Category: Brainstorms

Motivation

As a pro #bmx athlete & brain tumor survivor, I’ve gone through many challenges in life. #Motivation has always been the determining factor at overcoming each challenge. I believe this to be true for any person.

What helps?

  1. A Clear Vision for your life with a strong Goal, WHY, or Purpose.
  2. Health: Mindset, Nutrition & Fitness.
  3. Music.

My Cape Cod brother, Tommy Rowland’s music motivates me each and every day. His story and affirmations in his music inspire me to reach further and further for greatness.

Shit is going to happen in life and that’s just reality. What separates people that reach greatness from the norm is motivation to continue when times get time.

I challenge you all to foster a new perspective next time you come across a challenge or hardship. At the end of the day, there are no failures. Just opportunities to learn how to succeed moving forward. That is, if we CHOOSE to see if that way. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

“See lately I’ve been talking shit like two commas is light. And lately the shit I’m talking manifests in my life. Lately I hear they words and it’s a cry of neglection. I never bragged the way I do when it wasn’t the truth.” – Rowlan

📸 @jciake

Cupping & Dryneedling

Lots of controversy surrounding #cupping and #dryneedling but, in my experience, it works every time. Even if the literature/research hasn’t caught up, personal experiences mean more to me than any text book or piece of paper. Same with “professionals” and “experts”.

Just because someone has letters following their name doesn’t mean they know it all. Just because you can’t read an article “proving” the benefits of something, doesn’t mean you can’t excuse the manifestation taking place in reality.

It’s more than ok to have your own opinions, but it becomes disrespectful to direct ignorant comments towards those like myself and Jackie sharing therapies that have been practiced for 1,000’s of years with others in an effort to help others become as well as possible.

That said, I’m all for friendly debates and conversation and I want to hear your opinions. Not told what does and doesn’t work for myself, but what your view and experiences is with cupping and/or dry needling is/has been. 🤓💚✌️

-Josh P.

Alive

Hi! My name is Josh Perry, and I’m a pro BMX athlete living with 4 brain tumors and coaching people to make life changing choices in their lives to optimize their brain and enhance their life.

BMX is what’s me feel most alive. It’s not only shown me the world, kept me out of trouble, taught me valuable life lessons, and gave me amazing experiences and relationships, it saved my life in March of 2010.

That is the beginning of my journey with a braintumor that lead to me living with 4 today. It’s also what put me on the path to holistic health. It doesn’t stop me, it fuels me.

I’m thankful for brands like Kevita Drinks and their mission to provide health beverages that taste great and make you feel amazing and ALIVE. 🙏🏼💚

Comment or DM me to connect and share stories. ☺️✌️

-JoshP.

No Pain, No Gain?

Pushing your body and mind is very important to building resilience and strength. That said, too often as a society do we push our bodies and mind too high, too frequently, and unnecessarily.

Stress is a very important human biological response important for survival and strength. But, in personal and business life, we have introduced too many false stressors in our days like “I have to get this done”, “what will they think of me”, “I don’t want to fail”, “I’m going to be late”, etc. which is a made up stress yet still has the detrimental affects of stress hormones (adrenaline and cortisol).

As athletes, we are told to train harder, train through the pain, no pain no gain, etc. I ignorantly fell into this category for many years. Because of an immense passion to educate myself with an open mind, I’ve come to realize there are so many things we can do with our diet, fitness, mindset, and lifestyle choices to reduces the activity in the parts of the brain that trigger stress hormones.

Over the last few years, I have built and continue to work on building up an aerobic heart rate base for optimized oxygen intake and fat oxidation, which reduces excess free-radical damage, inflammation, and oxidative stress. I’ve worked hard to build up, and continue to build, strength, mobility, technique, explosiveness, and recovery while focusing 💯 on my nutrition and mindset to eliminate excess stress to my brain and body. Finally, I allow myself to rest when my body tells me it needs it. I’d rather have fewer days at 💯 than more days less than my full potential.

Rather than not training, like the old me, or training too frequently when not feeling 💯, I train hard 3 days a week, go all out 1 day a week, have 2 active recovery/aerobic and gymnastic ring days, and take a full day off when need be, while riding 4-5 days a week.

The benefits and improvements I’ve seen with my energy, body composition, strength on and off my bike, mindset, recovery, digestion, and mental focus were in fathomable at the beginning but now I’m a believer. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

Neurotransmitters Start in the Gut

This is why what you eat is so important, especially if you experience any kind of symptom with anxiety, depression, ADD/ADHD, anger, lack of “will power”, brain fog, etc. It starts in the gut then the brian goes to work setting off other chain reactions in the body. Thanks, Dr Mark Hyman and Dr David Perlmutter, for all you do.

