From Paralyzed to World Champion with Fallon Taylor!

With less than a 2% chance to live, she triumphed over tragedy and is an inspiration for us ALL! Everything remarkable STARTS with a CLEAR GOAL. Have you ever envisioned something so great that you would do everything in your power to achieve it? This remarkable woman has! She started by VISUALIZING herself as a world champion by the age of 13, and she has achieved that and so much more! Some people wait for the PERFECT TIME, but there will always be OBSTACLES you have to overcome. Through sheer determination, resilience and hard work, this woman soldiered on and ACHIEVED! I’m so proud and honored to bring you this exclusive interview with Fallon Taylor! She is a WORLD-RENOWNED Barrel Racer, Entrepreneur, Professional Athlete, Model, and Public Speaker. With multiple WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, she is one of the most EXTRAORDINARY people I’ve had on this show. From having a grave, life-threatening injury to being a WORLD CHAMPION in Barrel Racing a mere 5 years later, this woman shows that all things are possible and it pays to be UNSTOPPABLE! Find out how Fallon breaks out of the darkest moments of her life, equipped with just DETERMINATION and sheer GRIT! In this interview, we break down how Fallon was able to BREAK the CYCLE of waking up, going to sleep, and paying the bills to become a WORLD CHAMPION and ACHIEVING SUCCESS in every area of her life! Remember, YOU have a GREATER PURPOSE in life. There will be people who think you can’t do it, but you CAN prove them wrong and show yourself and your family that you too have the heart of a CHAMPION! Now WATCH/LISTEN to this episode to learn how to get back up when life knocks you down! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Ed Mylett?

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• 1:49Ed Mylett?

  Welcome back to Max Out, everybody. I'm so excited about today's program because I have one of the most inspirational people, I think, on Earth today with me. And she was also, I always put these polls out to you guys saying, who do you want on my show? And there kept being this name coming up, this beautiful name, by the way, Fallon Taylor. Fallon Taylor. Get her on your show. And so I'm so excited that she's here today. This lady to my left is amazing. She's an incredible entrepreneur. She's got an amazing social media and YouTube presence, but she's probably best known for being a world barrel racing champion. And not only is that extraordinary, but she did that after breaking her neck and having a 2% chance to even ever walk again. And she comes back and wins the, what is really

• 2:31Ed Mylett?

  the World Series of barrel racing. So I'm so excited for you guys to hear this story. So thank you for being here.

• 2:36Fallon Taylor?

  Thank you so much. I really am excited to be here.

• 2:38Ed Mylett?

  I know. We've had good conversation off camera.

• 2:40Fallon Taylor?

  I can be a part of the max out universe.

• 2:41Ed Mylett?

  You are in the universe now.

• 2:43Fallon Taylor?

  I am loving it.

• 2:43Ed Mylett?

  And you fit in it, by the way, because I put people, as you know, on the show who have sort of maxed out a part of their life. And everything about you is that way, from your marriage to your business ventures and ever since you were a little girl. So I want to start talking about that. I want to get to, as I told you, I want to get to the story, story, but I want everyone to know the backdrop too, because I'll bet you of anybody I've had on my show before, you will be one that impacts people maybe the most. And that's hard to say because I've had an incredible guest, but I think the main reason is, I think most of my audience, they probably recognize your face, but they may not know your story. And it's going to move them. And I love holding up powerful women too.

• 3:20Fallon Taylor?

  It's very cool to be able to, I think everybody has a story of loss or financial failure, or something physically that's gone really wrong. And it's just pretty cool because

• 3:31Fallon Taylor?

  while I think that, I think my parents think I'm pretty special, I'm just a chick with a horse. So it's really cool to be able to hopefully inspire somebody today and change their life.

• 3:39Ed Mylett?

  You're going to do that. And every, every extraordinary person that I interview doesn't know how extraordinary they are. But you are a lot more than a chick with a horse. And I'm going to prove that to you and them as I make you tell your own story. But you're amazing. And so one thing I noticed about you is how young you got into the sport, right? And this is a sport a lot of my audience probably isn't familiar with. So tell us about how you started out in the sport in the first place, how young you were and how you even got into it.

• 4:04Fallon Taylor?

  I have really cool parents and they had me very late in life. And my parents were really instrumental in just saying, you know, go for your dreams, do it, do it, do it. You can be the president, you could be an astronaut, you can do whatever you want. And so they had me really late in life. I'm 18 and 16 years younger than my siblings. And so, you know, I just kind of was raised like an only child and they helped me to explore absolutely everything. And I saw the Mesquite Championship Rodeo, which is just a rodeo that was televised at the time in our living room. And I said, I want to do that. I think I can, I think I can do that.

• 4:37Ed Mylett?

  Had you been on horses and stuff already?

• 4:39Fallon Taylor?

  I, there was a Cowboys and Indians Day at school, at the private school I went to in Tampa, Florida. And that was the, that was the extent of it. So my parents moved, actually had a manufacturing plant in Ponder, Texas, which is 432 people. There's nobody there. And it was the, its only claim to fame is the first bank that Bonnie and Clyde robbed. And so that's all that's there.

• 5:01Ed Mylett?

  That's pretty cool. Yeah.

• 5:02Fallon Taylor?

  So, um, they took me there, they bought me a horse and kind of the way that I do things is similar to how my parents do things. We went to watch the rodeo in person and my parents said, what does it take for her to be able to compete in this rodeo? Because this is what she thinks she wants to do. And they said, well, you need a horse and you need to turn pro. And he said, well, what does it take to turn pro? And, and they said, well, for your minor league card, you just buy it. And so, so they bought it. So I was turned pro the next day.

• 5:29Ed Mylett?

  How old were you?

• 5:30Fallon Taylor?

  Seven.

• 5:31Ed Mylett?

  Oh my gosh. Okay.

• 5:33Fallon Taylor?

  So I didn't know anything. We didn't know which end of the horse to feed at this point.

• 5:36Ed Mylett?

  Are you seriously?

• 5:38Fallon Taylor?

  Seriously. So they got me a mentor and they got me a horse and I turned pro and here we go. And I'm going to enter the Mesquite Championship Rodeo. And it was just very cool. My goal, my parents always wanted me to have a goal in mind and my goal was to be the youngest person to ever qualify for the national finals rodeo. So you've got to be top 15 in the world to qualify for our Super Bowl or our World Series. And the youngest person at that point was 13. And so I ended up making it to the national finals rodeo at 13, just a few months shy. So I think we're like tied.

• 6:12Ed Mylett?

  That's amazing.

• 6:13Fallon Taylor?

  But that was my big goal. So I won my major league card at nine by winning a rodeo. And then here we go.

• 6:20Ed Mylett?

  Were you good at first? Like you've never, you didn't know which end of the horse to feed. So like right when you started, did you have a natural giftedness for this?

• 6:26Fallon Taylor?

  I really did have a natural ability to it. I think that when I hear the term ignorance is bliss, I embody that so much because I, I really just went, I, that's the thing I'm going to do. So let's go do that thing. And I'm a bit of a cliff diver and I've been that way, you know, from a very young age. And so I was like, let's do that.

• 6:45Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 6:46Fallon Taylor?

  So I just did that.

• 6:47Ed Mylett?

  Let's see, that's, it's a common trait. It's funny, everybody, you know, that's either listening or watching this. It keeps coming up on my show, and I'll, by the way, a lot more lately, where the people that I'm interviewing have become world-class. It's something they knew literally nothing about.

• 6:59Fallon Taylor?

  That's interesting.

• 7:00Ed Mylett?

