The Impossible Podcast

Matthew Hill and Austin Douglas
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Welcome to The Impossible, the official podcast of Impossible Performance, where we explore humanity in the Face of Impossible challenge.  Our hosts Matt Hill and Austin Douglas are both cancer survivors who have faced The Impossible through near death experience, disease, PTSD, and addiction.  Since overcoming these challenges, they now use the principles they learned from these difficult experiences to Be Impossible and Do the Impossible in business and athletics.  Join us as we hear stories of those who have Faced the Impossible and learn how you can Be Impossible, building a version of yourself who is capable of overcoming any challenge you face...capable of Doing the Impossible! At Impossible Performance, we strive to build a global culture of strength, fostering a spirit of growth in constant pursuit of The Impossible. Thank you for listening and as always... Be Impossible

  1. 5 days ago

    I Was Just Diagnosed With Cancer for the Second Time

    I Was Just Diagnosed With Cancer for the Second Time Twelve years ago, cancer built the man I became; last Friday, it returned. In 2013, at eighteen, Ewing sarcoma took my leg and very nearly took my life; it also built the Be Impossible mindset from the ground up. I learned that you do not beat the impossible by staring at the mountain; you become, one ordinary day at a time, the version of yourself who can. That skill: building peace within fear rather than escaping it, is the one that carries me now, because I have heard those words again. Renal cell carcinoma, caught early, stage one. Good odds, and I am thankful for them; and still that same fear, that same reckoning with how precious and how brief our time truly is. I am sharing all of it here, in real time: the diagnosis, the prognosis, the reawakening to the beauty we go blind to, and, at the close, the most personal thing I have ever spoken aloud, an experience from that first battle that I was never certain I would tell. Not to convince you of anything, but to live out, plainly, what it means to be Impossible. Your potential is your responsibility; so is mine. If this reaches you in your own dark hour, that is the entire Purpose of it. Shared in my own words; not medical advice. Please help us carry the message: share this episode with one person who needs it. Follow us: @impossible.performance · www.impossibleperformance.com 🎧 The Impossible Podcast | Impossible Performance ❤️‍🔥 Join our FREE Online Community to learn more about out Message ❤️‍🔥: https://www.skool.com/the-orion-collective-8700 For 1:1 Performance Coaching, click this Link 🏆: https://www.skool.com/impossible Support the show

    I Was Just Diagnosed With Cancer for the Second Time

  2. 6 days ago

    "You're Throwing Darts at No Dartboard"; Why You Can't Hit a Target You Never Set - Paul Oneid

    He knew before his chest hit the floor that he was going to be alright. Paul Oneid has built a life out of walking into rooms where he does not belong yet. A Canadian kid with no football background trying to coach Division I athletes; a lifter stepping into a gym holding four of the strongest men on earth; a coach who saved twelve thousand dollars to work three months for free. In this conversation he traces the whole arc: the burnout that ended his collegiate career, the mother's line that convinced him to bet on himself, and the meet where a third-attempt squat tore both quads and fractured both kneecaps. But the recovery is where the real teaching lives. Six weeks unable to care for himself; an ego dismantled entirely; and the lesson underneath it, that he was deserving of the love he was being given. From there the conversation opens into the questions Paul builds his coaching on: who are you if you cannot use your work, your hobbies, your faith, or your family to answer; why an identity attached to anything external is fragile; how self-efficacy is actually built, one manufactured win at a time; and the moment he asks Matt to objectively define success, and the silence that follows. Stop looking for answers. Start learning to ask better questions. 🎧 The Impossible Podcast | Impossible Performance 0:00 Robert Greene on vocation, and why this conversation 2:12 From basketball to football to a torn meniscus 3:44 Saving $12,000 to intern for free in Florida 6:38 15 teams, 600 athletes, and 120 hours of overtime 7:43 Burnout, and quitting coaching for a "real job" 8:04 Learning to talk to people, not just athletes 9:01 "Bet on yourself"; the call to his mother 11:20 "Why would they listen to a guy who never played?" 13:23 Walking into a gym with four world number ones 17:28 The third attempt that tore both quads 18:33 Rehab, and a bodybuilding win 13 months later 20:48 The arc of identity, from parents to friends to work 22:16 Who are you without your job, faith, or family? 23:20 "Doing hard things is easy"; so what's underneath it? 25:13 Hardship you choose vs. hardship that chooses you 26:39 A GI bleed at 1 AM, and driving himself to the ER 31:34 Uncompromised acceptance 35:08 Being a burden, and losing every bit of ego 36:16 "You are deserving of the love you're getting" 46:37 Sliding vs. deciding, in relationships and in life 54:46 Chasing achievement because it felt like love 56:06 Identity versus outcome, and full effort 59:15 Sisyphus is smiling; the next mountain 1:03:06 Bandura, micro wins, and building self-efficacy 1:04:19 The runway of progression, applied to nutrition 1:10:16 Becoming someone who could beat cancer 1:12:19 Curtis, the 500lb squat, and the message that made him mad 1:20:45 Priorities you can never invert 1:22:58 Satisficing: optimize, don't maximize 1:37:01 "Throwing darts at no dartboard" 1:42:41 Defining success, and going to bed saying yes 1:43:46 Raising the bar; asking better questions Support the show

