How to Build Self-Confidence & Self-Belief!- with Chris Powell and Heidi Powell⁣ ⁣

Transformation is a mindset! ⁣ ⁣ ⁣Self-confidence is the key to transformation, and transformation begins with KEEPING THE PROMISES YOU KEEP TO YOURSELF! No couple exemplifies this more than the amazing guests I have for you today.⁣ ⁣ They have BOTH transformed their lives from suffering from addiction and physical and mental pain to becoming world-renowned fitness and transformation experts, tv stars, and power couple. ⁣ ⁣ Not only have they transformed their own lives, but have changed the lives of millions of others. There is no other pair I would rather have on the topic of TRANSFORMATION than Chris and Heidi Powell!⁣ ⁣ This POWERFUL and DISTINGUISHED couple breaks down the step by step process to CHANGE YOUR LIFE for the BETTER, not just in losing weight, but in every area your life! ⁣ ⁣ Get an intimate look at how Chris and Heidi conquered their hardships, addiction, divorce, homelessness and so much more to becoming hit TV Stars on @ABCnetwork Extreme Weight Loss and transforming the lives of millions!⁣ ⁣ Regardless of what area of your life you are seeking a transformation in, this interview will provide you with the RIGHT STEPS TO TRANSFORMATION, and exactly what it takes for you to KEEP your promises to yourself.⁣ ⁣ It’s time to BREAK DOWN and BREAKTHROUGH! Your transformation is waiting! ⁣ ⁣ Keep the promise you made to yourself and LISTEN/WATCH NOW!!!⁣ ⁣ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 1:46Ed Mylett?

  Welcome back to Max Out, everybody. I'm Ed Mylett. Today, we're talking transformations. And I have been chasing these two for, I don't know, a couple of months, probably, right? To be on the show. And so, these folks to my left, you definitely recognize them. For five and a half years or so, they were on ABC hosting the show Extreme Weight Loss. And they've turned into fitness icons. You can tell if you're watching the YouTube version of this from looking at both of them. They're two of the fittest people that are married together in the history of the world. They're making me feel very out of shape to start out the show today. But I'm honored to have you guys here because they're experts on transformation. So we're going to talk about that topic today throughout, not just in your body, but in your life. So if you're interested in making a transformation, we're going to talk about the tools and skills and resources to do that with two experts today.

• 2:31Ed Mylett?

  So I have Chris and Heidi Powell with me here today. Thanks for being here, guys.

• 2:34Heidi Powell?

  Thank you. Thank you for having us. I was actually gonna say-

• 2:36Chris Powell?

  Thank you so much. This really is a dream come true for us.

• 2:38Ed Mylett?

  Awesome, man.

• 2:38Heidi Powell?

  And you, I was gonna say, you make us feel out of shape. Like, look at you!

• 2:41Ed Mylett?

  Stop it.

• 2:42Heidi Powell?

  You look amazing!

• 2:43Ed Mylett?

  We've been doing this off-camera. They've been trying to make me feel better about myself for about a half-hour, everybody, just so you know.

• 2:47Chris Powell?

  We've been watching you for quite some time. You really are an inspiration for all of us.

• 2:51Ed Mylett?

  Thank you, man. Well, you've done that for me for, I mean, I've told you this too, and that's why I pursued you guys. Because I think, you know, a lot of people talk about being able to change their life, or, but you've proven it. Like, there's data to prove that the two of you know how to not only change your own lives, which we'll talk about today, but you've changed just so many people's lives, both emotionally, physically, financially in some cases. And so, I want to talk about all that today. I know that's what everyone's dying for me to cover with you guys, so. But I want to start with the two of you, because I think you're both so interesting. So if we could just go back, like, tell them, because I think it's a testimony of transformation. Everything in your life happens for you and not to you, is what I teach people, right? And kind of that, you guys sort of embody that even like how you met.

• 3:35Ed Mylett?

  So one of you, tell me about how you guys met.

• 3:37Chris Powell?

  Oh, my gosh. Well, you know, I go back, if you rewind about 15 years, you know, after getting a degree in exercise science, and I was training for quite some time. I was, I ended up landing a gig as the Good Morning Arizona, the fitness guy.

• 3:54Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 3:54Chris Powell?

  And after about five months of doing that, we had more and more people that were 400, 500, 600 pounds writing in, asking for help. And, you know, at the time, this is like early 2000s, so you just, you don't see that a lot. You know, NBC was working on a show called The Biggest Loser at the time, so that was the very first, the first thing you really start to kind of highlight the morbid obese and the super obese. And so I ended up, there's a gentleman who was like 635 pounds at the time.

• 4:22Ed Mylett?

  Hobbit?

• 4:23Chris Powell?

  635 pounds.

• 4:24Heidi Powell?

  Yes, the guy that started it all.

• 4:26Chris Powell?

  And this will lead to actually how we met. There's a little bit of a backstory. I hope you don't mind here.

• 4:31Ed Mylett?

  No, I want to know.

• 4:31Chris Powell?

  You're like, where is he going with this?

• 4:33Ed Mylett?

  I'm watching your face, Heidi.

• 4:36Chris Powell?

  So, and he reached out to me and, and I was just doing a gig on, on the morning news at the time because I was just passionate about fitness and so, so excited about this stuff. And I had no idea how I could possibly help him, but I just couldn't stop thinking about it. And he wrote me this huge, long letter just asking for help, saying that, you know, he's, we're the same age. His doctor just left his house. He was stuck in his basement for two years and the doctor said he wouldn't live to see 30. I couldn't stop thinking about it. So I ended up, um, a week later, I emailed him, asked him for his address, said, I just kinda, I wanna come meet you. And I, I showed up at his door. I knew he was gonna be there because he hadn't left in two years. And we sat down, we started talking for like 10 minutes. I was like, dude, this guy's a bro. He's just awesome. Great sense of humor. He was

• 5:19Chris Powell?

  just trapped in this 635 pound body. And, um, and I said, dude, I have no idea where this is gonna go, but, uh, I'll be back on Tuesday. And so I showed up every other day for two years. Oh my gosh. He ended up losing 400 pounds and became my best friend. And in the process, and it was just the most incredible experience for both of us. And, and at the time, so he lost the weight, and once he had actually lost the weight, um, you know, he had all this skin. His teeth were rotted out. He had Coke bottle glasses. So I reached out to some of my doctor friends and I got him five surgeries for the skin and got his eyes done and his teeth. And the guy was, he looked like a model. And so, I'm about to date us here.

• 6:01Chris Powell?

  He ended up posting his before and afters on MySpace. Remember MySpace? And, and it went viral. Within two weeks, we were getting hit up for Oprah and the Today Show in 2020. And so it was this crazy whirlwind. This is back in 2005. I was making these systems that would stack all of your meals in there. There's a timer that going off every three hours and it would tell you to eat again. Okay. So it was a cool concept. Yeah, sure was. But I'm not a businessman. I'm just a trainer out there, just trying to help a bunch of people. So I started, I saved all my money. I sent it over to a factory in China and not knowing what I was doing. I ended up purchasing 12,500 units. I borrowed a lot of money. The container ends up making it over here to, to San Pedro. I'm standing there as it-

• 6:45Chris Powell?

  It's coming off the docks. They opened up the very first cardboard box and I pulled this thing out and it was just trash. Oh no, oh no, oh no. And I, I lost it. I, I literally, I crumbled and mentally it broke me because that was all of them. It was a couple hundred, it's probably about a hundred and fifty thousand that I'd saved up as a trainer. Um, another two hundred thousand dollars that I'd borrowed from other people. And I was sitting on a massive container of product that I couldn't sell. It wasn't even what I ordered. And um, so I broke and at the same time I was, I was still training hard. I ended up um herniating a disc in my, in my back, my L5S1. And uh, this is back in oh six.

• 7:27Chris Powell?

