Friday Wrap Up #7 - podcast with Jonnie Jensen

00:00 Hey Team Superdad, it's the wrap-up. It's good to have you here. Rolfing. Welcome to Team Super Dad. Real dads creating their best lives ever. More time, more money, more fun. You are not alone. You're on Team Super Dad. The best thing to do is turn the microphone on. Oh, that was close. That was close. We should just check that actually got the mic on. Always a good thing to do. Yes. And the microphone is on now. Oh, that was close. Welcome to the Team Super Dad Friday wrap-up. I'm Johnny. Friends, family, Team Super Dad around the world.

00:44 It's good to have you. It's the Friday wrap-up. If you are watching on, well, in fact, any of them, Facebook, Periscope, YouTube, just you can leave a comment and it will come up here and we'll see what we can do to reply to that. There may even be some friends over on the Instagram live stream today as well. So coming in from all round, all round. It has been an absolutely insane week. I can't believe it's Friday. Every time it gets to Friday, I can't believe it's Friday. It's like, oh my gosh. Summer, obviously, still here in the UK. We have had a bit of a heat wave.

01:24 We're in the southeast of England. And so it's been amazing. If every summer was like that, if we could be guaranteed 30, 31 degrees. I mean, the beaches, we went to beaches last Wednesday. No, yeah, last Friday. And I was at the beach all the weekend as well. So it's flipping amazing. If you've not joined me before, obviously the people that have, you know me exactly. Friends on my personal Facebook. Hello, you definitely know who I am. But to everybody else, if you've not met me before, my name is Johnny Jensen. I'm the host and founder of Team Superdad, where dads come to create their best lives ever. We equip people in fitness, finance, focus, family and fun.

02:07 And launching in September is the Hero Academy, which is like packed full of coaches and accountability and just some kick-ass activities to rip you out of your humdrum life into something better, bigger, brighter, bolder. And that's what it's all about. Keeping up with these Friday wrap-ups has been a challenge. But what I do know is the more I post, the more I get followed, the more interest, the more just everything grows. Where they say, where energy, what do they say, where attention goes, energy flows. It's got to be true. Don't mess with the universe. It will have a habit of proving you right either way.

02:49 Whether you think it works or doesn't work, it will prove you right. So what else has been happening? Here's the rundown, right? We're going to run it down. Had the kids last week. That was just amazing. So hot. The beach was fabulous. Trying to outrun the crowds and avoid Corona is obviously whatever your feelings are on it. It's definitely better to be safe and sensible, you know, rather than go and hang out where there's thousands of people, you know? I don't know. It's just, that's just sensible, right? If there's a war over there, don't go in that direction. You can tell that by refugees and stuff, they don't want to head towards the war. They want to get away from the war.

03:33 So why should we be any different? Went to the beach and there was literally, and Joss Bay, it's like a surfer beach in England, Southeast England. You might think there's not many big waves, but it's a bay and on a good day, you get some nice waves there, apparently. But on a sunny day, it's beautiful, sandy beaches. So there was easily five or six hundred cars there, which means there was easily a thousand, twelve hundred people there. So we did not go there. No. We just headed down the coast and had an amazing day with Olivia, friends of ours and her boy Jude. Just epic to just hang out with the junior Jays. The kayak, as have thousands of other British people, gone out and bought a kayak.

04:14 So we're bumbling around in the sea, just making the most of it. Then the kids go back to their mothers and then I spent a weekend on a caravan park. You might have seen the live from the caravan park. It's been a while. I did have a caravan park adventures as a kid in France and fond memories. I mean fond memories. Bizarrely, bizarrely, I do remember one night trying to open the door of the toilet in this caravan thing and I couldn't get it open and I just wet myself in the corridor of the caravan. It's okay though. I was about nine years old. So it's not too extreme of a of a

04:57 confession there to make. But, you know, it was amazingly hot. And in Britain, when it's that sunny, you literally could be anywhere. You probably, you wouldn't need to go anywhere looking for other holidays. If Britain was that hot all the time, it was like 30, 31, 32, 33. Sun was blazing down. As you can see, quite nice suntan. If you're listening to the podcast, then you'll just have to imagine my baldy head looking browner than normal. And that's what we're looking like right now. Long drive. Oh my gosh, the drive back from the beach with the kids, though, the motorway was closed. And a 60-minute journey took three hours. That was horrific. But it's much easier in my nice new car.

