Attack Life Not Others

Attack Life Not Others

We all have an enemy within ourselves that must be defeated. Don't deny that. Realize it. Accept it. Own it. Learn to focus that energy and become a powerful, peaceful warrior.

Tim Hoover and Steve Mittmanโ€‹, lifelong martial artists, kick around things like ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ, ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐˜†, ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ, ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ, ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต, ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜, ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜€, and more โ€” in a way that's appreciated by everyone. Martial artist or not, ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—น๐—น ๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ฒ. Together, we'll ๐˜ผ๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™˜๐™  ๐™‡๐™„๐™๐™€ ๐™‰๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™Š๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ง๐™จ!

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July 30, 2026

Ep 443 - Find Your Room, Be Relevant

What makes someone relevant? It's not age. It's not status. It's whether you're still growing, contributing, and showing up with purpose.

Tim and Steve share powerful lessons from two remarkable men in their 80s who prove that relevance has no expiration date. They discuss:

How to find the right room where your value is recognized

Why too many people become the "walking dead" long before they die

Why your greatest responsibility is to remain useful to the people around you

The conversation
July 27, 2026

Kick-Start Your Week - 07.27.26

โ€œIf everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.โ€ โ€” Mario Andretti
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July 23, 2026

Ep 442 - 4 Things Your Phone Is Stealing

Your phone isn't the problem. Your relationship with it might be. Tim and Steve compare today's most powerful technology to the very first one that changed humanity: fire. Both can improve your life. Both can destroy it if you stop respecting it. They introduce FFAA โ€” Focus. Form. Activity. Awareness. Four areas that technology is quietly attacking every single day. If your attention is fractured, your posture is collapsing, your movement is disappearing, and you're becoming less aware of the
July 20, 2026

Kick-Start Your Week - 07.20.26

โ€œI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.โ€ โ€” Socrates
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July 16, 2026

Ep 441 - Disruption Begins Within

While most people spend their lives preparing for the threats around them, the greatest danger often comes from the battles raging within. Stress, poor choices, fear, distraction, and emotional reactivity quietly rob us of our peace, purpose, and quality of life long before any outside force ever can. Drawing lessons from martial arts, nature, and everyday experience, Tim and Steve explore why bees accomplish extraordinary things without unnecessary conflict and why water never wastes energy fi
July 13, 2026

Kick-Start Your Week - 07.13.26

โ€œThe key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.โ€ โ€” Bobby Knight
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July 9, 2026

Ep 440 - Truth is an Inside Job that Shall Set You Free

Tim and Steve explore one of life's biggest questions: Where does truth actually come from? In a world consumed by opinions, politics, social media, and constant noise, they challenge listeners to stop searching outward and begin looking inward โ€” where God placed His image and where lasting truth is ultimately found. Drawing from faith, martial arts, leadership, and decades of life experience, they discuss why purpose isn't discovered by following the crowd but by aligning your life with truth.
July 6, 2026

Kick-Start Your Week - 07.06.26

โ€œIf you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.โ€ โ€” Booker T Washington
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July 2, 2026

Ep 439 - The Present is a Gift, Unwrap the Power of Now

The Most Valuable Currency Youโ€™re Wasting Every Day Everyone talks about chasing success. Almost no one talks about the one resource you can never earn back. Time. Tim and Steve challenge the way we think about the past, the future, and the only moment we truly own โ€” the present. Sparked by a powerful conversation with an older man who said he wasn't afraid of death ... he was afraid of time, this episode digs into a reality most of us avoid: every heartbeat is one you'll never get back. You'
June 29, 2026

Kick-Start Your Week - 06.29.26

โ€œDon't allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.โ€ โ€” Paulo Coelho

About the Hosts

Tim Hoover

Tim has been teaching and training in the martial arts for over four decades. Since the early '80s he has been at the helm of Hoover Karate Academy โ€” an institution in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania (just north of Philadelphia). He is the creator of a reality-based system that focuses on the practical knowledge and application of the martial arts. For many years he was the Senior Executive Security Director for a prominent department store. He is also a licensed private investigator and for over 30 years has owned and operated a private detective agency providing undercover detectives, surveillance, security, and information services for individuals and businesses. Tim formed the Kids4Kids nonprofit organization โ€” providing free karate classes to children, and instilling much-needed confidence and discipline in the participating youth. In turn, they were able to become strong adults in the community. He shares his numerous years of martial arts training, along with teaching many thousands of students, and wisdom obtained through real-life experiences in interrogations and the covert operations field with Attack Life Not Others.

Steve Mittman

Steve began training under Sensei Hoover when he was 12 and earned a black belt as a teen. His passion for fighting led him to boxing. He's trained with several champions, and was a professional boxing and MMA ring announcer for 20 years. He's even worked for two legendary Heavyweight Champions โ€” Larry Holmes and Mike Tyson. He ran an intensive kickboxing program for many years, and currently instructs a self-protection combatives system. He was seen by millions of viewers daily as he hosted and produced lifestyle, pop-culture, celebrity, music, and history segments on a TV station in the Philadelphia market. He's also a Guest Host on QVC and HSN, a functional health advisor, a brand ambassador and spokesperson for multiple companies and products on TV and the internet, a professional voiceover artist, a digital marketing consultant, and has hosted hundreds of LIVE events on networks including NBC, ESPN, Comcast, and for iHeartRadio. Steve owns and operates Mittman Media โ€” a podcast production, SEO/AEO/GEO, web design, and digital marketing agency.

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