  So a lot, a lot of the doctors back in that day, they're like, here, take this, it's gonna make you feel better. You can function on this, it's called Vicodin. The Vicodin, while it helped kill the pain in my back, it also helped kill the pain of my financial downslide. And pretty soon when my back, the, as far as the pain goes, it was totally managed. But I still felt the financial pain and the emotional pain of losing everything. And, and ego though, just, and I'm just gonna speak totally transparently here like, but um, all my friends, like I was, I was one of the, I was the guy that made it. I was on, I was on the morning news and I was helping all these people and I was the guy.

• 8:08Chris Powell?

  And, and they didn't, I didn't, I was too prideful to let them know that I was hurting. That I was, I was hooked on Vicodin, that I had lost everything. Because I would just had, I had to be that guy for every, I was like, dude, it's Chris Powell. He's always got a smile on his face. He's always so happy, he's always got, and I would go home and I was in such a deep depression. Um, and I was using opiates to, to numb that pain. I ended up after two years and I, losing everything, um, I lost the, the roof over my head. And so I had to, I had moved out of my, I was crashing at my buddy's condo. He's, he told me one day, he's like, dude, you can't stay here anymore. Cause I couldn't, I couldn't afford to pay him, I lost everything. I was, I was paying for basically every, every dime I could make.

• 8:52Chris Powell?

  I was in a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars of debt. Yeah. And I was hooked on painkillers for two years.

• 8:59Chris Powell?

  And I haven't shared that part of the story.

• 9:02Ed Mylett?

  Man, I can be honest with you, I'm listening to you. First off, I, one of the things I've always loved about you is your vulnerability. It's one of the things that makes people connect with you, I just want to acknowledge that, but I didn't know this part of the story either. I think there's probably millions of people who know you, this is super pumped up, energetic dude who just always wins. Yeah. That's the exterior, right?

• 9:19Chris Powell?

  Sure.

• 9:19Ed Mylett?

  And so I appreciate you, you being willing to share that, that even surprises me to hear, and I've done a lot of research on you, so appreciate that.

• 9:27Chris Powell?

  I've learned that the more open I am about this, the more I can talk about it, it's part of my continued rehabilitation. You know, and now, granted, it was, it was when I lost everything, and I was also surrounded though by other people that were also, they were also hooked on opiates, which is, you see that, it's a really, it's a common thread among other people that are addicted. Now granted, it was always my, well, I got a prescription for it because, because of my back, I got a herniated disc.

• 9:52Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 9:52Chris Powell?

  Yeah, so I totally covered up with being legit, but after two years of realizing that I'm, I can only function with it. I got a major problem here and I gotta stop, and by the way, I lost everything, so it was when I, I, my, my old roommate said, you gotta go. The neighbor at the time, he saw me packing up everything, and I literally had a duffel bag in my, in my car, that was it.

• 10:14Ed Mylett?

  Incredible.

• 10:15Chris Powell?

  He saw me throwing my bag in the car, he's like, dude, come crash on my couch for a little bit. Not because I needed a place to stay, but because he, he knew what was happening with the opiates. And so I crashed on his couch and I, I just grinded it out for three days, three good days. And he'd bring me water and everything, and I just went cold turkey, yep.

• 10:33Ed Mylett?

  Brother.

• 10:34Chris Powell?

  And then, and from there, I spent six months going around from couch to couch, in fact, David's family, my buddy David, that helped lose 400 pounds, they opened up their doors to me, I slept on their couch for three months, yeah.

• 10:44Ed Mylett?

  So you're, that just, by the way, I mean, I, I know a lot about you, that blows my mind. Isn't that crazy? That blows my mind. No, and for you to share that, man, because there's, there's so many people that relate to this. Everything on the outside looks great and everything's falling apart on the inside, right? There's also people that have some of these addictions, it could be an opiate, it could be, it could be to another drug, it could be to alcohol. So for you to share that, man, I had no idea we were, we were gonna go there. So you literally sort of grinded out the detox, sitting there on the couch, and then just floated for six months.

• 11:13Chris Powell?

  Yeah.

• 11:13Ed Mylett?

  Little do you know during that time, you're about to meet your dream woman.

• 11:16Chris Powell?

  Right.

• 11:17Ed Mylett?

  You're about to, and, and, and all of these things, as we start to talk about them too, like, they were ironically happening for you. I don't think if you have this addiction... Maybe you don't connect as well with people who have a food addiction.

• 11:29Chris Powell?

  Right.

• 11:29Ed Mylett?

  You know, I mean, it's odd that sometimes these, the worst parts of our life, they really are happening for us. Doesn't feel like it at the time, but like now that I know the after, all the seeds are being planted that make you you now.

• 11:42Chris Powell?

  Yes.

• 11:42Ed Mylett?

  You had your first big transformation, you had your big weight loss client, you had the connection. You probably got over what it's like to just be famous as your only identity, I would think, which we'll talk about a little bit later. But, but anyway, so take us from there. Does that somehow, I think I know where this goes, where the two of you end up meeting each other.

• 11:57Chris Powell?

  Yeah, and, and you nailed it. I actually had no understanding of addiction at all before. I had no, I had no understanding of David, how he could possibly be addicted to food. In fact, I really thought that his weight loss was simply physiology and I carb cycled him down and I built a progressive overload for his cardio. So it all made, it made sense on paper for science. And, um, and, and I, I had no concept of addiction until I realized that I was an addict myself.

• 12:24Ed Mylett?

  Wow.

• 12:25Chris Powell?

  And it gave me the whole new gift of empathy that if I didn't have it, I couldn't possibly help anybody else through a journey of transformation with, and, and it gave me just a whole new appreciation for human struggle. And what will, what we do to try to escape and try to alleviate the pain of that daily emotional struggle. So.

• 12:45Ed Mylett?

  I really believe this, and I didn't mean to jump in there, but everyone should hear this. Like, this is a well said thing, but it's really true. Your test can actually end up being what you're doing right now. It could be your testimony. But the test you go through can end up becoming your testimony. I hope, there's all these people, man, who know you're this icon in the space. This is the real you. Like, this is why I wanted you on the show. I had no idea we were going to go this far with it. But like, it did prepare you for the greatness that was coming and all the other ups and downs that were to come even after this that we'll talk about today too, right?

• 13:13Chris Powell?

  And it's so beautifully put. And you're right, your test. If you choose for it to, can become your testimony. And that's exactly, like that, that's, that has become my life. And I wouldn't change it for the world. I look back and if, if that had not happened, I wouldn't be sitting here with you right now. And I wouldn't have had the amazing ability and the opportunity to help a lot of other people.

• 13:33Heidi Powell?

  I do think though, it took a few years for you, for him to realize that all of that was happening for a reason. I don't even think you actually identified as an addict until years after you and I had met and we had started the show. So we truly met at probably the best point possible. It was him straight out of his car, straight off of his opiates. Me, I'm still trying to figure out this eating disorder and you know, life without marriage.

• 14:03Ed Mylett?

  If you looked at the two of you, you would never know that this relationship came out of an eating disorder and an opiate addiction. You totally flat broke, you divorced, and then this, these two people converge and end up within a very short window of time having one of the most popular television shows of the last couple of decades on television. It's like mind blowing that this, even probably you hearing it back is like, wow, that is pretty cool, right?

• 14:26Heidi Powell?

  But, and like you are, you are right though, like I believe, and we have said this, like that is one thing that's never changed. Is from the moment we met, we all, even before anything happened, like before there was, we didn't date for months because we were like, you know what? We just want, I like, I was not interested in a man. He was not interested in a woman, but I, it's, he had a.

• 14:47Chris Powell?

  Well, I'm interested in women, but just not at the time. It's not at the time. But either way, it's all good either way.

• 14:54Heidi Powell?

  In a wife at the time.

• 14:56Chris Powell?

