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Went through a lot of trials and tribulations before I kind of got back on track and kind of implemented everything that the military has taught me to progress forward to where I'm at today. David Mitchell is a veteran health and wellness entrepreneur and the founder of Supreme Strip. He helps people optimize their health and performance through innovative wellness products that combine advanced delivery technology with everyday convenience.
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Where was that sort of entrepreneurial journey sparked for you?
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Some days I'm tired and I don't feel like doing it. Tried the coffee in the morning. I've tried the pre workouts. You know, once you do the pre workouts, it's not fasted cardio anymore. I just wanted to come out with a different way to get caffeine into my system without disrupting the fasted cardio portion of it, without having anything sitting in my stomach. And so we came up with, with sublingual strips.
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If you had to give one key tip for success, what would that tip be?
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Just never give up. And just. It spans the globe like a super high old Internet Elvis. Ready for free. Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone. It's not over until I win.
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The Living your Legacy podcast. For those who live to leave a legacy that's extraordinary.
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The impossible has happened. Oh, that is sensational. Jordan, open Chicago with the lead. You said Paul is the fastest man on the planet. You can live your dream.
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Welcome back, everybody. Welcome, everybody, to another episode of the Living youg Legacy podcast. Again, I am your host, Jason Tyler, and I am joined today by David Mitchell. David, how you doing today?
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Good. How are you?
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Doing good. Doing good. Welcome to the show.
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Thank you.
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Appreciate you being here. Appreciate you being here. So I want to just, you know, we're about to go into filming your episode here, and I want to kind of ask you what, what's your number one takeaway that you want the audience to be able to learn about through your story?
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Basically that no matter what your past is or where you've been in life, you can always, always reach your goals.
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There's always a. There's always an opportunity to turn it around at some point. Yeah, I'm a firm believer in that. Talk to me a little bit about. So you guys are coming in from San Diego. Talk to me a little bit about the West Coast. What's your, what's your history? How do I get the David that is sitting across from me today?
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Well, I grew up in Palmdale, Lancaster, which is east northeast Louisiana. County, high desert. So I grew up, grew up there when I was 17. I joined the military, got stationed in Kansas, and when I came back, I ended up moving to OSHA side in 2001, and that's kind of where I've been ever since.
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Got you. Got you. So as far as. And this is something I talked to with a lot of the guys on the show. Like, I have interviewed a ton of guys that come in. Come in from the military. What was your experience of kind of, like, transitioning back into civilian life?
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It was tough. So, you know, I was stationed in Fort Riley, Kansas, so I was kind of out in the sticks, and there was really nothing to do. So it took me a while to get adjusted to that. But then getting out and moving to Oceanside and the city life, it took me. It took me a while to adapt back to that, you know.
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So, yeah, it's a. From what I've heard, I'm not. I'm not military. I got a bunch of buddies from the military. But what I've heard is, like, you go from this, like, super structured environment, and then when you come back to civilian, it's like, all right, who. No one's. I don't got. You know, no one's telling you what to do anymore.
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Correct, Correct. And that took. That took a lot of adjusting. I think I came out strong in the beginning, and then I kind of, you know, fell. Fell to the wayside and kind of took a different path and then went through a lot of trials and tribulations before, you know, I kind of got back on track and kind of implemented, you know, everything that the military has taught me to progress forward to where I'm at today.
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Now, when you mentioned trials and tribulations, expand on that a little.
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For me, one of my biggest ones was May 7, 2000, 2008, I got into a motorcycle. Or 2005. I'm sorry. I got into a bad motorcycle accident. Almost. Almost died. I spent six months in the hospital. About six months. Learned how to walk again.
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So, yeah, I almost lost my dad in a motorcycle accident. I remember I was growing up, he used to always ride. He wrote a Ducati. And I would know when my dad was coming home, as you can hear, because I would hear him, I would hear him come home. And one night I just. He just never showed up. I was like, that's odd. And then, you know, I go to school, come back home, and Mom's crying. I'm like, what's. What's going on here? And she's like, your dad's in the hospital. He was in a bad Motorcycle. He had to be airlifted. This was what, 2000? I want to say 2004.
