We recently connected with Joey Hauss and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Joey , thank you so much for opening up with us about some important, but sometimes personal topics. One that really matters to us is overcoming Imposter Syndrome because we’ve seen how so many people are held back in life because of this and so we’d really appreciate hearing about how you overcame Imposter Syndrome.
The sentence “The only people who don’t suffer from imposter syndrome, are imposters” has been very helpful. The explanation is that if you even have to ask yourself am I being an imposter disqualifies you from being one, since real imposters don’t even have to ask themselves. They know they’re faking it. The other thing that has helped me overcome this is just surrendering to service. I try to keep my focus off of myself as much as possible, and place as much focus as I can on simply being of service to the people I’m serving. When the focus is on others, I don’t have to worry about whether or not I’m qualified to be helping them. All I can do is help them as much as possible, and so far the results have been pretty good.
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
I teach people to stay calm in chaos using their breath. Most people recognize that when an extremely stressful event occurs, that their breathing will become short and shallow. What most people don’t recognize is that most people tend to breathe short and shallow throughout the day, which is one of the primary reasons that people feel stress. We can reverse engineer that, and show how to breathe fuller and deeper more effortlessly to bring the body to a deeper more relaxed state. We use the ice bath as a tool to really put this to the test. When people get in, there will be an obvious uptick of stress initially, but in a few seconds we show people how to access that full deep breathing, so that they can stay calm even inside the ice bath. I’ve seen heart rates go lower inside the ice bath, then it was before getting in – showing that you can get yourself into a deep state of calm, even inside a situation that’s extremely stressful. My next event is in Canada June 10th, I have some events in Los Angeles in mid June to the end of June, and I will be having a big event in San Diego July 16th.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
1) As a martial artist I learned that there’s always a more efficient way to do things. I quickly learned that this applies to every area of life. The recognition that there’s more efficient ways to make money, be happy, be healthy, to have fulfilling relationships, has led me to look for the different tools and techniques available when I feel lacking in any area as opposed to feeling I’m simply bad in that area.
2) In the personal development space, I’ve learned that there’s often 3 choices when we’re confronted with a consistent situation we don’t like such as a job or relationship. The choices are you can change the situation, you can change how you look at the situation, or you can change nothing and keep going on not liking how things are going. When the third option seems to painful to be an option then you have to either change the situation or how you’re looking at it. While the first option seems the most obvious at times, choosing how I look at things has helped so many times. Sometimes a perspective shift is what you need. Sometimes the external situation isn’t the problem, but how we’re looking at it.
3) Just about all of us have an emotional home. An area that we feel most comfortable emotionally. What some people don’t realize is that sadness, anger, or anxiety is their emotional home. Even if they don’t like feeling those emotions, their thoughts and actions will almost default them back to those negative emotions. While it is difficult to change your emotional home, it’s not impossible, it just takes some deep inner work.
My advice to anyone early in their journey is that it is a journey that will be for the rest of your life. There will never be a point where you feel you have it all figured out. You can meditate and do Breathwork all day, and you’ll still find yourself getting angry or anxious over things you find trivial. But that’s also ok. On the flip side though, you can apply tools and techniques and allow for things to get better. In every area of life you can improve your situation by applying yourself and changing things even just a little bit.
To close, maybe we can chat about your parents and what they did that was particularly impactful for you?
It might seem overly simple, but I’d say it’s that they loved me deeply. In my time in the personal development space, I’ve seen how important it is for a child to feel loved, because those childhood years are so foundational, that they develop the person you become and how you see the world. My mom is Supermom, and is currently Supermimi (grandma). She was juggling 5 of us and seemed to do it effortlessly. My dad would consistently work 12-15 hour days running his own business, and there was never a feeling that he was “sacrificing” his own needs to make it happen. In all my time knowing him, it was always very obvious that having and caring for a family was his first priority and everything else was just about making that happen. All of my siblings have become very successful in their own way in just about every area of their lives, and I can safely assume that we’d all attribute that to how our parents simply loved us.
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