sense of emptiness. Turning pro is defined as the disciplined commitment to one's true passion and vocation, embracing the difficult daily work required for mastery rather than seeking comfort or instant gratification. It involves overcoming internal resistance, defining a clear life vision, and building unshakeable confidence by keeping promises to oneself through consistent routines. The host warns against substituting real-world growth with "fake mastery" from activities like video games. He shares his personal commitment to turning pro in filmmaking and physical fitness, detailing practical steps like quitting alcohol, adhering to a structured morning routine without phone use, and reading to cultivate discipline and focus on the creative process itself.
All right guys, welcome back. This is the audio only podcast now, so no YouTube video. Essentially what this podcast is going to be moving forward is me sitting down super raw in my office talking into my mic about something that is transforming my life currently, that you can use to go and transform your own life or improve what you're currently doing. A lot of you message me and you say that you really like the audio podcast that you listen to it in the gym and in the car on the way to work. And that's exactly what these are going to be. Just one episode a week where we sit down and casually talk with each other as if I was sitting with you in a room and we're friends and hanging out. This is the advice that I would give to my friends if I was hanging out with them in person. And that's what I want this to be. And you can listen to every week to improve your life. You get something you can take away from it, a new mindset, a new philosophy, and it makes you want to improve your life. If you've messed up the week before, you can return to this podcast on the same day every week. I'm not sure what day that will be yet. But the same day every week you know you can check in with me. We can sit down together and we can start working on creating the best version of your life that is possible. So that leads me into episode number one of this new series and it's called Turning Pro. How does somebody go from amateur to professional, from boy to man? How do you turn pro? What is turning pro? And what it means to me in 2026. It's the overarching theme of my life in 2026 is Turning Pro. And you might have read the book already, but there's a book by Stephen Pressfield. It's a fantastic author. Is written some fantastic fiction books. Gates of Fire is one that I must highly recommend. Even if you're not a big fan of fiction, Gates of Fire by Stephen Pressfield is one of the greatest fiction books, story books I've ever read and it's about Spotten philosophy. It's the Spotten story of the 300th of the Moplay and the great battle that they went through. It's a fantastic book to inspire leadership. But Stephen Pressfield also writes nonfiction books like the, what is it? The War of Art, not the Art of War, the War of Art, how to overcome resistance and he has a book called Turning Pro. How he spent the first half of his life not going pro. How he spent the first half of his life as an amateur, not turning up for himself and what changed to make the second half of his life professional. And I've read that book a few times now and this episode is about how 2026 for me is the year that I turned pro. And I've lived in both modes. I spent 2025. It was a fantastic year. It was a really, really fun year. But it was a year that I kind of went fuck it. Like let's have as much fun as possible. Let's see what it's like. You've made quite a lot of money. Let's see what it's like to just spend and not think about it. To spend four or five months traveling the world to enjoy yourself, to party, don't really care about if you drink or not. Just fucking make videos when you want to live in what I thought at the time would be complete, freedom and adventure. And I reflected heavily on 2025 because I learnt a lot about myself and who I became. And the stark realization for me was that the fun life, the actual life that made me feel good and the life that I want to live in the life I want to be known for is not living in complete freedom and hedonism and being able to do whatever I want and just traveling all the time and not having a base camp. And in reflection of my life, some of the happiest times I ever had. Well, when I used to turn up every day for the building of my dream, my body and my mind, the days that are difficult, the days that are tough, the days you don't really want to do, when you want to rest, but you turn up, gives you this feeling that cannot be bought, it has to be earned. And the thing about the freedom, the hedonism, going out, partying, all that kind of stuff, the sort of mindless travel as much as it's fun is that it leaves you very empty. You always need more of it. You kind of finish it and you're like, okay, what's next? Where do I go now? Who do I fuck now? What do I drink now? Whereas when you turn pro, the art of turning pro is that you figure out and define what the life you want to live and the person you want to be, you define that perfectly, who you want to be and what you want to commit your life to, what skill you want to master, what you want your vocation to be or the work that you do on a daily basis that you turn up for makes a difference. When you decide that, you commit yourself to it, it gives you this incredible feeling, it gives you this feeling of pride and courage. And although the days are very difficult and there'll be days when you don't want to do it, after you've done it for a period of