It Must Be Nice

“For all the times when I was down, well now I’m on my way. For everybody that was doubting, well not I’m on my way. For the ones who ain’t believing, well now I’m on my way. For the ones who question everything, well now I’m on my way.” -@rowlan

It must be nice was a common phrase I used and that I hear all the time. I said this until I stopped making excuses for the lack within my life, took my life into my control, and held myself accountable for the reality in which I lived in on a daily basis.

People don’t just have things pop into their reality out of thin air. There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes. I’ve seen success manifest in my BMX career when I put in the work that followed a belief that it was possible. I’ve learned many things from BMX and one was that anything you set your mind to, believe wholeheartedly in, and take action towards without giving up is possible.

It’s only a dream until it happens to you.The difference between those who make dreams their reality and those who say “it must be nice” is taking action, an underlying belief it’s possible, and pushing through when times get tough.

I’ve been there when times were tough many times over my lifetime. Sometimes I gave up and other times I pushed through. Either way, it’s all just a learning opportunity. I call it collecting data.

Shit happens and you can either fall victim to the times you fell or you can be a survivor and push through with the new information at hand.

I choose to push through, no matter how terrible a time may be, and find a way to make my dreams a reality-because, why not?

I know I’ll be better for it coming out and that greatness is on the other side of any hardship in life.

Are you a victim or a survivor?

-Josh P.

Guild Mortgage Leadership Summit

What an honor to coach the EVP of the county’s top private mortgage company, Guild Mortgage, and his fellow staff and family leading to their annual leadership summit in San Diego, CA. The successes and experiences they have shared with me from us working together is priceless. It’s what I am most passionate about in life and being able to combine my childhood dream of being a pro bmx athlete is even better.

This was one special event for me to be able to perform in front of my family along with the top 700+ earners within Guild Mortgage, especially after coaching Barry (EVP, on the left in this photo) and the others leading up to the event. Greg Woodruff (pictured on the right) was an amazing production manager with Gary Musick Productions and put on an event that topped what I had imagined. Oh, and Greg is enrolled in my Be The Change YOU Want To See health coaching program now too as well as a good friend and collaborative partner of mine.

Barry, Greg, and the whole attendance have such amazing personalities and welcomed Jackie and myself with loving open arms full of support for what we believe in and how to help us all succeed in health and happiness. I am grateful for moments like these and for Jill Transki of All Wheel Sports to have me apart of the performance, which led to an amazing opportunity to share my passion for brian health and optimization. 🙌🏼💚❤️💯

📸 @jciake

-JoshP.

Manifest

“When I’m old I’ma spend my days, layin’ with my girl on the beach in the shade.

Have every single thing I can name.

Thank god everyday I don’t sleep in the rain.

Blessed with some success so I’ma try my best to.

Live my life right, when I see God he’ll be impressed ’cause.

I’ve been on my grind, thinking I’ll be fine if I take my time.

Working so hard I might break my spine.

So all yall goin’ see this face of mine.

There’s different ways to shine.

I’ma find my own, know when I disappear.

I’ma find my way back home ’cause…

I don’t think they know it yet, but I do, I do.” – Mac Miller 🙌🏼💯

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📸 @jciake

Brainy BMX – Providing Support & Inspiration

I believe in providing everyone with support in times of need. Even the strongest walks of life can’t do everything on their own.

From brain tumor patients to brain injury and disorder patients, I am raising funds for direct patient funding/care. Not research or awareness, although I believe those have their place. But funding for the people that need the help now and can’t wait for a scientific intervention and are already plenty aware of what’s going on. They need help with home expenses, treatment options and funding, healthy food, lifestyle choices that they can implement, and just someone to resonate with and not feel alone.

Being in the shoes of brain tumor and brian injury patients, I know this all too well. I’m grateful to be alive and thriving even with 4 brain tumors. I’ve combined my passion for bmx, nutrition, fitness, mindset practices, and supporting those to live as healthy and happy as possible into a touring live event around the world with the mission to inspire change and raise support for those in their biggest time of need.

Click this Link to learn more and see how you can help my mission along with The Athlete Recovery Fund. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

2 Years Ago – Dave Mirra

There are no words for the impact Dave Mirra had on my life, on and off my bike. It’s still so surreal that today is 2 years since Dave left us in this physical life.

The top left photo shows my back tattoo from Brian Lee to hold Dave with me for the rest of my life and have a daily reminder of the life I live and why that is possible. The middle photo is from when I was 12 and first met Dave on the Dave Mirra Super Tour. Bottom left was the second to last day I saw Dave after a lunch with him and Scott Wirch in Greenville, NC. Bottom right is some of the last comments Dave shared with me on here in regards to some posts about his Animal House. Top right is just the way I want to remember Dave- a boss handling business. 😎 💪🏽

To read more of my thoughts on Dave’s passing and impact on my life, check my blog from 2 years ago.

-Josh P.