05:38 So that's not the end of the world. And then I guess it's kind of like a social life as well. You know, we were there out with Olivia and Jude. And then the weekend, I spent the weekend with Kelly, a really lovely lady. Nancy is her daughter, one of Rosie's best mates. So just nice to be making social connections there and having some good times. Social life, you know, it's loneliness, right? The scourge of modern first world, you know, loneliness, scourge of a scourge of society. It's the problem is almost as easy as the cure. Sitting indoors doing nothing, not speaking to anyone, you're going to end up lonely. Getting out, inviting people over, finding new things to do is the antidote.

06:23 It's not really that complicated. But you feel confronted in it. You feel really confronted by, am I going to call them? Are they going to say yes? Is it going to sound weird? And it is a bit tricky because the number of times you call someone and say, oh, hi, what are you doing? Oh, hi. Want to come out? Hi. Do you? And they kind of say no, but you because they're busy or they're in a family unit still. And people are busy, right? People don't think of new people or even just people are just busy and don't think of anyone. They're at home on their own just as much as we're at home on our own. So, yeah, like I said, the answer to loneliness is to get off your ass and do something about it.

07:06 And we talked a whole bunch about that. Barbecues, hangouts, dinner, you know, they call it like dinner, dinner, dinner. It's like a dinner, like modern day dinner parties. What are they called? Like, bring a dish. There you go. Bring a dish. Bring a dish. Doesn't sound as fun as a dinner party, does it? Okay, right. So dinner parties, much more fun. Dinner and a party. Even better, even better. So there's plenty of that happening. Team Superdad. Well, actually, before I come onto that, the caravan park, it was good. You know, like a real mix of British society there. The family in the caravan behind, they're like static caravans, so they're big, you know, like a lounge and two bedrooms, bathroom, toilet kitchen, everything.

07:53 And then so the family behind us, proper, proper, as it goes, you know, Southeast Englanders. And they didn't, like, there's a beautiful beach, two-minute walk away, but they just stayed by the caravan all day, sitting there, smoking fags, drinking tea, some beers, kids, grandparents, everyone in between, and then a and then a budgie, a cage with a budgie on it, which I guess if you've gone on holiday, you're going to take the budgie with you, right? What can you do? I guess you take the dog, you take the budgie. But it was just classic, absolutely classic.

08:32 But enjoyable, very enjoyable. Barbecued, chatted for hours, drank way more than I normally drink. And a couple of precautionary headache tablets before bed and may happily saw me through all good in the morning. So on to Team Superdad. It's going well, it's growing. Thank you to all those people who are connecting and sharing. And not thank you to people who are viewing but not clicking like or sharing. So if you're watching this, then make sure you give us a like, a share, a comment.

09:08 Social media algorithms, they're dependent on these things. So if you're watching, then give us a like, give us a thumbs up, say hello. You know what we're doing on Instagram? We can, whatever, you know what I mean? Give me the thumbs up, say hello. Give me a comment on it's Friday night. You must be out. Where is everybody? I can see some people are watching. Four, five, six, seven. Keeps going up and down. So whoever you are, whoever's watching, then let's have a little hello. Where are you at? What you're up to? Has your France trip been kicked in the knackers? We'll come on to that in a second. Team Super Dad, yeah. So got the launch pad summit coming up on September the 9th.

09:50 No, September the 19th. I just decided to do that last week, primarily as. as a way to promote the Hero Academy, you know, to attract people into the summit using some of the coaches from the Hero Academy. They're going to speak on the event. So everybody's going to get a real flavor of what you can create and achieve inside the Hero Academy outside of this half-day summit on the 19th. It's one till seven on a Saturday. I'm just talking to the Dadla Soul guys about doing a like a section in the middle. Like a Dad LaSoul do these online play dates. Absolutely brilliant. You know, you can imagine during lockdown, they were awesome and essential. And they do do some awesome parties as well.

10:34 Dan Flanagan and his whole crew, they're sorry to miss out some names. Mark, I know there's Mark, a couple of marks. But yeah, one of their best parties I went to was the block party in Brighton. Absolutely brilliant. So if you're around the Brighton area, look out for the Dadla Soul events and Dadla Soul parties. But yeah, they're going to do a breakout session on the Launch Pad Summit. Andrew Priestley is going to speak. I'm talking, I can't mention the two guys from the business and finance section because I'm just working that through with them. But Dean Coulson, the lean warrior, absolute black belt ninja. He's going to be doing something on mindset and fitness. Who else? Oh, Nicola Cairncross.

