Get ready to challenge your limits and reshape the way you think.

In this high-energy and deeply motivating episode, Neal Reyes invites you into the “Weight Room of the Mind”—a powerful concept he’s used for years to help executives, athletes, and everyday champions tap into a deeper level of mental strength and resilience.

Neal shares personal stories, leadership insights, and advanced mindset strategies that apply to every area of life—whether you're leading a team, launching a business, or pushing through personal goals. Drawing from his experiences coaching executive teams and youth sports, Neal breaks down how mental endurance, repetition, and belief in yourself can unlock levels of success you never thought possible.

🔥 You’ll learn:

• How to silence self-doubt and imposter syndrome
• The difference between discomfort and true limits
• What it really means to “leave it all on the table”
• Why consistency in your mindset is the secret to long-term success
• How to transform knowledge into wisdom that creates impact

Packed with encouragement, practical wisdom, and a dose of humor (including guest appearances from his dog Ollie 🐶), this episode is your personal training session for the mind.

You have more in the tank than you think—this episode will show you how to access it.

🎙️ Listen now and step into your next level.

Chapters:

• 00:05 - Introduction to Advanced Mindset Training
• 02:59 - The Weight Room of the Mind
• 08:07 - Advanced Mindset Training in Youth Coaching
• 16:41 - Unlocking the Weight Room of the Mind
• 21:24 - The Weight Room of the Mind
• 26:50 - The Difference Between Knowledge and Wisdom

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Today I'm gonna be teaching you something that I refer to as advanced mindset training.

This is something that I work with with my clients and my teams, and I've taught them for years.

And I'm gonna teach you some simple principles that will help you to develop an advanced mindset and dig deeper than you ever have before.

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What's up, champion?

This is your host, Neal Reyes, and.

I want to welcome you to the executive perspective.

For years, I struggled to answer the question, what do you do for a living?

Why?

Because most people who ask only expect to hear one thing.

I am an executive with a deep level of understanding of business, operations, leadership, and technology.

I'm also the president and founder of a worldwide ministry and CEO of an executive coaching and consulting firm.

My number one passion is people, and I receive significant gratitude in life from sowing into others and encouraging them as they grow to achieve their fullest potential.

If you're a high performance individual like me or you're simply ready to take your business leadership or inner potential to the next level, then strap in because I'm locked in and all in.

This is the executive perspective.

Hey, what's up, champions?

This is your host, Neal Reyes.

I'm so excited that you join us for today's episode.

Today, I want to speak with you about something that I've taught my clients that I work with coaching for years now.

This is also something that I've worked with teams that I've coached, whether it be executive teams, whether it be little soccer teams.

It's something that I believe can be applied to every area of your life.

And it's what I refer to as the weight room of the mind.

You Know, as I coach with people, one of the things that I specialize in or help people with is what I refer to as advanced mindset coaching.

Advanced mindset coaching?

What exactly is that?

Well, it's where I work with clients to be able to help them understand what the hindrances are or what the blocks are that they have in their life.

What are the things that are impeding them from being more successful or impeding them from accomplishing the goals or the desires that they have for life.

Sometimes it can be simple things.

Many times it's layers.

It's things that are stacked upon each other over years and years and we have to clear those out of the way.

Other times that's just themselves.

Maybe it's a lack of belief in themselves.

You know, there's a real common thing going around today.

I say going around today.

It's been around for a while, but it's what's referred to as imposter syndrome.

Many people struggle with this, but whether if it's a lack of belief in oneself, whether if it's a lack of their thought of thinking that they lack, you know, the resources or the talent or something like the knowledge, you know, sometimes with people and, and this works for all people.

There are things that people have strengths in or what you sometimes refer to as gift clusters.

But usually what comes easy for one person, they feel that that's easy for everybody.

Because if it's so simple for them, how could it not be simple for others?

But I will tell you, it's usually those things that come simplest to you, which are your areas that you can help others with the most.

It's the areas that you can help teach them the most.

