Building and Becoming Show with Jim Motz

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Welcome to the Building & Becoming Show with Jim Motz. I am all about guiding you on a journey of BUILDING a foundational faith in Christ while BECOMING Strong, Fit, and Capable in ALL areas of life. If you're about that, you'll dig this show. Tell a friend, I'm here every Tuesday.

  1. 2d ago

    EP 89 | "YOU’VE CHANGED.” Good. That Was the Point.

    🌊 READY TO GO DEEPER?Schedule a complimentary DeepWater call:https://calendly.com/jimmotz/schedule-your-call-with-jim 🔥 Join the FREE Building & Becoming Community:https://www.skool.com/building-and-becoming-3294/about 📖 Get the FREE DeepWater Manual:https://jimmotz.com/deep_water_manual/ “You’ve changed.” GOOD. That was the point. Nobody warns you that when you raise your standards, get fit, quit drinking, strengthen your faith and start changing your life…some of the greatest resistance may come from people you love. In Episode 89, we unpack why BELONGING can become the enemy of BECOMING—and how to keep moving forward without becoming arrogant, judgmental or shrinking back to make others comfortable. 🔥 Other people’s approval cannot be the price of your obedience. 🔥 Your biceps can grow while your character shrinks. 🔥 Legacy is the mission. The physique is the evidence. If there’s a gap between who you are and who God is calling you to become, it’s time to close it. “You’ve changed.” Yeah. THAT WAS THE POINT. ⚔️

  2. Sep 25

    EP 88 | COME AS YOU ARE | Jesus, Muscle & Becoming a Better Man

    🔥 FOLLOW ALLIE ON TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@alllligator4?_r=1&_t=ZT-99yQgLTD3Nd 📞 READY TO TAKE YOUR FAITH, FITNESS & LIFE TO ANOTHER LEVEL? Schedule a FREE call with Jim: https://calendly.com/jimmotz/schedule-your-call-with-jim ⚔️ GET THE FREE DEEPWATER MANUAL: https://jimmotz.com/deep_water_manual/ 🌊 JOIN BUILDING & BECOMING: https://www.skool.com/building-and-becoming-3294/about 🌐 MORE RESOURCES: https://jimmotz.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ EPISODE 88 — COME AS YOU ARE Our good friend Mike Collins is BACK—and this one went everywhere. 😂 Allie’s viral football videos 🐈 Our completely reasonable number of cats 💪 Building muscle after 40 🏋️ Training to failure 😴 Why recovery matters 🙏 Faith, baptism and following Jesus 📖 Being SET APART instead of trying to look perfect 🔥 And what it actually means to become a better man But somewhere in the middle of all the laughs, we landed on something I believe somebody needs to hear: COME AS YOU ARE. You don't need to get your life together before you come to Jesus. You don't need to lose 10 pounds before you walk into the gym. You don't need to know the Bible before you walk into church. You don't need to become worthy before you begin. SHOW UP AS YOU ARE. Then start becoming. That's what Building & Becoming is about. Not perfection. PROGRESS. Not pretending you've arrived. BECOMING the man or woman God created you to be. And maybe my favorite part of this entire episode comes at the end, when I get the opportunity to tell Mike what his friendship has meant to me. We laughed a LOT on this one. But there's some truth buried inside the chaos that I think you're going to want to hear. 👇 QUESTION FOR YOU: What area of your life have you been waiting to “get ready” before you finally START? Drop it in the comments. SUBSCRIBE and join us every week as we talk about Jesus, fitness, discipline, relationships and becoming everything God created us to be. ⚔️ BUILDING & BECOMING Devoted. Trained Up. Effective. Raised Up. #BuildingAndBecoming #ChristianMen #FaithAndFitness #MensHealth #StrengthTraining

