My Disciplined Mind Podcast is about unlocking your full potential through fitness, health, and mindset mastery. This isn’t just about lifting weights—it’s about lifting yourself to a higher standard. I break down discipline, resilience, and intentional action, helping people build stronger bodies, sharper minds, and a life of purpose.
Every episode dives into training with intent, eating for performance, and developing the mindset to push past excuses. It’s about being better for ourselves—and for those who count on us.
How many things have you talked yourself out of because you were worried about what someone else might think?
Starting the business. Walking into the gym. Asking the question. Putting your work into the world. Being willing to look like a beginner before you’ve earned the experience to look like an expert.
In this episode, I unpack a phrase that has taken on a much bigger meaning for me:
Shame doesn’t pay the bills.
We’ll talk about why being seen trying can feel so uncomfortable, how to separate useful criticism from irrelevant judgment, the psychology behind why we often overestimate how much attention other people are paying to us, and why accountability doesn’t require tearing yourself apart.
I also share some of my own experience with coaching, writing, and speaking—and what started to change when I stopped requiring myself to feel ready before putting my work into the world.
The goal isn’t to stop caring what anyone thinks.
It’s to become more intentional about which opinions deserve weight—and which ones get to influence the life you build.
Because shame may have an opinion about what you’re trying to do.
That doesn’t mean it gets the deciding vote.
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— Adam Richardson
Founder, My Disciplined Mind
27 Sept 2026
The Workout You Can Repeat Beats the Perfect Workout You Can't
We spend a lot of time in fitness trying to figure out what’s “optimal.”
The optimal training split. The best exercise. The right supplement. The perfect program.
But none of those things matter very much if you can’t consistently execute them.
In this episode, I talk about why adherence should be part of the program—not something we think about after the program is written. We’ll look at the difference between a plan that needs to be redesigned and the normal resistance that comes with doing difficult things, why consistency gives us better data, and why sometimes you don’t need to recommit harder—you need to understand what keeps breaking.
I also share a system I’ve personally used for nearly 18 years and why I believe everyone needs to find their own version of it.
The goal isn’t to build a plan that only works on your best week.
It’s to build one that can survive real life.
Because you don’t need a perfect week. You need enough good weeks, repeated long enough, for something meaningful to happen.
— Adam Richardson
Founder, My Disciplined Mind
14 Sept 2026
The Hidden Price of Staying Comfortable
Comfort rarely feels expensive in the moment.
Avoid the difficult conversation and you get relief today. Skip the workout and you get your evening back. Ignore the feedback and you don’t have to question yourself. Stay somewhere familiar and at least you know what tomorrow looks like.
The reward is immediate. The cost usually isn’t.
In this episode, I explore the hidden price we can pay for choosing comfort—not just in our fitness, but in our careers, relationships, leadership, businesses, and the pursuit of our own potential.
I share one of the biggest examples from my own life: spending 18 years in a career that gave me security, a steady paycheck, great benefits, and stability, while eventually realizing there was another side to that trade. Leaving didn’t eliminate discomfort. It simply meant choosing a different kind of it.
We’ll also talk about why discomfort doesn’t necessarily disappear as you grow.
The weight doesn’t get lighter. You become more capable of carrying it.
And that applies far beyond the gym.
Sometimes growth requires having the conversation you’ve been avoiding, hearing feedback you don’t necessarily want to hear, confronting a problem before it becomes a crisis, or simply asking yourself whether the comfort you’ve built is still serving you.
Because ultimately, we’re always trading something.
Growth has a price. So does staying the same.
The question is: Which bill are you willing to pay?
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