11:19 Good to have a woman involved. Not just a token woman. I want women to be around the Team Super Dad project. I want, you know, well, you don't know. That's why I'm going to tell you. But it's, it's, I don't want to do this. It's not about a polarized thing. It's not about excluding women. If anything, you know, it's about creating really strong relationships with the women in our lives, particularly our relationships. And if you're not in a relationship, to actually get out there and find a new one, to enjoy dating, to meet some cool women, to make some new friends, to fall back in love, you know, all of that. And that requires being around women. So awesome to have Nicola involved. She's got an amazing story of breakup, single parenting, and then she's learned.

12:03 She's learned so much. She's like a machine. She does trading and investing. She's a property investor. She's got digital marketing businesses and stuff. So she's an inspiration, basically, and great to have her involved. So yeah, and loads more being lined up. There's going to be eight speakers across the six hours, plus, like I said, with the Dadler Soul break in the middle. So it's going to be awesome, really, really cool. If you go to teamsuperdad.com forward slash launch pad, obviously launch pad as it sounds, you can get your tickets, you can secure your place. There's a recorded version where you can pay a bit more and get all the recordings. But just get over there, secure yourself an early bird price, and it's going to be brilliant.

12:48 It's £15 on the early bird. So epic. Get out there, share it, get involved. Love to have you involved. So what was I going to talk about then as well? It's gone. You need to keep notes. I do have a running order, but there was something that came up and I was going to talk about it. Something to do with social life. It's gone. But anyway, fitness back on the fitness trail. You might have seen the live in the week, but it's hard when you injure yourself, you know, to just first of all to get back fit, to get back, sorry, to get back to health. I've been seeing the osteopath the first couple of times. He was really working on the shoulders because that's where the pain was. And I go back and I said, look, I don't think it's, I don't think it's the shoulder.

13:32 I know my body. Go back and watch the live stream about knowing your body and trusting your body. But it wasn't. It was more through the back and leg. So he spent the whole session literally stretching out the back, working through some stuff on my leg. And, you know, hallelujah. Now the shoulder's not hurting. And I should know my body. I'm 40-plus. But having it worked through and feeling my back not all pulled tight for the first time in weeks has been absolutely brilliant. Getting out running, though, was not quite so easy. And like I shared before, it's always really easy for me to share.

14:11 I'm working out. I'm working out. In the Team Super Dad group, there's the daily sweat challenge. You can see the diff, you know, each day when I'm working out. And you can also see when there's gaps, right? And I want that to be real. I want it to be genuine. You need to realize that I'm not your guru. In the words of Tony Robbins, I'm not your guru. I'm on this journey with you. That the coaches and the experts that we bring into Team Super Dad are there because I'm not that person, right? And realistically, in some areas, I'm just a couple of steps ahead of you. In other areas, I may be a couple of steps behind you, but that's what Team Super Dad is all about. It's about.

14:49 coming together and making stuff happen, having a laugh, doing it, finding experts who can help us break through into new levels of success in particular areas. I am so keen to get into some level of property development investment. I did the share trading for about a year and a half and I learned so much, but ultimately I stopped doing it because it was too stressful and I wasn't making any money. But I dare say, with the right tutoring, training, support, which Jason is, then I could have taken that knowledge to the next level and it not been quite so scary or financially risky.

15:30 But I flipping, forgot again what I was saying. But anyway, those, you know, working through those different areas as oh, the fitness. Yeah, it's like that's that's the important thing. It's about being real. It's about sharing the journey and everybody that's involved. That's what it's about. So getting out running, it's hard. It's hot. I haven't done it for three or four weeks. And do you know what? The biggest kicker is, I'm thinking, I want to be as fast as I was two weeks ago. And that's just not going to happen, let alone how blooming hot it was. But letting go of that. There's a principle that I've been taught recently in one of the masterminds by Beijing Solanke.

16:13 And it's called NATO. No, not attached to outcome. NATO. You know, really take that on board. Not attached to outcome. And it means that you're going to do something without a concern of what's going to happen at the end of it. I'm going to go running because I'm going to go running. I'm not going to go running because I want to beat my personal best. I'm not going to go running because I want to look good. I'm not going to go running because I've entered a race. Like all those things might be happening, but I'm going to go running because I said I'm going to go running. And when you operate like that, you can have your fastest day ever. You could even have a slow day, but at least you went out and you did the run and you made it happen. And the same with the social life and the dating, no breakthroughs yet in that area.