You know, one of the speakers I really enjoy listening to is Ed Mylett.

And one of the things that I've heard Ed Mylett say many times is that it's oftentimes the thing that you feel makes you most unqualified, which is what qualifies you to help others.

Now that might be saying it a little different than how he says it, but one of the things he's referring to, and I believe with as well, is that the things that you have come from out of your past, the things that you've grown from, the things that you've overcome, those are the things that make you most qualified to speak to others who are still in those current situations or are currently dealing with those same challenges in life.

When I'm working with people and doing one on one coaching, I focus on what I call advanced mindset.

Training and advanced mindset training.

While I'm only going to go over a little bit of that today, we won't go too deep on it, but it's a concept of understanding how to push yourself to achieve more, how to do more, and overall how to be more.

And when you learn how to be more, you learn how to have a more successful and enjoyable life now.

And when my as I first started this, this podcast, I talked about that I've taught this to many teams.

This is something that I've taught to leadership teams, senior management teams, executive teams.

But it's also something that I've taught over the years to the sports teams that I've coached.

You know, I have four children.

My oldest is now 23.

She's in college.

It's my daughter Taylor.

And then I also have three boys.

And in those teams that I've coached with my children, one of the things that I've really worked with them quite a bit on is I've coached those children since they were very young, and I've coached their team since they were very young.

I've been called Coach Dale for a long time.

But one of the things that I've always focused on coaching my teams.

Now I'm not talking doing this, like, when they're four or five, right?

They're just too young to do that.

Soccer is the main thing I've coached them in.

We're a big soccer family.

And when I'm coaching them in soccer, you know, early on, we start with the fundamentals of the game.

We're teaching them simply the fundamentals, and we're teaching them how to enjoy the game or how to love the game.

I always tell the parents when I'm coaching them, I'm like, hey, and.

And I live in Texas, okay?

And so in Texas, we love to win.

And so even the parents, when they're four years old, they want the kids to have the undefeated season.

And while that's awesome and that's fun, at that age we're focused on fundamentals.

We just want to teach them how, what the fundamentals of the game are.

And at that age, it's age appropriate, you know, which direction is the correct direction to run.

And if you guys have children or have ever been to a game for little children, you know what I'm talking about?

But it's about, you know, how to pass the ball appropriately, how to kick the ball.

Do you kick it with the inside of the foot?

Do you kick it with your laces?

Do you ever kick it with your Toes.

No, you never kick it with your toes.

These are things that, when I'm coaching them, I'm helping them to understand.

But as they get older, and for me, with teams, once they reach around eight or nine years old, I think we got a visitor in the studio.

We do.

My dog Ollie's here today.

I always have my dogs with me in the studio.

So if you hear them bark or if you see them pop up, just understand that I love dogs, and they're always with me.

That being said.

Well, in the studio, they're always with me, I should say.

That being said, though, when I'm coaching these children, starting at about eight or nine years old, I start teaching them how to do what I call advanced mindset.

And I'll take you through some of what I do, because this at an.

And well, understand what I'm telling you.

I'm teaching what I teach them very young, and it helps you to understand how you can grow into that.

And as an adult, it's much more powerful.

I'll give you an example.

When I'm coaching them, one of the things I condition them heavily in is in different types of, you know, endurance, stamina, speed, strength.

I take them through different types of exercises and different types of drills to help them with that.

It's not just about ball skills.

You know, nobody.

I joke around with my kids when I coach them that nobody joins soccer because they hate to run, which is completely not true.

You know, most of the kids sign up because their parents put them in soccer, and almost all the kids hate to run, at least running sprints and stuff like that.

But this is a part of the game.

And when we're coaching them, when I'm working them through them, I'll have them do things like burpees at a young age, because burpees build stamina, but they also build speed, and they build explosiveness.

You'll see our children run down the field, and they'll bump into another kid and they both fall down.

And while the other kids struggling to get up, ours bounces up like they're on springs and takes off down the field.

