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There was a time in my life when I was completely debilitated by anxiety. Fortunately, I have put in a lot of work over the years and studied to understand neurochemically what was happening to me when anxiety would step in to ruin the day. In this Q & A, I am answering 6 common questions about anxiety and laying out the exact process I use and the logic you’ll need to start mastering your own anxiety with time and effort. I remember how hopeless I felt and I now know how simple and effective some of these tips are to put into practice. Action cures all and the sooner you implement these tips the sooner you can start to feel superhuman and reach your true potential.

SHOW NOTES:
Rehearsing Failure | Tom on why rehearsing failure of what hasn’t happened is [3:07]
Breaking Cycle | 2 steps to beat anxiety with a pattern interrupt and & empower thought [7:32]
Physical Adrenaline | Tom’s experience changing his neuro-chemistry with meditation [10:11]
Breathing | Returning to total calm in 45 minutes or less with diaphragmatic breathing [16:42]
Social Anxiety | Pattern interrupt & focus on your goal, what others think can’t stop you [21:01]
Generalized Anxiety | Having many triggers for anxiety and anxiety outside of the norm [25:14]
Anxiety Benefit | Tom explains how mild anxiety can be useful but still gets checked [30:46]
Physical Tension | When your body gets wired to mental negativity and holds tension [32:39]


QUOTES:
“We want to use the empowering thoughts as mental jujitsu.” [24:00]

“You will become whatever you repeat.” [24:42]

“Because I'm not a born entrepreneur, getting into business was this incredibly anxiety provoking endeavor, the stakes were so high, I felt like I was constantly on stage” [26:12]

“I started saying to myself, ‘let failure surprise you’. So when I succeed, I'm never surprised because I've rehearsed the shit out of success.” [28:45]

“I started rehearsing success, and I just said, I'm going to let failure take me totally by surprise if it ever happens” [29:44]

“Failure is the most information rich data stream in the world.” [33:32]

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If changing your life is high on your priority list and you're trying to hack your way to the most successful and fulfilling life possible, then sleep has to be high on your list of things to fix. You can’t be hardcore and about that hustle life and still avoiding the sleep conversation. The holy trinity for optimal health is sleep, diet and exercise.

“ If you want to optimize your mindset you have to take care of your health.” Tom Bilyeu

In this must watch episode, you’re not only getting 6 of 10 strategies Tom lives by to execute at a ridiculously high level every day, you’re also getting everything you need in one place to drive home the point that sleep is foundational to good health, better decision making, and all of the effort you’re putting into changing your life to succeed and play hard/

Suboptimal sleep is killing your productivity, whether you like it or not sleep absolutely matters.

Find out your chronotype with the Morningness-Eveningness Survey: https://chronotype-self-test.info/index.php?sid=61524&newtest=Y

Shawn Stevenson is a bestselling author (Sleep Smarter), health podcaster, health and fitness expert with an incredible story that brought him into the world of health. Check out his full Impact Theory episode on How to Sleep Smarter: https://youtu.be/4Mtw3vBQYOg

Matthew Walker is a Professor of Neuroscience and psychology at University of California, Berkeley. He is a bestselling author of the book, Why We Sleep. Find out more about How You’re Sleeping Wrong in this Impact Theory episode: https://youtu.be/dUyiRnA23Wk

Dan Pardi is the CEO if HumanOS. He does research at Stanford University and is the Chief Health Architect with Restore Hyper Wellness. Watch his full Impact Theory episode for even more Sleeping Hacks: https://youtu.be/pyniJ_zwKG8

For the full list of Tom Bilyeu’s 10 Tips for Better Sleep and the full episode on his Sleep Routine for High Performance click here: https://youtu.be/Zj7pszJv_L8

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Sleep Hacks
13:34 | This Will Optimize Your Sleep
38:41 | Way to Fix Poor Sleep Quality
1:03:00 | Change Your Bad Habits

QUOTES:

“I know now that our sleep quality is more important than our diet and exercise combined.” Shawn Stevenson [15:07]

“This isn’t called sleep more, it’s called sleep smarter.” Shawn Stevenson [17:21]

“Get the tech out of your room, have your bedroom be a sleep sanctuary.” Shawn Stevenson [35:44]

“Dreaming is a way for us to understand the world in which we live and we can do it while we are awake.” Matthew Walker [42:01]

“We need to have some degree of self-compassion when it comes to sleep.” Matthew Walker [50:51]

“A lot of things that are good for us might be what I call ‘the meaningful, but invisible.’” Dan Pardi [1:04:32]

“If you want to optimize for your health you have to optimize your mindset. If you want to optimize your mindset you have to take care of your health.” Tom Bilyeu [1:08:51]

“Spend enough time in bed so that you wake naturally, [...] Allow for complete sleep to happen.” Dan Pardi [1:11:14]

“A little bit of the stimulus aides in the depth of sleep and too much can overwhelm it.”[1:13:20]

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/healthformance
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humanos.me/

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You can probably come up with a thousand reasons to explain your chronic procrastination. You got really thirsty, couldn’t get started until you walked the dog, and for sure laundry had to get done and when someone needs help you can’t ignore them!

Why are you procrastinating though …really?

Boredom, lack of excitement, not working on things that give you fulfillment, not feeling qualified and lacking skills may be behind some of your awesome reasons for procrastination, but how the heck do you beat it?

Tom is about to break down procrastination and 7 things you can tackle starting NOW to stop procrastinating and start having a more fulfilling and meaningful life. Dealing with procrastination is going to take an action plan that takes control of your life, forces you to put some rules in place, and will also force you to be super HONEST with yourself about where you are.

This sh*t isn’t going to be comfortable but it’s going to be more rewarding than you can imagine. So put laziness, poor diet, and bad sleep habits in the past, and let’s get to work!

You’re going to start working towards something you actually care about, you’re going to optimize your environment, get rules in place and start rewarding yourself when you start crushing it. Do the 7 DAY ACTION PLAN to stop procrastinating and watch your life change in ways you only dream of.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Destroy Procrastination
0:40 | You Gotta Want It Bad Enough
13:43 | Burnout & Laziness Look Similar
20:24 | Build A Solid Morning Routine
24:53 | Eat to Boost Your Productivity
31:19 | Optimize Your Time & Environment
34:35 | When You Fall Into A Rut
36:24 | Optimize Your Evening Routine
43:43 | 7 Day Action Plan to Beat Procrastination

QUOTES:

“Success is a game of problem solving, but you have to really want to solve that problem.” [1:42]

“The only way that you’re going to escape laziness is by attaching meaning and purpose to that thing that you want.” [3:29]

“Progress is a foundational pillar to human happiness.” [4:19]

“Take the time to build that desire. Tell yourself, tell other people, repeat it like crazy, and then make sure that you embody the emotion…” [13:32]

“People can hate you all they want, but if you can outperform them they can’t stop you!” [14:37]

“I trust myself to do two things; one, leave it all out on the field. I play to f*cking win, and I play to win every day…” [17:07]

“Be accountable to yourself to make sure that you’re actually living up to your end of the bargain…” [19:42]

“Most people fail on the lazy side, they never get to burnout.” [20:10]

“Make sure that you’re getting all of your background radiation, the stress, the anxiety, [...] as close to zero as you can. That way you can think clearly…” [22:09]

“Nutrition is a very big complex topic. The only things I consider universal are whole food and reducing sugar.” [30:51]

“Make sure that you care about what you’re working on.” [32:23]

“I see people not wanting to admit that things are not going the way they want…” [34:42]

“Be proud of yourself for being willing to assess: where am I at, what am I trying to accomplish, am I actually making progress…” [35:37]

“The reason I’m able to work as much as I work, to endure as much stress as I endure, I am very good at compartmentalizing.” [38:24]

“If you don’t have people that you love and care about and that you’re spending time with, it’s all for not.” [45:11]

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There was a time in my life when I was completely debilitated by anxiety. Fortunately, I have put in a lot of work over the years and studied to understand neurochemically what was happening to me when anxiety would step in to ruin the day. In this Q & A, I am answering 6 common questions about anxiety and laying out the exact process I use and the logic you’ll need to start mastering your own anxiety with time and effort. I remember how hopeless I felt and I now know how simple and effective some of these tips are to put into practice. Action cures all and the sooner you implement these tips the sooner you can start to feel superhuman and reach your true potential.

SHOW NOTES:

Rehearsing Failure | Tom on why rehearsing failure of what hasn’t happened is [3:07]
Breaking Cycle | 2 steps to beat anxiety with a pattern interrupt and & empower thought [7:32]
Physical Adrenaline | Tom’s experience changing his neurochemistry with meditation [10:11]
Breathing | Returning to total calm in 45 minutes or less with diaphragmatic breathing [16:42]
Social Anxiety | Pattern interrupt & focus on your goal, what others think can’t stop you [21:01]
Generalized Anxiety | Having many triggers for anxiety and anxiety outside of the norm [25:14]
Anxiety Benefit | Tom explains how mild anxiety can be useful but still gets checked [30:46]
Physical Tension | When your body gets wired to mental negativity and holds tension [32:39]


QUOTES:

“We want to use the empowering thoughts as mental jujitsu.” [24:00]

“You will become whatever you repeat.” [24:42]

“Because I'm not a born entrepreneur, getting into business was this incredibly anxiety provoking endeavor, the stakes were so high, I felt like I was constantly on stage” [26:12]

“I started saying to myself, ‘let failure surprise you’. So when I succeed, I'm never surprised because I've rehearsed the shit out of success.” [28:45]

“I started rehearsing success, and I just said, I'm going to let failure take me totally by surprise if it ever happens” [29:44]

“Failure is the most information rich data stream in the world.” [33:32]

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On Today's Episode:

With U.S. inflation rates being reported over 9%, having the knowledge and strategy to be prepared and survive the next recession is a must! There are elements that make the times we are living through feel unique, but cycles repeat whether they are economic or dysfunctional family cycles.

If you’re struggling financially to keep up with inflation, just lost your job, or you’re trying to figure how to do more than survive these uncertain times, this video is for you.

In this episode, Ramit Sethi, the Wallstreet Trapper, and Russel Brunson layout 3 ways you can prepare for the upcoming recession. Get tips for how to manage and automate your finances, and several other bonus gems that hold the potential to change your life forever, if you’re ready to get to work.

“Victory however long and hard the road may be…” -Winston Churchill

Ramit Sethi is an entrepreneur, personal finance advisor, and NY Times bestselling author. Check out the full episode with Ramit Sethi, Everything You’ve Been Told About Money is Wrong: https://youtu.be/uSgY_PxL_Zo

Wallstreet Trapper is an entrepreneur known for educating people how to build wealth, buy equity and invest in stocks. Catch the Wallstreet Trapper’s full episode, The 1% Do This to Get Rich: https://youtu.be/TXNFLgl3Y1c

Russell Brunson is a serial entrepreneur, NY Times bestselling author, and the man behind the infamous ClickFunnels. Watch Russell’s full episode, How to Survive a Severe Economic Downturn: https://youtu.be/DBQQFrUx7wc

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction Protect & Compound Wealth
26:05 | Learn & Get Ready to Buy Equity
45:33 | Survive Any Downturn

QUOTES:

“Investing is not about excitement. You want excitement? Get a dog, [...] investing is boring, it’s like watching concrete dry, and it should be.” Ramit Sethi [10:49]

“The best investors are humble.” Ramit Sethi [13:39]

“Most people would rather pay $250,000 in hidden fees than pay $10,000 out of their pocket.” Ramit Sethi [25:30]

“It's hard for people to make sacrifice, because you gotta now go against and do without some of the things that gives you that momentary gratification.” Wallstreet Trapper [28:34]

“You gotta start somewhere, you gotta make the game winnable…” Wallstreet Trapper [31:24]

“The key to wealth is through ownership.” Wallstreet Trapper [33:18]

“You can’t work your way to wealth, you gotta invest your way there.” Wallstreet Trapper [33:57]

“The companies that are going to survive and be nimble are the ones that understand how to shift their messaging…” Russell Brunson [52:40]

“The money you make will be in direct relation to how simple you make somebody else’s process.” Russell Brunson [57:16]

“The most valuable person in any company is the person who, [...] can make it rain, who can bring people in.” Russell Brunson [1:02:17]

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Website: https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/
Podcast: https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/podcast/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ramit/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ramit

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wall_street_trapper/

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FunnelHackerTV
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/russellbrunson/

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The economic winter no one wants is here, and if you’re not snowboarding you may be standing still frozen, in denial, or completely unaware. It’s time to get your mindset around being recession proof.

“In times of recession there are massive opportunities and fortunes to be made, so for new up and coming entrepreneurs, this is the time to go and start a business.” -Richard Branson

Over the last few years we’ve dealt with many challenges as a society and many more as individuals, and one thing is for sure, you either saw opportunity, you retreated and gave into anxiety, or you froze and did nothing. During COVID, businesses were lost, and businesses were made.

Dean Graziosi has been around for well over 25 years experiencing the economic cycles, business cycles, and life’s cycles. He’s joining Tom in this episode to share his experiences through his own real life difficulties to remind you to get your mindset around the reality of the economic situation going on, and decide how you’re going to respond.

How you get through this storm is your decision. This recession doesn’t have to be all dark skies and gloom, when you’re armed with the right information. Join Dean Graziosi and Tony Robbins 5 Day Challenge, Time to Thrive in August to give yourself the advantage we all need.

Check out how you can join Tony Robbins & Dean Graziosi in their 5 Day Challenge here: https://timetothrivechallenge.com/join

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Dean Graziosi
0:20 | Recession Proof with Anticipation
10:36 | How to Ease the Anxiety
23:17 | Tools To Navigate Uncertainty
31:29 | Listen to Your Self-Talk
41:43 | It’s Time to Thrive

QUOTES:

“It’s preparation and anticipation rather than reaction.” [0:57]

“Time to put the ship in the storm. The next level of me lives on the other side.” [19:23]

“What if on the other side of that storm is the man or woman you’re designed to be? Wouldn’t it be worth that storm?” [22:24]

“I’m scared to death but I’m going anyway.” [27:21]

“Anxiety is this double edged sword. It is the reason that I’ve had the kind of success that I’ve had.” Tom Bilyeu [29:12]

“If you leave the scene of learning without taking an action the momentum goes away.” [1:01:42]

Follow Dean Graziosi:
Website: https://www.deangraziosi.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/deangraziosi
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deangraziosipage
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deangraziosi/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/deangraziosi

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On Today's Episode:

When it comes to changing your life, improving your relationships, your career, or supercharging your business, at the foundation of everything is the power of your thoughts. In this video, I share with you simple hacks that will change your life forever. I must be clear, this is going to take practice, commitment, and lots of effort. I want to see you succeed and unlock your potential, so I am holding nothing back. My hope is you will learn to leverage the power of your thoughts, improve the quality of your life and ultimately make an impact that energizes you every day. I always say, action cures all. Why do I say it? Because it’s true.


Suggested Reading:
Lisa Feldman Barrett's book, How Emotions Are Made: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1328915433/?tag=store4895-20


SHOW NOTES:

Role of Subconscious | Subconscious speaks emotion. Control it by creating a new story [2:33]
Creating Reality | Tom shares why what you repeat to yourself is so critical [7:12]
Overthinking | Why overthinking is a waste of time & how to make the most of your time [11:18]
Whiteboard Effect | How experience and action together magnifies the lessons [12:07]
Brain Negativity | Tom breaks down how the brain is wired for danger to keep you safe [18:04]
Meditation | How meditation done right allows you to perform better and achieve flow [23:24]
Thought Process | Tom’s simple process to interact with data & follow unique reactions[28:16]
Learning in Swarms | How Tom goes hard on learning a topic and attacking all angles [30:34]


QUOTES:

“One of the most important ideas in my life is that the brain will justify whatever emotion you have.” [4:56]

“You become what you repeat.” [7:28]

“...whatever you allow yourself to repeat is going to be the thing that you see. It is going to become the bedrock of your life.” [8:53]

“If you don't take action, you will never get the full benefit of the way that experience [and] action has this magnification effect of the lesson. [12:18]

“Thinking is very valuable, but it needs to be done in conjunction with action.” [13:07]

“The brain is not designed to make sure that you run your own company or that you come out wealthy, the brain is not designed to make sure that you love every moment of your life. The brain is designed to keep you alive.” [19:02]

“Functioning optimally for a shorter period of time is far more useful than functioning subpar for a longer period of time” [28:00]

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How do you protect your mind from all the chaos going on and get mentally stronger from the person that attacks your mental state more than anyone, yourself? It’s easy to say that you don’t have to believe everything you think, but with thousands of thoughts running through your mind and the overwhelming information pouring in from social media and news outlets, the challenge is tougher than ever before.

The need to overcome the negative thoughts throwing you off the path of happiness, fulfillment, and success is bigger than ever before. This episode is one to watch several times like a masterclass to really understand how to implement these ideas and tactics shared by some of the most extraordinary people.

This episode will help you:

Become conscious of how you think and feel in the moment
Practice not saying negative things out loud (because words are powerful)
Change negative behaviors holding you back in life
Understand that neutral thinking is truth based thinking

Joe Dispenza, NY Times Best Seller Author, is an authority in neurology, neuroscience, brain function and memory formation. You can watch his full episode here: https://youtu.be/La9oLLoI5Rc

Trevor Moawad, Sports Psychologist worked with professional athletes, like Russel Wilson as a mentor and mental conditioning guru. He passed away, but his message is just as powerful. Watch his full episode here: https://youtu.be/5lCeWtXPKko

Trent Shelton, Former NFL Player with Seattle Seahawks, Indianapolis Colts and other teams. He’s now a motivational speaker and founder of a Christian-based non-profit organization called Rehab Time. Watch his full episode here: https://youtu.be/BI1P14gjqKI

Susan David, award-winning Harvard Medical School Psychologist and influential management thinker, is the author of the WSJ best-selling book, Emotional Agility. You can watch her full episode here: https://youtu.be/y8bwEgCcOXs

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Intro Define Your Future & Environment
15:56 | Observe Your Thoughts & Patterns
36:52 | Master This Mindset Today!
54:51 | Master Your Brain’s Wiring
1:23:19 | How to Destroy Fear & Anxiety
1:48:58 | Use Your Negative Thoughts for Good

QUOTES:

“Your environment is really controlling how you think and feel unconsciously.” Joe Dispenza [1:09]

“Just because you have a thought doesn’t necessarily mean it’s true.” Joe Dispenza [4:20]

“If we could just learn how to not be negative, how to not externalize negative, then ultimately that would help them more than ever trying to be told to be positive.” Trevor Moawad [20:54]

“The past is real. The only thing that makes it predictive is if my behavior stays the same.” Trevor Moawad [23:28]

“A, your language is powerful and number two, your behavior is way ahead of your success, and so many people let their feelings dictate what they do…” Trevor Moawad [26:38]

“Once I realized that I could get better at anything, it dawned on me that how I spend my time is a spiritual consideration.” Tom Bilyeu [42:14]

“The right question to ask is what would I do and love everyday even if I were failing.” Tom Bilyeu [54:15]

“The only way you’re going to get strength in your life is if you go through that hard moment, that tough moment.” Trent Shelton [1:23:36]

“Just because it’s a chapter it doesn’t mean that it’s your whole story.” Trent Shelton [1:23:51]

“Don’t complain when you have too much on your plate, because they’re people that have nothing on it.” Trent Shelton [1:48:41]

Follow Joe Dispenza:
Website: https://drjoedispenza.com/

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If you’re in the middle of emotionally trying times, lost your job, death and grief over loved ones and failing relationships, we know emotional pain f*cking sucks! But what now? Sitting in these emotions forever isn’t practical or healthy. So, what are the options?

Bottle it up, push those feelings aside, and push through! You’re hardcore, you’re badass, nothing is going take you out. Just don’t think about it, move on and get gritty.

OR…

Let the pain take over until you feel like a puddle of nothing. Everything feels hopeless, the pain is unbearable, and how could you ever smile again?

Neither of these extremes are healthy ways to cope with your emotions, and as adults, if we’re honest, the majority of us suck at processing emotions. We get angry and take it out on the people closest to us. We go to work sad and hurt over a fight with our partner, now we can’t focus, productivity is low, and the quality of our work sucks.

Susan David, Harvard medical school psychologist and author of the #1 WSJ bestseller, Emotional Agility, has some strategies we can all start implementing today to learn how to process our emotions in an effective and healthier way. Her core message is that “emotions are data, not directives.”

We’re facing some really challenging times ahead and we’ve been fighting and hoping for better days since pre-Covid. This conversation answers how to deal with the difficult thoughts and use emotions as data instead of allowing them to direct a story of you starring as the victim.

You can have every valid reason to fuse with painful emotions, it doesn’t mean they’re helpful in the moment. Create space, observe what you're feeling, and identify the signpost.

Check out Susan David’s book, Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life: https://amzn.to/3aHKw25

Check out Susan David’s first Impact Theory Interview, Make Your Negative Thoughts Serve You: https://youtu.be/y8bwEgCcOXs

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Negative Thinking
4:06 | Unhealthy Ways We Face Emotions
13:30 | Identify Your Emotional Signposts
24:38 | Make Space for Emotional Confusion
39:15 | The Secret Weapon Against Tragedy
50:35 | Don’t Allow Emotions to Write Your Story
1:11:01 | Strategies to Avoid Emotional Fusion

QUOTES:

“The difficult emotions feel really tough, but what they are pointing to, what they are signposting, is often something that we care about…” [1:16]

“The reality of life is that beauty and fragility hold hands with one another.” [3:39]

“There is a world of difference between being stubborn versus being stupid.” [9:01]

“When we ignore those difficult emotions we also turn ourselves away from the ability to adapt and to be effective in our lives.” [9:44]

“It is not about getting hooked on the difficult emotion, but rather recognizing that our emotions are data [...] they signpost things that we care about, but they are not directives.” [23:28]

“We deal with the uncertainty by becoming more adept with emotions.” [30:52]

“If you don’t have your values in place, you won’t ever risk tragedy because all you can see is that tragedy was bad, [...] but if you have a value system that mandates you risk tragedy then it becomes worth it.” [41:13] Tom Bilyeu

“The true tragedy is when we don’t know what our values are, and when we are literally risking our lives...” [48:51]

“We are learning from our emotions so we can step into the wisdom of our values, and that’s why emotions are data and not directives.” [59:14]

“Acceptance is a prerequisite to change, [...] Acceptance is about facing into the truth of your experience and the truth of your difficult situation.” [1:09:48]

“Preparing for connection happens when you connect with yourself.” [1:33:13]

Follow Susan David:
Website: https://www.susandavid.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SusanDavid_PhD
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On Today's Episode:

How often do negative thoughts leave you triggered, insecure, doubtful and feeling stuck in darkness that you want to escape? Negativity at work, in social media, and at home can make it feel impossible to escape. In this episode, Tom is answering 6 common questions to help you overcome negativity. Spoiler alert! It comes down to what you decide to pursue and focus on, and going after it with everything you’ve got. You cannot escape negativity, but you can take note of these powerful tactics and put them into action starting today.

SHOW NOTES:

Self Punishment | Negative thoughts affecting self worth, how to let yourself off the hook [0:46]
Toxic Relationship | Know what’s effective in next relationship & what you can do different [4:32]
Self Awareness | Reframe negative feelings & identify what’s triggering your insecurities [9:51]
Negative People | Dealing with people that are hyper negative & not ready to change [20:02]
Dark Side Power | Leverage negativity and anger to motivate and not be consumed by it [23:31]
Self Doubt |The only belief that matters, you are adaptable, acquire skills & go after it [29:12]

Book Mentioned: Lisa Barret, How Emotions Are Made

QUOTES:

“...every human being should only ever do and believe that which moves them towards their goal.” [1:40]

“...we know that humans can be incredibly selfish, but whatever you look for you're going to find. [....] it doesn't matter what you look at, it matters what you see.” [6:20]

“I live my life the way I'm going to live it. I don't join them in negativity. [...] I don't want them to feel judged. I don't want to put distance between us.” [22:43]

“when you're actually 80% of the way there 90% of the way there, really close to being fully spent, the thing that I lean on in that moment, is the dark side.” [25:47]

As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that. It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at http://impacttheory.com/discord

Big goals require DISCIPLINE. By it's very nature, discipline requires you to do hard things - and that is a skill you can LEARN. I'm teaching my process to build Ironclad Discipline in a new workshop - you can register at discipline.impacttheory.com!

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When you come across people who have success in multiple areas of their life you want to know, what’s the secret? What do they know and what are they doing that you can possibly entertain doing for yourself?

Dave Asprey may remind you of the Bulletproof Diet, and you may be familiar with him from his podcast, The Human Upgrade, but he’s also a successful entrepreneur several times over. In this episode he and Tom cover Dave’s expansive breadth of knowledge around health, fasting, and living as long as possible, while getting into top level insights of what it means to be a game changer in business.

“You must build practices that prevent you from falling prey to those basic instincts that make you a short-term thinker.” -Dave Asprey

Your health should be one of your highest priorities. Dave reminds us to keep it simple and be mindful that even small changes can have major benefits in the long run, and when you’re ready to take those benefits to the next level, there is always another simple change to be made to your lifestyle, diet and habits that will optimize your health.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Dave Asprey
0:12 | How to Fast Correctly
25:10 | Fix Your Diet Today
44:24 | How to Burn Fat & End Cravings
1:05:34 | Watch This to Live Longer
1:30:48 | Bonus: Boost Brain Health

QUOTES:

“You lose weight faster when you’re fasting, but you gain weight faster when you’re eating.” [10:39]

“Fasting everyday is bad for you because it doesn’t lend your body the idea of metabolic flexibility.” [24:22]

“If you’re intermittent fasting, you’re occasionally in ketosis, you ought to be able to eat a treat, [...] and be just fine.” [47:01]

“If your nervous system believes that you get a game over at the end of this game, you relax a lot more.” [1:09:01

“Happiness doesn’t come from wealth, but wealth can come from happiness, but being angry and tired and unhappy all the time is not a good way to become successful or to change the game in your field…” [1:37:56]

“The ego is the operating system that keeps you alive if there’s no human in there.” [1:53:02]

“You have to find a way to be consciously, intentionally be grateful instead of be hungry, empty, pissed off, angry, stressed, feeling not good enough, and all the other stuff.” [1:56:56]

“Look at aging as death by a thousand cuts. There’s no one cause of aging.” [2:01:33]

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As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that. It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at http://impacttheory.com/discord

Big goals require DISCIPLINE. By it's very nature, discipline requires you to do hard things - and that is a skill you can LEARN. I'm teaching my process to build Ironclad Discipline in a new workshop - you can register at discipline.impacttheory.com!

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You’re likely under pressure with the rest of the world, making decisions under intense unprecedented levels of stress. The good news is that you’re not alone. Right now, even if you’re not watching the news or following every political conversation, you know the tension is there. With everyone, including you walking on eggshells, how do you make good decisions?

Chances are you don’t think of your decisions in terms of being ethical or not, but in the grand scheme of life as a citizen of planet Earth, every decision you made so far today has been ethical or unethical. Dr. Susan Liautaud is an Ethics Expert who advises global leaders and international businesses how to develop strategic solutions to the complex ethical challenges they face. In this conversation she and Tom get deep into the weeds of what an ethical framework is, if “Cancel Culture” and the massive division we’re experiencing is ethical, and how you can live your life well and make better ethical decisions.

A few key thoughts from Dr. Liautaud to help you live a more ethical life:
Instead of canceling people, cancel language and behavior
Someone or something is going to be impacted by every decision you make
Practice really listening to what people are saying to you

We can’t create a perfect life. Dr. Liautaud explains why perfectionism is a dead end path. The 4 Pillars of Ethics she shares are worth practicing immediately.

“There’s no utopia, only trade offs.” -Thomas Sowell

Check out both of Dr. Susan Liautaud’s books:
The Power of Ethics: https://amzn.to/3AFl1ZG
The Little Book of Big Ethical Questions: https://amzn.to/3AEIhHi

Recommended Reading:
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksander I. Solzhenitsyn: https://amzn.to/3PkoWPZ

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Susan Liautaud
0:23 |What Makes Your Decisions Ethical
14:15 | Defining Hard Ethical Lines
32:36 | Cancel Culture & Massive Division
47:07 | Racism & Unconscious Biases
55:45 | Questionable Truths Shaping Reality
1:05:20 | Rules for Ethical Living
1:10:44 | There’s No Utopia Only Trade Offs
1:19:38 | Big Ethical Questions

QUOTES:

“Do you have the information you need to make the decision? And if you don’t, be mindful of the gap, [...] be mindful of the information that you’re missing.” [3:33]

“They think that they’re being long term thinkers, but in fact we’re being serial short term thinkers, [...] think of multiple time frames.” [5:50]

“Ethical decision making tethers us to our humanity.” [13:16]

“When you cancel someone, [...] another way of saying that is that you’ve just taken away all incentive for them to try to improve.” [36:40]

“Cancel culture is a way of saying you don’t deserve to exist as a human being.” [37:50]

“Take a deep breath and really listen to what other people are telling us, [...] listening to what people are really telling us, not what we want to hear, not what we expect to hear, not what we think they should be telling us…” [44:05]

“This idea that we can somehow program the world to be the way we want it to be, it doesn’t work that way.” [57:23]

“Perfectionism is one of the greatest risks to ethics that we have.” [1:03:03]

Follow Susan Liautaud:
Website: https://susanliautaud.com/
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As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that. It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at http://impacttheory.com/discord

Big goals require DISCIPLINE. By it's very nature, discipline requires you to do hard things - and that is a skill you can LEARN. I'm teaching my process to build Ironclad Discipline in a new workshop - you can register at discipline.impacttheory.com!

On Today's Episode:

What’s your biggest distraction? Is it over-thinking the most insignificant things at the worst times? Or is it more external, like social media, constant phone notifications, or what others are doing and saying? Distraction has been said to be the enemy of vision, the enemy of direction, and even the root of all failure. In this episode, Tom is answering questions to help you avoid distractions and take your goals to the next level by creating rules for yourself that will keep you on track. As Tom always says, “action cures all,” and if you find yourself easily and chronically distracted from what matters, there are definitely some nuggets of advice you can take action on right now.

SHOW NOTES:

Optimize Cognition | Tom takes it to foundational basics sleep, diet, and exercise [1:29]
Meditation | Keep it simple and start easy, train your focus with breathing exercises[2:26]
Self Awareness | Create rule based strategies that allow you to face your inadequacies [6:44]
ADHD | Not push back, lean into structuring your life the better suits you [12:54]
Unreasonable Beliefs | Have any life you want and use rules to stay focus on living intentionally [15:57]
Outside Distraction | Self awareness, what you don’t enjoy, and what feels right [18:48]
Love the Process | Uncertain outcomes mean that sincere pursuit is what matters [21:14]
Take Action | Your action helps kill the noise of distraction [22:34]
Do or Die | Allow pressure to push action, don’t stand still, avoid overwhelm & get after it [25:56]
Bored Eating | Dopamine rewards need rules & bright lines of what you do and don’t do [29:33]


QUOTES:

“Now you know what you're lying to yourself about, now we can begin to craft strategies, rule based strategies, for getting out of that” [8:38]

“sometimes, instead of pushing back against the way that we are, we can lean into it.” [13:08]

“I don't think there's anything more powerful than journaling for developing self awareness, [....] self awareness is about translating how you feel into an understanding of why you feel that thing,” [19:24]

“...recognize that you should never judge yourself through the lens of a moment. You should only judge yourself through the lens of a lifetime,” [23:52]

“It is very okay to not know what you're doing right now. It is very much not okay to stand still. The only wrong move in life ever is standing still.” [27:34]

“...love feeling good about yourself so much that you adhere to your rules even when it's boring, painful, difficult. That's when things get really really interesting.” [36:37]

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As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that. It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at http://impacttheory.com/discord

Big goals require DISCIPLINE. By it's very nature, discipline requires you to do hard things - and that is a skill you can LEARN. I'm teaching my process to build Ironclad Discipline in a new workshop - you can register at discipline.impacttheory.com!

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So you’ve tried that one diet that everyone else seemed to have success with to lose weight. That miracle supplement did absolutely nothing for your waistline or energy either. Not to mention when you signed up for that physical trainer from the special the local gym was running over the weekend you damn near vomited when you were done and couldn’t walk without pain for a whole week.

And you still have belly fat and everywhere fat to get rid of but can’t seem to find anything ork sticking to… well there’s good news and bad news.

The bad news is that the answer to your problem is as simple as diet, exercise and sleep.

The good news is that the answer to your problem is as simple as diet, exercise and sleep, and we’re bringing you top notch lessons on burning fat, and how to live your optimal life with the energy you need to be successful with these industry experts and scientists.

You don’t have to make this complicated, but you do have to stop looking for that magic pill, that miracle workout, and that suspicious diet that worked for your girlfriend’s cousin’s sister’s co-worker’s partner last summer. Keep it simple and stay informed with relevant, well sourced information with these health experts:

Shawn Stevenson, Bestselling Author of Sleep Smarter and Eat Smarter. He's the creator of the Model Health Show and a research scientist.

Gary Taubes, an investigative science and health journalist who authored The Case Against Sugar and Why We Get Fat.

Drew Manning, Owner at Fit2Fat2Fit, is a health and fitness expert that gained and lost 75 pounds on purpose just to identify what his clients experience first hand.

