Ep 159 - Bigger Than Self with Dr. Armando González

What's Next with Eric Wood

Eric Wood

Sports

5 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Armando González (aka Dr. Mondo) is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Mental Wellness Coach to Elite Professional Athletes, Speaker and Entrepreneur. His expertise is in mental health and he is passionately pursuing his purpose to provide transformational mental health experiences to all, especially to communities most vulnerable to trauma.

Dr. Mondo is the founder of Cheat Code, a service that provides concierge mental wellness coaching to current MLB, NFL, NBA, MLS and Team USA Olympic athletes.

Today on the show, Eric and Armando discuss the importance of physical health for your mental well being, the keys to resolving trauma and how he became a Buffalo Bills fan. Topics include:

(2:50-8:50) - Career path to becoming a mental wellness coach

(8:50-13:30) - Brainspotting, resolving trauma

(13:30-18:30) - Where we look improves how we feel

(18:30-25:25) - the importance of physical health for your mental well being

(25:25-34:25) - Motivation behind weight loss. Bigger Than Self

(34:25-39:00) - The power of words

(39:00-46:00) - Define the yips

(46:00-50:30) - How Armando became a Bills fan

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Transcript

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0:00.0	That's what I found is that when people had these moments where they said, this is bigger than me.
0:12.0	Like, this is, this is, I need to lose this weight or get healthy in order to be around for my kids.
0:19.0	In order to see my daughter, you know daughter walk her down the aisle one day,
0:23.9	in order to carry out God's purpose that he's put on my heart and in my life.
0:31.6	When it became bigger than self, those were typically moments where people had more success.
0:41.6	Welcome to What's Next with Eric Wood, where we will prepare you to make your
0:45.2	what's next in life your best yet.
0:47.2	Our next guest is Dr. Armando Gonzalez.
0:50.7	And Dr. Mondo is the owner and founder of the cheat code, which offers mental training programs that engage elite athletes, entertainers, and top executives in daily practices to improve their mental strength. I have personally worked with Dr. Mondo. We worked on healing trauma first and then worked on creating clarity and my purpose and calling moving forward.
1:11.8	The work has been incredibly impactful on me and you will be impacted greatly by listening
1:16.3	to him on this episode.
1:17.4	If you haven't already, please rate, review and subscribe to the podcast wherever you turn
1:22.8	in weekly.
1:23.8	Thanks and enjoy.
1:26.7	Dr. Mondo, welcome to the show, my brother. Eric, I am, I'm really appreciative
1:32.1	of that intro. Thank you so much, man. It's been an honor to be here, but just an honor to know you.
1:37.5	And yeah, I just, again, I really appreciate that. Yeah, in these last couple months since we have
1:42.5	spent time together, got introduced, got to spend some time together in Louisville.
1:46.7	There's been noticeable changes in my life, I feel, just the way I even walk into rooms and the way I see my son and a number of other things.
1:54.3	But we will get into some of that work as we get into this.
1:57.1	But I want to know first, what led you into your current career path to being a concierge,
2:02.9	mental health doctor or coach or however you would like to describe it? Well, at the core of it
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