Because we've trained them for that.

We've practiced it.

We've done the things over and over, the fundamentals over and over again in practice, so that when it's time to execute, during game time, they're ready.

Advanced mindset training is much the same way.

When I'm training with these kids, I'll have them do things like air squats.

And when I'm having to do burpees Sometimes they'll do like maybe a hundred burpees per practice.

Now, I don't have them do 100 in set, but we do little things where they do them in clusters of 5 or clusters of 10, or sometimes clusters of 20.

And oftentimes we'll do a bunch of burpees and hundreds.

Actually kind of low, it's probably more like 200.

And I have them do things like air squats and different things, or I'll have them lay on their backs and do 6 inch leg raises.

All the children love that.

And when we do.

Why do they love that?

No, they don't love it at all.

They hate it because it burns their stomachs.

It hurts like crazy.

But I have them do that, and I make them do that for a short period of time so I can train them on this key principle.

Now listen up, because this is one of the keys you need to understand today.

Whenever you're doing any type of training, and let's say you're in the weight room, for example, when you're doing your reps, there's a part where your body starts screaming at you and telling you, we're done.

That's it, no more.

Can't do any more.

My, my muscles are burning because, you know the lactic acid is building up.

They're sending signals to your brain left and right saying, hey, that's it, that's it.

What are you doing?

Stop.

But in that moment is when you have to dig deep in your mind and do a quick audit or mental assessment.

I know my body's screaming at me, I know my muscles are burning.

But are the signal that my muscles sending my brain telling me we have no more energy and no more output for this set, or are they telling me this burns and I want to stop?

And oftentimes what it's telling you is that it burns and it wants to stop.

But when your mind can do the quick audit of the muscle group you're working, oftentimes your muscle, your mind will figure out that, yes, I know the body's burning, yes, I know the muscle is burning.

But after I do my quick assessment, I know I've got enough fuel in the tank or energy for two to three good reps left in the tank.

And even though my muscle is saying stop now, my mind's able to override that and say, nope, we've got two or three good more reps and we're gonna leave it all out on the table.

When you do that is actually when you get most of your Gains and working out.

That's why I've coined that.

After years of training teams and training myself, I've recognized how to go to a deeper place in my mind and understand how to push myself and demand just a little bit more.

So when I'm working with my clients, I have coined this phrase.

I've never heard it anywhere else.

I'm not going to say it doesn't exist anywhere else, but I've never heard this anywhere else.

This is something that I feel that the Lord gave me.

He dropped it in my spirit one day when I was preparing for a coaching session with a client.

And one of the things he said is that I want you to take them into the weight room of the mind.

You see, when you go into the weight room of the mind, I call it that because it's just like going to a gym for your body, except you're going into a weight room where you're going to train the muscle of your mind, you're going to train the strength of your mindset, you're going to do new exercises, you're going to push more reps than you thought you could, and you're going to learn how to identify in you how to give more than you thought you could.

This is what separates people from mediocrity.

This is what separates people.

This is what would be referred to as the extra mile.

Few people go here, but this is the part that separates you and makes you into more and able to do more and be more in life when you learn how to dig deeper.

Now, I started off about telling you about my children that I coach.

And I will tell you that these children that I've coached, I can go back and show where we've had undefeated season, undefeated seasons for four or five years straight.

And when I say four or five years, I'm not talking four or five seasons, four or five years straight.

And I've done that with team after team after team.

I can think of three separate teams right now that I've coached.

Four actually, separate teams that I coach where we went multiple years through multiple age groups.

And understand this, these kids were wiping out the teams they were playing so bad.

I had to move them over to the, the competitive leagues and I had to move them sometimes one to two years age groups older than them because the competition was, it wasn't as strong as they needed at the younger ones because they had excelled so much.

Now here's where it really helped.

And there may be some of you think like, oh, it's too hard to Train a kid.

That's why your kid probably wasn't on my team.

But anyways, all that being said, all that being said, as I coach them this way, I taught them how to equate it in life.