16:57 But the social life comes first, really, to be quite frank. Getting out there, Olivia's having a barbecue on Thursday, which now that France has been goonered, we'll be there for that and just having some fun. Actually, calling people and saying, hi, can we come out? What are you up to? The thing I want, I think I want to find most, I've got to be honest, the thing I want to find most is sound people, like people I get on with, like Hammond and Lucy, who've got kids the same age as Jaygo and Rose, because Jay Go and Rosie play absolutely amazing with Polly and Archie. And like I said, Hammond and Lucy are just great people to hang out with. So when you can find that, that is like

17:38 that is that's the flipping unicorn, you know, that's the that's the promised land. Good, good mates with kids the same age as yours, epic. So if that's you, right? 46, old raver, house music, fit, sporty, like to tit about, then yeah, you can be mates with us. Jay Go and Rose, 10 and 8, soon to be 11 and 9. Come and get involved. The Frolo app is just growing and growing and growing in the UK. So it's mainly for single, it's a single parent thing. And normally I'm trying to keep out of those single parent worlds because they're just so toxic and negative.

18:21 But there's lots of different chats inside of Frolo. And so yeah, some pretty sound people getting together. Reach out. Last summer we had the Team Superdad picnic, which was pretty cool. I was dabbling with the idea of having one at the like the first weekend of September, but if it's locked down, I don't think that's going to happen. And on the subject, I don't think that's going to happen. France, our trip to France this week got absolutely goonered by the new quarantine rules coming back from France. Sad to say, absolutely devastating. My kids are gutted because they're not going to see their cousins. I'm gutted because I'm not going to see my nieces and nephews. And then we're all gutted because we're not going to see Auntie Andrea and Uncle Jim.

19:03 And, you know, it was our holiday, right? So that was an important part of it. But we'll do stuff next week. It's not quite the same, but more than anything, it was seeing family. And that's been one of the worst things about this corona stuff. I'm so bored of it now. Absolutely so bored of it. Can we please have the cure? Can we please sort the world out? Can we please get rid of this crap so we can have massive parties and go raving, which I haven't done for years, but I really, really would love to dance with a couple of thousand people for six or seven hours and not have a care in the world. It'd be epic. So I don't know what we're going to do. I've been looking online, looking at different.

19:44 different places. You won't believe the cost of supply and demand. If you want to see the see supply and demand in full effect, go and have a look at the prices of Airbnbs, go and have a look at the prices of camping tent pitches on campsites across the UK right now. You're talking hundreds into thousands of pounds. Absolutely insane. So good on you if you've got one of those places. I don't begrudge you that for a second. There'll be people out there that will pay it right now. And what the hell? That's the world we live in. And I think that's fine. I think it's absolutely fine. It's up to the rest of us to go out and find our own fun.

20:25 And that's what we'll do. So next week, next week is going to be the week commencing 17th of August, 17th to the 8th, 2020. We're out there looking for fun. So if you're listening to this, then Instagram me, tweet me, text me, come on the Facebook group and let us know what you're up to. It'd be awesome to get together. Team Super Dad can't happen without you, right? So if you're watching this, give us a like or a share or comment. If you are interested in the Team Super Dad group, then come on over, right? If you're a dad, come on over to the Team Super Dad group, share it with other people. Let's keep that growing.

21:05 And if you've got feedback, if you like this, don't like this. If you want more, I don't know, if you want more cookery stuff because you want to cook stuff for your kids, let me know. If you want more sex tips, then great. Then you know what? I know from recipes to sex to playing with your kids to looking after your social life, like these are all things that dads are working on. And the crazy thing is, we're often working on them on our own. And so come and share it. Come and ask, pose the questions in the Team Super Dad group. I'm in a lot of other dad groups as well. There's all sorts of stuff gets spoken about. So it's not that people don't talk about it. And I'm creating Team Super Dad to be that place.

21:48 So I've said so about six times now in the last two seconds. That obviously means it's time up. 21.50, perfect timing. Thank you for tuning in, Team Super Dad. We've got some more interviews coming up next week. So they'll be on the Team Super Dad podcast. Go over there and subscribe to that. Keep that growing. And like I say, always, you've got to keep going to keep growing. I'll see you next time. Team Super Dad out. Bye. Ciao. This has been Team Super Dad. Find us at TeamSuperdad.com.