  Right.

• 14:56Ed Mylett?

  I'll tell you what you were interested in though, were biceps. I love this opening line right here.

• 15:01Chris Powell?

  And it's true.

• 15:02Ed Mylett?

  You guys gotta hear this, so they're at this self improvement seminar. He's out of the car, broke, recovering from opiates. She's divorced, she's kind of in like the bar scene a little bit, I think you were at the time, right?

• 15:12Heidi Powell?

  I was actually coming, I was like, I can't do this anymore. I went through, I, I had never drank in my life, never did anything. And then about three month period of time, I did everything.

• 15:21Ed Mylett?

  You did everything in a window.

• 15:22Heidi Powell?

  And so, yeah, I, I was, I was at that self improvement seminar, hat on, no makeup, sweats every day. And that is true story, because I did not want a man to look at me. I didn't want to look at another man. And day two of the seminar, December 6th, 2008.

• 15:37Heidi Powell?

  This guy comes up to me, who looks like a gym rat.

• 15:40Chris Powell?

  I had my powerhouse gym shirt on.

• 15:44Chris Powell?

  Got my forearm for the forearm coming out. He was a S medium, of course.

• 15:48Ed Mylett?

  I'm wearing one right now, bro.

• 15:50Chris Powell?

  Me too.

• 15:53Heidi Powell?

  Anyway, he and I were the only two that had our lunches packed. So I was reaching into my cooler, pulling out this container. And he was like, "I want to know what you did to get those biceps." And I'm like, "No."

• 16:06Chris Powell?

  True story, very first line I ever said in my life. And it came out like that. And I'm like, "Aww."

• 16:13Heidi Powell?

  And here's the thing, at the time, I was like, "This guy is hitting on me." I didn't want to be around him, so I kind of avoided him for the rest of the seminar. The next day, he showed up with a gift for me. He showed up with his stack system, because he really... And then I sat and talked to him the last day of the seminar. And I realized, he was not hitting on me. He really, truly wanted to know what exercises I did to get the biceps that I had. And he wanted to feed me with his stack system.

• 16:41Chris Powell?

  You have to show him the biceps.

• 16:43Ed Mylett?

  It's legit, you guys.

• 16:45Chris Powell?

  And if you're listening, just jump on the channel, jump on YouTube. And you gotta see her biceps. They're really amazing.

• 16:51Ed Mylett?

  Go over to YouTube and check it out. Trust me, it's ridiculous.

• 16:53Heidi Powell?

  But yeah, so what I was saying, though, is the one thing that's never changed is we have always known and been so appreciative that our meeting was for a reason. Like, it's just, you cannot, cannot deny it.

• 17:08Ed Mylett?

  Our dreams also don't show up the way we would think. So your dream woman, your dream man, didn't show up the way you would think.

• 17:13Heidi Powell?

  Nope, actually didn't.

• 17:15Ed Mylett?

  And also, neither did really the show.

• 17:17Chris Powell?

  Really crazy backstory, and I know you're gonna appreciate this here. But when I was losing everything, and living out of my car, I ended up running away, came here to Los Angeles, trying to start over. A buddy of mine landed me a couple gigs with other production companies. And I wasn't in a place for anything to happen yet. I didn't know that at the time, but I remember pitching to a couple different production companies here. I said, "Look, guys, here's this concept of, you know, I go in, I surprise someone, and I totally change their life." More than anything, it's like, I want to be the Ty Pennington of weight loss. And I told him that, and I spoke it. Yes. And I wanted it, I wasn't ready for it, but I just kept saying that to people. Powerful.

• 18:01Chris Powell?

  When I met with Heidi, it was one of our very first conversations, I filled her in on this dream, I was like, you know, what if, what if I could be the Ty Pennington of weight loss and just go in and show these people how to do it the right way? So sure enough, fast forward to this conversation that, with my friend, the casting producer, he says, let me talk to my boss. Boss calls back an hour later and says, yeah, hey, we can't fly out, you want to drive out? So Heidi and I, we drive out, we map what this show would be on their whiteboard. We end up making two more trips out to LA, within about two and a half, three weeks. I mean, literally just driving back and forth, getting used to this.

• 18:36Heidi Powell?

  And I should say, I was only there in the meeting, I wasn't, I had trained 10 years prior. I was not a trainer at that time, I was only there in the meeting to protect him. Because when I met him, he had debtors coming after him everywhere, he owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

• 18:50Chris Powell?

  That's incredible.

• 18:51Heidi Powell?

  And to me, I actually, business, I love the business side of it, I love it. And I saw this poor guy that I'm like, I can help you. I did loans, I bought and sold homes, I renovated them, I had that, that's actually what I did when I met him. And so I poured into that, and I'm like, you're not going to go meet with these people in Hollywood without me there. Because you're not going to give 10% of another company away to somebody, every company he had. It was like, he ended up being 20% of this, and he was doing 100% of the work. Because he's like, oh, you can shoot a video, I'll give you 10% of my company. I mean, he was just, oh, everything.

• 19:26Chris Powell?

  And I just kept selling everybody. But you were dating then, though?

• 19:30Heidi Powell?

  At that point, we were, because that was...

• 19:33Chris Powell?

  We were dating at the time, is that what you call it, dating?

• 19:41Chris Powell?

  She's blushing now. Everyone, watch the video on YouTube, she's blushing.

• 19:48Chris Powell?

  No joke, Heidi's in the kitchen, random phone call, out of the blue, and it's the CEO of the production company. He's like, "Dude, we sold your show." I'm like, "What? What does this mean?" Because we were consultants on the development of the show, and they made it really clear, though, that the host of the show was gonna be a celebrity trainer. Gillian, Bob, they were looking at Harley Pasternak, and it's just some other amazing trainers in Hollywood. And I was like, "Oh my, oh my gosh, hold on, Hydes, they sold the show. It's crazy." "So who bought it?" He's like, "Well, some cable networks are going back and forth, but ultimately..." And the guy's, he's the king of building up the... The systemic. He goes, "But ultimately, it was ABC." And I'm like, "What? Oh, baby, ABC bought the show."

• 20:33Chris Powell?

  I was like, "So, who's the host?" Long pause. You are. Oh my gosh. And then literally, it wasn't even a, it was a...

• 20:44Chris Powell?

  I did one of these, just phone drop, I just looked over at Heidi, I said, "I'm the guy." And I said, "How?" He said, "Well, they saw, they just saw the videos and they just, they want that passion." What went through your mind in that moment where you're like, "I'm not ready for this?" Yes, that's exactly what happened.

• 21:00Heidi Powell?

  One million percent.

• 21:02Chris Powell?

  100, yep, absolutely. And I went, "Uh-oh." "Oh crap." It was literally, it wasn't even a "yay" moment, it was an "oh crap" moment. Yes. I said, "What does that mean?" He says, "It means you're, pack your bags, you're leaving in five weeks." And I went, "Sign me up for another coaching seminar." And that's exactly what we did. Did you really? Yeah.

• 21:22Heidi Powell?

  Yeah, I think the biggest reason, so Chris was under the assumption that all of the transformations had happened, especially with David. His idea and his thought process was, "It's because I fed him right and I moved him right." He didn't realize, and I could see it from the outside, but the reason David transformed for the first time with Chris, and he never could in his life before, was because Chris was giving him love. Like, he was his best friend, he gave him that care. And that was such a hard thing for Chris to accept, no matter how much I explained that to him. And he felt completely inadequate, knowing, "Hey, I'm gonna do eight more transformations."

• 21:55Chris Powell?

  Yeah.

• 21:56Heidi Powell?

  And in his mind, he didn't know how to life coach. And that's what he was doing. He just didn't even realize he was doing it.

• 22:02Ed Mylett?

  The biggest thing, guys, is that that moment. The reason I asked Chris is, did you go, "Oh, no, I'm not ready"? That's the cue that you're stepping into your dream.

