Episode 514: Winners Lock in on Plan A with Lee Haney

Welcome to this edition of the Million Dollar Mastermind podcast. This is where we pick the brains of high achievers from all walks of life and get their hard earned real world insights on winning. I'm your host, Larry Wydell.

I'm with Lee Haney. Hey Lee, thanks for, how you doing Larry? Thanks for taking the time. Lee Haney, eight time Mr. Olympia by age 32 and forever. Arnold Schwarzenegger will never be able to catch him because he only had seven.

That's right.

And so went on retired at 31 and, and had, you know, a lot of successes. We will get into that, but before we do that, let's talk about you said when you, you've trained so many successful people because you're in Atlanta, right?

Right.

In Atlanta's big boom in town, especially in the movie business, you know, but Evander Holifield is from there. But Steve Harvey, Evander Holifield, Tyler Perry, Lord knows how many people you know, famous people you've trained and plus met. One of the things about being a high achiever and what I try and do on this call, Lee, is to let people get in and listen to the conversations between high achievers because you know, I'm sure you've had lots of talks with Evander and lots of talks with Steve Harvey and this, that and the other. But for people to listen in on those, they can pick up so much, you know, so much magic because it takes the mystery out of people they think are on a super beings, you know, on another level, don't have problems, you know, just, and realize they're real people dealing with real issues. And you know, when you make a mistake, you learn like was talking to somebody last week and he said, you know, the thing is we're all ignorant pretty much when we show up every day because you're ignorant for the problems that you got to deal with that day.

That's right.

Like it's going to come at you from a different way. If it's a business, personal life, you know, your personal, your health, whatever, you know, there's a curveball coming and you're going to have to, you're going to have to come up with something and your experience is helpful but you know it's going to challenge, you're going to stay challenged and you either going to meet it or, or you're going to get beat down. You know, at any day we can lose our momentum.

I recall Mike Tyson making a statement, he said everybody got have a good fight plan, a good game plan until they get hit in the mouth the first time, he said, then it all goes out the window.

All goes out the window. And talk about where you realize in training some of these really high achievers, people at the top of their field, they come to you for training now they're ready to, they're students, you know, but you still picked up their style and their approach and their way they went about business. You said you noticed that winners lock in on plan A. Tell us more about that.

Yes, you know, they, you know, one of the things I was with Steve Harvey for roughly 12 years training Steve and man, you get to hear, I mean his upbringing, his mindset, all of that you get to hear. And that's one thing Steve always talked about a plan A and a plan B, you know, and he said, Lee, plan B is a lack of faith. Plan B is really an excuse so that if you don't not successful to A, you got something to fall back on if. He said, but people who become successful, they stay with A, A, A A and they find a way to make A work. If A don't work this way, then let's do A another way or let's go back to A and find out, okay, where did I go wrong? Or let me use this experience gain in A so that I can now move to the next level. You know, so that was his mindset and you know, well, now he's not doing stand up comedy, but guess what, he's doing it. He's doing this now with the Family Feud, he's doing it now with his show as a judge. So he's still, he's still working Plan 8, but he reworked it in such a way or rebranding it in such a way that he's still a comedian but not stand up comedy. So he's still living the passion that was in him as a kid. You know, he had this thing in him as a kid to be a comedian. Shared with me the story of him being an 8 year old boy and listen to his father and some of the older guys while at the back of the barn. So he was listening to him tell jokes and all of this and next thing you know he's in the, in the restroom at home looking in the mirror and telling jokes. And his mom heard him use a couple of words that was grown up words and said, boy, you wait till your dad get home, I'm going to tell your dad and he's going to tan your hide. And he said after his dad got home, his dad said, boy, what is it that you did come here in this room and he closed the door and just so you know, he started telling the dead, dad, I didn't mean that, Dad. I just heard. Heard in the back of the barn. I would sneak around and hear y' all talking and laughing and, and I heard y' all say, heard those things, say that this recording. He said, let me hear what you said, boy. And he told. After that, he said, well, you're pretty good, ain't you? You're pretty good. Come on, let's go out to the barbershop. Let the guys hear you. Anyway, that ticked his, that ticked his mother off. But hey, instead of him beating him up, he sort of encouraged him. So here we are today. So that plan A was in him when he was a little boy. And it's still there. It has now made him a millionaire. So that plan A is Plan A. That's, you know, it's your passion. It was my passion as a little boy. At the age of six years old, I tried to pick a bowler up and throw it over my dad's car. I thought I was Sampson and Hercules. When I was six years old, the boulder didn't go over the car. It landed in the back glass. But. And I couldn't figure out why I didn't go over the car. But my dad came to that door, he said, who did it? And he looked at my brother, who was three years older than me, much larger. I mean, my brother's like six foot four, six five here. I'm this little bitty guy. He looked at me, looked at my brother, said, he couldn't have done that. He said, he did do it, daddy, he did do it. It wasn't me, man. My dad took off after him and man, he got his butt beat something off. But my dad didn't realize There was a Mr. Universe in that little old six year old boy. He later figured out after I won the teenage American, won the Mr. America, won the universe in the midst of Olympia, he said, oh, so you were the one who did.