    "You're Throwing Darts at No Dartboard"; Why You Can't Hit a Target You Never Set - Paul Oneid

  3. 4 Aug

    She Beat an Eating Disorder and Built a Coaching Empire on Brutal Honesty - With Kaitlyn Kenna

    Some people are broken by the storm; a Powerhouse is the one it cannot stop. Kaitlyn Kenna grew up watching her father vanish into opioid addiction: the doctor-hopping, the withdrawals, the eviction, the slow erasure of the man he used to be. In college she fought a battle of her own and is still winning it today. Out of all of it came a refusal to lie: to herself first, then to everyone who follows her. She built a coaching practice, the Powerhouse Mentality podcast, and a following grounded in one rare thing online: brutal honesty. We get into what the opioid epidemic really did to good people; why an eating disorder is about Control long before it is about food; how to read fitness content without being fear-mongered into fear; the Standard that makes you chase a single pea across a hotel floor; and yes, the honest truth about energy drinks, ranked. This is challenge turned into Purpose, in her own words. Your Potential is your responsibility; hers became a mission. Shared in her own words; not medical advice. If you are struggling with an eating disorder, support is available through the National Alliance for Eating Disorders. Follow Kaitlyn: @kaitlynkennafitness · @thepowerhousejournal · The Powerhouse Mentality podcast  Follow us: @impossible.performance · www.impossibleperformance.com 🎧 The Impossible Podcast | Impossible Performance Support the show

    She Beat an Eating Disorder and Built a Coaching Empire on Brutal Honesty - With Kaitlyn Kenna

  4. 7 Jul

    Why Experiencing Another Culture Might Be the Antidote to a Chaotic World - With Austin

    Why Experiencing Another Culture Might Be the Antidote to a Chaotic World Two farmers on an Italian mountain could have walked right by; they didn't. In this solo episode, Austin takes the long way through a simple idea: that beneath every border, accent, and unfamiliar meal, we are all still human, born in different places. From four broke Americans stuck on a rock beneath Mount Vesuvius, to a week of discipline in an Edinburgh coffee shop, to a shared love of Salt Lake City traded across the counter with a shopkeeper in a Scottish town of four hundred; these are the small moments that dissolve the assumptions we carry before we ever arrive. The through-line is a Standard worth adopting: go with an open mind and an empty stomach, and dig in. Not to forsake your own culture, but to let it be sharpened against another; because one meal in five becomes a favorite you never knew existed, and a smaller bite is always better than no bite at all. In a world with no shortage of chaos, Austin makes the case that part of the antidote is closer than it looks; a plane ticket, a conversation, a willingness to be changed for the good. You do not need the whole world at once; you need the willingness to take the first bite. 🎧 The Impossible Podcast | Impossible Performance Join our FREE Online Community to learn more about out Message ❤️‍🔥: https://www.skool.com/the-orion-collective-8700 For 1:1 Performance Coaching, click this Link 🏆: https://www.skool.com/impossible Support the show

    Why Experiencing Another Culture Might Be the Antidote to a Chaotic World - With Austin