  It is, and I think it's this, some people develop the belief that they don't have to know everything to start. And I think that's one of the things that holds back so many of my guests, or my, excuse me, not my guests, so many of the people watch my show, that they keep waiting around until this perfect moment to try.

• 7:14Fallon Taylor?

  The ducks never get in a row.

• 7:16Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 7:16Fallon Taylor?

  They never, you were always living in some sort of chaos. I, I feel like, and there's some beautiful things that can come out of that, but the ducks never get in a row.

• 7:23Ed Mylett?

  Did you, and, so you get to the top fifteen, I totally agree with you. You get to the top fifteen, you're thirteen. Was this one of these things like there was a lot of pressure on you all the time as a kid? Or did you just have fun and your parents were like, hey, if you don't want to do it anymore, you're out?

• 7:34Fallon Taylor?

  They said at any moment you want to quit, be done. My parents were so, so amazing to me. So I never felt any pressure. Um, you know, a big thing was there was no social media. So I probably didn't hear all of the things that, you know, backlash that you may get now if you were doing the same thing, but I never really received any of that and, and, you know, I wasn't necessarily one of the cool kids. So I always was somebody that was kind of on the outskirts of things. You know, I had, I had adults try to mess with me before competition. Because we were on the same level, you know, the association tried to develop a rule against me so that I wouldn't be able to compete. So there's a lot of things that, you know, I just kind of went, okay, well, I guess we'll try this other thing, or I guess we'll just go a little harder in this direction.

• 8:17Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, you remind me almost, I just interviewed my really good friend, Sean White. And now that I'm hearing the story, you're almost like the Sean White of barrel racing because it was so young, like he turned pro at seven years old. Right? And he was competitive at the same age, but his, this is such a great lesson for the parents. Main thing he pointed out to me was all the things his parents sacrificed, like yours did for you. But also that they, they did remind him, hey, if you don't want to do this anymore, you don't have to.

• 8:39Fallon Taylor?

  Just be done. Yeah. They never wanted me to regret anything and they always told me, try everything, do it, you know, go, go leave and do whatever it is that you want and explore. And I thought that was really, really cool.

• 8:50Ed Mylett?

  So for my, I do too, to remind people that, that the people watching this that don't know the sport. When you say you turned pro at thirteen, because you just said adults, I just want to make sure I'm picturing this. So as a thirteen or say fourteen-year-old girl, you were, would you compete at that time against people just your own age, or were you competing against adults at that age?

• 9:05Fallon Taylor?

  So the, the, the... Age that everybody is on average, when you're at that level, is thirty-five and above.

• 9:12Ed Mylett?

  Oh my gosh.

• 9:14Fallon Taylor?

  Even at seven, you know, it's still, I'm competing against, you know, thirty-five and above. That's about the average.

• 9:20Ed Mylett?

  Are you kidding me?

• 9:20Fallon Taylor?

  There's younger people and now, you know, people turn pro a lot younger. The rule now is in place that you have to be eighteen before you can turn pro.

• 9:27Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 9:28Fallon Taylor?

  Sorry.

• 9:29Ed Mylett?

  So you're gonna hold that record for a long time?

• 9:31Fallon Taylor?

  Absolutely. So, that's the rule and, um, so now you're seeing eighteen-year-olds kind of go after and pursue some things. I'm hoping that the doors that I busted down,

• 9:38Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 9:39Fallon Taylor?

  other people are able to walk through now in that sport.

• 9:41Ed Mylett?

  Are you, um, that's incredible. I'm just processing picturing this fourteen-year-old girl competing against a thirty-seven-year-old woman or something in the same category. That blows my mind. So you compete, you get, you're, you become a very well-known figure in that sport for a long time. And then there becomes this point, I think, where you're just sort of didn't, you, did you burn out? Did you?

• 10:00Fallon Taylor?

  I, I just kind of think that I was, I was pretty good. You know, and I, I saw some interviews of me at fourteen years old where I was like, "I wanna win the world title, I wanna win, win the world title." And when I got reasonably good, I think that success to me, I thought would bring something else. I think for me, I thought success was going to make all my other problems go away, or I was gonna be one of the cool kids. Or people would be more accepting of me being not like everyone else. Or I would, I would start to feel certain things, or all my money problems would be gone, or all these other things would be gone once I reached a level of success. And once you get halfway there, you realize, okay, this isn't what I thought it was going to be.

• 10:42Ed Mylett?

  Whoa.

• 10:42Fallon Taylor?

  And so for me, then my parents, with my journey, they, they were like, "Whatever it is that you wanna do." So I was like, "Well, I've got this, this model scout that told me I could go be a model in New York." So I get on a plane. I, seventeen, I moved to New York. And then, you know, nineteen, I moved to LA. And I just kind of jumping all over the place, and I always came back to horses.

• 11:02Ed Mylett?

  Always came back. So that's an interesting theme, though. I wanna talk about that just for a second, 'cause I didn't know we were gonna go there. I'm glad you said it. I think a lot of people think, "Hey, if I can just get this house,"

• 11:11Fallon Taylor?

  Right.

• 11:12Ed Mylett?

  "or I can get this part of my career, I can get this promotion, I can get this relationship." All the other things I don't feel good about in my life are gonna miraculously go away.

• 11:19Fallon Taylor?

  I love my body. I'll have great finances. I'll drive the right car. And when you are, I think, an outsider of something, or a game changer in something, or you're revolutionary in something, you're not meant to be like everyone else. And I think that there's extraordinary people. Everywhere, everywhere, you know, I think that there's light within every single person. They've got some extraordinary feature that you can emphasize and they can come out of them. And I, I know that because I've walked all these various different little careers that I was like, I'm gonna dabble in that, see what that's like. And you can have such amazing things happen in those places and never get the results that you really thought you wanted, until you're in the space that you're actually meant to be in.

• 12:02Ed Mylett?

  Oh my gosh, I've had a lot of people sitting here, no one's ever said that to me before. Can I, I just wanna repeat this, cuz if someone's driving, they just missed the brilliant thing you just said. But like, you're not supposed to be like everybody else.

• 12:14Fallon Taylor?

  Right.

• 12:15Ed Mylett?

  Like, the fact that you are different, or you are on the outside, or you do feel insecure. I wish someone would've told me that, like, seriously.

• 12:22Fallon Taylor?

  Me too.

• 12:22Ed Mylett?

  No one, no one's ever said that here either, like, hey, you're not supposed to be like everybody. The fact that maybe they do ridicule you, or you do feel different, is the special in you.

• 12:31Fallon Taylor?

  That's your sauce, that's the sauce, that's the sauce.

• 12:35Ed Mylett?

  Oh my god.

• 12:35Fallon Taylor?

  The part of you that is like, I don't want anybody to know the skeleton. I don't want anybody to know that while I'm going down the alleyway, about to make a run in front of thousands of people, that I feel like I don't know what I'm doing. I don't want anybody to know that. If I just tell the world, I have no clue what it is that I'm doing, and I still think that I can do something really dynamic here, then that's the coolest part.

• 12:57Ed Mylett?

  I wanna just make a plug of what you just did there too, like, that's why I love your social media. It's one of the things, like, once I found out who you were, and then I went to sort of explore your message and what you do, and I say this as a friend, your husband's sitting right over here to my right, so, and my wife's a fan of yours too. I fell in love with you, I'm like, I love her vulnerability. I love the fact that even with her fans, the way she's engage, you engage, you just tell the truth about how you really feel. And that's why I want you all following her on Instagram and on our YouTube channel, which we'll talk about at the end too. But, like, that's what makes you special. What's it feel like, I'm just curious, give us the feeling, cuz you said you're in the arena, it's like, you know, gladiator times or whatever. Right before you go, like, what is that like, are you nervous, are you like, I'm gonna blow this, I'm, what, what's the, do you have a routine, like, what happens?