Herman Pontzer, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology is the author of Burn, the book taking the industry by storm. His research is exposing myths around how humans burn calories.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Melt Fat Away
0:46 | Reduce Insulin to Lose Fat 0:13
26:02 | Make the Lifestyle Change
44:40 | Burn Fat the Right Way
1:15:57 | Why We Get Fat & What To Do
1:38:01 | Optimal Lifestyle

QUOTES:

“As long as insulin is elevated, your body's being told not to burn the fat but to burn the carbs. So if insulin is elevated, carbohydrates are your fuel.” Gary Taubes [10:01]

“Transformation is so much more mental and emotional than people think.” Drew Manning [26:11]

“I think there's something to saying positive words about yourself to yourself every single day.” Drew Manning [34:23]

“You can have the perfect body but so many people with perfect bodies are miserable inside, and they hate themselves.” Drew Manning [43:16]

“There's nobody like you in the history of humanity who has the same metabolism, and there’ll never be anybody like you in the future.” Shawn Stevenson [45:35]

“If you let somebody talk, if you just ask them questions, they will tell you the cause and cure of what's going on with them. They already know.” Shawn Stevenson [56:56]

“I just am skeptical about anybody who's trying to sell you a very narrow view of what normal should be, or what healthy should be.” Herman Pontzer [1:39:17]

Follow Shawn Stevenson: https://themodelhealthshow.com/
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As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that. It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at http://impacttheory.com/discord

Big goals require DISCIPLINE. By it's very nature, discipline requires you to do hard things - and that is a skill you can LEARN. I'm teaching my process to build Ironclad Discipline in a new workshop - you can register at discipline.impacttheory.com!

On Today's Episode:

How do we avoid a recipe for disaster when it’s leaving us undernourished and overfed? Max Lugavere, science journalist, NY Times best-selling author and host of the Genius Life Podcast, is joining Tom and running down the role of sugar in obesity and what foods are better to avoid when you want to optimize your body’s nourishment and stop overeating.

Medical costs due to obesity was near $173 billion in the United States in 2019. Being over weight literally has a higher price tag that reaches far beyond the personal affects and limitations it places on your body and lifestyle.

By now, we are well aware of how sugar is destroying our health, but is it really every kind of sugar, and what can you do about it to see improvement without feeling shamed and degraded for not being “skinny.” Max also addresses why being skinny and a smaller size doesn’t equate to being healthier and healthy actually looks like.

“Eat what you need to build” -Tom Bilyeu

Check out Max Lugavere’s latest book, Genius Kitchen: https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Kitchen-Delicious-Recipes-Strong/dp/006302294X

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 Introduction Max Lugavere
0:28 | Avoid These Foods
8:38 | Surprising Impacts of Sugar
20:03 | Should You Eat Dairy?
29:34 | The Worst Oils to Consume
45:34 | Is Mouthwash Bad for You?
52:48 | Meat Vs. Plants

QUOTES:

“There should be no shame attached to obesity. We should be encouraging people to shift their body at any stage to a more healthy state.” [2:25]

“The reason added sugar plays a role in the obesity epidemic is because we don’t tire of consuming it…” [7:05]

“I think butter is actually a food worth relegating to the indulgence category, [...] butter is a manmade product, dairy is made by nature.” [22:50]

“That’s the problem with eating out in general, you can’t always predict how a food is going to make you feel.” [29:25]

“Approach these oils with great caution because they didn’t exist in the human food supply 200 years ago.” [39:50]

“Indulge when you choose to because no single meal, single indulgence, is going to sway your health in any direction, positive or negative.” [45:03]

“People who frequently use mouthwash, what you’re doing is you’re nuking bacteria in your mouth that are required to create and recycle nitric oxide...” [46:13]

“People who consume more meat, and especially processed meat, they tend to have worst health outcomes but that’s because [...] they tend to be more sedentary, they tend to smoke more. People that are vegan tend to be more health conscious…” [56:11]

“I’m not saying that everyone should go out and become carnivores, [...] but I think we do need to get back to some sort of semblance of common sense…” [1:00:28]

“It’s not like plants don’t have a potential downside…” [1:01:42]

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How have you responded to what felt like catastrophic failures? How did you process not getting the job you applied for or seeing your business and efforts fall apart? What is the best way to respond when people you love doubt you will ever find success because of your past failures? In this Q & A, Tom breaks down how to reframe and learn from your failures by interrupting the wrong thoughts, and seeing what you can do better next time. He reveals exactly why having people you love doubt you can be the gift anyone can possibly offer you. Being mindful that failure is a lesson and not an experience to be tied to or defined by will help you embrace the gift of failure, which exists to help you acquire skills faster. Tom’s is sharing exactly how you can have mind blowing success and surpass everyone’s expectations, even your own.

SHOW NOTES:

Reacting | Respond to setbacks, negativity and failure with ‘Good’ [1:48]
Do it Different | Tom breaks down the reason you can see failures and say ‘good’ [6:07]
Assess Failure | This is how you assess failure and expose the flaws in your strategy [6:32]
4 Steps | Tom lays out complete strategy to beat failure for the long-term game [7:17]
Biological Experience | Understand your brain and learning to disrupt approach [9:58]
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy | Tom explains the value of pattern interrupting [12:08]
Reframing | Tom on how to reframe failed business venture entering job market [16:15]
Hard Skills | Tom exposes why getting good at the hard things is necessary to win [17:14]
Moving Forward | It takes doing what moves you toward your goal & reframing failure [22:21]
3rd Door | Tom breaks down what it takes to find your path to the seemingly impossible [25:06]
Belief in Yourself | How people’s doubt for you is a gift when you’re not good enough yet [35:03]

QUOTES:

“the very way that we bounce back from failure, is by looking exclusively at what we can do differently.” [5:44]

“whenever a strategy yields a result, different than the desired result, then you know, this strategy is, by definition, wrong.” [6:38]

“Yes, it's hard. Getting good at shit is hard, outperforming other people is hard. But if you want to win, you've got to do hard shit.” [17:58]

“This is like one of the key insights of my life. You should only ever do and believe that which moves you towards your goal.” [22:21]

“If you can add value to people, then you can build an ecosystem.” [23:36]

“When we are young, we can become anything. But as we age, we become something specific. And there's a death in that.” [25:06]

“when you've had a tremendous failure, to recognize that you've got to get so hard core that people would sooner believe that it's magic than that you just work that hard.” [30:02]

“...failure is only permanent, if that's what you choose to believe. Reframe it, recognize you have power, recognize you have control over what you do, and recognize that if you leave people in awe [...] the only way to really have mind blowing success in life is to set the bar ridiculously high, and then surpass all expectations.” [33:20]

“the greatest gift anyone can ever give you is doubt.” [35:03]

“These people had not misidentified me. I just wasn't good enough yet.” [37:21]

Check out Jocko Willink’s excerpt on “Good”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdTMDpizis8

As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that. It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at http://impacttheory.com/discord

Big goals require DISCIPLINE. By it's very nature, discipline requires you to do hard things - and that is a skill you can LEARN. I'm teaching my process to build Ironclad Discipline in a new workshop - you can register at discipline.impacttheory.com!

On Today's Episode:

As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that. It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at http://impacttheory.com/discord

Big goals require DISCIPLINE. By it's very nature, discipline requires you to do hard things - and that is a skill you can LEARN. I'm teaching my process to build Ironclad Discipline in a new workshop - you can register at discipline.impacttheory.com!

On Today's Episode:

Roughly 1% of the world is said to be millionaires, and the fraction of the worldwide population that are billionaires are even fewer. So, no bullsh*t, what does it take to become a billionaire, or even a millionaire. The answer comes down to habits and mindset.

Ultra-successful people think and move differently from everyone else. You may have heard Jim Rohn’s quote, “successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.” This applies across the board. If billion dollar status is a goal, and being ultra wealthy and successful is high on your list of priorities, start today with your habits. Focus on the right things that create forward progress, ask the hard questions, and question everything.

In this episode, 5 ultra-successful guests share what it takes and explain the inner workings and habits you can start to adopt and apply immediately. Dean Graziosi is an entrepreneur and investor that changed his life through real estate. Robin Sharma, former attorney turned leadership expert, has written books such as The 5 AM Club and The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari changed his life through spirituality. Ed Mylett is a peak performance expert and author of The Power of One More. Patrick Bet-David is the ultra-successful businessman from humble beginnings and author of Your Next Five Moves. Tim Ferris is an entrepreneur and investor that started the mega successful “4-Hour” self help series among other popular best selling books.

“It is incredibly empowering to know that your future is in your hands.” Keanu Reeves

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Billionaire Habits
0:22 | Outsource Tasks That Don’t Make Money
22:43 | High Achievers Do This Every Morning
43:37 | Build Your Body Build Success
1:05:02 | Reflect on Your Life Every Day
1:27:47 | Build Creativity & Apply Application

QUOTES:

“What stands between us and where we want to go is never what we think it is.” Dean Graziosi [6:59]

“It doesn’t matter how many zeros are at the end or how big your company is, the pain is still there, [...] when your company's got 3 zeros, or nine zeros, or ten zeros, the stress and the worry is almost the same when you look back.” Dean Graziosi [21:39]

“People might ridicule you, [...] people might throw stones at you, but use them to build monuments of mastery…” Robin Sharma [33:24]

“It all starts with who you are because you’ll never rise any higher than what’s going on within you.” Robin Sharma [33:59]

“You can play with your phone, or you can be monomaniacally focused on being a history maker and legendary, you don’t get to do both.” Robin Sharma [41:36]

“Identity is the governor on our lives. It is the invisible force that no one understands, and once they do understand it and get a hold of it their life can change.” Ed Mylett [51:10]

“If you want a different life, an improved life, a growing life, and an increased life this version of you is inferior to get you to that place.” Ed Mylett [59:28]

“One of the scariest things about life is a question. The scary question can shake a soul up cause no one’s asked that question of you.” Patrick Bet-David [1:05:47]

“The gift of imagination and visualization is rarely used properly.” Patrick Bet-David [1:17:08]

“Some of your biggest flaws may in fact be assets.” Tim Ferris [1:32:55]

“Always pairing one serious with one absurd goal is brilliant.” Tim Ferris [1:43:44]

Follow Dean Graziosi :

Website: https://www.deangraziosi.com/
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Follow Robin Sharma:

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Follow Tim Ferris:
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As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that. It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at http://impacttheory.com/discord

Big goals require DISCIPLINE. By it's very nature, discipline requires you to do hard things - and that is a skill you can LEARN. I'm teaching my process to build Ironclad Discipline in a new workshop - you can register at discipline.impacttheory.com!

On Today's Episode:

Were you one of the 47 million Americans that voluntarily quit their job in 2021, a massive event now referred to as the Great Resignation? If you didn’t quit, maybe you came close to submitting your resignation and decided not to. The burning question is, what did people move towards after leaving their job? Was it a burn the ships at the shore kind of moment or a hasty emotional move caused by mounting stress in the moment?

No matter where you are in your career or business, there is one critical question you should be asking yourself. How are you, really?

Jenna Kutcher has pivoted her career and entrepreneurial moves more than a few times. She’s not a stranger to adversity, stress, disappointment or asking the hard questions. From wedding photography, to podcast host, to helping entrepreneurs grow their email list, Jenna shares her secret sauce to pivoting career moves successfully, and how to align with success in a way that is fulfilling and feels right to you.

Stop falling into the hustle culture trap and start asking yourself questions that awaken you at your core. Hustle culture isn’t necessarily all-in, burn the ships, forget sleep, your sanity, your rest and recovery. There’s another path and another option to achieving the success you’re after.

Check out Jenna Kutcher's new book, How Are You Really: https://amzn.to/3O6QLdO

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Jenna Kutcher
0:48 | Growing Your Self Awareness
6:30 | Rest. Recover. Be More Efficient.
11:34 | Vision Your Dream Life & Build It
28:47 | How to Pivot Successfully
36:24 | Breaking the Golden Handcuffs
49:11 | Confidence, Self Love & Acceptance
1:00:50 | Dealing With the Critic Echo

QUOTES:

“For me, rest takes just as much, if not more work than running full steam ahead.” [3:50]

“Our output is one thing, but at the expense of what?” [8:50]

“I was scared to slow down because I was afraid that the momentum would leave, and that it would all go away. I’ve learned that in that resting comes this trusting of what has gotten me to here will carry me forward…” [9:35]

“My most successful moments are the least glamorous things.” [14:43]

“We have looked at boundaries as this thing that keeps people or things out of our lives, when in fact boundaries keep us in our life.” [25:34]

“We’re chasing things that maybe look good, but don’t feel good.” [27:32]

“One of the reasons I feel I’ve been able to do it successfully is because I built a brand not a business. [30:53]

“The world of entrepreneurship has neglected this segment of the audience who is in that trial phase or the experimentation phase. They don’t feel like they fit…” [33:31]

“I’m a very logical person, but I forgot how to be emotional for a long time. I forgot to feel my actual feelings.” [38:46]

“Every time I’ve been curious about something enough to dive into it and be a student of it, I’ve found gifts inside of that.” [48:18]

“Is the world’s criticism and feedback my Garmin, my GPS if we still had those suckers, or is it the passenger that is just chatting away and I can just turn the dial down on the stereo.” [1:04:53]

Follow Jenna Kutcher:
Website: https://jennakutcher.com/
Podcast: https://jennakutcherblog.com/goal-digger-podcast/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennakutcher/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jenna.kutcher/

As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that. It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at http://impacttheory.com/discord

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On Today's Episode:

Are you struggling with gaining the respect from your family, your workplace, or friends? How can you command their respect and be acknowledged for your many accomplishments? In this Q & A with Tom, class is in session, so get ready to learn the truth about the respect so many of us value and want to have more of. Tom talks about being so ridiculously good that you can’t be ignored, but he also gives you actionable tips and areas to focus on if you want to gain the respect you deserve from your family and workplace, even if you are at your lowest point. In the words of Kobe Bryant, “Boos don’t block dunks,” and your respect is more about you than anyone else.

SHOW NOTES:

Family Respect | Tom discusses being so good you can’t be ignored and earning respect [0:22]
Career Respect | The value of consistently over delivering to make real demands [5:34]
Demanded Respect | Why swag and not wanting from anyone is key to respect [10:28]
Respected Compassion | Being hard core and being the champion for others [15:35]
Respect from Failures | How to earn respect through failures and consistency [21:33]
Cultural Differences | Tom’s advice to live radically different from the cultural norm [27:25]
Respect Summed Up| Tom confirms respect is a consequence of your confidence [31:28]

QUOTES:

“Be so good they can’t ignore you” getting so good at something that you can’t be denied
“If you can be ignored the only way out of that is to continue to get better, get to the point show it so many times that it is just self evident” [1:26]

“If you really want an extraordinary life, trying to optimize for your dollars in the short term is a losing proposition. You want to over deliver consistently at a freakish level, and then when you’ve done that, you can make real demands. Demands that will change your net worth forever” [10:00]

“Respect comes from competence” [11:12]

“Don’t come to the world with your hand out. Don’t act like the world owes you anything.” [12:52]

“if you’re really going for something extraordinary i think all of us are going to fail at least as much as we succeed,maybe more” [24:03]

“Failure is the most information rich data stream you will ever encounter” [25:52]

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As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that. It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at http://impacttheory.com/discord

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Why is being rich something so many people want, but so few achieve. Does being successful guarantee becoming rich? Obviously that requires you to define what success is for you and your journey. The funny twist in all of this is that being rich is so easily fantasized and yet the work it takes to become rich and successful is barely thought of.

Jim Rohn said, “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.” As hard as that is to accept as truth, it is evident when you look at elite athletes, world-class performers, and the best of the best in any field.

When you watch this, understand that Tom’s drive is always fulfillment, meaning, and purpose. The work it takes to achieve his level of success is not easy nor is it for the faint of heart. It’s not impossible, and it’s not the only path forward, but it has proven to be majorly successful over and over again. The path to becoming rich and successful is going to require you to dig deep and it requires skills, grit, and determination for you to tap into a level of potential you never knew was possible.

You can watch the full episodes included today here:
Tom Bilyeu on The School of Greatness: https://youtu.be/DN6BP65jWhk
Tom Bilyeu on Rich Roll:https://youtu.be/prlqWU54NME
Tom Bilyeu on Ed Mylett: https://youtu.be/VjTGHnlX8fw
Tom Bilyeu on Valuetainment: https://youtu.be/jSvTTh93dY0

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction 0:00
0:12 | There Are No Excuses, Only Taking Action
31:03 | Rich People Do These 8 Things
47:37 | The Power of Stories
49:50 | Reading List
51:29 | Take Ownership
54:20 | It’s Not About the Money
1:00:29 | Learn From Failure & Move Forward
1:22:55 | Bonus: They Choose To Win & Not Quit

QUOTES:

“We’re not judged by our intentions. We are judged by what we actually accomplish.” [0:38]

‘If what I said is really true, that human potential is limitless, then how you spend your time becomes a spiritual consideration.” [30:54]

“The only reason to not play to win is if you think you can’t win, and you value yourself for winning.” [53:57]

“Failure is your greatest teacher, but you have to be willing to admit you’ve made a mistake.” [1:22:43]

Follow Tom Bilyeu:
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As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that. It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at http://impacttheory.com/discord

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When you are unhappy, you may find yourself constantly seeking approval from others, scared to take risks, and hyper focused on the things you don’t have or lack in life. You may unconsciously have habits that are keeping you from being happy, and after this episode you know what you can do to start living with more happiness and intention.

Dr. Rangan Chatterjee is a physician that focuses on successfully treating illness with progressive medicine while taking a 360 approach to health. He’s written multiple books on how to feel better, lose weight, better manage stress and live a happy life. In this episode he’s sharing practical things you can do right now to stop living an unhappy life.

Happiness is a skill we can improve and get better at. It doesn’t have to be overly complicated, and it is super critical to your outlook on life, your relationships, and the state of your overall health. Struggling with health and happiness and not seeing the connection between the two is a mistake we’ve all made for too long.

Let’s get practical and answer these simple questions and thought exercises today:

What are 3 things you could do this week that would truly make you happy and content?
What are 3 things you would wish you have done on your deathbed and regret not doing?
Think about the values that encompass who you are and write them down.

Deciding to live with intention and making the conscious decisions you need to make in order to live a better, happier, and healthier life is free, and it’s the most valuable thing you can do right now for you and the people you love.

Check out Dr. Chatterjee’s latest book, Happy Mind, Happy Life: https://amzn.to/39ytbbu

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction Dr Rangan Chatterjee
0:23 | Why You’re Not Happy
7:55 | How To Live In Alignment
26:35 | Gain Perspective Today
41:52 | Take Control of Your Life
48:14 | Will You Regret Your Choices
55:41 | Create Happy Habits

QUOTES:

“A lot of us don’t know who we are anymore. A Lot of us don’t know what life we’re wanting to live. A lot of us are living unintentional lives where we’re essentially asleep.” [4:30]

“Us not acting in alignment with who we really are is a huge stress on the body.” [9:04]

“Your dreams won’t make you happy, [...] unless you’re intentional about them.” [11:43]

“You can be happier than you currently are, [...] I think you can have success and happiness. I don’t think you have to choose between the two.” [24:02]

“Even if you’re consuming killer, uplifting, inspirational content all the time, even that’s problematic. You have to be able to sit with your own thoughts.” [32:23]

‘We’re so disconnected from our bodies and our innermost thoughts, we’re so up here in our head, moving forward, learning new things, consuming more and more and more that actually, we’re not listening to the signals that our body is sending us.” [36:58]

“We see the world through the state of our nervous system.” [39:49]

“Every single behavior in our life serves a role, it’s there for a reason, and often we try to change the behavior without understanding what role it plays in our life.” [58:17]

“Happiness, mental well being, the way you think about the world, [...] is more important than your lifestyle because many of our lifestyle behaviors or lifestyle choices are downstream consequences from the way that we see the world.” [1:04:20]

Follow Rangan Chatterjee:
Website: https://drchatterjee.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDnwlb3IQDPJtFysPUJbDFQ/videos
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrChatterjee/
Podcast: https://drchatterjee.com/blog/category/podcast/

It’s not ground breaking news that the world around you is super loud. Hearing your own thoughts and recognizing your own inner voice is near impossible if you don’t have a regular practice in place. With the right tools, the right resources and the right mindset you can turn down the external noise and increase your self-awareness.

Jay Shetty, former monk, best-selling author and podcast host, recommends that you start by changing your circle of people and refining your ‘why’. Having lived the life of a monk there are experiences and resources Jay shares that are super simple but serious work to implement.

Turning inward to become more self-aware and begin to develop the mental muscle you need to start forming your passion, your meaning and your purpose is a lot of work well worth the effort. Whether your passion is developed through pain or compassion, this episode is your sign to do the internal work needed to quiet society and chaos and learn from your higher self.

“I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.” -Charles Horton Cooley
Check out Jay Shetty’s book, Think Like A Monk:

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Jay Shetty
0:08 | Master Your Self Awareness
20:01 | Nobody Shares This Lesson
44:28 | Find Your Purpose
1:04:09 | To Think Like a Monk

QUOTES:

“Being able to reflect and observe the different voices inside of us is a great place to start your self-awareness because the biggest challenge for most of us is that we don’t know what we’re listening to.” [2:40]

“The problem is we have a list for the one that we want and we don’t have a list for what we need to become, and I don’t mean become to attract, I mean become to just be. Just get to know yourself.” [15:33]

“We think that when we’re full, we’re safe. Our ego makes us believe that when you’re full, when you think you know is all, that’s when you’re safe. The craziest thing is that’s when you are at your weakest.” [26:26]

“We need to have the awareness of developing the emotional skills that our parents didn’t have.” [32:33]

“The first step is just opening yourself up to new experiences and new role models.” [53:43]

“We live in this perception of a perception of ourselves, hence my identity is what my parents think I should be.” [54:28]

“Your passion is for you, your purpose is for others. Your passion makes you happy, but when you use your passion to make a difference in someone else’s life, that’s a service, that’s a purpose.” [1:03:52]

“You have to seek the love and the beauty in what you want in what you have now.” [1:13:38]

Follow Jay Shetty:
Website: https://jayshetty.me/
Podcast: https://jayshetty.me/podcast/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JayShettyIW/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jayshetty/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbV60AGIHKz2xIGvbk0LLvg

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Show Notes:

With talks of a global recession on the rise, there is no better time to put your growth mindset to work. Are you ready to revolutionize the way you think about money, inflation and the impending recession?

Chief Executive Money Nerd at Minority Mindset Companies from Punjab, India, Jaspreet Singh has been putting in the work to spread financial education and opportunity on YouTube for years. The goal of this episode is to get you to understand what money really is and give you the knowledge you need to change how you’re using it in your day to day life.

The majority of people will unfortunately continue to become poor and the harsh reality for many is that they won’t even see what’s happening in time if at all. We are dedicated to pulling people out of the matrix and helping them see that human potential is nearly limitless. That includes getting people to see the objective truth about the government's role in the financial system, who the Feds are, and how wealthy, financially educated people think and use money differently from poor, financially uneducated people.

Tom openly shares his example of how you can be a good entrepreneur and bad investor from not asking the right questions. You can start turning the tables and making better decisions to not just prepare for a potential recession, but to also start building real wealth. It’s all mindset, it’s a growth mindset and a minority mindset when you’re willing to learn and understand who your teachers are.

Check out Jaspreet’s Newsletter, Market Briefs: https://marketbriefs.com/

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Jaspreet Singh
0:35 | Why the Poor Stay Poor
17:03 | Thinking Differently About Money
30:45 | Save & Invest Money Smarter
44:14 | Building Wealth As A Minority
57:21 | 5 Places to Invest Money


QUOTES:

“The interesting thing about the Federal Reserve Bank is it’s called the Federal Reserve Bank, however it’s not federal, it says so on their website. They’re not a reserve, they don’t keep cash reserves anywhere. They’re not a bank! You and I can’t go there to deposit money.” [2:00]

“If you understand the system then you can use it to your advantage. If you don’t understand the systemI it is going to screw you over many, many times.” [2:23]

“Inflation is what causes the supply chain issues and now we’re trying to go backwards, but this is where the rich get rich and the poor get poorer...” [8:29]

“Inflation is a hidden tax, it’s a silent tax. It affects the people that don’t understand money, and it disproportionately affects the poor and the financially uneducated, [...] if you don’t understand this you’re going to get screwed over.” [13:53]

“I was dumb because I didn’t really care about risk, I never even looked at risk, for me it was opportunity, that’s all I saw. It was a way for me to get started.” [24:18]

“Everybody in America should be a business owner, however, not everybody should be in the business of starting a company and not everybody should be in the business of operating a company.” [28:42]

“I like to call it net zero thinking, where if I have cash I need to spend it, [...] it’s the consumer mindset of, if I have this money, I need to spend it.” [36:48]

“You’re never going to be able to out save inflation. Your savings are literally making you poorer each and every day.” [38:27]

“You have to be the one now to go out of your way to start learning this, and thank God for YouTube because now we’ve decentralized education.” [42:21]


Follow Jaspreet Singh:
Website: https://theminoritymindset.com/about-us/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT3EznhW_CNFcfOlyDNTLLw
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/minoritymindset/
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As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that. It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at http://impacttheory.com/discord

Big goals require DISCIPLINE. By it's very nature, discipline requires you to do hard things - and that is a skill you can LEARN. I'm teaching my process to build Ironclad Discipline in a new workshop - you can register at discipline.impacttheory.com!

The fountain of youth is a mythical spring that has been the basis of many Hollywood movies and cosmetic marketing campaigns! Our obsession with youth and being young forever has been the source of cosmetic surgery and endless stories of ‘back in my day’.

David Sinclair is a Professor in the Department of Genetics and co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging at Harvard Medical School. As a professor, scientific investigator and co-founder of multiple biotech companies, his knowledge with epigenetics and reverse aging is highly regarded among professional colleagues in the industry. He’s appeared on dozens of podcasts, written books, and hosts his own podcast, Lifespan. As a guest on Health Theory the conversations around reverse aging and biological clocks are more than enlightening.

Finding the root cause to aging and understanding how diet, exercise, and lifestyle choices impact our aging process puts the power of perspective and knowledge within your control. You don’t have to guess or hope for a mythical spring of magical water that holds the secret of youth. You can make a decision everyday to turn back the clock, slow the aging process, and reset your age.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to David Sinclair
0:12 | Daily Hacks to Slow Aging
28:50 | How to Reset Your Age
58:43 | This Causes Aging
1:32:23 | How to Understand Aging

QUOTES:

“80% of your longevity and health in old age is controllable and only 20% is dictated by your genes, the genome. The rest is your epigenome that responds to how we live [7:36]

“Our livers are much smarter than our eyes and our mouths…” [24:35]

“Anything that stresses your body, puts it into a state of shock is good in the long run.” [38:16]

“When I boiled it down to its essence I realized aging was a loss of information.” [1:01:58]

“That’s part of the problem with aging, which is genes getting turned on when they should be kept off for decades, and then cells start to get confused.” [1:14:17]

Follow David Sinclair:
Website: https://sinclair.hms.harvard.edu/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/davidsinclairpodcast
Podcast: https://anchor.fm/lifespan
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As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that.
It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at http://impacttheory.com/discord

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Show Notes:

Global recession is being talked about literally everywhere. Between the gas pump and groceries alone you can’t help but feel the tension rising.

Raoul Pal, a former hedge fund manager that retired at the age of 36, serial entrepreneur, and global macro investor expert is joining Tom for a second time to discuss the realities people need to be aware of to thrive in a global recession.

A word of wisdom he shares that was passed on to him is, “he who has cash in a recession is king.” The bottom line Raoul is openly sharing is that income and the ability to advance on opportunities makes all the difference.

“Buy when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.” - Nathan Rothschild

Having a solid work ethic, a strong (and maybe unreasonably optimistic) belief, coupled with income and the knowledge to look for moments of extreme weakness to buy and make moves, without leverage, against opportunities can get you to the other side of this crisis potentially better off than when it all began.

You get to decide what to focus on. Will it be the existential global crises or the opportunities most are too scared to see or take advantage of?

Recommended Reading:
William Strauss and Neil Howe, The Fourth Turning: https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-History-Americas-Rendezvous-ebook/dp/B001RKFU4I

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Raoul Paul
1:10 | The Makings of a Global Recession
12:30 | Money Market & Loanable Funds
21:00 | Debt and Leverage Explained
32:56 | Stopping the Economic Implosion
47:23 | Death of the American Dream
54:47 | Opportunity for Growth
1:09:36 | Thriving In Volatile Markets
1:18:39 | Changing Global Order
1:28:37 | How Raoul Increases His Options

QUOTES:

“Prices rising, inflation, is evil for our savings because the dollar in your bank account is worth less in a year’s time.” [3:03]

“As prices go up, the economy slows down [...] and therefore it becomes self regulating, and it becomes that because people are quite in debt.” [11:16]

“Leverage allows you to borrow future money to use now [...] We’re trying to meet the expectation of our future selves always, that’s what drives humans.” [22:11]

“This is what people don’t understand about leverage. You don’t own that thing, you only own it when you pay it off.” [26:35]

‘Everyone’s got debts cause we borrowed for our future selves.” [37:58]

“Humans have a propensity to borrow to create the image of this future self. [...] that dream we had in the 50s, that dream died decades ago, and to fund that dream, the mismatch between the dream and the reality is debt. Sometimes debt is not all bad. Sometimes it can help accelerate some of the things, but if you’re doing it to fund a dream that is never going to exist, that’s the danger.” [47:23]

“Focus on your income, work hard, look for other opportunities that can leverage that income and opportunity set that you’ve got for you, [...] look for investment opportunities that can change my life.” [57:51]

“You can’t be in it to win it if you’ve got leverage, or if you’re out of the market.” [1:05:52]

“Where are we in the volatility, and is this going to survive? [...] and if the long term trend is there, then you should be buying into all of this.” [1:13:18]

“Change is happening, and you can fear it, but you’re not going to stop it.” [1:25:53]

“Always out of bad times eventually is the good times, and it’s the same with investing. That cycle is pretty common, and it’s a very human trait.” [1:28:24]

Follow Raoul Paul:
Website: https://www.realvision.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raoulgmi/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBH5VZE_Y4F3CMcPIzPEB5A

As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that.
It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at impacttheory.com/discord!.

Big goals require DISCIPLINE. By it's very nature, discipline requires you to do hard things - and that is a skill you can LEARN. I'm teaching my process to build Ironclad Discipline in a new workshop - you can register at discipline.impacttheory.com

Have you ever realized that the very things that lead to success, purpose, and fulfillment are the things nearly everyone runs away from? Discomfort, hard work, uncomfortable situations and conversations, are the things that no one desires more of, and yet…

The ability to build a wildly successful and scalable business is within reach for nearly everyone reading this, and yet through self-selection on the few will do what needs to be done to rise to the top. Of the few that rise to the top, even fewer will do so feeling fulfilled in their life.

It takes much more than skills and relationships to be successful. It takes grit and determination to do the hard things. It requires you go through emotionally taxing, ego killing moments of failure, humility, and self-realization to become adaptable and become who you want to be.

In this keynote, Tom reveals the hard facts of entrepreneurship and what it takes to be in the 1%. “If you’re only good in the beginning you lack grit.” After watching this it’s time for a hard self-talk and challenge to yourself. It’s time for a no B.S. approach of what will it take to build yourself into the person you desire to be. Don’t underestimate what you are capable of, stop thinking too small and get uncomfortable.

Tom’s 6 Ways to Develop New Skills:
Always be reading
Open yourself up to change
What you believe is a choice
Be an eternal student
Become antifragile
Develop Grit

Resources Mentioned:
Poem, Richard Cory: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44982/richard-cory
David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: https://youtu.be/8CrOL-ydFMI
Tom’s Reading List: https://impacttheory.com/reading-list/

“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities - I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not - that one endures.” -Nietzche

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to The Journey Is the Win
0:22 | Entrepreneurs Survive Rock Bottom
9:12 | Connect to Purpose (Not Money)
16:41 | Develop Your Mindset First
24:16 | 6 Ways to Develop New Skills
37:13 | How to Develop Grit
46:16 | Identify Your Passion & Develop It
51:03 | Building a Scalable Business
1:01:29 | Value of Online Community
1:14:17 | Success Requires Clear Goals

QUOTES:

“Each and every one of you at some point in your life, you’re going to hit rock bottom. The question isn’t will you hit rock bottom? The question is what are you going to do with yourself when it happens?” [2:15]

The game you think you’re playing is money, but I promise, the game you’re actually playing is brain chemistry.” [4:36]

“I don’t care if you have a dream. I’m so uninterested in empty dreamers, I can’t see straight. What I care about? Do you have the fortitude to fail.” [8:00]

“Saving the world, doing the right thing, thinking about your customer, wanting them to win, wanting them to shine, wanting great things for your employees, it’s big f*cking business.” [15:35]

“I’m a grand fan of doing and believing that which moves you toward your goals.” [18:34]

“Everyone is your superior in some way, and once you learn to check your ego, sit at their feet with absolute humility and be open to their ideas, especially the one that contradicts what you believe today, then you’ll get somewhere” [26:06]

“Doing more work than anyone else is required for greatness” [50:16]

“Now you’re going to have to be transparent, now you’re going to have to tell people what you stand for, and the thing you stand for better be the creation of value.” [1:00:19]

“What’s going to keep people from losing faith in your company as you get bigger is feeling connected to a person.” [1:04:41]

“As much as you can be an early adopter, so much the better. It’s always the early adopters that win.” [1:09:51]


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My amazing and talented wife Lisa released her new book Radical Confidence, which you can order - and get the bonuses she’s created for you - at https://www.radicalconfidence.com. When you read this book, Lisa will teach you 10 No-BS Life Lessons to become the hero of your own life and take MASSIVE bold action to achieve your potential!