• 22:08Heidi Powell?

  Yes.

• 22:09Ed Mylett?

  So if you don't have that response, you're not playing big enough. You're not going for your real dream.

• 22:13Heidi Powell?

  I love that.

• 22:13Ed Mylett?

  This is such a huge thing for people to get. I was pretty sure you were gonna say that. There should be a moment, all of you, where you get into this moment where you're like, "I'm not ready." That's actually you stepping into your dream. It's the number one cue. What is some of the steps that you guys have learned from doing the show, post, during and post the show, to transform yourself? Let's just use physically for now, but I think the same principles apply everywhere. What are some of the steps to change? How do you do it?

• 22:41Chris Powell?

  I would love to take this one. We begin every transformation by laying out the... There's a true hidden path to transforming everybody's life. And it's been there, it's always been there, but it's just, it's so clouded by so much confusion. Everyone's looking for the right kind of diet, the right kind of exercise. The path is in integrity. And we can't have a conversation about transformation without having a conversation about integrity first. And this is what we cover. This is the secret sauce that you don't see on the show, but this is what's covered with everyone on day one. No joke, we talk about their diet and exercise. We cover that in about 45 minutes for the year. Done.

• 23:24Chris Powell?

  Then we say, now that that's over with, let's have a real conversation about transformation.

• 23:28Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 23:29Chris Powell?

  None of you, and now we upset a handful of people in this very first comment because we need to get their attention. We say, "Look, you're all here because you don't have integrity." And you could imagine that they just, they sit back, they're like, "Oh, yeah? F you, dude." You know exactly what they're thinking. I say, "Hold on, hold on, now let me, we need to explain this." First of all, let's talk about what integrity is. Integrity is doing what you say you're gonna do, when you say you're gonna do it, when no one else is watching. Now, I guarantee you, you all have amazing integrity with everybody else in the world. If you tell your friend you're gonna show up tomorrow at noon, "Nancy, when do you show up?" She says, "11:55." Absolutely, you do. If you tell them that you're gonna go ahead and pick up their kids,

• 24:13Chris Powell?

  you're gonna grab, you know, some coffee for their, you know, book club meeting, you're there on time. You do what you say you're gonna do, when you say you're gonna do it. But I just want to see a show of hands and we'll have a group of 30 people before they begin their transformation. Show of hands, how many people here said the diet starts Monday? And everyone goes, "Ah." And you see all the hands go up. How about 2015? It's gonna happen this year. Every hand goes up again. How about 2016? Let's try this again. Every single hand. 2017. How about I'm gonna wake up at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning and do 30 minutes of cardio? Every hand goes up. So you guys are great at making commitments and keeping those commitments to other people. But you cannot...

• 24:55Chris Powell?

  You can, but you do not keep commitments to yourself. And that's why you're all here. And that's what we're gonna change. This is your year to take it all back. This is your year to completely change your life. But in order to do so, you need to honor yourself. You'd have to make yourself a priority. We are gonna teach you how to love yourself enough. So that when you do give your word, you will honor that word to yourself. We believe in you. And you don't believe in yourself yet. But there's a formula to believing in yourself. And what we're gonna do, and every single one of them, they're in such a deep, dark place because the folks that we're working with, they're 400, 500, 600 pounds that they're trying to get out. We explain, in order for them to get there, it was... And all we see, when we're looking out at this group of 30 people,

• 25:39Chris Powell?

  I don't see 200 extra pounds of body fat on them. It's 200 pounds of broken promises to themselves.

• 25:45Ed Mylett?

  Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.

• 25:48Chris Powell?

  You get it. It makes sense. And I know you get it because this is the life that you live because you... It's amazing, this house that you've got. All the homes that you've got, what you've been able to create, it's incredible. It's because you have integrity. You have personal integrity first. And then that translates into your integrity with everybody else.

• 26:06Ed Mylett?

  You just taught me something. Just so you know. Big, huge thing you just taught me. I wanna tell you what it was and I want you to talk about it, or you can talk about it, Heidi. So I actually, probably one of the roots of my content is how to build self-confidence. And I have consistently said for 25 years that self-confidence is the habit and process of keeping the promises that you make to yourself.

• 26:25Heidi Powell?

  That's the thing, yeah.

• 26:26Ed Mylett?

  Having said that though, so I'm glad that we stand there. You just said something that's a layer deeper than I've said it before. And you said, it's got a connection to needing to love yourself in order to do it. So one of the things I've not backed that up with enough... Man, I just want you to know, like, I'm processing that right now.

• 26:42Chris Powell?

  Sure.

• 26:43Ed Mylett?

  Is I've not backed up enough with teaching them the reasons why they haven't. And so, is it your conclusion that some of that has to do with not loving themselves enough in order to keep the promise? Is that part of it?

• 26:53Heidi Powell?

  Yeah, well, and it's that they don't believe in themselves enough. Like, when you try and fail and try and fail and try and fail so many times, you don't believe you can do it. And it's all connected, that "I don't believe I can do it" and "I don't love myself" are directly...

• 27:08Ed Mylett?

  They're brother and sister.

• 27:08Heidi Powell?

  Yeah, and so when one of them exists, you're gonna not even try at some point. Or if you say something, you're like, "Hey, I'm gonna do X, Y, Z." You already know before you say it, or as you're saying it, that you're not going to actually do it.

• 27:20Ed Mylett?

  How do you establish it? How do you break that pattern? Is it a social circle that they keep? Is it, what do you do to get them to begin to do it?

• 27:26Chris Powell?

  There's a lot of things. Well, first, we establish why they are where they are. Because we'll ask all 30 of the individuals that are really struggling, they're in a deep, dark place. "How do you feel about yourself?" "I hate myself. I hate myself. Look at me, I'm a disappointment." You hear this common denominator among everything. So let's map how you got there. And literally, remember, they didn't start there. They started with their esteem, their confidence, their, um, you know, their self-love. It was at a certain level. And then they made a promise and they broke that promise. And so, your integrity and your dignity, dignity is that esteem, it's that confidence, it's self-love. They are intertwined. When you break your integrity, your dignity takes a hit. And then they do it again. And then they do it again.

• 28:06Chris Powell?

  And then what happens, though, that they, after a while, after so many, so many failures, you start making silent promises. Here's the catch. So it's like, "Hey, diet starts Monday." And everybody has been in that place where you tell your family and your friends, "Hey, guys, diet is, it's gonna start Monday, I'm doing it this time." That's usually where most people start. And after so many times that they failed, you know, Wednesday, all of a sudden, you know, you're in the break room and you're housing a pizza, and your coworker's like, "Dude, I thought the diet started Monday." You're like, "Okay, I'm never gonna tell them when the diet starts Monday again." But integrity, personal integrity, doesn't know the difference. Whether you say it out loud or whether you say it to yourself. And so they start making silent promises. "Okay, diet starts Monday." And they'll say it to themselves, and sure enough...

• 28:50Chris Powell?

  They break it and every single time they go lower and lower and lower in their belief and their confidence and their self-love and their dignity. It just takes a hit to they find themselves at 400 pounds or 500 pounds. Or drinking, you start drinking at 10 a.m. You start taking your opiates, whatever it is. Because the thing is, you feel so low about yourself and you've lost your belief in yourself. So in order to get out, all we have to, it's so simple. We reverse that process. And we say, it is our job. Now, we, look, we covered diet and exercise in 45 minutes. Now it's our job as your coaches. We're gonna get you out of the hole the same way you got in. And we're gonna teach you how to love yourself and how to believe in yourself and how to be absolutely unstoppable. And at the end of one year, 365 days, you're gonna do something extraordinary that the

• 29:35Chris Powell?

  world is, their jaws are gonna drop and they see what you're able to do. And that's exactly what we do. We've done it 76 times. And it's humans, it's the power of the human mind and the human heart. And we say, look, here's where you are. You're in the lowest of low. You make one simple promise to yourself and we let everybody select what that promise is. It might be five minutes on a treadmill. It might be drinking an extra quart of water. It might be eat breakfast. I don't care if it's pancakes or oatmeal. Doesn't matter. Make a promise to yourself and keep that promise. And that is, that is what we call their power promise. Power promise. That power promise. It keeps them in the game of transformation. It keeps the transformation going.