• 13:40Fallon Taylor?

  I have so many routines, so, one of them is visualization. And I always, before I run, envision, and this may seem silly, what I'm gonna post on Instagram about my win.

• 13:50Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 13:50Fallon Taylor?

  Or what, what I'm going to call home and tell mom and dad. What is it that I'm gonna do to celebrate this victory? And then I also tell myself, why not me? Why not me? Because I get in the back and I look around at the fresh faces. You know, there's always new people that are, you know, they're on the come up, they're on the rise and they're, they're the new hot thing. And I watch them and they're on a winning streak and they're doing everything amazing and I walk around and I think, man, you know, I've gotten busy with life. I'm not training 20 hours a day like I used to or 10 hours a day. And I look around at my competitors and of course I do the human thing. I look around and I go, that one can eat me and that one can eat me and that one can eat me. I'm so scared and I'm gonna die and that one can eat me. And then I go for a second, I'm like, whoo, okay, why not me?

• 14:35Fallon Taylor?

  You know, I'm a million dollar barrel racer. I've broken my neck, I learned to walk again. They've never done anything like that. Why not me? And I go through all the reasons why it should be me that could be the winner. And then I want to determine what would success actually mean to me? What is it? Because is it winning every single time? Because that's unrealistic and perfection is so lazy.

• 14:54Ed Mylett?

  Yes.

• 14:55Fallon Taylor?

  Perfect run every time is so, that's such a lazy aspiration that would never, never, never get us to anywhere. So what about, you know, making a really clean, solid run? Or what about placing? Or what about breaking the arena record? Whatever that victory is to me, I want to live up to my own standards and not to the standards that someone else has laid in place because you can get so easily disappointed.

• 15:16Ed Mylett?

  Oh my gosh. This is so good. Like, like, I don't normally react like that, but like, like, um, this is why I think you, you know, everybody, you're gonna be able to get access to her through her social media for her to come speak or do events with her too. Like, this is why I think you're like gonna be one of the most phenomenal speakers too.

• 15:31Fallon Taylor?

  Thank you.

• 15:32Ed Mylett?

  But I want to go back and repeat something because there's, I'm learning things when I do my show. Because it's funny, like, I'm paid to coach athletes or to coach

• 15:39Fallon Taylor?

  Right.

• 15:40Ed Mylett?

  successful people. And, but I'm learning and so I just want to say, tell you something you said there that isn't shocking to me when you said, it sounds crazy, but I think about what my post on Instagram is gonna look like.

• 15:50Fallon Taylor?

  Right.

• 15:50Ed Mylett?

  It's interesting, Shaun White also, who everyone's seen that interview now, he said, he goes, it's funny, but I actually picture the celebration.

• 15:57Fallon Taylor?

  Yes.

• 15:58Ed Mylett?

  I picture what I'm wearing in the awards ceremony. I picture all these things. And I did that too in my sport and I do it in business as well. This is a huge key for everybody when people say, hey, you need to visualize. It's not just visualizing the execution of whatever it is you think you need to do.

• 16:12Fallon Taylor?

  Right.

• 16:13Ed Mylett?

  It's visualizing the celebration repeatedly over and over too.

• 16:16Fallon Taylor?

  Isn't there, I mean, you do this.

• 16:17Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 16:18Fallon Taylor?

  Isn't there a chemical reaction that we have when the body experiences the same butterflies of?

• 16:22Ed Mylett?

  Yes.

• 16:23Fallon Taylor?

  Experiencing the celebration, right?

• 16:25Ed Mylett?

  Yes.

• 16:25Fallon Taylor?

  And so I read a lot, I'm a nerd.

• 16:27Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, yes, you're exactly right.

• 16:28Fallon Taylor?

  Figured that out.

• 16:29Ed Mylett?

  And what happens too is that your body seeks to come back to its home base. And so the more you do visualize it, I also talked about this with people too. Your brain moves towards that which it's most familiar with. So if you're feeding to yourself this repeated image of the celebration, your brain and your body want to work in coherence to help you repeat that thing they're familiar with. So it's huge that you just said that. And it's one of the reasons the show's so amazing for me, because it's a chance to actually get in the mind of like someone who's world-class, maxing out at something, and what do they really think about? And it's not always just visualizing the run.

• 17:03Fallon Taylor?

  Right.

• 17:03Ed Mylett?

  It's visualizing the celebration. That's just, it's incredible.

• 17:05Fallon Taylor?

  Because you're always gonna have the moment where you feel like you shouldn't be there. You're always gonna be in presence of someone that you feel like is better than you at something, or that they can accomplish more than you can accomplish. And there's every reason in the world for a woman to feel insecure in this day and age. We've created that, you know, online and through social media. So of course, that's the first go-to that you have. And then if you can just train yourself, the second thing is, okay, all of that aside, why not me? And why not that moment? If I can draw this picture that's so terrifying, why can't I draw a celebratory picture too?

• 17:38Ed Mylett?

  Oh boy, this is so good. Okay. So guys, now here we go. Just so you know, if you're driving the car, you need to grip your steering wheel a little bit tighter, because this is about to get really good, like really hugely inspiring. If you're on the treadmill at the gym, you're about to go from level 7 to level 10, like that. And if you're watching YouTube, this is the part where you bring your kids in the room and you say, "Watch this," okay? So, so tell them what happens. You're starting to make your comeback. Guys, this is one of the most amazing stories you're going to hear. So you're making your comeback, and what happens?

• 18:11Fallon Taylor?

  Well, I'd like to tell you my mantra, it's gonna get rocky. And I'm gonna tell you the mantra that my dad told me the whole time throughout my entire career, and me being very risky was, "Whatever you do, don't end up in a hospital, because you'll die in there." And, you know, it just kind of rang in my head because I was riding dangerous horses and I was doing a lot of training and then I started training around the clock because of the weather and I needed my bills paid and I'm riding, riding, riding and taking chances that I shouldn't have had to take, you know, just because I was not understanding my growth and I wasn't understanding my contribution and so I was training really late at night in August in 2009 and I'm riding this horse that's fine, everything's fine, we're training, everything's normal, my poor staff member was there with her boyfriend

• 18:55Fallon Taylor?

  and it's just us lonely at night, lights on in the arena and I'm gonna train this horse and as I was taking off around the arena, this horse slipped kind of in a mud puddle and it was not a big deal, you know, whatever, he slips and he was feeling frisky and you kind of know that when a horse behaves a certain way, he's feeling a little frisky, I should have known better, I should have taken more precautions, I didn't, it's what I do for a living, what's the big deal? And I start laughing, I start giggling and this horse starts to buck and when I say buck, you know, horses can play and buck and they can crow hop and buck, this horse did something that's like a wild instinct, so he reared up, when he did, he broke all the bones on this side of my face and when he came down to the ground, I'm still laughing, I'm like,

• 19:40Fallon Taylor?

  okay, whatever and you know, in the cowboy industry, it's you gotta be tough, you know? And so I start to pull this horse up and as I do, he hits me in the head again and I skull fracture in four places, of course I don't know this and of course I'm not wearing a helmet because that's just not the cool, tough thing to do. And he begins to buck a little bit more and I just decide that I'm gonna pick a place off over here to jump off, which is a terrible idea, but I picked a place to kind of jump off and when I did, he kicked my feet about 13 or 14 feet in the air and I landed straight down on my head, my legs just kind of flopped over and I was unable to move, I was paralyzed right in that moment and what a tough place to be in, you know, because I was in this

• 20:25Fallon Taylor?

  horrible relationship and in a spot where I'm like, who's gonna save me? You know, so all I have is my career, if I get hurt, I can't make a living, how am I gonna take care of myself, I'm in this horrible place, how am I gonna get up? I gotta get up. And so...