  3. Sep 18

    EP 87 | STOP Trying to Lose Weight! This Matters More After 40

    🔥 Ready to become leaner, stronger and more capable? Schedule a call with Jim:Schedule Your Call With Jim STOP TRYING TO LOSE WEIGHT. Yep. I said it. For decades, we've been told the goal is to eat less, weigh less and get smaller. Especially as we get older. I think we're chasing the wrong target. In Episode 87 of The Building & Becoming Show, Allie and I dig into one of the most important shifts I've made in the way I think about health, aging and physical transformation: 💪 STOP obsessing over losing weight.🔥 START building a body that's lean, strong and capable. This conversation was inspired in large part by Dr. Gabrielle Lyon's book, Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well. Dr. Lyon's work reinforces something I've become increasingly passionate about in my own life and in the people I coach: MUSCLE ISN'T JUST ABOUT VANITY. MUSCLE IS CAPACITY. Your ability to move. Your ability to remain independent. Your ability to stay strong as you age. Your metabolic health. Your resilience. And ultimately, your ability to physically carry the life and calling God has placed in front of you. At 54, I'm not trying to become a smaller version of myself. I'm intentionally building muscle. And I'm coaching others to stop worshipping the number on the scale and start paying attention to what actually matters: body composition, strength, muscle, bloodwork, energy, health and capability. 🏋️ Why muscle becomes increasingly important as we age⚖️ Why weight loss and fat loss are NOT the same thing 🥩 Why protein matters when you're losing body fat 🔥 Why resistance training changes the equation📉 Why the scale is data — but it isn't the goal🧬 Muscle, metabolism and glucose management 👴 Why aging is NOT an excuse to surrender your strength🚶 Walking, cardio, rucking and resistance training⚔️ The difference between EXERCISING and TRAINING✝️ Why taking care of your body is ultimately an act of stewardship One of the biggest ideas from this conversation: “Training is a request for adaptation.” Every rep has a purpose. Every set matters. We're giving the body a reason to become something it currently isn't. And if you're sitting there thinking... “Jim, I'm too old.” You're not. The best time to start may have been years ago. The second-best time is TODAY. You're not too old to start. You're too old to keep waiting. DeepWater Coaching isn't about helping you simply become smaller. We coach people to become: 💪 STRONGER🔥 LEANER⚔️ MORE CAPABLE✝️ BETTER EQUIPPED TO CARRY THEIR CALLING If you're ready to close the gap between where you're living today and what you're actually capable of, let's talk. 👉 Schedule Your Call With Jim 🌊 DeepWater / Jim Motz:JimMotz.com 📖 Featured in this episode:Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well — Dr. Gabrielle Lyon This episode discusses ideas from the book alongside our own experiences, coaching philosophy and application. Full credit to Dr. Lyon for her work and research presented in Forever Strong. Don't train because you hate your body. Train because you understand what it's capable of. Your body carries your calling. BUILD IT ACCORDINGLY. ⚔️

  4. Sep 11

    EP 86 STOP Waiting for January — Change Your Life Before 2027

    What if you didn’t wait until January 1st to change your life? What if you started TODAY? In Episode 85 of the Building & Becoming Show, Allie and I are talking about why New Year’s resolutions fail—and why you don’t need a new calendar. 🔥 You need new STANDARDS. We get into the physical AND spiritual changes that can completely alter the trajectory of your life before 2027 even begins. In this episode: ⚔️ Why January 1st isn’t magical 💪 The difference between resolutions and standards ✝️ The ONE spiritual discipline that could bring you closer to Christ 📈 Why systems, habits and accountability beat motivation 🍺 The truth about “Dry January” 📸 Why taking an honest progress picture can change everything 🔥 Why discomfort can become a catalyst for change 🏋️ What Allie learned after a leg workout pushed her to her limit 🙏 Why your current condition does NOT define your identity 🌊 How the next 90 days could completely change your trajectory Here’s the challenge: Ask yourself TWO questions: 1️⃣ What ONE thing does my body and health need most right now? 2️⃣ What ONE spiritual discipline would bring me closer to Jesus? Write them down. Then ask yourself: If those things would matter on December 31st, why don’t they matter TODAY? You don't need another resolution. You need a framework. You need standards. You need accountability. And you need to START. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌊 READY TO GO DEEPER? DeepWater Coaching is our Christ-centered 90-day rebuild for men who are done drifting and ready to become stronger physically, spiritually and personally. We don't simply coach workouts. We address the MAN: ✝️ Faith 💪 Strength & fitness 🥩 Nutrition 😴 Recovery 📊 Health & performance ⚔️ Habits, discipline & standards 🤝 Accountability Your best days are not behind you. Let's build the man capable of carrying the calling God placed on his life. 📞 SCHEDULE YOUR FREE ASSESSMENT CALL WITH JIM: https://calendly.com/jimmotz/schedule-your-call-with-jim 🌊 LEARN MORE ABOUT DEEPWATER: https://jimmotz.com 📘 DOWNLOAD THE FREE DEEPWATER MANUAL: Visit https://jimmotz.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 CONNECT WITH JIM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realjimmotz/ Website: https://jimmotz.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BuildingandBecoming-7 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this show is providing real value to you—if we're helping you become stronger physically, spiritually, relationally or personally—then we'd be honored if you: 👍 LIKE 🔔 SUBSCRIBE + turn on notifications 💬 COMMENT ↗️ SHARE this episode with a man who needs it But I want to EARN that subscription. If we're creating value, follow along. If we're not, don't. Your time matters, and we're going to continue working to earn it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ YOU DON'T NEED A NEW CALENDAR. YOU NEED NEW STANDARDS. January 1st is coming either way. The question is: 🫵Who are you going to be when it gets here?