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Okay.
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Around that time and broken clavicle, all the ribs on his left side shattered. I go to the hospital. My dad's like, swole up like a balloon. And after that point, I was like, all right, never going to ride a motorcycle. Like, that was just my takeaway from it. But it's, it's traumatic. It is like, that's a, that's an experience, and to come back from that is its own trial and tribulation. Right. I want to address the elephant in the room here. You are absolutely jacked. Talk to me a little bit about your fitness journey.
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So I've always, always enjoyed fitness. I started lifting weights in high school, probably 15 years old, believe it or not. I was actually small, small, small kid. I think I graduated when I graduated boot camp. I think I was 145 pounds when I graduated boot camp. So went to my, went to my duty station, got in a little bit of trouble my first weekend there. And so my squad leader started taking me to the gym every day after work. And that's kind of where I really, really fell in love with it. And I just every, I've lifted every day since, since the military, so. And it's just something I, I, I've grown to love, and it's my passion.
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And it becomes a part of you at a certain point. Like, I, I'm, I'm in my gym journey now, and like, I, I try to keep my frame right around. I'm like 6 foot 200. Like, I'm like, I'm good right there. But when you start going, you're almost like, all right, it's kind of a chore. And then out of nowhere, kind of this switch flips. Oh, now I don't feel right if I don't go right, right. Like, that's like my major thing now is if I don't go to, my day is ruined. Like, I got to do it right before work, come in, get my lift in, move on with the rest of my day. Now talk to me a little bit about your, your company. How did, how did that start? Where was that sort of entrepreneurial journey sparked for you?
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So in this particular case, you know, I get up early in the morning, anywhere from 3 to 3:30am first thing I do is cardio in the morning, and a lot of the times I'm tired.
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What's your cardio of choice?
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I, I like to mix it up. So
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I'm big on stairmaster And I was about to say stairmaster. Yeah, but Stair Mastro.
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Yeah, it's. It's tough.
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It'll get you.
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So. But, yeah, so, you know, I, I, you know, some days I'm tired and I don't feel like doing it. And so, you know, I've tried the coffee in the morning. I've tried the pre workouts. And like, you know, once you do the pre workouts, it's not fast and cardio anymore. And not only that, it's like, you know, sometimes I'll switch up my cardio and I'll do sandbag workouts outside, and, you know, I'm doing burpees and stuff like that, and, you know, I got liquid sloshing in my stomach. I'm burping up coffee, and so I'm like, dude, there's got to be a better way to get caffeine. So I ended up buying. I bought some caffeine capsules online, took one of those before, and ended up just burning my stomach while I was working out. So, yeah, I just wanted to come out with a different way to. To get caffeine into my system without disrupting the fasted cardio portion of it, without having anything sitting in my stomach. And so we came up with. With the sublingual strips.
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So, see, that's. That's my number one thing with a lot of, you know, all I do is interview entrepreneurs in here, right? And the number one thing that I see but among all successful entrepreneurs is you identified a need, and you're like, all right, I'm gonna solve it. Yeah, right. We're problem solvers at the end of the day now, going into, you know, starting this business, getting it up off the ground, it came from a need that you had. How have you kind of identified or what have you seen in people that have come to you for this product?
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So there's a lot of. Lot of different needs. So you have anywhere from college students.
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Oh, man, I would have killed with that in college.
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Yeah. You know, I mean, thought about it. You've fallen asleep in class. You know, you don't have to, like, crack. You know, crack a can open, you know, you just take a strip. It's good for delivery drivers because all day, they're out delivering most of it. You look at any delivery truck, they have energy. Truckers, Truckers for truckers, you know, so it eliminates the need to use the restroom all the time, you know, because you get your quick caffeine. We travel a lot, so for traveling, it's great. Different time zones. So you just. I mean, it's just easy. It's convenient. It fits in your pocket. There's, you know, so it's like having
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one of those like, like the Listerine breath strips, you know?