time, you have this incredible feeling of confidence in yourself. And that was a feeling I lost in 2025. That was a feeling that kind of deserted me. And 2026 for me, the key theme of the year is turning pro. That's why I'm doing this podcast right now. My commitment is to my craft, to make him films, to writing a blog. There'll be a blog that goes with this podcast because I love writing. But truly, as I look through the year, my heart is, I'm a creative. I love to create like all I want to master is the art of filmmaking, telling stories, inspiring other people. And at the same time, having an incredible vehicle, like an incredible body and being a person that actually does the things that they talk about that knows from experience, not from books or philosophy, but who goes on great adventures, not for the point of getting drunk or traveling or seeing new girls or new people as much as all of those things are fun. But somebody who goes to learn something to challenge himself to push the limits of what one man can become and then come back and create amazing videos, podcasts, blogs that can inspire other people to do the same and live a similar story to what I've lived or your version of that, which is I broke out of the traditional living and I went all in after my passion, which is creation. And so that is the episode that we would be talking about today. How do you turn pro in 2026? And there's a couple points that I want to bring up on this. So most people, they turn pro, but they turn pro at the wrong things. And that's because it's a hell of a lot easier to turn pro at something that's not your passion, than it is to turn pro at something that is. Your passion, your creative muse, the thing that you want most in life, that actual dream, the one that actually inspires you that isn't for anybody else, but is for you, the thing that you secretly want. If you don't know what this is, look back into your childhood. What did you spend time doing? I've been making videos, films, acting, playing with cameras, reading books, creating since I was very, very young. That's where I discovered this passion and it's never left me. A lot of people, they have that passion as a kid in something, something that they naturally get towards, but then it's, people say it doesn't make sense. Like, you know, I'm going to make money at it, so don't do it. Find what that is. Find what that original passion is. And that's the thing you become and you turn pro at. And turning pro at something that isn't that passion is often a lot easier. When you turn pro at a true passion, you encounter resistance. And that is because there's a fear. It's very easy to be a good writer in your mind. It's very easy to be a YouTuber in your mind or a great filmmaker whose skills or films were never discovered. You can tell yourself that you are greater the things that you want to be great at without becoming greater them if you just do them in your mind. But the professional, the man turning from boy to man is saying, no, I am going to take the risk. I'm going to risk being laughed at. I'm going to risk other people not liking me. I'm going to risk being different. I'm going to risk comfort in what I have now to go after the thing that I want. And the mind is, is wired for comfort. The mind is going to say to you, don't do it. It's going to be scary. Things are changing. Most people are more addicted to and used to their life that they don't like. And even though they say to themselves, I want to change. I want to become a new person. They don't because they are addicted to the comfort, the people around them, the thing that they currently do. Turning pro is the version of not doing that anymore. Turning pro is saying, this is the year, or this is the day from listening to this podcast that I'm fucking turning up for myself. Every day, I'm turning up for myself. I'm defining what I want. It's going to be hard. There's going to be days. I don't want to do it. But there is nothing else for me to do. But this is my commitment as a man is to turn up and work on something. And when you manage to do that, when you truly manage to do that, it has a feeling associated with it that you cannot buy. A feeling that puts a sparkle in your eyes and gives you an aura that
other people can't quite place. Then they look at you, a woman looks at you as a man and goes, "Well, that is a man that has a mission." That's what Turning Pro is about. It's realising that comfort is the enemy. Realising that the world is engineered to keep you amateur, to keep you mediocre, right in the middle, waiting for a feeling that will never come, and to keep you in that environment. Turning Pro means to go against all of that. To go against that feeling. To change your environment. To go after the things that you truly want. And most people, if they look into their lives, have areas that they've turned pro that are not productive. So, video games, for example. I read a really interesting blog article recently. I talked about the gamification of life. How social media, video games, pornography has made average men feel good being average rather than being good in the real world. You have fake worlds that you can conquer in Master that scratch the itch of becoming a pro which every man wants, but without actually having any real world results. So, for example, it takes about 5% of the time to master a video game world as it does to Master a skill in the real world. Normally, it takes about 500 hours to master a video game. It takes about 10,000 hours to master a skill. So, people, games, video games, they are designed to give you this dopamine to