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Gained The Weight Back

“Burn all the videos”, I said, watching myself in disgust.  “No one will ever see these.”  In August 2021 I hired a video team to film a huge event at an arena where I was Keynote Speaker in Las Vegas for over 10,000 people. It was expensive to have them film, and sadly the audience wasn’t as keen on me as I’d expected, to my amazement it was the first time in my career where I hadn’t received a standing ovation for a group that size. Perhaps even more devastating was the fact that I had to toss all the footage since I could not justify using it due to the way I looked in my shirt. I shared the footage with family and friends who thought it was incredible, but I couldn’t get over how I looked under the bright lights. I dove into a most dedicated workout and eating regimen that saw me release 30 lbs of fat from August 2021-March 2022.  I hadn’t looked this good in years and was dialed in, never missing a day to workout, sweat, eat right, and loved living The Promise of Health. July 14, 2022 was just another great day in

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September 19, 2022 12 Comments
Announcements

The Story of Goldie

  The other day I came home from a week away, having done events all over the country. Walking in the house, no one got up from their phones, casually, barely acknowledging my return, as I tiptoed confused into my humble abode, surprised by such a glib reaction from my children. I asked if anyone had seen our dog, Goldie, and no one could actually recall the last time they’d either heard from her or even held her…and they went back to looking at their phones. I wandered the house in search of my little dog. She was nowhere to be found. Finally, in the basement, I could hear a faint breathing behind the couch in a dark corner. Horrified, I found Goldie, our sweet dog, her eyes crusted over, her back covered in sores, her hair matted and greasy. Gently picking her up off the floor, I held her frail body and put her close to my face.  Her nose was dry, and I kissed her to see if she would realize it was me. Her left eye barely opened, as she licked my nose to kiss me back, and a small tear fell from her eye. Suddenly she

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September 18, 2022 15 Comments
Coaching

The Promise of Pain

  No Pain, No Gain! That quote is always a fun one to consider. How hard do I push myself before it causes me so much pain I can’t continue?   That has been the question I have considered for the last (nearly) 2 months since a leg injury changed my life in an instant. Having a controlled program for inflicting the good kind of pain – that is the secret to success! For 11 days, I have joyfully experienced some of the most wonderful pain I can recall, as I have pushed my body once the doctors allowed me to begin bringing the pain to have all the gains. I finally, gratefully, excitedly got to begin Physical Therapy (PT) on August 31, after 7 weeks in a leg immobilizer brace, which did not allow me to bend my knee even one little bit, it felt like absolute freedom to graduate to the hinge brace, forcing the achy bend of my surgically repaired knee.     Surgeon and Physical Therapists were surprised by my attack of the pain, since I had been prepped by all of my peers that PT is a torturous endeavor, I had meditated hourly for 49 days

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September 10, 2022 4 Comments
Engagement

Son Saves Mom from Drowning

Son saves his Mom from drowning after she suffers a seizure! A Mother, Lori Keeney, and son, 10-year old Gavin, were having a great morning swimming in their backyard pool. Gavin got out to dry himself off, when he heard splashing and struggle, realized his Mom was in trouble, and jumped back into the pool to help keep her head above water. She was having a seizure. The child swam to her, wrapped his arms around Mom, and then swam over to the steps, holding his Mom up to keep her safe. After about a minute, the Grandpa heard cries for help and came to everyone’s aid. But had a young 10-year old Gavin not reacted immediately, things could have ended up much worse for his grateful Mother, Lori, who now calls her son her Hero. What an amazing and uplifting story! Enjoy the full story and video here at ABC News   What does this have to do with The Promise?  Usually this kind of story is the other way around. Mom hears child in a struggle and leaps into water/lifts burning car/shields child from attackers.  Always inspiring stories of amazing mothers doing superhero things. I love that this

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August 29, 2022 2 Comments
Engagement

The Promise To Enjoy This Season Of Your Life

  Tears streamed down my face as I pulled up this video from nearly one year ago. Not so much from what I said, but rather due to my current situation. I had great and grand plans for this summer and fall, had lost a good deal of weight, and was shooting to hit many peaks and mountain hikes all around my beloved State of Utah. Instead, I am here in bed, healing my leg from injury, unable to bend it for a while longer now nearing 2 months in the immobilizer. I have enough strength to fulfill the contracts for events as Keynote Speaker, but it takes a serious effort to go do those, and then a few days of recovery after each one. As I thought of all I’ve missed out on in the past month and a half that is what broke me down and the tears began to flow: Unable to pick my son’s motorcycle up and throw it in the back of the pickup truck to take him for a ride; Unable to throw the football, or basketball, with my boys; Unable to hike with my daughter or fit in the car as she drives

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August 22, 2022 12 Comments
Engagement

