I AM Healthy & Fit

Author and spiritual guide Karen Brailsford has worked on staff at Newsweek, Elle, People, In Touch, and E! Entertainment covering arts and culture, Hollywood, fashion, beauty, and human interest. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Black Enterprise, Interview, and other publications. A native New Yorker, Karen is a graduate of The Brearley School and Yale. Her paintings have been exhibited at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, California, and elsewhere. Karen lives in Los Angeles, the City of Angels, where she is a licensed spiritual practitioner with the Agape International Spiritual Center. Paris, the City of Light, is her go-to landscape. Sacred Landscapes of the Soul: Aligning with the Divine Wherever You Are (Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing) is her first book.

As seen and heard on the Joe Rogan Experience, W. Keith Campbell, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the University of Georgia, as well as the author of The Narcissism Epidemic, When You Love a Man Who Loves Himself, and more than 120 peer-reviewed articles. His newest book is entitled, The New Science of Narcissism: Understanding One of the Greatest Psychological Challenges of Our Time - and What You Can Do About It.. 

Dr. Campbell lives in Athens, Georgia.

In this episode we discuss:
- What narcissism is and how it can play a positive and negative role in your life?
- How narcissism is more prevalent today than ever before in history do to the adjunct of social media, selfies, and self-promoting.
- What to do if you or someone you love might have narcissism?
- The role that social media and COVID has on depression and the remedies that include exercise, diet, sleep, socializing, and having a purpose can play in combatting it.
- Plant medicine and its positive effects on your ability to perhaps rewire, integrate, and play a positive role in your life.
- And so much more

Nick Shaw is the founder and CEO of Renaissance Periodization, a wildly popular fitness company founded on evidence-based practices that have helped hundreds of thousands of members achieve their health, athletic performance, and physique goals.

Jodi Cohen is a bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and founder of Vibrant Blue Oils, a top resource for essential oils online, which welcomes 300,000 visitors every year. Her #1 bestselling book, Healing with Essential Oils, synthesizes decades of leading scientific research to help explain how essential oils can work to support the body and the brain. Random House will publish her second book, Essential Oils to Boost the Brain and Heal the Body, on March 16, 2021.

After personally experiencing the profound physical and mental benefits of essential oils in addressing her own anxiety, insomnia, and autoimmunity, Jodi wanted to know why. Today, she holds certifications in nutritional therapy, functional neurology, herbalism, and aromatherapy, along with multiple continuing education courses in plant medicine, brain health, Chinese medicine, and herbalism.

Jodi has worked closely with healthcare practitioners, including MDs, NDs, nurse practitioners, chiropractors, acupuncturists, health coaches, nutritionists, and yoga instructors, to implement the most effective essential oil protocols in clinical practice to support underlying imbalances that often lead to disease, including sleep, stress, digestion, inflammation, detoxification, and blood-sugar imbalances.

She has since curated and compiled these learnings in her books, blog, and classes to educate more than 65,000 practitioners, individuals, and families across the nation on best practices for essential oils to balance the body and the brain.

In 2012, she founded Vibrant Blue Oils, a collection of proprietary blends of organic and wild-crafted essential oils—and a popular destination for the hundreds of thousands of health-seeking consumers and practitioners who depend on her supply of quality essential oils.

Trained as an investigative journalist, Jodi earned her MBA from Columbia University, and has worked as a marketing executive at Microsoft, Time Inc., and US News & World Report—and earlier in her career, as a legislative aide to Senator Ted Kennedy.

Today, Jodi devotes her time to help educate and inspire people to take back and rebalance their health by incorporating the simple, potent practice of essential oils into their lives.

She has had the honor of speaking at Columbia Business School, JJ Virgin’s MindShare Summit, The Nutritional Therapy Association Conference, and Natalie Lussier’s Off the Charts, and featured in several popular wellness publications, including Wellness Mama, Thyroid Pharmacist, and Elephant Journal, among others. See all of Jodi’s interviews here.

Jodi is deeply honored to be a participant in your journey to health and hopes to stay connected.  Her passion for using essential oils grows deeper with every new discovery, every success story, and every client challenge that leads her to discover more solutions.

Shane McCassy, The Founder and CEO of Hab has spent the last 17 years growing exciting startups and influential brands like Oakley, Amp’d Mobile, Muscle Milk, and Tone It Up. His experience has given him the privilege of launching national retailers, websites, mobile apps, and has commercialized more than 100 consumer products in the health and wellness space. During his 7 year tenure as Director of Marketing at Muscle Milk, their goal was to position protein as a lifestyle product and bring it to the masses like it hadn’t been before. As COO of Tone It Up he learned the power of community and the impact of a company aimed to do good.

During his 5 years with Tone It Up, Shane became much more aware of his own sustainability and began to eliminate plastic and single-use waste from his daily life. This lifestyle change and previous experiences led him to the idea behind Hab. He loved drinking water from his reusable bottle but would turn to a plastic bottle or aluminum can when he needed a little flavor. After too many days of seeing the pile of single-use waste, he thought, “There has to be a product that gives me the flavor I love without all the waste!” 

After finding no such products that fit his core values, he began the development of Hab. Hab’s guiding principles were simple; Let's make water taste amazing, with a plastic-free supply chain, no single-use waste, and never any artificial ingredients. The solution is Hab’s naturally flavored bits, a dose-as-you-like tablet that pairs perfectly with your reusable bottle of choice, flat or bubbly. He hopes you all enjoy great tasting fruit-flavored water, sustainably.