make you feel like you've accomplished something. But they have zero real reward. Whereas there's in pretty much everything you want to require in life that has deeper meaning, there is going to be a very, very long period of time with no dopamine. And that's why when you turn pro, the key thesis of turning pro, I think, is you have to turn pro for the love of the game. You turn pro for the work, not for the result. And this goes across everything. So, a few areas of my life I'm turning pro right now. Turning pro at the gym, I've had a great physique or a good physique for a very long time. But I've not had a absolute 0.1% physique, a top fucking physique. Because I can be amateur and have a six pack. I can drink alcohol and have a six pack. I can eat crap and have a six pack. I can turn up to the gym and not work out that hard and keep a six pack. That's not turning pro. Turning pro is taking delight in the fucking process. It's turning up even though you're already good. You can keep the six pack mediocre. I don't want that anymore. I want people to look at my body and go, wow, that took serious commitment. That man is a walking image of how he lives. My physical body in the physical world is a representation of me being a professional in 2026. It's the reason why I gave up alcohol this year. Last year I partied a lot. This year I gave up alcohol. It's nearing 100 days. I'll do a YouTube video. What I've learned about that. I won't go into it too deeply here. But it's one of the reasons I could alcohol. I could still make money. I could still keep a six pack. But I wasn't professional. I wasn't 100% of my potential. And that's what turning pro does. Another area I'm turning pro right now is in my mindset, my routine, never being late, always turning up on time, having a schedule for my videos, for my production, that I know art, creating something great is really, really hard. And if I don't have a schedule that I stick to, I won't do it because you can always expand on a video. You can always expand on a piece of content and never release it because it's not quite perfect. The professional turns up every day to do the work for the work's sake. He turns up to enjoy what he's doing. Like I'm enjoying this podcast right now. It's not for the result. It's not for whether it goes viral. It's not to make money from it. It's to turn up, to sit down, to say, I did the reps and I got it done. And what this builds over time for the areas of your life, how you do one thing is how you do everything. But what it builds into your life is this confidence. Confidence is nothing more than keeping promises to yourself on a daily basis. And there's last year so many times and quite a few times in my life, since I started making really good money and I was a very disciplined person when I came up and started my YouTube and started my business. I was very, very disciplined and over time you gain the accolades, the success, more people want your attention, things become a little more complicated. And for me personally, I lost a lot of that discipline. When I was saying, I'll go to bed at this time and I didn't. And I would not eat this thing and then I ate it and I'd go to the gym at this time but I didn't or I'd make a video this day but I didn't. When I started this, what led to me ever having a personal brand was the fact I turned up every day and made a YouTube video for 180 days straight and that I would not go to sleep until that was done and there and 90% of those days I did not want to do it. 90% of those days I hated the video before it came out but I turned up and I did the work. My new version of this is to turn up and do the work without any attachment to the result and that's what you should do as well. I decide what truly motivates you in your life, what actually would get you out of bed in the morning, what is the dream vision for who you want to become, what does your body look like, what's your self talk like, what if you created in the world, what business do you run, what you do on a day-to-day basis, how do people talk about you, you create that and then you create a simple system to live in alignment with it every day. So I run you through a little bit of the system I'm using every single day to term pro because I have to rebuild that confidence now. I have to rebuild turning up for myself, not breaking promises to myself and I've fallen in love with the routine again. I've said for a long time and I think maybe I just got influenced from things I read online but like fuck the routine, just turn up and do the work, never work up at 5 a.m. I drink fucking beers and I've made money and it's like I've done all of that. I can absolutely understand that. I've drank beer so I made money. I have been a complete degenerate and made great money. I have done the work but I didn't realize at the time was that I wasn't truly turning up for myself that actually the wins were kind of the wins were kind of empty because I knew I was doing the maverage. I knew I was turning up as an amateur to do them and there's always that scratch in the back of your mind is like, Jack, you can do this fucked up. You're a hired achiever fucked up. Imagine your potential if you actually took things seriously for more than three fucking days and I got really annoyed and angry at myself and I've reached this point where I was like, yeah, I'm not fucking going to live like this any longer. I'm wasting my human potential on this planet. I don't get a lot of time. I could be far more than I am. I could make my parents far prouder. I could be a far better person for my family, for my friends, for the