10,000 Educators

  In the past 2 weeks I have spoken to an estimated 10,000 educators all over my home State of Utah. Had you told me when I was in 3rd Grade sitting in the hall in time-out because I had disrupted the class again, that 35 years later I would be speaking to teachers who probably would have also sent me to the hall, I would have looked at you sideways and made a really weird face. In one of these sessions there was a chance for Q&A. It was a question from a teacher who asked: “What is your higher education and university background which qualified you to speak to us today?”  My answer: “To be honest, I didn’t go to college as you can probably tell! And so this is just as ironic for me to be here as it may be for you to know that!  But the truth is, that full-ride scholarship I mentioned before that I was offered to go to BYU for basketball, well, that ended up not being there after my 2-year mission to Brazil.  But, when we discover that which we are made to do, and can teach others how to discover

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August 19, 2022 8 Comments
Engagement

Putting The Promise to the Test

Can I pull back the curtain for a moment? Yesterday nearly did me in. In keeping a Promise to the Audience and my important client, I have paid for it over the last 30 hours, as I am now stuck in my bed, icing every part of my body, after doing an event outdoors. The set up was ambitious – 4,000 people gathered in an outdoor rodeo stadium. Stage set in the middle of the arena, on the dirt, with great sound and screens for my powerpoint, yet not enough room for me to sit and speak for this one. No shade in direct sunlight, it was 7:30-9:30 AM in the sun, in my black clothes, waiting on stage to begin my speech. I had to balance on my good leg which really hurt my hips and other body parts. By 10:30 AM I closed the speech, received a generous standing ovation, and slinked to my car after 3 hours in the sun. My leg was throbbing, my head pounding, sweat covered every inch of my body.     I have only left my bed a few times in the past month since my leg injury, and since it can’t

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August 12, 2022 12 Comments
Business

Your Favorite Part

“The Raptor Daddy Dinosaur routine!”  “TJ The Shuttle Driver – Yee-Haw!”  “The part where you took Facebook off your iPhone to be a more present Dad!”     These are some of the many responses I get following a presentation of “The Promise” when signing books and asking attendees what their favorite part was, or what stood out to them the most. What is most delightful is that pretty much every person has a different response.  It is astounding to me that so many different aspects of the same speech touch everyone in a unique way.  It is whatever way they needed for that moment.   “The fact that you were singing and not just speaking like most boring speakers we’ve had.”  “Your Broken Arms by Journey is now stuck in my head forever!”  “I loved the ICM Process and am going to utilize that in our team meeting next Monday with those I lead.”     Meeting strangers that are now lifelong members of The Promise Movement, committed to leadership at the highest level of commitment, who become immediate friends of mine, is one of the greatest joys of my life. Recently I came off stage following a presentation to Mille

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July 31, 2022 2 Comments
Engagement

The Promise of Perspective

  11 days ago was the last time I have been outside and even had the privilege to go for a car ride. I had just returned home from the hospital, hopped up on all kinds of meds my body has never felt before, never been through surgery in my life, as my 44-year old body slinked out of the minivan with new crutches, entire leg in a brace, not permitted to bend the newly re-wired knee and torn patellar tendon for 3 months. Helped from the car, to the steps, I breathed heavily as the meds forced a migraine and I just needed to get in the house, in the dark, to lay down and pass out. Before I could get in, a neighbor walking by said a most perspective filled comment, as he observed my struggle getting up to my house. “Hey!  Looks like you’re in pain and suffering with that leg injury!” he said. I tried to play it off, “I’m sure it will be fine, my first surgery!  Tore my leg up pretty bad,” I said. He returned with, “Well, you know what would have been worse?”  “What?” I asked. “Well, you could have burned to

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July 30, 2022 10 Comments
Coaching

Riding The Bull

You cave to peer pressure and put your name in a contest to ride a bull. Suddenly – you win! What was a joke and dare moments before, you now see your name on the rodeo board, everyone is freaking out with excitement because you were chosen, and the exhilaration quickly turns to dread. This is what happened to my son, 10-year old Royal Hewlett, the other day at the world-famous Oakley Rodeo.  When I say “riding the bull”, it was actually a young neutered steer who will eventually grow up to be an ox, but that doesn’t make it any less intimidating to get on the bareback of a wild animal with longhorns trying to buck you off. The Hewlett’s are city folk who proudly wear our country cowboy hats, belt buckles and boots whenever we get the chance.  Having grown up spending summers in beautiful Pine Valley, just outside of Woodland/Kamas/Oakley, Utah, we lovingly call our generational property “The Ranch”.  We mostly only have the chance to ride bikes, 4-wheelers, and cars, whereas getting on a horse, catching a chicken, or chasing down potguts (aka property destroying prairie dogs) makes us feel more alive than ever in the

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July 23, 2022 2 Comments

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