Andy Neary (host) narrates episode 107, recounting his experience at a 'reaching beyond' mastermind retreat run by Kyle Depes in Park City, Utah. Activities included skiing and a first-time fly fishing trip on the Provo River; the episode emphasizes the importance of pausing work to play and the author's sensitivity to cold.
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Hey. Hey. Welcome back to Friday Bullpen Sessions. My name is Andy Neary and this is episode 107 now for the month of April. If you're tuning into my podcast, number one, thank you for taking the time to subscribe. Thank you for taking the time to listen each and every week, you're going to notice a little difference here. In the month of April, I'm just going to go with my Friday Bullpen Session episodes. We're not going to do any interviews. And then come May, we're going to be back at twice a week. Tuesday interviews, Friday, Friday Bullpen Sessions, and we'll be ready to rock twice a. You're just gonna get me once each week on Friday. Four times this month. Here we go. So today.
I want to share a story. I want to talk to you about an experience I just had.
Last week. And it was an experience that I needed to have. If you're listening in and you are a busy business professional like myself, where you often find that you work probably a little too much, mainly because you love what you do and you don't give yourself enough time for play, this is going to be a really good episode for you. It's going to be a nice little lesson that I was taught last week. So let me set the stage. Last week I made the decision to join a buddy of mine, Kyle Depes, and a group of other high achieving men for Kyle's reaching beyond experience. And what Kyle does to structure these masterminds, if you want to call them, is his goal is to bring together 10 to 12 again, business professionals, male business professionals, and put them in uncomfortable settings. Put them in settings where they can mastermind, they can collaborate, but also put them in settings where it forces you to play, it forces you to pause. So from Sunday through Wednesday morning of last week, I was forced to put myself in some uncomfortable situations. I was forced to pause, put my phone down and remember what it was like to be a kid. And, you know, I don't know if I don't know about you, but I need that sometimes more than anything. I joined Kyle for, for the same experience that he put on back in, in the fall, which was a golf trip to North Carolina. So I was excited to join once again. This time it was to Park City, Utah. The main event was to ski, which we did on Monday, but it was what happened on Tuesday that I want to share with you today. So Tuesday morning we get up and we knew that the experience that we were going to have that morning was to fly fish and I never, I'd never fly fish before. And so I was excited, you know, which is strange. I think about the fact Amy and I have lived in Colorado for almost seven years now and, and I have yet to go up one of the hundreds of canyon rivers that are so well known for fly fishing. And I've yet to take the time to fly fish. And so here was my chance. Now, what made the morning interesting is it was cold. So we leave Park City in a shuttle. We had a good 35, 40 minute shuttle ride east of Park City through Heber City, Utah, and we go up this canyon where I can't remember if it's the upper, the middle or the lower Provo river was. And so we were going to spend about three hours fishing the Provo river. And we get out of the shuttle and you could tell right away the sun had not yet come up over the mountains. It was cold. And we were about to go into a river filled with water that was even colder. And if, if you know me, I do not like getting cold. The second I get cold, I cannot get warm. In fact, I think I may actually have a form of, was it Reynolds disease? Where my digits, my hands and my feet, they get purple. I've had so many people tell me, even on a 40 deg day, dude, what is wrong with your hands? They're like purple. So I knew I had a tough.