people around me, for the people that watch me online. I could be a better fucking person. It doesn't matter what other people's ideas of success and that I've achieved that. For me, I know deep down I'm underneath my potential and so I got back into a routine and a routine for the sake of keeping promises to myself not because I could do the work without a routine but because a routine was hard for me to live with some discipline as simple as waking up at the same time every day has been ridiculously hard for me. So now I have a routine. I turn my phone off two hours before bed. I get into bed at 10 o'clock. I normally watch an episode of some sort of TV show I've been watching the Reacher series recently. I don't think this is a big problem. I like TV, I like movies obviously and I think the worst thing is scrolling or doing like kind of mind work but if there's a good TV show that you like to watch put it on for an hour. For me, it winds me down when it gets to 11 o'clock then I switch to an audiobook currently listening to. I don't listen to any self-development when I try to get to sleep because that will just start your mind-waring but I'm listening to a brief history of everything, a brief history of everything like of the entire world from the Big Bang. It's incredibly interesting and seems to send me to sleep in about 10 minutes so you can find it if you just put in a brief history of everything. I don't remember who the author is, Bill something maybe but it's a very good audiobook and that's my routine and I try and get to sleep before 12 o'clock and I set my alarm for 8 a.m. Now that might seem ridiculous to some people that I've struggled to wake up at 8 a.m but for me that's a big deal. I don't have to wake up for anybody. I get to decide exactly what I do with my time. Nobody tells me what to do. I sometimes used to wake up at 1 p.m. 2 p.m. I used to work all night sometimes but that is something I don't allow as a professional and 8 a.m is my current wake up time that's very, very good for me. It doesn't matter what time you set, make it better and more effective than what you do now and stick to it. For a minimum of 7 days in a row to start, just one thing like changing a bedside. Then I wake up in the morning and I do not go on my phone. That's a worst possible thing that you can do in the morning and it's something I say to myself as a professional, I do not do. I do not wake up in the morning and instantly go on my phone. That's a fucking terrible idea. Everyone
problems comes into your life. You instantly start scrolling. You instantly hook up your dopamine to watching videos. That's a terrible thing to do, but something I've done so many times, and it's fucked my days up. So my phone is on the other side of the room. A alarm is on. I wake up. I get out of bed. I turn the fucking alarm off, and that's all I do with the phone. The phone's on airplane mode. So it still does the alarm, but there's no notifications, no messaging. I then instantly read 10 pages of a self-development book, because most of the time in the morning, no matter who you are, no matter how professional you're being, you've got some fucking bullshit ideas in your head. You got some bullshit problems or bad self-talk, and sometimes you need to just snap out of that and get some other ideas in your brain. So that's one of the first things I do is I read at the moment. I'm reading hard times, great, strong men. I read a lot, as you can probably tell a lot of information. Hard times, great, strong men. I like the book. I've read it a few times, rereading at the moment. 10 pages, bang, done. That gets ticked off a list on my wall. A 30-day checklist for my habits. 10 pages of reading, done. I then do 10 minutes of writing. This is where my ideas come from. I sit down at the same time every day and I do 10 minutes of writing. This gives me my video ideas. I write about things. Journal about things. Sometimes I end up being 15, 20 minutes, but it's normally the backbone. It was the backbone of this idea for this podcast. It's the backbone of pretty much everything I do as a creator starts with the written word. It will become a blog very, very soon. That's another one of the things I tick off my list. Fantastic. I've done that. Then I have a page of affirmations that I read out about who I am, not who I'm becoming, who I am right now, internally, how I show up for myself. I read my affirmations. I do a five-minute meditation. I put on meditation music and I sit there, cross-legged, shoulders back, I think of nothing. That is the point of meditation. I tap away any thoughts that come into my mind. I scan the body. I listen to sounds, but I try and keep my mind completely clear. It's not a time to think. I then do 10 minutes of yoga. I was getting incredibly stiff. I was getting a few injuries in the gym training as hard as I do. I do 10 minutes of yoga even though I don't want to do it. I do 20 or this morning I do 25 push-ups and 25 sit-ups. I'm doing one more every day. Just as a simple little way to get the blood flowing done. That is a routine, a simple routine that I'm doing every day to turn up as a pro. To turn up and do the work. I don't want to do that every day. I don't have to do that every day. No one's making me do it, but I know when I do it, I feel better. I know when I do it, I have confidence for myself. I know that it gets me off to a good start. It makes me feel worthy of making content, making videos, giving advice to other people because I'm living in alignment with the things I want. That to me is the art of being a pro. Then I also have my goals for content. So 12 