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Spirit of the Deal

Release Date: 09/24/2025

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Spirit of the Deal

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What's going on, Spirit of the Deal? Welcome back. If you're new, this is where we peel back the curtain on business and sales. Forget the surface-level tactics and the endless grind. We're diving deep into the real engine: your identity. Today, we're pulling back the curtain on a live session from our Men's Mastermind with Superhuman Selling, showcasing the kind of identity work that can unlock your next level. Because here's the hard truth: you'll never outgrow the identity you're currently operating from. Until that shifts, you're destined to hit the same ceiling, again and again.

What You're Going to Hear Today:

  • The Identity Ceiling: Understanding Your Mental Resistance Line
    • Defining your comfort zone, self-worth thermostat, or mental resistance line.
    • How this line causes results to snap back after growth.
    • The stock market analogy: recognizing resistance and bounces.
    • Why this isn't Wall Street, but your own income, self-worth, and identity.
    • The consequences of not breaking through and resetting your ceiling.
  • Identifying Your Personal Market Limit
    • Self-assessment: What specific line are you bumping into?
    • Common ceilings: income numbers, deal sizes, client types.
    • The inner world as a "market of self-worth."
    • How new goals test your market and trigger nervous system responses.
    • The danger of an unstable nervous system in the face of abundance and responsibility.
    • Self-sabotage as a retreat to safety when the market crashes.
  • The Power of Identity Work: The Highest Leverage Move
    • How shifting self-worth and expanding identity resets your internal market.
    • Making the impossible your new baseline.
    • The concept of a "never-dipping" self-worth market and its implications.
    • Real-world community examples: presidents' club, opening new businesses.
    • The crucial shift: from doing to believing in who you are.
    • Personal anecdotes of opportunity expansion through alignment over grind.
  • The Energy of Winning: How Identity Rubs Off
    • The impact of simply being in the energy of high performers.
    • How sitting in rooms of ceiling-breakers tests your own limitations.
    • The importance of surrounding yourself with challenging peers.
    • The compounding energy within a community setting.
    • Why you can't "think" your way into a new identity alone.
  • Beyond Affirmations: Embodiment and Nervous System Reset
    • The limitation of thinking, visualization, and affirmations alone.
    • The necessity of your nervous system believing and your body feeling safe.
    • The role of breathwork in creating a sense of safety.
    • How panic in the face of abundance leads to loss.
    • The physiological response to landing big deals: relaxation vs. tightening.
    • The nervous system's signal of not feeling safe at a new level.
  • Practicing Embodiment: Systems for Stability
    • Moving from "I can't" to "I hold this. I belong here. I can do this."
    • Beyond goofy affirmations: the series of embodiments.
    • A practical exercise: imagining landing your biggest deal and noticing your response.
    • Consciously slowing your breath and relaxing your shoulders.
    • Practicing being at home in your new reality until it feels normal.
    • Embodying belonging, deserving, and inherent value without needing to prove it.
    • Breaking the cycle of constantly proving your worth.
  • Why Identity Outlasts Tactics: The Long Game of Growth
    • Tactics and tech are fleeting; identity is compounding.
    • The obsolescence of playbooks versus the enduring power of identity.
    • Walking into any room, industry, or market with a shifted identity.
    • Spirit of the Deal and Superhuman Selling: Identity as the core, not an add-on.
    • Why tactics only work when your identity supports them.
  • Your Next Steps: Identify, Decide, Embody, Connect
    • Actionable takeaways from the episode.
    • Identify your line: What ceiling are you hitting?
    • Make a decision: Commit to upgrading your identity.
    • Decide who you are beyond that line.
    • Practice embodiment daily: Train your nervous system to feel safe.
    • The power of breathwork, visualizations, and other practices.
    • Don't do it alone: The advantage of community and peer support.
    • Why going further with a group is crucial for growth.
    • The purpose of communities like Superhuman Selling and masterminds.
    • Resetting your self-worth market and expanding your identity.
    • Invitation to join and do the work.
    • The ultimate goal: embodying the identity that naturally attracts results.