• 20:47Fallon Taylor?

  My friend came over, I was strapped down to a picnic table because I was too cheap to ride in an ambulance. So I get taken in a pickup truck on a, on a, in a pickup truck on a picnic table to the hospital. And I get there and I start joking with the, the staff because it's just my way. And the lady in the front desk, um, my friend went in and asked for a gurney. And she said, "You don't need a gurney, that girl's out there telling jokes, quit being so dramatic." So, my friend that was a, a paramedic, they take me in. And they finally get me a gurney. I could have, I could have walked, I think, I think I could have. But when I got through the MRI machine and, and joking with the, um, the doctor that was helping me.

• 21:30Fallon Taylor?

  I kept telling him, you know, "Hooters closes in 15 minutes and we're really close now, like, let's go get some food. Tell me I have a concussion, let's get out of here." And he came back in the room, he said, "You have a 2% chance to live." And he said, "It's really been touching to get to know you." But he said, "The plane's running and you have 13 minute flight to think about your life. And I hope that you really take that time to think about what you're gonna do now. Because you're never gonna ride horses again." And, I'll never forget getting, I'll never, I don't know why I remember the guys' names. There were two guys named Russell that carried me to the plane. And had me on this, you know, in the C collar and strapped to the table and I get to-

• 22:12Ed Mylett?

  Can someone get me some tissue, please? Someone grab one, thank you.

• 22:15Fallon Taylor?

  Um, I get to the hospital room and there, there's a whole nother story, um, in the hospital. But I was told again, "I have 2% chance to live, that I would never walk again." The neurosurgeon told me I was an absolute idiot for riding horses.

• 22:32Fallon Taylor?

  Thank you. They don't stop, they come down and it's over.

• 22:35Ed Mylett?

  Beautiful.

• 22:37Fallon Taylor?

  So, I had, I had a second to think.

• 22:42Fallon Taylor?

  And all I could think of was my dad telling me, you know, you're gonna die in a hospital. You can't, don't die in a hospital. And I'm like, this is crazy superstition that you're gonna die in a hospital. And I wake up the next day heavily drugged, obviously with a halo on. I had a girlfriend in the hospital tell me, they're gonna offer you two scenarios. You can get the surgery with the box in your neck, or you can get the halo, they're gonna shave your head. You're gonna have holes in your head. She said, go that way. I've seen this go a bunch of different ways. So when the doctor came in, I started bawling and I was like, I want the halo. You know, all I can think of is this cage on my head. I want the halo. At this point, I've called my mom and dad and told them that I was in a fender bender.

• 23:25Fallon Taylor?

  Because they're with their grandkids in California. I'm like, I'm in a fender bender, everything's fine. It's all fine, it's gonna be fine. And I've gotta figure out a way to get out of this hospital. So I get these nurses that come in and I say, hey, how can I get out of here? Because now I've got this real embedded childhood fear that I'm gonna die in a hospital. And I've got a damn good chance at this point with the situation I'm in.

• 23:45Speaker 01

  It's actually true.

• 23:46Fallon Taylor?

  I could die in here. So shout out to all the amazing medical professionals because it's just my own superstition. They did an amazing job.

• 23:56Fallon Taylor?

  One came in, I said, I need to get out of here. And she laughed at me and she said, well, you know, when you can walk from one end of the hall to the other, then they'll let you out.

• 24:05Fallon Taylor?

  But you're not gonna do that. You've got a long time. You need to settle in. You've got about six months you're gonna be here. So the next nurse came in and she said, she laughed at me and she goes, you know, she's writing, oh, you've got six months. You know, you just like settle in. And then the next lady came in really late on shift and she was amazing. And if I could find her, I would give her everything I've got. She came in and I said, how do I get out of here? I gotta get out of here. I really gotta get out of here. And she said, well, you walk to the end of the hall and you come back, you can get out. And I said, well, let's do that. How do we do that?

• 24:40Fallon Taylor?

  She said, well. You you gotta get up and the the big risk is, you know, if and when you fall down, you know, you can wiggle your fingers and toes and that's good. But when you get up, it's not gonna feel like you thought it was and you got all this equipment on your head. You're gonna hit the ground and then you could die. And I was like, well, they've given me terrible odds at this point, so what the hell? And it was just very cool, this lady, that moment, I she has no idea what she did for me because she's just like, just, well, you know, I'm willing to try it. So she takes the belt and she ties it to the ceiling. And I get up and I fall down, just like she said I would. And then she said, if you just put one foot in front of the other, you know, you can get down to the end of the hall and it could take you months, but we're gonna try it.

• 25:23Ed Mylett?

  Wow.

• 25:23Fallon Taylor?

  It took me about an hour and a half. And um, I got up and down at the end of the hall. And I took all the people that that didn't believe me, you know, the lady at the front desk and the nurses that came in. And I said, tomorrow I'm gonna deliver flowers to each and every one of you guys because you didn't believe. And maybe I can change your mind because other people are gonna come in here.

• 25:43Ed Mylett?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 25:43Fallon Taylor?

  And they need to know they can walk. And so the next day, I gathered up all my strength. Mom, at this point, knows that I've had, I've been structurally destroyed, is what I was told. She got called from actually a newspaper outlet that was interviewing for um, rodeo publication that had leaked my medical records. So my parents found out in that way. So now I've got to do damage control and learn to walk. And I told mom, I said, we gotta go to the florist. I made him a promise. And so it was a really cool scene to watch all of these people that just didn't believe. Instead of me being angry at these people that didn't believe in my journey, to just shine a light on it and show them a different way.

• 26:26Fallon Taylor?

  So I went and got floral arrangements for every single person that told me I couldn't do it. And I walked in there and I walked to each of their offices. And I I I think, hopefully, I gave them a gift that they can always have.

• 26:38Ed Mylett?

  You're amazing.

• 26:40Fallon Taylor?

  That they, you might not believe how I'm gonna do it. Um, but it gave me a lot of clarity, too. Sometimes you're just not asking the right person. You know?

• 26:50Ed Mylett?

  I you wow.

• 26:53Ed Mylett?

  I think, uh, I think everybody should just literally go back and listen to all of this again.

• 26:58Fallon Taylor?

  Thank you.

• 26:58Ed Mylett?

  You make this, honestly, I'm gonna tell you something, this is like such a blessing to be here with you.

• 27:02Fallon Taylor?

  Thank you.

• 27:03Ed Mylett?

  It's a blessing to be here with you, thank you. I'm, I'm really moved right now.

• 27:07Fallon Taylor?

  Thank you.

• 27:08Ed Mylett?

  And I'm trying to not get too moved, so that I can still ask you questions, but...

• 27:12Fallon Taylor?

  It has a happy ending.

• 27:13Ed Mylett?

  I know.

• 27:14Fallon Taylor?

  It's such a happy ending.

• 27:16Ed Mylett?

  But it's a, I know, we're gonna go to there, but it's a happy ending because of everything you just said. That, there's, there's so many things in there, that we all have these people who don't believe in us and we're scared and...

• 27:28Fallon Taylor?

  And they're scared too. They're scared to tell me I can walk down the hall, cuz they know I can't. They're scared too.

• 27:34Ed Mylett?