That's, that's, that's hilarious. Well, you know, you talk people, you know, this thing of spending time with people, training them and things like that, the. It brings up the point of who you socialize with, who you're around. Like they came to you for training and. But being around, you know, stars, it rubs off on you. You pick up ideas. Just in talking, like what we're doing right now, just in talking, things come up. You can't change how, who you are and the things we use Lead to drive us wind up going in a.

Whole level of energy. Larry, you know, it's a proverb that I've heard often heard by one of my friends who's a retired Recon Marine. He was my training partner for years, and he always would say, make a statement that you are what you eat and the company you keep. And that was. That is so true. Being around people with, like, energy, like mindedness, it helps to grow and develop you, you know, it rubs off on you.

Absolutely. And the advantage, you know, like, we're always, you know, you and I were in the same thing with those guys. You're always moving forward in your life. If you got projects, you know, if you're having, if you haven't given up and you find people like the Tyler Perry or Steve and Steve Harvey and, you know, unless you use that retire word, you know, you can retire from one thing, but you retire to do other things you don't retire from. And then just a blank.

I love that.

And you retire to open up and take advantage of bigger opportunities. You know, you, like, you win a race not to be. That's the end of it. You win a race to open new doors, you know, and new opportunities. And what happened to you was that your plan A, you probably realized as you. You went on, your plan A was not limited to just bodybuilding, because otherwise you would have retired and that would have been it. You know, you're like, at age 31, there's nothing left, you know. But that wasn't your plan A. When did you realize your plan A was to go on and do great things and be a powerful leader in different arenas?

Well, Larry, after I won the eighth Olympia, I said, okay, this is it. I didn't announce a retirement. I never said I was retired. I just stepped away because I felt in my heart it was time to use that level of success and faith in other areas. And so then here we go with the show on the. With espn, Lee Haines Championship Workout. Yeah, ESPN came a new contractual situation with Twin Laboratories, you know, which. And again promoted my success. And then next thing you know, a opportunity with the Trinity Broadcast Network with a TV show called Totally Fit, and then a show with Sports South Network. And then from there, I opened three different fitness centers. And from there I started Lee Haney Nutrition, which is now I'm sending products all over the United States. Then from there, I started with the certification program, the International association of Fitness Science that certified people want to become personal trainers. So it was a whole world of opportunities out there. And as you said, you finished one project. Okay? Now let's graduate to the next project. Let's graduate. I heard, I had somebody ask me the other day, well, Leo, when do you plan to retire? I said, moses didn't retire. Neither did Joshua. I said, retirement is not what real men do. We move on. Like you said, to the next. To the next challenge. To the next vehicle.

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