YouTube videos a month. Four audio podcasts. One blog article released each week. If I turn up and do those everything in my life. If I turn up, I hit the gym hard. I work in my body. I don't eat shit. I say no to the feelings of I'm going to break my routine. I say no to that feeling and I keep promises to myself every day. I know that I will have unlimited confidence. I have the life, body, money. Everything I want and at the same time, I will feel proud of myself. Turning pro is doing it no matter what. Turning pro is deciding becoming a man, turning up no matter what and working on it. When the videos get boring, when you don't want to make them, when you don't want to read, when you don't want to meditate, when you don't want to stretch, when you don't want to go to the gym, that is exactly the time you remember that you turned pro this year and you sit down and you do it. And that attracts everything. Women are magnetized to a man that no longer needs them. When a man needs his purpose and that is it, when a man is on a mission, it raises your standards. You will have standards for yourself. You will look at a woman and rather than think how do I get this woman into bed, you will look at a woman and think is she actually right for me? Would she actually help my mission or would she take me away? Is she a professional? Is she worthy of me in the level of self care and respect that I put into myself? And you have some standards and women are attracted to that. Women will try and make you subconsciously. They will test you. I don't think they're trying to make you. They will test you to see if they can draw you away from their mission, from your mission. Your goal as a man is to never ever be drawn away from the mission. It doesn't mean you can't care for women. You can't be a nice guy. You can. You can be a good man, I'd say. Being nice is a fucking invalid concept, in my opinion. Good men don't necessarily mean nice men. Being a nice man is like pleasing other people. It's like being a performer for what other people want. Being a good man means you turn up no matter what. You turn up if it hurts someone's feelings. You do the work even if it means missing someone's birthday. You don't go on the date or buy the thing for the girl if it gets away in your business. And most people say to you on the front end, and this is why it's delay gratification, it will upset them on the front end. The woman might want to change you on the front end. But over time you realize that is masculinity and that is what women are attracted to and you can't fake it. Once you have it, everything starts to flow. Opportunity follows reliability. When people see you turn up for yourself, that you're never late. And you start to get this reputation of the man who turned pro. People say he's a fucking professional. Whatever you do, whatever your thing is, you want people to say, if that if I want that thing done, I'm going to this guy. That's as simple as it is to win in any any field that you decide is be the best. Turn up on time, get the work done to the best of your ability all the time. Rain or shine, 365. That is being the best. And money is the downstream of that. When you become that man, you can charge, you have the confidence to charge whatever you want. To charge whatever you want for your services. Because you know that they're getting the best. And money money comes downstream of your standard for yourself. And self respect is the foundation of everything. And this doesn't the the effects of this that I felt are fairly instant. But the compound is incredible. So the effects like days zero to 10. And I recommend after listening to this, no matter where you are right now, you're on your way to the gym or you're in the car or whatever. And you're aligning with some of the things I'm saying. It's like go go right out what the vision is and how you're going to turn pro. What you're going to get rid of, what you're going to keep. And just a simple step daily routine that gets planned out and ticked off every single day to turn up for yourself. And you're instantly within 10 days. First 10 days will be the hardest. You will want to quit multiple times. You will think it's pointless. But the one thing you say to yourself is I'm a professional. I just do not quit. My only job is to do the things on this list every single day. That's it. But there is no decision to make when you turn pro. The child, the amateur decides and does when he feels good. But the only way to ever be great at something is to do it no matter how you feel. And that when that decisions made, it's actually a lot easier. You're like, I don't fucking care how I feel. I don't care right now if I need to do this or it's going to be good. I need to turn up and do the fucking work as an artist as a creator as an entrepreneur. Most of the things you're going to do you have to realize are going to suck. Like artists, the best artists in the world have like a 5% hit rate on hit songs. 