I was teaching life principles.

And if you find any of the parents who used to turn around and have their children on my team, I think they tell you that they loved having their children on my team because I taught them life goals.

I taught them how to apply this towards life because I would tell them that while soccer was passionate to us, the most important thing to them in their age group was they had to focus on school.

And I would teach them that when you're at home and you're doing your homework, there's going to be times where your body's going to tell you, I don't feel like doing homework.

This is boring.

I want to go play my Xbox or I want to play the PlayStation or the Wii or watch TV or do anything other than the homework.

But when you're studying for something, especially like a test, you have to stop and reflect.

It's not about just trying to know enough to pass.

It's have I given this my best?

Have I studied enough to know exactly what I need to to do my very, very best?

And once the kids connect with that, because remember, they've been in the trenches, they've gone through practices, especially in summer camps that I run when it's hot.

And in Texas we have, we joke, we have two seasons here, we have hot and then we have real hot or we have cool summer and hot summer.

Now that joking all around.

But if you go to Texas, it hot in the summer.

And in Texas I'd run them during the summer.

We'd run camps for a couple hours where we're drilling this in over and over through repetition because we're teaching them how to assess.

Don't listen to your body from the standpoint of don't let your muscles scream at you saying it's hurting.

Let your mind assess.

Can I do more?

Now obviously we also teach them how to be prevent the preventative injuries and things of that nature, but we're teaching them how to do more.

When I work with adults oftentimes, in fact, I would say almost every client I coach, they've never been through anything like that.

They've never had anyone teach them that which is fair, but they've never had that.

And I help them to do and get those unlocks of life.

Sometimes they're wanting to rise in the ranks of management they're wanting to break into the executive level or the C suite.

Other times, they're wanting to be able to set up a business that eventually they can leave and they need some type of exit strategy, but they need someone to help them know how to build and scale their business.

Other times, it's a personal goal.

They're wanting to get in shape, or they're wanting to be able to save money, or it's the kids or the marriage or just about whatever.

But teaching them how to get in the weight room of the mind.

This is more than just a phrase.

This is more than just a concept.

This is a structure.

This is a place that when you go, and if you have the right coaching, the right person to push you, you can push yourself in a way that you can grow exponentially.

You know, when I was younger, I used to play a whole lot of pool.

I'm talking about billiards, and I used to compete in billiards.

I'd go to Las Vegas every year and I'd compete in the world championships.

There were so many amazing talents there.

But one of the things I learned was that there were two things that made really good pool players.

One was skill.

And not everybody's created equal in skill.

You can get in, you can do your practicing, repetitions, but you had to have a good amount of sk.

But the second thing to be elite was you had to have an elite mindset.

I'll give you an example I had learned at this point.

I had my wife and I at this point in our marriage.

We had a home.

We'd have any children, just dogs.

We had our home, and I had my pool table.

And I would go in there and practice for hours.

I would break and try to run, break and try to run, break and try to run.

If I didn't run, re racket, break, try to run.

And I would just do it over and over and over.

Because what happens is sometimes when people are playing pool, you have really good players.

But if you break and let's say, eight balls, what we're playing, if you break, you have seven balls of each color.

You have seven, and I see each color.

But you have seven solids, and you have seven stripes.

And then you have one eight ball and whatever, whatever suit you are.

If you're the solids, you got to knock down all the solids first before you go for the eight ball.

The eight ball is the winning ball.

If you have stripes, you got to knock down all the stripes first before you make the eight ball.

But what you find is many Great players, they have a mindset limitation where they're not able to make more than like five balls in a row.

And so what happens is you have to build a mental fortitude where you can line them up, knock them down, and you have to be able to recognize the patterns.

You have to be able to recognize the angles where, you know, when I hit this ball, I needed to go to this part of the table within a few inches.

And so I've got to put the right amount of spin on it.

It's known as English.

I got to put a right amount of pace or speed on it.