As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that.
It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at impacttheory.com/discord!.

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Along your journey to personal growth, success, and the pursuit of happiness you experience a broad range of emotions. Some days you’re up winning and on top of the world, while others days you can't even justify going on.

What is the standard you’re setting for yourself?

Being able to keep a promise to yourself may be one of the most important things you can ever do, and yet it’s something most of us struggle with. Instead of beating yourself down, learn the foundational skills and ideas you need to master to be able to change your life and extend your capacity for success.

“The only thing that matters is how you feel about yourself when you are by yourself.”
-Tom Bilyeu

Ed Mylett’s experience with his father isn’t the kind of experience people anticipate success to be on the other side of, yet he’s joining Tom for a second time to discuss the reason he wrote his new book, The Power of One More: The Ultimate Guide to Happiness and Success, following the loss of his father.

If you’re in a place struggling with reaching your true potential, meeting you highest self, and achieving greater levels of success, Ed shares why getting on the other side of your day to day inconveniences is the best path forward.

Change your relationship with pain and discomfort and stop allowing your shame and embarrassment to disqualify you from the life you were meant to live.

“As the island of my knowledge grows, so do the shores of my ignorance”
-John Archibald Wheeler

Pre-Order Ed Mylett’s new book, The Power of One More: https://www.amazon.com/Power-One-More-Ed-Mylett/dp/1119815363/

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Ed Mylett
1:05 | The One Thing to Turn It All Around
7:47 | Physical Transformation Is Life Changing
17:33 | Success with Kindness & Humility
23:44 | You’re Always One Away
31:40 | How to Manipulate Time For Success
36:32 | Appreciation for One More Day
42:03 | Greatness In Work & Life
48:46 | How to Create A Successful Life
53:56 | Change Your Emotional State

QUOTES:

“You’ve changed the standard of your life and you’ve built this superhuman type of self-confidence that I don’t only do what I say what I’m going to do, I do one more than I say I’m going to do and that’s something almost no one is willing to do so I ‘m going to get things almost nobody is going to get.” [2:06]

“There’s an insidious form of neglecting your children [...] it’s not pursuing your potential and your dreams [5:40]

“If I could transform the internal parts of me that the eternal results that I was going to produce would be that much more extraordinary.” [10:01]

“The truth is I’ve probably been successful in spite of the way I’ve treated myself, not because of it.” [11:41]

“Someone who never changes their mind, someone who never acknowledges that their wrong about something, is someone that I don’t really want to be around and spend a lot of time with…” [22:32]

“The mess you have in your life, the things you are most ashamed of and embarrassed by that you think are the most insignificant, that disqualify you the most are probably the very things that will qualify you to connect with another human being, [...] to change their life.” [28:48]

“I think success is that when your external life matches your vision for it, whatever that is.” [46:33]

“When you get to a peak state, link it to something physical.” [53:56]


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As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that.
It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at impacttheory.com/discord!.

So it’s safe to assume that you are likely having a biological experience. The external expectations involuntarily placed on you amount to pressure and loss of self-identity, values and beliefs. On the other hand, the internal expectations you willingly place on yourself can put you into a state of anxiety with doubts, disappointment and indecisiveness.

So take a step back from yourself for a moment and consider the number of decisions you passively make everyday while living a less than fulfilling life.

If you’re not happy with where you are, how you live, what you do, the money you make (or don’t make) and the success you wish for but never have, it comes down to indecisiveness and lack of action.

Mel Robbins is an American attorney, best selling author, motivational speaker, and straight shooter. She’s introduced two of the simplest tools anyone can use starting right now to go from autopilot to decision maker moving towards your dreams.

“I hope you have a massive a-ha moment, but it’s not going to mean shit if you don’t take action and do something about it.” This is Mel’s wish for you today. You can trick your brain to do what’s important and beat the habit loops that keep sabotaging you everyday.

It’s time for you to stop fighting for your excuses. Stop arguing against the dreams you want and wish for, and start making the decisions for better results day by day, hour by hour, and second, by second. It’s as easy as counting down, 5-4-3-2-1, and go!

Trick your brain to do what’s important and beat the habit loops that sabotage you everyday
Change yourself and gain the ability to start dealing with the problems you’re experiencing

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Mel Robbins
0:14 | Use This Rule Everyday
13:16 | Stop Living on Autopilot
25:00 | Confidence Is A Skill, Anxiety Is A Habit
32:18 | Don’t Waste Your Life
48:06 | Master Your Body & Mind
58:47 | Take Control By Doing This
1:12:37 | Build Desire & Get Inspired

QUOTES:

“You can truly trace every single problem or complaint in your life to silence and hesitation. Those are decisions.” [1:33]

“If you’re stuck that’s the problem. The problem is you’re in your head, you’re thinking. That is the universal problem, and it all starts with the knowledge of what to do and then you hesitate and you think about whether or not you feel like doing it.” [10:29]

“You have about a five second window in which you can move from idea to action before your brain kicks into full gear and sabotages any change in behavior.” [15:07]

“Confidence is the ability to move from thought to action because when you’re a confident person you believe enough in yourself and capabilities that you’re willing to try.” [26:08]
“People are making a fundamental mistake. You are withholding the very support, empowerment, and celebration that you need to change, and to do the hard work, and to face the things that you’re scared of, and that’s why you’re not changing.” [33:07]

“The thing about jealousy is that it’s just your inspiration that’s blocked. Jealousy is sort of the insecurity that you have that blocks this inspiration.” [46:58]

“Most folks know what they dream about and what they want, and yet they spend all of their time and energy arguing against what they want.” [1:13:58]

Follow Mel Robbins:
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My amazing and talented wife Lisa released her new book Radical Confidence, which you can order - and get the bonuses she’s created for you - at https://www.radicalconfidence.com. When you read this book, Lisa will teach you 10 No-BS Life Lessons to become the hero of your own life and take MASSIVE bold action to achieve your potential!

What does it mean to live a good life filled with purpose? Obviously, the answer can only be personal to your individual preferences, values, and beliefs, but are you consciously deciding the quality of your life?

Ryan Holiday is a best-selling author times 10, media strategist, influential speaker, and bookstore owner. He’s best known for his writings on ancient stoic philosophy and its application for everyday life. The New York Times credited Ryan for the increasing popularity of stoicism.

In this discussion, Ryan shares his thoughts and lessons learned about how he came to see what living a good life is for him. Questioning the things you give your time and energy over is the beginning for any of us that want to unpack what we’re doing, who we’re doing it for, and how it adds value with meaning to us. It’s not enough to be a human doing any and everything without intention and clarity. Ryan points out that it's better to learn and practice what it is to just be a human “being.”

If the day to day mindless actions of work, preparing dinner, and stressing over getting more clients to increase your revenue is part of your reality, then taking this time to thing through what the right goal is for your to focus on and what you want out of life may be the most important moment in your life thus far.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Ryan Holiday
0:25 | How to Live A Good Life
10:35 | Choosing The Right Goal
15:35 | What You Want Is What You Value
21:42 | Time Between Stimulus and Response
28:20 | Using Feedback Effectively
34:26 | Check Your Ego for Success
43:03 | Get Out of Your Way
46:13 | Defining Success for Ryan

QUOTES:

“We seem to have a limitless capacity to steal time from ourselves.” [2:49]

“We protect our physical space much more than we protect our time, even though physical space can be regained and time can never be regained.” [3:15]

“If you think that action is the end all be all, you end up doing action for the sake of doing action, [...] sometimes you’re just supposed to just be.” [4:24]

“It’s this balance. Once you’ve arrived, the thing that got you there is now in some ways your worst enemy.” [8:18]

“Where ego comes in is like we've got the things that impress other people, and then the real meaningful impact that we're trying to have.” [12:12]

“What do people do with their money? They buy freedom, but oftentimes, they give up freedom to get money. [17:47]

“It's about sort of cultivating an awareness, and a process of continual reflection on the data that your life is creating all the time.” [23:39]

“You're not trying to get to perfection right now. You're just trying to get a little bit better than you were yesterday or an hour ago.” [25:16]

“If you're trying to be everything for everyone, and you read feedback, you're just going to get more lost.” [31:45]

“If I'm going to use my emotions, I want to be calm internally, but projecting the emotional response that's going to be effective in that situation, but I don't want to be jerked around by those emotions unconsciously.” [40:30]

"We have a limitless capacity to steal time from ourselves." Tom Bilyeu

Follow Ryan Holiday:
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To learn more about Web3, Impact Theory has created a free resource for all that are interested. You are welcome to explore and learn with us as we continue to grow: https://web3u.impacttheory.com/

As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that. It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at impacttheory.com/discord!

By now you may be aware of bitcoin’s origin story that begins following the 2008 financial crisis. The essence of cryptocurrency continues to evolve with every new blockchain technology. It’s an innovative space being fueled with unprecedented energy. In the midst of so many innovations on blockchain, bitcoin continues to stand as a storehouse of value that no other cryptocoin has been able to compete with.

Muneeb Ali is a Pakistani computer scientist with a PhD in computer science from Princeton, co-founder and CEO of Trust Machines. He is co-founded the Stacks project, a unique programming software created to be smart contract layer that sits on top of bitcoin minus the tension. Muneeb is CEO of Hiro, a developer tooling company.

In this conversation Muneeb and Tom discuss the unique attributes that allow bitcoin to stand high above the rest and the likeliness of its usability in a practical marketplace. This is about a deeper understanding to what is incentivizing blockchain, why it’s drawing in so many people, and its implications to web 3.0

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Muneeb Ali
1:24 | Web 3.0 Explained
6:06 | Decentralized Blockchain
12:58 | Bitcoin’s Incentive Structure
22:01 | Sound Money Revolution
36:05 | DeFi Money Market
47:11 | Crypto Marketplace
55:55 | Future of Crypto Regulation
58:44 | Bitcoin, Smart Contracts, & Stacks
1:13:20 | Bitcoin Usability & Predictions
1:26:44 | Onboarding Cities into Web 3.0

QUOTES:

“It’s like a trustless system that just works without having any central point of control and that’s the key thing that a lot of people get confused about.” [9:13]

“An NFT is not a picture, it’s a picture with matrix code hidden inside of it.” Tom Bilyeu [21:04]

“It’s like open source technology that created money that is not controlled by anyone, and that type of thing has never existed in our society…” [23:04]

“DeFi has 100% visibility into what risk exists in the market and how it’s going to work.” [38:25]

“It’s abundantly clear now to me, especially in the last couple of years, that the rate at which this industry is evolving, regulators just can’t keep up.” [56:17]

“If something is not truly decentralized you’re losing the best property that these systems bring, and bitcoin is by far the most decentralized blockchain out there.” [1:01:49]

“What this is allowing to happen at a financial level is you’re giving me the incentive to learn this and put energy into it.” Tom Bilyeu [1:05:19]

“The only thing that people need to understand about Stacks is that it is simply a two-layer solution on top of bitcoin, so there’s no tension between a money layer and a smart contract layer.” [1:08:05]

Follow Muneeb Ali:
Website: https://muneeb.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/muneeb

Permeable blood brain barrier and gut barrier connected to inflammation and autoimmunity diseases is enough to make anyone’s head spin.

Dealing with these health conditions can be frightening and endless. Your body’s reaction to proteins and your immune response can be highly frustrating when you’re being instructed to follow “protocols” and standards of treatment.

If you or someone you love has felt betrayed living a standard healthy lifestyle only to fall prey to gut issues, autoimmune disease and declining cognition, you’re not alone.

Dr. Datis Kharrazian is a world-renowned functional medicine health care provider. He specializes in managing chronic diseases, autoimmunity and neurological problems. He treats his patients with non-pharmaceuticals, and is in extremely high demand from patients and other healthcare professionals wanting to learn his clinical models.

In this episode, Dr. Kharrazian is addressing the flaw with medical treatments that over standardize what people are experiencing and the causes. He’s explaining why giving blanket treatments and protocols can cause patients far worse health conditions than where they started.

Check out Dr. Kharrazian’s book, Why Isn’t My Brain Working: https://amzn.to/3wvDplt

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Datis Kharrazian
0:37 | Do You Have Leaky Brain?
4:15 | The Problem with Gluten
16:48 | How Autoimmune Disease Happens
25:37 | Avoid These Foods
32:22 | Prevent Brain Disease
39:57 | Do This To Stay Healthy
51:10 | Push Neurological Limits


QUOTES:

“The same inflammatory oxidative stress mechanisms that break down the gut barrier can also break down the blood brain barrier.” [2:20]

“We’re all at risk for developing autoimmune disease, and the rates of autoimmune disease now exceed cancer and cardiovascular disease combined.” [20:33]

“The more diverse your gut bacteria microbiome is, the more immune regulation you have, the greater tolerance you have, and things like exercise improves gut microbiome diversity.” [32:00]

“I do not have a protocol. I think protocols are inefficient.” [42:09]

“Stress when it’s controlled and it’s past a person’s abilities, can be devastating to the brain.” [46:35]

“Whatever you can’t do, you do! That’s a simple concept of neurological rehab.” [52:24]

“The brain needs stimulation, the brain needs glucose, the brain needs oxygen, that’s what it has to have to thrive.” [57:10]


Follow Datis Kharazian:
Website: https://drknews.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgTTDpIy3DrhmKiP22BOEyQ
Twitter: https://twitter.com/drkharrazian
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datiskharrazian/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/datiskharrazianpage/
Podcast: https://drknews.com/podcasts/

My amazing and talented wife Lisa released her new book Radical Confidence, which you can order - and get the bonuses she’s created for you - at https://www.radicalconfidence.com. When you read this book, Lisa will teach you 10 No-BS Life Lessons to become the hero of your own life and take MASSIVE bold action to achieve your potential!

As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that.
It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at impacttheory.com/discord!

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As Web 3 and NFTs continue to dominate conversations everywhere from Capitol Hill, to music record labels, to Twitter spaces, podcasts and so much more, we are still too early to see what’s really possible in Web 3.

Tom recently attended the NFT L.A. conference , which was a powerhouse event with some heavy hitters in the NFT space, artists, influencers, and creators all excited for Web 3, NFTs and metaverse.

This was the moment of the big reveal, Tom’s first public reveal of what was formerly known as Project Avatar. He talks about the differences between growing an audience on social media and building a collaborative community around NFT culture as he takes Impact Theory studios into the future.

Part of this journey is introducing new comers, NFT-curious peeps, and enthusiasts by creating a space and platform to help people learn and tap into their nearly limitless human potential in life and in the Web 3 side.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction
2:13 | Defining Web3
3:47 | Wallet Aware Gaming Experience
7:03 | Impact Theory’s NFT Standard
13:33 | Unreal NFT Possibilities
17:04 | Growing an NFT Community
23:29 | Web3 Changes
29:34 | Keep Your Edutainment
31:31 | Introducing Project Kyzen

QUOTES:

“They’re called wallets, but that’s really a pretty big misnomer, and if we’re going to stick with it, it’s wallets with more than money.” [2:58]

“I think it’s these wallet aware, highly interactive, customized game-like experiences.” [6:48]

“Unreal engine is named appropriately. It is the most unreal piece of technology you’re going to encounter. It will allow you to drag and drop your way to a video game.” [14:52]

“We’re really building with a focus on making sure that our community can co-create with us.” [19:19]

“That is the nature of change. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then finally they accept defeat.” [24:32]

“Man you can keep your edutainment.” [29:42]

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My amazing and talented wife Lisa released her new book Radical Confidence, which you can order - and get the bonuses she’s created for you - at https://www.radicalconfidence.com. When you read this book, Lisa will teach you 10 No-BS Life Lessons to become the hero of your own life and take MASSIVE bold action to achieve your potential!

Given all of the possibilities we have living in a modern society, people still struggle with feeling lost, unhappy, and unfulfilled.

It’s even been reported that American unhappiness hit a record low early this year. If you do a climate check with the people in your life and your social media pages, it’s not hard to see that sadly behind some of the smiles, there’s a feeling of unhappiness in the air.

Arthur C. Brooks is the William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. He’s discussing why he felt called to explore and research the human experience and model of what actually brings us happiness.

If money, fame, power, and pleasure doesn’t bring permanent happiness, then what does? How can you ensure a trajectory of life that leads to happiness and fulfillment?

Check out Arthur’s latest book, From Strength to Strength: https://www.amazon.com/Strength-Finding-Success-Happiness-Purpose/dp/059319148X/

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Arthur Brooks
0:44 | Lost and Unhappy with life
10:57 | The Model of Happiness
19:16 | The Curve of Intelligence
26:30 | Being Entrepreneurial
30:54 | Becoming Fully Alive
43:35 | Chasing the Happiness Idol
53:46 | Truthful to Yourself
58:02 | Polarity of Values & Fear
1:13:11 | Happiness & Affect Profiles
1:20:28 | Motive Attribution





QUOTES:

“The essence of consciousness is one that gives you incredible transcendental information, but at the same time, it programs in a whole lot of misery.” [1:36]

“People who have the earliest success, the mind blowing success, they're the most likely to be unsatisfied with their lives at the end of their lives.” [16:35]

“The ultimate entrepreneurial experience is to give away your heart and to take a chance, [...] Fall in love. That's entrepreneurship.” [26:30]

“Humans are not intended to decline. Decline is hugely painful because happiness comes from progress. Unhappiness comes from regress.” [30:54]

“The falling tide of your life looks like you're losing everything, get your line in the water, because that's the most fertile period of your life.” [35:44]

“Deciding that I lived in a world where brain plasticity was real was me saying, I live in a friendly universe” Tom Bilyeu [40:45]

“Happiness and unhappiness are not opposites. They're not. They're different experiences.” [47:11]

“Money, for instance, is more powerful than people think, not less, but it isn't what you've been told.”Tom Bilyeu [50:50]

“If you're denied the flow state that uniquely comes to you through creativity, you're gonna you're gonna be practically suicidal.” [53:10]

“Love is the opposite of fear, love will actually neutralize inappropriate fear or excessive fear.” [59:08]

“To respect the friction, you have to understand that either one, if we only had one spirals into madness, and it is only in the friction,[...] that you sharpen your ideas.” Tom Bilyeu [1:06:51]

“You can be in permanent disagreement, but in love equilibrium, we just have to be people that can do that.” [1:11:30]

“You got to figure out which one you are and you must surround yourself with what you're not” [1:14:05]

Follow Arthur Brooks:
Website: https://arthurbrooks.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/arthurbrooks
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arthurcbrooks/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArthurBrooks/

My amazing and talented wife Lisa released her new book Radical Confidence, which you can order - and get the bonuses she’s created for you - at https://www.radicalconfidence.com. When you read this book, Lisa will teach you 10 No-BS Life Lessons to become the hero of your own life and take MASSIVE bold action to achieve your potential!

As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that.
It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at impacttheory.com/discord!

Is aging gracefully and being healthy in your old age a goal or something that’s nice to hope for with no real expectations? If you search for tips on how to age gracefully, you get tips for how to be more mindful, be more forgiving, stay curious, keep learning, and more. You’ll find a few tips around staying physically active, but you don’t see a lot of advice (if any) on building muscle, getting in the gym, hitting the weights, and putting your body under stress.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon began her 20+ year career in geriatric medicine and palliative care. In her observations and studies on people in declining physical and mental health she became passionately aware of the missed opportunity in the medical community. Chronic diseases commonly associated with aging such as Alzheimers, cardiac disease, and diabetes, were being studied without addressing the underlying source that’s contributing to the problems, deteriorating skeletal muscle.

By the end of this episode, if you’re not convinced on the power of muscle building you may want to rewatch. Whether you are male or female, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, or older, everyone needs to be invested in building muscle tissue to age gracefully and have a better quality of life. Healthy aging isn’t just about maintaining mental cognition with a failing body, it’s about having quality interactions and the physical ability to stand, walk, and travel without the fear of falling or being dependent on everyone for everything.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Gabrielle Lyon
0:14 | Focus on Resistance Training
13:06 | The 1st Meal of the Day Right
19:26 | Muscle-Centric Protection to Aging
34:17 | How to Reverse Aging
58:02 | Reduce the Fat Storage
1:08:41 | Build Muscle & Don’t Lose It

QUOTES:

“If you eat food that is subthreshold to that 2.5g of leucine you will be skinny fat…” [2:42]

“The wider the waistline the lower the brain volume.” [23:19]

“Lifestyle, choices midlife, having access to the right information changes the trajectory of aging.” [23:41]

“Muscle is a nutrient sensing organ.” [34:26]

“In the literature high quality protein is defined by amino acid content. It’s not a negotiable nebulous concept; these are hard fast biological numbers.” [36:47]

“When we’re talking about the general population, typically people don't have a good solid foundational muscular base.” [43:33]

“Everybody’s focused on adiposity, everybody’s focusing on insulin resistance, and if you care about root causes you have to care about skeletal muscle.” [45:22]

“You have to train hard, [...] you have to get the stress in. The body thrives under stress, [...] your body requires physical stress.” [56:34]

“When we are older, 30s, 40s, we are now no longer driven by hormones. We are now driven by dietary sensing mechanisms.” [57:27]

“You have to get the foundational piece right up front, and that is high quality training is a non-negotiable, and number two, high quality proteins.” [57:50]

“If you want to survive, the more muscle you have the more likely you’ll survive.” [1:05:53]

“Obesity, diabetes, Alzheimers, cardiovascular disease, these are pathologies. These are metabolic pathologies that can be corrected by having healthy muscle tissue.” [1:08:27]

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So how many Instagram posts and YouTube videos have influenced your vision of fitness, overall health, and proper diet? How many have you tried that left you frustrated and pissed off? Probably too many to count or recall. We’re bombarded with misinformation about fitness, exercise, and diet at nauseum. It’s not getting you or anyone closer to the results you really desire, and it almost makes the results you want a bit unclear and confusing.

Sal DiStefano is no newcomer to the fitness scene. By the age of 19 he was already general manager at a local gym. Unfortunately for him, but lucky for you and all of his clients since, he had a health scare of his own from an autoimmune disorder which resulted in him losing 15 pounds of muscle! Sal refocused and started learning more about gut health, hormone health and how to prioritize health over appearance.

His book, The Resistance Training Revolution, breaks down fitness misconceptions that social media and bad diet fads are flooding you with. In this episode, break through the idea of relying on cardio to burn those extra calories and start realizing the amazing benefits strength training offers your body. Stop training just to lose weight fast and look good, and make the mindset shift to start approaching diet and exercise for the right reasons, so it becomes lifelong and sustainable.

Check out Sal DiStefano’s book, The Resistance Training Revolution: https://amzn.to/3OvyaJC

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Sal DiStefano
0:43 | How to Burn Belly Fat
6:36 | Train Your Body to Burn More Calories
13:06 | Benefits of Strength Training
21:54 | The Problem with Running
28:48 | Find the Right Exercise for Your
43:24 | Watch Your Hormones
52:33 | How to Eat Intuitively

QUOTES:

“The average person has been told to value exercise, mainly by its calorie burn, and that's so wrong because the amount of calories you burn while you exercise is actually the least important thing.” [3:54]

“Strength training is the most consistent way to raise testosterone, [...] in men” [14:30]

“Strength training has been shown to be one of the most effective ways to stop or halt the progression of the beta amyloid plaques that are so associated with Alzheimer's” [15:31]

“Because we can't just pop the exercise pill, people leave the most obvious solution on the table.” [17:09]

“When it comes to improving all health metrics, mental, psychological, and physical, as you follow along, as you continue the process, it gets better and better. There's no medication that does that at all.” [18:46]

“Don't go to the gym and workout, go to the gym and practice these exercises and try to get good at these exercises.” [24:33]

“If we judge exercise by the people that perform it at the highest level, we're also looking at people who genetically were born to also perform at very high levels.” [25:52]

“The extreme bodies are not healthy. Those are extreme performers, like a top NBA player or football player or athlete is not optimally healthy. They're just incredible at performance.” [29:00]

“Good, full range of motion, appropriate and balanced strength is what prevents pain. It's what makes your joints move optimally…” [32:26]

“Properly, applying strength training, and appropriate strength training, makes you bulletproof to pain you move better…” [33:06]

“Moving the body and train the muscles In a way that is appropriately strenuous in different planes of motion, it trains the brain and keeps your brain's ability to do those types of things, youthful and effective.” [41:05]

“Most people in modern societies have never really felt hungry, [...] what we connect hunger to was actually cravings. Cravings are very different than hunger.” [55:51]

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My amazing and talented wife Lisa is releasing her new book Radical Confidence, which you can preorder - and get the bonuses she’s created for you - at https://www.radicalconfidence.com. When you read this book, Lisa will teach you 10 No-BS Life Lessons to become the hero of your own life and take MASSIVE bold action to achieve your potential!

As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that.
It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at impacttheory.com/discord!

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Some of life’s experiences are not exclusive to color, race, or sex. Feeling stuck, unhappy in a situation, and having uncertainty and fear around how to navigate through it or remain in it is something nearly everyone can identify with.

Knowing how to get yourself out of the situations that make you feel small is challenging. The mindset that keeps you from succeeding in a life you only dream of is something that can be changed, but where do you begin?

Lisa Bilyeu, President of Impact Theory, creator and host of Women of Impact is with hubby, Tom Bilyeu, sharing exactly how she took herself from a stay-at-home super supportive wife to ultra-successful serial entrepreneur. In her new book, Radical Confidence, Lisa shares her struggles with life’s plans taking a wrong turn, struggling with confidence, and going after a life that truly mattered to her.

For Lisa, being backed against the wall in these do or die circumstances forced her to have the difficult but honest conversations with herself about what she wanted, who she wanted to become, and how she was going to get there. The alternative was not an outcome Lisa was willing to accept. She’s built a heck of a toolkit along the way to becoming courageous and confident as f*ck in her bad b*ch boots. There are major gems here for anyone no matter where you are in your journey.

Lisa reminds us to embrace the beauty of you, be compassionate, and be sensitive, but never to the detriment of losing yourself.


SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Lisa Bilyeu
1:08 | Fear Just Needs a Plan
4:23 | Good Plans Take a Wrong Turn
11:15 | Getting Unstuck
18:39 | How Lisa Developed Tools of Success
25:33 | Courage to Dream Your Own Dream
32:02 | Make Your Mission Possible
42:28 | Activate Your Bad B*tch Boots
49:39 | No Pressure, But Toughen The F*ck Up
58:19 | Validate Yourself & Your Own Success
1:04:20 | Messages For Lisa Bilyeu


QUOTES:

“You can freaking convince yourself of why you’re doing something every single day, and that’s the problem.” [6:34]

“We talk a lot about gratitude, [...] The problem is, it kept me there because I kept using gratitude as a thing to go to every time I felt sad...” [8:27]

“The messiness of thinking about the negative voice in my head that’s always mean to me. It's just a messy situation of, how on Earth do you stop her from being so cruel, so that you can take those steps forward. [24:52]

“The thing that's pulling my heart is helping people, and I think I got that because I ended up stumbling into it. So, I think anyone that maybe doesn't have a mission, you just got to try stuff.” [33:34]

“What is that thing that is going to pull at your heartstrings that is going to get you to keep going, and if you don't have that you have to try a bunch of things until you figure it out.” [34:01]

“The negative mindset of, who the hell do I think I am, is always there, but I just don't let her stop me, and I use her now to my advantage to help me get to where I want to go.” [49:18]

“When you ask yourself these questions, you can't put the pressure on yourself about the judgment [and] the shame of what will come from answering, you just need the truth.” [50:49]

“I want to be light, but not to the detriment of my frickin goal. So you better believe I gotta get tough, I got to set boundaries, I've got to really own what I want…” [52:11]

“You can have the beauty of being compassionate and having a heart and caring about what you do. And you can also be frickin tough as nails…” [53:19]

Follow Lisa Bilyeu:
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My amazing and talented wife Lisa is releasing her new book Radical Confidence, which you can preorder - and get the bonuses she’s created for you - at https://www.radicalconfidence.com. When you read this book, Lisa will teach you 10 No-BS Life Lessons to become the hero of your own life and take MASSIVE bold action to achieve your potential!

As you know, it’s my mission to help teach you how to build the MINDSET and SKILLS that will help you live an extraordinary life - and over the last few months I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to help create a brand-new tool that will help you do that.
It’s called Kyzen - and I am proud to announce that I will be bringing it to the world later this year to challenge you to empower yourself and accomplish greater things in life. To learn more, join my Discord at impacttheory.com/discord!

To learn more about Web3, Impact Theory has created a free resource for all that are interested. You are welcome to explore and learn with us as we continue to grow: https://web3u.impacttheory.com/

If the allure of social media is connection, then the allure of the metaverse will be social experiences in a virtual world like never seen before. It’s likely you’ve heard that a confused mind says, no and in this very special episode Mark Zuckerberg joins Tom to share his thoughts around what the metaverse can potentially do for social connection and community.

The unchartered territory of building a metaverse economy leaves the door wide open to what Mark calls an immersive internet that will change gaming and how and where you are able to work. Building technology in a space that hasn’t been created is no easy feat, yet Mark Zuckerberg, who needs no introduction, has been doing this for nearly two decades.

Even if you’ve yet to explore metaverse, virtual reality, and NFTs, Mark’s insights to how he’s been building one of the largest companies on the planet is a business class unto itself. This is also a great look into the possible use cases and the direction this innovative technology will grow within the next several years.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Mark Zuckerberg
1:22 | Making the Metaverse Reality
11:00 | Defining the Immersive Internet
15:26 | Roadmap for Meta
22:52 | NFT Altered Experiences
37:44 | A.I. in Metaverse / 3924
42:44 | Metaverse Economy and Business Models
44:56 | Meta’s Approach to Decentralization
49:43 | Rebranding Facebook
57:30 | Confident Even With Pushback


Meta NFT announcement at a glance:

Starting this week we’ll begin testing Digital Collectibles on Instagram, which will allow a small group of U.S. creators and collectors to share NFTs on Instagram that they have created or bought. In the future, we will also roll out Digital Collectibles on Facebook and allow people to display and share their digital collectibles as AR stickers in Instagram Stories, bringing the benefits of this technology to even more creators and collectors.


Details on how digital collectibles will work:

Creators and collectors in this test group will be able to post NFTs that they created or own on Instagram by linking third-party digital wallets in-app.

NFTs displayed on the app will receive a special ‘shimmer’ visual treatment and both the creator and owner of the NFT will be attributed for the content.

Starting at launch, the blockchains that are supported include Ethereum and Polygon, with Flow and Solana coming soon.

The third-party wallets compatible for use at launch will include Rainbow, MetaMask, and Trust Wallet, with Coinbase and Dapper coming soon.

There will be no fees associated with posting or sharing a digital collectible on Instagram.

Soon, we will roll out digital collectibles on Facebook, and will also soon allow people to display and share their digital collectibles as AR stickers in Instagram Stories, bringing the benefits of this technology to even more creators and collectors.


Mark on NFTs as a form of expression:

"I think our whole thrust as a company is around helping people connect and communicate. Part of communication is your exchanging information, but a lot of it is signaling and expression and kind of saying something about yourself and trying to find like-minded people and form communities and express your values… And I think that there's no reason to think that will be any different in digital spaces. That's a lot of what early social networks started off as, and I think that they've become more sophisticated in terms of helping people express and share and kind of project the expression that they want. But when I think about NFTs in the metaverse, I think if you're spending a lot of time [in the metaverse] – whether it's working in VR if a fair amount of your meetings are happening in virtual reality in the metaverse. Or, as a hologram sitting there with someone, then you're going to care about what you look [like] there. And, you're probably not going to want to wear the same thing every day, right? So you're probably going to have a collection of clothing and digital objects, just like you have clothing in the physical world. And you're going to want that clothing to be meaningful and express something about you. So you're not just gonna want it to be generic, like a lot of these early systems. What color shirt do you want? Which designer made it? Which creator made it? That's going to be meaningful. And I think that that needs a whole format for commerce. And I think NFTs are going to be a really important part of that."

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My amazing and talented wife Lisa is releasing her new book Radical Confidence, which you can preorder - and get the bonuses she’s created for you - at https://www.radicalconfidence.com. When you read this book, Lisa will teach you 10 No-BS Life Lessons to become the hero of your own life and take MASSIVE bold action to achieve your potential!

How you react to situations that spark strong responses, good or bad, can feel uncontrollable and much like a knee jerk reaction. How often are you sitting with yourself to observe the emotions you experience when you’re feeling triggered? Are you creating enough distance in time to allow yourself the space to analyze your reaction to the trigger?