• 30:08Heidi Powell?

  The power promise, but the idea behind it is to...

• 30:12Chris Powell?

  My gosh, I'm loving this.

• 30:12Heidi Powell?

  You have to keep yourself winning. You have to keep people winning. Yeah, again, you just said the next thing. It's like, once you know you can win at something, when you make one small commitment, and for some of our people, believe it or not, it's as simple as brushing your teeth every day. Like, what is one thing you can do every single day that you know without a shadow of a doubt you can do forever and ever and ever? Do that. You check it off the list and you win and you create something called integrity momentum. That's one of the words that, the phrases that we use quite often. And once you build that integrity momentum and you master your first power promise, again, say it's just brushing your teeth every day for two weeks. It seems so small, and it is so small, but when you know that's all you've committed to and you've successfully done it for two weeks, you feel like a champ.

• 30:57Heidi Powell?

  And you feel like, hey, if I can do that, what else can I do? So then it's like, alright, let's add one more thing and you'll continue to build and build. Until you're, well, and the thing I love about, sorry, about this whole topic the most is you learn that the power of your word has, like, your word has value. And when you speak something, you start to believe that you can actually make that happen. In every area of your life, not just weight loss and transformation, it could be, hey, I wanna, I wanna build a multimillion dollar home on the cliff in Three Arch Bay. I'm going to do that. Your word is so powerful because you know everything you say comes to fruition and you can manifest it.

• 31:37Ed Mylett?

  I probably have not ever had something said, and I don't mean this disrespectful to any of the other unbelievable guests that I've had, but I don't think something's ever been said like the last seven minute segment here that I agree with more. Like, and everyone, I want to stay on this because it's so wonderful. Because you do it in the most dramatic evidentiary way, which is someone loses hundreds of pounds. If you were just listening to this and you kind of started to hear it because it was entertaining, but you went, that doesn't apply to me because I don't have 250 pounds of extra weight. You have your addiction. Your addiction could be hiding from your dream and watching television. So as you, the condition you show up to the show in could be, you've had this big dream and maybe you've shoved it so far back in the back of your mind now

• 32:22Ed Mylett?

  because of these broken promises, that it's not 200 pounds of weight, it's not alcohol or drugs, it's not even maybe a bad relationship, it could be all those things. It could be just you're not living your true purpose. You've moved all the way away from it and you're lacking these promises. And if you started to make them, you're going to get life momentum again. And I so agree with it being something initially that seems so basic and that you get credit for. So keep, if you don't mind, where are you getting some more, please?

• 32:49Chris Powell?

  It is all about making, it's when you, when you give your word to yourself, again, whether spoken or whether silent, following through that, like, it could be, I want to start a podcast, or I want to create a product. Stop talking about it because every time you say you're going to do it and you don't do it, you lose more belief in yourself. You're going to fall further and further into that rut and you won't be able to get out.

• 33:11Heidi Powell?

  We have the saying too, your word has to be more powerful than your reasons, or your excuses why you cannot. Your word has to have power over your excuses.

• 33:21Ed Mylett?

  What makes me think when you're doing it, like I watch you both talk with this energy. And it's like, it's like, and by the way, that is part of your giftedness too, is you're transferring energy to people, all you coaches out there. Part of it is just transfer of energy to people. Energy can be belief, love, physical energy like we're talking about here. But what happens everybody that they're giving you is, especially those of you that if you, the body is the best place to me to transform your life. Because you can create evidence there, even if it's that you're not 400 pounds or 200 pounds overweight, but you're like, I want to get more fit. The body's a great place to begin because what starts to happen everyone, when you start transforming your body, this mind starts to be like, as Heidi just said, it's almost like a weapon.

• 33:59Chris Powell?

  As they begin to grow, as they begin to, they say, okay, you look, I make a commitment and I'm keeping that commitment. And after they keep it for a while, it's like, oh, wait, what else can I do? Oh, I'll make another commitment, I'll keep that commitment. Wait, what else can I do? Now, the social group around, that's incredibly important, obviously, because it's your, you know, there is, I know a lot of people say, you know, you're the average of the five people they spend the most time with. And there can be some truth to that, but at the same time, the reality of it also is that for a lot of the folks, you know, they seem to be a little bit, I wouldn't say stuck in their situation, but the thing is that their social system, whether it's their aunts or uncles, the people that they're immediately living with, or their friends, they, so many of those people are not supportive of the transformation.

• 34:43Chris Powell?

  And that is a very difficult place to be when one person has this deep longing desire for change and they begin to take those steps, they start to believe in their self and the other people around them just start cutting them down.

• 34:55Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 34:55Chris Powell?

  And so we always say, instead of, you don't necessarily cut off those people because the thing is, they are, you do have friends and family and there's, there's some, sometimes a need for that, but it's important for you to expand your group. And when you expand your group, yeah, and you also have to understand, coming from a place of compassion, those people, like your drinking buddies that want to go to Buffalo Wild Wings on Friday night and they're like, "Oh, can't invite Ed anymore because Ed's not drinking," you know? Or Ed doesn't want to have the chicken wings because Ed's all healthy now.

• 35:25Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, yes.

• 35:26Chris Powell?

  We get, our people get that all the time.

• 35:29Ed Mylett?

  Yes.

• 35:29Chris Powell?

  So, at the same time, why are they saying that? Where's it really coming from? It's coming from a place of fear. They don't want to lose Ed. They love you. And you are comfortable for them and this is their family and you're their tribe. So a lot of times, they might be sabotaging you, not because it's not out of malevolence or maliciousness. It's just because they're just terrified to lose you and they just, they love you so much. And they're so scared because you're elevating your life. And so it's shining a huge spotlight on the areas of their life where they're too scared to change.

• 36:02Ed Mylett?

  This is the hard question. Someone loses 200 pounds. They're in your environment, I want to call it. They're with you through a year. And it's two years from now. What has been the results post the structure around somebody? In other words, do you find a lot of people go backwards? And if they do go backwards, what do the ones who go backwards have in common? And the reason I ask you that is, I say to people off the time in the business world, "I have more friends who used to be rich than are currently rich."

• 36:33Heidi Powell?

  Yes.

• 36:33Ed Mylett?

  All right, it's really interesting. I have more friends who used to be successful at something than actually currently are. So there's something that happens where people stop pursuing their identity, stop the improvement process, I'm not sure what it is. But what is your experience with the two, three, four year type results? And the ones who don't stay fit?

• 36:54Chris Powell?

  Yes.

• 36:55Ed Mylett?

  What do they have in common? What's the things they do that shouldn't be done?

• 36:58Heidi Powell?

  I, we both might have.

• 37:00Chris Powell?

  We have an answer to this because that has been one of our greatest, like...

• 37:07Chris Powell?

  Points of pain is solving that problem. I know. Because, you know, and let's, again, in all transparency, we were the hosts and trainers and coaches on a show that was on television. And television brings such a unique ingredient to transformation in that it actually plays off of the individuals, and not in a bad way at all, but ego. Because what happens is that no matter what, when we would run for 365 days, and that individual knows that at the end of the 365 days, their story will be told, whatever that story is. And so they don't want to look bad in front of the world. And so there's a constant driving force behind it.

• 37:49Chris Powell?