  5. 1 Jul

    Doctors Told My Parents I Wouldn't Survive the Night - With Matthew Hill

    Doctors Told My Parents I Wouldn't Survive the Night. One physician refused to give up; that single decision is why this story exists. On what should have been a final dose, the treatment meant to save him turned: sepsis, then septic shock, then organ by organ giving way. His parents were asked to prepare for a goodbye. And in that room, where the Standard had already been lowered to mere survival, one doctor decided survival was not enough to surrender to. What followed was not a miracle handed down; it was a narrative reclaimed. The prognosis said never walk, never reason, never return; he chose to author a different story, and then spent years proving it true. This is what it looks like to refuse the limits placed on a life: not a denial of the darkness, but the decision to build, from inside it, an individual capable of the Impossible. The night did not get the final word; the Purpose did. Shared in his own words; not medical advice. 🎧 The Impossible Podcast | Impossible Performance Join our FREE Online Community to learn more about out Message ❤️‍🔥: https://www.skool.com/the-orion-collective-8700 For 1:1 Performance Coaching, click this Link 🏆: https://www.skool.com/impossible Support the show

    Doctors Told My Parents I Wouldn't Survive the Night - With Matthew Hill

  6. 23 Jun

    Heller's Harvest: Growing an Organic Home Garden the Honest Way - With Brian Heller

    Welcome to The Impossible! Organic gardening Isn't a trend for him, It's how he protects his Family.  Brian Heller has been surrounded by the warmth and responsibility of having and maintaining a home garden. Now we hear how he has turned this garden into a service for teaching the community on how to do better for themselves and their loved ones.  Fruits and vegetables can be a plentiful within the markets, but growing in your backyard can make the whole experience that much sweeter! Join our FREE Online Community to learn more about out Message ❤️‍🔥: https://www.skool.com/the-orion-collective-8700 For 1:Performance Coaching, click this Link 🏆: https://www.skool.com/impossible Support the show

    Heller's Harvest: Growing an Organic Home Garden the Honest Way - With Brian Heller

  7. 16 Jun

    Movement Is A Must, For All - With Austin Douglas

    Welcome to The Impossible! Today, Austin is sharing some of his thoughts on the power and importance of Movement. Movement of the body, and what that can do as it percolates through the other domains of performance.  Let us think for a moment, what we could all do for ourselves, and for other, within the school of movement.  Join our FREE Online Community to learn more about out Message ❤️‍🔥: https://www.skool.com/the-orion-collective-8700 For 1:Performance Coaching, click this Link 🏆: https://www.skool.com/impossible Support the show

    Movement Is A Must, For All - With Austin Douglas

  8. 9 Jun

    Chemo While Pregnant: One Mother's Impossible Fight - With Mikayla Mugrage

    Some stories stay with you long after the conversation ends. This is one of them. In this episode of The Impossible Podcast, we sit down with Mikayla, a woman whose path to motherhood was anything but simple. After fighting through multiple failed attempts to get pregnant, she finally received the news she'd been praying for. Then, just two weeks later, everything changed: a breast cancer diagnosis. What followed was a fight on two fronts — undergoing chemotherapy while carrying her child, holding onto hope while facing the unknown. Her baby was born healthy, a victory she doesn't take for granted. But her story didn't end there. After relapsing twice, she now sits in one of the hardest places imaginable: deciding whether to undergo chemotherapy again. This conversation is about resilience, motherhood, fear, faith, and what it means to keep choosing to fight when there are no easy answers. Whatever you're facing today, we hope her courage reminds you of your own. 🎧 Listen, subscribe, and share with someone who needs it. #TheImpossiblePodcast #ImpossiblePerformance #Resilience #CancerSurvivor #Motherhood Join our FREE Online Community to learn more about out Message ❤️‍🔥: https://www.skool.com/the-orion-collective-8700 For 1:Performance Coaching, click this Link 🏆: https://www.skool.com/impossible Support the show

    Chemo While Pregnant: One Mother's Impossible Fight - With Mikayla Mugrage
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Welcome to The Impossible, the official podcast of Impossible Performance, where we explore humanity in the Face of Impossible challenge.  Our hosts Matt Hill and Austin Douglas are both cancer survivors who have faced The Impossible through near death experience, disease, PTSD, and addiction.  Since overcoming these challenges, they now use the principles they learned from these difficult experiences to Be Impossible and Do the Impossible in business and athletics.  Join us as we hear stories of those who have Faced the Impossible and learn how you can Be Impossible, building a version of yourself who is capable of overcoming any challenge you face...capable of Doing the Impossible! At Impossible Performance, we strive to build a global culture of strength, fostering a spirit of growth in constant pursuit of The Impossible. Thank you for listening and as always... Be Impossible

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  • Creator
    Matthew Hill and Austin Douglas
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    160
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Impossible Podcast
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