In this episode:

- The importance of drinking water
- Sustainability and what that means in the water industry 
- Energy, focus, attention, and mood can all be related to drinking water
- Flavored water and how it can encourage you to drink more of it
- The background of HAB (HABIT) and creating a revolutionary product to flavor water

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Born and raised in Virginia, TJ moved to Manhattan in 2011 to begin his career at Goldman Sachs (on Wall Street). After a spiritual awakening and a decade-long journey of life transformation, he now uses his gifts in speaking and coaching to share lessons from his story.

His company, Loeffler International, offers highly customized individual and group coaching for authentic leaders who are navigating their own personal awakening. Using an innovative and holistic approach, TJ and his team seek to empower people on their journey by helping them identify the right mindset before deciding on a new strategy.

In this podcast we discuss:
- The importance of mindset in achieving any goal you want
- Creating barriers in life for ultimate freedom and fulfillment 
- The importance of honoring or loving oneself
- Asking questions like, "What would happen if?" and its importance to self-growth and discovery
- And so much more

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r. David Hanscom is an orthopedic complex spinal deformity surgeon. Now, based in the SFB area after quitting his practice in Seattle, he is on a mission: reintroducing true healing into medicine. He believes that doctors should spend quality time with their patients so they can listen and understand their complete situation.

Since the COVID-19 outbreak, which he tested positive for and experienced, Dr. Hanscom has been working with a team of other medical doctors and researchers, exploring the relationship between inflammation and ALL Chronic disease from back pain to cancer to COVID-19. What they discovered is quite remarkable – we’ll discuss this today!

Eric Malzone's professional experience stems from a decade in various sales and marketing roles that led him to open a CrossFit affiliate in 2009, Gravitas Fitness. After 9+ years of owning multiple gyms and a deep analysis of his own “ideal day”, he decided to successfully exit his brick and mortar businesses to pursue the life he (and his wife) wanted while creating a bigger impact on the fitness industry as a whole.

Daria Tsvenger is a mindset expert and host of the personal growth accountability program “The Dream Sprint” which has helped hundreds of people tap into the power of the brain to gain clarity and move from stagnation to action.

She has inspired hundreds of people on stages all over the world for clients including Robinhood and MGM Law. She has also shared her expertise on science-based personal development on TV Shows such as “Good Morning LA-LA-LAND” and “Simulation” while having a loyal following of over 20,000 people.

Daria completed a Cognitive Neuroscience Stanford University extension program and had a chance to learn from top experts like Dr. Joe Dispenza, Tony Robbins, Dr. David Eagleman, Marisa Peer, and Dr. Loretta Breuning.

Jennifer Maynard is a former biochemist turned farmer who teaches people how to live longer by eating better. Jennifer worked in the Biotech and Pharmaceutical specialty medicine areas for over 20 years. After putting two decades of her passion for changing people's lives through modern medicine, she felt her knowledge and experience would be better served to focus on "Food as Medicine." Even though progress has been made with medicine, the battle with a chronic illness is being lost. In order to address this, she founded Greater Greens, a regenerative organic farm, as the first step to bringing this movement front and center and to help focus on the root of our health challenges. Once the farm was fully operational, she co-founded Nutrition for Longevity, a farm-to-fork meal kitting company that focuses on bringing nutritionally tailored meals to the masses direct from her farm.

Jennifer is offering you 10% off the cart, one-time use code, expiring Aug 14th. Use code Steve10 at check out.

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With 41K+ Instagram followers and 1.1M monthly impressions across her various social channels, Nealy is the face behind The Flexible Chef. Her brand grew from her two decades teaching in the wellness space as a health coach, fitness and yoga instructor, and event host.

Inducted into the National Fitness Hall of Fame in March of 2007, Linda Shelton is one of the country’s leading exercise experts. She is an internationally recognized fitness and wellness consultant, certified trainer, speaker & health writer.

For 23 years, Linda was Fitness Director for Weider/AMI women’s fitness publications, including SHAPE Magazine, Natural Health and Fit Pregnancy. She's also the former Fitness Director at VIVmag, a digital women’s lifestyle and fitness magazine, breaking ground in technology-driven, online-only, magazine content.

Linda has produced, directed and/or choreographed over 1000 fitness DVDs, co-produced four award-winning television fitness shows and authored eight books, including Shape Magazine’s Ultimate Body Book (2006).

She co-wrote Slim For Life (2013) with The Biggest Loser's Jillian Michaels. She joined Empowered Media in 2012 as a fitness consultant and program developer for Jillian Michaels BODYSHRED, working with Jillian and her company to launch a global instructor certificate program as well as re-branding with new programming for Curves.

Linda has pioneered many onsite corporate employee wellness programs. She continues to consult, develop, and implement innovative wellness programming and train fitness and wellness practitioners in her methods.

In constant demand as a “visionary” exercise programmer, Linda co-created Zumba Toning with Beto Perez, JUKARI Fit to Flex for Reebok & Cirque du Soleil and co-developed the PILOXING certificate program.

She's President of her three companies: Professional Fitness Services, a consulting and program development firm; LIFESTYLEscapes, a consumer fitness and resource wellness business; and SOULjourn, a multimedia production company.

Linda is Content & Education Director, Producer/Director for WELLBEATS™, technology-driven fitness, and wellness programming. She is Sr. Advisor for Exercise Sciences & Director of Content Creation for ProActive Health Solutions.

David has fifteen years of experience working for industry-leading technology firms and most recently served as Director of Technical Alliances at VMware (NYSE: VMW), Inc. where he led strategic partnerships with global EHR companies including EPIC, Cerner, McKesson, GE, Allscripts and many more. David went on to lead sales engineering at CloudPhysics, a big data firm collecting and analyzing over 80B data points per day. As an avid health enthusiast, he recognized an opportunity to build a software solution that makes it easier for anyone to take control of their health through better use of their data.