95% of what they make is a complete trash. And no one ever likes it or listens to it. That's what it takes to get the good stuff. And the pro turns up no matter what and puts the work out there does judge the work. You just fucking gets it done puts it out. When that compounds over time, fuck I haven't had much time for this to compound. I've managed to stick to schedules in my life for no more than probably 180 days in the past. The biggest change in my life came from 180 days of being a professional making YouTube videos every day. Ever since then I've earned more money but I've never had the increase in confidence and life satisfaction than I had when I hit those 180 days. So we'll probably do an episode two of this at the end of the year and we can really see the professional I've become and hopefully the professional youth become as well. But to round this out and to get your day your week or your life off to a good start of to turn things around no matter where you are right now. Number one, you got to make the decision out loud written on a piece of paper. I don't care how you do it but fucking look in the mirror yourself and say I'm wasting my potential and I'm fucking turning pro from this point forwards. I have turned pro. I am a different person in a year's time people are going to talk about me in a different way. And it's going to be difficult. But I know the feeling is going to be worth it and I'm going to enjoy the work on a on a daily basis. I don't care about result. I'm going to enjoy becoming the person. Identify one non-negotiable to start with. The daily non-negotiable that represents a new standard. I actually think waking up at the same time and going to sleep at the same time is an incredible one that just sets the tone for everything and is actually really difficult to do for me definitely. It has been years since I woke up at the same time every day because even when I've worked a job I would sleep in on the weekends. Set a time to go to sleep and wake up every single day for the next seven days. They'll make it 14 days and make it 30. And identify that one promise that you keep yourself as a starting point a few just
do one thing from this video, one way of increasing that confidence. Eliminate one comfort. The thing about comfort is that it makes a shit life bearable. When I first broke out of my 9-5, I stopped drinking alcohol. For six months I believe I was the longest I've been sober in the past this year I'm going for a year, but when I first went sober, it was that comfort that I couldn't go and hang out with my bodies. I realized, "Oh, my body's like they're all right, but they're all on the same path as me, like they're heading nowhere." These conversations aren't even fun. How can I sit in the pub and talk about bullshit and have fun with these people when I literally hate my life? It just seemed ridiculous. Whereas alcohol, it will soothe that. It will soothe the bad relationship with a woman you're not meant to be with. It will soothe the feelings of dissatisfaction in your life. It will soothe the way that you feel about everything. Maybe that thing's video games for you. Maybe it's porn. Maybe it's fast food. Maybe it's weed. Whatever it is, you've got to get rid of it. You've got to feel the pain, the pain of who you are right now. You've got to look in that mirror and you've got to look at yourself for who you are. You've got to look in that mirror. I look in the mirror and I say to myself, "Look at you. You've done good, Jack. Well done. Yeah, you've done some stuff with YouTube and that. You want to be a Hollywood filmmaker. You want to make movies, mate." What the fuck are you doing sitting around? Look at your body. Yeah, it's okay. You can easily keep a six pack. Why is that not the best physique you've ever seen? Be, look at yourself through a very harsh lens and then get to work fixing it and feel that pain. Another way is build the morning, the first hour and the day that follows. You set the tone in the morning. Find a simple routine. I'm going to do a podcast on fully on morning routine soon. But in the meantime, just find a simple routine, something that sets your day up and avoid using the phone in the morning. Keep one promise daily to yourself and then make it three after the first week and just three promises a day. You keep yourself and you turn up and you do those fucking things. If you can't do it, don't write it down. Be really careful with the promises you keep for yourself. Audit your environment. The things on your phone, the people you're around, the girlfriend you're with, the bedroom, is it messy? The professional doesn't work in it. When you start to do this in one area of your life, you will feel motivation to do it in all areas. Right now, I'm sitting in my room as spotless. My desk is completely clear. Everything is organized. It's a place for work, for creation and it just, like, it signifies who I am. I've started fucking even washing my face recently. That sounds ridiculous. I've never had a skincare routine. I have a shower and stuff. I don't know how to use skincare. I do use skincare now. Why? Because I'm professional. I want everything to be aligned. I close a fucking iron. I could walk out the house looking good. Every time I go out, I can clean. I smell good. My face is washed. I've got moisturiser on. I'm looking after myself. You've got to do that to your environment or did it? Have a look at the things, the people that, as soon as you turn professional, you will be sick and buy people that aren't professionals. That's one of the things. You'll hang out with these people and just think, what the fuck? And you'll realise the level underneath your potential you were operating out for so long. And track, the final thing I'll leave you with is track the streak. So as you become the professional, tick things off and have a board or a piece of paper or something that you print out that goes on the wall that shows your streak of becoming who you are. And another thing is like, take a progress picture at the start when you start this today. I've got my weight down as well, like my YouTube views for the month, amount of money I made in a month, all that stuff for the starting point right now. And then in 30 days time, you take another