Robert Greene is an author and psychologist that is well known and respected for his best-selling books on strategies, power, and seduction. This episode is your go to for all things Robert Greene as he delves into everything from what to do with your dark side and how to leverage that dark energy to the power of self reflection and the nature of language and non verbal languages. Robert discusses with Tom the practical ways to source motivation for real change, and how to live with the joy and bliss of being intune with self and your own nature.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Robert Greene
0:14 | The Goal in Life for Success
22:31 | Master Your Primal Nature
43:39 | Train for Joy Instead of Hoping
1:14:00 | Why Power is Crucial
1:36:42 | Understand the Reality
2:00:11 | Understand Your Environment
2:21:22 | Live in the Sublime
2:44:44 | Be Okay With Change
3:03:01 | Overcome Your Obstacles


QUOTES:

“The brain is like a landscape. It's like a landscape out in the world that you see, [...] You create that landscape yourself, you create the brain that you have, by the degree of how you're open to experience…” [21:46]

“My worry is that people are so immersed in their smartphones and their technology that they don't understand people...” [27:15]

“Question yourself. Stop assuming that everything you do is so brilliant and smart, and so right.” [34:21]

“As people talk, and they use words to conceal what they're thinking, their bodies reveal what they're actually thinking behind the words…” [41:34]

“Usually the people who think power is a dirty word are the people who are the most manipulative and passive aggressive.” [1:14:54]

“I'm trying to tell people that dark side contains incredible creative energy, incredible motivating power [...] when you get up in the morning, and use it, don't be afraid of it.” [1:36:27]

“We're so embedded in language that we think everything in terms of what people say, but unconsciously without even realizing it. We're continually judging people on their nonverbal behavior.” [1:39:16]

“Social media, for all the good that it does makes it very hard to be self reflective.” [1:57:40]

“If you can't, you know, take Brett breaks from social media, from your Instagram account, from Facebook, from Twitter, then you're a prisoner of it.” [2:17:29]

“What seems to be anarchic and ugly and awful in the moment does end up serving a higher purpose, because we need dynamism in our culture, we need change.” [2:48:19]

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My amazing and talented wife Lisa is releasing her new book Radical Confidence, which you can preorder - and get the bonuses she’s created for you - at https://www.radicalconfidence.com. When you read this book, Lisa will teach you 10 No-BS Life Lessons to become the hero of your own life and take MASSIVE bold action to achieve your potential!

Let’s take this from the beginning. By now you’re at least vaguely familiar with cryptocurrency and you’ve likely seen Bitcoin make its way to the major media news channels. Now its time to start wrapping your head around Web3. What is it? What will I need to interact with it? How will Web3 impact my day to day life?

Tom is taking Impact Theory into Web3 and believes education is the key for everyone. To make sure this knowledge is accessible to everyone, this Q &A is dedicated to answering your questions about Web3 and demystifying some of the more complex ideas around Web 3, blockchain, and NFT gaming.

A few key reminders for you as you enter this space and do your research:
This is the future of the world your kids are growing up in
You have to have guardrails around how you spend your time learning these things
Be hyper paranoid and very thoughtful about what links you click on, scammers are everywhere!

To learn more about Web3, Impact Theory has created a free resource for all that are interested. You are welcome to explore and learn with us as we continue to grow: https://web3u.impacttheory.com/

Suggested Reading:
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline: https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307887448

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Q&A
0:39 | Start Building Web3 Skills
6:06 | What is a Blockchain?
8:34 | Value of Virtual Assets
13:51 | NFT Interactive Experiences
23:23 | Web3 FOMO & Life Balance
27:34 | Web3 Impact & Change
32:17 | What is Sandbox Metaverse?
35:49 | Why Unreal Engine Stands Out
42:53 | Web3 for Web Designers
45:07 | Web3 Safety
47:22 | Connecting Defi to Web3
49:49 | Longevity of NFTs and Blockchain

QUOTES:

“I knew if I could understand what the technology actually was, what it did, I would be able to better predict where things are going, and once you can predict, then you can do something novel.” [1:23]

“The things that I certainly collect, I would rather have a digital version of that than a physical version of that.” [9:55]

“Immutable blockchain authenticating virtual goods which gives virtual goods as much value as physical goods. That’s the world that you’re living in. That’s the world that your kids are going to grow up in and take for granted.” [18:21]

“...people are so afraid they are going to miss the next big thing that they’re just constantly in this death loop of checking...” [24:28]

“Just like social media was a double edged sword, so is web3, and people need to be extraordinarily protective of their mental health.” [24:47]

“If you’re winning at Impact Theory’s project Kyzen’s gamification then you should be winning in real life.” [26:05]

“When you can actually prove that somebody owns something, the whole world opens up.” [32:06]

“The blockchain itself is pretty safe, but man, scammers go hard, so you need to be really careful.” [45:19]

“Humans make mistakes and so each of us are our own vulnerability, and so I won’t lie. I sweat over web3 safety.” [45:47]

“Web3 to me is about ownership and participation.” [48:33]

“Only invest what you can afford to have go to zero.” [52:14]

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My amazing and talented wife Lisa is releasing her new book Radical Confidence, which you can preorder - and get the bonuses she’s created for you - at https://www.radicalconfidence.com. When you read this book, Lisa will teach you 10 No-BS Life Lessons to become the hero of your own life and take MASSIVE bold action to achieve your potential!

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Given the stress of the global environment we are living through. Daily threats to our finances, freedom, and relationships, people are living on edge and tensions are high. Outburst at home during family time slips more often and road rage is becoming common behavior. Tensions are high and with that comes heightened emotional responses.

Leonard Mlodinow is an American physicist, screenplay writer, and a five time NY Times best selling author. He and Tom discuss the context of being emotional and understanding how feelings shape our thoughts and our actions from his latest book, Emotional, How Feeling Shape Our Thinking. Leonard reveals the importance of knowing your emotional tendencies, how to regulate your emotions and make conscious decisions for a better emotional response. If you’ve ever thought people were either emotional thinkers or rational, this conversation is going to open your mind to a much bigger picture.

Check out Leonard Mlodinow’s book, Emotional, How Feeling Shape Our Thinking: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B091PJ8BSJ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Leonard Mlodinow
1:45 | Emotions and Rational Thought
11:03 | Emotional Reactions
19:25 | Emotional Northstar
32:11 | Mind Body Connection to Emotion
42:03 | Emotional Tendencies & Malleability
46:44 | Wanting Things Vs. Liking Things
59:39 | Free Will and Determination

QUOTES:

“Emotions go hand and hand with rational thinking. There is no rational thinking without emotion. If you think at any point, ‘I’m thinking purely objectively and rationally without any emotion's, you're just wrong.” [3:54]

“Every thought that you have is influenced by your emotions.” [6:35]

“Each emotion is a state of calculation.” [14:09]

“If you don’t want to feel that anger there’s something you can do about it. That anger comes from an appraisal, [...] to reappraise it, you tell yourself a different story.” [17:59]

“You want to look for an interpretation of what happened that is both true and optimistic.” Tom Bilyeu [32:53]

“Liking is a little less direct than wanting. Liking makes you want, makes you do it. Wanting makes you do it directly.” [50:21]

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My amazing and talented wife Lisa is releasing her new book Radical Confidence, which you can preorder - and get the bonuses she’s created for you - at https://www.radicalconfidence.com. When you read this book, Lisa will teach you 10 No-BS Life Lessons to become the hero of your own life and take MASSIVE bold action to achieve your potential!

Dr. Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist who continues educating audiences about brain development, brain plasticity and the inner workings of dopamine. He’s showing people how to hack their behaviors and rewire their thinking for optimal performance and outcomes.

Consider this episode a masterclass on all things dopamine. Dr. Huberman takes the complication out of neuroscience and simplifies how dopamine is tied to motivation, craving, and even perception of time. One of the many takeaways in the episode is that idea that small incremental steps towards a bigger outcome and purpose is worth celebrating if you want to get the benefit of dopamine rewards. Dopamine isn’t necessarily about huge wins and achieving big goals. It’s about the pursuit and craving of those goals. It’s about enjoying the journey and not just focusing on the destination or result. The information Dr. Huberman is unpacking here is going to be significant to anyone in pursuit of a highly successful and meaningful life.


SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Andrew Huberman
0:28 | Spike Dopamine for Motivation
25:09 | Break Addiction to Negative Thoughts
44:06 | Master Focus, Reduce Overindulging
1:10:46 | Pursue Challenge, Reward Small Wins
1:36:37 | The Power of Dopamine

QUOTES:

“Celebrating the win more than the pursuit, it actually sets you up for failure in the future.” [1:48]

“Dopamine itself is not the reward, it's the build up to the reward. And the reward has more of a kind of opioid bliss like property” [15:41]

“Pursue rewards, but understand that the pursuit is actually the reward. If you want to have repeated wins.” [16:13]

“Pleasure experienced without prior requirements for pursuit is terrible for us.” [17:22]

“Agitation and stress were designed to get us up and move us, and when we try and fight that too much, and we try and quiet that stress, that actually can be problematic.” [37:11]

“If you have negative thoughts, just remember, I can also introduce positive thoughts the same way I can control running around the block. Positive thoughts are the equivalent of forward physical action.” [42:16]

“All the segments of your life are noted by peaks in dopamine, or the way that you happen to conceptualize dopamine.” [45:33]

“When people's dopamine is low, they tend to overestimate, okay, okay. And when people's dopamine is high, they tend to underestimate time.” [47:47]

“Dopamine is a very misunderstood molecule, it's often talked about only in the context of reward, [...] what's often not discussed is that dopamine is secreted in route to rewards...” [1:22:25]

“The molecule dopamine when secreted in the brain, makes us pursue things, build things, create things, makes us want new things that we don't currently already have.” [1:42:45]

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When you consider the amount of stress and global crises going on, there’s no wonder why people are stressed, overly anxious and struggling with confidence. Whether the pain you experience in physical or mental and emotional in nature, you’re looking for relief and a way to find peace and mental equilibrium while crushing your goals in life.

Self -hypnosis is a drug-free, highly effective, “style of concentration not a therapy” says Dr. David Spiegel. It’s about cognitive flexibility that allows you to solve problems in a way that helps you gain control and maximize your focus and concentration. Dr. Spiegel is the Director of the Center on Stress and Health who specializes in hypnotherapy. He’s joining Tom and discussing cognitive restructuring through the lens of hypnotherapy.

Still not sure about hypnosis? Witness Tom get hypnotized and describe his experience.

“If you can measure it it’s science, everything else is poetry”
-Dr. David Spiegel

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction Dr. David Spiegel
1:03 | What is Hypnosis?
6:50 | The Hypnotized Brain
11:32 | Physical Control in Hypnosis
18:44 | How the Hypnotic State Works
23:06 | Narrow Your Focus
27:33 | How Hypnosis Helps You
39:30 | Are You Hypnotizable?
51:00 | Tom Gets Hypnotized

QUOTES:

“Where people make a big mistake about hypnosis is they think it’s about losing control. It’s actually a powerful means to gain control.” [3:00]

“You’re worrying less about what else you might be thinking about, and you’re allowing your executive control network to more strongly connect with your body. So, it’s a state of highly focused attention…” [8:11]

“You may not be able to control what’s making you anxious, but you can control how your body’s feeling, you can control how your body is reacting to the stressor.” [18:11]

“We don't see medication as necessarily being bad in the same way that we have with hypnosis [...] but it's still around because there's something powerful and helpful about.” [22:51]

“Being open and accepting [and] concentrating very intently is a good learning strategy.” [26:44]

“Providing intense emotional support can help people help their bodies cope with even a very serious illness.” [50:51]

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If you haven’t tuned into the news lately, you may be living in a peaceful and unique environment. Turning on the news these days can literally induce stress and anxiety as you try to digest the total sum of horrifying events that are changing the world you live in Burying your head in the sand and being oblivious is always an option you can choose to do, but that will likely leave you unprepared for what’s coming.

Ray Dalio is the founder and co-Chairman of Bridgewater Associates, as well as a #1 NY Times bestseller for his life-changing book, Principles. He is incredibly grounded and knowledgeable about the changing world order taking place as you read this. His latest book, The Changing World Order, is about having the data you need to recognize the times we are living through are part of a larger cycle that has taken place before.

Grab a pen and paper or open up your note app and save the strategies and tactics Ray shares on what we can do on a government level and on a personal level with our investments, assets and liabilities to position ourselves for survival regardless of the stage we’re in.

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SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction o Ray Dalio
3:11 | Start of The New Order
8:38 | Predictable Cycles & Failing Systems
20:04 | Global Conflict & Types of War
32:09 | Inflation Strategies To Get Ahead
39:31 | Economic Stability & Structure
45:54 | Strategic Portfolios Over Day Trading
49:29 | Improving A Failing Infrastructure
1:01:13 | Death of Patriotism
1:07:56 | Innovation, Opinions, and Perspective
1:17:44 | Responsibility and Practical Solutions
1:29:18 | End of the World Portfolio


QUOTES:

“The country is nothing more than the aggregate of the people.” [13:13]

“History has shown when the causes that people are behind are more important to them than the system, the system is in jeopardy. And that is a risky situation. [15:27]

“Realize that you have to think in terms of buying power, not the number of dollars you have.” [33:35]

“There's those who control the system and what should be done, and then there's what the individual should do…” [50:01]

“You need to create a system that both increases the size of the pie, and divides it well, and most importantly, divides opportunity, well…” [52:29]

“It's going to be the extremists who are going to destroy the system, threaten the system, because they won't be able to compromise, [...] the answers do not lie in the extremism.” [54:25]

“To not have laptops and connectivity is today, the equivalent of not having running water and electricity, or the telephone…” [58:41]

“If you worry, you don't have to worry, and if you don't worry, you need to worry.” [1:23:27]

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When it comes to mental toughness, discipline, and being hardcore like no other, very few people can stand with absolute confidence. By now, you’ve realized how hard life is. Maybe your future didn’t work out the way you and your family expected. Maybe you’re convinced the world you grew up in is hostile, dark and heartless towards someone like you.

Living with a victim mindset isn’t going to change your situation. Learning how to meet yourself where you are and stare at your inadequacies with total and radical honesty may be the most difficult thing you ever do, but perhaps it’s the only way out of the messed up life you’re living now.

David Goggins, former Navy Seal, ultra marathon runner, athlete and total badass knows what it takes to build a level of mental toughness very few people truly know about. His radical approach to building himself from an overweight “nobody” to one of the toughest people alive makes many people uncomfortable, but inspires the heck out of many more. If you’re looking to break out of a mindset that’s keeping you stuck, save this episode and listen to it over again

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction
0:20 | Face Your Darkness & Master It
6:57 | Taking Souls Not the Easy Route
14:12 | The Accountability Mirror
23:40 | Testing Your Mediocrity
34:45 | Find Yourself In the Insecurities
43:50 | Look Into Your Cookie Jar
1:08:26 | Train Your Mindset

QUOTES:

“If you think that I’m some unhappy guy you’re wrong. Having lived the life I’ve lived, and seen the other side, not being afraid to attack what was in front of me has made me happy.” [0:46]

“If I don’t give you all of me, why the hell am I here? [...] People take so much offense to me. You will never learn from people if we always tap dance around the truth.” [5:48]

“I want to be the very best, and the very best may not be ‘I’m number one.’ The very best is, did I leave everything inside of me out there, [...] I’m running against myself in everything I do. [13:43]

“I got to experience the beauty of true f*cking will power, true f*ck you, I’m going to fail, I’m going to f*cking fail, I’m going to f*cking fail, I’m going to f*cking fail, and I will succeed.” [20:41]

“I chose the path of most resistance, talent not required.” [21:48]

“You gain knowledge through suffering, and on the other end of suffering is a world that very few have ever seen. It’s a beautiful world cause that’s where you find yourself.” [26:21]

“All the energy and fuel you need is right in yourself. It’s all there. You got a lot of stuff to do to overcome [...] I found drive in my own insecurities.” [33:56]

“When you can find drive in your own doubt, fear, insecurities, you become very unstoppable.” [34:15]

“Even though I was standing erect, my mind was in a fetal position.” [42:09]

“I had to build calluses in my brain the same way I built calluses on my hands.” [47:24]

“The only you’re going to ever get to the other side of this journey is you have got to suffer to grow. To grow you must suffer.” [50:48]

“In times of suffering we forget how hard we really are cause [...] suffer is the true test of life.” [1:06:18]

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If you’re like most people, odds are that you’re not exactly where you want to be in life.

But no matter what your definition of success is, or what you’re trying to accomplish, the simple truth is this: you’re not yet where you want to be because you don’t yet have the skills required to get there.

In this talk at the Ice House in Pasadena, CA, I dive deep into the hard truths about what it takes to become extraordinary, regardless of what you’re pursuing.

If you’re feeling stuck, lacking ambition, or just don’t think you’re good enough to get where you want to go, then buckle up because this talk will shake you out of your comfort zone and get you back on track to pursuing a life of fulfillment!


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Ambition vs. Drive
11:12 | Self-Worth and Achievement
19:07 | Grit Isn’t Sexy
30:34 | Permission to Fail
39:13 | The Ultimate Adaptation Machine
45:39 | The Brain That Changes Itself
56:28 | Being Average Is Enough


QUOTES:
“Fulfillment is often born of suffering. But it has to be suffering with a purpose.” [08:13]

“I'm not telling you not to chase money. I'm just saying it's not going to feed you emotionally the way you think it is.” [15:32]

“Facing what you've done wrong, owning it, accepting it, allows you to not make that mistake the next time.” [33:07]

“Every time something goes wrong in my life, I am asking myself one simple question. “What is it that I suck at?” I suck at something, there's something I'm doing wrong. By definition, if I were doing it right, then I would be getting the outcome that I wanted.” [37:50]

“The first step in this incredibly arduous journey that you're going to be on if you want to be extraordinary, is simply to believe you can become extraordinary.” [1:03:29]

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It’s a simple fact of being a human that, at some point in your life, you’re going to face adversity.

The question is - how are you going to choose to face it? What will be your mentality?

Will you choose the victim mentality? Or the victor mentality?

When Former Navy SEAL Jason Redman was severely wounded by a spray of machine gun fire in Iraq, he had a choice: either assume the same victimhood narrative as everyone around him…

Or hold fast to what he calls the Overcome Mindset.

In today’s episode, Jason tells his incredible story of how he became a Navy SEAL against all odds, bounced back from failure as a leader, and not only recovered from a firefight that nearly killed him…

But rose to become a voice of courage and leadership in the wounded warrior community.


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Overcoming the Odds
10:33 | Fighting Against the Victim Mentality
26:44 | How the Overcome Mindset Works
29:12 | Becoming a Navy SEAL
41:32 | Jason’s Near-Fatal Firefight
56:37 | Dealing With Aftermath
1:06:40 | No Bad Days
1:16:00 | What Defines Good Leadership


QUOTES:
“The greatest gift you have is you have a choice. You have a choice. Freewill is one of the greatest things we have as humans.” [05:31]

“A victim mentality limits your success in this life. You know, you will stay wherever you are, and you will achieve the limit of what you believe.” [12:38]

“Sitting there and focusing all your blame and time on the fact that your perfect plan, or something happened, or your world got thrown upside down, accomplishes nothing - nothing.” [17:32]

“We think that we need to be tough and do these things on our own. But sometimes, you know, it's okay to get help. It's okay to say I'm struggling, especially mentally.” [59:15]

“At the end of the day, leadership, teamwork, your ability to overcome adversity… all those things are within us.” [1:11:38]

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We’ve all had days where your energy seems to be missing. Often we look at the hours of missed sleep or sit in confusion with how it feels like we’ve slept enough hours. Dr. Steven Gundry is a cardiac surgeon that has been educating himself, his patients, and many others about why diet is key to restoring and improving energy levels. Everything you consume comes in contact with your microbiome and Dr. Gundry is simplifying why your gut health is critical to how your body is able to absorb what it needs and provide you with the energy you need to take on much bigger goals in life. The connection between gut health, energy, lifestyle, and how we age is one of the most important things you can dedicate time to understanding for your future self.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Dr Steven Gundry
0:08 | Diet Tip to Improve Your Skin
8:30 | Lectins Found in Animal Meat
13:43 | Why Limit Animal Proteins
18:55 | Intermittent Fasting & Burning Fat
21:51 | What to Include in a Healthy Diet
24:17 | Fat Impact on Your Microbiome
31:33 | When Carnivore Diets Are Best
35:08 | What Passing Gas Signals to the Body
43:29 | Mitochondria Energy Process
46:48 | Leaky Brain, Alzheimers, and Cholesterol
52:00 | Fecal Microbial Transplant
57:59 | Microbiome, Gut Feelings and Autism
1:03:16 | Lifestyle & Diet For Aging Well

QUOTES:

“We have to realize that our chickens are no longer chickens, they're an ear of corn with feathers.” [12:58]

“Believe it or not, in the American diet 24 hours a day, we're causing leaky gut, we're assaulting our immune system…” [26:37]

“If we look at energy production, as literally cars moving down through a freeway, it's no wonder that even though we're eating huge amounts of calories, we have no energy…” [46:03]

“Compared to women who don't exercise routinely, and in the women who are going to get Alzheimer's, it's 11 years later than if they didn't exercise.” [1:05:48]

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Research in the fields of neuroscience and pharmacology over the past several decades have resulted in countless positive benefits for humanity.

But until very recently, certain classes of drugs had been rigorously excluded from clinical trials - namely, the class of drugs commonly known as psychedelics.

Fortunately, a handful of organizations around the world have been making breakthroughs in psychedelic drug research, working in cooperation with government regulators to answer this question: what are these drugs doing to our brains and bodies?

One such researcher is today’s guest - Dr. David Nutt. He and his team at Drug Science have brought together leading drug experts from many different clinical backgrounds, with the goal of providing clear, evidence-based information about how a wide range of drugs - from CBD to PCP - impact the human system.

In his latest book, Cannabis (seeing through the smoke): The New Science of Cannabis and Your Health, Dr. Nutt gives an in-depth look into one of the most commonly used recreational psychedelics on the planet: cannabis.

In today’s episode, we discuss David’s findings on how cannabis affects different systems in the brain, how it differs from other classes of drugs, what the future of drug research looks like, and much much more!


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | How Cannabis Works
03:54 | How Will I Respond to Cannabis?
09:21 | Benefits of Cannabis
22:09 | Psychedelics & Your Brain
32:27 | Are Drugs Safe?
38:51 | The Future of Cannabis


QUOTES:
“You've got to remember - cannabis can affect pretty much every other neurotransmitter system in the brain.” [09:13]

“Medical cannabis is going to be the big revolution over the next 20 years, if we use it properly.” [13:45]

“Normally, the visual system is just embedded in the visual system. But under psychedelics, because you break down the default mode network, the visual system can then connect everywhere in the brain.” [28:10]

“It needs to be tested. We need to be doing lots of studies, but we're not because it's a plant product and doesn't fit into the current model of pharmaceutical drug development.” [41:24]


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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay

In today’s era of ever-accelerating change, it might seem impossible to predict the future with any degree of accuracy. Likewise, it might be easy to assume that the only way to do so is through sophisticated AI algorithms and data science.

Incredibly, Jane McGonigal and her colleagues at Institute for the Future have been able to predict several of today’s most disruptive trends as much as ten years in advance.

Through her innovative use of alternate reality games, hyper-specific journaling techniques, and something called “future backcasting”, Jane continues to not only lay out seemingly impossible future scenarios, but also help prepare people to be proactive in building the future they want to see.

If you like what you see in today’s episode, then I highly encourage you to check out Jane’s latest book, Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today

Order your copy by clicking here: https://amzn.to/3JwImO2


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
01:40 | A New Approach to Futurism
13:23 | The Psychology of Predicting the Future
22:50 | Rehearsing Catastrophes
32:56 | How to Practice for the Future
38:18 | Crypto, Government, and Privacy
48:31 | Future Backcasting
53:54 | The Future of Web3 Gaming


QUOTES:
“The brain normally assumes things will continue as they are. But what that means is it can be very hard to wake up and realize this thing that used to be true is no longer true, or this assumption I had is no longer helpful.” [09:54]

“We do try to have this balance of positive and shadow imagination, because really, any future is going to have complications, but also perhaps unexpected benefits where people use it as an opportunity to create positive change.” [15:31]

“To start your process of having to adapt or deal with a crisis or disruption from a state of confidence and clarity, rather than anxiety, confusion, feeling helpless - it really changes the way that you emotionally experience things that can create a lot of suffering.” [26:53]

“Try to backcast all the way to as far as what could you do in the next 24 hours to make this future more likely. Just force yourself to roll up your sleeves and do something to start trying to have an impact on this future.” [51:51]


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When you’re a high performer and someone on a mission to reach the highest levels of success, you have to set the bar ridiculously high and get after it. This becomes problematic for people when they’ve set unrealistic expectations and goals so high they start experiencing a sense of shame and failure. Can you set ridiculously high expectations and still be cool with imperfection? Tom reveals why it’s so important for you to do and believe that which moves you towards your goals. When aiming for perfection hinders your performance and ability to execute, it’s time to rethink your strategy. Being imperfect still allows you to achieve more than most ever will if you are willing to value the sincere pursuit of your goal over feeling good enough trying to avoid failure along the way.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction
0:21 | Perfectionism Doesn’t Serve You
5:30 | Value the Sincere Pursuit
10:19 | Is It Perfection or High Standards?
14:00 | How to Set Standards
18:42 | Constructive Self-Criticism


QUOTES:

“Kicking yourself in the ass is super powerful, but my rule is, I never do anything that diminishes my sense of self.” [5:52]

“Reach for the farthest star in the world, but don't value yourself for whether or not you achieve it. Value yourself for the sincere pursuit…” [7:11]

“Success cannot be guaranteed, struggle can. You will struggle. I cannot guarantee that you will be successful, but the juice is never going to be the success. It's never going to be the accolades.” [8:16]

“You have a hole inside of you that can only be filled with progress, meaning, and purpose. It can't be filled with accomplishment” [9:23]

“The desire for perfectionism is really fear that you're not good enough in failure.” [11:12]

“If the job gets done at eight units of energy, you're better off applying the extra two units of energy to something else.” [15:31]

“Aim to have a perfect career, which is full of failure, embarrassment, and just rich with hard on skill. That's perfection we're chasing.” [18:22]

“We have to understand there's tremendous power in the dark side, but that it's a corrosive power, and that if you use it too much it will destroy the only thing in life that actually matters” [19:30]

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"You can fail in life doing the things you hate, so you might as well take a chance doing what you love." - Jim Carrey

When it comes to pursuing your passion, people often think that you need to decide between making a living, and doing what you love.

The reality is that not only can you have both, but if you’re going to live a life of fulfillment, it’s actually necessary to do so.

However, that doesn’t mean that it will be easy - especially if you’re stuck in a dead-end job, or you aren’t even sure what else you’d like to do with your life.

In today’s episode of Impact Theory, you’ll get answers to some of the most common questions about transitioning from an unfulfilling career to one that excites you - without sacrificing financial stability in the process.

Whether you’re suited for entrepreneurship, or would do better as a linchpin in an organization you believe in, you’ll be surprised at just how universally applicable the tools and tactics are for getting unstuck and turning your passion into a full-time career.


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
00:22 | Overcoming the Fear of Following Your Passion
06:07 | Transitioning From Regular Job to Dream Job
13:56 | Leaving Corporate to Pursue Your Own Business
19:02 | What Tom Would Tell His 20-Year-Old Self
22:55 | Are Humans Wired to be Subservient?


QUOTES:
“There is no success big enough that you can stand in that success, and that it will last forever.” [00:52]

“The problem fundamentally is that life is an ever changing rollercoaster of emotion, and the name of the game is to manage those emotions well.” [03:34]

“Because I know that I can always slow down and take a step back, I never get overwhelmed. And because of that, I'm able to keep going and keep performing. But if I just tried to run in the red all the time, then I would stop having fun. I would not want to do it anymore, and I would give up.” [13:26]

“As you figure out what that business is going to be that you're growing, make sure that it's something that you would love doing every day, even if you were failing.” [17:01]

“Don't buy into a narrative that you need to run your own business or that you need to be an entrepreneur or anything like that. What you want to figure out is, where will you love existing? Where can you chase fulfillment the hardest? Where can you engage with your passions most deeply? That's the question.” [25:07]

“If you can't say in a single sentence what really fills your tank, what gives you that energy, what makes you feel alive… if you can't say that in a single sentence, you're in trouble.” [26:42]

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“Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.” - Dr. Mark Epstein

When we think of Buddhism, Taoism, and other Eastern philosophies, we often imagine achieving a state of permanent inner peace - being completely untroubled by the concerns of this world.

Unfortunately, we need to be able to deal effectively with the realities of everyday life, rather than shrink away from them.

According to Dr. Mark Epstein, most people have a fundamental misunderstanding about what Buddhism is trying to teach us.

It isn’t about dissolving the ego completely, or becoming totally detached from our past and future.

Rather, the point of the Buddha’s teachings is to use fundamental psychological truths to become more effective at actually engaging with the difficulties of everyday life.

So if you’re struggling with difficult relationships, have difficulties with past trauma, or simply have never been able to understand the point of meditation, then you’re sure to find something valuable in today’s episode.

And if you like what you see here, then you should definitely order Mark’s latest book: The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life: https://amzn.to/3NDZxk5


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
01:27 | Why Eastern Philosophy Is So Attractive
09:16 | The Core Tenets of Buddhism
19:50 | How Buddhism Heals Trauma
35:04 | The Four Noble Truths
51:05 | What is the Ego?
56:49 | The Eightfold Path
1:04:39 | Struggling With Meditation
1:19:06 | Psychedelics and Therapy


QUOTES:
“There's something beneficial in allowing ourselves, and in training ourselves, to be with that which is difficult in ourselves, in our partners, in life.” [13:34]

“It's not what you're experiencing, or what you've experienced, that matters. It's how you relate to it.” [23:42]

“The Buddhist teaching is such a help, because it's what it's saying is, this aspect of experience is unavoidable. And we can find our best selves by staying with it, rather than trying to get away from it.” [40:11]

“The ego doesn't need or doesn't actually want to be in control all the time. We just need it for certain things, and then we have to learn to let it go.” [55:23]

“Why don't you leave yourself alone? Why don't you just let yourself be? Why don't you see who you are that way? Why don't you discover who you are by relating naturally to the world, to other people, to yourself?” [1:03:08]


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For most of us, when we think of melatonin, the first thing we think of is “a chemical to make you feel sleepy”.

And while it’s true that melatonin plays a critical role in governing our circadian rhythm, it turns out that melatonin is also one of the most powerful antioxidants produced in the body.

This is a huge deal when it comes to disease prevention, as oxidative stress and inflammation are primary causes of some of the deadliest and most common diseases known to man.

In today’s episode of Health Theory, Dr. Roger Seheult breaks down the science of melatonin, vitamin D, circadian rhythm, and much more.

So whether you’ve been having trouble sleeping, are worried about inflammation and disease prevention, or just want to brush up on your biochemistry, then I promise you’ll get something beneficial out of today’s episode.


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
00:52 | Get More Sunshine
16:03 | What Is Oxidative Stress?
27:46 | The Physiology of Covid
33:03 | Optimize Your Circadian Rhythm
44:30 | The Double Slit Experiment
49:09 | Meat vs Plants


QUOTES:
“One of the things that we've discovered as scientists is that the mind and the body are a lot more connected than we thought they were.” [09:30]

“I think it would be a mistake to say that while I'm taking my vitamin D supplementation, I don't need to go out into the sun.” [11:18]

“We see diabetes associated with obesity, obesity with inflammation, diabetes with oxidative stress. So we do see them correlate - it's hard to tease them out.” [15:45]

“I can't stress this enough: Alzheimer's disease, autism, diabetes - a lot of these diseases that we see in society have been tied to mitochondrial damage from reactive oxygen species. It's really important.” [20:50]

“We have technology today, that allows us to eat 24 hours a day. We have technology today that we can turn night into day if we want, we can work 24/7. There's gamers that do that, they go straight for 48 hours and they die. And so what we're finding out is that technology, even though it allows us to do certain things, they may not be optimal.” [37:43]


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“Pursue what’s in your heart, and the universe will conspire to support you.” - Rich Roll

Are there times when we can get a better result by letting go? What role does pain tolerance play in addiction? Is a plant-based diet really that restrictive?

For endurance athlete, author, and podcaster Rich Roll, these kinds of questions are just the tip of the iceberg.

In today’s episode of Impact Theory, Rich and I explore the landscape of ideas ranging everywhere from spirituality and his experience with 12 Steps, all the way to plant-based protein, vegan bodybuilders, and everywhere in between.

So whether you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, you’re feeling out of touch with your purpose, or you simply want to know where to find the best vegan cheese on the planet, then this episode is for you.


