Meet Brian Mccarroll

We recently connected with Brian Mccarroll and have shared our conversation below.

Brian, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?

I developed my resilience throughout my life overcoming difficulties. I spent a childhood filled with less than optimal situations with a dysfunctional home life. Despite that I excelled at school and graduated college. From there I went into the military for 19 years, where through tours in Iraq and Afghanistan I developed additional drive to get the job done. After completing those options I finally decided to start thinking for myself outside of the standard american model, god divorced, and started working to better myself and through my work on myself those around me as well.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

I spent a lifetime feeling bad. In the last 6 years I have learned a lot of lessons on how to heal myself. Now I use the lessons I’ve learned from healing myself to help heal others. My basic training is a Doctorate of Physical therapy from Duke Medical school, but I have moved this to a background treatment with coaching on nutrition, meditation, breathwork, cold/hot therapy, and helping people overcome themselves and get out of their own way.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Hardship is a blessing
Learning from mistakes and expecting to make mistakes nothing is perfect
Applying lessons learned
Start, start now, it doesn’t have to be perfect. Making mistakes is part of it as you start building your own niche in life, I have tried hundreds of things, some worked, some didn’t, and everyday I work to get better at what I’m doing. There is no end to the work of life, but here is a figuring out what work needs to be done. And work doesn’t mean that fucking bank job, its the nutrition, exercise/activity, journaling, meditaition, riding horses and shooting arrows, whatever the hell that makes your heart beat.

What was the most impactful thing your parents did for you?

They were poor parents. They did not provide the education and love that a child needed. This was very impactful as it especially at this stage in my life (early 40s) has helped me to develop into the man I am today. I felt bad about it earlier when I figured out that my home life wasn’t what it was supposed to be with a driven father and loving mother. But it helped me to become stronger and learn how to help others be better in their chosen path. When I am helping people that are parents I help them learn the lessons I learned from my own so that they have the opportunity to learn from those lessons, as well as developing a rapport with the whole host of people that had kind of messed up childhoods as well because we can identify with each other.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://breathelivethrive.com
• Instagram: breathworkbrian
• Facebook: breathelivethrive

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