This episode was originally published on September 4, 2019, and is being rereleased today.

Why do you get up in the morning?

When do you feel most alive?

Everywhere we look we see businesses and people changing the way they did things prior to the COVID worldwide pandemic. If you are not redefining your life then you’ve missed the opportunity to seize the time we’ve had to reflect on what’s most important to everyone, health.

In this episode Richard Leider, aka “The Pope of Purpose” and several NY Times best-selling author discuss the purpose driven life and how you can redefine your purpose at any time.

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Georgia Foster is a Clinical Hypnotherapist & Voice Dialogue Trainer. She qualified with distinction at The London College of Clinical Hypnosis in 1996. Georgia specializes in alcohol reduction, emotional over-eating, self-esteem, anxiety, and fertility issues. Her unique and highly successful approach has helped tens of thousands of people learn how to feel better emotionally and physically.

Georgia has been featured regularly in the media in the UK and Australia including Sky News, GMTV, Psychologies Magazine, and Good Housekeeping, amongst others. She is the author of six books: The Weight Less Mind, The Drink Less Mind, Drink Less in 7 Days, The 4 Secrets of Amazing Sex, The Stress Less Mind, and The Fertile Mind. Her on-line programs are 7 Days To Drink Less, Emotional Resilience Training, Believing In You (self-esteem), The Weight Less Mind (emotional overeating), and ESBD Families (anxiety reduction and self-esteem for kids and parents).

Georgia resides in Melbourne, Australia with her partner Ian and triplet boys Ollie, Finn, and Hugh.

Vicky Heldreich Durand is the beloved daughter and author of Wave Woman, a charming and intimate biography, a love letter from a daughter to her progressive mother who broke glass ceilings with simple curiosity and desire. Betty trained to swim in the 1936 Olympic Games. She eloped on a hunch and learned the tough lessons of love. With entrepreneurial creativity and a drive for self-sufficiency, Betty found meaning as a sculptor, a dental hygienist, a jeweler, a fisherwoman, a potter, and a poet. In Hawaii, the thrill of big waves crashing at Makaha Beach inspired the 41-year-old mother to pick up a surfboard, conquer her fears and compete like a champion! Wave Woman speaks clearly to all women–and men–searching for self-confidence, fulfillment, and true happiness.

Vicky and I discuss:

Anthony Carey is one of the most recognized names in the Fitness Industry, he's a humble person, and someone I am grateful to call a friend. 

Thirty years ago, Mike was struggling with his drug addiction, and after seeing the effects it had on his family, decided to seek help. In his meetings, Mike discovered that people would use sugar as a means to cope with the withdrawals and saw how the sweet substance could be a gateway drug in itself.

Tim is an online fitness and nutrition coach and also a personal trainer. He helps busy men and women lose fat and build muscle without having to live in the gym or give up their favorite foods or drinks.

Tim got into fitness when he was 18.

He grew up overweight during his childhood and wanted to make a serious change in his life.  His mother had passed away from stomach cancer when he was 9 years old and he knew that diet was crucial in maintaining your health and well-being. So he decided to major in nutrition in college and learned everything he could about proper diet and exercise. After training hard and eating right during his freshman year, he lost most of the weight he had gained during his childhood and felt better than he had ever before. 

Health and fitness became his passion and he wanted to help as many people as he could to improve their lives. Once he got certified, h began training as soon as he graduated.

SEEKING A WORK-LIFE BALANCE?

Dr. Ben Carvosso is one of Australia’s leading mindset coaches for business.
Specifically, Business Owners, Entrepreneurs and Organisation Chiefs who are seeking greater work-life balance.

He believes that the pursuit of work-life balance is a losing strategy. So rather than constantly trying to balance work and life, which is exhausting and can be very painful, he helps his clients and their teams, find and achieve their life's work

In spite of his clients presenting on the surface a host of challenges around Health, Relationships, Money, Career, Business or just Life itself, Ultimately they all just wanted to be busy-less, less-full and more full-filled.

In all cases, the battle for work-life balance came down to three losses that he talks about in this podcast:

1. Loss of clarity

2. Trust 

3. Willpower 

Enjoy the listen!

Dr. Bryan Ardis is a chiropractor, acupuncturist, dad of 5, and a husband of 1 (Jayne). 

He has owned and operated for 15 years of a private practice both in TN and TX helping his patients heal their bodies from the inside out. His way of analyzing sickness and ailments of the body is completely different than most ever experience.

Because of his out of the box way of assessing and healing over 18,000 patients, he was asked to be a co-Founder and formulator for TruLabs.com  

TruLabs is a supplement company that will enhance your life no matter what season of life you are in. The flavors will excite your taste buds while the minerals, vitamins, and herbs will help your body to live a healthy, vibrant, and active life so you too can live your best life.

In this episode you will:

Ed Harrold is an author, motivational speaker, inspirational leader, coach, and educator. Ed’s mastery in the science of breath has guided him to apply mindful, conscious breathing practices in the fitness & athletic training industry, wellness and organizational performance in corporate settings, professional training, and retreats along with lifestyle coaching for individuals.

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Today, Ed blends the fields of neuroscience and the wisdom of contemplative traditions into effective strategies to improve health, performance and overall well-being.  Ed’s fluency in mindfulness-based strategies combined with the belief in the human potential gives him the depth and understanding to meet individuals and group needs across industries and platforms.

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Ed’s book “Life With Breath” is a journey in discovering the mind-body relationship that is linked through breath and how this serves as a basis for reducing stress, improving health and well-being, building resilience and improving both organizational or athletic performance. The book includes 30 days of daily practices that serve as a guide and self-care routine.  Available anywhere books are sold.

