47: YOU VS YOU with Professional Hockey Player and Social Activist Kurtis Gabriel

While I’ve been enjoying my backpacking throughout North and Central America, from Mexico to the beaches of Costa Rica, I’ve been feeling a sense of doubt. A directionlessness that only finds me when I’ve taken too many steps off the path, and not enough in alignment with my purpose. Fortunately, I have men like Kurtis Gabriel in my life.

This conversation came at the perfect time. It became, and continues to be as I return to it for a 3rd time, the perspective shift I needed to get back in the driver seat in my life. In this special episode of the Circle Up Podcast we explore the career and mindsets that made professional hockey player and social activist Kurtis Gabriel the man he is today. I’ve known Kurtis and his family since his brother and I became good friends in 2014. 

In this conversation, Kurtis shares passionately about:

• The counterintuitive idea of doing hard work in order to experience inner peace
• The importance of cultivating trusted relationships before you ever struggle with your mental wellbeing
• Why loving what you do is the most important step in living the life of your dreams

Thanks for helping me get back on the court, Kurtis. You continue to inspire me and thousands of others to be kind and to leave the world better than we found it. I look forward to many more conversations as well as many more years of watching you change the world.

To our listeners, I appreciate your dedication to the show. I appreciate your dedication to men’s mental health. And I appreciate you being on your own path to the person you've always wanted to be. We’re either growing or we’re dying and I hope you’ll agree that your mindset and life was improved by tuning into this weeks episode.

Till next time,

Circle Up!

Jonathan Andrews