measurement. What are you way and what's your progress picture like then? How many of the outputs have you done? How has that changed views? How's it changed money in? Like track it. Because yesterday, I nearly went to, I got in, it was about nine o'clock. And I just got back from the gym. And I had, I checked my wound when I had 7,000 steps for the day because I've been in working most of the day. And I walked to the gym and back, but it wasn't enough. I had 7,000 steps in 9 pm at night. And I've got 10,000 on my fucking list. And I was like, I'm not doing an X on that list. There's no fucking way. I'm not putting an X on there. So I went and I fucking just walked round and round the block, put a podcast on. I was listening to, I actually know I was listening to a audio. And I just went for that walk and I hit my 10,000 and I ticked it off my list. And I felt good because I was like, yes, you're the fucking man. You do that. Because that's going to build you into the person you want. So track the streak. Make it visible, make breaking it painful. Something you don't want to do. And know that confidence is kept promises. Nothing else. Most people are running on and overdraft. Every time they break a promise, it's a withdrawal. The voice will say to you in your head, just this one's, that's just eat it now. And it's going to be okay. You've got to recognize that, that's a version, that's the old version of you that doesn't want to change. And you've got to dismiss it. You've got to destroy it. Become a new man. At the start, we'll be difficult. Hold out those first 10 days. 10 days 10 to 20 will be slightly easier but still hard. Days 20 to 30, you will have built a new person and you have it. You will start to see yourself as the man. You will start to see yourself as the professional. And then you just keep fucking racking on those wins. So there you go guys. It's been an absolute pleasure. Go and do what you need to do. Share this podcast with somebody you think needs it. If you enjoyed it, that's all I ask. And it's been an absolute pleasure to sit with you today and I'll be back next week. Next by next week we'll know exactly which day these come out and I'll give you these kind of uploads to just keep your mind right and keep you on track and I'll keep you up to date with where I'm at with becoming a professional. And that's the kind of theme of the year. So go on my son, go and turn pro and I will see you on the next one. Woop out!
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Key Points:
The podcast introduces a new weekly audio-only format focused on sharing personal insights to help listeners improve their lives.
The host reflects on 2025 as a year of hedonistic freedom, which ultimately felt empty, contrasting it with the fulfillment found in disciplined commitment.
"Turning Pro" is the central theme for 2026, inspired by Stephen Pressfield's book, meaning committing fully to one's true passion and craft despite fear and resistance.
Turning pro involves choosing meaningful work over comfort, building confidence through daily discipline, and avoiding "fake mastery" from distractions like video games.
The host shares personal systems for turning pro, including quitting alcohol, establishing a strict morning routine, and focusing on the process rather than results.
Summary:
The host introduces a new weekly audio podcast dedicated to sharing transformative life advice in a casual, friendly format. The central theme is "Turning Pro" for 2026, a concept inspired by Stephen Pressfield's book. This follows a reflective contrast with 2025, a year spent pursuing hedonistic freedom through travel and partying, which ultimately led to a sense of emptiness.
Turning pro is defined as the disciplined commitment to one's true passion and vocation, embracing the difficult daily work required for mastery rather than seeking comfort or instant gratification. It involves overcoming internal resistance, defining a clear life vision, and building unshakeable confidence by keeping promises to oneself through consistent routines. The host warns against substituting real-world growth with "fake mastery" from activities like video games.
He shares his personal commitment to turning pro in filmmaking and physical fitness, detailing practical steps like quitting alcohol, adhering to a structured morning routine without phone use, and reading to cultivate discipline and focus on the creative process itself.
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The podcast focuses on personal transformation through raw, conversational advice, with each episode offering insights to help listeners improve their lives, often centered on themes like 'Turning Pro' and self-mastery.
'Turning Pro' means committing fully to your passion or vocation, overcoming resistance and comfort to pursue meaningful work daily, rather than settling for amateur or unfulfilling habits.
New episodes are released once a week, on the same day each week, though the specific day is not yet finalized.
The concept is inspired by Stephen Pressfield's book 'Turning Pro,' which explores transitioning from an amateur mindset to a professional one by embracing discipline and overcoming personal resistance.
The host gave up alcohol to fully commit to a professional lifestyle, aiming to reach his full potential rather than settling for mediocrity, as part of his 'Turning Pro' theme for the year.
A consistent routine helps build confidence by keeping promises to yourself, fostering discipline, and ensuring daily progress toward your goals, even when motivation is low.
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