  And we can sit there and we can teach them integrity and we can take them through that process. And it's, it is real and it's happening. And we actually get to experience the beauty of a human being believing in themselves and loving themselves over a course of a full year. That's real. Yeah. You know, that's genuinely real. And at the end, they've lost 200 pounds, they get up on stage, their chest is out, their chin's high, they don't care about the fact that they lost 200 pounds. They're a promise keeper to themselves. They've got integrity and dignity, like they're living. Then, and but there's also that pressure, that constant pressure that was always there. That goes away. All the lessons were still there, the lessons were learned. But then they go back to Raleigh, North Carolina. They go back to Topeka, Kansas.

• 38:34Chris Powell?

  And they go back to that social circle. They go back to their old daily grind and everything. And sure enough, all those old triggers start to fall back in. And we've had, over 50% of our people, not gain all the weight back, we've only had a handful gain all the weight back. But I would say probably 2/3 of our people have gained Yep. 40, 50, sometimes even 100 pounds back. Granted, we've helped them lose like 200. Sure. They're doing better than they were before, but they've still gained weight back. They've still, and here's the thing. And again, when it comes, it could be weight loss, it could be business, it could be whatever it is that you're looking to do. We can trace every single one of those backslides as they backslide and start gaining weight

• 39:19Chris Powell?

  down to one single broken promise. It all comes back to integrity. And I implore everybody who's listening, even take some moments to think about your friends who've fallen and they've lost all their money and everything. It goes, it all can be traced back to a single broken promise. Because whether it was one day after the show, a week after the show, a month after the show, a lot of them, they maintained for a while and then all of a sudden after a month, two months, three months, they started to gain weight and they started to gain weight.

• 39:47Heidi Powell?

  They started to get comfortable.

• 39:49Chris Powell?

  And then when we go back to them, we said, what was the moment? So we go back to them, what was your power promise? It all comes down to that foundation. What was that commitment that they made? Was it drinking an extra quart of water? Was it walking on the treadmill for five minutes? What was it? What was your power promise? And they go, oh my gosh, I stopped keeping it. I remember there was one day that my husband needed me to pick up the kids from school and then this happened and that happened and I didn't do it. And then the next day came along and I said, it was just a fluke, but you know what? I did it yesterday, I'm just gonna do it again today. And one day turned into two, two turned into three, three turned into four, and four turned into four years. And now here I am and I'm 100 pounds heavier.

• 40:32Ed Mylett?

  You link it back to breaking the power promise?

• 40:34Chris Powell?

  Yeah, every single one.

• 40:36Ed Mylett?

  Wow.

• 40:36Chris Powell?

  Every single one across the board.

• 40:37Ed Mylett?

  I believe that's right. Yep.

• 40:39Heidi Powell?

  I want to add to that if I can. It's a slightly different tactical way of looking at it.

• 40:43Ed Mylett?

  Wow.

• 40:44Heidi Powell?

  But that is spot on when it comes to what actually happened. And every time, you can always find that one thing. But I think you could...

• 40:52Chris Powell?

  I'm so sorry. That's the same reactions that they have. When we all of a sudden trace it all the way back. The gentleman that helped lose 400 pounds, he ended up gaining almost all of the back. He got up to 600 pounds again. He traced it back to one day when he walked into a gas station and he was free of soda for five years straight. He walked in there and he went to go put his cup under the Diet Coke and he saw regular Coke, he said, and he thought to himself, I'm gonna regret this. Filled it up with Coke, went from 250 pounds to 600 pounds again. And he traced it all the way back and when we finally identified that, he went, wow. That was it.

• 41:28Ed Mylett?

  Wow, man.

• 41:29Chris Powell?

  Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt.

• 41:30Heidi Powell?

  No, that's okay. And that, because that's a really important thing. And I think, like we said, everyone can trace it back to one thing. But if we look at it from a different perspective, the reality is that the ones that understood the difference between something we call the transformation game and something we call the weight loss game, completely have had an easier time keeping the weight off. So, weight loss game, you set a goal in the weight loss game and you do anything you can to reach the goal. The transformation game, there's actually a purpose behind the goal. And you won't necessarily always do everything to reach the goal. You'll do everything to fulfill your purpose and understand and know your why. It's like the weight loss game. We had people, like Chris said, for camera, that would do anything they could to hit their weight and so they could win the prize or, you know, not be looked at this way,

• 42:14Heidi Powell?

  where they were forgetting all the foundational principles. They were forgetting, and we can preach it till we are blue in the face. It's not about losing weight. It's about your integrity at the end of the day.

• 42:23Ed Mylett?

  How do they get access to you for more of this? So, it's transform if they go into the App Store, right?

• 42:30Heidi Powell?

  Yes.

• 42:30Ed Mylett?

  What are they gonna get if they do that? What is it?

• 42:34Heidi Powell?

  They're gonna get a whole new life.

• 42:36Chris Powell?

  I know. Gosh, Ed, you're so fun to talk to. Like, I was gonna say, well, there's a whole story behind this.

• 42:42Ed Mylett?

  It's okay.

• 42:43Chris Powell?

  So, obviously with the show, we were working with

• 42:45Heidi Powell?

  What are they gonna get?

• 42:46Chris Powell?

  15 people a year. Okay, you're gonna get everything. Look, we've, so we've mapped transformation. And we started mapping it back in the early 2000s, like the whole journey. And so, we made a commitment to ourselves on season one, where we said, when, when, look, we can only work with 15 people a year, but we've got over a million emails from people asking for help. And we said, it is our responsibility to create something with integrity for them. So, how can we teach them what we're doing here? So, we literally, we took three years to build the largest transformation digital platform in the world.

• 43:20Ed Mylett?

  And this is physical. We're talking physical here.

• 43:22Chris Powell?

  Yes, I mean, you download the app. You tell the app who you are. It's gonna ask your biometrics, age, weight, height, gender. You're gonna tell it what you want to do. Yeah, I want to lose weight. I want to get lean and shredded. I want to maintain. I want to, I want to gain some weight and muscle. And then they'll ask you, well, what do you have available to you? At-home body wave, you can do an iron gym, you can do a cross-training facility, you can do anything, and we literally map the whole thing for you. We create a totally custom blueprint to guide you through transformation. But every week, we jump on there with life lessons. We talk about exactly what we just talked about today. We talk about integrity, conquering your fear, identity, surrounding yourself with other people with support. And we actually, it's not just an app. We actually have coaches that will support you in the process with the app.

• 44:04Chris Powell?

  If you choose that you want that one-on-one support with a coach who does exactly what we do. So it's a whole ecosystem that we're building. And we're about speaking things into existence because like that's, it's happened for us. And there is some, there is power beyond what I can even comprehend behind that.

• 44:22Heidi Powell?

  And I want to add, yeah.

• 44:23Chris Powell?

  We are building a full ecosystem.

• 44:25Ed Mylett?

  This is your life stream. Just so you know, off-camera guys, this is their life stream. This is the culmination of their life's work.

• 44:30Heidi Powell?

  Yes, it really is. And I want to say, for those people that don't want to buy an app, that you don't want to pay for an app, I would even step, I'm all about free. I want people to live their best life. And I would give you, in fact, this weekend, I have three people staying at my home. It's just how, the only way we know to be. We have the most amazing free Facebook community. And so I highly encourage everyone listening that wants to take that step or just wants to be a part of something amazing.

• 44:59Ed Mylett?

  How do they go there?

• 44:59Heidi Powell?

  You'll find it, Facebook, search "Transform" with Chris and Heidi app users. You'll land in, right now, it's a group of 40,000 people. It was created by the people, for the people. They're so, I mean, just the stories and the love and the energy. It is a place where people grow and become their best selves.

• 45:17Chris Powell?

  And we talked about expanding your circle. If you don't have that love and support at home, that's what this community is for. We built it for, and again, the people came and they continue to love and support each other. So join us. If you don't get that love and support, and you don't have to be an app user, just join the community. It's absolutely free and everybody supports each other in the process.

