Unleashing the Power Within: How Bryce Kenny Found his Passion in Monster Jam - Bryce Kenny

[00:00:00] It takes courage more than it takes understanding, meaning it takes courage to try to find your purpose through those passions and equipping your passions. Then it does having to have this perfect understanding of what your passions might be. Because also your purpose may change. You know, my circumstances change as I go through my life.

You know, we add a child, we have to, you know, fix a 2, 800 plumbing repair today. Right. We've got, Oh, our circumstances change, but that does not change the calling that I believe is on my life and, and the, who I want to become and who I believe that God is wanting me to become through the process. And going out in this world and being someone who impacts the world through motor sports.

And so even though that's my purpose, my circumstances to get through that stuff, it does take some patience. It takes courage, but it also takes a commitment for me personally, to take more risks, have more faith and the faith being belief and action on that belief that, that things are [00:01:00] going to happen.

And, and, and, and then thirdly, be more creative, be creative enough to find the solutions to the problem. And when all of that happens,

Here's the million dollar question. How do men like us reach our full potential, growing to the men we dream of being, while taking care of our responsibilities, working, being good husbands, fathers, and still take care of ourselves? Well, that's the big question. In this podcast, we'll help you answer those questions and more.

My name is Brent, and welcome to the Fallible Man Podcast.

Welcome to the Fallible Man Podcast. Your home for all things man, husband, and father. Big shout out to Fallible Nation and a warm welcome to our first time listeners. Hey, thanks for checking us out and I hope you enjoy the show. My name is Brent and today my special guest is speaker, author, and professional Monster Jam driver, the great Cliff's Mohawk warrior, Bryce Kinney.

Bryce, welcome to [00:02:00] the Fallible Man Podcast. Hey Brent, thanks for having me on, man. I'm excited. I love the show. I love what it's about. I love the message and, uh, I'm excited. It's just an honor to be on here with you, man. I've been looking forward to the conversation, Bryce. I enjoyed reading your book, but before we drive down that rabbit hole, uh, you know, we like to start things a little light here.

So here is the trivia question of your show, right? Yeah. How's your sports trivia? Uh, it's okay. Depends on what sport. All right, guys, you can play along at home. Which professional sport did bank robber John Dillinger play? Is it a football, be American football, C baseball, Rd basketball. My first gut was baseball.

And I don't, I don't even know why. But you had two footballs, so the test taker in me would have chosen one of the footballs. You said football or American football, so it's got to be American football if I was just deducing that. But, uh, I'm going to stick with my first gut reaction before you even said that, which was baseball.

All right. Now guys, [00:03:00] if you're playing along, whether you're, if you're on the road, please just memorize your answer. Don't, don't, don't try and like write it down while you're driving. Uh, but play the game. Don't don't fast forward. Don't look it up. Just make your guess. And we'll get back to that later. Uh, Bryce, the most important question on the show is today in this moment, who is Bryce Kenny in your words?

Bryce. Kenny is a Christian first. A family man second and a monster jam driver third. And I don't even know where an author might go in that list, but I guess I'm maybe that's fourth. Um, but I'm somebody that, that is terrified of the concept of wasting my life. And so everything that has driven me and my motivation, uh, really since college, even, I mean, I remember laying in bed at night, uh, in my college dorm room, just feeling like, man, I just feel like I'm wasting my life.

And that was the one thing I had committed to even back in college going, I'm not gonna get to my deathbed and then just [00:04:00] have all these regrets. I'm not gonna get to my deathbed and wish that I had risked more or done more or gone after it. Uh, and so I just want to make my life count, whatever that looks like.

And that changes that finds different gears. That's found a lot of different gears along the way here as well. But I'd like to think that I'm somebody that's committed to not wasting my life and, and making the most of this. I mean, if I'm gonna wake up with a heartbeat, right, I might as well do something with it is my opinion.

Bryce, if you could have. One superpower, what would it be and why it's got to be, I was going to say the ability to fly, but, uh, I think I get to do that kind of in my job anyway, as a monster jam driver. So, so maybe that's why the first thing that comes to mind and I can't imagine being, I know what it feels like to be completely weightless in a truck.

Uh, but that only lasts for maybe a couple seconds on a big jump. So I, I can, I cannot imagine being weightless and just flying all over the place and never having to land. That's what's, uh, like an albatross or something like that, [00:05:00] but you know, it's pretty cool that that's been my job getting to, you know, fly through the air, go 45 feet and hopefully come back down.

And I will say gravity is undefeated. Nice. Bryce, what's your guilty pleasure snack? Ooh, sprinkles. Okay, I guess that's not a snack. I guess that's a treat. But sprinkles, my kids make fun of me. I got an eight, a six and a two year old. Uh, they make fun of dad too, because anything with sprinkles is, is a, is a treat, uh, is gotta be a treat for me.

But man, you know, my wife had the, the, the, the chocolate covered pretzels the other day. That might be my new little, you know, guilty pleasure, chocolate covered pretzels. They, they did me right. My wife digs those. Yeah. Oh, thanks a lot, Brent. Okay. I didn't, I didn't pick a manly enough. Snack. Yeah. I've never been a pretzel guy.

It's uh, I've never like of all the things [00:06:00] pretzels. I was never a big pretzel guy. Yeah. Well, we can change that. We gotta get you some sprinkles and some chocolate on them, I guess. There we go, right? I'm gonna have to try the combination. Yeah. Hey, maybe you can get the company that did the chocolate covered ones to do a sprinkles edition.

Yeah. The Bryce Kinney edition or the Mohawk Warrior edition. Let's go. Come on, Brent. You're a marketing, you're a marketing mind, aren't ya? Jump that up, man. I love it. We can get a little Mohawk on there. Someone gave me a duck. You know, the Jeep thing where people like give each other ducks walked up and gave me I don't have a Jeep.

They just walked up and gave me a duck with a Mohawk on it. So now I'm kind of like, I didn't know there's little ducks with Mohawks all over them anyway. So now we got pretzels with Mohawks. We can make that happen. Uh, and ducks. I don't know how those will fit in, but there's options. There's marketing.

I'm sure monster jam has a great marketing department. That's going to be. Yes. Hey, that's right. They'll love it. What is your favorite kind of ice cream? Strawberry. [00:07:00] Yeah, strawberry with sprinkles again. I mean, I hate to just now all of a sudden it's just sprinkles. But no, strawberries always been my again, my kids, they order for me because it's always defaulting to strawberry.

With real strawberries in it, you know, give me the good stuff. Good strawberry. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Absolutely. Yeah. I I'm, uh, is it dryers? Does this kind of square containers? Yeah. Briar stairs. Cause you get that, you know, it's actually like. Straight ice cream with fruit in it. And it's not all the fake colors and junk.

Yes. Yeah. It tastes like you're at the, at the strawberry farm, right? Yeah. Yeah. And, and not even the waffle cone stuff either, you know, it's the, get the cake cone, you don't have to get the waffle cone, all that stuff, just a good old fashion. Cake normal. I'll call it the normal cone. How's that? Yeah, there's so many options these days.

I'm not sure there is a normal cone anymore. That's true. Yeah, that's all there was when I was [00:08:00] younger was that, you know, cake cone. And then they got the sugar cones and sugar cone. That's what I'm thinking. They got them dipped with sprinkles. So extra, extra gluten to like throw all the gluten in there.

I, you know, I want, I want, I want extra gluten in my, uh, in my cone. Of course. Bryce, what purchase of 100 of less have you made in the last year that's had the biggest impact on your life? It's an excellent question. The biggest impact. Hmm. I would say it would have to be a, uh, well, all right. I'm just gonna tell you the first thing that I'm, that I'm coming to mind.