Sometimes you have to know how to transfer the energy from the cue ball to the ball you're hitting, so that ways the ball stops or stays or rolls slower or follows it or draws.

There's so many different aspects to it, but it's about repetition.

And you have to get into a place where you train yourself over and over and over.

I've seen people run a table and get to a wide open shot on the eight ball.

I'm sure you've seen it too.

Wide open.

How could you possibly miss this shot?

And they shoot it and they jiggle it in the pocket, or they shoot it and they miss it off the rail or something.

They just.

They miss it ugly.

They hit it short, something.

What happened?

They didn't have enough fortitude in their mind to be able to hit more than a certain number of thresholds of balls.

And when I did this and did it over and over and over, the people who I played with eventually started calling me Ero, which stood for eight ball run out.

Because I could break and run.

And I got so good at this that I knew, though, that no matter who I played, I could win.

That didn't mean I was better than them.

There were a lot of players out there that would smoke me.

There were a lot of players out there that were so much better than me that they were just amazing.

They'd see things on the table that maybe I couldn't see or didn't see, is what I should say, or hadn't learned how to see.

That's probably a better way of saying it.

Their skill was at a different level, but I knew that even though they were a better player than me, potentially.

Maybe.

Maybe, yes.

You don't.

What I would do is I would engage players off if they're better than me or if I'm better than them.

I would gauge them as all I need is one shot.

Because if I get one shot, I'm going to Be able to run out the table and understand when you're playing at those elite levels, you're not playing with wide open tables.

Sometimes, sometimes you're getting in these chess match on the billiard table where you're playing safeties and you're playing defense and you're locking each other up.

But I knew all I needed was one shot, guys.

I'm telling you, when you learn how to develop an advanced mindset, when you learn how to get in the weight room of the mind and not just go there once or twice or occasionally or once in a while, you know, if you go to the gym once in a while, that's great.

But you're never going to build any type of a physique or any type of a strength or any type of an endurance or some type of thing like that.

Any type of a stamina that's going to be measurable because you're treating it casual.

But if you go every day or whatever your workout regimen is, if you go three times a week, or you go four times a week or five, or whatever, granted you got to give your body enough time to rest, but you're doing it and doing it right.

Whatever that program is you're on.

It's about consistency and it's about when you're there.

Every time you're there, you have to demand more and better of yourself.

And if you learn to do that, you'll achieve more.

Well, the weight room of the mind is much the same way.

You can't just visit it once in a while.

You have to make sure that when you're there, you're putting the right training in, you're setting the right amount of time aside to learn, whether that's through books, whether that's through videos, whether that's through teachings.

You know, some of the things that I do in my life and have done for decades, not years, but decades.

And I'm a young guy, but so I've started pretty young.

But one of the things I do is I listen to the word of God.

I consume teachings from different teachers because it feeds my spirit, but it builds me up.

Everything I do is connected with God because it's all of him and unto me.

But through that wisdom, he's shown me how to read.

I devour books.

Reading is one of my favorite things to do.

In fact, I will tell you that one of my favorite things to do is to be reading a book while I'm listening to an audiobook at the same time.

Now, understand, I'm not saying that literally, if I'm reading the book right now, I have headphones on and I'm listening to a different book while I'm reading.

That's not what I mean.

I mean, I'm tracking them alongside each other simultaneously.

I have one book that I'm reading, but when I'm not reading that book, I have another book I'm listening to.

And when I'm not listening to that book, I'm picking up my other book and I'm reading it again.

This is one of the things that I devour books.

I enjoy listening or reading and listening to books so much.

And as I do that, I'm growing, I'm focusing, I'm building my mindset.

I watch videos, and when I say videos, I don't waste a lot of time on television.

I find videos, whether if it's on YouTube or things of that nature.

I have certain memberships that I have.

I join Mindset or Masterminds.

I'm sorry, I go to Masterminds, and I'm developing community and networking around me, where I'm constantly working on building up and training my mindset.

