The Burn Podcast by Ben Newman
Join Ben Newman, highly regarded Performance Coach, International Keynote Speaker and 2x WSJ Best-Seller, as he takes you into the minds of some of the highest performers in sports and business to tell their full story. The "Burn" is something we all have, but rarely do people uncover and connect to it. Ben helps people from all walks of life reach their true maximum potential.
Ben has worked with coaches and players from the last 6 Super Bowl Champion teams and currently serves as the Performance Coach for the Big 12 Champion Kansas State football team in his 9th season (3 National Championships at North Dakota State) with Head Coach Chris Klieman. Ben served 5 years as the Mental Conditioning Coach for the 18x National Champion Alabama Crimson Tide football team. Lastly, Ben also has served at his alma mater as a Performance Coach for Michigan State University’s football and basketball programs.
For the last two decades, Ben has been serving as the Peak Performance Coach for the top 1% of financial advisors globally and for Fortune 500 business executives.
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The Burn Podcast by Ben Newman
Take Action. Build Your Legacy. | Mental Toughness Academy Week 6
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In Week 6, the final episode of this special six-part Mental Toughness Academy series on The Burn Podcast, Ben Newman brings every lesson together and challenges you to do the one thing that separates champions from everyone else: take action.
Over the last six weeks, you've discovered your Burn, strengthened your belief, learned to reframe adversity, built your Prize Fighter Day, established daily disciplines, and created a Legacy Statement. Now it's time to eliminate the limiting beliefs that hold you back, build an environment that supports your growth, and commit to living with intention every single day. Because mental toughness isn't measured by what you know—it's measured by what you choose to do.
In this final session, Ben walks you through your Action Plan, challenges you to identify what's been preventing you from reaching your highest level, and explains why your environment, habits, and daily choices ultimately determine your legacy. You'll also complete your post-assessment and discover why simply building the right mental framework has already elevated your mental toughness—and why the next level now depends entirely on your willingness to act.
Most people wait for confidence before they take action.
Champions take action first—and confidence follows.
This series may be coming to an end, but your journey is just beginning. The foundation has been built. Now it's your turn to keep stacking days, continue investing in yourself, and live the legacy you're committed to creating.
Because it's not how long you live... it's how you choose to live your life.
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Action Becomes The Standard
SPEAKER_00Over the last five weeks, you've built the foundation of mental toughness. You've discovered your burn, strengthened your belief, learned to reframe adversity, created your prize fighter day, and built the daily habits that support the life you want to live. Now there's only one thing left. Action. Because mental toughness isn't measured by what you know, it's measured by what you choose to do. In this final week, we're bringing everything together, eliminating the beliefs that hold you back, and creating an environment that supports the person you're committed to becoming. This isn't the end of your journey, it's the beginning of the life you've been preparing for. Now we go.
What Holds You Back
SPEAKER_01We've done it through the course of going through this academy together. We've shared with you the proven tools. You've put together the legacy statement to put everything right in one place. The last conversation we must have is for you to answer a question and then for you to decide the changes to your environment. The first question is what holds you back? What's going to be the thing that holds you back from taking the necessary action to drive the next level of your performance? Right here, right now, together, because I care about you and your growth and I believe in you and where we are going together. It's time to let it go. Whether it be doubts, fears, uncertainties, seeking the approval of somebody's approval that you didn't need, that I did with my father all the way until I saw him on his deathbed. And then when I heard the words from him, I'm proud of you for the first time in my life. I realized I didn't even need it. I should have been more connected to my burn, more connected to other things. But I wanted that approval. You gotta let go whatever holds you back. And you would have seen my story, maybe you even did the years leading up until his death. And you would have thought I had the world on fire, but I just wasn't stepped into my greatest self. And so I want you to let it go and then walk through your gates of opportunity and you lock that motherfucker down every single day, knowing that you've built the environment that you can step into with the right people, with the right tools, and to never look back and to leave a profound legacy and impact on others.