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Functional Medicine treatment for your eyes can improve your vision and save your eyesight - and even reverse -degenerative eye diseases.

Episode Notes

In this episode of I AM Healthy & Fit, I had the great pleasure to interview a guest who knows a lot about the eyes.

She is one of the only Functional Medicine Optometrist in the world and is an award-winning Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine in NYC and also serves as principal investigator for 5 multi-centered clinical trials in neuro-ophthalmology. She is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Exam Development Committee and helps to set the standards for board certification in her field and was voted Castle Connolly Top Doctor 2017, 2018, and 2019 by her peers.

Dr. Rani Banik is finding holistic and alternative ways by adjusting her patients diet and lifestyle habits to create major transformations in her patient's eye health.  She applies principles of complementary and alternative medicine in conjunction with traditional medical approaches to treat chronic diseases affecting the visual system. She offers a unique approach to managing conditions such as dry eye, macular degeneration, blepharitis, migraine, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, thyroid eye disease, uveitis, and other autoimmune conditions. She is the founder of Envision Health NYC, a private practice based in New York City. 

Bill Protzmann (PRAHTS’-man) is a man on a mission: to raise awareness of the power of music as self-care.

Marci Moberg is an intuitive coach and healer with a passion for reconnecting sensitive souls to their forgotten intuitive nature. Marci’s work includes coaching individuals and groups to develop their intuition, understand their sensitivity, own their power, and navigate life transitions and relationships with authenticity. She is the podcast host of Tune In with Marci and leads the popular online course Intuition 101, a life-changing course on practical intuition development. Marci has been featured on MindBodyGreen, The Huffington Post, Reader’s Digest, Bustle, ThriveGlobal.com, LifeHack.org, television, and many podcasts. 

In this episode Marci and I talk about:

Adam Friedman is a sports performance coach and the founder of Los Angeles-based Advanced Athletics, Inc.

His mission is to empower people to become an Athlete For Life™.

Adam has successfully trained and coached clients that include Olympic Gold Medalists in women’s basketball and Paralympics skiing; NBA, WNBA, NFL, NHL, MLB, AVP, WTA, MLS professionals; NBA shooting coaches; various boxing and fighting associations; and A-list entertainers (Oscar, Golden Globe, and Grammy winners).

He also provides his guidance through public speaking and online exercise programs.

In 2011, Cavin fell 20 feet from a rooftop water tower scaffolding. His head struck a steel beam on the way down before crashing onto the concrete rooftop below. He was immediately rushed to the hospital and put on life support. While in a coma, an MRI revealed a severe diffuse axonal injury (DAI), which is one of the most devastating types of brain injury. Statistically…over 90 percent of patients with this brain injury never regain consciousness, and most of those who do will often remain in a persistent vegetative state.

His recovery journey began after finally waking from a 12-day coma before serious complications arose with the need to induce a second coma. In the following months, he endured severe brain fog, memory loss, breathing problems, in coordination with the left side of my body (my left hand was completely flexed inward), and…he didn’t eat, walk, or talk for months.

Following the acute stages of his brain injury, a dense brain fog, limited mobility, and numerous other difficulties persisted he continued to navigate the physical and emotional toll of his new circumstances. At a pivotal moment, he was introduced to functional medicine, which illuminated for him a different way of looking at recovery. As several treatments, exercises, and therapies were implemented…he began to reclaim the mental clarity I had before my injury.

An enormous amount of work and therapy played in his rehabilitation as he worked to regain everyday faculties and relearned how to live.

In this podcast interview Cavin talks about:

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Jake "Body by Jake®" Steinfeld is the fitness industry's reigning icon.

In this episode Jake talks about:

Creating the personal fitness training industry over 40 years ago, Jake has been the guiding light for health & wellness in lifestyle, sports, and entertainment ever since.

Jake was the dominant force in direct retail sales of home fitness equipment for over a decade. He had the most profitable string of hits in the infomercial business and spent fifteen years on Home Shopping Network promoting his Body by Jake brand.

Utilizing his entrepreneurial street-smarts and fitness knowledge, Jake created the first 24-hour fitness lifestyle network, FiTTV®, which he later sold to News Corp.® Following the sale of FiTTV, Jake launched another multi-media innovation, ExerciseTV®, the first On-Demand fitness television network with partners Comcast® and Time Warner®.

Jake recently launched a new health & fitness platform called Get Fit, Don’t Quit!® in partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona. Its mission is to create short-form programming to motivate, educate and inspire all Arizonans to achieve a Don’t Quit! lifestyle. In 2020, Get Fit, Don’t Quit! will roll out to all 36 Blues in the United States.

Jake’s newest lacrosse venture is the World Series of Youth Lacrosse presented by the Coca- Cola Company and Nissan (www.worldseriesofyouthlacrosse.com) which provides (U13) youth players the ultimate lacrosse experience. This global event features teams from the US, Europe, Canada, Israel, Iroquois Nation and others competing with the dream of making it to the Championship game. The top two teams get the chance to play LIVE on ESPN2 on the Fourth of July each year.

Teaming with Universal Music Enterprises (UMe), a division of Universal Music Group®, Jake formed a fresh inventive label called Body by Jake Music (http://bodybyjake.com/). Every fitness routine needs a soundtrack to keep you motivated. Follow the beat of Body by Jake's music compilations featuring artists The Black Eyed Peas, Ne-Yo, Ellie Goulding, David Guetta and many more.