I bought a gasket set. I've got a 1970 Mustang. And it's been in my family for 40 years. I bought it from my uncle 20 years ago and I bought a gasket set for my, for the exhaust because I'm, I'm doing everything I can to keep this car alive and on the road and preserving history in [00:09:00] a way. And so I bought an exhaust, a header, header, exhaust gasket set.

And apparently I bought the wrong ones. So even though a gasket set, it was under a hundred dollars, but I put it on my Mustang and I just figured I could not figure out why these headers were leaking and all that stuff. And I finally pulled pop these gaskets off and realized I put the wrong size gaskets on there.

And like, I was so mad at myself. I was like, this is, this is a beyond a rookie mistake. I mean, I know motors. I know engines. I grew up around this stuff. How in the world did I put a two barrel, uh, gasket set on a four barrel motor? And of course it's been running so bad and terrible. So anyway, that's going to be my project.

And now I've got to spend another 40 bucks on the right gasket set, but that has impacted, apparently that's impacted my life enough that that's the first thing that came to mind when you asked me that question, I've lost sleep over it. Apparently I wasn't even going to teach you about the fact that you, you messed that up, right?

Thanks. You're [00:10:00] you're a born and bred gear head. I'm not sure how that happened. Yeah, that's right. Man, it is. It's, it's deep in there too, right? It's, it's, that's reading your book. It's like, I'm not sure how that one happened. Yep. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yeah. People are going to read my book now and do that.

I have that same reaction. Like, uh, you know, I thought he was a gear head who would swap up a gasket set and you're right. And then the worst part about that Brent was when I, I had to text my uncle who I bought the car from, right? And so I bought, you know, and, and he always gives me a hard time and he had that motor.

Out of the, out of my must, or it was his Mustang, but he had it out of the car. They would put it and swap it in front engine dragsters back in the nineties and all that stuff. Okay. Cause my family, I mean, we, my grandfather started back in the 1950s on old abandoned airstrips. Uh, you know, souping up Oldsmobiles and he was kind of known as the guy that could tinker on it to make the Oldsmobiles a little bit faster.

And, uh, and so that's where my family started [00:11:00] in motor sports was 70 something years ago. Anyway, um, but, uh, but my uncle used to pull this motor out, put it in front engine dragsters and run the dog out of this thing. And then I'm the one that's now trying to baby it. I'm upgrading, you know, I'm, I gave it a brain with an electronic fuel injection system.

No, no. All this stuff. And so I had to text him the other day after I give him a hard time. Cause he tries to tease me like, man, what's going on? I can't believe you hurt the motor doing this. I'm like, dude, I'm, I'm just suffering from all of your bad decisions from the nineties. Don't don't make it sound like I'm not doing it right.

And then I texted him about the gasket set and then that, that'll open up a whole can of worms. You know, I'm sure the next five things I'm working on, he's just going to assume that it was my fault, but it's okay, Brent. I'm, you know, I guess I'll just go to therapy for it or something. Surely maybe this is my therapy.

Uh,

grace, what are you most proud of? I'm most proud of my kids and my marriage. Like my family, I love, you know, I love. [00:12:00] My, my relationship with my wife, not because it's perfect, but because I've known her since the first grade. And, you know, she kept dumping me for other guys in middle school. And so, you know, like I stuck with it and I, you know, we didn't talk hardly at all through high school.

And, uh, we started dating two weeks before graduation and dated through college, separate colleges. And like, we just, we knew we wanted to be. We wanted to start a family with each other and live this life. And so the last 12 years of being married, I mean, it's been a huge learning curve. And, uh, you know, I, I don't know why people talk about marriage counseling being such a scary thing.

Cause you know, we ended up going to a counselor a couple of years back and that was the best decision we ever made for our marriage. And, uh, but anyway, we, I'm most proud of the fact that after 12 years, like we're still madly in love with each other, even through the hard stuff, cause it has not been easy.

I never want to say that. And people think like, man, I can't imagine feeling that way about my wife. Anymore. And it's like, wait, it's, there's hope, like it's, you know, keep pressing on, keep working on it. But, and then my [00:13:00] kids, the older they get, the more proud I am of them. And just there that when they do things that scare them and, you know, my son started doing BMX stuff and whenever he, he would start going off that hill and for the first time without any assistance and stuff, like I just, when they do things that they're afraid of and they push through it, man, that's what I, that's what I hope for.

If they can get to be 18 and know how to make decisions. And are courageous enough to take some risks. Oh man. I'll, I will feel like I have done something right. And I've got a ways to. Until that, you know, until that test comes to fruition, but, uh, we're having fun doing that and there's nothing better than walking in my house after a long trip from monster jam and, and, uh, just being able to celebrate the cool stuff that just happened on the road and knowing my family's got, got our back.

So we're, we feel, I genuinely feel like we're in this chapter of life in this gear that I'm in right now in life. I feel like. You know, I feel like we're doing it together as a family and that takes a lot of work and effort to, to make happen. But we're, you know, we're, [00:14:00] it's a, it's a daily decision for me and my wife to make that a, a reality.

Oh yeah. I've been married for 22 years, so if anyone tells you there's a point where it's, you have to stop working at it, they're lying to you. Yeah. How have you guys ever done counseling and stuff like that? And, and again, when you hear that word as a man, you're like, Oh, counseling. You know, it's like you freeze up for a second.

Like it's a bad thing, but you guys ever do any counseling or anything? No, but we do a lot of, uh, anytime there's any kind of like marriage class at our church or anything like that, it doesn't matter that we were married 22 years, we still go and. Uh, we go through, we've gone through the same marriage book once or twice.

We've gone through different ones. And so anytime that that platform is available where we're at a conference or something, our church is doing in a class or something, we still make that a priority. Yeah. Do you have a favorite book on like on marriage stuff that you've gone through as a guy? Uh, honestly, the, my favorite one right now is Dr.

Les [00:15:00] and Leslie Parrott. Uh, and it's called Fight Night. Hmm. And it's, it's about how to properly fight as a married couple. Interesting. Like they've been, they have several books. They have actually a lot of really great stuff on marriage. And I've gone to like a simul stream, uh, conference that they did and stuff like that at our church.

But their book on, uh, called fight night, there's how to fight the good fight as, as a couple is interesting. I might have to check that one out. Yeah, I, I've, I've read a lot of them, but that one, I enjoyed that one is because it gives you kind of a format to help you when things get heated. And if you put it into practice, it frames things easier because you already have a plan.

So, well, I don't know a man out there that, that would not want to get out of the fight sooner. So, so if that's a manual for doing that, you know, [00:16:00] I don't know if it's fighting better or what, I'm sure that'll be the case too. But if we can just get out of the fight sooner, I think we'll all be happy. It's fighting where.

It's not a, you win or she wins is fighting to, we win. So, yeah, it frames it differently. You gotta check it out. Yeah, I will. That's a good one. What is, this is going to be a hard one. You're a public figure. What's one random fact people don't know about you? One random fact, uh, that my, my grandfather, who I talk about a lot through my book.

Just my relationship with him. He was my mentor. He was just, he was my guy. And, uh, he, he was, he just meant so much to me. I'd like to think that I learned a lot of my gears, uh, that I talk about in my book from him. And the stories I tell, uh, where I learned those, but, uh, he used to never remember my name.[00:17:00] 

So as close as we were and as much time, he just gave up a long time ago when I was young on calling me Bryce, because he had 13 grandkids and. And so he, he just would, you know, yell at me, Hey, Hey, uh, you know, Richard Rhett, uh, Brandon, you know, he couldn't remember Bryce, but he remembered Bruce. And so for whatever reason, he just gave up on calling me Bryce.