Design Your Environment For Action
SPEAKER_01I want to share with you the aspects of this worksheet of your action plan. It's the final worksheet we're gonna put you to work on. And what this is gonna do, it's gonna help you connect to some additional questions. What are limiting beliefs that you now need to leave behind? We've got to leave behind those limiting beliefs. Or, like I had that connection to somebody's approval I didn't need, or the negative self-talk, or listening to the economy and financials and media. Give yourself the permission and go attack it. And we're here to do it together. What changes are you making to your environment? Whether it's the cell phone, the 30-day burn challenge that we talked about, creating your prize fighter day, where are you going to keep your legacy statement? And how will you honor this commitment moving forward? The commitment to yourself. That opportunity to look yourself in the mirror one day at a time and say, today I gave it my very best. Because that is how winning is done. And nobody wakes up saying, I hope that I lose today. I hope I get on a great losing streak. I know you have a desire to win. Let's finalize the pieces of the changes to your environment in this final tour for you to now know you have everything that you need. Next, after you go through this worksheet, we're going to take you through a post-assessment, and I'm going to share something very profound and powerful with you. That whether you made it through this entire course in one day in one sitting, or you've been going through the course of a couple of weeks, I'm going to share something very profound. It's going to hit you and it's going to help you remember and understand forever that you control your mindset. Mental toughness is your choice. How you embrace challenge and adversity is your choice. How you respond is your choice. And the opportunity to win every day is your choice. The greatest life lesson I've ever learned, I learned from my mom. And that lesson was it's not how long you live, it's how you choose to live your life. You now have the tools. You now know the proven system. You've built the system for your life. Everything you need is already in you. We are coming for everything.
Sponsor Spotlight On Q Logics
SPEAKER_01This episode of The Burn is brought to you by our dear friends and partners at Q Logics. Now you know I don't co-sign things I don't believe in. And I believe in John Chiarando and the team at Q Logics. He's built multiple nine-figure businesses. Real integrity, real character, the kind of guy you want in your corner. But here's what happened. All that expertise, all that knowledge, it was just his. Locked in his head, his decisions, his team, you couldn't access it. So John created Q-Logics. He basically said, How do I make everything I've built available to people who actually need it? Here's what that looks like. Q-Logics helps you see the blind spots in your business, the gaps you don't even know you have. You don't know what you don't know. They're your tour guide through that. Q-Logics helps you build systems that make your business work better or they ask better questions so you're approaching it in the most effective way. And Q Logics has access to a network of businesses and resources, real connections, real synergies that can accelerate what you're building. If any of that resonates, go to QyphenLogics, L-O-G-I-X.com forward slash Ben. Fill out a form, their team will research your situation personally, then they'll tell you straight, can they actually help? Thank you to our friends and partners at Q Logics. Make sure you find out more about Q Logics and your opportunity to win more with them today.
Fill The Stadium Without Ego
SPEAKER_01Now that you've finished creating your environment for greatness through your action plan, now that we've given you all the tools, let me take you back to a visual that was behind me when we started. We talked about that warehouse. That empty warehouse. Looked like a stadium, an empty stadium. You know, many individuals don't give themselves permission to fill their lives with the right people, to fill their lives with the right success, to put in the work to one day stand behind the full stadium, the full arena, the busy office with a company that won't stop growing because of your belief system and how you lead yourself, which translates into how you lead others, or the stage with the big audience where you don't care how bright the lights are, you just care about your opportunity to pour into other people. You've now taken hold of your mental toughness, and the stadium is full. But you're not seduced by success. It's the burning desire to keep stacking days one day at a time because of the work that we've shown you is possible by taking these tools, applying this system, and changing how you think and how you show up in your life. Now, how do I know with such power and conviction that your mental toughness has already changed? Because without even knowing your score for your post-assessment, I already know the score is higher. This is what I mentioned in the sixth tool when I talked about your action plan that would be so profound.
