Britton Barbee Says, “Authentic people attract authentic people.‪”‬ The Circuit of Success Podcast with Brett Gilliland

Britton Barbee, former D-1 athlete for Texas Tech, touches on his experiences as an athlete and father. He talks about the importance of being authentic, understanding, and being willing to put your ego aside to connect with people. Britton discusses his experience with 29029 Everesting on a hike equivalent to climbing Mount Everest and the endurance and mindset it takes. Following his experience, he has applied his insight to his life to be his most authentic self.







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Brett Gilliland: Welcome to the Circuit of Success. I'm your host, Brett Gilliland. Today I've got Britton Barbee with me. Britton, what's up man? How you doing?

Britton Barbee: Man, I'm doing outstanding. I'm just happy to be here. Thanks for having me.

Brett Gilliland: Awesome. Well, it's good to have you and, uh, you're coming to us, uh, from Dallas, Texas. Right? 

That was all Dallas, Texas treating you today. 

Britton Barbee: It's good. The weather's been cold enough to, uh, cold plunge in the pool without having to worry about too much. And, um...

Brett Gilliland: There you go. 

Britton Barbee: Yeah. So, so no complaints, uh, you know, hot enough during the day. Cold enough in the morning. 

Brett Gilliland: Yeah, that's perfect. That's perfect.

We got, we're lucky here, man. It was, uh, let's see, A week ago it was five degrees here, and today it's gonna be 60. So this only in St. Louis can we go from five degrees to 60 degrees, all in about seven days. Pretty...

Britton Barbee: That's a pretty strong swing. Pretty strong.

Brett Gilliland: It's a strong swing. It's a strong swing. It literally, we will have, well we had snow on the ground yesterday and now today I look out and there's not any snow on the ground anywhere, so pretty crazy stuff here, so. Well, hey man, uh, you are a former Texas Tech football player. You are an endurance athlete and a performance coach with Jesse Itzler and his programs and, uh, so doing some awesome stuff today. Before we get dive into all that, man, I'd love to just dive in and talk about what's made you the man you are today..

Britton Barbee: Yeah, no, I mean it's, um, it, it, it's a lot really. I just, I went to my parents. Um, I grew up, I'm the youngest of three. Um, so being the biggest, but being the baby, it was always kind of fun. Um, but, you know, my, my parents were division one athletes. Both my brother and sister played college, uh, sports as well.

And, um, you know, I've said up before, man, my, my parents gave this idea to us of just growing up to be excellent and everything that we did. And uh, that was instilled to us from an early age and it's something that I've tried to carry over, uh, into being a father now a three myself, and just applying, um, everything that we can with all that we can into everything that we do.

And so that's, uh, my parents laid the foundation for us and we kind of took it from there. And that's kind of what's led us to some of these crazy adventures that we go on, that we seek out now. 

Brett Gilliland: Yeah. So I think, uh, if I remember correctly in my research, you uh, and your two siblings and your mom and your dad all played division one sports, is that correct?

Britton Barbee: Yeah, so both my mom and uh, sister played basketball, college basketball. My brother and father played football. Um, and then I was the, um, you know, the, the last one. And it was, um, it was a good time. I like to say I went to the best school I went to, you know, Texas Tech played for, uh, the late Mike Leach. I was fortunate for that man to trust in me, uh, when I was 17, 18 years old to pay for my school.

And, um, I owe him a lot to, to the man that I am too. You think about how, uh, just in the, you know, all the things that you've seen about him since his...