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
00:56 | Spirituality and Trusting Your Intuition
08:16 | Solving Problems by Letting Go
21:21 | The Importance of Creative Constraints
27:26 | Hubris and Self-Understanding
47:53 | Relapse and Dealing With Failure
58:36 | The Path to Recovery From Addiction
1:05:36 | SriMu and Rich’s Experience With Veganism
1:17:52 | Plant-Based Dietary Choices and Longevity


QUOTES:
“The biggest leaps that I've made in terms of personal growth, and in terms of my career, the beautiful things that I've been able to accomplish, I think are part and parcel attributable to having an interior spiritual life.” [02:56]

“There were plenty of times when I wanted to jump ship and do the prudent, rational thing, because that's how I was raised. And that's what my education was all about. But having kind of come out the other side of it, I have a deeper appreciation for… the beauty in not always knowing.” [07:43]

“I think most people are walking around, totally unconnected from themselves. They don't understand why they do what they do. They continue to do the same things over and over and over again, they flog themselves, and yet decline the opportunity to really deconstruct that.” [34:28]

“If you have a very high pain tolerance, which a lot of addicts do, the fear or the pain associated with the change always exceeds the pain of their current situation. And it's not until or unless the pain of their current situation is so great, that overshadows the fear of doing something different.” [1:03:11]

“First of all, nobody should go on a diet, they should be trying to change their lifestyle habits in a manner that is sustainable.” [1:15:57]

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When you are committed to hitting major goals, experiencing life on the next level, and showing up as a better version of yourself, being able to focus becomes a critical skill. Being able to give your full attention to what matters in the moment is necessary whether your focus is work or involves being present in a conversation. Amishi Jha is a professor of psychology at University of Miami and author of the new book, Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day. She is unpacking why your wandering mind isn’t as big a problem as you think, how memories are formed and stories are ultimately created and stitched together to create our version of reality. If you’re struggling with being distracted, the different types of practices Amishi shares will give you a place to start immediately!

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SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Amishi Jha
0:52 | Why Mind Wandering Happens
4:13 | Memories and Neural Configuration
13:20 | Assigning Meaning to Dreams
16:20 | Accurate or Altered Memories
21:11 | Nostalgic Story Making
28:53 | Risky Story Making
34:31 | Break Story Mode
39:34 | Developing Meta Awareness
47:06 | Constructing Reality
53:07 | The Power of Mindfulness
1:02:07 | How to Practice Being Mindful
1:11:14 | Types of Mindfulness Practice
1:17:01 | Why Positivity Doesn’t Work
1:24:27 | Loving Kindness

QUOTES:

“There is no objectivity in the way we remember. There's no point of that. The point of memory is to support our actions in the future.” [20:14]

“My caution regarding stories is in our drive, in our desire to make something have meaning, [..] I may lose some aspect of what is useful and what is true.” [29:58]

“When we take an observational stance, we can actually see the structure of the story, and that is very powerful.” [38:57]

“In your pocket at all times, is the ability to let it go.” Tom Bilyeu [57:02]

“Unless we are actively keeping the contents of our conscious experience, refreshed and rewritten moment by moment, they will fade away.” [58:36]

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“The work is the shortcut.” - Apolo Anton Ohno

What are the characteristics of an olympic mindset?

More importantly, how well does that mindset work, once the time for chasing medals is over?

These were the kinds of questions that Apolo Anton Ohno, the most decorated American winter olympian of all time, had to ask himself when he retired from short track speed skating at the age of 28.

How do you forge a brand new identity when your old one is no longer relevant? How do you define a life well lived? How do you find, and stay aligned with, your True North?

In today’s episode of Impact Theory, we dive deep into these questions and more, including Anton’s humble beginnings, his relationship with his father, and the 5 Golden Principles that will help you through even the most challenging times.

If you liked this episode, you should definitely check out Apolo’s new book, Hard Pivot: Embrace Change. Find Purpose. Show Up Fully.

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SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
02:16 | Apolo’s Experience Being Raised By His Father
10:31 | Humble Beginnings
14:41 | Tapping Into the Dark Side to Achieve Greatness
23:25 | Finding Deeper Meaning After Success
32:05 | How Apolo Metabolizes Pain
35:24 | The Universal Skills For Greatness
47:58 | How Curiosity Helped Apolo Thrive After Retirement
52:13 | Apolo’s Later Relationship With His Father
55:07 | Stop Wasting Time and Take Back Control of Your Life
58:46 | How Hardship Leads to Growth


QUOTES:
“iI my dad had not placed me in these types of situations and environments, or if I had not operated from those psychological places of fear, or anger or rage, there is no way that I would have been able to… achieve that level of performance.” [16:55]

“People want to subscribe and be a part of something because maybe they don't have their own identity for themselves. And it's much easier to turn their face and look towards something else.” [20:26]

“You're going to fail and it's going to suck and it's going to hurt and there's going to be pain. And you can metabolize that pain, or that pain can blanket you and keep you submerged. That choice is yours.” [29:53]

“I realized, probably about two years into my retirement, that I could get off the treadmill. I was actually in control. I was the governor of my own speed limit.” [39:31]

“You are strong enough. You can do the hard stuff. You're being thrown out of the nest, and you got to adapt. You can and you will.” [1:02:41]

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It’s no secret, sugar has been labeled the bad guy in the standard American diet for years now. As new diet fads circulate around the internet and the latest trends and research seems to change every other day, finally some pieces of the “what’s making me fat” puzzle are starting to fit together. Even more so, with today’s health concerns, obesity is no longer the only indicator for poor health and metabolic disease. Dr. Richard Johnson is board certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and kidney disease and is known as the Fructose Expert. In this episode he’s breaking down the orchestrated events taking place in our bodies between sugar, salt, and how your foods are triggering you to gain weight.


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SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Dr Richard Johnson
0:42 | Why We Get Fat
6:18 | Fructose Signaling
17:47 | Is Fructose the Problem
26:34 | The Dehydration Trigger
34:59 | Watch Your Salt Intake
41:00 | The Role of Uric Acid
47:34 | Get Your Vitamin C
51:36 | Avoid These Foods

QUOTES:

“There is a switch that animals use to go from being us normal weight to overweight, that switch, you can activate it by certain types of foods.” [1:53]

“The fat is like the firewood, and the sugar is like the fire. So if you take away the fire, and you go on a low carb diet, and you are in high fat now, well, there's no stimulus to gain weight because because you've taken away the fructose” [17:18]

“One of the classic means for stimulating fructose turns out to be from a high glucose level in the blood.” [23:02]

“When you eat, if your glucose goes up in your blood, it triggers the production of fructose.” [37:59]

“So it's either the fructose you eat, or the fructose you make if you eat a lot of fructose, you're going to activate the switch.” [38:58]

“We have a higher uric acid, and this makes us more sensitive to the effects of fructose because fructose is working through uric acid. [...] and when that happens, we become very sensitive to sugar” [40:14]

“In the potency sugars, number one, high glycemic carbs are probably number two. salty foods are distant three, and umami is maybe even a four.” [44:36]

“Exercise turns out to be a great way not to lose weight, cause it doesn't burn many calories, but it stimulates the mitochondria, you won't notice the benefit except the benefit’s going to be happening.” [55:46]

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“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!” - Victor Frankl

Often we think that living in the present moment means blocking out thoughts of the past and future.

But according to today’s guest, Dr. Benjamin Hardy, maintaining a clear vision of your future self is actually one of the most effective ways to live more fully in the present.

By defining yourself in terms of the person you want to be, rather than in terms of your past behavior, you can immediately create change in the attitudes and actions of your present self.

So whether you’re feeling stuck in your current situation, can’t let go of past mistakes, or have simply lost momentum toward your goals, this episode will give you plenty of practical tips to get back on track and become the best version of yourself.


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
01:13 | How to Pull Your Future Self Into the Present
11:02 | Why Success Is Hard to Repeat
16:43 | Getting Clarity on Big Goals
23:14 | Why Frame of Reference Is Critical
34:27 | Staying Optimistic Despite Challenges
47:20 | The 80/20 Rule in Goal Setting
54:24 | How to Avoid Deluding Yourself
1:01:28 | Practical Steps to Becoming Your Future Self


QUOTES:
“The more connected you get to the future self, the more able you are to actually appreciate this moment, the more you're able to see that what you do here and now matters. ” [02:02]

“I think that often we miss this moment because we don't connect it to the future. And what a lot of the researchers on meaning say is that this moment only has meaning because of what it means in the future.” [04:58]

“You don't have to commit to something for the rest of your life. But like, what do you want to commit to for the next three to five years? Like, what are you going to start really investing in?” [17:55]

“Journaling is just a way for you to actually structurally reframe anything that happened and then turn negative events into positive growth.” [22:26]

“I think it's a big aspect of emotional freedom and emotional maturity, is just realizing you're the only person who's comprehending your own experience, and so you get to define it however you want.” [42:45]


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The ketogenic diet is so popular that it was searched over 25 million times in one year. Some experts support its effectiveness to help people lose weight, while others claim that it’s the worst diet to try. Research and data have advanced and proven that everyone has it wrong. Dr. Steven Gundry is with Tom explaining why he and the rest of the medical community got ketosis all wrong. He shares why mitochondrial uncoupling is really the star and this is what you need to know to make your dieting experience easier and more effortless. No need to live completely devoid of carbohydrates on a keto diet any longer.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Dr. Steven Gundry
0:55 | What You Got Wrong About Keto
8:05 | Why Mitochondria Is Key to Keto
12:22 | Metabolic Flexibility & Fat Burning
18:53 | What Ketones Are Signaling
23:05 | Mitochondrial Uncoupling
34:53 | The Miracle Weight Loss Drug
39:38 | Benefit of Polyphenols
46:35 | Mitochondria DNA is Female
50:01 | Restricted Eating & Feeding Times
56:40 | Blue Zone Diets & Goat Milk



QUOTES:

“50 percent of normal weight individuals have no metabolic flexibility.” [13:03]

“At full ketosis, human beings can only meet 30% of their calorie needs by burning ketones. The rest have to come from free fatty acids and glucose.” [19:09]

“Ketones are not a super fuel, they are actually a signaling molecule that tells mitochondria to protect themselves at all cost from damage” [20:15]

“In a ketogenic diet, if you do it right and uncouple your mitochondria, you waste fuel. You feed six dogs instead of one, and that's where the benefit of ketosis comes from.” [30:21]

“You want to cycle in and out of ketosis on a 24 hour basis.” [49:37]

“It's the cycling in and out of getting the benefits of ketosis. Without full ketosis, that makes all the difference.” [56:29]


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“I think, therefore I am.” - René Descartes

What is reality? What is the nature of consciousness? How do we know that what we are experiencing is base reality and not a simulation?

These may seem like the kind of questions that you’d associate with modern concepts like The Matrix and simulation theory, but the fact is that every ancient philosophical tradition has wrestled with these problems in some form or another.

And with the advent of rich, complex VR worlds and the nascent metaverse, even more philosophers are turning toward these deep questions of consciousness and the human experience.

One of the most interesting thinkers in this space is David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science at New York University, and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness.

In his latest book, Reality+: virtual worlds and the problems of philosophy, David investigates not only the nature of reality, but how we should conceptualize virtual reality, the idea that we can actually live a meaningful life in VR, how we know there’s an external world, and much more.

We explore these topics and more in today’s wide-ranging conversation, covering everything from the hard problem of consciousness to the probability that we’re actually living in a computer simulation.

You don’t have to be a student of philosophy to enjoy today’s conversation - especially if you’re as excited as I am about the possibilities being unlocked by virtual reality and the metaverse.

And if you want to dive deeper into David’s work, you can order his new book, Reality+, by clicking here: https://amzn.to/3vMSS0v


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
01:41 | The Hard Problem of Consciousness
10:42 | Consciousness as a Fundamental Law of Nature
17:38 | The Foundations of Simulation Theory
27:33 | Is Reality Made of Information?
39:03 | How to Live a Meaningful Virtual Life
45:10 | The Philosopher’s Zombie
51:59 | Orderable States of Consciousness
58:23 | Zhuangzi and the Butterfly
1:05:20 | The Experience Machine
1:14:40 | GPT3 and Deepfakes
1:19:08 | The Future of “Technophilosophy”


QUOTES:
“How does the water of neural firings in the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?” [05:45]

“My view is what we have to do for consciousness is something akin to what Maxwell did for charge - treat consciousness as a fundamental property in nature and search for the fundamental laws that govern it.” [09:09]

“One of the basic questions in philosophy: Why is there something rather than nothing? Why is there anything in the universe? And it just looks like some things you have to take as fundamental properties and fundamental laws. And that's not wholly satisfying, but it kind of looks like it's the best we can do.” [32:39]

“I think the more we understand the connection between the brain and consciousness, the more capacities we're going to find for both manipulation and transformation of consciousness.” [51:48]

“I do want to think you can have… a meaningful life in VR, because what happens in VR is real - it's not scripted. It's not pre programmed. You can actually build your own life in VR.” [1:08:23]

“I think at a certain point, the avatar can begin to play… many of the roles of the physical body. It's as if you have two bodies, a physical body in the physical world, and a digital body in the digital world.” [1:24:02]

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Aging seems to be all fun and games until you pass legal drinking age. Some people begin to age much sooner than others, while others seem to have golden genetics of youth on their side. What if you found out that scientific research is now able to reverse your biological clock up to 3 years? You may be skeptical, you may be curious, or you may be excited for what this means to your future. Dr. Kara Fitzgerald is a functional medicine physician and clinical director that just published a new book for the non-medical people trying to improve their health and age more gracefully called Younger You. She’s joining Tom and revealing everything you don’t know about methylation and epigenetics, why it matters to you and the simple things you can do to gain back 3 years of your biological clock in roughly 8 weeks.

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SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction Dr. Kara Fitzgerald
1:43 | How DNA is Packaged &Expressed
4:44 | Understanding DNA Methylation
9:22 | Methylation Cycle Explained
14:14 | Lifestyle Effects on Methylation
18:30 | Passing Stress Through DNA
24:41 | Inheriting Trauma and Resilience
27:28 | Unintended Generational Influence
37:35 | Methylation Diet Strategy
47:29 | Stress, Sleep, and Exercise

QUOTES:

“If we're going to turn back the hands of time by decades, are we going to, by extension, remove the molecules of wisdom that have embedded in our DNA?” [0:41]

“If we're not sleeping, we're aging.[...] sleep is an essential component of good epigenetic expression. Insomnia ages people and that's been demonstrated…” [49:11]

“Stress is one of the most pro aging experiences that we can have, and that we need to be paying attention to turning it off and not allowing it to drag us by the hair.” [51:04]

“People who meditate regularly are biologically younger, but just one meditation experience can still have a favorable influence.” [52:28]

“Exercise will turn back on those previously inhibited tumor suppressor genes [...] exercise is like eating a vegetable.” [53:28]

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“Negotiation is not an act of battle; it’s a process of discovery. The goal is to uncover as much information as possible.” - Chris Voss

Whether we know it or not, much of our success in business and in life depends on our ability to negotiate effectively. From buying a house or car to negotiating your salary to coming to an agreement with your partner - negotiation is a game-changing skill that everyone should master.

In today’s episode of Impact Theory, master negotiator Chris Voss shares some of the most important takeaways he’s learned over the years, both as a 24-year veteran of the FBI, and as the founder and CEO of The Black Swan Group - a world-class negotiation consulting firm.

Chris has been on the front lines of some of the most high-stakes hostage negotiations of the last 20 years, and the depth of his knowledge of human psychology is apparent throughout the whole conversation.

To learn more about the art of effective negotiation, I highly encourage you to read Chris’ bestselling book, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It. https://amzn.to/356ckub

You can also find tons of free resources on how to reach your full potential as a negotiator at https://www.blackswanltd.com/


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
01:04 | When Lives Are On The Line
04:33 | The Dos Palmas Kidnappings
10:50 | Teaching Your Kids Resilience
18:36 | Dos Palmas, Continued
29:20 | The Best Hostage Negotiation Tactic
37:24 | The Biggest Driver of Human Decision-Making
45:04 | Chris’ Views On Human Nature
1:04:15 | What Makes Someone a Good Negotiator?
1:12:18 | Applying Negotiation Tactics To Everyday Life
1:26:00 | Anger, Emotional Control, And Flow States
1:33:12 | The Power Of Open-Ended Questions
1:44:27 | Black Swan Negotiation Strategies


QUOTES:
“When you're in the battle, you can't bail. People are looking at you to lead. There are people's lives that are still on the line.” [09:29]

“Negotiation is not what it is to you. It's what it is to the other side.” [25:13]

“Ultimately, people make up their mind principally on what they perceive the loss to be. And that's human nature - doesn't matter the scenario” [26:01]

“One of the crazy things that I learned a long time after the fact is, terrorists got moms. I mean, you'd be shocked at the emotional vulnerability across the board, to the power of a well crafted message from a mom.” [30:49]

“Loss is… the biggest impact on decision making of human beings across the board.” [38:05]

“You know, everybody's gonna do stuff where they failed themselves, where they were fragile, they made a bad decision. They were heartless, either intentionally or accidentally, like, how do you pick it up after that?” [58:59]

“How every negotiation should go: script out your first two or three lines, and then you're into an ad lib from that point on. You’ve got to prepare - it's a dance, let the other person lead. And they'll take you where you want to go.” [1:13:14]

“You cannot get to your peak performance in a negative state of mind. And anger is a negative state of mind.” [1:29:02]

“The more you encourage the other side to talk, the more likely it is that you're going to get to this moment of collaboration quicker. Never be so sure of what you want that you wouldn't take something better. How do you get something better? You get the other side to talk. You spend a lot less time talking, and appreciate that they're bringing something to the table that you could use.” [1:46:52]


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Experiencing the world as it is, isn’t really possible when you consider that reality is actually created by your brain’s perception of what is. Don Hoffman is a cognitive psychologist that argues that organisms develop their perception of the world directed towards fitness payoffs and not reality. Everything from our perception of reality is taken in through what Don would relate to a spacetime simulator that we are experiencing through a virtual reality headset. Just as Oculus creates an experience that can make you feel as though you are actually skydiving or on a roller coaster, so is the life we believe to be reality.

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SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction Don Hoffman
0:38 | Perception of Reality
7:10 | Seeing a VR World
11:30 | Spacetime Simulator
14:09 | Fundamental Nature of Consciousness
19:54 | Headset of Spacetime
26:17 | What’s Next for Spacetime

QUOTES:

“You just think you're opening our eyes and seeing the truth. You're seeing a VR world that you're projecting out there in real-time.” [11:07]

“Our free choices are not part of our conscious experiences. You can't directly experience your own free choices. You can experience that you chose, but you can never actually experience yourself choosing.” [18:56]

“We're programmed by natural selection, to buy into the illusion that objects exist even when they're not perceived...” [23:31]

“Most of what I've believed very deeply, has been very deeply wrong. Most of what humanity has believed very deeply has been very deeply wrong.” [26:35]

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It might be easy to think that charisma is something you’re born with - either you have it or you don’t.

But what makes someone charismatic? Why are some people able to capture our attention with apparent ease, while others have difficulty standing out from the crowd?

According to bestselling author Vanessa Van Edwards, the answer lies in the hidden language of cues - the tiny, nonverbal signals we send to others in every interaction.

In today’s episode of Impact Theory, Vanessa explores the powerful impact that even the most subtle cues can have on others.

Not only that, but she shares some powerful techniques for improving our awareness of cues, and how to use them to our advantage - proving once and for all that charisma isn’t something you’re born with, it’s something you can develop with practice.

If you want to dive even deeper into what’s discussed in todays episode, then be sure to check out Vanessa’s latest book, Cues: Master the Secret Language of Charismatic Communication by clicking here: https://amzn.to/3h2Eg4p


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
01:08 | What is charisma and how do you develop it?
09:19 | Why modern communication habits are causing burnout
12:37 | How to control your cues in the digital landscape
17:16 | Why touch is such a powerful cue
24:51 | How to spot a liar
26:45 | Teaching children to read cues
30:59 | Addressing social cues in real time
37:27 | The power of oxytocin in communication
40:20 | Why it’s so important to understand cues
44:23 | Reading cues in tone of voice
48:20 | The best way to read a poker player
53:06 | The fastest way to cut through B.S. and get to know people


QUOTES:
“When we add the warmth, plus competence - so likable, friendly, compassionate, trustworthy, plus capable, powerful, impressive - that's the sweet spot.” [02:30]

“As humans, we first meet another human, the very first question we ask about them is, ‘Can I trust you?’ ...the next question we answer - and it is the next question is, ‘Can I rely on you?’” [04:09]

“I think Social Assertiveness is actually like a hidden trait that everyone should learn. Because to be socially assertive, it means you're putting your needs forward, but you're being polite about it.” [16:05]

“I would rather you be aware of the cues that are being sent to you to know, ‘I want this or I don't’ because they are that powerful, that if someone has bad intentions, they can still produce trust.” [41:01]

“I think that's something that is an underestimated cue that we don't talk about enough, but our voice gives away a lot of our personality and our mental state.” [43:10]

“I think that people who doubt their ideas, and they doubt themselves, that leaks in their cues.” [47:35]

“Our subconscious is this amazing cue reading machine. And so it is constantly trying to tell your gut, ‘Listen, that wasn't good. We should be nervous,’ or, ‘This person is great.’ It's constantly trying to speak to us, we just have to listen to it.” [51:37]


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In 2020, Dr. Peter Diamandis co-authored the book The Future Is Faster Than You Think.

In today’s episode of Impact Theory, Dr. Diamandis shared insights from the cutting edge of longevity and regenerative medicine - all of which point to the fact that not only is the future coming faster than we can imagine.

In many ways, it’s already here.

Peter’s latest book, co-authored by Dr. Bob Hariri and none other than Tony Robbins, is called Life Force: How New Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine Can Transform the Quality of Your Life & Those You Love.

In this episode, he goes over some of the most exciting trends in precision medicine, as well as practical steps you can take starting today to extend both your lifespan and your healthspan.


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
02:05 | What sparked Peter’s interest in longevity
05:51 | Where we are now with DNA technology
10:04 | Genetics vs. epigenetics
14:23 | What causes aging at the cellular level
20:37 | The chemistry of aging and longevity
32:14 | The role of diet in longevity
43:26 | Want to live longer? Get better sleep.
47:00 | The importance of muscle mass as you age
54:07 | A look into Vaxxinity’s discoveries
1:04:20 | What does regenerative medicine mean?
1:15:35 | New hope for organ transplant recipients
1:27:18 | The revolution in diagnostics


QUOTES:
“We have 40 trillion cells in our body - that's right, 40 trillion cells. And each of them is a living organism. And we don't think about the fact that we're this massive collection of cells collaborating to have this conversation” [14:33]

“The single most fundamental part of your diet is “sugar is poison.” Right? Sugar causes neuroinflammation - absolutely clear. It causes cardiac disease - absolutely clear, right? Sugar feeds cancers. And so getting rid of sugar is the most important move anybody can make.” [33:13]

“One of the things that people should know is we're always developing cancers, the body is always developing cancers, it's just that your immune system finds them and zaps them.” [1:03:37]

“Regenerative medicine is the notion that we can use stem cells and exosomes and growth factors to help regenerate our body - to help regenerate muscle, brain, all of the tissues of our body.” [H:MM:SS]

“I think the biggest business opportunities on the planet are going to be age reversal and health tech and biotech.” [1:14:46]

“Everyone knows about someone who went to the hospital and, “Oh my god, you've got stage three or stage four cancer.” It didn't happen that morning. If you detect cancer at stage three, or stage four, your chance of a cure is like 10%. If you detect it at stage zero, stage one, it's like 99%.” [1:30:06]


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When people hear about uric acid, it’s almost always in the context of it being a causal factor for gout.

But if more people knew the full extent of how it affects our metabolism, cardiovascular health, and risk for Alzheimer’s and dementia, we might pay more attention to it.

In this episode of Health Theory, Dr. David Perlmutter returns with the latest research on how uric acid is about much more than just gout.

He explains the relationship between uric acid, insulin, and fructose, why it doesn’t mean that all fruits are bad for you, and how our modern problem with uric acid is actually the result of a disconnect between evolution and environment.

If you want to dive deeper into the latest knowledge bomb from Dr. Perlmutter, you’ll definitely want to check out his new book, Drop Acid: The Surprising New Science of Uric Acid - The Key to Losing Weight, Controlling Blood Sugar and Achieving Extraordinary Health

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SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
00:43 | Uric Acid and Metabolism
06:42 | The Problem With Fructose
12:22 | What Does Uric Acid Do?
23:58 | Eat to Lower Uric Acid
33:43 | The Cause of Type 2 Diabetes
41:48 | The Ideal Diet & Lifestyle


QUOTES:
“A lot of roads lead to the Rome of inflammation, and set the stage for things like Alzheimer's and coronary artery disease. And because of that, it's the reason that a monotherapy or a one drug approach to Alzheimer's, for example, is beyond myopic. It's never going to work.” [03:02]

“Our metabolic health globally is in a terrible place. I mean, a third of American adults have hypertension, and 10% of kids aged 12 to 18 have hypertension. That's crazy. 50% of adult Americans will be obese by the year 2030. Not just overweight, but obese.” [04:16]

“Elevation of uric acid is associated with an 80% increased risk of dementia, a 55% increase risk of Alzheimer's specifically, and a 165% increased risk of vascular dementia.” [13:53]

“What would be the upside of having uric acid create insulin resistance, and therefore cause blood sugar to go up? Why? Because when you're starving, it'll help power your brain.” [16:50]

“What we're seeing now are these metabolic derangements that underlie these diseases that represent a disconnect between evolution and environment.” [22:06]

“If it has a barcode, and it's in the grocery store, it has added sweetener - 70% do. And by and large that comes from high fructose, there's the villain corn syrup that we subsidize to the tune of $500 billion a year.” [25:01]

“Uric acid levels are climbing in lockstep with fructose consumption. In the 1920s, average uric acid level in Americans was about 3.5 - it's now six.” [46:50]


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NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) have exploded in popularity over the past several months.

With major brands getting involved - from Nike and the NBA to Taco Bell and Coca-Cola - many people are placing big bets that NFTs aren’t just another flash in the pan.

And even though the first wave of NFTs have primarily revolved around ownership of digital art, the possibilities for future use cases of NFTs go far beyond mere jpeg ownership.

In this episode, you’ll get a high-level view of the relationship between NFTs and the underlying blockchain technology, what makes an NFT project truly valuable, and some tips for getting involved in the space.


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
00:24 | The Relationship Between NFTs, Web3, & the Blockchain
09:29 | Tom’s “Hard Sell” on NFTs
20:11 | How to Get Started Creating an NFT
27:44 | Will There Be An NFT Crash?
32:21 | Connecting NFTs to Physical Goods


QUOTES:
“We are truly at the tip of a very large iceberg that is only going to get more phenomenal from here.” [09:06]

“The reason that I think NF T's are so powerful is that it gives people the ability to create something where the community gets to capture the long tail value of that item.” [14:49]

“Without that kind of community interaction, that kind of community support, that kind of community fervor, if you're wearing a Gucci sweater, you're counting on Gucci to build the brand recognition, and then the occasional Instagram post when you post it, versus when there's a huge community of people that get around something and begin to buoy it up.” [18:50]

“It's… looking at this as a long term play, being in this for decades, and really understanding what you're building, how you're doing this with the community, and having the execution track record of being able to sustain things and grow things over long periods of time.” [30:43]

“If you think about it from a community first perspective of wanting to do something cool to reward the people that buy into you and your new product and what you're doing, and you're making sure that the bulk of the value ends up going to them, then they're more likely to support you, support the brand, buy the next thing that you do.” [35:17]

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“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.” - Robert Greene, Mastery

Over the course of his career, Robert Greene has written six international bestsellers, revolving around the subjects of strategy, power, mastery, and seduction. In short, Robert is one of the foremost experts on human behavior and how it manifests in the world.

Today’s episode of Impact Theory highlights some of the most powerful moments from Robert’s appearances on the show.

In it, you’ll learn the importance of observing yourself and others, the delicate balance between self-esteem and personal growth, Robert’s opinions on the real dangers of social media, and much more!


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
00:45 | The Importance of Developing Awareness
09:19 | Self-Esteem, Social Media, and Facing Reality
16:16 | Acceptance and Ownership
20:29 | Amor Fati - Love of Fate


QUOTES:
“You want your emotions - you need them, you're not trying to repress them - repressing emotions will lead to other problems. What you want is just that tiny little bit of distance, that ability when you're feeling it, to go back and go, ‘Hmm, why am I really feeling this? What are the roots of it?’” [04:14]

“I could give you the best techniques in the world, but it won't matter at all if you don't feel that need for it, that hunger for the ability to have a slight degree of control of your own actions.” [05:40]

“If you're so attuned to what other people are saying and doing and telling you and thinking, that voice gets drowned out by a million other voices, and you're not able to hear yourself anymore.” [12:48]

“The ability to accept death and look it square in the eye, and accept this as your reality, that you're not going to live forever, is very liberating.” [22:48]

“The time you're wasting getting enraged, and being manipulated, and feeling all these things and getting into that lizard part of you is time you're wasting, and your life is a lot shorter than you think it is.” [27:49]


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If you’re listening to this, you’ve probably noticed that the buzz around crypto, NFT’s, and Web3 has been steadily building.

But despite its growing popularity, the fact is that most applications of web3 are still in their early stages.

And with so many different potential applications for blockchain technology, it can be a bit overwhelming just trying to figure out where to start.

That’s why I’ve put together this episode of Impact Theory to answer some of the most common questions I get about the future of web3, how to get involved, where to find good sources of information, and much much more!


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
00:30 | How Do You Define Web3?
05:14 | Why is Interest in Web3 Spiking?
09:48 | What are 5 Essential Sources of Info about Web3?
14:12 | Will Web3 Contribute To a More Balanced Society?
26:26 | What First Steps Should I Take to Get Involved?


QUOTES:
“The thing that they don't understand is hiding within that JPEG, or the real one is matrix code. And so based on that matrix code, I can actually read whether that's the real one or not…and based on whether you have the real one or not, I can give you advantages.” [02:39]

“When I look at some of the infrastructure stuff that's being put in place now, and I project out where we're going to be in three years, it is going to be absolutely incredible, a deep integration with so many different aspects of your life.” [07:27]

“Not only is it boring to be around people that are negative, but it really I think is a bad look for the space. So find people that are wonderful, joyful, that are uplifting, that are trying to make this a better place to be, that want to see you succeed and do well.” [10:19]

“My hope is that the blockchain is really ushering in a whole new way for the fast movers, the builders, the creatives to come in and build a whole new way of doing things that is sidestepping the traditional systems and some of the brokenness of the traditional system, and hopefully making things such that we all have an equal playing field that we all have the same starting line.” [16:10]

“It's really pretty extraordinary the number of different opportunities that web3 is creating. And this is why I'm so bullish on this long term. I really think that this creates a foundational shift. We are so early in this space and the amount of creativity, the amount of mind blowing things that are happening is extraordinary.” [29:08]

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“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm” - Winston Churchill

No matter what your goals are, if you’re going to make progress you have to accurately assess where you are, and what stands in the way of your success.

That includes being able to understand not only the obstacles put in your way by the outside world, but your own inadequacies that are holding you back.

In this episode, I answer some common questions around goal-setting, self-reflection, what to do about overthinking, and the importance of learning from suffering.


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
00:48 | How to Effectively Self-Reflect
06:16 | How Can I Recognize When I’m Overthinking?
08:37 | Why Bother to Learn From Suffering?
13:09 | Necessary vs. Unnecessary Struggle
19:00 | Taking Back Control of Your Own Path


QUOTES:
“Happiness, which is incredibly transitory, is probably not the right thing to focus on. The right thing to focus on, in my humble opinion, is fulfillment.” [01:07]

“I think honestly, most people live their entire lives overthinking things, but the easy way to know is whether or not you're taking action. If you're taking action, as a way of experimenting with the thoughts, you're probably just fine. If you're just trying to think your way to a solution, you're almost certainly overthinking it.” [08:19]

“Even when you truly have been victimized, you do not have to play the victim.” [10:47]

“I cannot guarantee that you will be successful in life, but I can guarantee that you're going to struggle.” [13:20]

“Steering yourself towards your goals is really about wanting something so badly that you're willing to try over and over and over again in order to make progress.” [19:42]

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Are we closer to becoming biologically immortal? What would you strive to do or dream of if you could extend your life to even 150 years? Until recently the idea of longevity felt more like reaching your 90s and possibly 100 at best, and if you manage to accomplish that goal, a high quality of life would be best and expected. But what if you could extend your lifespan by even 10 years? Making sure that those years are exciting and meaningful would be a priority. Dr.David Sinclair, world renowned geneticist, is joining Tom in this episode to break down exactly why it is that we age on a cellular level, and what is now becoming possible in terms of slowing down our biological clock and even possibly reversing our biological age. If you want to know what you can do to start improving the quality of your aging life and stay younger longer this episode is for you, and you’ll want to check out Dr. David Sinclair’s newest podcast, Lifespan (link below).


SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to David Sinclair
0:28 | Why We Age
9:40 | What Goes Wrong With Aging
23:44 How to Reverse Aging
37:35 | Face Adversity
45:37 | How Metformin Works
55:02 | Lifestyle for Longevity

“We could have reversed aging just by making all cells a stem cell, we have the technology to do that.” [23:43]

“So we're reversing the aging of the eye, that's not hard at all, but we can reverse the age of the liver, the skin, other labs are doing the spleen, thymus, through this method.” [31:13]

“Humanity lucked out that we can actually do this and that there's a backup copy of youth in each of our cells that can be tapped into.” [32:03]

“We don't think about what it's like at the end, it is not fun. It's not typically like, Oh, you just go to sleep. Those are the lucky ones.” [36:39]

“The main concept that I think we all need to remember is that our bodies respond well to perceived adversity.” [38:55]

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“Be proud of your scars. Be proud of the stuff that has knocked you down. Be proud of the crap, the adversity that you've gone through and it didn't break you. You came through the other side of the tunnel.” - Jay Glazer

They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.

