Keith Mitchell from the NFL to Mindful Living

Former all-pro NFL football player turned internationally renowned celebrity yogi Keith Mitchell joins Brian Levenson on the podcast this week. Keith is a motivational mindfulness coach, holistic health and wellness advocate, community activist and humanitarian, and he is committed to providing holistic tools that help others achieve optimal health, harmony and aliveness to the fullest degree. A life-changing football injury left Keith partially paralyzed, and he utilized Yoga and Meditation to fully recover, and he now shares his inspirational transformation with others as a highly sought after spiritual lifestyle/wellness coach, teacher and motivational speaker. Keith’s mission is to guide others to find the power within themselves to make a positive shift— so they may live a life full of joy, gratitude and purpose.

In this episode, they discuss his upbringing and life growing up both from a personal and football standpoint (6:45), the values his parents passed down to him (9:30), the different between fitting in vs. sticking out in football (12:00), his dominance mindset with football (19:40), what he would tell himself to believe he could achieve a goal with regards to the visualization tactics, and goal setting tactics he used (22:20), his thoughts on leadership and how he developed his work ethic (29:50), what thriving looks like for him and what’s meaningful in his life (40:10), how he cultivated a belief in himself and how he created his own story with self-talk (52:00), preparation and minset during both the week of and right before a game (1:03:30), the moment when he makes that tackle and his life takes an unexpected turn (1:08:50), his experience with depression after the injury and how he changed after the injury (1:14:00), what his daily and morning routines look like (1:23:20), and finally if he would have gone down this path had the injury not happened (1:28:40).

Thanks to Keith for coming on the podcast, and I encourage you to check out his website http://www.keithmitchell59.com/ as well. You can also follow him on Twitter: @K_Mitchell59 or Instagram @keithmitchell59.

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Thanks for listening.

--Brian