And basically it was like a, an endearing thing where he'd call me Bruce, Hey Bruce. And he, he would always remember Bruce. And so then I, you know, even before he passed, he was calling me Bruce and stuff like that. And he knew that that wasn't actually my correct name, but, uh, it was easier for him to call me Bruce than Bryce.

And so now when everyone, people will text me and things like that, auto correct on everyone's phones, it'll do it quite often where it'll, it'll correct the name from Bryce to Bruce. And so like a lot of people, Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't, you know, my phone corrected Bruce, you know, that they call me the wrong name.

And I always see it as like a little bit of a wink. Almost like a wink from my [00:18:00] grandfather in a way of because he passed back in 2016 and I miss him every day. So anytime that happens, it's actually kind of a cool thing. But yeah, if people call me Bruce, they usually, you know, the only people that ever call me Bruce, the ones that.

You know, know that random fact about me that it's actually not a bad thing. And I don't know if I could call it a nickname, but it really does. There's a lot of meaning to it for me. I love it. What is one thing everybody should know about you before we get further in this conversation? That I don't have life figured out.

I've, I've never been a person that, you know, I, even with writing a book, I was afraid to write a book. First of all, I never thought I would, I never had a plan to write a book. I never thought, Oh, I want to be an author one day. You know, we all think that we, we hope that we've mastered something in life well enough that we could write the book on it, right?

I mean, but, but also I think a lot of times that's why we are slow to consider writing a book because we think we have to have life figured out and. [00:19:00] And the people that act like they've got life figured out are the ones that never seem to have it figured out. And so that's what, I'm a big believer in that.

I don't think there's a secret to life. I don't think that the next great best selling book out there is going to fix someone's life unless it shifts the perspective of that person. That's why, that's what every good book should be doing. Like you talked about Fight Night. It's like, it's not going to give you some manual.

For marriage, but it will allow you to kind of look going into that, feel different, take a different perspective into that next argument at home and, and allow you any kind of equip you, it should be tools on a tool belt wrapped around your waist. Well, I'm a big believer that. It's not about having a secret to life, but I do believe that we have gears.

And of course I think about it as a, as a car guy, uh, with that meaning, you know, if you, people have been living their lives and we live our lives in the same gear for way too long, and we just need to shift and find that next year we never knew we had. [00:20:00] And I'm a big believer that. That our gears are our foundational beliefs.

I think beliefs drive our actions and the accumulated actions, the cumulative actions that, that we take over a period of our lives. That's what, you know, end up giving us the results that we, we ultimately are wanting to be. And if your goal is not to waste your life or to get promoted or to be a better husband, like that's a cumulative actions taken that all add up into getting the results down the road.

So for me, you know. People need to understand, I don't have the secret to life, but I do know what my gears are, and I'm passionate about being in the right gear at the right time, just like a vehicle going down the road should be, and able to, and, you know, the, the, the rock crawling truck's going to be in a different gear than the Ferrari going down the Autobahn in Germany, you know, it's going to be a, it's going to have a different gear that you're utilizing, and it's about time that we recognize what our gears are going forward, and, and, uh, that's what I'm passionate about doing, whether it's on a podcast or writing a book or, you know, Or speaking from [00:21:00] stage, it's helping people find that next year.

They never knew they had guys. We've been getting to know Bryce just a little bit in this intro and the next part of the show, we're going to dive under the hood with Bryce and really get into his mission, his passions. What's what's really going on and why he's here today. We're going to roll to our sponsor and we will be right back with more from Bryce Kenny.

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Talk to my friends over at Grow Your Show. [00:22:00] Adam will take care of you. I guarantee it. I trust him. He's my friend. He's my business colleague and I wouldn't trust anybody else with my show. Guys, welcome back. In the first part of the show, we just spent some time getting to know who Bryce Kinney really is.

Uh, on a human level in this part of the show, we're going to dive under the hood with Bryce's book geared for life and his journey. What's brought him here, what drives him. And later in the show, we're going to tap into your passions and how you can use those and move forward with your purpose in life.

Now, Bryce, let me. I enjoy the book geared for life was a good, right? Congratulations on that. Our listeners will be able to find that on my library page forever more, as well as on all of your locations and Amazon, the piece where you talked about your grandfather, after you set a new track record while qualifying, that was a dirty trick.

I wasn't expecting to tear up during the book. Uh, that just wasn't part of the expectation. So yeah. Well played, sir. Well, well, that's a, that's a, that's high praise, [00:23:00] Brent. I appreciate that. Not that I made a man cry or anything, cause, uh, but I will say that was one of the things I couldn't hardly get through whenever I was doing the audio version.

To your point, it was, I kept having to take a break and things like that. Cause you know, but that just tells me that the realness came through. So I'm, that's exciting, man. No, I'm not excited that you cried, but I'm excited that it came through. Oh yeah, it absolutely does. Uh, I think all men have a inherent, you can have an amazing male role model in your life, uh, whether that's a father or a father figure or a grandfather, or you can have an absolute piece of crap dad.

Everybody still has a deep seated desire to have that approval. And so like you threw in that story and it was just like, Oh, I wasn't expecting that, but before we dive into all that, I'm going to get lots of nasty comments. If I don't ask, how does one become a monster jam driver? Yes. Good question. I would feel like you've got all, you almost have [00:24:00] to win the lottery three times in a row, uh, is it, but.

You know, I, I met a guy in college named Morgan Cain and actually I hosted him on his soccer recruiting trip because I played soccer at Campbell University, which was a division one school here in North Carolina. And I hosted him and, and so we never actually even played together, but we just hit it off.

We were buddies. I take off and I go in my professional drag racing career, cause that was my dream growing up. I wanted to be a, I wanted to drive a top fuel dragster going 300 miles an hour in four seconds and do that for the rest of my life. And, uh, and I got a chance to do it and did it for a couple of years and I just couldn't find the sponsorship.

And, but along those, those, that same timeframe, as I was getting my top fuel license, Morgan Cain started driving a monster truck because he grew up with the Anderson family. Which started gravedigger 43 years ago. And so because he knew the Andersons, he kind of, you know, one day they called him to drive a truck and kind of go down that path.[00:25:00] 

I was driving my Top Fuel stuff. Well, when I got out of the sport and I remember going to my grandfather, he owned the team and I had seven different jobs at that time trying to make my career work in Top Fuel. And I went to my grandfather and I said, look, don't keep this just for me. Like, you know, sell it, get the, get your money out of it.

If, if we need to do that, move on. If it takes me 40 years to get back into this, I'll do it. Right. And that was kind of my game plan. He kind of looked at me and he didn't want to get out of it, but at the same time, he was ready to retire as well. And, uh, And so anyway, he, he sold everything while I was talking to Morgan who had met years back years, you know, probably three or four years prior to that at Campbell.

And he said, Oh, if you're out of drag racing, you need to talk to monster. And honestly, Brent, I had never even been to a monster jam event, never been to a monster truck event. I had seen a monster truck in person one time when it was at one of our drag races. And that was, that was all, that was my whole experience.

And so. I was kind of like, I don't know, you know, I was kind of, I kind of set myself on [00:26:00] that path to go and create wealth and then become a team owner like my grandfather did, and then to run my team again, and if it took me 40 years to do it, so be it. And so I felt like, man, maybe this is a course, maybe this is the wrong course to go down.