  5. Sep 4

    EP 85 PERSONAL TRAINING ISN’T ENOUGH — How This 70 Year Old Rebuilt His Life

    🔥 READY TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE? SCHEDULE A DEEPWATER STRATEGY CALL WITH JIM: https://calendly.com/jimmotz/schedule-your-call-with-jim 🌊 GET THE FREE DEEPWATER MANUAL: https://jimmotz.com/deep_water_manual/ 🎥 WATCH EPISODE 74 — THE DEEPWATER VIDEO MANUAL: https://youtu.be/FB1DsTxGksk?si=1ng11O3u-tYUVFMd 🔥 FOLLOW MIKE FREEMAN — SEE HIS JOURNEY: https://www.instagram.com/mfreeman12000/ 🔥 FOLLOW DEEPWATER CLIENT STEVE BAUMGARTNER: https://www.instagram.com/realstevebaumgartner/ 🤝 JOIN OUR BUILDING & BECOMING COMMUNITY: https://www.skool.com/building-and-becoming-3294/about 🌐 DEEPWATER / JIM MOTZ: https://jimmotz.com/ What if January 1 wasn't your starting line? What if January 1 became the day you looked in the mirror and couldn't believe how much your life had ALREADY CHANGED? In Episode 85 of the Building & Becoming Show, I'm joined by my friend and DeepWater brother Mike Freeman. Mike decided at 68 years old that he wasn't finished. He was roughly 75 pounds heavier. His energy was low. His confidence was low. He knew something had to change. Today, approaching 71, Mike is leaner, stronger, more capable and more confident—and he'll tell you that his relationship with Christ has become even stronger through the process. His message to the man who thinks he's too old? IT'S NEVER TOO LATE. We teach you: 🏋️ How to train efficiently, effectively and safely 🥩 How to eat instead of constantly dieting 💪 How to build strength and muscle as you age ⚙️ The 5 Pillars of Physical Optimization 📊 How to track, review and understand your data 🔄 How to adjust instead of repeatedly starting over 😴 How recovery affects your performance ✝️ How faith and physicality connect through discipline 🤝 How accountability and community change execution 🔥 How to turn a temporary program into a sustainable lifestyle 📖 HEBREWS 12:11 (NIV) "No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it." 📖 2 TIMOTHY 1:7 (NIV) "For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline." Your faith and your physicality are connected by a bridge called: DISCIPLINE.

  6. Aug 28

    STOP RUNNING FROM YOUR PAST. Draw the Line & Become Who God Created You to Be | EP 84

    You keep saying you want to change.But at some point, wanting a different life has to become a different STANDARD. 🔥 THIS EPISODE IS A LINE IN THE SAND. Maybe you've spent years running from obesity. Running from addiction. Running from weakness. Running from shame. Running from the person you used to be. Running away can get you moving… But it can't determine where you're going. It's time to stop living with your eyes on your past and start running TOWARD Jesus, strength, discipline, physical capability and the person God created you to become. 📖 “Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal…” — Philippians 3:13–14 In Episode 84 of the Building & Becoming Show, we're talking about: ⚔️ Why faith and fitness are NOT competing missions 💪 Why your body carries your calling 🔥 Why discipline matters when motivation disappears 📊 Why you need to stop scoring intentions and start scoring execution ✝️ Why following Jesus requires denying yourself DAILY 🚫 Why your feelings can be acknowledged without getting a vote 🎯 Why standards are more powerful than goals 🏃 Why you need to stop running FROM your past and start running TOWARD your calling 🤝 Why accountability changes everything Fitness isn't the mission. But your fitness affects your CAPACITY to carry out the mission. Your family needs you capable. Your calling requires energy. Your future requires discipline. Eventually… YOU HAVE TO DRAW THE LINE. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌊 READY TO GO DEEPER? If you're tired of KNOWING what you should do but struggling to consistently execute it, let's have a conversation. DeepWater is Christ-centered, personalized coaching built around FAITH, FITNESS, DISCIPLINE, ACCOUNTABILITY and becoming physically capable of carrying the calling God has placed on your life. 📞 SCHEDULE YOUR CALL WITH JIM: https://calendly.com/jimmotz/schedule-your-call-with-jim ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📘 DOWNLOAD THE DEEPWATER MANUAL — FREE Not ready for coaching yet? Start here. The DeepWater Manual lays out the faith-based framework for becoming stronger, fitter, more disciplined and more capable. 🔥 100% FREE. 👉 https://jimmotz.com/deep_water_manual/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚔️ JOIN BUILDING & BECOMING — FREE You weren't created to do this alone. Join a community of men and women pursuing stronger faith, disciplined bodies and lives anchored in truth. 📖 Scripture 🥩 Nutrition 🏋️ Purposeful strength training 🙏 Faith ⚔️ Accountability 🌊 Elite-Level Discipleship JOIN FREE: https://www.skool.com/building-and-becoming-3294/about ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 CONNECT WITH JIM 🌐 Website: https://jimmotz.com/ 📲 Instagram: @realjimmotz ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 THE EPISODE 84 CHALLENGE Don't just listen to this episode. DO SOMETHING. Complete these three statements: 1️⃣ I'm no longer running from __________. 2️⃣ I'm running toward __________. 3️⃣ For the next 7 days, my standard is __________. 👇 PUT YOUR ANSWERS IN THE COMMENTS. Make the standard public. Private intentions are easy to renegotiate. DECLARED STANDARDS CREATE ACCOUNTABILITY. Draw the line Wake up tomorrow. EXECUTE. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.” — James 1:22 NIV Faith determines our direction. Fitness develops our capacity. DISCIPLINE CLOSES THE GAP. 🌊 Welcome to the DeepWater.