  And maybe that's true for so many people, where you have these people in your life that are close to you, that are, are maybe pulling you down. Maybe they're just scared for you. Maybe they're scared for them that you're gonna leave them too, right?

• 27:43Fallon Taylor?

  Absolutely.

• 27:44Ed Mylett?

  And everything that you have, and I, I just wanna acknowledge you, like, you're freaking amazing. Like, you're amazing. And, um, I just, now, just to be clear with everybody, this break was very serious, very similar to Christopher Reeve, right? And, I mean, not all that dissimilar injury, correct?

• 28:02Fallon Taylor?

  It's not, it's the same injury.

• 28:03Ed Mylett?

  Same injury.

• 28:04Fallon Taylor?

  So, when you break your C2, that's what controls your head going left or right. And you have a very, very, very small chance of making it out on the other side. With a lot of neck breaks, this would be the, the one that you really don't want, you know, to happen.

• 28:19Ed Mylett?

  Unbelievable. I'm picturing you there. I mean, you tell the story so well, I can actually picture you. And, um, so proud of you. I mean, you're just, you're just remarkable. And, um, everybody that just heard this, I told them they were gonna be moved, but I didn't even know until you told it in front of me, how much it would move me. It puts in perspective so many things that I think are big obstacles in my life that really aren't.

• 28:40Fallon Taylor?

  Sure.

• 28:41Ed Mylett?

  And so many things that I think are a really big deal. And they're not. And that is a big deal.

• 28:46Fallon Taylor?

  You wake up and wiggle your fingers and your toes tomorrow, you're gonna be like, "Oh, okay."

• 28:49Ed Mylett?

  My gosh.

• 28:51Fallon Taylor?

  We're all okay.

• 28:52Ed Mylett?

  Just amazing. And so now, it gets actually more amazing now.

• 28:56Fallon Taylor?

  Thank you, yes.

• 28:57Ed Mylett?

  You go through the process of rebuilding yourself. And then you make the crazy decision, it would seem to me, to actually get back on a horse again, right? So what was that like? And what was the first time like, if you don't mind sharing that as well?

• 29:12Fallon Taylor?

  It was horrible, and I would love to share it. I was like Ricky Bobby in the race car. "I'm killing it!" And then you look over and people are like, "Yeah, you're doing really great, sweetie. You're walking. This is great." And so I thought, you know, learning to walk again is a pretty big hurdle. It's pretty tough.

• 29:31Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 29:32Fallon Taylor?

  And then learning to ride again, and you get over the path that, okay, I'm gonna do this again. And the neurosurgeon's telling me I shouldn't do this again.

• 29:39Ed Mylett?

  Sure.

• 29:40Fallon Taylor?

  Okay, now I'm gonna wear some helmets. I'm gonna wear a helmet, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna actually do this thing the right way. And then I started thinking about, I wonder if other people have had these things, and I start to read everybody's story, and I start to wonder if the human mind can comprehend getting up and walking out of a hospital when you've been told a 2% chance. Maybe I can go back to 14-year-old me that wanted a world title? And let's do this thing. And let's actually give it a shot. And I thought, if I can have a goal big enough that makes my future look brighter than my past, then that will keep me hooked towards something that I want so badly. You know, because we're all gonna lose, and you're gonna suck, and you're gonna go broke doing it, and you're gonna have people that don't want you to do it,

• 30:25Fallon Taylor?

  and you're gonna fail ultimately, and keep getting up and dust off and fail. But if the thing is so bright that you have to walk toward it, you'll stay hooked. And I stayed hooked and had a horse in my front pasture, just a small, brief rundown. I had a horse in my front pasture that the trainer told me nobody could ride. And I thought, well, that would be pretty cool. I'm gonna go get that one.

• 30:48Ed Mylett?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 30:49Fallon Taylor?

  So I got that horse that was raised on my place. And I actually, her mom and dad was the horses I went to the national finals on when I was a kid. And I was like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna ride this thing. And I trained her, and within a year, we were already fighting for... Another, another chance back to the National Finals Rodeo.

• 31:09Ed Mylett?

  What?

• 31:10Fallon Taylor?

  Which is just unheard of and she's just been.

• 31:13Ed Mylett?

  Is this Baby Flow?

• 31:13Fallon Taylor?

  This is Baby Flow.

• 31:14Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 31:15Fallon Taylor?

  So that was a really cool part of my journey and then I hit another road bump, just what I think everybody does. Um, I qualified for the National Finals Rodeo in 2013. And here I am, I'm ready to go and I'm gonna show the world and I go in and I was terrible. On TV, 10 days in a row, it was just the worst ever. And I thought, well, there went the walking miracle thing, like now they're just like, she's a walking miracle that doesn't ride very good.

• 31:41Ed Mylett?

  Oh my gosh.

• 31:42Fallon Taylor?

  Here we go.

• 31:42Ed Mylett?

  Okay, it's a pretty big walking miracle to be there, but I understand what a letdown.

• 31:47Fallon Taylor?

  Here I go, cause I've got this career and you know, people have known that I've already been and here's my comeback 20 years later, 25 years later, whatever it is and boom, and I'm terrible. At this, on this big platform and, and I thought, man, I've gotta do this better, so.

• 32:02Ed Mylett?

  Was that what you were thinking, Stater? So at the time, but were you super depressed, super bummed out for a while? I just wanted to have people understand what that's like.

• 32:10Fallon Taylor?

  The season, the season ends September 30th, or is it September 31st? September, end of September, okay? October 1st, it, it begins. So you have a 24 hour span to be really depressed or get it together. And it was in that moment, I was like, okay, I've gotta do this again. I gotta do this again. And um, I wanna show my parents what my horse can do. And if I just put that, that is my big light at the end of the tunnel, maybe I put that in front of the world title. Maybe I just scale it back. Maybe I just do this one thing of just, I wanna show my face on TV again, running my horse as this person with this cool comeback story and I wanna make a difference and I wanna show that.

• 32:54Fallon Taylor?

  Nobody show me stats, nobody show me numbers, nobody talk about anything, I qualified back third in the world. The girl that was winning it was a sure thing.

• 33:02Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 33:03Fallon Taylor?

  Second place was the sure thing. Third place was the girl that blows it on TV. But let's all feel sorry for her, you know, because of the neck thing. So I come back and and I decided that I'm gonna put my head down and I don't want to talk about anything but just focusing on one foot in front of the other, just like I did before. Because that's been my formula.

• 33:23Ed Mylett?

  Literally like learning to walk again.

• 33:24Fallon Taylor?

  Literally, one foot in front of the other. So I get on my horse, round one comes. I've never won a round at the national finals rodeo at this point. I've made like 50 runs in that arena, never won. I've placed, done well.

• 33:36Ed Mylett?

  Before breaking your neck.

• 33:36Fallon Taylor?

  Before breaking my neck, done good.

• 33:38Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 33:39Fallon Taylor?

  My 51st run, I win it. I told all my staff, all my friends, everybody, I said, let's go home, wrap it up. I don't want to make the other nine runs. Done, victory, let's go.

• 33:48Ed Mylett?

  Amazing, yeah.

• 33:49Fallon Taylor?