But I remember talking to Monster Jam and, and, uh, they said, well, you know, timing's not real great for us. And, you know, if, if that changes, we'll call you. And so I thought, okay, it wasn't meant to be, you know? And so I went off and, and kind of went down this corporate career and I was placing CFOs and CEOs in the private equity backed companies, as odd as that sounds, I go, I go from top field, drag racing to executive recruiting.

Um, and then four years later, okay, so I'm, I am knee deep in this career. I'm getting ready to get promoted. I'm getting ready to, um, to start my own practice in my recruiting firm that I was with very lucrative industry. And it was the, the perfect pathway to create wealth. And then monster jam calls me back four [00:27:00] years later and say, Hey, Bryce, you know, we've had your information all this time, timing is better for us.

Would you be interested in going to monster jam university, real place, Brent. Real place. And I kind of thought because of my top fuel stuff and my experience there, I thought, man, how much is that going to cost me? Remember I had seven jobs at that time. All trying to, and I was funneling every dime I had into that dream and, uh, to keep it going and to keep it alive.

And so that was my first reaction was how much is this going to cost me? And they said, well, you know, we've got all the equipment up in Illinois. I mean, it's our equipment, you know, we don't, we don't have like a fee. And I thought, so just like a flight and a hotel. All right. You know, I came across the phone, I asked him that question, you know, I'm thinking, man, for a thousand bucks, that would be a heck of an experience and they kind of got frustrated at me.

I said, no, we, we will buy you a flight in a hotel room. Can we just, can you get off work in a few weeks from now and be up in Paxton, Illinois to go to our and test a monster jam truck? And I kind of was like, Well, heck yeah, [00:28:00] I can do that. You know, it's not gonna cost me anything. All I gotta do is get off of work.

I just thought as funny as it sounds, I had no expectation that anything would come from it. I just expect, I just thought one day, 10 years from then I'd be in a Buffalo wild wings somewhere and it would come up on TV and I'd get to like nudge a buddy with my elbow and go, dude, 10 years ago, I drove one of those things one time.

I thought, I genuinely thought that's as far as it would go. And, uh, sure enough, I go through monster jam university. They gave me a diploma. And I thought that was a little bit much like, and I left it in the hotel room. And cause I just thought it was so ridiculous. I didn't even take it home with me. And now I talk about it so much.

I wish I would've held on to it, but, uh, maybe I'll just make my own, you know, make it, make, make it look like a Harvard, Harvard MBA degree or something. But, um, uh, but I went through that process and, uh, learned how to drive it and learn from some of the best drivers on what it looks like. And, and, uh, And that first year I drove a, a, a truck [00:29:00] called Monster Mutt, which was a dog themed truck, and it was still a hobby.

I didn't leave my corporate job at that point. Uh, that first year I did 12 weekends. They didn't even invite me into the world finals. Monster Jam didn't like, it was just such a, such a part-time, side job, hobby. And I was, it was almost like an outlet for me because my corporate job was so demanding. Uh, but then it also became very hard to, to do both.

And that's when, uh, the Mohawk warrior truck and the Great Clips sponsorship came around as well. So anyway, that's a whole nother story, but I made it through Monster Jam University and yeah, it's a, it was a literal crash course in driving a 12, 000 pound machine and learning how to do backflips for a living.

Oh my goodness. I actually, so I actually almost felt guilty when, when we set this up, it's like. Man, I haven't watched monster trucks since I was a kid. It was big foot and grave digger back then where, where the construction, the sport. And Bigfoot's still out there as well. So he, he was one of the [00:30:00] ones he didn't sell.

He didn't want to sell to Monster Jam years back. Gravedigger did. Uh, so Monster Jam now, people don't actually realize how big Monster Jam is. It's the largest motorsports fleet in the world. And so they own everything, right? They own the trucks, they own the drivers, crew, everything. They build the trucks from the ground up.

Um, and then it's owned by a company called Feld Entertainment, F E L D. Uh, they own Supercross, Disney on Ice. They, they're the ones that shut down the circus because of the animal stuff. Uh, and they're the ones that are relaunching it now. So the Ring, Ringling Brothers, if you've seen, if anyone's seen that, all of that's coming out of Feld Entertainment, which is out of Monster Jam as well.

And they have the, uh, the, the second, maybe I heard recently is the third largest building in the state of Florida now, uh, but it's this huge headquarters down in, uh, Palmetto, Florida, just outside of Sarasota, you know, an hour away from Tampa and that's where everything's based. So it's kind of crazy.

Cause they maintain it. I literally Brent, I fly in on a Thursday. The truck is there. It's [00:31:00] fixed from the week before I tear it up again, wherever I'm at, break the truck in half. I get back on an airplane on Sunday and fly home. I mean, fire your high school guidance counselor, all of us need to send a strongly worded letter to our guidance counselors at this, that no one told you listener that this was an option as a career, right?

I don't remember that in my guidance counselor spill monster truck driver podcaster, right? Yeah, a lot of, a lot of things I'm involved with. I don't remember ever being part of that conversation. Yeah. Yeah. Where was that on the strength finders test? Man. So Bryce, you have, I mean, a fascinating career, honestly.

Like, uh, when, when we first connected, it was like, Oh wow. That's, that's really cool. Like. You hold the Guinness book of world records for the fastest speed in a monster truck, which is just insane. Yeah, I read that story in the book. I was like, uh, I'm not sure that it's meant to [00:32:00] go that fast. It was not.

Yeah. My, my, our, our conversation before the world record run was okay. No one's hit a hundred miles an hour before in something that weighs this, this much. And we looked at each other and I went, yeah, and no, one's crashed one of these at a hundred miles an hour either did not crash, but, uh, yeah, it was way more violent than a hundred miles an hour felt to your point.

They're just, they're not supposed to go at high speeds like that. So why write a book? We, we, we touched a little bit earlier. You're like, you, you never, you intended to write a book. Why, why write a book? Yeah, it wasn't even, um, it wasn't a bucket list item for me. I love doing speaking engagements. I love going on.

I love putting a speech together, uh, because it gets me open and then I feel like it makes me a better version of myself, but I remember thinking it'll be cool just because the way you can get content online, that my kids will have that. We don't always have, you know, you mentioned just a little [00:33:00] bit ago, not everybody has a grandfather like I had that, that was, was that positive influence on my life.

I am not a self made person. I'm not somebody that just was smart enough to battle through everything. You know, if I'm Batman right now, my grandfather was Alfred, you know, he was the one that was, that, that, that really was my, not just my mentor, but he was the one that connected the dots for me in my mind.

Well, if you're listening to this, like you're Batman too. And if my book can then be Alfred, whether you had a positive influence growing up or a mentor, if you've ever had that or not. None of us actually believe that we can get through this hard stuff called life on our own. None of us do. Like, we know that we, we believe deep down that we're capable of making it through, but having someone to guide us around the landmines, um, we, we recognize that that might be what it's going to take.

And so, I said to myself, Okay, I had that positive [00:34:00] influence, and not, not every single thing I talk about in the book came from my grandfather, but... I hope that whether someone has a mentor, I hope this book becomes a mentor for people. And I hope by the time they get through it, you know, I share my seven personal gears, the gears that I shift in and out of constantly in my life and how I learned them.

And I hope by the time someone gets to the end of them, you know, that they'll probably steal some of my gears, but my hope is that they find their own as well, right? Maybe they steal three or four of their gears, but then they get to the end, they realize, man, what do I believe? Because we're going into this point in our life with all the chaos going on around our world.