• 45:35Heidi Powell?

  Absolutely free.

• 45:36Ed Mylett?

  Okay, okay, so there we go there. Then also, and I want to say, once we tell you where to find them, I'll tell you another reason to find them. And I don't do this on my show normally to this extent, but also Instagram for both of you.

• 45:46Heidi Powell?

  Instagram.

• 45:46Ed Mylett?

  And then probably your YouTube channel for now, right?

• 45:49Heidi Powell?

  Mine for now, I will say, I'm in the process of creating one for Chris and a joint. But mine, and it's real Heidi Powell everywhere you go.

• 45:56Ed Mylett?

  The reason I think that you two are special, I told you this when we met, is that there are skill, there are people that are good one-on-one. And there are people that are good in groups. It's a very rare skill for someone to be able to truly transfer energy through a camera. Or through, that's why certain people get larger followings in social media, or certain frankly podcasts or TV shows do. They have the ability to move energy through a camera. It's not an easy skill. It's something both of you can do. It's rare that both can do it. And so, the other thing you get by engaging with them is it's like what you're feeling right now. You all listening to this, this is rare. Or watching it, feel like you're here with us. And you watch a lot of people talk, guys, where you're just, that's not the case.

• 46:39Ed Mylett?

  You're almost passively, you feel like you're here with us, because that's a skill that they have. So they can influence you and move you. So I want you to engage with them. Now, I just, I love what you're doing.

• 46:49Heidi Powell?

  Thank you.

• 46:50Ed Mylett?

  We're running out of time.

• 46:51Heidi Powell?

  Okay, dang it!

• 46:52Ed Mylett?

  But one of my, I know, I feel that way really strongly too. Like, I really do.

• 46:56Chris Powell?

  We have to do this again.

• 46:57Ed Mylett?

  We will. We're gonna do it again. I can already tell. But I wouldn't let it go. One of the things I like about both of you also, I love, is there's also this, this, the two of you. There's this relationship. And the same principles, by the way, it's cool on your YouTube channel. You cover some of this, like Q and As with the two of you and stuff like that, right? What I love, and I just want everyone to just get a little extra gift at the end. Probably a preview of where we'll go next time, everyone, but I want to have a little gift here. I have a lot of content, but one of the things I talk about is vulnerability is a gateway to magnify all other emotions. It's also the way that you connect with people. It's what you're both great at. I am a super flawed human, who's willing to share some of my flaws with people, not all of them. That, so people can relate to me. I have ones that people don't know, right? But I have flaws that I'm willing to share with people. I think that's true of the two of you too.

• 47:42Ed Mylett?

  We're not trying to be perfect. And the two of you don't propose to have a perfect relationship all the time either as well. So, remember this, they're running their business, they've been doing transformations. Let's be real, there was a transition. You had a very popular television show, not exist anymore. That had to be a difficult transition identity-wise, I would imagine. Four children, a business, public personas, like, there's a lot there.

• 48:07Chris Powell?

  Sure.

• 48:07Ed Mylett?

  Just, how do you navigate your relationship? And if you're being honest, what are one or two of the significant issues the two of you kind of deal with over and over again? That's a good one.

• 48:16Chris Powell?

  I can absolutely speak to this. You just hit about four points right there.

• 48:22Heidi Powell?

  And we, just so, just for full transparency, we actually see a marriage therapist. Here, in L.A., we travel because it's really, really important to us to make sure that foundation is solid and we remember, like, our wedding ring says, "My best friend," and his is "my best friend," and it's to remember. We're not husband and wife. We are, on paper, but we're best friends. And how, I have to remind myself of this. Would I talk to my best friend the way I'm talking to Chris right now? Or do I need to change that? Am I talking to him as a husband? That is stuck with me. And so keeping that in mind has really helped. But I will say, it is not been easy, but it's been amazing. And I think the harder

• 49:02Heidi Powell?

  it has been, and it's true, we've gone through some really massive, difficult things that would break most, I think would break most marriages. But I think as a result of working on ourselves and working on each other, working on our relationship, it is so much better than I ever could have imagined. Now, we'll probably get in the car and something will happen and we'll end up fighting.

• 49:27Chris Powell?

  We'll be beckoning in about 15 minutes, I'm sure.

• 49:29Ed Mylett?

  I'm curious, let us have a picture, if you don't mind. How often is there a disagreement, a pretty good one?

• 49:34Chris Powell?

  Well, I mean, yesterday, even as we're getting into the hotel.

• 49:37Heidi Powell?

  See, this is the beauty. I think I get everything.

• 49:38Chris Powell?

  I didn't like her tone. So, Ed, I didn't like her tone. And so I was asking her a question because you were busy responding to an email, and I was simply just asking her a question. She's like, "I'm busy responding to it." So I took out my phone and I was recording her tone. And so I was intentionally, so I was intentionally like, "Hey, babe." So, I mean, I was talking all night. And she's like, "I'll literally play it for you right now. Hold on. I swear, I will play it for you right now." I didn't like her tone. So I left her in the car, and I got our bags out, and I went huffing and puffing into the hotel. I checked to say that I went up to the room.

• 50:12Ed Mylett?

  Do you remember this now?

• 50:13Heidi Powell?

  Well, now I do. And all I remember, I get in my zone, right? Where I'm like, this, it was one of our people, he really needed our help, he was struggling really badly, and so I was trying to make him feel better. Hold on, real fast.

• 50:24Chris Powell?

  I'm not ready to play this.

• 50:26Heidi Powell?

  So then, I remember walking, I remember walking into the hotel, and he wasn't there, and I had my stuff, and I said, "They're like, 'Are you okay, miss?'" I'm like, "Yeah, did, did a guy, like..."

• 50:36Ed Mylett?

  Really bad guy.

• 50:37Heidi Powell?

  Yeah, "Did he really muscles check in?" They're like, "Yeah, he said you were coming." I'm like... Do you know what room we're in? So I'm trying to call her. I'm not.

• 50:45Chris Powell?

  And I'm not picking up because I'm like, I didn't like her attitude.

• 50:47Heidi Powell?

  So then she finally picked up and I said, hey, I'm sitting on the elevator. I'm not letting the door close because it's gonna... Finally, he ends up after a couple of minutes giving me the room number.

• 50:57Ed Mylett?

  Nice.

• 50:58Chris Powell?

  But I had to give her my peace of mind. I was like, I don't like your attitude, so you need to keep your distance from me right now.

• 51:02Heidi Powell?

  See, I've learned, I just don't fight back. We've, I kind of am like...

• 51:06Ed Mylett?

  You understand how to navigate.

• 51:07Heidi Powell?

  Yeah, I say, do you want to go work out? Let's go, you know.

• 51:10Ed Mylett?

  OK, that's a good tip.

• 51:10Heidi Powell?

  Yeah.

• 51:11Chris Powell?

  You say, when? I'll play it for you after the show. If you want, but I can definitely play it right now.

• 51:15Ed Mylett?

  Are you OK if you play it?

• 51:16Heidi Powell?

  I don't care. I'm curious what my tone was. It's actually good for me.

• 51:19Ed Mylett?

  Here, put on the mic, guys. I'll tell you.

• 51:23Chris Powell?

  See how calm you're talking?

• 51:24Ed Mylett?

  You're very calm.

• 51:25Heidi Powell?

  I need to call, babe. I'm just giving a quick overview because Jan just sent us a text and I want to make sure no one's listening to anyone but you and I. That's it. I'm sending this to the team.

• 51:35Chris Powell?

  Yeah, no, I hear you. I was just saying.

• 51:37Heidi Powell?

  Oh, that's right. I know that.

• 51:38Ed Mylett?

  You're being overly calm on purpose.

• 51:41Heidi Powell?

  Exactly. I was trying to make sure our supplement, our supplement line is not going in the wrong direction.

