As a parent you need to create hobbies you can do with your kids that you can carry on into their teens and adulthood. Wanting to spend time with your kids will always be important, but it only gets harder as they become adults themselves. That’s why it’s so important to start adult hobbies with them, when they are young!
Today is a very special day, my wife’s birthday! She has been such a blessing in my life and has taught me so much about what true love means.
Your biggest weakness can be your biggest strength and your biggest strength can be your biggest weakness.
Trauma is a blessing. We were meant to go through ours so we can learn how to heal ourselves and then teach others to do the same.
We are only in this world for a short period of time, we should be documenting as much of our lives as we can so that our future generations will know who they came from. Wouldn’t you love to know more about the family members that came before you?
I respond to a question I got from TikTok about strategies to expose your kids to the world outside their home. Our children won’t stay kids forever and if we want them to grow up into confident adults we have to get them ready for the outside world.
This one’s from before I started posting my morning thoughts to podcast form. It’s about how I felt during the first few days of making a decision to push myself out of the comfortable rut I found myself in.
Jumped in at 15, and started to change my ways when I became a father at 17. Yet I was still holding on to my old life style. It wasn’t until in my 20’s I was confronted with a mandatory decision I had to make. This story is about how knowing how to read helped me make that final decision.
All the way from the East Coast! Losing track of time. Doing my best to stick to the routine!!! Love all the exploration Wifey and I are doing.
Routine…it’s all about the routine!!! Heading out to New York tonight on the red eye follow our trip on my IG @regaldogilbert
Parents, your innocent kids will grow into teenagers soon and if you don’t start changing yourself you stand to lose the close relationship you have with them as they start to change.
Recovery weekend and how new routines are completely changing my life for the better!
Are limiting beliefs are holding us back from the lives we want and deserve to live!
Do you have a strong loving relationship with yourself? Most wont even understand what this means, but its key to loving yourself and reaching your full potential. And if you don’t have a strong relationship with self, it’s holding you back from building stronger relationships with those you love.
Sharing my thoughts this morning with you.
Sharing daily thoughts that come to me and through me early in the mornings.
Listen from beginning to end to hear the lessons I learned from this almost tragic event.
Coach Crystal gives a summary of how her abusive relationship drove her to start training Jiu Jitsu, her journey since than and goes into detail about our Solid Foundations Women’s Jiu Jitsu program
Taking the opportunity for this Monday’s upload to introduce a new short form podcast that we will start to upload at least once a week. Next Monday we will return to our long form episodes.
Bear hosts the podcast for the very first time. She’s been wanting to ask Crystal personal questions of what it was like being in a relationship with her dad who had 4 kids, what did she see in her dad that made her stay through all the hard times and to let her know how much she admired her for how she handled her and her siblings when they were young, jealous and resentful. What better way than to record and make it a podcast episode!
In this episode Bear talks about how martial arts played such an important part of her life. Gilbert talks about how Bear having martial arts in her life was a major help in raising her.
Gilbert and Bear interview Jerry Howard. Gilbert met Jerry years ago when his daughter Katrina played for Jerry on his all girls basketball team the Blazers. It was easy to see the passion that Jerry had as a coach and Gilbert soon learned that it wasn’t only basketball Jerry was passionate about. Gilbert and Jerry development a friendship and a business relationship that continues long after Katrina went on to High School and retired from the Blazers. Jerry has helped Gilbert in both business a...
In this episode Gilbert teaches Bear a method of curing phobia’s. As adults we don’t realize that our behavior now was shaped by experiences we had as kids. So if you have behaviors you would like to change, one method to doing so is to trace it all the way back to its origin. It may be hard to remember decades ago, so this method teaches you to go back a few years at a time or better yet an experience at a time. If you have any questions about this episode or how you can support the podcast ema...
On this episode we have returning guest Victor Vega to discuss how faith played a major role in being able to turn his life around. As a youth Victor was heavy into drugs and gang life, he spent decades going in and out of lock up. If you would like to learn more about Victors history make sure to listen to his origin episode #20 - Don’t know how to change. If you have any questions or would like to support this podcast email gilbert@sbsolid.org
In this episode returning guest Phillip Rendon and Gilbert talk about how Phillip took his passion for art as a kid and turned it into a successful business that has allowed him to provide jobs for other artists and also allow him to work with his wife and kids. To learn more about Phillip listen to episode #13 - “Gangs aren’t going away”
Bear and Gilbert have a discussion about how being self aware plays such an important role in life. If teens were more self aware of who they are and why being different from others makes them special not weird. And how lack of self awareness could be holding parents back from developing closer relationships with their kids.
In this episode Gilbert and guest Jordan talk about the journey going from employee to independent contractor to full on business owner and how to use fear to push you forward rather than hold you back. To learn more about Jordan check out episode #36 where we talked about him growing up and how fitness had such a positive impact on his life since early on. If you would like to book a session with Jordan, you can message him on Instagram @jordan_kuykendall or give him a call at 805.895.0939 / em...
In this episode Bear and Gilbert discuss what it was like after divorce. Bear shares her perspective from remembering when she was as young as 4 all the way to how she sees it now as a 19 year old. Gilbert shares his perspective on how he felt lost and how much he learned from all the ups and downs of being a single parent.
In this episode I talk with Crew 2 about a video going viral on Social Media about an autistic boy getting punched in the face by another teen at school.
As Humans we are born as close to emotionally flawless as we will ever be. As kids we are molded by our experiences and the people in our lives. We are so impressionable in our youth that some sort of emotional trauma is inevitable. There may be different levels of severity that one may suffer from. All the way from the child that was sexually abused and now feels ashamed and worthless to the child who was over protected and wanted for nothing, but now as an adult feels inadequate and hopeless. ...