There's never a more important time to know what you believe and understand why you believe that, because that will drive. forward. And so my life has been a culmination of Shifting into the right gear at the right time. And then sometimes finding out, Oh, that was the wrong gear and shifting back into the right one.

And it's a, it's a, it's [00:35:00] a process with it. And so my desire to write this book was just that I hope it is the Alfred to your Batman, you know, I hope it is the guide. I hope it is a mentor for people. Uh, and, and allows them to get unstuck that the people that are dealing with burnout that just feel, man, I don't know that I can get through any more of this, uh, that, that, that book serves to get them through that hard time and so that when we are hit, our head hits the pillow at night, you know, all of us have had those moments where it's like, man, is this really all there is And we've got, if you're, if your head hits the pillow at night and you're still asking that question, something needs to change and what needs to change is not this whole upending of life.

You know, sometimes we think, Oh, I don't, I don't know how to fix all this. Is this really all there is to life? Like, surely this can't be it, uh, for, for me. And the answer to that is no, but you, if you're in first year and you've been in first year for 35 years. It's time to shift a second. And what does that look like?

And how, what does it take to, to find second gear? What does second gear going to look like for [00:36:00] you in your life? That's what I hope the book becomes for people. And that's why I wanted to write it. That's actually how the fellow boom man started. I hit that moment in my life and went, this can't be it.

Right. Yeah. I had a good job. We had the house kids, dog, right. The American dream. And yeah. And I looked around and went, really, this is, this is, this is the dream. I'm not sure I buy that now, right? There's got to be more meaning to that. So yes, I love that. That was a driving force. Yes. Well, and if it, just to your point, you know, I think we all, we all have that moment of, of lack of belief.

You know, and frustration. And then a lot of people, a lot of times we give up in that moment and we just think, you know, I think it's one of the most dangerous moments in life is when you're in that moment, you're not sure what's going on next and all this stuff. And you go, you know, it's not that people just give up, but they, they, they get stuck in [00:37:00] neutral, right.

And all of a sudden it's just kind of, okay, I guess this is all there is. That's dangerous because I, I meet way more people that are 65 and older that they really, they kind of just parked it in neutral or first gear 30 years ago. And that's all they've done because that's all that they thought they were capable of.

And man, what a, what a waste, right? I mean, how many dreams and unrealized goals end up in the graveyards? You know how many, how much, how much potential ends up buried in a grave, meaning just unrealized potential. Cause people didn't realize that maybe it wasn't, well, I got to figure out all the secrets to making this goal and dream happen, because that's what most, most of it is.

The only reason people give up on a goal is because. They don't believe that they have what it takes to make it happen. And they don't believe they have what it takes to figure out how to make it happen. And it's like, man, you're trying to find, you're trying to go from first gear to fifth gear. That's not the answer.

Like, [00:38:00] yeah, Hey, have a great vision, have a big time goal, but don't feel like you're having to shift from first to fifth, go from first year to second year, and then let's help you go from second to third, third to fourth. And that's how you create momentum and momentum should be the goal. It's the hardest thing to create.

It's the hardest thing to keep as well, but that's what I think that, that having the right perspective will give. Bryce, you have these platforms where, you know, you've, you've had the career changes, which is not easy. Yeah. Especially starting out a marriage. Uh, going back to your book, I, I, I love that conversation.

It's like, oh yeah. How do, how do I go back to my wife and be like, oh, we're gonna change this up a little bit. Yes. , you, you've had those change up, right? You started in drag racing with your, with your grandfather. You've had all these steps. And now you're driving this incredible machine, doing this awesome thing.

You're writing a book, you're breaking [00:39:00] records, you're talking to people. Why? What makes Bryce tick? I really believe in my heart. It's not that I'm any smarter than anybody else, or that I have more of life figured out. I think that there's really three things that I want to become as the best version of myself.

It's someone that takes more risks. That has more faith that things are going to work out and someone that's more creative in making this stuff happen. And, and that doesn't have to be anyone else's goal out there. It's just mine, because deep down, if I can help people create a better version of themselves and find that best version, then it'll all be worth it.

You know, I think that when we focus on who we want to become instead of the, what we want to do. Then the what takes care of itself. And what I mean by that is, is just what I was saying. I want to be someone who impacts this world through the [00:40:00] platform of motorsports. So when I had the decision to make about leaving my corporate career, remember that was, I had a really good life going.

You know, I was making good money. That was going to be my pathway back into drag racing down the road. So I hoped and thought that was the vision. But when I struggled with the decision on leaving that career, leaving the good life for something that was great and put me back into a motor sports career today, which is why I left my, or left my, my recruiting job for monster jam.

That to me is all about the who, and if you can figure out who you want to be. Then the what takes care of itself, meaning, okay, if I know I want to be that person that impacts worlds or motorsports, then when I'm faced with the decision on what to do, whether it's leaving my good corporate career for, uh, for, for monster jam that fell in line and aligned with who I wanted to become and it was the same thing with writing a book, you know, if it was just the, what of writing a book, meaning.[00:41:00] 

Did I ever think that what I wanted to do was publish a book? No, that, that was not part of my what, but it was part of my who. And so my better version, the best version of Bryce Kenny, I don't know exactly what I'll look like at 65 or 70, right? Not just physically, but, but in, in the things that I, that, that I want to go and do, but I can tell you, I want to become the best version of me.

And so. When we're focused on who we want to be through that process, then we're, I think we're able to more clearly articulate and understand and find the things of what kind of fall in line with getting us there. And so that's what I hope really not, not even just this book becomes for other people and, uh, but it's kind of like a barn find would be the best way to drive that part home.

It's, you know, we all as guys, like we have that dream of you're going down a back road. You look up, you know, you look up on a hillside and all of a sudden you see it out of a barn. You see these headlights. And you can't see the car, but you know, right. If you know, you're [00:42:00] like, man, it's an old hot rod because the top of it's kind of covered in with a tarp and you pull off to the side and you go up to the barn and, and sure enough, you knock on the door and the old man comes out and say, yeah, you know, he's just a 69 Camaro and he's had it for.

45 years and you know, you walk up to the car and he's showing you everything. And, and, uh, he tells you the motor hasn't been started in 10 years. He hasn't had it out of the barn in that long either. And you're looking at it, the tar and he kind of pulls the tarp back. And you see it. Well, that thing is, it looks like a pile of junk.

If my wife saw that car, she would look at it for what it is now, which is covered in dust, dirt, gross, right? Hasn't started not something that's going to be able to take the kids to school. But as guys, we see that car at its best. We don't even see the dust and the dirt and the motor that hasn't started.

All we see is that brand new paint job. We can almost see it. We can hear the tire screeching on a burnout, [00:43:00] right? We can see it that that car at its very best version. Not what it's doing sitting there in that, that old barn. And my question and my point I've always said is, man, if I can do that with a vehicle, why can't I do that with myself?

When I look in the mirror and as I think it's about time we start seeing ourselves as our best version of what we can become, who we can become as men, and then allow the, what to kind of fall in line with supporting and getting us there. And, uh, and, and that's what I'm passionate about doing and, and people can do it if they feel like they've got the right support and mentorship and guidance.

To make that happen. And that's why I think podcasts just like this. That's why it's so important. That's what it's doing. That's why people that love this podcast, that's why they love it. They may not realize that, but they, it's, it's getting them, moving them into that better version of themselves, whether they realize it or not.

And now all of a sudden the what's gonna start coming behind that to support that person becoming that barn fine car, getting that six nine Camaro now, now [00:44:00] that's exactly who they're, who they're becoming, they're becoming that six nine Camaro. With a 10, 000 paint job and a sweet motor pushing 600 horsepower out there in life.

