The Impossible Podcast

Welcome to The Impossible, the official podcast of Impossible Performance, where we explore humanity in the Face of Impossible challenge. Our hosts Matt Hill and Austin Douglas are both cancer survivors who have faced The Impossible through near death experience, disease, PTSD, and addiction. Since overcoming these challenges, they now use the principles they learned from these difficult experiences to Be Impossible and Do the Impossible in business and athletics. Join us as we hear stories of those who have Faced the Impossible and learn how you can Be Impossible, building a version of yourself who is capable of overcoming any challenge you face...capable of Doing the Impossible! At Impossible Performance, we strive to build a global culture of strength, fostering a spirit of growth in constant pursuit of The Impossible. Thank you for listening and as always... Be Impossible

The Impossible Podcast is a education podcast hosted by Matthew Hill and Austin Douglas, with 160 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Matthew Hill and Austin Douglas hosts The Impossible Podcast, a education show with 160 episodes published.

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  Episode #164

  A Chemo Drug Nearly Killed Me; Then My Doctor Told Me to Take It Again

  Aug 18, 202644 minS8

  A Chemo Drug Nearly Killed Me; Then My Doctor Told Me to Take It Again Resiliency is not never getting hit; it is how fast you return to baseline. One minute into an infusion, a chemo drug closed my airways without my consent; Matt hit the red button, the room filled with ten people, and IV Benadryl pulled me back. Thirty minutes later my oncologist sat down beside me, calm and direct, and told me the recommendation was to take that same drug again, the whole remaining dose, three more times. I stared out at the maples in that courtyard and met the person I had to become in that chair. This episode is what was running through my mind: Nietzsche's passive versus active nihilism, the weight you choose to carry up the mountain, and the flamethrower you take to the baggage that has no business coming with you. Because the Standard was never just to better myself; it is to better those around me. That is the overman, and that is the work. I am nineteen months into remission now, and the lesson holds: feel the emotions fully, refuse to let them run you, and return to baseline. That is resiliency, and it is a skill you can build. You have the same choice in your own chair; face the mountain, and climb. Shared in my own words; not medical advice. Follow us: @impossible.performance · www.impossibleperformance.com The Impossible Podcast | Impossible Performance Join our FREE Online Community to learn more about out Message ❤️‍: https://www.skool.com/the-orion-collective-8700 For 1:1 Performance Coaching, click this Link : https://www.skool.com/impossible Support the show

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  Episode #163

  I Was Just Diagnosed With Cancer for the Second Time

  Aug 11, 202650 minS8

  I Was Just Diagnosed With Cancer for the Second Time Twelve years ago, cancer built the man I became; last Friday, it returned. In 2013, at eighteen, Ewing sarcoma took my leg and very nearly took my life; it also built the Be Impossible mindset from the ground up. I learned that you do not beat the impossible by staring at the mountain; you become, one ordinary day at a time, the version of yourself who can. That skill: building peace within fear rather than escaping it, is the one that carries me now, because I have heard those words again. Renal cell carcinoma, caught early, stage one. Good odds, and I am thankful for them; and still that same fear, that same reckoning with how precious and how brief our time truly is. I am sharing all of it here, in real time: the diagnosis, the prognosis, the reawakening to the beauty we go blind to, and, at the close, the most personal thing I have ever spoken aloud, an experience from that first battle that I was never certain I would tell. Not to convince you of anything, but to live out, plainly, what it means to be Impossible. Your potential is your responsibility; so is mine. If this reaches you in your own dark hour, that is the entire Purpose of it. Shared in my own words; not medical advice. Please help us carry the message: share this episode with one person who needs it. Follow us: @impossible.performance · www.impossibleperformance.com The Impossible Podcast | Impossible Performance ❤️‍ Join our FREE Online Community to learn more about out Message ❤️‍: https://www.skool.com/the-orion-collective-8700 For 1:1 Performance Coaching, click this Link : https://www.skool.com/impossible Support the show

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  Episode #162

  "You're Throwing Darts at No Dartboard"; Why You Can't Hit a Target You Never Set - Paul Oneid