You know, the focus of this particular podcast that I have, the executive perspective, the focus is three simple things.

It's leadership, business strategy, and personal development.

And everything that I teach falls into one of those categories in one way or another.

They connect, but they also support each other like layered bricks or building blocks, so to speak.

Another way you could see it is if it were a bridge of getting you from one side to the other.

And the one side was mainly where you're at, and the other side's where you want to be in life, whatever marks success or goal or desire or dream.

You have those suspension cables that are holding the bridge up.

The supports that are holding the bridge up is leadership.

It's business strategy as personal development.

And when you learn how to sew into yourself and grow in those ways, you'll build yourself up and to be able to do more and be more.

But I will tell you that building an advanced mindset is like any other tool you can go and buy.

You know, if you go down the street and you go to a Lowe's or a Home Depot or a local hardware store, whatever you have in your area, wherever you live, if you go and buy a tool and then you go home and stick that tool in the toolbox and you never pull it out, you might have the right tool for the right job, because there are specific tools for specific jobs.

But if you never learn how to use the tool.

And even after learning how to use the tool, if you never pull the tool out of the toolbox, the tool will never fulfill its full potential.

And as a result, you'll never fulfill your full potential on whatever that tool was designed for or to help you with because you didn't pull it out of the toolbox.

The mindset is the same way.

When you develop an advanced mindset, you can learn and learn and learn and learn and learn and learn and learn.

But if all you are are in a pattern of learning, but you never get in a pattern of doing, then that's like buying the perfect tool, but sticking it in the toolbox and never leveraging it.

There's a time for learning, but there's also a time for executing.

And when you learn, you have to learn how to apply that.

I remember one time the Lord asked me.

I was driving down the road and he asked me, he said, son, do you know what the difference between wisdom and knowledge is?

Man, I got real quiet because just for you guys to know, and I know this isn't one of my minister ministry videos, I have a bunch of those as well.

You can find those on our website.

But I want you to understand that everything I do in business, all of the success I've had in business and in leadership and in life, all of it comes from the Lord.

It's all a hymn.

None of me.

But as he asked me this, it wasn't because he forgot what the difference was between knowledge and wisdom that day.

And he needed Neil's help.

He was trying to get something across to me so I could learn.

So I got quiet and I said, no, sir, I don't.

Not like you're about to show me.

And this is what he told me in that context of that regard.

He said, knowledge is knowing what my word has to say about you.

But wisdom, wisdom is knowing how to apply it.

Oh, man, that speaks.

I'm telling you, that's loaded right there.

Now, some would say, oh, I don't believe in God.

Hey, you don't have to.

But don't worry, he still believes in you.

But listen to what I'm saying here, okay?

Listen, because I'm giving you an unlock right now.

Wisdom and knowledge apply the same way in life.

Whatever that thing it is you're needing to learn.

Maybe you're trying to learn marketing right now, or you're trying to learn funnels, or you're trying to learn email campaigns, or maybe you're trying to learn, you know, things like how EBITDA matters to a business or why it matters.

Maybe you're trying to learn something like the difference in KPIs or OKRs.

I mean, it could be on and on different things.

But understand this knowledge as understanding the topics and the details about that situation.

Wisdom as knowing how to apply that knowledge towards to the circumstance that you're facing.

If you learn how to do this and you learn how to go into the weight room of the mind and put time in, you'll grow in ways that you just couldn't understand.

And no matter when you're listening to this, this is an evergreen teaching, the concepts still matter.

And in that infrared sauna for our home, when I go in there, I'm sitting in there, but as I'm in the heat and I'm disciplining my body and it's so relaxing and medicinal.

But as I'm in there, I have time to think.

Mine came with speakers, so I have time to play a teaching or listen to an audio or I can take a book in with me.

But it's a time of not just helping my body, it's also a time for me of helping my mind.

Guys, I hope that this thing inspired you today.

I hope that today's podcast meant something to you.

I believe in you and I'm cheering you on.

Be blessed.