Post Assessment Proof You Changed
SPEAKER_01Now follow along with me on the post-assessment. When you go through the post-assessment, now that we've applied the tools, just the act alone of doing the work together through this academy to build these tools increases your number. Many people don't understand the infrastructure or the blueprint. The championships that we've been blessed, our team has been blessed to work with individuals just like you, the next great champion. Our work in sports and business almost 20 years. Most people start without the right framework. They don't have the right tools. We've now built the right tools. So think of just this first question, and then you're gonna go through all these questions. I strongly believe I can accomplish anything I set my mind to. Well, if you were doubting your beliefs, I certainly would think through the work we just did together, your beliefs are at a five right now. I'll give you one more example. I have built a strong prize fighter day routine made up of important daily actions in alignment with my goals. If you didn't have a prize fighter day when we started, you were a one. That's now a five. So the rest from here, once you complete this post-assessment and you see that number's higher, and you've already realized you've built upon your mental toughness just by establishing the framework, it comes down to one thing: your action. We can't be those individuals who talk about how great they want to be. It's about an individual's ability to watch how you show up in life and to know because of how you show up and the example you set for others with the little eyes that watch you, because of the burn that lies inside of you, that your action tells the story. Your action makes a difference. Your action is leaving that legacy every day. One of the biggest blessings in our work is oftentimes once we build a foundation and a blueprint, it ends up becoming just that, a foundation.
Your Actions Write Your Legacy
SPEAKER_01And there are many individuals that have gone on to become members of our standard elite mastermind, where that's the greatest opportunity for us to spend time together working actually one-on-one over Zoom live coaching, attending multiple events together, being on Zoom screens with a group of 15 people. Our uncommon live group where we can work together. We have five live calls a month. Two are with me, three with other coaches designed to attack all areas of your life. It could be attending one of our boot camps. There's many different ways that we can work together. We're going to give you the opportunity and provide all the information needed for you to stay connected and to learn more about ways that we can continue to work together now that the foundation has been set. We'll also give you the opportunity to schedule time with myself or our team in order to learn more about what might best suit your needs.
Coaching Options And Accountability
SPEAKER_01Now that we've raised the level of your mental toughness, we've raised the level of your intentional focus. You've built your prize fighter days, and you, similar to me, I told you I still got two coaches and read books every day. You want the accountability of knowing that you don't have to do it alone. No championships are won without a great coach. So continue to invest in yourself with your time and with your resources and have the right people with you to walk through those gates to go attack and to win one day at a time. And don't ever forget that greatest life lesson I learned from my mom that I shared with you. It's not how long you live, it's how you choose to live your life. Stay connected to your burn and keep attacking one day at a time. And once again, we are coming for everything. Our team and myself have greatly appreciated this opportunity to work with you through the Mental Toughness Academy.
SPEAKER_00Over the last six weeks, we've been on a journey together. We've walked through the same mental toughness system that I've been blessed to use with championship teams, Olympic athletes, Fortune 500 organizations, and some of the highest performers in sports and business over the last 20 plus years. You've discovered your burn. You've strengthened your belief. You've learned how to reframe adversity, build your prize fighter day, and create the daily disciplines that lead to lasting success. But here's what I need you to remember:
Foundation Set The Next Chapter
SPEAKER_00this isn't the finish line. This is the foundation. Every August, our team is honored to lead Mental Toughness Awareness Month and help people around the world develop the mindset to perform at their highest level. This year, instead of our traditional Mental Toughness Forum, we brought that mission directly to you through this special six-week series on the Burn Podcast. Week six may be our final session together. But our work is just beginning. We're excited to continue bringing you more tools, more coaching, and more opportunities to strengthen your mental toughness and help you perform at your highest level. This may be the end of this series, but it's only the beginning of what's possible. The next chapter starts now. Now that boy of a dumb badma dead boy like a dumb bad I'm a dead boy like a dumb badma dead boy like a dumb bad dumb boy like a dumb.
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