This is especially true for Jay Glazer - and for his latest book: Unbreakable: How I Turned My Depression and Anxiety into Motivation and You Can Too

If you’ve been watching Jay on camera over the years, you might find it hard to believe that, under the surface, he lives with an almost daily struggle with anxiety and depression.

But he doesn’t let it keep him down or stop him dead in his tracks - instead he uses it as fuel for his relentless drive and motivation.

In today’s interview, we go deep on the importance of loyalty, being of service, and the importance of learning to build yourself up from the inside out, rather than looking for validation only from the outside.

If you’ve ever struggled with anxiety and depression and felt like you had to “fake it” to get through the day, this one’s for you.

Likewise, I especially recommend that you check out Jay’s new book, Unbreakable: How I Turned My Depression and Anxiety into Motivation and You Can Too: https://amzn.to/33CWuXf

SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
01:22 | What Drove Jay to Endure Years of Hardship
06:44 | Authenticity, Loyalty, and Helping Others
09:52 | What “The Gray” and “The Blue” Mean to Jay
19:52 | Jay’s Journey to Find Happiness
27:59 | Merging Vets and Players
34:04 | The Origins of Jay’s New Book
39:39 | Helping Others Not Feel Alone in Their Struggle
43:40 | The Balance Between Toughness and Caring


QUOTES:
“As a result of me not knowing how to build myself from the inside out, I had to go do everything that I could to try to get some love from the outside in.” [02:28]

“Whoever says quitting is not an option is the biggest moron in the world, because it's an option every day, right? It just sits on your shoulder every day.” [04:55]

“I think if all of us do that a lot more for each other, where we're not just thinking about, “Hey, how can I get by, how can I move myself?” the world would be a much better place. And we'd all be able to stress a little less, but I think too many people just take care of themselves.” [09:03]

“The universe is not against me, and the sky is not falling - hasn't fallen all this time yet. I wake up every day feeling like it's going to - a lot of people, successful or not, have that same fear. But no one talks about it. I’m like fuck it, I'm going to talk about it. I’m gonna put it all out there for us.” [24:22]

“I tell them all, ‘That game starts, that cage door locks, you gotta make that guy across from you beg to get out of that cage with you. That's your job.’” [41:48]


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Weight loss, better health and quality of life go hand in hand for those of you trying to improve your performance and achieve a better quality of life. Eat this, don’t eat that, do this, don’t do that, this is critical for your health, this is not, are the types of conflicting and overwhelming information you easily run across without even trying. Stan Efferding is a pro bodybuilder better known as the White Rhino, and also known for being the strongest bodybuilder. He’s accomplished much and holds world records for powerlifting weight most can not fathom. When he starts sharing what he’s learned over his professional career and what he’s found out over 30+ years weightlifting you have to listen. His book the Vertical Diet is packed with information you wouldn’t expect from a pro bodybuilder. He’s discussing his knowledge and finding with Tom to break some common misconceptions you may have around protein, weight loss and how to effectively diet for weight loss that you can maintain long term. Your foundation, habits, and consistency matters for you to reach the best health of your life, which according to Stan must include sleep, diet, exercise and healthy consistent habits.

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SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Stan Efferding
1:24 | Building A Strong Physical Foundation
8:04 | Strength Training Habits & Consistency
12:22 | Key to Pushing for Success
19:55 | Training Tips to Get Stronger
23:52 | Protein Strategy for Weight Loss
25:56 | Volume & Load for Strength Training
31:34 | The Vertical Diet Explained
36:08 | All Diets Work in Calorie Deficit
44:44 | Macro & Micronutrients Ratios
52:20 | Quick Fix Hypertension & Glucose

QUOTES:

“Sprinting is probably the single best exercise for youth [...], more than I would believe squats” [5:46]

“The amount of weight you lift is not nearly as important as a host of other factors we call volume load: sets times reps times weights and then the range of motion is also a critical component.” [21:59]

“If you go to failure, you're going to have more fatigue. You might have a little more stimulus, but you'll have more fatigue, which might delay recovery, and that's going to affect total volume and volume is a superior driver than fatigue” [26:01]

“The vertical diet was intended to be more inclusive of what historically I had seen as over restrictive” [33:02]

“The muscle is the most important organ in the body [...] it's a sink for glucose. That's what the muscle is so effective at particularly when you're moving it and working it.” [47:34]

“Taking a 10 minute walk after each meal is twice as effective as Metformin for reversing or preventing type two diabetes, just from moving the muscles and getting your your body to do what it's supposed to do” [48:18]

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“I think anybody that gets wired to grow and give is gonna have a really fulfilling life. It doesn't matter what you choose to do, you're going to be alive, because you're going to make progress.” - Tony Robbins

To say that Anthony Robbins is a legend is to say nothing at all.

Beyond being a #1 New York Times bestselling author, Tony is also a founder, partner, or early investor in 100+ privately held businesses with combined sales exceeding $7 billion annually.

He’s been honored by Accenture as one of the top fifty business intellectuals in the world, having consulted and coached some of the world’s greatest athletes, entertainers, Fortune 500 CEOs, and four US presidents.

Finally, through his philanthropy and partnership with Feeding America, he has provided more than 800 million meals and is on track to provide 1 billion meals by 2025.

And it isn’t only his impressive list of credentials that made me so excited to have him as a guest on Impact Theory. Tony’s books, talks, and live events have also had a profound impact on me, both personally and professionally.

Our conversation ranged far and wide, covering everything from the secrets to true fulfillment in life to his deep research into the cutting edge of regenerative medicine.

If you (like me) feel excited after what Tony shared in this episode, I encourage you to check out Tony’s new book, Life Force: How New Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine Can Transform the Quality of Your Life & Those You Love: https://amzn.to/3qrXhDa


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
02:14 | What Drives Tony to Write Deeply About Big Issues
10:13 | Where is the Cutting Edge of Medicine in 2022?
16:56 | How Tony Made a Huge Impact Despite the Pandemic
21:09 | How to Deal With Weak Links in an Organization
24:14 | On Destroying Limitations and Learning to Embrace Risk
27:48 | The Foundations of a Culture of Weakness (And How to Overcome It)
36:11 | The Most Important Pillar of Lasting Change
43:37 | How Tony Continually Embraces Change
48:15 | Tony’s Ultimate Breakthrough 2022 Challenge
54:36 | What Drives Tony to Learn Deeply

QUOTES:
“Progress equals happiness. If you keep growing, you're going to feel alive. And if you keep growing, you're going to have more to give. And when you're growing and giving is when life is magnificent.” [25:45]

“People need a new perspective. And you can't do it by just sitting and thinking - you’ve got to move your body, you’ve got to change your energy and your focus, because [with a] low level of energy, I don't give a damn how smart you are - you're not going to use all of your ability.” [34:57]

“The one common denominator [of] people that are successful over a lifetime is the sustained hunger. Hunger is the number one factor.” [46:04]

“I think anybody that gets wired to grow and give is gonna have a really fulfilling life. It doesn't matter what you choose to do, you're going to be alive, because you're going to make progress.” [47:24]

“You’ve got to understand, anyone can learn anything if you can just break it down to its simple core.” [56:21]


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What does living a longer, healthier, and more fulfilling life mean to you? How can you achieve that goal and does achieving that goal start the same for everyone? Per usual there is an abundance of information out that can be highly contradictory to each other and there is also a lot of narrative and research even showing results that are based on ulterior motives. Is it better to follow the research that says go vegetarian because animal proteins are not good for humans? Could it be better to stick with data that supports high quality proteins from an animal based diet? Dr. Gabrielle Lyon is joining Tom for another informative conversation about how transparent conversations, research and data need to be shared to better inform people about the best ways to protect muscle and thus achieve longer, healthier, more fulfilling high-quality lives. Being focused on strength and the functionality of muscles and what is required to maintain and build healthy muscle is a must for anyone thinking about longevity.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Gabrielle Union
2:44 | Burning Muscle for Fuel
9:58 | Essential Amino Acids
11:55 | Why It’s Hard To Build Muscle
14:21 | Nurturing Efficient Muscle Growth
19:05 | Debunking Longevity & Low Protein
23:58 | Skeletal Muscle Principles 101
29:24 | Harmful Anti-Animal Dogma
32:58 | The Metabolic Disease Connection
34:19 | Define Longevity & Quality of Life
38:07 | Start Training to Stress the Body

QUOTES:

“You're existing in this incredibly delicate balance between what you eat, your insulin response to what you eat, and the muscle that you carry, and how much you use it.” Tom Bilyeu [2:44]

“The body thrives under activity, and whether you take a human, whether you take an animal, if you essentially domesticate them, and they are not training, they will lose muscle.” [6:50]

“You have to be very careful about how you want to age and this concept of longevity.” [23:16]

“Muscle is necessary, but not sufficient. You have to both have muscle and a diet that isn't overwhelming your system.” Tom Bilyeu [27:29]

“Our expectation is now to lower the quality of evidence to be able to say, well, no plant and animal protein are the same. No, they're not!” [31:01]

“Skeletal muscle is an organ system, just like the thyroid. It should be tested and treated as such.” [40:50]

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If you’ve been following me for any length of time, you’ve probably heard about the years I spent chasing money - and how it left me emotionally bankrupt.

Don’t get me wrong - money is a powerful force. It gives you the ability to close your eyes, imagine something that you want to create, and then open your eyes and actually be able to go out there and do it.

However, I’ve also found that people have wildly different opinions on money, how we should relate to it, and how it affects our levels of happiness and fulfillment.

But what do people who have really mastered the game of money have to say about it?

What constitutes a wealthy life? How should we define success? How do we create and monetize long-term value for those we serve?

Todays’ episode of Impact Theory answers those questions, and many more. I’ve assembled some of my favorite moments from past guest interviews, all revolving around our relationships with money and financial success.

What was your #1 takeaway from the episode? Let me know in the comments below! 👇

SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Ken Honda on shifting your focus around wealth
09:01 | David Rubenstein on children of wealthy families
17:54 | Ramit Sethi on rewriting your invisible scripts around money
28:10 | Tilman Fertitta on forging your own path in business
37:05 | Yancey Strickler on new ways of measuring value


QUOTES:
“I think wealth is an attitude. If you feel like you're so happy, and so content with what you have, you are already wealthy. But if you have to struggle every day, and you cannot find happiness, either in your business or in your personal life, I think you're not wealthy, even if you have billions in your bank account.” - Ken Honda [05:38]

“Raising children is a complicated thing. If you mess up raising your children, nothing else in life really matters. Your ultimate legacy is not a building named after you, or a scholarship named after you - it's your children” - David Rubenstein [13:50]

“It's not impossible to make money - there's actually a lot of people making money. It's not impossible to get ahead, pay off debt, even invest and grow - there's a lot of people doing it. But if you're surrounded by people who constantly complain about how difficult it is, and it's impossible, guess what? You're going to absorb those invisible scripts.” - Ramit Sethi [19:43]

“You've got to know your God given gifts, and everybody has it. Everybody in this room has it right here. So do what you know was your God given gift and find a way to use that as your path.” - Tilman Fertitta [33:18]

“My assumption was always that financial value is simply the first value we've learned to rationally express - that financial value is a proxy for goodness that is mathematical and that is tradable and that is universal - and that that process can be repeated for other values” - Yancey Strickler [44:48]


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We are living through interesting times where gender roles are an ongoing heated discussion. Tempers and passion flare from all sides, but what we cannot ignore is the damage being done to both boys and girls. There have been intense movements that even though they are noble they have caused damage along the way socially in the psyche of young boys and girls. If you follow Tom you’ve heard him say time and time again, we are all having a biological experience. What does this biological experience become when society and doctrine contradict and suppress the nature of our biological experiences? Dr. Warren Farrell joins Tom to discuss his latest book, The Boy Crisis, Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It. The resolution as Dr. Warren states begins with understanding different sides of the argument. Learning how to steel man the opposing sides' argument will help create a foundation where the real problem, lack of father involvement and fatherless homes, can be addressed for the sake of our boys (and girls).

“The boy crisis resides where dads do not reside.” -Dr. Warren Farrell

Whether you are a father, mother, teacher, leader or fatherless child yourself, this conversation is not to be ignored and forgotten.

Check out Warren Farrell’s new book, The Boy Crisis: https://amzn.to/3JMfjHR

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Warren Farrel
1:25 | Hear Opposing Perspectives
9:04 | Steel Man Arguments
22:47 | Disposability of Men
28:55 | Missing Fathers & The Boy Crisis
31:27 | Checks & Balances Parenting
45:11 | Catch 22 of Work & Family
49:17 | Be Your Partner’s Hero
56:02 | Falling In Love With Superman
59:29 | Learned Gender Roles
1:10:39 | The Myth of Male Power
1:23:08 | Lack of Father Involvement

QUOTES:

“Knowing how to listen to different perspectives is more important than the rightness or the wrongness of your perspective.” [2:30]

“Whenever someone is angry, that angry anger is almost always vulnerability’s mask…” [3:37]

“The boy crisis resides where dads do not reside.” [29:05]

“The children that do the best are the ones that have an involved biological mom and dad.” [32:32]

“One of the biggest mistakes that CEO types make is using their skill sets as a CEO to solve their wife's problem…” [48:21]

“The way to protect her is by hearing her through and hearing her out. That is the solution. So you have to reformulate the method you use to protect.” [51:20]

“I become her hero by helping her become her own hero.” [53:43]

“The second they start realizing that you will provide complete safety for their perspective, there's no reason to shout, there's no reason to exaggerate. There's no reason to lie.” [58:24]

“We have this natural instinct to protect women and therefore create freedoms for them, and to not want men to complain, without looking at them with disgust, or with at least pity.” [1:06:51]

“The new future man is one who can respect himself if he's a natural warrier on the battlefield, [...], but also can respect yourself and know that you're needed by your family, to be more involved with your family on an everyday level.” [1:29:14]

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It’s a new year, and people everywhere are looking for ways to improve their productivity so that they can crush their goals.

But no matter what productivity system you use, you’ll still have trouble reaching your goals if counterproductive habits are holding you back.

Maybe you have trouble focusing on one thing at a time, or aren’t sure which project to tackle first.

Or perhaps you’re constantly plagued by procrastination, always having a hard time getting past the starting block.

Whatever issues around productivity and self-management you may have, this episode of Impact Theory has you covered.

In it, I answer some of the most common questions I get around productivity, procrastination, time management, and goal-setting.


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
00:33 | Is Procrastination a Habit or a Symptom of Anxiety?
05:31 | How to Regain Focus on One Thing
08:11 | How to Manage a Hectic Workload
14:04 | Developing Discipline & Time Management Skills
19:08 | Coordinating Time Management With Your Partner


QUOTES:
“I know if I'm chilling on a Monday at 1pm, I know I have a problem. I'm outside of the bright lines that I have drawn for myself, which is Monday through Friday, if I'm awake, I'm either working or working out. ” [03:32]

“We don't want to work until we crash - that doesn't make sense. So we're going to take that off the table, because that's like running a marathon and saying, ‘I'm going to run the first mile at a four minute mile pace, and then, whatever - the rest will take care of itself.’” [08:33]

“Remember, doing less is always an option. Now I'm the go hardcore, the push, push, push guy, I love hustle, porn, all of that. But I'm telling you, nothing matters more than fulfillment and joy. And if you're burning yourself out, and you're stressed, and you're crashing, that's not joyful.” [10:59]

“We're not doing discipline because our parents tell us to - we're doing discipline as a test to see if it works to get us towards our goal.” [14:44]

“You want to make it such that you want it badly enough that the discipline becomes easy to stick to, because it's going to move you towards that thing that you really want. But you've got to learn - you've got to learn to want that thing.” [17:46]

“You must establish a value system. There's no right or wrong answer to your values, there's only things that either move you towards your goal, or move you away from your goal.” [20:31]

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In a perfect world, we can all eat exactly the same and everyone gains and loses weight the exact same way. Unfortunately, in reality you may have a friend that can kill a whole pizza, have dessert and eat extra fries without gaining an ounce of weight. Others seem to put on weight even looking at a plate of food. What’s the deal? Why is it so easy for some people to gain weight and so hard for others. Why are so many people still sold on the calories in and calories out solution to obesity and weight control? Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and bestselling author. His latest book, The Case for Keto, tackles a lot of the misinformation around calories and why some people struggle with losing weight even when calories are restricted to the point of a starvation diet. We are led to believe that overeating is the problem, but what if eating too much isn’t what’s making you fat? What if your partner's problem is really how sensitive their body is to storing fat? This interview may be the missing piece of the puzzle that will help you and the people you love make the right diet changes, today.

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SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Gary Taubes
1:27 | Overeating or Just Overweight
9:24 | Starvation Storing More Fat
18:27 | Quantify Excess Calories
24:48 | Hunger & Energy Burning
30:31 | Insulin Resistant
37:33 | Sensitivity of Fat Storing Cells
43:33 | American Carb Diet Problem
50:10 | A Fat Storage Problem
56:34 | Eat For Your Body Type

QUOTES:

“As long as insulin is elevated, your body's being told not to burn the fat, but the burn the carbs. So if insulin is elevated, carbohydrates are your fuel.” [35:28]

“Carbohydrates are fattening to those of us who fatten easily, not all of us are susceptible [...] if we want to get significant fat out of our fat cells and keep it out, then we have to minimize insulin” [39:30]

“If you're overweight, you have to carb restrict. It's not about eating less, it's about lowering insulin levels.” [58:15]

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“If you don't have time to meditate for an hour everyday, you should meditate for two hours.” - Zen Proverb

Think you don’t have time for self-care in stressful times? What if you’re not sure whether you should take a break or continue to grind it out?

When it comes to the subject of self-care, people often have a lot of opinions - some of them make sense, while some of them don’t.

In today’s episode of Impact Theory, I’ll be answering these questions (and more) around how to effectively implement self-care in your life.

I’ll not only share what I believe to be the ultimate foundational self-care routine, I’ll also go into the reasons why you should be taking care of yourself in the first place, what to do if you have low self-esteem, and more.

So whether you’re currently living an easy life or you’re in the middle of the most stressful week of your life, I hope you get value out of this episode and most importantly, I hope you use what you’ve learned to improve your own self-care routine.


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
00:38 | How To View Self-Care As Essential To Success
04:40 | When To Refuel vs. Continue To Grind
08:48 | Lack of Self Love? Or Just Bad Prioritizing?
15:36 | Where To Start If You Have Low Self-Esteem
19:06 | Keeping Up With Self-Care During Stressful Times


QUOTES:
“The reason that I work out, the reason that I prioritize sleep, the reason that I meditate - all of those things are because I know that that's what you need to do in order to cognitively optimize.” [01:55]

“You can't, unfortunately, just tell yourself to love yourself. While it helps a little bit, it's maybe 5%. The other 95% is actually doing something that you think is worthy of respect, actually doing something that makes you feel that you have worth.” [10:19]

“The whole point of life is to optimize for fulfillment and joy. And beating ourselves up, thinking ourselves worthless, do not move us towards that goal.” [11:40]

“If you're doing that - working really hard to get exceptional at something that matters, that the world cares about and that you love, and then you contribute in a way that elevates you and other people - that's the game of fulfillment.” [18:26]

“If you're doing that - working really hard to get exceptional at something that matters, that the world cares about and that you love, and then you contribute in a way that elevates you and other people - that's the game of fulfillment.” [18:26]

“The whole idea is as you lower that stress and anxiety, you get into a calm and creative space where you can problem solve. And so that's the goal - we want to get into a place where we can begin problem solving.” [20:09]

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From crypto start-ups to volatile market scares reported everyday, you may still feel like you’re wandering in the dark trying to figure out what is going on. Aside from a top of the line curated list of interviews with leading experts in the finance industry here on this channel, it is critical that you do the research needed to get a better grasp of how cryptocurrency, defi, blockchain and web 3.0 are going to disrupt businesses in a major way. The tips and information in this episode are answers to questions from other entrepreneurs and business owners seeking to understand how to get positioned for the rapidly changing digitized age we are all experiencing. The goal of this episode is to get you thirsty enough to do your research, risk feeling stupid and gain a more functional understanding of what’s available to you in one of the biggest transfer of wealth opportunities ever seen. Do. Not. Ignore. This.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction Cryptocurrency
0:42 | Tips to Learn Crypto Fast
3:47 | Coins and Blockchain Relationship
10:09 | Crypto Security & Scams
19:15 | Making Crypto Commerce Functional
23:42 | Volatility of Payments in Crypto
27:14 | Web 3.0 Revolution for Business



QUOTES:

“Understanding why you like a given blockchain will help you understand why you like a given coin.” [4:22]

“If you are an NFT collector, as I am, never ever, ever, under any circumstance engage with a contract that you don't know.” [17:31]

“Don't take my word for it, do your own research, [...] Please go and understand it. Don't ignore it. Don't be afraid to feel stupid. [...] There is no need for the rich to be the only ones winning” [30:59]

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What does it mean to go “into the impossible”?

For Professor of Cosmology Dr. Brian Keating, it’s all about shattering the limiting beliefs around what a human being is capable of.

In his latest book, Into the Impossible: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner, Dr. Keating explores this question through the lens of the pursuit of one of humanity’s highest achievements: The Nobel Prize.

Today’s episode is a wide-ranging conversation that touches on everything from the scientific method and first principles thinking, to the motivations that drive people to pursue the highest level of achievement.

Find out more by ordering Dr. Keating’s book here: https://amzn.to/3p3AKeT


SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
01:13 | The Power of The Scientific Method
11:41 | What is Truth, and Why Does it Matter?
18:17 | The Scientific Method: Inductive vs. Deductive
29:31 | Brian’s Origin Story
39:11 | Losing the Nobel Prize
47:47 | What Drove Brian to Aim At a Nobel Prize
1:00:46 | Brian’s Quest Takes a Turn For The Worse
1:09:53 | Into the Impossible: Behind the Title
1:20:01 | Disproportionate Returns & The Curse of Knowledge
1:29:48 | The Key to Pursuing Something Grand
1:32:59 | Scientific Pursuit, Happiness, & Fulfillment
1:50:14 | The Epistemic Approach to Problem-Solving


QUOTES:
“Oftentimes, scientists are like kids. Kids are curious, they're inquisitive, they can be charming, they can be mischievous. They can also be jealous, they can be petty, they can not want to play.” [05:26]

“Truth is what anchors us to reality. If you and I have different versions of reality - of relative truth - I think chaos ensues from that.” [05:43]

“What the scientific method does, is it doesn't say ‘That's right.’ It says, ‘That's not wrong.’” [08:47]

“Energy by itself is meaningless. It's almost nothing. But organized energy can do anything. And that's the core principle - that you need organization. Organization implies order.” [14:16]

“Passion is like a spark that can ignite the afterburner, but you need the fuel to keep the afterburner going. And curiosity is that fuel.” [38:22]

“In science, using the scientific method, there should be a little bit of add on, where you check to see, ‘Am I fooling myself?’” [1:06:32]

“Oftentimes people short the human intellect and what we're capable of doing.” [1:12:05]

“I don't like this saying, ‘Follow the science.’ Science is supposed to be about questioning authority. And now we're in this land where you have to follow authority. I think almost nothing could be less scientific than saying ‘Oh, because this particular person like Feynman would say something, that I'm not going to question it.’ He has to be wrong, just as Newton was wrong, just as Galileo was wrong.” [1:15:50]

“Albert Einstein had imposter syndrome. He said that Isaac Newton did more, not only for physics, but for Western civilization, than any person before or since, even including Einstein himself.” [1:19:45]

“This is my meaning of life. I'm gonna do those things that which, if taken away from you, would devastate you.” [1:43:55]

“The great thing about science is you never ‘win’ science. There's no such thing as winning science. You might win a Nobel Prize or win tenure, or get into a good school. But you're not winning science, because it's an infinite game, it cannot be won. That's what's so magical about it.” [1:55:19]


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Becoming unstoppable, going beast mode and executing at the highest level is achievable for anyone and everyone, but only if you really want it. Tom didn’t reach the level of success he’s seen this far by waiting for things to happen or doing barely enough to get by. Reaching new heights of your career and entrepreneurial journey is going to take stepping into the boxing ring with yourself day after day for a sparring match. Elite performers understand that something you have to get bloody and marred in the fight to overcome your failures, the embarrassment of failure and the lack of discipline and skill we all start out with. The only question that matters is what are you ready and willing to do right now where you are. If you want change and you want to experience success like never before, you’re going to need to do things you’ve never done before, and this motivational video is the kickstart you need to get going.

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction, Get It Done
3:07 | Sense of Urgency
5:29 | Push Beyond Mastery
7:43 | Become More Capable
10:05 | Every Day Is A New Day
11:51 | Face the Unknown
15:10 | The Truth Hurts
17:03 | Know Who You’re Becoming
20:03 | Demand Courage of Yourself

QUOTES:

“Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.” -Jim Rohn [3:07]

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson [5:46]

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” -Leonardo da Vinci [7:43]

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” -Eleanor Roosevelt [10:25]

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” -Rabindranath Tagore [12:14]

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” -Gloria Steinem [15:10]

“All great ideas come from a picture.” -Michio Kaku [17:01]

“You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.” -Brene Brown [20:03]

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The meteoric rise of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies over the past years just goes to show that even something as ubiquitous as money is ripe for disruption.

And even though crypto is a space that many of us are just beginning to understand, its principles call into question the validity of the existing fiat monetary system.

In his latest book, The Fiat Standard: The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization, Dr. Saifedean Ammous sets out to do just that.

Using the first principles thinking that he used to write his bestselling book, The Bitcoin Standard, Dr. Ammous analyzes the history of fiat currency, the shift away from the gold standard, and the economic, social and political fallout that came as a result.

Find out more by ordering his book here: https://amzn.to/3DRdLbf

SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
01:28 | What is Fiat Currency?
05:57 | How Types of Money are Created
14:25 | Fiat, Self-Correction, and Hyperinflation
18:10 | What is Hard Money?
23:48 | The Transition to Universal Debt Slavery
27:54 | Fiat vs. Hard Money
33:10 | Deflation vs. Inflation
43:22 | Why the Wealthy Hold the Most Debt
46:23 | Has Fiat Currency Ruined the University?
1:01:34 | Bitcoin vs. Central Planning
1:05:26 | Why Printing Money is Destructive
1:19:28 | Bitcoin vs. Gold Standard
1:24:18 | How Bitcoin Will Consume the Bond Market
1:28:06 | Transitioning to a Crypto Economy

QUOTES:
“As we develop the ability to have stronger, harder money, we’re able to provide for our future more... The more we save, the more capital we have available for investment. The more we invest, the more the productivity goes up, the more our standard of living increases. That's really the process of civilization.” [22:13]

“If you're trying to collect zeros next to your house valuation, move to Zimbabwe, Lebanon, Venezuela - go where the hyperinflation is, and you'll have the most valuable house. Obviously, people don't care about how many zeros you attach to their prices of goods. People care about the purchasing power of money.” [36:27]

“A lot of parents teach their kids to save, but it's pretty bad advice if you save in the Fiat standard. If you hold on to money you're witnessing it basically lose its value by 5, 10, 15% per year.” [39:22]

“Why did Soviet cars suck? Because they were producing the same way that modern research in modern American universities is produced - it's from the top down.” [59:15]

“The only reason that [the U.S. government] can get into bonds is because everybody's counting on their ability to inflate their money supply and devalue their people. So the bond market is just… it's evil through and through.” [1:25:58]

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Too often people have experienced life in a way that shapes their nature, their responses, and how to perceive life as it comes. Having your mind stretched and bent beyond its normal world view is scary but a treat worth exploring with guest Chuck Palahniuk. Last time he joined Tom to discuss life, death and finding meaning in your life. In this episode, we’re deep diving into how Chuck pursues new ideas, stretches himself beyond the outcomes, and allows the magic of connection to take place through the process of creating stories. Chuck discusses his new essay, People, Places, and Things, and shares the juice of how he’s able to compel such strong reactions from stories that make most people uncomfortable.

Check Out Chuck’s Short Stories on Substack: https://chuckpalahniuk.substack.com/
Chuck’s Latest Essay, People, Places and Things: https://try.scribd.com/palahniuk60/

Mentioned in this episode:
Suddenly, Last Summer: https://youtu.be/tFVcW2ntimM

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction Chuck Palahniuk
1:28 | Shaped Inside Out
4:28 | Mental Breakthroughs
9:46 | Pursuing Creative Ideas
17:12 | Validating New Ideas
25:04 | Surprising Outcomes
29:58 | Mutual Consciousness
36:35 | Freedom at Ground Zero
40:39 | What Scares You Has Meaning
49:16 | Life Influences & Performance
1:00:35 | Allow Silence, Look for Patterns
1:07:31 | Bathos, Comic Tragedy
1:17:19 | Sincere, Not Offensive
1:32:01 | Motivated by Meaning

QUOTES:

“We're drawn to these things that resonate with us, but I would bet that's because of something that's innate within us” [4:15]

“You have this idea of what it's going to be to attain this thing, but when you actually attain the thing it's never what you anticipated, which is the glorious part. Because why strive for something, if you kind of already know what that thing is, but when you strive for it, and it surprises you, that's the glorious part.” [26:41]

“It's not about my joy. It's about providing that moment for somebody else.” [29:51]

“I like the idea of taking things that we have a negative connotation [about], like shame, and if there's some way to harness shame, and spin shame, so that shame becomes productive.” [36:35]

“There's such freedom in that zero place where you're not trying to look good and you're not trying to dominate [...] it's like a fresh wake up.” [38:19]

“Fear is the thing that validates that you're doing the thing that means something to you. Because if it didn't mean anything to you, you wouldn't feel the fear.” [42:26]

“People who are in love with that constant exploration process, are the people who are creative throughout their entire lives well into their 60s 70s 80s, because they're in love with the process, rather than just this single outcome.” [46:25]

“That's kind of the blessing of pain is that pain can only go on for so long before it shifts to something else. And all that tension comes out.” [1:13:28]

“A lot of times people are offended, not because you've somehow hurt their feelings, but because you've said a truth that they don't want to hear.” [1:24:30]

About Chuck Palahniuk: Chuck Palahniuk is the author of fourteen novels, among them Fight Club and Choke, which were adapted into feature films. His work also includes a travel guide, a collection of short stories, two graphic novels, a writing advice book, a collection of essays, and two coloring books.

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Most of us believe that a good way to arrange our lives is by minimizing suffering for ourselves and for those around us.

In his latest book, Paul Bloom lays out an argument that human beings aren’t exactly wired that way - and that this may actually be a good thing.

Human beings will often choose their own suffering (even extreme forms of it) in order to gain everything from control over our environment to visceral pleasure.

In today’s conversation, Paul and Tom dive deep into the evolutionary underpinnings of chosen suffering, the biological roots of human morality, the relationship between sex and religion, how to live a meaningful life, and much more!

You can learn more about many of the topics covered in today’s conversation in Paul’s new book, The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning.

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SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction - Paul Bloom
06:54 | Darwinism and Control Over Pain & Pleasure
13:24 | Meditation & Getting Outside of Yourself
24:30 | Mastery and Self-Control
28:38 | Against Empathy
30:29 | Meaning and Purpose
41:12 | Developing the Skill of Willpower
48:54 | Calibrating our Self-Esteem to the World Around Us
58:19 | Emotions, Depression, and Neurochemistry
1:09:58 | Nature, Nurture, and Morality
1:18:59 | Morality and Sexual Behavior


QUOTES:
“I think we have a family of motivations. It includes happiness, which as you point out, can mean different things. It includes pleasure, it includes meaning (whatever that is), it includes morality, maybe it includes beauty, it includes truth. …and a good life is sort of trying to maximize and balance them as best as possible.” [03:50]

“What it is to be a good person, for you and me, differs from what it would have been to be a good person 500 years ago, because we know more stuff now.” [08:17]

“We're often in our heads, and it's uncomfortable. We're thinking about the future, we're mulling over the past, we're very conscious of our bodies, we're conscious of how we look, we're conscious of this voice in our heads, and sometimes sharp and sudden pain can bring us out of it.” [11:35]

“Natural selection did not evolve us to have a good time. It evolved us to survive and reproduce… some degree of buzzing in your head is actually important. Not fun, but important.” [15:35]

“Life isn't the kind of thing that has an intrinsic meaning. People can choose activities that are meaningful, because they meet certain criteria - some objective criteria - but [it’s] also subjective. What might be meaningful for you might not be for me, and vice versa.” [37:36]

“An old-time shrink would say, “Oh, my God, you got to learn to love yourself.” But maybe the advice is, you got to learn to do something that would make your self-esteem more deserved.” [51:56]

“Even six month old babies make moral judgments. You show them one-act plays where one person is helping another one and other ones are hindering another one… and they prefer the good guy.” [1:10:22]


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You understand the importance of being healthy. No one ever strives for sickness and suboptimal health conditions. There is no shortage of advice, tips, tricks and hacks for your health. Sleep more, eat this, don’t eat that, lift this, run more, drink more water, it feels like too much. Let’s break this down and keep it as simple and relevant as possible to help you optimize your overall health. David Sinclair is sharing 3 levels to help you reset your biological clock. Dr. Rahul Jundial is explaining how to intermittent fast while understanding the effect food has on your mind. Liz Josefsberg, Dr Steven Gundry and Dr. Alan Goldhamer simplify food’s relationship with your brain and gut health. Shawn Stevenson brings everything together to emphasize why diet and exercise amount to nothing without knowing how to sleep smarter.