Jake is a NY Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author with his I’ve Seen a Lot of Famous People Naked and They’ve Got Nothing on You! His other titles include Take a Shot, A Remarkable Story of Perseverance, Friendship and a Really Crazy Adventure about the creation of Major League Lacrosse; Get Strong! Body by Jake’s Guide to Building Confidence, Muscles and a Great Future for Teenage Guys; PowerLiving by Jake, Eleven Lessons to Change Your Life; and his instructional fitness books DON'T QUIT!® and Body by Jake.

Understanding that childhood obesity was becoming an epidemic in America, Jake declared war on the disease and vowed to make a real difference. He became Chairman of the California Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness & Sports® under Governor Schwarzenegger in 2006 and served until 2011 under Governor Brown. By inspiring millions to live life with a “DON'T QUIT!” attitude, he established California as the nation’s first fitness state.

Tryshe Dhevney is a Sound Energy Expert, Author, International Speaker, and Best-selling Sounds True Crystal Bowl Recording Artist.

She is recognized as an authority in the field of harmonic and vocal sound healing. For over four decades, she has pioneered and refined her highly effective sound energy healing and toning technique called SoundShifting™ & Crystal Sound Energy™ Practitioner training program.

Tryshe’s work and teaching have been inspired by her own personal healing journey from a potentially fatal illness to complete health. In May 2000, Tryshe’s doctors informed her that there was no longer anything they could do to treat her advanced hepatitis C and liver disease and advised her to get her affairs in order. Four months later, doctors were mystified when tests revealed she was disease-free. Tryshe had healed herself through the power of sound.

Tryshe’s method for whole-body transformation, inspires individuals to use their own voice to create wellbeing in their lives and teaches simple techniques and attitudes that put health, wealth and wholeness within anyone’s grasp.

She is a repeat presenter offering prescriptive sound strategies with the University of Arizona Integrative Medicine Fellows and medical students, as well as the lead sound practitioner at the world-renowned Canyon Ranch Wellness Resort in Tucson, AZ where she lives with her husband of 25 years.

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere." Tim McGraw

It can be great catching up with old friends, colleagues or relatives. Reunions often spark a bit of nostalgia and fond memories. In this episode, I reconnect with the 3 people who were my first clients when I was just beginning my health and fitness career in College Park, MD while I was finishing up my last year of college at U of Maryland.

In this episode you will:

Why do some people thrive while other people just get by?

What's their secret to peak performance and maximum happiness?

Answer: Vital Force. The edge for more life.

Will Smith says, "In the 20 years I've known DeVon, he's lived his life the same way he makes his movies: with commitment, humility, and a work ethic that demands respect." 

Oprah has called him “a bonafide dynamo…a different kind of spiritual teacher for our times.”

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Dr. Youn is a regular expert on The Rachael Ray Show, The Dr. Oz Show, The Doctors, and was named a "Top Plastic Surgeon" by U.S. News and World Report, Town & Country, and Harper's Bazaar.

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Anthony Youn, MD is known as America’s Holistic Beauty Doc™ and one of the country’s most recognized plastic surgeons. He is the host of a popular podcast, The Holistic Plastic Surgery Show. Dr. Youn is also the author of In Stitches, his critically-acclaimed and award-winning memoir of becoming a doctor. Dr. Youn is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

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"I am a doctor."
Every year, thousands of medical school graduates utter these four simple words. But as you will see in Playing God, earning an M.D. is just the first step to becoming a real physician.

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In this page-turning, thrilling, and moving memoir, Dr. Anthony Youn reveals that the true metamorphosis from student to doctor occurs not in medical school but in the formative years of residency training and early practice. It is only through actually saving and losing patients, taking on the medical establishment, wrestling with financial and emotional survival, and fighting for patients’ lives that a young doctor becomes a mature and competent physician. Youn takes you from the operating rooms of a university surgery residency program to the gleaming offices of top Beverly Hills plastic surgeons to opening the doors of his empty clinic as a new doctor with no money, no patients, and mountains of debt. Playing God leaves you with an unexpected answer to that profound question: “What does it mean to be a doctor?”

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Ever get the feeling the world is full of too many distractions? Research shows the ability to stay focused is a competitive advantage, in work and in life. However, in an age of ever-increasing demands on our attention, how do we get the best from technology without letting it get the best of us?

As a physician who has practiced Functional Medicine for almost 25 years, Dr. Anthony G. Beck doesn’t manage diseases ~ he empowers people to resolve them. With an extensive education in many clinical disciplines such as Functional Medicine, clinical nutrition, systems biology, epigenetics, and nutrigenomics, he takes a dynamic approach to assessing, educating, and working with his patients to achieve their highest levels of wellbeing.

Even more importantly, Dr. Beck wants to empower patients to demand a higher level of care from their health care providers. Dr. Beck’s approach involves a vast array of aspects including environment correction, healthful lifestyle design, individualized nutrition, hormone balancing, resolving immune dysfunction and clearing hidden infectious diseases.

Here he brilliantly transforms the new science of healthy living into programs that are simple, fun, completely straightforward and highly effective.

Shawn Wells, MPH, LDN, RD, CISSN, FISSN is an expert in the fields of performance nutrition, longevity, fitness and supplementation. He earned his master’s degree from UNC-Chapel Hill, where he studied nutritional biochemistry with a minor in exercise science. Shawn is a Registered Dietitian with a decade of experience as a Chief Clinical Dietitian in hospitals and skilled nursing facilities. He is also a Certified Sports Nutritionist and has worked with celebrity clients and professional athletes.