  Aug 10, 20261h 47mS8

  He knew before his chest hit the floor that he was going to be alright. Paul Oneid has built a life out of walking into rooms where he does not belong yet. A Canadian kid with no football background trying to coach Division I athletes; a lifter stepping into a gym holding four of the strongest men on earth; a coach who saved twelve thousand dollars to work three months for free. In this conversation he traces the whole arc: the burnout that ended his collegiate career, the mother's line that convinced him to bet on himself, and the meet where a third-attempt squat tore both quads and fractured both kneecaps. But the recovery is where the real teaching lives. Six weeks unable to care for himself; an ego dismantled entirely; and the lesson underneath it, that he was deserving of the love he was being given. From there the conversation opens into the questions Paul builds his coaching on: who are you if you cannot use your work, your hobbies, your faith, or your family to answer; why an identity attached to anything external is fragile; how self-efficacy is actually built, one manufactured win at a time; and the moment he asks Matt to objectively define success, and the silence that follows. Stop looking for answers. Start learning to ask better questions. The Impossible Podcast | Impossible Performance 0:00 Robert Greene on vocation, and why this conversation 2:12 From basketball to football to a torn meniscus 3:44 Saving $12,000 to intern for free in Florida 6:38 15 teams, 600 athletes, and 120 hours of overtime 7:43 Burnout, and quitting coaching for a "real job" 8:04 Learning to talk to people, not just athletes 9:01 "Bet on yourself"; the call to his mother 11:20 "Why would they listen to a guy who never played?" 13:23 Walking into a gym with four world number ones 17:28 The third attempt that tore both quads 18:33 Rehab, and a bodybuilding win 13 months later 20:48 The arc of identity, from parents to friends to work 22:16 Who are you without your job, faith, or family? 23:20 "Doing hard things is easy"; so what's underneath it? 25:13 Hardship you choose vs. hardship that chooses you 26:39 A GI bleed at 1 AM, and driving himself to the ER 31:34 Uncompromised acceptance 35:08 Being a burden, and losing every bit of ego 36:16 "You are deserving of the love you're getting" 46:37 Sliding vs. deciding, in relationships and in life 54:46 Chasing achievement because it felt like love 56:06 Identity versus outcome, and full effort 59:15 Sisyphus is smiling; the next mountain 1:03:06 Bandura, micro wins, and building self-efficacy 1:04:19 The runway of progression, applied to nutrition 1:10:16 Becoming someone who could beat cancer 1:12:19 Curtis, the 500lb squat, and the message that made him mad 1:20:45 Priorities you can never invert 1:22:58 Satisficing: optimize, don't maximize 1:37:01 "Throwing darts at no dartboard" 1:42:41 Defining success, and going to bed saying yes 1:43:46 Raising the bar; asking better questions Support the show

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  Episode #161

  She Beat an Eating Disorder and Built a Coaching Empire on Brutal Honesty - With Kaitlyn Kenna

  Aug 4, 20261h 26mS8

  Some people are broken by the storm; a Powerhouse is the one it cannot stop. Kaitlyn Kenna grew up watching her father vanish into opioid addiction: the doctor-hopping, the withdrawals, the eviction, the slow erasure of the man he used to be. In college she fought a battle of her own and is still winning it today. Out of all of it came a refusal to lie: to herself first, then to everyone who follows her. She built a coaching practice, the Powerhouse Mentality podcast, and a following grounded in one rare thing online: brutal honesty. We get into what the opioid epidemic really did to good people; why an eating disorder is about Control long before it is about food; how to read fitness content without being fear-mongered into fear; the Standard that makes you chase a single pea across a hotel floor; and yes, the honest truth about energy drinks, ranked. This is challenge turned into Purpose, in her own words. Your Potential is your responsibility; hers became a mission. Shared in her own words; not medical advice. If you are struggling with an eating disorder, support is available through the National Alliance for Eating Disorders. Follow Kaitlyn: @kaitlynkennafitness · @thepowerhousejournal · The Powerhouse Mentality podcast Follow us: @impossible.performance · www.impossibleperformance.com The Impossible Podcast | Impossible Performance Support the show

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  Episode #157

  Why Experiencing Another Culture Might Be the Antidote to a Chaotic World - With Austin

  Jul 7, 202658 minS7

  Why Experiencing Another Culture Might Be the Antidote to a Chaotic World Two farmers on an Italian mountain could have walked right by; they didn't. In this solo episode, Austin takes the long way through a simple idea: that beneath every border, accent, and unfamiliar meal, we are all still human, born in different places. From four broke Americans stuck on a rock beneath Mount Vesuvius, to a week of discipline in an Edinburgh coffee shop, to a shared love of Salt Lake City traded across the counter with a shopkeeper in a Scottish town of four hundred; these are the small moments that dissolve the assumptions we carry before we ever arrive. The through-line is a Standard worth adopting: go with an open mind and an empty stomach, and dig in. Not to forsake your own culture, but to let it be sharpened against another; because one meal in five becomes a favorite you never knew existed, and a smaller bite is always better than no bite at all. In a world with no shortage of chaos, Austin makes the case that part of the antidote is closer than it looks; a plane ticket, a conversation, a willingness to be changed for the good. You do not need the whole world at once; you need the willingness to take the first bite. 🎧 The Impossible Podcast | Impossible Performance Join our FREE Online Community to learn more about out Message ❤️‍🔥: https://www.skool.com/the-orion-collective-8700 For 1:1 Performance Coaching, click this Link 🏆: https://www.skool.com/impossible Support the show

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