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Dr. Alan Goldhamer https://youtu.be/5RT4qIO27uw
Shawn Stevenson: https://youtu.be/4Mtw3vBQYOg


SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction Health Tips
0:29 | Tip #1 Reset Your Biological Clock
7:37 | Tip #2 Enhance Autophagy
14:01 | Tip #3 Intermittently Fast
22:07 | Tip #4 Better Relationships with Food
30:29 | Tip #5 Improve Your Gut Health
37:46 | Tip #6 Watch Your Salt Intake
43:10 | Tip #7 Sleep better

QUOTES:

“We evolved to stay healthy and alive and fit to wear 40. And then the forces of natural selection decline after that” David Sinclair [2:04]

“We need to realize that certainly our body can have perturbations, but it doesn't mean you're always going to manifest symptoms of that [...] the body and the mind and the diet and lifestyle are so powerful.” Mike Mutzel [12:35]

“Food affects mind, food affects brain with that premise, we can talk about, okay, mine diet will hold off dementia, and intermittent fasting might make you feel like you've had a cup of coffee” Rahul Jundial [15:59]

“Aging, to me, is either the quick or slow breakdown of the gut wall.” Steven Gundry [30:31]

“When you think about the five pounds of bacteria that live in your gut, it may not be too good an idea to put too much of a preservative into that gut because it will alter the microflora” Alan Goldhamer [40:56]

“Our sleep quality is more important than our diet and exercise combined. What it does for our health and also literally our physical appearance. Fascinating stuff how much more fat you lose when you get optimal sleep.” Shawn Stevenson [44:45]

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“I want you from now and forever to imagine yourself standing in a room with 1000 doors, and your job is to know better than anyone else in the company - better than anyone else on the planet - which 999 of those doors to close. That's business.”

In my latest #keynote, I reveal the number one job of every business owner, explain the necessity of thinking from first principles, and challenge audience members to ask me the hardest business question they can think of.

This keynote was filmed at the Driven to Success event in Los Angeles, CA on September 25th, 2021

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If you're a business owner looking to scale your company, check out our Business Decision-Making Workshop.

I will teach you the skills I used to scale Quest into a $1B company. Visit https://decision.impacttheory.com/application and apply today!

SHOW NOTES:

00:00 | Introduction
01:55 | Wanting To vs Knowing How
11:14 | The Hardest Problem in Business
15:04 | The Physics of Progress
26:45 | Presenting Large Proposals
34:10 | Keep or Sell?
36:13 | When to Stop Injecting Money
42:52 | Scaling From 8 to 9 Figures
56:44 | Should I Hire More People?
1:06:19 | Chasing Fulfillment
1:09:38 | Chasing Money
1:12:56 | NFT’s & Investing
1:15:10 | Balancing Self-Education & Action
1:17:45 | Scaling in a Saturated Industry

QUOTES:
“Your business won't fail because of lack of opportunity, your business will fail because you pursue the WRONG opportunity.” [14:15]

“Until you have so much clarity that you know what to do with the next 15 minutes, you're lost. If the next 15 minutes isn't self evident to you, you're lost. So whenever you're like, “I'm not sure what the next move is,” it's because you don't have enough clarity.” [19:11]

“If you can't solve a novel problem, all you can do is copy. Now you can make a career out of being a fast follower. But the only way to get where you want to go is to be able to solve a novel problem.” [22:41]

“The only way to win in life is to be more prepared than everybody else. If you want to win a gold medal in the Olympics, you actually have to be better at that sport than any other human being on planet Earth.” [32:15]

“You can learn anything - but you can also hire almost everything. So the only thing that you must get good at is decision making. If you're not good at decision making, you work for somebody else.” [42:21]

“I promise you, there is not a single problem in any business anywhere where the right set of questions won't lead you to the right answer.” [55:37]

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It was reported that roughly 1 in 20 people report having at least one hallucination in a lifetime. Maybe it was drug induced or simply a dream. Either way, how is it that you can have vivid imagery about what feels like reality in the moment? Dr. Jonas Kaplan joins Tom in this conversation to discuss all the ways your brain is filling in the gaps of its own break in knowledge. The brain is truly fascinating to study and so important to understand when you want to be more open-minded and question your beliefs or get a better perception of and understanding of what reality truly is. Part of seeing reality as it really is versus how your brain predicts it to be is coming face to face with information that challenges the beliefs you hold. Jonas and Tom explore research studies that reveal the freaky nature of how our brains really work and ways you can hack your way past the overprotective nature of your brain. Dr. Jonas Kaplan is the Associate Professor of psychology at USC Brain and Creativity Institute, Co-Director of the Dana & David Dornsife Cognitive Neuroimaging Center, and Associate Director for Mindfulness and Neuroimaging for the USC Center for Mindfulness Science

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction Jonas Kaplan
0:21 | Brain Illusions vs Reality
10:37 | Split Brain Confabulation
22:39 | Executive Function Network
26:04 | Changing Your Beliefs
32:20 | When Identity Is Challenged
41:37 | Mindfulness & Self Narrative
53:02 | Dissolution of Self
1:02:19 | Meaning Making & Stories
1:08:27 | Filmmaking & Neuroscience
1:13:51 | Hacking Your Brain
1:19:39 | Brain Body Malfunction
1:22:48 | Homunculus Sensory Map
1:28:23 | Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

QUOTES:

“The brain builds a model of the world that it has to navigate, right, it builds a simulated picture of what the world is like. That's where beliefs come from.” [2:29]

“The brain wants to create a consistent view of the world. And that provides a motivation to find information that's consistent with what we think.” [8:49]

“Everything's so interconnected that each region of the brain is not corresponding to one particular mental function for the most part...” [24:30]

“Most of us organize our lives in such a way that we never even really have to encounter evidence that challenges our beliefs.” [29:35]

“Feelings are the brain signals that there's some kind of a challenge going on to the body.” [33:37]

“There is probably some value in maintaining our beliefs, and protecting them to some degree, and also in sharing them with other people and building the connections that we have with other people based on shared models of reality” [38:01]

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There’s no doubt that the holidays can be an extremely stressful time for many people.

Whether you’re dealing with loneliness and depression, family trauma, politically opinionated cousins, or staying disciplined with what you eat, there are a lot of landmines hidden among the holiday cheer.

The good news is there are also highly effective tools and tricks that can help you navigate all of the potential difficulties that can crop up this time of year.

By framing things in the right way, setting expectations for yourself and those around you, and looking for ways to find and deepen human connection, you can turn a potentially stressful time into one of the most beautiful times of the year.

SHOW NOTES:

00:00 | Introduction
00:47 | Dealing with Loneliness
10:24 | Maintaining Discipline at Holiday Meals
18:40 | Navigate Emotional Storms in the Family
32:25 | Working Through the Holidays?
37:06 | Faking It With Family
44:10 | Fill Your Heart With Love

QUOTES:
“When you know you’re doing something for other people, you feel this deep sense of meaning and purpose. Doing that around the holidays I think can be a huge, huge win.” [6:19]

“Bright lines will work, no matter what it is, as long as you want the outcome enough to essentially torment yourself.” [12:53]

“We cannot control other people. You cannot make them deal with their mental health. That cannot be your responsibility.” [22:55]

“The whole punchline of life is to live a joyful life of fulfillment - that’s it.” [34:42]

“Having those bickering, biting, trauma-filled exchanges are their own punishment. You do not need to make it worse by trying to change people, convince them to be otherwise, or whatever.” [44:20]

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Being able to focus and think critically and strategically seems to become more challenging on a daily basis. With social media algorithms hacking your attention and focus and everyday life happening at record speeds, you have to become intentional and almost overly protective of your brain. Tom is executing and delivering at an elite level 365 days a year (366 on a leap year) and make no mistake this is by design. Today, he is sharing the 4 main ways he cares for and nurtures his cognitive skills. Taking care of your brain requires that you are aware of all the ways your mental performance is impacted. Tom is sharing exactly what he does on a daily basis as a way of life to keep leveling up and outperforming the competition.

Tom’s Push Pull Split Workout Routine
Day 1: Pull - Back & Biceps
Day 2: Push - Chest, Shoulders, & Triceps
Day 3: Lower Body/Core - Legs & Abs

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction Brain Optimization
1:40 | Workout to Fuel the Brain
5:16 | Reset with Meditation
11:26 | Eat to Boost Brain Power
23:35 | Sleep to Clear & Reset You Mind

QUOTES:

“Managing your neurochemistry is one of the single most important things you can do.” [5:49]

“Meditation is a magical way that nature has given us where you can reset that to absolute zero to where you feel completely calm and creative and anchored. It is truly a phenomenal gift of evolution” [6:24]

“You miss one night's sleep and there is a catastrophic cascade of biological problems that will present themselves rapidly.” [24:02]

“Being tired is a unique ring of hell, I do not understand people who are prepared to go their entire lives fatigue. It makes everything worse.”

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You may be familiar with the saying work hard, play hard, but how does hard work translate to your work ethic? Work ethic is developed and is something that can be improved upon over time. Strong work ethic not only gets the job done, it pulls a driven person through some of the most difficult situations that would deter the common person from even trying. In this episode, you’re going to hear how some of Hollywood's most successful people have decades long careers with monumental success. If you think their talent was enough, guess again. These actors and actresses work just as hard at their skills and their craft as Michal Jordan or Kobe Bryant before the big game. Their successes speak of themselves.

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard” -Tim Notke

Hilary Swank (Becoming a Beast Competitor...): https://youtu.be/WgcYsHKFOGc

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Meagan Good (If You Want Something & Believe...): https://youtu.be/PyAUvtTXgDI

Matthew McConaughey (Trick for Getting What You Want): https://youtu.be/WQ5HQ6z9uIk

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Work Ethic
1:22 | Hilary Swank: Get Competitive
10:15 | John Travolta: Handle People
22:10 | Meagan Good: Push the Limits
30:38 | Matthew McConaughey: Earn It

QUOTES:

“Our biggest competitor is really ourselves [...] overcoming that obstacle of your mind is the number one thing to tackle in pursuing your dreams and your goals.” Hillary Swank [5:59]

“That is super important to be competitive with other people, because they're the ones that push us out of our comfort zone that we didn't even know we were living in.” Hillary Swank [8:24]

“You have to get rid of the people who don't want to play the same game as you do.” John Travolta [13:51]

“When you push yourself beyond what you think is capable, you suddenly realize how capable you are and you're able to just keep pushing and cranking.” Meagan Good [24:53]

“I want to be satisfied and thankful with this is good and this is enough, but I don't want to get comfortable in the sense of like, I know that I can access more. I want to access everything that there is for me to get until there's nothing left.” Meagan Good [28:08]

“So to actually have true freedom, we have to take certain risks. We have to be responsible, more responsible for certain things for ourselves, who we are constantly investigating and interrogating our better selves, to say I'm going to be a little bit better at this tomorrow.” Matthew McConaughey [42:55]

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Iain McGilchrist, renowned psychiatrist, author and thinker joins Tom to share some of the key ideas he writes about in his latest 2 volume book, The Matter of Things. Part of what he proposes is that you keep an open mind and be aware that the ideas and images people are so strongly influenced by are in fact myths and stories. The version of what you see in your reality matters to what you decide to see and live your life by.

“It doesn't matter what you look at, it matters what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau

So much of what the world is and who we are is not understood. To think you fully grasp the complexities of consciousness, matter, space and time would be wildly ignorant. Iain perfectly quotes psychologist William James, “ignorance is a sea and knowledge is a drop in that ocean” In this conversation Iain explores ideas of how little we truly know about the cognitive function of the left and right hemispheres of the brain. He highlights the beauty and complexity of order in the universe even where we are unable to fully grasp and understand the order. He’s calling people to be open to the seemingly random chaos and meaninglessness of life to find a better way to live and a better vision of the world we live in. The path of doing so challenges you to embrace the many paradoxical reactions occurring all around us in nature.

Check out Iain McGilchrist’s book, The Matter With Things: https://channelmcgilchrist.com/the-matter-with-things/

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction Dr. Iain McGilchrist
2:10 | Split Brain Connection
8:50 | Unity of Opposite Hemispheres
22:08 | The Brain Shapes Reality
27:49 | Objective Reality & Co-Creation
35:10 | 3 Pathways to One Vision
44:16 | The Sacred and Divine
55:44 | Why Belief Matters
1:05:53 | Left Sided Paradox
1:10:57 | Neutralizing Left Sided Thinking

QUOTES:

“Everything that exists, not just in the brain, but in physics, in the world at large in nature, depends on a combination of division and union [...] There needs to be the synthesis of union with division.” [8:59]

“Both hemispheres do everything in some way, but it's all about that ‘in some way’. It's the how not the what. So they do the ‘what’ of the same things, but they do the how of them completely differently.” [12:47]

“The emotional brain is as much the left hemisphere as the right. It specializes in anger, irritability, and doesn't like being crossed.” [28:43]

“Neurology and theology are not at war with one another, they are seeing the same realities just at slightly different levels and in different ways.” [35:42]

“If you want to know about a human being, the brain is a pretty central place to start.” [39:32]

“I would be giving the wrong impression if I said that I know anything about what God is, or I’m a believer in whatever, but it will also be equally wrong to say, ‘I dismiss this or I don't believe it’.” [56:21]

“Belief is not about believing six impossible things before breakfast. It's about a disposition of your mind towards the world.” [57:36]

“We need to be able to keep away from this way of reducing our understanding, keeping ourselves open to all and wonder, keeping ourselves with a little humility about what our intellects can actually do, and having compassion for people who disagree with us.” [59:57]

“We should live in a world where there is virtually nothing that you can't say, it's how you say it.” [1:11:56]

“There are four main pathways to the truth, science, reason, intuition, and imagination. Any worldview that tries to get by without paying due respect to all four of these is bound to fail.” Iain McGilchrist read by Tom [1:16:48]


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From the time you were born, dopamine receptors in your brain have been firing off to keep you alive, to keep you motivated and keep you focused on pursuing something worthwhile. If you were born in the digital age of technology where electronic devices and social media started affecting your life directly or indirectly. You easily start feeling like you're not enough, there’s something missing or like you should be doing more than you are.

Anna Lembke is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She writes, “humans are the ultimate seekers.” Because of the way we are wired with the flood of hormones and chemicals released physiologically, we are always looking for the next dopamine hit without ever consciously identifying and labeling it. So, if it is in your nature to pursue a reward that is ever elusive, what reward do you decide to focus on?

In this episode, Anna and Tom explore why using the love of the pursuit as a drug of choice to get dopamine rewards can be very dangerous. Anna also explains the pleasure pain balance and why too much pleasure and too much positive overload is still a form of stress to watch out for.

Order Anna Lembke’s book, Dopamine Nation, Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/152474672X?tag=randohouseinc7986-20

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Anna Lembke
1:00 | Pursuit is Rewarding
10:12 | Dopamine Insensitivity
16:17 | Pleasure Pain Balance
26:24 | Dopamine Reset
29:21 | Cannabis Use & Potency
34:07 | Pornography Addiction
39:56 | Truth Telling Reward
50:38 | Spirituality in Neurochemistry
59:05 | Social Media Connection
1:12:16 | To Exert Will or Not
1:25:10 | Danger in Striving


QUOTES:

“We are hardwired to approach pleasure and avoid pain. And that's really at the heart of our dopamine reward system.” [7:50]

“Any deviation from neutrality is actually a form of stress. In fact, biologists define stress as a deviation from neutrality.” [18:33]

“The richest countries in the world are the countries that have the most suicide, anxiety, depression, and physical pain.” [24:22]

“Because our primitive brains were not wired for an easy, hyper convenient world, we are suffering as a result of all of this access to these feel good things.” [25:10]

“If social media is the main place, or the only place where you get validation, and you feel connected, that's really dangerous.” [1:06:55]

“Don't do the easy thing to get rid of the pain, far better to suffer and come up with a long term solution” Tom Bilyeu [1:08:45]

“The interesting part here is it isn't winning a championship, it's becoming capable of a championship performance.” Tom Bilyeu [1:26:34]

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How much have you entertained the idea of living forever, living past 100 years, or at the very least living wrinkle free well into your 70s? The anti-aging services market is projected to reach $35.4 billion by 2026! People are obviously interested in staying younger longer or living longer than ever before. Beyond physical youth, what should you consider when thinking of longevity? We are presenting 7 experts across different mediums of health to give you the 7 best tips for living a longer, healthier, more fulfilling life. We start with the aging expert, Dr. David Sinclair, explaining why stress is best when you allow proper recovery, and take you through tips on exercise and exploring why longevity without quality of life may not be too appealing.

If you’re interested in diving deeper into the full episode with any of these experts, you can link to their full Health Theory episodes here:
David Sinclair: https://youtu.be/IEz1P4i1P7s
Peter Attia: https://youtu.be/YY-_ux4ZXp4
Gabrielle Lyon: https://youtu.be/srEy7JzLvL8
Ben Greenfield: https://youtu.be/UneyRHeWPTg
Naomi Whittel: https://youtu.be/QCLcvR4fpMk
Dr. Alexander Paziotopoulos: https://youtu.be/Xc1CAI0Ej94
Mark Sisson: https://youtu.be/_PMedVdBFPQ

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction
0:34 | TIP #1 Stress Your Body
06:21 | TIP #2 Eat High Quality Proteins
12:46 | TIP #3 Exercise the Right Amount
20:05 | TIP #4 Exercise the Right Way
27:03 | TIP #5 Activate Autophagy
33:58 | TIP #6 Sleep Better
37:03 | TIP #7 Focus on Quality of Life

QUOTES:

“What is beneficial for you, when you're young, come back to bite you when you're old. “ David Sinclair [5:20]

“A lot of people who are literally pushing themselves with two day, or exercising hard, more than 60 minutes a day, you see a law of diminishing returns, and an increased risk of mortality.” Ben Greenfield [15:17]

“Most people who exercise can't actually tell you why they're doing what they're doing, [...] and I think the sport should be being the most kick ass 100 year old that ever lived.” Peter Attia [20:49]

“Autophagy is like this brilliance within ourselves. And there's so many ways to activate it. And there are so many ways to deactivate it. You don't always want to keep it on” Naomi Whittel [29:35]

“I'm of that mindset that what defines my enjoyment of life right now is partly offset by the knowledge that it ain't gonna be there one day.” Mark Sisson [37:24]

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Self-awareness is that thing many people claim to have but in no time at all you know this person is completely unaware of themselves. Our versions of reality seem to fall in line with the narrative and stories we constantly remind ourselves of, but the truth is, we’ve constructed a reality shaped and influenced by emotions that were never truthful from the beginning. Robert Greene, just released another book, The Daily Laws, and he joins Tom in this episode to share his profound wisdom and understanding of human nature. He beautifully peels back the layers of complexity around how we are able to perceive the world around us and the way in which we fit into our own stories. The main point Robert drives home is the power of detaching yourself from the emotions and egos to take an honest assessment of what you are truly experiencing.

Robert Greene’s last episode on Impact Theory: https://youtu.be/4EtN3DM74Ko

Check out Robert Greene’s new book, The Daily Laws: https://amzn.to/3Bpmmk9

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 | Introduction to Robert Greene
0:51 | Reading Words and Behaviors
5:06 | Unhealthy Relationship Loops
9:25 | Developing Awareness
12:21 | Detaching Emotion & Ego
16:33 | Self Analysis & Illusion
24:33 | See the World As It Is
30:35 | Shift from Blame to Power
34:30 | Untruthful Emotions
41:42 | Change Attitude with Belief
48:42 | What Is Sublime
59:02 | Experiencing the Sublime
1:12:22 | Daily Struggle for Joy
1:18:00 | The Problem with Hope
1:25:58 | Abilities Taken for Granted
1:30:30 | Processing Data Quickly
1:36:29 | Envy & Comparison

QUOTES:

“Deal with the world the way that it actually is, and not the way that you wish it were.” Tom Bilyeu [0:26]

“We completely take appearances for reality. That's sort of the source of our problems and our misery to be honest with in life.” [1:10]

“When you're very young you're extremely vulnerable, you're extremely open to the energies of other people in ways we don't understand right now.” [6:38]

“So awareness is everything, the ability to look at yourself, realistically, and understand you're saying, see things as they are, see the world as it is. It begins with yourself, seeing yourself as you are.” [11:28]

“If we saw completely into ourselves, we would hate ourselves so thoroughly, we wouldn't get out of bed, we would all be killing ourselves, you do need a degree of illusion, you need a degree of self esteem and confidence” [20:14]

“We're so attuned to what's cool, to what other people are doing out there, what other people are saying that we lose kind of an intuitive grasp of who we are.” [22:50]

“The source of your power in life is your attitude towards the world.” [25:17]

“When you take 100% ownership, and you look at your life and say, My life is an exact reflection of choices that I've made. Now, if I want it to be different, then I just need only make different choices” Tom Bilyeu [32:39]

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Decentralization has sparked more conversation and opinions than we can track. As people become more aware of the cracks in the current financial system, solutions to the ways through and over those existing barriers become more appealing. Richard Craib is the founder of the crowdsourced quant hedge fund, Numerai, which is using sophisticated machine learning to create models that essentially predict how the stock market moves. During this conversation with Tom, Richard is sharing how crypto is breaking the barriers of the old financial system that was meant to protect people, while effectively keeping everyone out. This is another resource that can be really useful in seeing the bitcoin revolution, blockchain and cryptocurrency in another light, especially through the lens of finance.



SHOW NOTES:



0:00 | Introduction Richard Craib

0:55 | Financial System Barrier

7:29 | Blocking Innovation

13:07 | Navigating 2 Money Systems

18:13 | Crowd Validation & Volume

24:42 | Machine Learning Models

31:44 | Hedge Funds and Stocks

39:08 | What Happened With Gamestop

44:26 | Decentralized Capitalism

51:12 | Unstoppable Technology

1:00:38 | Bank Regulation Traps

1:08:01 | Staking Benefit for Internet

1:15:46 | Being a Quant Trader

1:22:08 | Math Language in Crypto

1:31:21 | Thinking from 1st Principles

1:34:55 | Entrepreneurship Advice



QUOTES:



“You have to find a way to tie the community into the success of a product and company. And if you fail to do that you will fail in business, you will fail in finance, you will fail in everything.” Tom Bilyeu [53:56]



“You're not in any position of real ownership. And, and that is what crypto changes and the and that's very, very powerful difference” [55:40]



“The difference between owning something forever, and being this kind of like sort of like slave to a system is a very different mindset.” [56:16]



“That's an incredible thing to change, to feel like your relationship with your physical world is somehow fragile, but then the relationship with the digital world is actually fixed and permanent and doesn't need police. And so that's a very powerful thing to be aware of.” [57:49]



“If you can think from first principles, you really can do something original. But if you don't, you can't.” [1:32:56]



“It's very easy to predict the future, when you have a few things to rely on.” [1:33:51]



“Don't start a company unless you're prepared to make it your life's work.” [1:36:44]



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Check out our sponsors: Indeed: Get a FREE $75 CREDIT to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/IMPACT Join the Impact Theory community on discord: https://impacttheory.com/discord Athletic Greens: Go to athleticgreens.com/impact and receive a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase! Blinkist: Go to https://blinkist.com/impact Try it FREE for 7 days and save 25% off your new subscription. MindPump: mindpumpimpact.com Thryve: Get 50% off your at-home gut health test at trythryve.com/impact In one of the worst times in history, people across the entire world simultaneously experienced unexpected change and loss beyond anything ever experienced in recent history. The response to such life altering events has varied drastically from person to person and country to country. Some people found opportunities where none existed before, while others sat in disbelief not sure how to move forward or what to do. Dave Hollis has gone through his own sudden changes over the last couple of years, not related to the pandemic, and they’ve been the kind of changes that challenge your identity and the core of who you say you are and who you think of yourself to be. On the other side of these unexpected life events, he’s emerged with an experience to share about what standing in fear looked like while turning what was utterly terrifying into an exhilarating experience worth sharing. Dave shares his journey of losing everything to find everything else he was capable of creating and more once he learned how to construct a new identity, a purpose, and fulfillment through courage. He reminds us in his latest book, Built Through Courage, “the antidote to fear is a plan.” Do you have a plan in place to help you deal with the unexpected changes life is throwing your way?   “It is not until we've lost everything that we can do anything” -Tyler Durden (Fight Club)   Order Dave Hollis new book, Built Through Courage: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Through-Courage-Fears-Meant/dp/B09129JGT6   SHOW NOTES:   0:00 | Introduction Dave Hollis 1:38 | Unexpected Life Changes 8:18 | Adjusting to New Reality 16:33 | Who You Want To Be 23:34 | Inner Voice Guidance 32:32 | Fulfillment and Purpose 34:56 | Leaving the Known 38:28 | Built Through Courage 45:38 | Stuck in Your Story 50:29 | Toxic Positivity 56:34 | Tested to New Depths 1:02:51 | Becoming Is A Decision   QUOTES:   “There is no control. There's only the way that we respond to the circumstances that life presents” [3:22]   “The place I had to start, to be honest, was really getting intimate with my fear. Because most of why my imagination had been lost was because there was so much fear around trying to figure out something that I'd never contemplated.” [6:50]   “I got to at least build the sail, I gotta put it up so that when the wind starts to come, I'm actually prepared to move forward.” [11:36]   “You think good things are going to come out of this, you will become something because of the post traumatic growth that can come out of the hardest thing that you've ever experienced.” [22:02]   “We're willing to stay inside of suffering that we know, rather than facing the possibility of something new, because the knowns of that existing suffering feel predictable [...] The challenge in pushing away though, is that that safe harbor is surrounded on all sides by fear.” [39:58]   “People get stuck because they let the circumstances of what's happening in real time, cast a probability future, a likely to happen next future, that is clouded by the subjectivity of what they're currently experiencing.” [49:30]   “The way that I feel about my faith is fundamentally different because of having to have my faith tested. I was forced to my knees.” [57:24]   “In the moment, when it feels like life is ending, you forget that there's so many firsts, and so many nexts and so many beautiful moments.” [1:01:17]   Follow Dave Hollis: Website: https://mrdavehollis.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrdavehollis/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrDaveHollis LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-hollis-b5a48671/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mrdavehollis YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnB48Dc40d9vLvkyUfUcMlA

Check out our sponsors:  Athletic Greens: Go to athleticgreens.com/impact and receive a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase! ButcherBox: Skip the lines for your Thanksgiving turkey. ButcherBox is proud to give new members a free turkey at ButcherBox.com/impact SmileBrilliant: Go to smilebrilliant.com and use coupon code IMPACT ChiliSleep: Get 20% off at chilisleep.com/IMPACT Anthem Software: anthemsoftware.com CuriosityStream: Go to https://curiositystream.com/impact and use code IMPACT to save 25% off today, that’s only $14.99 a year.  How did your body respond to the last carb heavy dinner you had? Does eating a high calorie meal affect you worse than a lower calorie, higher carb meal? Herman Pontzer, an evolutionary biologist, did a research study on a hunter gatherer community called Hazda in Tanzania, to learn about energy expenditure. What he’s discovered flips everything you thought you knew about calories and carbs upside down. He’s joining Tom to expose why the data shows that carbs in a calorie controlled environment do not matter. Meaning, it is possible to theoretically go on a Twinkie diet (please don’t) and still lose weight when calories are adhered to. Herman is using data to push back on how calories are burned and how they signal your brain to control your weight.   Order Herman Pontzer’s book, Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy : https://www.amazon.com/Burn-Research-Really-Calories-Healthy/dp/0525541527   Also check out the Hazda Fund (https://www.hadzafund.org/about) to learn more about the Hazda culture   SHOW NOTES:   0:00 | Introduction to Herman Pontzer 1:40 | The Calorie Debate 6:14 | How We Burn Energy 12:09 | Obesity Starts In The Brain 14:43 | Hypothalamus Function 19:25 | Brain Response to Calories 29:06 | Food Calorie Signaling 32:36 | Optimal Lifestyle 34:53 | Processed Food Brain Hack 38:31 | Why Sugar Is A Problem 42:22 | Hi Carb Diet Weight Loss 45:24 | Fantasy Diet Study   QUOTES:   “The problem is that when we begin to say, oh, that must have been something in the food that you ate, rather than, oh, it's something in your individual response to that extra energy.” [21:33]   “It really does come down to the calories or what determines the weight change or maintenance, not the carb level.” [24:13]   “The argument is, is this more in the weeds? Is it fat cells and pancreas? Or is it brain cells and sensing?” [32:29]   “It is my job to keep eyes open and look across cultures and look across human experiences and see that diversity and understand all of it is pretty normal. That the universe of normal for humans is pretty darn broad.” [33:11]   “Sugar is a fructose molecule and a glucose molecule stuck together, and when it gets into your blood, that's what it is.” [38:38]   Follow Herman Pontzer: Website: https://sites.duke.edu/pontzerlab/people/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hermanpontzer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hpontzer/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/herman.pontzer

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Hardcore, unrelenting, straight up grind-this-sh*t-out work ethic that shows up and does the work Every. Single. Day. Recent numbers report approximately 8% of the American population are millionaires. What’s stopping the masses from achieving wealth and success on their own terms? You could say politics, social issues and a lot of other things, but the reality is those reasons are not stopping everyone. Jim Rohn said, “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” In this episode, these high level athletes share tips to help you develop a champion mindset. We know how important the work is to do, but consistency is key, and the process includes doing the right things everyday no matter what.   “What you create, creates you” Anthony Trucks, Former NFL Athlete   Tips to help you develop your champion mindset: 1. Do the right things every day, consistency is key. 2. Dream the big goal and believe you’re capable of achieving it. 3. The way you make others feel around you is important. 4. Do the hard things with intention to be prepared. 5. Push through the pain in pursuit of your goals. 6. Be average with extraordinary dreams and desire 7. Always outwork the competition. 8. Help people in their journey to fuel your own journey. 9. Sometimes you have to tap into your dark side. 10. Growth requires body, mind and spirit connection   Nastia Liukin Episode: https://youtu.be/OlOPYiaYdng James Lawrence’s Episode: https://youtu.be/kgewSQnWtIo Michael Strahan Episode: https://youtu.be/AQZGcD0Ql1s Anthony Trucks Episode: https://youtu.be/pjLl8QrDspU Dotsie Bausch Episode: https://youtu.be/bX13wG2b-Hg Rickson Gracie Episode: https://youtu.be/JrURuyL3qsc Devon Harris Episode: https://youtu.be/w4GPbhNEaek Jay Williams Episode: https://youtu.be/lbFQ_GCdwgk Lori Harder Episode: https://youtu.be/1dg0lZcVj3A   SHOW NOTES:   0:00 | Introduction Champion Mindset 1:23 | Champions Dream Big 6:54 | Champions Know People 15:41 | Champions Do Hard Things 20:49 | Champions Push Thru Discomfort 27:50 | Ordinary with Extraordinary Dreams 33:02 | Out Work Everyone 38:05 | Champions Help Others 41:32 | Tap Into Your Dark Side 45:12 | Body, Mind & Spirit   QUOTES:   “If you have this burning desire inside of you [...] then you just need to go full force and kind of block out all the negativity and everything else that is around you telling you that you can't do it.” Nastia Liukin [5:03]   “The leadership aspect, it is the opportunity to get so many people to believe in one thing that makes everybody better so that everybody wins, and in order to do that you have to make everybody have value and feel valuable.” Michael Strahan [8:02]   “Without doing hard things, we will go backwards in life, we'll go backwards in the way we feel, we go backwards in the way our mind develops.” James Lawrence [15:42]   “The ability to push really hard past the initial, ‘you're in pain, you're in pain, what are you doing stop right now’, like your body says for survival mode was just a reality that I knew that it was going to get make me better, and it was going to be over soon.” Dotsie Bausch  [25:49]   “You could literally go accomplish anything in your life, if you have these extraordinary dreams and an equally extraordinary desire to, to achieve them.” Devon Harris [28:33]   “The journey is about helping other people. It's about really loving what you do and who you are, but loving the fact that you get to do what you love for other people.” Lori Harder [40:59]   “In order for us to grow as a spirit or warriors, no matter if it's physical, or just theoretical, [...] You have to have a good unified body in terms of body, mind, spirit.” Rickson Gracie [45:43]     Follow Nastia Liukin: https://nastialiukin.com/ Follow James Lawrence: https://www.ironcowboy.com/ Follow Michael Strahan: http://www.michaelstrahan.com/ Follow Anthony Trucks: https://anthonytrucks.com/ Follow Dotsie Bausch: https://dotsiebauschusa.com/ Follow Rickson Gracie: https://www.ricksongracie.com/ Follow Devon Harris: https://www.devonharris.com/ Follow Jay Wlliams: https://twitter.com/RealJayWilliams Follow Lori Harder: https://www.loriharder.com/

