Beginning with his humble beginnings in Lincoln, Nebraska, Daine Patton has achieved incredible success in his life and business. After starting his own business in 2015, Daine has grown his one-man business to include four full-time employees and his oldest son is joining the business full-time next week. Daine has also made a remarkable transformation in his health and fitness, going from 330 pounds to 214 pounds in a little less than a year and a half. He and Greg Michelman discuss the importance of mastering the mundane and taking small steps to achieve goals, as well as the importance of surrounding oneself with positive people and limiting beliefs in order to achieve success. Daine encourages listeners to never give up on their dreams and to trade the life they have for the life they were born to live.
Episode Outline:
(00:00:05) Starting a Business
(00:48:28) Finding Your Value
(00:43:01) Finding Greatness Within
(00:06:59) Growing a Wildlife Business
(00:20:05) Mastering the Mundane
(00:26:00) Mastering the Mundane
(00:31:44) Weight Loss Journey
(00:37:30) Family Fitness Journey
(00:13:15) Finding Health Through Change
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(00:10:30) But on the social media side, I can certainly speak to it because in my own business, even though the businesses have been around forever, we're still rewriting how things are done.
(00:30:59) My relationship with my family has gotten so much better. Me and my wife's relationship is so much better. My relationship with my kids, with my employees, with my clients, literally everything has changed for the better. And it's because I started with myself. I started putting the work in on myself for myself. Because I realized that I need to be the best version of myself and in return, I'm going to be able to help so many more people and impact so many more lives after that.
(00:38:00) Once you decide, man, and you go, you go.
(00:00:08) It's never too late to trade the life you have for the life you were born to live.
(00:06:03) Being a dad is a great joy for my life, and I love being a husband, too.
(00:15:27) And I looked in the mirror, I had lost weight. But something that I learned now, it's called skinny fat. I wasn't fat, but I wasn't muscular, and I didn't look the way I wanted to.
(00:37:09) It just takes this little bit of shift in your mind and a little bit of shift in saying, you know what? It's time for me to go all in on myself. Like I've been treating myself like shit all these years. Now it's time to go all in.
(00:25:22) It's boring getting your steps in every single day, it's boring. Drinking a gallon of water every single day, it's boring. Eating chicken and turkey and lean meat every single day. But you get good at those things, man, do they compound.
(00:46:45) Greatness is inside of all of us. It's just you have to understand. Ryan talks about being a greatness extractor, but at the end of the day, in order for you to find somebody who's willing to extract greatness from you have to learn that you have greatness in you and that you're willing to go forth and find out what that greatness is.
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Do you have a dream that you’ve been wanting to achieve but haven’t been able to make it happen? Daine Patton’s story of transformation can inspire you to take action.
Daine Patton is a Lincoln, Nebraska native who started his own business in 2015. In his journey to success, he also made a remarkable transformation in his health and fitness, going from 330 pounds to 214 pounds in a little less than a year and a half.
Daine’s journey to success started with humble beginnings. He weighed 300 pounds and wasn’t very healthy when he started working in 2015. He reached out and got hooked up with some kind of multilevel marketing health stuff. He decided to go vegan for a full year in 2016. After losing 85 pounds, he discovered he was “skinny fat”. He got really big into craft beer in 2017 and traveled all over the country going to different breweries. He even started a craft beer podcast and built a following in the craft beer industry.
Fast forward to 2021, Daine weighed 330 pounds, 30 pounds heavier than his heaviest. It took him 30-45 days to get his mind wrapped around making a change. He did a juice cleanse and lost 10 pounds in a week. He then went to the gym from October to December and lost 30 pounds in three months. But then he hit a plateau at 300 pounds and couldn’t change it. That’s when he decided to hire a health and fitness coach and was in tears on the phone with him.
Greg Michelman and Daine Patton are having a conversation about the importance of making a shift in life and taking control of one’s own success. Greg talks about how he had to block out the negative voices of people close to him and make the decision to make a change. He talks about his own fitness journey, which included a moment of disgust when he looked in the mirror and weighed himself. He emphasizes that it is possible to make a change and cites the example of David Goggins, who lost over 100 pounds in a few months. He emphasizes that it is important to find habits that one can be consistent with and to do the work.
Daine talks about how the physicality of the family changes when the father figure takes control of his health and fitness. Greg talks about how his family has changed their eating habits and how he does meal prep on Sundays. He also talks about how his wife is doing workouts at home and how his sons are doing different activities such as basketball and bike riding. He emphasizes that it is important to find something that works for one’s life and to do it consistently.
Greg Michelman hired a health and fitness coach from Body Ops Coaching in February 2022. He weighed 300 pounds at the start of the program. The program included tracking macros, calories, steps, water intake, gratitude, and meditation. The goal was to increase his steps from 8,000 to 10,000 and eventually up to 14,000-15,000. The coach’s approach was to start with small changes and gradually increase the difficulty. The importance of momentum was discussed, as well as the need to break down goals into smaller steps. The concept of mastering the mundane was also discussed.
Greg and Daine are discussing the importance of taking small steps to achieve goals. Greg encourages people to start with something small, like a walk, and build up from there. Daine shares that he is working on growing his business, Batsrats, and is looking to open a second location next year. Daine also shares that he wants to inspire people by sharing his story and showing them that anyone can achieve greatness. Greg emphasizes the importance of surrounding oneself with positive people and limiting beliefs in order to achieve success.
Daine Patton’s story of transformation is a great example of how it’s possible to achieve greatness. He encourages listeners to never give up on their dreams and to trade the life they have for the life they were born to live. His story is a reminder that it is possible to make a change and to find something that works for your life and do it consistently. So, if you’re looking to make a change, start small and take small steps towards your goals. You’ll be surprised at how far you can go!
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