Drug Addict Turned Personal Trainer with Kane Patterson - a podcast by Jessica Sun

This is another episode with an incredible down-to-earth person with a difficult background full of challenges. Get inspired by someone who went from living on the streets to personal training and starting his own fitness business.

Kane is a former drug addict, personal trainer, online coach, and co-host of The Skinny 2 Strong Podcast. He spent most of his childhood in and out of child protection services and developed a drug habit as a teenager, losing over 10 years of his life and at times being homeless.

Quotes to remember: 

“The first thing I had to do was obviously wake up to myself.”

“Talking about it helped me release that control that life had over me.”

“Whatever’s holding you back in life, get rid of it.”

Takeaways:

• One of the hardest things to do, and most pivotal, is to take responsibility for your actions
• We have influences but in the end, we own our behaviors and our results
• Know your triggers for the habits you would like to cease
• Slowly increasing the amount of quality food you eat can help you either gain or lose weight
• Lifestyle and nutrition are the hard parts to fitness, not training
• When you speak your difficult truth, you will be free

What you’ll learn:

• What growing up in 24 different foster homes and having an addicted mother was like for Kane
• The snapping point or rock-bottom moment for Kane when he decided to quit for good
• How and why he forgave his mother for introducing him to drugs
• How fitness helped him get clean and how he turned it into a business
• All about Kane’s daily fitness regimen
• What drove Kane to get sober on his own
• What his philosophy on drugs is now
• Why setting new goals is a challenge for him

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.skinny2strongpodcast.com/
• Matt Wolfs

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