Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Wow. I have not talked to you guys in a minute. Why is that? I'm going to let you know right here in this recording if it's your first time here. My name is Michael Riggs. I'm a full time author, entrepreneur, men's personal development and marriage, mentor, husband and father of six. And I teach men all over the world how to live fully optimized, leveled up lives. And dang, man, I don't know. It's been a little while. Should we do the intro? Should we actually do the intro? I mean, this isn't a full episode, but maybe, just maybe, we should do the intro. Intro. All right, let's do it. Hello and welcome to the Warrior Kings podcast. I'm your host, Michael Riggs, here to assist you on your journey to living a fully optimized, leveled up life as a man. So again, welcome, and welcome back. Like I said, I haven't talked to you guys in a little while. You've seen the title. My absence was necessary. What does that mean? Well, actually, a totally crazy season of Life came up out of nowhere. We actually just moved from one town to another. Well, one town to a city if you're not where me and my family lived in the middle of nowhere, like middle of nowhere. Like there was like the middle of nowhere, then there was the farms and then that's where we lived, was past everything, just so far away from everything. And I've been building this business for a while. I've been doing this for a while. And we just needed a change. We needed to get back into town, as they say. And so that's what we did. It was very short notice.
[00:01:29] We just decided, hey, we're moving. We're, we're getting out of here. So, you know, huge move, totally different life. I mean, we have gone in just a short, short period of time. I'm talking just a couple of weeks from driving an hour to everywhere, anywhere we needed to go to. Everything is right around us. Like, everything is accessible. Everything is right there. Totally, totally crazy. But moving is a huge thing. And I kind of forgot that. I'm like, yeah, let's do it. Let's do it right now. We're doing it right now. And then I'm in there and I'm doing it and all of a sudden it's like, holy crap, bro, we are moving. We're in it like one house to whole thing. You know, you don't really realize how much you own until you move. And it's like, wow, we have way too much stuff. And what's crazy about that is we moved from the bus life. We had a school bus conversion that we lived in and then we moved into a house and then two years later we've moved here and it's like, how did we acquire this much stuff in two years? This is crazy. Cuz we lived in a bus before. We were living super, super minimal in the bus. I don't know how we got all this stuff. But anyway, really, really, really difficult to move all that stuff in just a couple days. And it was a couple days.
[00:02:40] But hey, we're here. It's awesome. It's a beautiful place. And that's really why I've been doing all of this. It's about coming up, right? It's about going up. It's about improving life, not staying stuck in your same situation. And that's what I talk to you guys about all the time is like when you commit to a dream, when you commit to a goal, when you are going somewhere, go. You know what I'm saying? Like you, you are going up. You're not going down, you're not going backwards, you are going up. And so we reached a point where we went up and that's what we did. And so that's why I've been absent for a little while. And I was talking to a coaching client a little while ago and had a really, really great conversation with him. You know, we connected in a big way. His name is Brett and just a great conversation. Such a cool guy. But at the end of the conversation he said, hey, I noticed you haven't put up a new episode in a while. Why is that? And explained, you know, it's just life circumstances and stuff like that. But it made me realize, wow, people are listening, they're waiting for the next thing, they're waiting for the next episode because I'm actually helping them. And it kind of blew my mind, kind of opened my mind a little bit because I'm like, you know, with podcasting, there's very little feedback loop. Like the guys who reach out are few and far between in a sense. But it's not like social media where there's a constant feedback loop and, and you have people commenting and telling you what they think about the post and all that. PODC is a little bit different to where there isn't that constant feedback. So I'm with podcasting, I'm kind of detached from the audience a little bit, I feel like. And, and I don't necessarily like that. But then when someone reaches out or someone says Something or says, you've been helping me, you know, says, when's the next episode? Something like that. It kind of opens my eyes, and I'm like, oh, wow, dang. I'm actually doing something here, you know? And so I just wanted to mention that because I wanted you guys to know that new episodes are on the way. I am still on this path. I still am on this journey. And now that we're settled, now that we're settled in our new place, in our new home and all that, I can actually go harder on this. Like, this is actually an opportunity for me to do more, especially on the content side of things, because where we lived before, I felt very, very limited in that, you know, there was nothing around us, nowhere to go. The house was not ideal for creating content and recording podcast episodes with a whole family in the house and all that. And like I said, we've gone up now, and I feel like so many opportunities have been opened up to where I go full force now in this thing. And I'm just. I'm so excited to be here, guys. I can't express it enough. I know this is a little bit different than what I usually do, but I just want to connect with my regular listeners here and be like, guys, like, we have gone up. And I thank you guys so much because you have made it possible. And on that note, of you guys making things possible, bro, I have sold. We have sold so many copies of Warrior Husband. It is absolutely blowing my mind. Like, it is scaling every single month, and I just can't believe it. Like, it blows my mind every single day. And I'm so happy to be reaching so many men all over the world to level up their marriages, to level up their lives, to look within, to have transformation. I'm just, like, I'm. Man, I wish I could tell you guys, like, how it feels to open up my phone every day and see how many copies of that book have gone out. It's absolutely crazy. And just thank you guys so much for supporting me. If you have that book and you haven't read it yet, definitely dive into it. That's. I mean, that's why it was written, bro. It was written to transform your life. You need to dive into that book. I mean, cover to cover, bro. I'm. I'm talking, like, thousands of guys all over the world have gotten this book. And. And before I put it out, I said, in my episodes, you go back. I said, January 1st, you can join thousands of men all over the world on this journey to level up your marriage and your life. And I spoke it. And then it happened, bro. Thousands of men all over the world have gotten this book. It's real. Now. We're doing it. The Warrior Kings PODC has more listeners than ever, and that increases every single month. Yeah, my mind is blown. And I am full of gratitude for you guys, everything that's happening. I mean, this dream, it's not like I'm having a dream anymore. It's like the dream has come true. And so, yeah, my absence was necessary, and I wanted you guys to know that. I just wanted to reach out really quick. Doesn't have to be a whole podcast episode right now, but I'm looking at my computer screen in front of me right now, and I have my next episode written. I just wrote it, and it's coming. So hold on. Hold tight. Keep doing what? Doing. I love you. I'm proud of you, and you are going to do great things in this life, bro. A life of overflowing abundance awaits you on the other side of you deciding to make the switch, make the change, and level up every aspect of your life. A life of overflowing abundance awaits you, and I'm going to catch you soon. Keep it up, bro. Thank you, guys. Bye.