  So then I thought, well, if we just keep doing this one foot in front of the other thing, let's just keep doing that. So run by run, the sure thing girl just starts slipping down the pack. Boom, boom, boom. And then here I am, and of course, you know, there's people that love you and hate you in sports. So I'm getting, you know, people that think I'm ridiculous and people that think that I'm great and, you know, whatever, it's polarizing, it's fun for the fans. But the sure thing, second place girl, she's really a sure thing. And she just starts going and she's doing great, I'm doing great. And I look up to her so much, so, you know, it's cool for us to be kind of in this battle. And something I've never said before, I think on any of my social media is that

• 34:30Fallon Taylor?

  the 10th round that would determine the champion, she came up to me and she shook my hand and she said, well, you've done really great and I'm just super excited for you. And I thought, I just won the world title. Because I realized that she hadn't celebrated yet. And I already had. And in my mind, I had my outfit picked out and I was gonna be wearing gold because the gold buckle and I was gonna be the gold title holder and I would have this gold. And I I knew that when I walked in, I would jump up and down and I would have this gold buckle in my hand and I was like, wow. If I just don't mess this up, this is gonna, this is gonna work. And I went in, she made a beautiful run, it was great. And they swung the gate open for me to go and my dad's standing right beside me and I was like,

• 35:16Fallon Taylor?

  man, this would be a really bad time to screw this up, wouldn't it? Just put one foot in front of the other, don't try anything fancy. And I think that's been something that I've held with me so long that's so effective. Go in and I made my run and I come out and I look at the board and I'm the winner. I'm the winner and of course I lose it and I'm losing it. And the cameras are coming and the, you know, ESPN's here and CBS is here and all of them are coming around. And I look at my dad and he was like, you just, you just won the world. And I was like, I'm gonna go jump on that stage, just like I did in my head really quick. And it was so cool and they, you know, whisked me off and here I go down into the bottom and, and just a funny, funny story is the security guard said, you didn't win it. They made a mistake.

• 35:59Fallon Taylor?

  It's someone else and I was like, someone needs to give me a bucket because I am for sure gonna vomit right now. And they came back and said, it's amazing, um, we actually give the victory lap to the person that wins the average and you didn't win the average, but you won the world. And it's such a cool thing because in my mind, I was shooting for the average. And I wanted to win this, you know, the aggregate. I wanted to be the most consistent person because that's what everybody told me I couldn't be. And I ended up with the world title. So yeah, you don't always get what you want. Sometimes you get something so much cooler.

• 36:29Ed Mylett?

  So much better. It's gotta be, I mean, listen, first it should be a movie.

• 36:34Fallon Taylor?

  Thank you.

• 36:34Ed Mylett?

  I mean, for sure. And all of my producer friends that are watching this like, hello, about to give you your Instagram in a minute. It should be a movie. It's an unfreaking believable story. Like, like even hearing it now, look at me, like I'm just, it's so remarkable what you've achieved. And, and, and still continue to achieve too, but I just gotta tell you like, just so you know, I've had a, just for me, like this is such a gift for me. Like I, I do shows and I love doing them, but today is a gift for me. Like you're remarkable, you inspire me, the story, the way you tell it.

• 37:06Fallon Taylor?

  I can't wait for this to go to your audience and people to see it. Because I know somebody is struggling.

• 37:11Ed Mylett?

  Well, of course they are. And like, you embody. See, some people, like, I talk about these things. That's great. You embody it. You've lived it. You are it. Like, it's your evidence of it. Like, you're living proof that the things you teach and talk about are real.

• 37:28Fallon Taylor?

  Right.

• 37:28Ed Mylett?

  Like, there's someone right next to me right now who's living proof that you can accomplish anything. That you were washed up in your mind. You were a has-been. It was over.

• 37:36Fallon Taylor?

  So many things I believed about myself that I hear people go, "I'm too old." And I go, "Well, how old are you?" "21." And I'm like, "What is wrong with the world?" Like, no, you're fine. I don't think anybody at 95 is too old to do something really cool with their life.

• 37:51Ed Mylett?

  Do you struggle? Let's go through some things about you. Like, it's hard to move off that, just to be honest with you. Like, I'm actually right on the verge right here. I'm trying to not do what you're doing, so...

• 38:03Fallon Taylor?

  I'm waterworks, so I can keep us going all day.

• 38:06Ed Mylett?

  One of us have to not be, right? It should be my turn, by the way. I should be allowed to. On the inside, I certainly am. My audience knows me well enough, too. By the way, I must tell you that it's remarkable to me the way that you just articulate it, too. It's so beautiful. But you, though. Let's talk about you for a minute, because I think men can relate to what you're gonna talk about here in a minute, too. But really, women can, too. You strike me, as I've gotten to know you a little bit, that you still do struggle with some of these things. Whether it be your... Maybe even... Which is amazing, but even some of your own confidence even to this day. Is that true? And how... Tell them a little bit about that part of you still and how you navigate through it.

• 38:47Fallon Taylor?

  Confidence is something that I think everyone, when you walk into a space, you can feel somebody really confident coming out of that space. And when I help people, whether it be with horses or with anything that I help with, the first thing that I find is that they believe something that's so wildly untrue about themselves and it's so deeply ingrained in themselves that... They just, they can't get away from that belief of themself. And for mine, it was, "I'm too old to make a comeback," or "I'm too injured to get to the gym," or, you know, "I've already accomplished all that I can accomplish anyway." Or, for me, it's like, "Oh, I always need to have a six-pack and be in perfect professional athletic shape." And what's so untrue about that is, how many people would love to have my body type? How many people would love to be in my position?

• 39:32Fallon Taylor?

  How many people, if dealt my hand, could play it so much better? How many people, you know, if you just take a look around at people that I'm able to help, you know, I've helped people that weren't even able to leave their home, that just need inspiration to be able to, they were, you know, in such a place with their obesity that they're not able to even stand up. How do you tell that person that you don't feel great about your body? How do you tell that person that you're not able to take advantage of all the opportunities in your life? There's always somebody in your position. There's people that I've met without limbs that are doing more than I've been able to accomplish. So, in your position, what are those things that have tied you to that thought? That have kept you from where you're going? It's like the elephant tied to the chair, you know?

• 40:17Fallon Taylor?

  Otherwise, the elephant can just walk away.

• 40:19Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, and he's so used to believing he can't, he stays right there.

• 40:24Fallon Taylor?

  Right.

• 40:24Ed Mylett?

  You, um, you, talk a little bit about some of the things you've transitioned. So then that happens.

• 40:29Fallon Taylor?

  Right.

• 40:30Ed Mylett?

  And then, what I think's remarkable about you, and I bet maybe this has happened, but then it's gotta be, now you gotta find the next identity.

• 40:36Fallon Taylor?

  Right.

• 40:37Ed Mylett?

  Right? It's like you get to different levels in life, and that could be, someone could be listening, say that what I, "My dream was always to become a mother." Let's say, just pick something. And I've become a mother, and I'm a world-class mother. And it's the most fulfilling thing you'll ever do. Or maybe it's a business you wanted to start, and now you've got that business. But all of us need to be searching for that next identity, that next thing we're chasing. Life is about the chase, to an extent, right?

• 40:58Fallon Taylor?

  It's always growth and contribution, growth and contribution. If I can continue to grow, then I can continue to contribute. And that's where the real fulfillment comes from. Because if I go see my name in lights and I win the world title, well, guess what, at midnight that night... Pro rodeo was on a search for a new world champion. After that, and I woke up that next morning after I won the world like, "Okay, well now you've caught the tiger. You caught the bear."

• 41:23Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 41:23Fallon Taylor?

  Now what do you do?

• 41:24Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 41:24Fallon Taylor?

  And I went into a horribly dark depressive state.

• 41:27Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 41:28Fallon Taylor?

  Horrible. And then I started to research athletes. And I saw this cycle.

• 41:32Ed Mylett?

  Right.

• 41:33Fallon Taylor?

  Of they've won, you know, you see people that have won amazing things and then they just, you know, they just puddle.