On the road to being dubbed “The World’s Greatest Formulator”, Biohacktivitst, and Keto Authority, Shawn faced and overcame significant obstacles with his own health—weight issues, depression, autoimmune conditions (Epstein-Barr, Fibromyalgia, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), two cervical discs replacements, and a pituitary adenoma, which is a type of brain tumor. They say everything happens for a reason, and in Shawn’s case, his health problems led him down a winding path that required him to find science-based solutions, and they sparked his personal passion for biohacking.

BMX Pro, Josh Perry moved up to the professional level of competition quickly and was riding Dew Tours, X-Games and competing internationally at the highest possible level. He felt as if he had everything he had been working for his entire life, and everything I had dreamed about was playing out in front of my eyes. At age 21 Josh's life was threatened after a nasty head crash that forced him to visit the local urgent care to make sure something more serious wasn't happening. He had no damage from the crash, but what was discovered there was a brain tumor taking up the left half of his brain. Immediate surgical removal was necessary.

Now, almost a decade later Josh's life has shifted in some wonderful and very unexpected ways. After two more brain tumor diagnosis, he began researching health and nutrition determined to prioritize his health. He became certified through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and reads countless research articles, stacks of books and communicates with every expert he can find.

All of his research has led him to cultivate a life where love, health and happiness are his first priority. Josh takes full responsibility for his mental and physical state. As a result, he feels like a healthier, happier and more productive individual because he is prioritizing his brain's health. Josh's goal is to share his life experiences and knowledge with you and anyone who is willing to listen. He wants the world to know how good they can feel by prioritizing well being and making simple lifestyle changes. 

In this episode:

As seen on Fox, NBC, ABC and heard on Blogtalkradio, Rico Caveglia is the role model for living ageless. 

Make a decision as simple as "I'm done feeling stuck" will change your life forever!

You just have to be so done with it that nothing or no one will stop you. 

You have it all in you! 

You just need a hand in helping you see the power that's locked inside of you and make the shifts you need to unleash it.

Ariane supports you with practical, relatable strategies and tools to help you move past the challenges that have been standing in the way of your goals. In this episode Ariane and I discuss: 

Dr. Harlan Kilstein is one of the foremost marketers today. He has generated over 100 million dollars in sales in the past 20 years. His clients run 7,8 and 9 figure businesses.

Carla is the author of Contagious Love, a speaker, and dating & relationship coach. At 24, Carla hit her rock bottom with a toxic codependent relationship, but she got up and learned how to break free from codependency for damn good.

She leads nationwide workshops and speaking engagements that inspire self-love. Carla has been featured in BRAVO, Lifetime, Bustle, The Knot, as well as high rated iTunes Podcasts. Carla Romo’s is here to spread the message that the most important relationship you will ever have is with yourself. 

In this episode Carla and I discuss these topics:

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Paleo f(x)™ is an organization dedicated to three interrelated goals:

First and foremost, we are an event. We seek to provide our attendees with a valuable and unforgettable Paleo f(x)™ experience. Our mission includes equipping our attendees not just with the knowledge and insights needed for great health but also with the inspiration and support to act. Finally, Paleo f(x)™ is a forum—the largest of its kind—where the theory of Ancestral Health turns into the practices that allow great health to flourish.

Michelle is a former corporate warrior, trained chef and multi-potentialite whose personal health issues and struggles with traditional medical orthodoxy inspired her to upend the way the world tackles health, wellness and prosperity.  She soon became one of  Paleo’s most outspoken evangelists, then co-founded and is now CEO of Paleo f(x)™, the largest Paleo event in the world.  She’s a passionate speaker, motivator and guiding light to those seeking deliverance from a broken healthcare system and disabled economic system.  Having left the corporate grind far behind, she is now a serial entrepreneur in the health and wellness space, and a tireless firebrand for advancing the Paleo movement; a cultural reawakening of self-empowerment for the 21st century.

Having survived the death of her 22 year old daughter, Michelle knows what it’s like to fight back from overwhelming loss.  Instead of wallowing in self-pity, she used tragedy as a catalyst for her to “put up or shut up”, and follow through with her vision of leaving the economic status quo behind, and becoming a self-made entrepreneur.  All this, at the pit of the housing market crash of 2008.  Her belief, you can always find beauty among the ashes.

Best selling author, John J. Ratey, MD, is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an internationally recognized expert in Neuropsychiatry. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles, and 11 books published in 17 languages, including the groundbreaking ADD-ADHD “Driven to Distraction” series with Ned Hallowell, MD. With the publication of "Spark-The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain," Dr. Ratey has established himself as one of the world's foremost authorities on the brain-fitness connection. His most recent book, “Go Wild” explores how we can achieve optimal physical and mental health by getting in touch with our caveman roots, and how we can “re-wild” our lives.

Recognized by his peers as one of the Best Doctors in America since 1997, Dr. Ratey was recently honored by the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society as "Outstanding Psychiatrist of the Year" for advancing the field. Dr. Ratey and his work are frequently profiled in the media, where he’s been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and NPR, as well as in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Washington Post, US News and World Report, Men’s Health, and other national publications.

Amy Thieringer is a board-certified Nutrition and Health Coach who created A.R.T. Allergy Release Technique®, an integrative approach and treatment of food allergies. Over the last twelve years, Amy has worked with over three hundred children to conquer their seemingly incurable food allergies—giving them hope where traditional medicine gives up.

In addition to her extensive training with a naturopath, Amy has expertise in different healing modalities including Electrical Dermal Screening, Allergy Elimination Technique, Neural Modulation Technique, Eden Energy Medicine, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Amy developed A.R.T. by piecing together the most relevant and helpful aspects of her various trainings in combination with her years of observing the needs and progress of her patients. A.R.T. uses a combination of Acupressure, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Immunotherapy so that patients can eat the foods or be exposed to the environmental allergens that would have previously caused intensive allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis. Allergy Release Technique holistic therapy supports patients with a unique, proven, safe, and graduated method that over time empowers them to eat, play, and live free of allergies.