Oh man. That's just, that's just, you, you started talking about a 69 Camaro and I I'm just like in Lala land, dreaming of driving that down the road and I'm not a huge gear head, but you hit the right model right there. I'm like, yeah. Yeah. And it's out there, right? The best version of those cars are still out there.

Just like the, the, the listener it's there's still out there. The best version of themselves, they're still out there. And I choose to believe. Uh, that they're not only capable of becoming that, but that they're actually, you know, when they check under the hood, you know, they see the, the, the good motor and they've got more motor in them than they realize and that they're using today.

We just got to bring it out of them. Guys, we we've just been getting under the hood a little bit with Bryce to understand. The why and the who, and what really makes him [00:45:00] who he is right now, that journey that he's been through. And the next part of the show, we're going to dive into how he found meaning in his passion and transform that into a purpose, how you can do the same thing.

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Now let's go on to the show. Guys, welcome back in the last part of the show, we got under the hood with Bryce Kinney a [00:46:00] little bit just to see what makes him tick and how he's gotten to where he is in this part of the show. We're gonna talk about how he found meaning in his passion and transformed it into purpose and also how you can do the same thing.

Now, Bryce, as kind of a precursor of this conversation, uh, just quickly, can we dig into the question of you talk about in the book, the importance of filling yourself before you can empty yourself out and really pour yourself into something. Uh, can you talk about why that's so important because we're going to move into passion.

We're going to have to pour ourselves out. Pour. Yeah. Well, and think about it. Think about it from a race car's perspective. You know, the only reason that you would drive a race car hard enough to win is knowing where the area is right where, wherever, you know. That you would get refueled, then you're much more willing to go and run the car harder.

You know, I mean, if you thought that you'd, you know, had no idea to get back and, and put more [00:47:00] gas in the tank, then you're going to conserve. And to me, I think life is the exact same way. So we were being constantly asked to do more. Uh, to work harder, uh, more demands, all of those things. And I just believe that we're much more willing to work harder instead of conserve our, not only just our energy, but our resources and things like that.

We're much more willing to, to, to kind of spill it all and to run harder at everything that we want to do and building that momentum in our life again, and chasing after our goals when we know how we will get fuel backup. And so I'm a big believer that understanding that. You know, whether it's podcasts like this, whether it's time with family, whether it's alone time, I mean, if you're a big introvert, you need alone time to refuel, but understanding not just how, what makes you feel re refreshed and refueled, you know, some people will think some people, when they hear me saying this, they think of.

Happiness. What's going to make me happy today? By the [00:48:00] way, that's a terrible, terrible gauge. I think happiness is the dumbest goal for anyone to have. It should be a byproduct and it will be a byproduct from things that, that are more meaningful in our lives and what we're doing. But when I say refueled, I'm not saying what's going to make you happy again, because sometimes that's a vice.

Sometimes certain things that we chase after that we think are going to make us happy. It's all just very fleeting. There's a difference between happiness and joy and all those things. But, you know, for me personally, it's time with my family. Um, it's a book, like I am a physical copy book guy and I need to read through that.

For me, it's prayer. Uh, all those types of things as small as they can seem are big time refuels for me. And there are a lot of things, a lot of things, and that that'll do it from a bigger perspective, like just getting results. If I'm having a bad day, right, I'm, I might go out and literally sweep out my [00:49:00] garage to get a quick and to see the difference that of the garage looking good and all of a sudden I think it's a, it's a matter of getting a lot of wins back to back.

Because what happens if we're not careful, careful in our lives, we go through and we keep getting all these failures that add up to make us feel like a failure. You know, you might have set your alarm to get up at 6 45, but you hit snooze three times. You got the 7 15. You don't realize this, but you're starting the day off.

And then you had a plan that that next morning you were going to wake up and make yourself an omelet, make yourself a healthy egg protein based breakfast. Well, because you, you, you got up at 7 15, you didn't have time to do that. And you had to microwave something, you know, that was fatty and not healthy for you and just to stuff it down your face, getting out, out of the door.

And because you did all of that, you're running just five minutes late to work and you get to work at 805 instead of 7 59. And now, before you know it, you're getting to lunch midday and all you've [00:50:00] done, you don't, you don't think about it this way, but subconsciously you feel like a failure midway through your day because you kept, you had all these failures that added up.

Well, when we shift that focus and all of a sudden we're, we're winning focused and we're committed to those little things and those little goals, uh, then I think it allows us to, to feel more like a winner. And so I believe that for me personally, it's seeing real results in something, something in life, whether it's getting the garage fixed.

Like I said, it could be literally, it could be as easy as sweeping out the floor. It could be a bigger win, like. You know, actually canceling the work meeting I had that night to enable to take my wife out on a date because we needed that in our marriage. I'm going to get through the end of that night and feel like a winner because I, I made that decision to do that.

So I think seeing real results is a big thing for a lot of us guys. And that is fuel in my tank. And so when I get really depleted. And I start feeling tired, [00:51:00] exhausted. And just like last week, I got back from three months. I felt like of just grinding out speaking engagements and events and this book launch that we had all of the really critical things that was a labor of love.

But I told my wife, I said, I have been preparing for three months straight for something prepping, rehearsing, practicing. And I need to get out of that gear. I need to find a different gear right now. And it's not just about unplugging. It's not about just watching Netflix and turning my brain off. I do know need those moments, by the way, where I just turn my brain off and look, I told her, I said, I've got to get into my creative gear.

I've got to shift out of my prep and rehearsal gear and get into a creative gear. And, and, uh, and that's what I've been doing for the last four days. And yeah. And it's been refreshing. That's what's filled up my tank. Well, when we know how and where to get our tanks refueled, we're so much more willing to go and spend every last drop in the [00:52:00] gas tank in our efforts and in what we're trying to do because we know that's not the end.

And sometimes people want to think about it like a faucet. You're willing to pour out. If you had a cup of water, I got a cup of water right there. I'm not afraid as long as I know where a faucet is, I'm not afraid to drink all that because I know where to fill it back up. And that's the same process that we should be at as men.

And, and the reason why you're conserving what's inside is because you don't know where your faucet is. You don't know how you're going to fill this back up once you can, once you consume it and whether that's your energy, your, your skill sets, whatever that is, you got to know where to get refueling. You got to know where the pit area is.

To get that gas back in the tank. When you do that, watch the effort, watch the, the, the excitement to go and pursue those things. You're not gonna be scared of it anymore. You guys, I wanted to make sure we covered that because in order for you to really, really follow your passion and seek that purpose, you're going to have to be ready to pour [00:53:00] out.

You can't, you can't just kind of. Go through the motions and get there. It's not going to happen. So I love the fact that you talked about in that, in your book and most, most men are the really bad self care is the first thing we drop, right? When life gets busy, the first thing that goes is my nutrition, my workouts.

Uh, that's the first thing I sacrifice. And guys are really, really centered around that a lot of times. Like that's the optional part. Yeah. And, and, and guys are afraid of it because again, it's like, you know, is this gonna hurt? Is this gonna be worth it? I think some guys are afraid like, well, it'll be a waste of time.

'cause what if it doesn't work out? Mm-Hmm. . And, and that's what happens is we start negotiating the price of success instead of paying. the price of success. Well, paying the price of success, which is a lot of hard work and commitment and dedication and all the things that we as men know it is what it's going to take.[00:54:00] 

It just becomes so much easier to give of yourself down that path. When you realize that, look, you might exude a lot and you might exert a lot of, of, of, of energy, but it will come back to you and knowing where your faucet is, knowing where your, your pit area is, that's going to be vital in doing that.