• 41:38Ed Mylett?

  Yes.

• 41:39Fallon Taylor?

  And it's because you catch the tiger, you catch the bear. And then you're like, "Well, what do I feed it now? What do I do with this thing?" I thought that all of those problems would go away. I thought that I would have the perfect relationship by now, or I thought I would have the dream car by now, or I thought all these things would just magically line up. There's no limo waiting for you when you finally reach that, that thing. You're still gonna have people, the person that didn't think you could accomplish anything, once you accomplish it, will say, "But I can't, I bet you can't do it five times."

• 42:08Ed Mylett?

  Yep. Yep.

• 42:10Fallon Taylor?

  Well, why would I try that?

• 42:12Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 42:12Fallon Taylor?

  You know, why would I do that? So, I think in the, in the space of one foot in front of the other, I started to have to get myself out of this really dark space. So I started to just work on making sure that I was okay. You know, making sure that, gone through all the strength, I know how strong I am. Let me go back and put some, instead of Band-Aids on these bullet wounds of my relationships, or my finances, or what I really wanna do, or could I actually help other people do this? When I started to really mend that.

• 42:40Ed Mylett?

  Yes.

• 42:41Fallon Taylor?

  And put some buttons on some things that really need to be taken care of, I found so much more fulfillment. When I found true fulfillment, and I continue to find it, you know, it's never done.

• 42:50Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 42:51Fallon Taylor?

  Never done, you know, you do this show, it's fabulous, it's amazing, everybody's learning so much. But then there will come a point when you're like, "I'm gonna feel fulfilled some other way. I'm gonna do some other thing that's gonna make me feel really great." Maybe spending time with family, or going to, you know, your place in Idaho that you love so much. It's the same thing.

• 43:08Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 43:08Fallon Taylor?

  And that's-

• 43:09Ed Mylett?

  But you, but you found the formula, let me just tell you, it's growth and contribution.

• 43:12Fallon Taylor?

  It is.

• 43:12Ed Mylett?

  And I wanna say something that you said, I'm so glad you just said this, particularly for the female listeners and watchers. And that is, I, you, ladies especially, but there's a lot of dudes like this too, but ladies. You don't take care of yourself.

• 43:27Fallon Taylor?

  Right.

• 43:27Ed Mylett?

  You're always caring for other people. You're expending all of your energy for the people that you love and the people that you're caring for. Or you're expending the energy on the things about yourself that you don't love yet, right? Self-care, like whether it's like, I mean, it could be simple, like, just like, read a great book and relax. Take a bath, do something kind for yourself, get a massage. If you don't have any money, give yourself the gift of meditating or taking a walk.

• 43:50Fallon Taylor?

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 43:51Ed Mylett?

  Isn't that true? Because a lot of your followers are women.

• 43:54Fallon Taylor?

  I found a lot of really great free drugs, basically.

• 43:58Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 43:58Fallon Taylor?

  Because I'm not a drinker, you know.

• 43:59Ed Mylett?

  I know you're not. I tried to get her to have a drink before, so I didn't.

• 44:02Fallon Taylor?

  Very straight-laced, found free drugs. You know, there's all sorts of things. Dopamine from things we love.

• 44:08Ed Mylett?

  Yes.

• 44:09Fallon Taylor?

  Or endorphins from working out. All of these things that I can get from fulfilling myself and especially for the female audience, you know, I think that it's, we're, we're meant to be nurturers.

• 44:19Ed Mylett?

  Yes.

• 44:19Fallon Taylor?

  And homemakers and we're meant to be people that are always fulfilling everyone else's needs. And just like you said, if we don't take care of ourselves, those people don't get the parts of us that they love. And there's nothing worse than trying to love a woman that's 20% herself. Or 10% herself, or 5% herself. You can be a mother and you can be beautiful, or you can be a mother and you can be somebody that expresses yourself through all of the arts and crafts that people told you to put away and become an adult. Or you can do all of those things, but the real contribution back, if you really want to be nurturing and you really want to give the most to your family is to give them you at 100%.

• 44:55Ed Mylett?

  Oh, wow.

• 44:56Fallon Taylor?

  Give them your full version.

• 44:58Ed Mylett?

  So totally amazingly agree with you. And I can see 99% of the women nodding their head going with you. Then there's the 1% of the ladies who go, oh, that's not me, you know, I'm in a career. Well, take a look at your career, like, I bet you at your career, you're nurturing and taking care of the people around you. Caring about them, loving them, doing three people's jobs and covering up for the people who don't work. So it's you too, girl, trust me, it's something. And by the way, men have this as well, but it is more, I'm so glad you said it because oftentimes, super achiever women. Often aren't willing to express that thought to other women. And so it's wonderful that you give people that gift. So what did happen? Because you've become really sick. Because guys, I want to tell you something. She creates some of the best social media stuff I see. Because it's, one, it's you document your life,

• 45:43Ed Mylett?

  but you also give value. Those of you that are listening or watching this, you go, my gosh, this woman is a treasure chest of personal development and goal-setting and visualization and achievement and happiness, which is why I'm strongly, I'm going to keep encouraging you. I want you speaking. I want you in front of crowds. I want people seeing you. So please engage. First off, we have more to cover here, but I don't like to wait to the end. Where, they're all right now, where, and we'll put this on the screen on YouTube, but where should they be finding you? Where's your social media best place?

• 46:09Fallon Taylor?

  The best place you guys can find me is on Instagram. I'm @FallonTaylor2 on Instagram. So follow me there. Every single day I try to give a nugget in my story just to keep you inspired and hooked for the day. So think of me as the second thing to your coffee.

• 46:22Ed Mylett?

  I love that. And her YouTube is awesome, you guys. Like it's, it's so, it's beautiful too, because you get to see parts of someone's life that you really don't always get to see. Not everybody's in your sport. Not everybody kind of gets to have the interaction with the horses that you have and the other things you do. So it's beautiful. What are you doing now? Tell everybody what you're doing now.

• 46:39Fallon Taylor?

  Now I'm doing a lot of things with rescue horses. I'm doing a lot of things with, kind of using the rescue horses to rescue the humans. I'm very excited about doing that, showing people how animals and horses can create a second chance. So that's really exciting. I'm documenting that. I'm also still actively competing. So I'm excited next week I go to Rodeo All-Star in Denver. So I'm going to be competing there and always actively pursuing. You know, that's my, my growth and contribution is training new animals and through that, that's my fulfillment. So the more that I can add value in other places, I can take that free time and block off and go, okay, listen, I need this time to work with these horses and play with these animals because that's what, you know, is my lifeblood is to, to continue that. So in the future, I just hope to be speaking

• 47:23Fallon Taylor?

  and just adding value back to people and showing them how to put one foot in front of the other.

• 47:26Ed Mylett?

  You do it because you have, I'm telling you, you have one of the all-time great stories to do it. And I think there's a power to somebody that's doing it or has lived it. And by the way, she's also arrived to a place in her life where her business is flourishing, her social media is flourishing. She's still competing. She's got into now a great marriage. Like there's all these wonderful things happening in your life. I'm so really happy for you.

• 47:46Fallon Taylor?

  Thank you.

• 47:47Ed Mylett?

  What advice? I mean, we'll have a couple more minutes, but... If I didn't do this, I would feel like I made a mistake for our audience. There's millions of people. By the way, Max Out Universe, get on her social media, find out where her schedule is, and get out to an event too. Like, go see this woman compete. Let's get, let's support her, let's get to events, let's make noise, let's like rally up part of the universe. What do you call, your followers have like a name too.

• 48:09Fallon Taylor?