In this podcast Amy discusses:

Who is Maris? 

Maris is light. Maris is love. Maris is open-hearted. Maris is authentic. Maris is vulnerable. Maris is organic. Truthfully...Maris is just Maris! 

Ann Shippy, MD, is on a mission to help create extraordinary wellness by using cutting-edge science, testing, and the latest genetic research to find and treat root causes—and not just the symptoms—of illness. As a former IBM engineer, Dr. Shippy became frustrated that traditional medicine couldn’t find answers to her own health ailments, so she left a decade in engineering to adapt her skill set to the world of medicine. 

She attended the University of Texas Medical School and has a thriving practice in Austin, Texas. She is board certified in internal medicine and certified in functional medicine. Creating custom blueprints and real-world health solutions for those suffering from any combination of physical, environmental, genetic, and individualized health concerns, she insists on using science and personalized attention to treat the patient in totality—and not just bandage symptoms. She is on a tireless mission to help create a world of wellness… "because every life matters." She is the author of two books, Shippy Paleo Essentials and Mold Toxicity Workbook: Assess Your Environment & Create a Recovery Plan.

In this episode Dr. Shippy discusses her 5 Tips To Create Extraordinary Wellness:

For more information on Dr. Shippy and to stay connecting with her visit:

Are you feeling burned out, unusually tired, joint pain, extreme muscle fatigue or soreness? If yes, then there's a good chance you might need some of Dr. Mike Flores Sports Medicine & Recovery Therapy. And if you are not feeling any of these symptoms, it's better to prevent before you do feel any of the signs of a physical breakdown. So this podcast is a must for anyone who is playing in and on the field of life.

Dr. Mike Flores, DC, CCSP, BS is the co-founder & CEO of AMP SMR and AMP SPC. 

Dr. Mike is a loving husband and father to his gorgeous wife, Cara Flores and beautiful daughter Lily Belle Flores. His family is his constant WHY! It’s why he gets up at 4am everyday driven to improve himself in every facet of life and share his passion for life and influence others to maximize their lives to be great by keep a Life by Faith and a Man after Gods Heart!

Dr. Mike graduated with his Bachelor in Science with Degree in Kinesiology from San Diego State University in 2007 and received his Doctorate in 2011 from Southern California University of Health Sciences. He continued his education to receive Specialization Certification as a Sports Physician in 2012.

His passion is grow and influence young business entrepreneurs that want to be partner in growing AMP SMR using proprietary Specific Treatment Protocols designers in AMP SPC. The everyday effort and passion in his business life comes with a never ending drive to grow this model to help others. 

Dr. Mike is an advocate of health and fitness, inside and out of the body. "Practice what you preach." He also participates in many volunteer programs that allow him to serve his community—both with his church and with the clinic. He is a firm believer in giving back to the community through the knowledge he has earned to all those in need.

In this episode:

- What is AMP Sports Medicine & Recovery?

- Recovery from the inside out.

- Believing in the process and plan of Sports Medicine or recovery to optimize your results.

- Why creating an environment of community helps to keep people's plan for improvement on track.

- There's no substitute for hard work.

It is the vision of AMP Sports Med & Recovery to provide its patients with the Highest Quality of Innovative Specific Protocols to Advance your Goals in your Active Lifestyle. AMP is constantly evolving to be the Industry Leader in Sports Medicine.

Losing weight doesn’t have to be a losing battle.

Restrictive diets. Exhausting exercise routines.

The deprivation. The despair.

You’ve experienced it all.

But, trust Dr.Z and Mama Z, it doesn’t have to be this way…

The Essential Oils Diet by Dr. Eric Zielinski and Sabrina Ann Zielinski is the FIRST book to reveal the hidden power of bioactive compounds for melting away stubborn pounds while creating healthy lifestyle shifts.

Because you don’t need a diet.

You need a sustainable way to enjoy food while living your healthiest life ever.

You need a practical, research-backed, human-tested plan that works even when your calendar gets crazy and your willpower seems to crumble as soon as it sees that slice of chocolate cake.

With The Essential Oils Diet, you get all of that and MORE!

Welcome To SUPERWELLNESS. The revolutionary new formula for creating true vibrant health. Become your own best healer! Featuring a foreword by Wim Hof.

What if “Eat Right and Exercise” is not the key? Has our world made health & wellness far too difficult, expensive, and complicated? What if the best tools are free, simple, and abundantly available? What common assumptions have derailed us, rather than helped us, on our quest for health and healing? 

Based on 15 years of professional experience and a lifetime of research, Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan can help answer those questions and more. Her new book SUPERWELLNESS debunks some of the greatest myths about our health; myths that have dogged us causing unnecessary frustration, pain, and suffering for far too long. Backed by science and clinical trials, the book presents a truth far more empowering than we’ve ever been told by Western health practitioners and enables readers to “choose their own health adventure”. Inside readers will discover:

·  A bold new world, where getting healthy is fun, joyful and require zero deprivation.

·  A world where the most vital healing tools are free, simple, and readily available to everybody

·  Steps we can take to become stress-free, get the best sleep, lose those pesky pounds without dieting, heal faster, look radiant, have amazing energy, and enjoy more quality time with friends and family

·  6 keys of H.E.A.L.T.H. and how to activate them to experience joy, health, and wellbeing as a natural byproduct.