And that's why I spend a lot of the book. Trying to talk about that. And, and I think that, you know, by the time someone gets through that chapter, they're going to understand what is my faucet, like what's going to fill me back up, it's going to get them excited about pouring themselves out. Bryce, you left a secure corporate job.

You said. Very lucrative, right? The kind of job where you can build into those bigger things. You left a lucrative job, which is going to be hard for a lot of guys right off the bat to even make a decision like that. What made you shift gears from that and go, you know what, now I'm going to take a chance on this.

Yeah. I remember it was funny too, because I told monster jam and this had to do with [00:55:00] the sponsored truck. This is when great clips came around and they, they, they had my name forward to be the driver of the truck. And I, I kept telling monster jam. No. Because of that very reason, like I had a good life, good career, good corporate job, good income and a good track record.

And so I, I remember kept telling them, no, no, no, no, no. Finally, they called me and they said, Bryce, look, we know you've told us to take your name off the list for this truck, even. But now they've officially chosen you as the driver. Like what's it going to take? And I remember I was standing in my garage.

And I was looking around, I was on the phone with somebody and not talking about this decision because it was going to be a, I knew I could not do both. I don't think Monster Jam was not even asking me to give up my corporate career. I just knew that if I tried to do both, I would be good at both, but not great at either.

And so. And because of my top fuel stuff, I knew what being an ambassador was going to look like being a representative for [00:56:00] a brand. And I knew that was going to take every ounce of me. And it does, it takes every ounce of my professional effort, uh, to go and be the best brand ambassador great clips has ever seen.

Like that's my goal and my vision and my hope. And, uh, uh, but that's, it takes everything you got. So I was standing in my garage looking around on the phone with somebody, and I just noticed in that moment, it was almost like a reminder, everything in my garage, my shop, all the pictures, all the memories, the banners, that first time slip from me, uh, uh, getting the track record at the same race track I grew up on when I got my top fuel license, all these memories and pieces of memorabilia, everything had to do with racing.

And motor sports and my passion for motor sports. I didn't have a single picture up of some CEO I had placed, you know, like there was no corporate career that really made that and, and what it did is. It reminded me who I wanted to become as a, uh, growing up that [00:57:00] dream. And the, the who, it wasn't the what, and that's what, that's the biggest point I was, I'm, I was trying to make earlier.

It's like, if someone just looked at my resume, you know, the resume talks about what I've done and, and it looks spotty, you go from like drag racing to, to, uh, to executive recruiting, then the monster jam, the, what does it make sense? But when you understand who I want it to be and to become ultimately. It does.

And so I remember thinking I am someone who, like I said earlier, uh, wants to use the platform of motor sports to impact the world. And I immediately knew in that decision, I was like, I am supposed to be in Monster Jam. Like, and I took a 30 percent pay cut, uh, to leave my corporate career. To chase this passion and to, to ultimately, uh, do this.

And it's been seven years and I don't regret it for a, uh, an instant because I have, it has enabled me to become that better version of myself. I don't know what the best version of myself looks like, but the better version is someone who uses the platform of motor sports. To [00:58:00] impact this world. And that's what I've gotten a chance to do.

So I don't regret that decision whatsoever. It was a very difficult decision, but when I remembered who I wanted to become the, what then fell in line with that, and that's what has enabled me to go and run at the level I've been able to the last seven years. I mean, you didn't have like a, you know, trading cards of all the guys you have placed that you have.

Yeah. Right. I can't imagine. Yeah. Yeah. Who would play that game? I don't know. Right. That's not like an inner office game. Right. I praised three CFOs today. Yeah. Maybe it should be. I don't know. Bryce. A lot of guys get stuck in the monotony of life. What do you say to men searching for more? I think if we we've made purpose so much harder to figure out than it is, like we think, Oh man, our purpose, what's our purpose?

Is there any meaning to life? It, we, we make it think we make us think like we're, we've got to be some, you [00:59:00] know, guru to figure it out. And it's not that hard. When we go back and we understand what our passions are and, and if once we become willing to equip those passions, you find your purpose, right?

Equip your passion, find your purpose. And so we've just forgotten what our passions are. And so the guy that's listening to this, I know that there's passions in your chest somewhere. Maybe you haven't felt those in years. Maybe it's been 15 years and you just gave up on, don't, don't hear that critically when I say that, because you're, you're like most of us that at some point you gave up on your passion.

Right now, as you think about what are those things that I left behind because I didn't think I'd have the opportunity to do it, maybe you didn't have the funding to do it, or maybe you didn't have the intelligence to do it or the know how, but ultimately, whatever that passion is that you have in your life, if you've got the The courage to equip yourself in that passion, your purpose will show up and you'll start to guide your direction and your, your [01:00:00] decision making process into your purpose.

And even before my book, if someone were to say, Bryce, if I wasn't going to buy your book, what book should I buy? I would tell you to go buy Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. And uh, Man's Search for Meaning, he, the first half of the book is how he survived the Holocaust. The second half of the book is the, is the stuff that was basically done to him and the brain and then what changed and the things that he saw in concentration camps, the lessons, I guess you could say the psychological effect.

That's the only way he sees the world now. And he talks about those lessons. And a big part of that is how do you find meaning through trauma and how do you find meaning through just life? Maybe your life doesn't have trauma. You know, you didn't have to go through the Holocaust. Maybe it's just, man, I'm, I'm, I'm.

You know Uh, 22 years old and have no direction, or maybe you're 42 and don't have any direction in life. But, you know, that's a scary thing to be in. And he talks about, look, there's, there's ways to find meaning. It can [01:01:00] be, uh, uh, a place you visited. It could be a people that you've experienced in your life, or maybe something that's happened.

But it also could be the attitude you take toward unavoidable suffering. And he goes on to say, he says, suffering ceases to be suffering the moment. It finds a meaning. And so, you know, take it like all these kids that we get to help through my foundation, live like warriors. We do a lot of crowdfunding for families going through cancer.

And that's exactly what it is. And you said, I didn't even have a officially a nonprofit for years because. You know, we just crowdfunded everything. I mean, if we were raising 1500 bucks, whenever we'd get 1500 bucks, we'd go buy the thing to give to the family that needed it. I mean, why would I need a nonprofit?

And finally I decided to do it just because I got talked into it from a couple of companies that said, look, if you did that, we could kind of support you more. I thought, well, that's a good idea. But, you know, those families, I have one of my dearest friends, she lost her child to brain cancer, and she suffers every day with [01:02:00] grief, with guilt, with all these things.

But let me tell you, she is beyond a helper and a little angel by going out and she hears these stories and she, she gets to know these other families out there, um, in the world going through cancer treatments and she finds needs. And she's the one that calls me 75 percent of the time. She'll call me and say, Hey Bryce, I found this family.

I know this family up in Oregon and they need this. Do you think that your group could help with that? Like, absolutely. Right. So would we have, would we rather give back all of the meaning and purpose and the lessons and the things that she's done in order to have her child back alive with her? Of course, right?

Everybody would. No one should have to go through through cancer and losing a child. I cannot fathom as a dad of three. However, it's her suffering. Even though she is is dealing with that trauma every day. It's not the same form of suffering because she has turned it into [01:03:00] meaning and it's not completely hopeless of the suffering that she's going through now.