  They do, they're all Flo-mies.

• 48:11Ed Mylett?

  Flo-mies.

• 48:11Fallon Taylor?

  What's up Flo-mies?

• 48:12Ed Mylett?

  Flo-mies. And by the way, all the Flo-mies that are listening to this or watching, follow me on Instagram or social media. I will inspire you every day and I will help you, so Flo-mies, come to me.

• 48:21Fallon Taylor?

  I can't wait to share your stuff with my social media, I'm so excited for that.

• 48:25Ed Mylett?

  I'm so excited for mine to see you, and so this is gonna be wonderful, but the, I guess, I think the thing that I would want people to know is like, I have somebody in front of me who's achieved at so many different levels, because the guys, and then after this, she went on and became, she competed for a little while in the fitness arena. Like, she's done all kinds of stuff that we can't fit into the window today. Two questions to finish, because I feel like I want to ask you both things. How important have your parents been to you?

• 48:48Fallon Taylor?

  So insanely instrumental. And so I always encourage people, because I realize that I'm probably in the minority of people that have parents that were married for 56 years and, you know, have that kind of encouragement. I think that that's the biggest thing, the biggest takeaway for me, when I help someone is I'm understanding they don't have that same support, but you can get that same support from, just like the Max Out Universe. You've got people around you that are like-minded, that wanna help you, that wanna see other people win. Not everybody's gonna wanna see you win.

• 49:17Ed Mylett?

  Right.

• 49:18Fallon Taylor?

  Not every single person is excited for your journey. Because you're gonna prove a lot of their beliefs wrong. So be around people that really believe that if you do all of the things necessary to really get some lift off the ground of the things you wanna achieve, those people are gonna just propel you to the next level. So being a part of something is really important.

• 49:36Ed Mylett?

  That's why I created this. It's like, I want our community supporting each other. That's why I do all this stuff of like, hey, comment on my stuff, get in there. I want you commenting on each other's stuff, I want you liking each other's stuff, I want you knowing what each other do and supporting each other, because you're exactly right, most people don't have parents like you have, or that I have. They don't, they don't have people in their life that are supporting them, so you have to go find those people. And in my case, I've created that environment for you to find those people, and then I bring on amazing people like you too, so, last question. If you and I, you know, this has been a blessing for me, as I've told you. But if one of my listeners said, "Could I get like five minutes and a cup of coffee with you, right? Or could we go on a ride for five minutes?" And they could ask you something, most of them would say, and I know we've covered a lot of it, but you're just like, there's so much still that we didn't even get to.

• 50:21Ed Mylett?

  And they said, "I want to make my dream come true. And I'm at this place where I'm not doing it. I've tried and I failed. I tried and I failed." Or, "I don't have support around me." What would you just say to somebody who's like, "I got a dream too, and you've inspired me today." What would be just a couple of things you would share with them if they met you like I got to? What would you share with them that they should be doing and thinking?

• 50:42Fallon Taylor?

  I would tell them to write it down, the craziest thing. Let your mind wander to the craziest place it could go. Because we limit ourselves so much. And we limit ourselves by those beliefs that aren't true. Writing down, if you had just an endless supply of money and all the time in the world, what it is that you would do. And then break it down to, what if you had almost no time? What would you regret that you haven't done? What's that big regret? What's that regret? And then attack that thing first. Go there. And when the brain starts to kind of work its way around, "What if this thing could actually be possible?" The other little stuff comes along. It's so crazy when you, when you focus on fixing yourself and loving yourself, all of a sudden that standard shift. Like, "I think more about my checkbook.

• 51:27Fallon Taylor?

  I think more about my, how my spouse is treating me. I think more about the people I keep around me and how they speak to me. I think more about what I get up and get dressed like in the morning." You know, there was a time where it was sweatpants and it was just like, "If I left my house, it'd be a miracle." Because I was so depressed and in such a place. And now it's like, no, there's a standard for how I want to present myself to a group of people. And however they think about that is their own problem. That's their own belief system. So, I think just narrowing it down to, what's that one big thing? Let's not leave this planet regretting something that we haven't tried. And you will fail. And that's okay. That's the biggest lesson. The biggest lesson is in the failure.

• 52:03Ed Mylett?

  Oh my gosh, like 2013 for you, right?

• 52:06Fallon Taylor?

  Every time.

• 52:06Ed Mylett?

  I think your whole, I picture this day to day of the whole story of this little girl who turns pro at, you know, seven years old and then has this amazing life. But then I picture you taking that first step down the hallway that you've got to walk back and forth, right? And it's amazing to me to think that first step you took that day to get to the end of the hallway and back, that step eventually led to you being the world champion back on a horse.

• 52:29Fallon Taylor?

  The smallest thing, it gets me emotional all over again. It's those, nothing's ever done in these huge moments. Nobody's gonna run up to you and go, "I've got a billion dollar idea," or "I'm gonna help you win a world title." It's this little like saying yes to the lady that said, "You can get up, but you might die." Or saying yes to, "Yeah, I might try that thing," or saying yes to, "Well, do you wanna give this another shot?" It's little tiny things, saying yes to a first date with somebody you thought would never like you. Saying yes to a job that you think you're not qualified for. Saying yes to, it's not these huge moments. It's those little tiny ones. Just that one step. That one little step.

• 53:06Ed Mylett?

  Ah, I don't want this to end. This sucks. I don't want it to be over. It's too good. You're extraordinary.

• 53:12Fallon Taylor?

  Thank you.

• 53:13Ed Mylett?

  No, you're extraordinary and today was remarkable. Like, I'll be honest with you. I came in today, it wasn't the best day ever for me and like, it's the best day ever for me. Like, I'm serious. I just, everybody, please follow this woman. I'm so rooting for you. Like, I am so impressed and blown away and I know all of you are too. Thank you so much.

• 53:35Fallon Taylor?

  Thank you for having me so much.

• 53:36Ed Mylett?

  I loved it. It's just-

• 53:37Fallon Taylor?

  Thank you. Max out.

• 53:38Ed Mylett?

  Max out. So you guys, speaking of maxing out, reminder, you have to share this show. Don't go away yet. Listen. You have to share this show with people. People you love, people you care about, people who you believe in. They need to hear this story. They need to hear my stuff too. And so that's why every day, remember, I wanna connect with you. Would you do a 15 minute call with one of my people?

• 53:58Fallon Taylor?

  Of course.

• 53:58Ed Mylett?

  Okay, awesomeness. So guess what, you guys? I run the max out two minute drill every single day on Instagram. What that means is when I make a post within the first two minutes on Instagram, if you make a comment in the first two minutes- You get into a daily drawing every single day. I read the comments, I reply to people, I like them, but I also pick a winner every day. And that winner gets a coaching call with me, with one of my guests. You get one with Fallon now, Max Out Gear, tickets to seeing me speak, my book, all kinds of cool stuff. So get engaged in the community, read other people's comments. But the first two minutes, make a comment, you're in a daily drawing. If you miss the first two minutes, because your notifications aren't turned on, turn those on. Then if you just make a comment at any time, every day, it could be six hours later, but you make a comment every day on my five or six posts I make during the week. We pick a winner at the end of the week who just stays engaged with me every day.

• 54:43Ed Mylett?

  Here's a clue, I post between like 7:30 a.m. Pacific and 8 a.m. Pacific, which is 10:30 and 11:00 Eastern a.m. every day. So you kind of know when I'm coming at you. Engage with me there so you can connect with these great guests. Follow Fallon on Instagram, follow me if you're not. Engage in the Max Out two-minute drill and God bless you and max out your life.

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