• 51:48Ed Mylett?

  Well, that, OK, I'll be honest with you. Neither one, that doesn't seem that dramatic to me.

• 51:52Chris Powell?

  It wasn't.

• 51:53Ed Mylett?

  But I love how you just play that, by the way. Does he do that, by the way? Will he, will he like kind of play up the disagreement? Escalate it? Or do you de-escalate? Or does eventually you just get away and calm down?

• 52:04Heidi Powell?

  He's actually completely shifted, so I'll say...

• 52:06Ed Mylett?

  That was awesome.

• 52:08Heidi Powell?

  Who he married, and to his credit, because I do think more who he... I am a very different person than who Chris married. And it's because I didn't believe in myself. I didn't, I, I just kind of was like there to... And so it has been rocky because there's been an evolution of who I've become. And, and he was, he was the man and still is to me. There is no man like Chris. But it is as, as the dynamic of a relationship shifts, no matter what it is, you kind of come together.

• 52:44Heidi Powell?

  The puzzle pieces fit perfectly as we were. And so as someone or a side starts to develop or change,

• 52:51Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 52:51Heidi Powell?

  It does throw it off a little bit. And there have been some growing pains around that. It's like, I was always behind the scenes on the show for the first two and a half years. Yeah, two and a half years. It was me in Arizona, having people come see with us. No one knew and it wasn't. And me doing the behind the scenes stuff where he was flying because it just, one person couldn't do it. And it was when the producer saw that, they started pulling me on camera. And Chris, like to his credit, he was my biggest advocate. And getting on camera was the most uncomfortable thing for me.

• 53:19Ed Mylett?

  It's hard to believe, right?

• 53:20Heidi Powell?

  I was terrified, terrified of failing, terrified of looking bad, everything. But I stepped outside my comfort zone. But that was tough.

• 53:29Chris Powell?

  It took off and people, they loved her. And it was great. And as it started to go, again, I was always the man. And everyone kind of supported it. And as her brand started to grow, I found myself like harboring resentment toward her. And this is just after like lots of reflection here, like harboring resentment and not wanting it to be bigger than mine.

• 53:55Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 53:56Chris Powell?

  Because of pride, because of ego, because of the male ego. But also when I really started doing some digging, like deep down, I was terrified of her not needing me anymore. And then I was scared of her leaving me. And that's, I'm just being totally real. And when I, when I finally peeled back all the layers, that's what it came down to. I didn't want her to not need me anymore.

• 54:20Ed Mylett?

  Brother, you're unreal. You are unreal. Because we said this earlier in the show, you're incredible. This big, strong buff stud, like I help people. And then you strip it all the way down. But the power of this is, because I've seen this with me. In business relationships, in marriage, everything. If you strip it all back, guys, well, why, why, what? You're worried someone's leaving. Like, if you just get to it, like, that's so honest. Like, eventually, when you strip all the things, well, what if this, what if this, what if... It leads to this place of this fear that someone's gonna leave. And it's just miraculous, it's amazing to me that such a strong man can show what would appear to be weaknesses, but I actually think those are strengths. I think acknowledgement of stuff like that is like, takes a really strong person.

• 55:05Ed Mylett?

  So, even in Heidi's case, saying, "Look, I am the one who's changed and grown a lot." That takes a strong person to admit these things. I think the two of you, by the way, I, I just like, I was, I, I just think the two of you are extraordinary. Like, you're extraordinary.

• 55:18Chris Powell?

  Me feel the same way about you, Ed. It's incredible what you've done and what you've built and what you continue to build and the people that you motivate and inspire, like, you're, you're here on earth for a very powerful reason. You are a, you are definitely a tool that he's using to change all our lives.

• 55:35Ed Mylett?

  There are millions of people who would agree with you that I am definitely a tool. For sure, trust me.

• 55:44Ed Mylett?

  There are millions of people who are nodding with you right now going, "You finally described this guy perfectly."

• 55:51Chris Powell?

  In the nicest way possible.

• 55:53Ed Mylett?

  He's a freaking tool. No, you're...

• 55:55Chris Powell?

  I did not mean that.

• 55:56Ed Mylett?

  I know exactly, brother, I know exactly what you meant. No, I appreciate that, and I do feel like we're gonna do this again. I, I, I just feel like, I already know what's going to happen, that this is gonna be one of these viral things that takes off, because you just don't get this kind of insight from people that have achieved what the two of you have achieved. So, last thing, I'm gonna, before we go, I wanna give them just a gift, if we would, okay? So, covered a little bit, and by the way, the reason I want you to follow them on social is because you'll get almost this mini-reality show that you're watching right here, on their marriage, on their family, with their beautiful children. It's like, it's a, it's kind of a blended family initially, too, because Heidi had a couple of kids when they met, and it, and it's just, but they're just a family. They're just this amazing family, just trying to help people, just trying to make a difference. So, someone's watching this, quick answer.

• 56:41Ed Mylett?

  "I wanna change my life, you've given me all these keys, right, today? I need to start right now, something. I wanna start losing weight, I wanna start my business, I wanna start finding a better relationship, I wanna start pursuing my faith again." Just give me one thing, each of you, one thing, that you would say, "Begin here." What would you tell me to do? Tough question huh?

• 57:00Heidi Powell?

  It's super easy.

• 57:01Ed Mylett?

  Okay, cool.

• 57:02Heidi Powell?

  Make one small promise to yourself in that division. Wherever you're going, whatever you want to do, make one commitment that you know you can keep that will get you further towards your goal, but something you can keep every single day. Every day.

• 57:17Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 57:18Chris Powell?

  I would say that first, but since I can also add one other thing, speak it into existence. Don't just keep it up here. Write it down. Enroll other people. There's a whole new level of accountability that comes with that. And so, it's really important to manifest it. Keep creating it. You know, you had Dr. Joe Dispenza on, and everything starts with a thought. Then the thoughts turn into words, and words turn into actions, you know, and etc. So, it starts up here. You've got to get it out, and you have to make it a reality.

• 57:53Ed Mylett?

  Okay, awesome stuff. This is why I do the show. This is why I do the show. Like, when I pictured my show, this is what I pictured as like the ultimate version of it, what we did here today. So, I'm so grateful for it.

• 58:04Heidi Powell?

  You created it, and look, we're here.

• 58:05Ed Mylett?

  And you showed up. So, thank you so much, you guys.

• 58:08Chris Powell?

  Thank you, Ed.

• 58:09Ed Mylett?

  Everybody, I know you loved today. As always, share the show, will you? I mean, if you're watching this on YouTube, subscribe to the audio. More people, as you know, you just experienced it. They need to know what's happening here. They need to learn these things. They need to be inspired. Remember this also, every day on Instagram, the Max Out 2-Minute Drill. Every day I make a post, 7:30 to 8:00 Pacific Time. That's 10:30 to 11:00 Eastern. Right in that window, I make a post. Engage with me there. Make a comment. Everyone who does that, turn your notifications on. Everyone who does the first 2 minutes, I pick a winner every day. Would you do one call? Would you do a call with a...

• 58:39Heidi Powell?

  Of course.

• 58:40Ed Mylett?

  Okay. Oh, so there we go. So, one of you is going to get a chance to get a coaching call with them. You get a coaching call with me, my other guest, Max Out Gear, my book, Tickets to See Me Speak. We're going to do one soon where you come on my jet with me to a city, and we just talk for 5, 6 hours, and then go have dinner. So, engage with me there. If you miss the first 2 minutes, just make a comment every day, and I'm going to pick a winner. There are people that just comment every day because I want to connect with you. I want to see your comments. I read them, I respond. By the way, here's a little secret. Those of you that start to connect with other people on there and comment on comments, you've got a really good chance of getting picked as well. So, you may want to do that. So, follow me on Instagram. Share the show with everybody. God bless you, and Max out.