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Summary
On episode 724 of the 40+ Fitness Podcast, Coach Allan sits down with Jolie Glassman, a mindset trainer, coach, and boxing gym owner of nearly 30 years, to explore her book Life According to the Rules of Boxing: 101 Rules to Being the Champion of Your Own Life. Her gym’s slogan is you don’t have to be a boxer to train like one, and she uses boxing as a metaphor for living well: the real goal in the ring is not to get hit but to keep bobbing, weaving, sticking, and moving through whatever life throws at you. She argues that mindset comes first because the thought sends the signal that creates the emotion, and that integrity, doing exactly what you said you would do with no back door and no excuses, is what equals your level of success in any area of life.
Jolie and Allan work through several of her 101 rules, including facing your fears head on, refusing to lose, resisting temptation by changing your environment, having patience with yourself, and hiring a coach because everyone has blind spots. She shares her own 11 year journey after a motorcycle accident to learn to regulate her nervous system through meditation and breath work, insisting that healing only happens in a regulated nervous system. She closes with three strategies for wellness: build a strong morning and night routine and put yourself first, clean up your diet by removing packaged and publicly traded brand foods, and make sure fun and service run through everything you do.
Links
- Jolie Glassman
- Life According to the Rules of Boxing: 101 Rules to Being the Champion of Your Own Life by Jolie Glassman
- Get Life According to the Rules of Boxing on Amazon
Key Takeaways
- Mindset comes first: The thought sends the signal that creates the emotion, and you never arrive at fit, you keep chasing it, because strong is something you earn again every single day.
- Integrity equals success: If you commit to 30 reps, then 25 is not cutting it, and whatever area of your life is not working is the area where integrity is missing.
- Commit to excellence: Doing it anyway, whether you love it or not, builds discipline and teaches you to get comfortable with the uncomfortable.
- Beat temptation by design: Make the new habit easy and the undesirable one hard, keep trigger foods out of the house, and slow down enough to make a new choice.
- Regulate your nervous system: Meditation and breath work, including alternate nostril and box breathing, calm you down, because healing only happens in a regulated nervous system.
- Get a coach and a team: Even champions have coaches because we all have blind spots, so you cannot fully elevate a struggling area of your life on your own.
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Episode Notes
Podcast: 40+ Fitness
Episode: 724
Published: 2025-12-09
Host: Allan Misner (aka Coach Allan), author of The Wellness Roadmap
Guest(s): Jolie Glassman, a real talk, real results mindset, trainer, mentor and Coach, author of Life According to The Rules of Boxing: 101 Rules to Being the Champion of Your Own Life
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