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Yeah. And we do make a mint flavor. So if you're going into a business meeting or whatever, you pop a mint one. Boom.
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And now you're. Now you're showing up.
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Yeah.
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On point.
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On point with fresh bread.
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All right, I'm going to need. I'm going to need. You got any samples on you?
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I do.
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All right, I'm gonna need. I'm gonna need that. Talk to me a little bit about. Now. You guys can't see this, but we have a guest with us in the room. Talk to me a little bit about you guys relationship. She. She's sitting back there. You guys can't see her.
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So I met Jamie a long time ago. We actually worked together, you know, in a. In a gym. We ended up losing contact, I want to say, in 2009. So she ended up going to the east coast, and so we lost contact. And, you know, her life went on. My life went on. I ended up getting, you know, I ended up getting married, had kids, and long story short with that, she ended up getting cancer. She passed. And.
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And sorry for your loss shortly.
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Thank you. Shortly after that, we were. Or I was in the gym, and lo and behold, she. She walked by me and I was like, I was. I was training with my buddy and I go, I go, is that girl's name Jamie? He's all, yeah. And I was like, dude, I know her. And so, yeah, one of those moments, you're like, where do I know you? Yeah. And so anyway, he called her over and she came over and we just started talking and hanging out, and one thing led to another and. And here we are eight years later,
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so thick as thieves.
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Yeah.
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Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I love to see it. Now we're, you know, we're here at Inside Success. Right. My. My one question that I always ask of all my guests on the show is if you had to give one key tip for success, what would that tip be?
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To never give up. You know, failure is a man made circumstance, you know, and it. It's something that we created. It doesn't come true unless you believe it, you know, so if you never believe it, it'll never come true. So just never give up and just, you know, you may find a thousand ways not to do something, but one day you'll find a way to do it. So.
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And take notes while you're going through the thick of it. Because I think a big thing for me was, as I was, you have failures, but you don't have to accept failure.
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I just did that in learning. Learning experience.
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Yeah.
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That's all. It's a lesson.
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Yeah, it's a lesson along the way. But if you don't implement on those lessons, I think a big thing that people do is they'll. They'll go through a loss or a lesson, and they'll be like, man, like, all right, this is what happened. I can't do that. But then they go and make the mistake again, right? And life is funny. Life will keep teaching you that same lesson over and over and over until you get it right. So, like, a big thing for me has always. At least now I'm 33 now, like, a big thing for me in this season of my life is I gotta write it down. I gotta write it down. I gotta keep a notebook that says, hey, this is what I learned from that experience.
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Yeah, I'm a firm, firm believer in writing everything down, you know, in. On my. On my bathroom mirror. You know, I have my goals. I have everything written written down. And, and, and so. And if you visually see it every day, like, I really believe it, it. It, you know, starts to get ingrained in you, and you start believing, you
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know, and at that point, you're attacking your subconscious. Like, you start to believe it on a subconscious level. And then at that point, it's. It's a foregone conclusion, I think.
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Correct. You know, if you never write your goals down and you never look at them, you'll. You'll never achieve them.
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They're just going to be thoughts. They're floating. They're floating around up there in the ether. Ah, man, this has been an incredible, incredible pleasure. I'm really excited to see your episode. Which, guys, if you're still tuned in at this point, make sure you check out David's episode. It'll be coming out shortly after this podcast episode airs. Where can people find you on social media, on the. On the Internet? Where can they find your products? Where are you located?
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So if you go to supremestrip.com that's the website. You can order there. And then we have Instagram, there's supreme strip and stem strip, because we will be launching other products other than. Other than the. The caffeine. So I do want to launch, you know, a sleep one, and we do want to launch a male enhancement one as well. So.
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All right, now we're talking now we're talking. Now we're talk. Well, you're going to have a Google review for me probably in about, like, 48 hours, so look out for that. Guys, again, this has been another incredible episode of the Living your legacy podcast. David, I'm. I think we're pretty much ready to go and film your episode. No.
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Yes, sir.
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Let's go do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. All right, guys. Catch you in the next one,
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Sam.