  7. Aug 21

    IS BEING FAT A SIN? The Christian Fitness Debate Nobody Will Touch | EP 83

    🔥 Is being fat a sin—or has the modern Church become too comfortable to confront obesity, gluttony, laziness, and physical neglect? In this explosive Building and Becoming mailbag episode, Jim Motz and Allie answer the faith and fitness questions most Christian podcasts are too afraid to touch. Nothing is off-limits: ⚠️ Is obesity evidence of sinful behavior? ⚠️ Why does the Church confront alcohol, pornography, and financial irresponsibility—but remain silent about food addiction? ⚠️ Should an obese pastor preach about discipline and self-control? ⚠️ Is Jim using shame to sell expensive coaching? ⚠️ Did Jim leave Lifegate Church because God led him—or because his feelings were hurt? ⚠️ What should a husband do when his wife becomes obese and refuses to change? ⚠️ Has fitness become Jim’s idol—or is physical training an act of worship? This is not body shaming. This is a direct conversation about Christian health, biblical discipline, gluttony, obesity, physical stewardship, men’s fitness, marriage, church culture, personal responsibility, and what it means to honor God with your body. 📖 “I will not be mastered by anything.” — 1 Corinthians 6:12 The modern Church has confused compassion with silence. We can affirm someone’s God-given value without affirming the habits that are destroying their health. Your value was settled at the cross—but your condition is still your responsibility. Jim isn’t interested in creating comfortable Christians. He wants to build stronger men. 💥 If this episode challenges you, don’t leave quietly. Comment below: IS JIM RIGHT—OR HAS HE GONE TOO FAR? 👍 Like the episode🔔 Subscribe to Building and Becoming📲 Share this with someone willing to have an uncomfortable conversation 🌐 Learn more about Jim, the mission, and DeepWater coaching:https://jimmotz.com 📞 Ready to stop making excuses and have a real conversation?https://calendly.com/jimmotz/schedule-your-call-with-jim 📸 Follow Jim on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/realjimmotz/

  8. Aug 14

    EP 82 Why I Left the Only Church I’ve Ever Known After 22 Years

    I left the only church I had ever known after 22 years. Not because I hate the church.Not because I’m trying to destroy anyone.And not because I lost my faith. I left because the mission God placed on my life can no longer be softened, separated, or silenced. The modern church has ministries for pornography, alcohol, broken marriages, finances, and parenting—and it should. But where is the ministry confronting obesity, food addiction, physical weakness, and the undisciplined lifestyles slowly destroying God’s people? We talk about stewarding our money while refusing to talk about stewarding our bodies. We preach abundant life while many believers are sick, exhausted, addicted, physically incapable, and merely waiting to die. That isn’t condemnation. It’s a call to wake up. In this deeply personal episode, I explain: 🔥 Why my family is leaving Lifegate after 22 years🔥 What happened after one of my posts was removed🔥 Where I was wrong—and what God convicted me about🔥 Why I still love and honor the people who helped build my faith🔥 The message about faith, fitness, and discipline that I refuse to silence🔥 Why the Western Church must begin training strong, capable disciples My faith and physicality are connected by a bridge called discipline. This isn’t about six-pack abs.It’s about becoming strong enough to carry your calling.It’s about protecting, providing, leading, serving, and standing in the gap.It’s about ensuring that what you say you believe finally lines up with how you live. “No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.” — Hebrews 12:11 I’m not backing down. I’m not getting quieter. And this is only the beginning. If you’re ready to become strong, fit, capable, and fully committed to following Jesus, comment STAND below. 🌊 Get connected: https://jimmotz.com📘 Get I Asked God to Kill Me: Available on Amazon📲 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realjimmotz/▶️ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@BuildingandBecoming-7 It doesn’t matter what you claim to believe if your life never produces the evidence.

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Welcome to the Building & Becoming Show with Jim Motz. I am all about guiding you on a journey of BUILDING a foundational faith in Christ while BECOMING Strong, Fit, and Capable in ALL areas of life. If you're about that, you'll dig this show. Tell a friend, I'm here every Tuesday.

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