It's and that's what Frankel says is because suffering ceases to be suffering the moment it finds a meaning. Yes, we would rather have Jace still alive, but now that he's passed, the fact that she's been able to turn suffering into something that helps other people is in a, in and of itself, an absolute miracle.

And so finding meaning in life, man, it's, it's not an easy thing to do, but it's not as hard as we've made it and finding our purpose and living out our purpose. It really takes courage. It doesn't take as much understanding. It takes courage more than it takes understanding, meaning it takes courage to try to find your purpose through those passions and equipping your passions.

Then it does having to have this perfect understanding of what your passions might be, because also your purpose may change. You know, my circumstances change as I go through my life. You know, [01:04:00] we had a child, we have to, you know, fix a 2, 800 plumbing, uh, repair today, right? We've got, Oh, our circumstances change, but that does not change the calling that I believe is on my life and, and the, who I want to become and who I believe that God is wanting me to become through the process.

And going out in this world and being someone who impacts the world through motorsports. And so even though that's my purpose, my circumstances to get through that stuff, it does take some patience. It takes courage, but it also takes a commitment for me personally to take more risks. Have more faith and the faith being belief and action on that belief that, that things are going to happen.

And, and, and, and then thirdly, be more creative, be creative enough to find the solutions to the problem. And when all of that happens, you know, and we've got our purpose and we feel good about things where we're going, that's where momentum happens. And that's my deepest desire for everybody. Anybody listening to this, anybody that reads my book geared for life, my [01:05:00] hope and desire is that they figure out what it looks like to build momentum.

Because if you talk about the difference between success and failure, successful people simply maximized their momentum that they built longer than the other guy, because momentum never lasts. And if you have the courage to go out there and build momentum and start with that activity and find first gear and first gear goes to second gear and you go to second gear to third gear and you find your gears, eventually you'll get momentum, but the road will run out on whatever you're, you're doing.

So maximizing that momentum is key. And I'm a big believer in doing just that and be passionate enough, be crazy enough to have the courage to go out there and do it. And if you do just find that next year, you never knew you had and good things are going to happen. What's next for Bryce? Kenny next for Bryce.

Kenny, I, I, I'm excited about where this book is going. I've been blown away at the feedback. The feedback has been awesome. Uh, and it's been so encouraging because it doesn't make me feel [01:06:00] cool. It doesn't make me feel better about myself. Like, Oh, I'm, I'm a great author or something like that. I, I wrote the book and immediately was like, man, I could write a better book.

You're right. I always think you always think, okay, how could I improve on that? But I'm excited to see how far this book goes and, and the gears that people find, and it's turning into more speaking engagements. And now all of a sudden I've seen that this platform that has started through motor sports is getting really, really big.

I don't want to just play the game of motor sports. I want to change the way the game is played. I want to go out and change what an ambassador looks like to represent a brand to go and do the things because simply put, it's not that it puts more money in my pocket or makes me feel better about myself from an egotistical standpoint is that I know more people are going to get help.

The bigger the platform, the bigger the impact. And just like I mentioned at the beginning of this podcast, If I've got one fear, it's wasting my life and I don't know how I'll feel on my death bed, but what I refuse to do [01:07:00] is just sit and wait for that moment and then die with regrets. I cannot bring myself, cannot stomach.

If that's what, if that's what I'm going to do today. So no, today, what we're going to do is we're going to find the next year. We're going to keep shifting. And I really believe that God wants to do something special with this book and do something special with the speaking engagements. He keeps bringing my way because there's there, I cannot connect all these dots on my own.

I'm not smart enough, not bright enough, not cool enough and big enough to do that. I've got to have help just like every single listener needs. And I'm excited to, to, to see those dots connect and, and to see what's, what comes into our life next week. I think there's a tectonic plate shift happening right now in the Kenny family.

I think my life will look totally different in a year from now than it does today, simply because we're taking more risks or having more faith that the right things are happening and the results are coming. And that are already here. Uh, and we're creative enough to find the solutions [01:08:00] and the problems as we go.

And, and because of that, I feel like we cannot fail. Where's the best place for people to find you to follow up on this? I do probably the most right now on Instagram, Tik TOK. I've got the biggest followers, but you know, we all have a love hate relationship with Tik TOK. But Instagram is at warrior Bryce.

And I think my, my Tik TOK is at warrior Bryce as well. Um, and I'm starting to push more on YouTube, more of this longer content. And I think that that's helpful. Uh, but the book is available wherever books are sold. I know Amazon, we all, every book I buy is either off of Amazon or a books. com. Shout out to a books, all the used books out there.

But, uh, um, I, I like eight books, but anyway, uh, I, you know, it's, it's, it's on Amazon, it's on bar, uh, books and, uh, books A Million and Barnes and Noble. It's also on Audible and being able to do that and, and do me a favor, buy the book and leave a review. I'm, I'm on, I'm in an unofficial race with another book that I've got.

I've just competing unofficially with another book that I'm watching. And, uh, [01:09:00] right now we're ahead. But I need some help. I need as many reviews as we can and, uh, and people to help push this book out, but buy a book and buy a book for that sophomore in college, nephew of yours, that's struggling to figure out their, their, uh, their direction.

Buy, buy a book for that 42 year old professional that's asking that same question about like. You know, uh, what's next and is this really all there is to life and, and it will not come back void. And if it is, then message me on Instagram. I'll give you your money back. I think you'll love it though. We'll have, we'll have all of these links so you can find Bryce's book.

So you can connect with Bryce down in the show notes and the description on all the platforms. Of course, uh, you'll also be able to find his book forever more on my website, on my library page. Because that's where my speakers go. Uh, I love, I love working with authors on the show. And so that's the place we put those books to make sure I had someone to ask me during a live stream.

Once it's like, you talk about a lot of books, you have like a list somewhere. I was like, no, but give me about 12 hours. Now it's on the [01:10:00] list. I'm honored. I made the library. Now I have a library page on my website. So just, just for all that now. I know you're all dying to know, cause right. It's the important question.

What professional sport did bank Robert John Dillinger play? You guessed baseball. Congratulations. You're one of the first people to actually ever get that right. Yes. So the answer is in fact, baseball infamous bank, Robert. John Dillinger did play baseball professionally, uh, before he was a bank robber.

Yes, I don't even know why I know that. Maybe it's some, is there a movie about him or something? Uh, Johnny Depp did one. It went straight into my brain when we, when we said, when we made that comment about baseball. And I don't know why. Johnny, Johnny Depp did a Dillinger movie, I think. Okay. Several years back.

I don't know if they talked about baseball, but. Yeah. Well, Bryce, I want you to round this up. Okay. You have thousands of adoring fans out there and are likely to gain more from this show. I certainly hope so. Guys, I absolutely recommend the book. [01:11:00] You read the Audible book yourself, which props to you. I enjoyed that because I listened to it on Audible.

Yeah. What is the most important thing you want people to take away from today's show? You're doing better than you think you are. You're closer than you think you are. Stop trying to find all the secrets to life and just go find that next gear that you never knew you had and watch good stuff start to happen for you guys.

I believe in you, and if there's anything I can do to help along that pathway, along that race of life, I'll do it. And until that point... You know, I'll be on the sidelines cheering for you guys. I'll be the one to, to, to, to coach you if I needed to or, or anything like that. But, uh, but ultimately I just can't wait to see you guys at the finish line.

All right, guys, you heard it here. Be better tomorrow because what you do today, we'll see on the next one. This has been the fellow woman podcast, your home for everything, man, husband, and father. Be sure to [01:12:00] subscribe so you don't miss a show. Head over to www. thefallibleman. com for more content and get your own Fallible Man Gear.