Weaving together cutting-edge science, ancient wisdom, and clinical experience, this new book will enable readers to break free of the old limiting paradigms. More than a book. It’s an interactive journey. It’s a revolution. A movement.

You can find out more information about Dr. Chan, register for seminars and order your copy of SUPERWELLNESS:

Former TV Host for the Lakers and Dodgers, Kelli Tennant has dedicated her life to helping women heal from the inside out from chronic illnesses Eastern medicine can not fix. During Kelli's collegiate volleyball player career at USC, she started to feel sick and tired, literally. After being sick for 14 years and finding a path in homeopathic medicine, Kelli was finally able to create optimal health and wellbeing. This incomprehensible experience of health challenges and seeking help from hundreds of practitioners allowed her to create a proven protocol that she uses to offer her client's the same healing powers.

In this dynamic and fun podcast interview, Kelli and I talk about her life's purpose and passion. Enjoy topics of discussion including:

What are your excuses not to make fitness a priority? 

The list can go on and on! 

Do you or someone you know have Type II Diabetes or is at risk? 

The symptoms of diabetes can be very mild. .In fact, of the 29 million people in the U.S. who have diabetes, 8 million are undiagnosed, according to the American Diabetes Association. 

Diabetes is a problem with your body that causes blood glucose (sugar) levels to rise higher than normal. This is also called hyperglycemia. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes.

If you have Type II Diabetes your body does not use insulin properly. This is called insulin resistance. At first, your pancreas makes extra insulin to make up for it. But, over time it isn't able to keep up and can't make enough insulin to keep your blood glucose at normal levels.

Kent C. Sasse, M.D., MPH, FACS, FACRS has a solution that is has a 90% success rate of reversing Type II Diabetes. 

In this episode Dr. Sasse answers these questions and so much more:

Dr. Siegel is blending over 30 years experience in clinical practice with 20 years as a leader in integrated veterinary medicine, to bring solutions for the alarming rise in pet dis-ease, particularly chronic degenerative dis-ease’s like cancer. 

Dogs currently have the highest rate of cancer of any mammal on the planet.  Current cancer rates in the US for dogs are 1:1.65 and cats are 1:3. Despite advancements in veterinary health care, life expectancy for our precious fur babies is declining over the past 20 years. Dogs are living on average 7 years less than 20 years ago. DIET is one of  the leading causes. 

Unable to find a species appropriate balanced pet food that was grass fed, no synthetic ingredients, complete with the essential nutrients and superfoods, Dr. Siegel was inspired to develop a line of diets that could be tailored to the pet’s individual needs. Her formula, EVOLOVE RAW, evolved from 20 years of research, feeding dogs a raw, balanced, organic diet.  Dog’s in the feeding trials showed a significant reduction in diseases including cancer and osteoarthritis. 

Dr. Siegel’s passion for alternative medicine began with her quest to heal her own horse, Lilly. A near tragic accident occured with Lilly and Demi, (Dr. Siegel’s youngest daughter), during a horse show.  Traditional western medicine was unable to fix the debilitating problem, but Dr. Siegel was unwilling to accept the equine veterinarians assessment that “nothing more can be done”. Later that same year, in response to receiving a variety of alternative therapies, Lilly carried her young rider to win the United States Youth National Reserve Championship, proving her western doctors that she could recover.   

Dr. Siegel inspires audiences around the world with her lectures, educational programs, TV show, webinars, radio and blogs.  Her passion is to educate and empower pet parents to create a lifestyle for themselves and their fur babies so all can thrive, not just survive.

Have you ever seen someone go out and buy a brand new Porsche or go get botox injections when they were in their mid 40's or 50's? Chances are you have, and chances are you said, "That person must be having a midlife crisis."

Anyone can have one. They can be short. They can last a few weeks, month or years. Some people might never grow out of one. You see a midlife crisis is a transition of identity and self-confidence that occurs in middle-aged individuals, both men, and woman who are typically between the ages of 35–65 years old. It is a phenomenon described as a psychological crisis brought about by events that highlight:

Usually, feelings of depression, remorse, and anxiety are common. The individual struck by a so-called midlife crisis may desire to achieve their youthfulness or make drastic changes to their current lifestyle.

In this episode I do my best to be as open and vulnerable as possible to the ongoing questions in my head that keep me up at night, add some stress to my life and is causing me some emotional anguish. 

Do you like to add mushrooms to your salads or stir fry? Are you familiar with the health benefits of mushrooms for longevity, cognition, energy, and immune support?

Jeff Chilton aka "The Mushroom Cultivator" talks mushrooms and so much more in this fun discussion on the fungus we love and should eat. 

Jeff is a wizard when it comes to knowing, growing, and producing the best mushrooms on the planet. He has dedicated his life to understanding, researching, and educating the benefits of consuming mushrooms. 

Jeff was raised in Pacific Northwest where he studied ethnomycology at the University of Washington in the organic mushroom extracts in the late sixties and started working on a commercial mushroom farm. During this period Jeff co-authored the highly acclaimed book, The Mushroom Cultivator, which was published in 1983. 

In the 1980s he operated a mushroom spawn business and in 1989 he started Nammex, a business that introduced medicinal mushrooms to the US nutritional supplement industry and was the first company to offer certified organic mushrooms to supplement companies.

Jeff and I discuss these topics and so much more: 

- The main active ingredients of medicinal mushrooms.

- The benefits of mushrooms for your health

- Benefits of psychedelic mushrooms.

- How he came to own a mushroom farm in China that produces organic mushrooms for supplement companies.

- Why it is important to buy organic mushrooms.

- How to purchase the quality mushroom supplement.

- And so much more.

Connect with Jeff: info@nammex.com