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Understanding something at its foundational level allows you to really think from first principles, which empowers you to make better decisions. Cryptocurrency is built on technology and Bitcoin has been performing like no other asset in history, but why and how is this possible? You may need to watch this a few times, and may be even better with pen and paper to take notes. This is a crash course and deep dive on money, inflation, what property is, and why assets matter.   Robert shares 5 properties of money:   1. Divisibility 2. Durability 3. Recognizability 4. Portability 5. Scarcity   Resources mentioned in this episode:   WTF Happened in 1971: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ Masters and Slaves of Money: https://breedlove22.medium.com/masters-and-slaves-of-money-255ecc93404f Dishonest Money: https://www.amazon.com/Dishonest-Money-Financing-Road-Ruin-ebook/dp/B004P1J0PQ Sovereign Individual: https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720 Thank God for Money: https://www.amazon.com/Thank-God-Bitcoin-Corruption-Redemption/dp/1641991216   SHOW NOTES:   0:00 | Introduction Robert Breedlove 0:34 | Inflation and Fiat Explained 6:17 | Defining Money & Property 10:47 | Compromised Property Value 16:05 | Wealth Redistribution of Assets 23:59 | What is Money 26:16 | The 5 Properties of Money 33:51 | Central Banking Corrupt Power 40:13 | Counterfeit Inflation 48:32 | Life, Liberty and Property 56:48 | Bitcoin Absolute Scarcity 1:07:21 | Government Disruption 1:13:50 | Declining Power of Government 1:23:20 | Implication of Bitcoin 1:30:47 | Purchasing Power of Bitcoin 1:40:43 | Sovereign Individual Insights 1:48:30 | Decentralized NFTs & Crypto 1:51:03 | Thank God for Bitcoin     QUOTES:   “Money is also a psycho technology. It's like literacy or numeracy. It's a software implementation we put into our brain, we use it to communicate, negotiate [and] plan.” [6:42]   “We typically think property is the house, the car, the stock, whatever. That's not what property is, properties and relationships. It's an exclusively acknowledged relationship between the owner and the asset”   “It contradicts the premise of self ownership, when we give power away to a single institution” [10:26]   “I like to say central banking, and the fiat currency complex is as clear as mud and twice as dirty.” [16:48]   “When we look at money, the five properties that market actors voluntarily favor, you could also think of as the five services we seek from money…” [26:16]   “When money is losing its value over time. We're all incentivized to be more short term thinking. This is a de-civilizing force.” [39:07]   “There is no difference between counterfeiting and inflating the amount of dollars in the system.” [40:13]   “Inflation is legalized counterfeiting. Counterfeiting is criminalized inflation.” [43:33]   “We have tried to rationalize and formulate different ways of creating socio economic structures that favored the few that could understand it and create that privilege for themselves at the expense of others.” [56:35]   “Bitcoin is an innovation as significant as the Gutenberg printing press actually, and I think the implications of its emergence will be similarly disruptive to institutions in the world.” [1:10:07]   “When the institution tries to clamp down on the disruptive technology, the subversive technology, it actually drives it to its highest and most useful form of some subversion” [1:12:24]   “Another definition of money. It's an insurance policy on uncertainty. The only reason people are holding money is for its option value.” [1:35:23]   “To walk across the room, implies that you value being on the other side of the room more than you value sitting where you currently are. So we are constantly and unavoidably expressing our values through action.” [1:55:22]   Follow Robert Breedlove: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC43_LTf5Z4lbRjKCq0sIAVg Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22 LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/ Podcast: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/

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Check out our sponsors:  Indeed: Get a FREE $75 CREDIT to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/IMPACT MindPump: mindpumpimpact.com NCI: Go to impactwithnci.com Blinkist: Go to https://blinkist.com/impact Try it FREE for 7 days and save 25% off your new subscription. Backcountry: Go to Backcountry.com/theory and enter promo code THEORY to get 15% OFF your first full-priced purchase. InsideTracker: Get 25% off their entire store at insidetracker.com/impacttheory Honeybadger: https://drinkhoneybadger.com/impact The truth about life, success, and failure is everything depends on you. The problem is that you, and nearly every other person around, defaults to being at the mercy of the people, the environments, and unfortunate situations that mark the course of life. Mel Robbins is the personification of motivation on steroids packed with a high potency of raw truth. You could say she’s joining Tom to discuss her newest book, The High 5 Habit, but it’s more fitting to say she’s back to give you the kick in the ass you’ve been waiting for. Mel is not only talking about why high fiving yourself is powerful, she’s reminding you that you have a responsibility to heal yourself and do the work. While you’re chasing your dreams, understand that what the world sees as failure may just be a massive success in the timeline of your life, as has been the case for Mel Robbins.   Order Mel’s new book, The High 5 Habit: https://www.amazon.com/High-Habit-Take-Control-Simple-ebook/dp/B096JQSWQ6   SHOW NOTES:   0:00 Introduction Mel Robbins 1:42 | A-Ha Moments In Life 7:20 | Why High 5 Yourself 19:54 | Feel Worth Celebrating 25:15 | R.A.S. Looking for Hearts 34:59 | Powerful of Jealousy 37:44 | Life Is Your Responsibility 47:38 | Interrupting Destructive Worry 51:37 | Mel’s Vermont Painting   QUOTES:   “I hope that when somebody listens to our conversation and watches this that they have a massive a-ha moment, but it’s not going to mean fucking shit if you don’t take action and do something about it.” [3:01]   “You are going to find yourself not at 25, but 45 or 65, and you're going to be so filled with regret that you never fucking put a bet on yourself.” [6:29]   “When you start to have a moment with yourself, the crazy part is you start to build a partnership with yourself.” [15:01]   “Beating yourself up will not make you do the work to get healthy, and tearing yourself down over the shit that you've done or the terrible relationships that you're in it's not going to empower you to change the patterns that are keeping you stuck.” [24:50]   “The thing about jealousy is, it's just your inspiration that's blocked. Jealousy is sort of the insecurity that you have that blocks this inspiration” [35:55]   “Most people aren't obsessed with their goals, because they don't believe they're worthy of them.” [40:36]   “If you don't, at some point, be defiant, against what the world or your caregivers or your past experience has pounded into your brain incorrectly, unfairly, you will forever be stuck with that story.” [41:16]   “You can have nothing, and you can still have your own back. You can have tremendous problems and very real obstacles that you're facing, and you can have a mindset that says, through my efforts, my attitude, I can have an impact on the situation that I'm in.” [45:09]   Follow Mel Robbins: Website: https://melrobbins.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/melrobbins Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/melrobbins/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melrobbins/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/melrobbins

Check out our sponsors:  Better Help: Get 10% off your first month at https://betterhelp.com/impacttheory LMNT: Go to drinkLMNT.com/Impact to try their brand NEW flavor - Watermelon Salt. Real Good Foods: Click the link for $25 OFF any order of $25 or more! https://realgoodfoods.com/discount/IMPACTTHEORY Novo:  banknovo.com/IMPACT ChiliSleep: Get 20% off at chilisleep.com/IMPACT Dopamine is not a new topic. People have been obsessing and hearing about dopamine and its role in human behavior for years. You may think of it as the feel-good happy hormone, or you may associate it with addiction, love, lust and sex. As our lives convert over to a totally digital experience that is with us everywhere we are in the form of a cell phone, dopamine detox has even started gaining in popularity. Dr. Andrew Huberman from the Huberman Lab is back again to unpack some of the more surprising discoveries and uses of dopamine. He cleverly relates dopamine to being a biological currency that has a role to play in human desire for more. Dopamine is the catalyst pushing humanity forward exploring things like cryptocurrency and pushing our limitations and what is possible, but is all of that for the sake of pleasure and feeling good? Dr. Huberman breaks down the eternal balance of pain and pleasure, arousal and relaxation and gives you the insight you need to start regulating your body’s dopamine release. If you thought dopamine was all about feeling good, Dr. Huberman is about to reveal why it’s more about what motivates you in the pursuit of something greater.   SHOW NOTES:   0:00 | Introduction Dr. Andrew Huberman 0:56 | Dopamine the Biological Currency 6:51 | Releasing Dopamine 10:38 | Hormonal Signaling 14:34 | Can We Spike Dopamine? 21:00 | Value the Pursuit & the Dips 25:40 | Balance of Pain and Pleasure 31:23 | Self Regulation of Dopamine 38:28 | Dopamine and Time Perception 44:31 | Dopamine and Overindulging 49:05 | Action Based Denial 52:42 | Using Rules & Dopamine 58:27 | Ways to Get Motivated   QUOTES:   “When I say dopamine is the universal currency of everything, what I mean is, it's driving the motivation to develop new currencies.” [3:08]   “Celebrating the win more than the pursuit, it actually sets you up for failure in the future.” [16:00]   “If you can start to register that craving, and that friction and that desire, that almost kind of low level of agitation, sometimes high level of agitation [...] that's dopamine...” [17:54]   “Your capacity to tap into dopamine as a motivator, not just seeking dopamine rewards, that is infinite.” [19:34]   “It's the craving that makes me feel alive. So it's the state of wanting that is in and of itself, the pleasurable act.” [22:37]   “It doesn't matter if it's Bitcoin or aetherium, it doesn't matter if it's putting rockets on other planets, it doesn't matter if it's building the first automobile, it's the same currency.” [25:27]   “Dopamine itself is not the reward. It's the build up to the reward, and the reward has more of a kind of opioid bliss like property,” [29:51]   “The more pain you experience, the more dopamine you can achieve. If you get back on the avenue of pursuit.” [30:58]   “I would say addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure, and I don't like to comment too much on enlightenment, [...] but a good life is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure, and even better is a good life is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure and includes pleasure through motivation and hard work. “ [32:55]   “If you think about most of the growth in life comes from these rigidly externally imposed schedules and we hate them. But they are where we learn restraint” [52:42]     Follow Andrew Huberman: Website: https://hubermanlab.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/andrewhubermanlab Twitter: https://twitter.com/hubermanlab Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hubermanlab/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hubermanlab Podcast: https://hubermanlab.com/  

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Check out our sponsors:  Better Help: Get 10% off your first month at https://betterhelp.com/impacttheory Athletic Greens: Go to athleticgreens.com/impact and receive a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase! Upstart: UPSTART.com/IMPACT Nutrisense: For $50 off, go to trynutrisense.com/Impact and use code IMPACT ChiliSleep: Get 20% off at chilisleep.com/IMPACT Being open minded to new science, new research and medical breakthroughs is always a bonus. Too often it’s thought that health is for the rich or privileged that can afford high quality care, but when researchers and physicians begin to share how easy and accessible better health is for everyone, it’s time to really pay attention. Dr. William Li is an internal medicine doctor from the Harvard Medical School Faculty that studies angiogenesis, and is the author of the best-selling book, Eat To Beat Disease. Dr. Li is breaking down the 5 natural body defenses protecting you at all times, even right now, and exactly how powerful foods are that can prevent disease in your body. This interview feels like part of the missing chronicles of optimizing your health to a level you never knew existed, and there’s nothing complicated about it.   Order Dr. William Li’s book, Eat to Beat Disease: https://amzn.to/3DWuDhT   SHOW NOTES:   0:00 | Introduction William Li 0:53 | Defining Real Health 4:39 | 5 Health Defense Systems 11:00 | Hiding Cancer in the Body 18:00 | Cellular Profiling Cancer 23:07 | Microbiome & Immune System 33:03 | Medicinal Food Power 40:49 | Explaining Angiogenesis 45:15 | Eating to Beat Disease   QUOTES:   “In most people's minds, including mine, not being sick is kind of the default definition of being healthy. But that is very problematic” [2:40]   “Health is not just the absence of disease, it is the result of our body's own hardwired defense systems, health defense systems that we’re born with.” [3:09]   “Organic coffee has more bioactives than the pesticide treated coffee because the insects, the natural things in the environment cause it to create more natural health defenses.” [39:36]   “Eating to beat disease is not just picking a particular disease and trying to figure out what the recipe is that the one size fits all. But it's really a journey that we have our whole lives.” [46:24]   Follow William Li: Website: https://drwilliamli.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCREeA-1pswf4RTeYIKdAoBg/featured Twitter: https://twitter.com/drwilliamli Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drwilliamli/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drwilliamli/

Check out our sponsors: BLUblox: Go to blublox.com/impacttheory for 15% off your order or use discount code ImpactTheory at checkout. ButcherBox: Sign up at ButcherBox.com/impact and get 2 lbs of ground beef FREE in every order for the life of your membership. Helix Sleep: Go to HelixSleep.com/impact for up to $200 off your mattress and 2 free pillows. Uprising: Go to uprisingfood.com/IMPACT to get $10 off the starter bundle. Skillshare: Explore your creativity at skillshare.com/impacttheory for a 1 month FREE trial of Premium Membership. Success has its price, and it will not be obtained without paying your fair share. Though success is something many people strive for, it has also been the byproduct of escape for many. Facing yourself in the mirror, the story you tell about yourself, and the heartache and trauma you’ve experienced can take the back seat in pursuit of greatness. Maybe enough success will make it all hurt less. Bobby Hall, AKA Logic, hasn’t had an easy start in life. Coming from an abusive family, exposed to too much at a young age has a role in how he arrived at throwing himself into his art and being one of the greatest rappers in hip hop. Bobby breaks down his journey, why he wrote his memoir and where he is now ending the career of Logic that he’s spent over a decade building.   Bobby’s Bio: As an author, Logic released the novel Supermarket (2019), which was accompanied by a soundtrack of the same name. The book became a New York Times Best Seller, but both works received generally mixed to negative critical reception. Logic is also a streamer, and signed exclusively with Twitch, becoming the first musician to do so.   Order Bobby Hall’s memoir, This Bright Future: https://amzn.to/3kQtPmf   SHOW NOTES:   0:00 | Introduction Bobby Hall “Logic” 2:12 | Escaping Family Trauma 6:21 | Defining Who Is Bobby Hall 9:43 | Piecing Together the Narrative 15:29 | It’s Never Good Enough 20:56 | Build Your Own Family 25:32 | How It All Started 32:09 | Coping With Anxiety 37:14 | Adaptable Is Unstoppable 44:14 | Ignoring Negative Voices 47:53 | Success Without Bitterness 57:07 | Finding Total Confidence 1:00:55 | Advice for Creative Artists 1:08:18 | The End of Logic   QUOTES:   “The goals I had, as a young man and a musician and a creative person, were bullshit.” [16:54]   “There's always going to be something in our lives, there's always going to be something that isn't right. But we can't let it stop us from doing what we love.” [35:40]   “So many people have underlining things that they deal with personally, that nobody else would know [...] you got to live with it, adaptation. It's one of our greatest features. [39:46]   “When I look at other people, when they tell me their dreams, and their ambitions, and all this, I see this child inside of them that is pure and excited, and I root for that person.” [43:21]   “Being happy with the person I see in the mirror. has allowed me to not let that bitterness grow” [54:47]   “It took me being physically the strongest I'd ever been, the biggest I'd ever been in my life, to realize that all of that had nothing to do with strength, and that I had been strong my whole life. And I didn't need some outward physique to show me that or prove that to anybody else.” [56:32]   “Looking in the mirror now older, I've realized, everyone's full of shit. Nobody knows what they're talking about. I don't know shit. Why am I worried about this?” [58:22]   “Taking away the words of people and the thoughts that have been implanted in my head by people about myself is probably the most freeing thing I've been working on.” [59:28]   “I soaked up every piece of information that I could, so that I could be better at what I wanted to do, and if you are not prepared to wake up every day, to kind of like, fuck your life up, you know, turn down dates and hanging out with friends and all these things. Then don't do it.” [1:06:47]   “It was worth it up into that moment. And then I had to say goodbye” [1:11:08]   Follow Bobby Hall: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Logic301 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/Logic YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoDcFZ5KZ0KwBC_omalJuiA  

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Check out our sponsors:  Indeed: Get a FREE $75 CREDIT to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/IMPACT MindPump: Download their FREE guide at fatlossimpact.com Justworks: justworks.com Athletic Greens: Go to athleticgreens.com/impact and receive a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase! RISE: Go to risescience.com/impact and download the RISE app today to try it FREE for 7 days. InsideTracker: Get 25% off their entire store at insidetracker.com/impacttheory Being trilingual is considered to be rather prestigious. Speaking other languages expands your ability to communicate so greatly it adds to the perceived value people will assign to you. But, when you are fluent in Street, Hustling, Broke Money, and Wall Street it becomes the twist no one ever expected. Wallstreet Trapper comes from a troubled past that includes being homeless at 14 and serving 10 years in prison by the age of 16. What he has learned over the years reaches far beyond knowing how to trade stocks and build wealth. His super power is speaking Wall Street in a language that correlates to the same losing game he played on the streets that ended with being shot, in jail or in prison for nearly everyone he knew. His wisdom and willingness to share and make an impact is affecting future generations and bringing Wall Street to the hood, proving that human potential is truly nearly limitless when you put knowledge to use.   SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Violent Beginnings and Prison 8:46 | Finding Out It’s All A Game 14:16 | Real Gangsters Are in Wall Street 18:11 | Break Down Generational Poverty 25:15 | Good Business vs. Good Hustler 28:29 | Know How The Game Works 33:46 | Unapplied Knowledge 36:36 | Bringing Wall Street to the Streets 40:44 | Key To Wealth Is Ownership 46:21 | Power of Knowledge Applied 51:43 | If Investing Isn’t Possible   QUOTES: “Wealthy people do three things. They stop trading time for money. They make the money work for them. And they give as much value to people as they can.” [11:45]   “The reason why people think wealthy people are people with money or sinister, is because that's what you kind of taught in the hood.” [17:09]   “Being at the bottom teaches you to envy people at the top.” [17:53]   “Generational poverty is not about money. It's about mindset.” Tom Bilyeu [18:32]   “People can not want you to succeed all they want, but if you out invest them, they can't stop you.” Tom Bilyeu [19:31]   “One of the things that happens often in the culture of black people is survival mode, you never get a chance to play offense. You're always on defense, one, because of mindset” [22:27]   “A good business is just like a good hustler. A good business has great product. They have great clientele. A great hustler has a great product, he has consistent clientele.” [25:35]   “Once you start understanding the fundamentals, you give yourself power, because you now understand, like you said, you see how the machine works,” [30:22]   “Everybody around me had the same problem. No one represented the solution. So if I don't change something, I'm only going to end up like everybody else.” [32:23]   “I got knowledge, I got information, but I still fell victim to the same shit that everybody around me knew. So therefore, the knowledge that I had wasn't powerful because it wasn't applied.” [34:32]   “It's hard for people to make sacrifice, because you got to now go against and do without some of the things that gives you that momentary gratification.” [37:11]   “The key to building wealth is not how much you can work. You can't work your way to wealth, you got to invest your way there, and all wealthy people, black, white, Asian, Chinese, they own a whole bunch of shit.” [42:31]   “So if I can break down things into struggle language now I'm making the game winnable for everybody. And that's the goal, to make the game winnable for everybody who's bold enough to step into the batting cage.” [50:37]   “Building wealth becomes a revolutionary act because now you start saying I'm going to go against what I was taught.” [52:25]   “The word possible is so powerful. Possible changes the game. Instead of it being impossible, we now say I am possible” [53:09]   “If learning is the catalyst to everybody who's wealthy and successful, I can never be sufficient with what I know.” [54:24]   Follow Wallstreet Trapper: Website: https://www.wallstreettrapper.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Wallstreet504 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR6hXiWOlFWc46qMFMClKHA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wall_street_trapper/?hl=en

Check out our sponsors:  LMNT: Go to drinkLMNT.com/Impact to try their brand NEW flavor - Watermelon Salt. MindPump: Download their FREE guide at fatlossimpact.com Athletic Greens: Go to athleticgreens.com/impact and receive a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase! Storyboard: Go to TryStoryboard.com InsideTracker: Get 25% off their entire store at insidetracker.com/impacttheory What are some of the things you were naturally good at when you were growing up? What captured your attention and made you dream and get excited when you were younger and had no cares or limitations on what was possible or not? Are those things still captivating you now or have you lost sight of them? When you consider what you are now passionate about and excited to accomplish, is there a relation between then and now? This conversation with Ben Greenfield dives into the notion of being pulled toward natural talent and abilities from childhood and Ben’s inclination to allow those things to clue you in on a purpose worth pursuing. Tom shares the reason he’s leaned into the notion of being able to develop skills even in the absence of natural talent. The ideas Ben and Tom explore take you from childhood to reimaging what heaven and the afterlife could possibly be and everything in between.   SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction 0:47 | Pulled Toward Natural Abilities 12:34 | Discovering Purpose with Talent 17:18 | Creating Purpose without Talent 24:49 | Rite of Passage for Ben’s Sons 50:08 | What Dissolving the Ego Means 54:52 | Don’t Have to be the Hero 1:01:08 | Responding to Human Touch 1:10:35 | Your Food’s Energy Matters 1:15:12 | Physical and Spiritual Connection 1:20:04 | What the Afterlife Could Be 1:27:48 | Defining a Perfect World   QUOTES: “The key part of the rite of passage is being alone, facing your fears, finding yourself in a space where you must dissolve your ego and understand that there are forces of nature that are more powerful than you.” [31:52]   “Don't try to fix people as much as just try to love people.” [1:01:03]   “The spiritual energy that you get from eating real, whole food derived from nature, as close to nature as possible, there's a certain sacredness in that [...] not just physical, but also a spiritual energy...” [1:12:07]   “As creatures on this planet, we can't disconnect ourselves from the life force of every other creature on this planet.” [1:15:14]   Follow Ben Greenfield: Website: https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/bengreenfieldfitness Twitter: https://twitter.com/bengreenfield Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bengreenfieldfitness/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BGFitness/ Podcast: https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/podcast/

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Check out our sponsors: Better Help: Get 10% off your first month at https://betterhelp.com/impacttheory Butcher Box: Go to butcherbox.com/IMPACT Get 2 five-ounce lobster tails and 2 ten-ounce ribeye steaks all FREE in your first box. Upstart: UPSTART.com/IMPACT Magic Mind: Go to Magicmind.co and use promo code IMPACT to get 20% OFF. Ladder: Go to LadderLife.com/impacttheory You are living through exciting and strange times. There are so many technological advances with AI, space travel, NFTs, and a rapidly changing culture with social media, it’s near impossible to just turn ‘off’. Let’s admit it, FOMO is real and it keeps a lot of people connected when they’re not even sure why they’re connected. When was the last time you unplugged and took on a challenge you weren’t sure you’d complete? How long has it been since you’ve sat with yourself in total silence or allowed yourself to just be bored out of your mind? Author and journalist, Michael Easter, joins me today to discuss his journey and share the lessons and insights he’s gained from spending a month in the Arctic surviving. Hunting his own food, carrying heavy loads, and sitting with absolute boredom are just part of his story. As you listen to his story, it is my hope you will consider ways you step out of your comfort zone. There is something very freeing about being able to shake things up and break your routines and habits to improve the quality of your life in unconventional ways. This episode is about facing discomfort and finding new ways to challenge yourself for the better.   Order Michael Easter’s new book, The Comfort Crisis - https://amzn.to/3ihebjB   SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction to Michael Easter 1:05 | The Comfort Crisis Explained 3:02 | Journey to the Arctic 5:03 | Recovering from Alcohol 7:40 | Outside the Comfort Zone 8:55 | Helicopter Parenting Losing Challenges 12:16 | Touching Controversial Topics 14:53 | Challenges Surviving the Arctic 20:11 | Problem Creep 28:05 | Need for Rite of Passage 35:12 | Metaphorical Lions for Passage 41:19 | Comfort Creep & Habits 44:22 | Breaking Routine to be Present 47:45 | Discomfort and Boredom 50:00 | Benefits of Boredom 57:12 | Daily Routine 1:02:11 | Rucking & Human Design 1:14:05 | Killing His 1st Caribou 1:17:16 | Life Cycle & Mortality 1:27:16 | “This Too Shall Pass” 1:30:31 | Want to Live Forever? 1:39:12 | Assigning Meaning to Life 1:42:20 | Rites of Passage Transformation 1:46:12 | Problem Creep Comparison 1:50:34 | Finding Gratitude   QUOTES: “By never putting yourself in a position where you are uncomfortable, whether that is physically or mentally or with, what you think to be true? You're not gonna, you're not gonna learn anything about yourself.” [7:41]   “As humans face fewer and fewer problems in our lives, we don't actually experience fewer problems. We just redefine what a problem is.” [22:50]   “If we never put ourselves in the position of true challenge, then we don't really learn something about ourselves” [40:26]   “The idea of trying to do new things, learn new things that totally shake up a routine. It's interesting, because now all of a sudden, I can't predict the future, and I've got to learn some new stuff, and this is forcing you into presence and focus,” [45:18]   “When you're bored, your brain actually goes inward, starts to sort of ruminate it, you sort of have these different thoughts that are more inward focus” [50:21]   “We don't realize how freaking amazing daily life is. It is unbelievable all this shit that we take for granted in our life every single day. We become unsatisfied with it, we look for the problems.” [1:50:36]   “If you look for the things that are joyful, and good and wonderful, then you're gonna see that and that frame of reference will color how you approach change.” [1:53:36]   Follow Michael Easter: Website: https://eastermichael.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Michael-Easter-225875898170585 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michael_easter/?hl=en  

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Check out our sponsors:  Better Help: Get 10% off your first month at https://betterhelp.com/impacttheory MindPump: Download their FREE guide at fatlossimpact.com  Italic: Sign up for an Italic membership at italic.com/join using code IMPACT for 30% off. RISE: Go to risescience.com/impact and download the RISE app today to try it FREE for 7 days. Youth has a way of making you feel near invincible. Your body handles long nights, limited sleep, and poor diets much easier. The problem is those choices have a cumulative effect. What you eat, how often you eat also impacts the health of your brain. There is a Chinese proverb that says, “the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, and the second best time is now.” It is easy to disregard neurodegenerative diseases as something for older people, but understanding how leaky brain and neurodegeneration begins to happen is better learned now, than waiting till later if you plan to age gracefully. Dr. Jay Lombard may be incognito but his depth of knowledge and expertise in degenerative neurological diseases is astonishing. He breaks down what misfolded proteins are, the relation of infection and immune system processes to neurodegenerative disease and reveals simple ways you can support your immune system on a cellular level. Get ready to break out the ice baths and discover a new reason to relax in the sauna.   Mentioned In this Episode: Everything ALS, https://www.everythingals.org/       Also, check out Dr. Jay Lombard’s book, The Mind of God: https://amzn.to/3iSyPFJ                                                   SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction 3:39 | Linking Infection & Neurological Injuries 6:12 | Blood Vessel Problems 9:21 | Managing Misfolded Proteins 12:36 | Breaking Down Pathological Proteins 16:56 | Immune System, Heat Shock Proteins 18:38 | Periodontal Disease Role in Alzheimer’s 22:01 | Risk Factors & Prevention 24:43 | Regulating Epigenetics 28:56 | Benefit of Fasting for Prevention 32:38 | Ultimate Diet for Prevention 37:32 | Meaning in Hopeless ALS Cases 41:38 | Biology of Meaning & Purpose   QUOTES: “Without perfusion of the brain, you can take any supplement you want. But if you don't have adequate perfusion, you're not going to have a healthy brain” [9:03]   “My goal as a clinician is to help you live with ALS, not die from the condition.” [11:54]   “The closest proximity of infectious diseases to the blood brain barrier, is in periodontal diseases, and that's been strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease.” [18:59]   “Leaky gut is a very important aspect of a functional medicine approach to any condition, but I think the first and foremost point of assessment would be assessing periodontal disease in those patients.” [20:15]   “The same recommendations that we have for cardiovascular disease or equally warranted for prevention of neurological conditions.” [22:40]   “The common thread of long term survivors has been a sense of purpose and faith in the ineffable” [39:20]   “Whatever problems that we have, are to learn from those problems to grow as individuals and to deal with them without running away from the problem itself.” [40:08]   “When we love, we increase our endorphins, which helps us to bear whatever pain that we're experiencing with whatever condition” [41:49]   “The idea that we can infuse medicine with a sense of purpose is, I think, of extraordinary value for everybody to appreciate.” [42:57]   Follow Dr. Jay Lombard: Website: https://www.drjaylombard.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MindfulNeuro Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjaylombard/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dr-Jay-Lombard-385420125187552/  

Check out our sponsors: Indeed: Get a FREE $75 CREDIT to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/IMPACT BLUblox: Go to blublox.com/impacttheory for 15% off your order or use discount code ImpactTheory at checkout. NorthOne: Get 1 FREE month of banking by going to https://get.northone.com/impact Headspace: Go to headspace.com/impact for a FREE ONE-MONTH TRIAL with access to Headspace’s full library of meditations for every situation. InsideTracker: Get 25% off their entire store at insidetracker.com/impacttheory Italic: Sign up for an Italic membership at italic.com/join using code IMPACT for 30% off. Do you believe that starting a business with nothing is possible? The American Dream is typically defined as the idea that the opportunity of achieving your highest aspirations is possible for anyone willing to put in the work. Jay Samit, laid out his case and experiment for this very idea in his latest book, Future Proofing You. Glenn Stearns, producer and star of the Discovery show, Undercover Billionaire, put himself to the test with $100, no contacts, no help, and just 90 days to build a million dollar business because he deeply believes the American Dream is still alive and possible. Although the playing field is not equal for everyone in every opportunity, it is still possible. Glenn’s story is shocking and relatable for many because his honesty and vulnerability shows that attitude and belief are still king in how you decide to live your life and make moves.   SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction 1:22 | Glenn Stearns’ Story 5:21 | What Is The American Dream? 6:55 | The Pathway To Make It 9:36 | How Glenn Created His Path 11:24 | Be Fearless Asking Questions 14:53 | Focusing On The Lessons 17:20 | Surrounded by Smarter People 20:29 | Cancer Shifts Glenn’s Focus 22:45 | Starting Undercover Billionaire 31:15 | Developing Grit 32:57 | Hardship of Business Lessons 34:45 | Running Against the Crowd 38:12 | Opportunities In Adversity 42:26 | Leading With Vulnerability 45:35 | Making Quick Business Pivots 47:36 | How to be Unreasonable   QUOTES: “It's in the middle of my deepest fog. I had my clearest, you know, kind of aha moment of, I don't want to do this anymore.” [4:46]   “Happiness to me is not about money, it's about the satisfaction that you are doing something larger with your life and feeling very confident in the fact that you are leaving a mark in the world.” [5:39]   “It may be hard [...] but there is a path if you really surround yourself with the right people” [8:07]   “I found that these older, successful people, they want to give back, they want to tell their story, but a lot of people when they're young, think they don't want to talk to me. [...] and it couldn’t be farther from the truth, if you just ask,” [10:47]   “What you gotta do is be good at being you. You don't have to be somebody else. And your transparency or your authenticity, it will reveal itself.” [13:09]   “As life went on, I realized what I thought was horrible became wonderful.” [15:36]   “Life is not easy. When you do get into a hole, it's not about laying there and feeling like the victim. It's about getting up and pulling yourself up out of the hole and figuring it out.” [23:38]   “The ones that are successful, [...] they fight through the pain, they stay later, they work through it, they sacrifice, and then they feel proud because it works.” [29:55]   “I don't like to lead with success. I like to lead with vulnerability” [31:59]   “There’s little things that other people see as problems and it's pretty clear that there's an opportunity right here.” [34:17]   “When everyone dove out the window. I thought, look at all of this opportunity.” [35:56]   “Even more valuable than placing unreasonable demands and pushing people is telling people you believe in them” [50:49]   Follow Glen Stern: Website: https://www.glennstearns.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GlennStearns LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennstearns/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GlennBStearns Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/GlennStearns/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC-3gGP3f-8D93UimKiaBoQ

Check out our sponsors: Butcher Box: Go to butcherbox.com/IMPACT Get 2 five-ounce lobster tails and 2 ten-ounce ribeye steaks all FREE in your first box. RISE: Go to risescience.com/impact and download the RISE app today to try it FREE for 7 days. Paleo Valley: Visit paleovalley.com and enter code impact for 15% OFF your first order. InsideTracker: Get 25% off their entire store at insidetracker.com/impacttheory Lambs: Go to GetLambs.com and use code IMPACT for 20% OFF at checkout. Regardless of where you live, societies are feeling the threat against certain freedoms and are fighting back. Humans innately don’t want to be oppressed or censored by larger, more powerful and dominant groups. But exactly how do you define your freedom? Is your freedom tied to your “rights'' or is your freedom independent of that? Sebastian Junger, best selling author, Afghanistan war correspondent and more has authored a new book, Freedom, that will leave you shocked, perplexed and challenged in many ways. In this conversation, he and Tom take a deep dive into freedom, what it means for different societies, how smaller groups are able to give larger groups and armies hell, and are willing to risk their lives for their freedom. Sebastian also shares his 400 mile experience walking through America with a group of friends and reflects on different feelings of freedom. His more recent near death experience will shock you and give you yet another perspective of freedom worth fighting for Order Sebastian Junger’s new book, Freedom: https://amzn.to/3rr8tP1 SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction 1:06 | What is Freedom? 2:49 | Defend Your Freedom 6:04 | Balancing Opposing Sides 8:12 | Root of the Word Freedom 10:51 | 10,000 miles for Defense 15:40 | Society Safe in Numbers 20:19 | Value of Physical Strength 25:12 | Small Fighter Advantage 31:14 | Culture of Honor 41:07 | Agriculture Control 48:04 | Autonomy vs Comfort 53:12 | Social Primate PTSD 58:31 | Importance of Physical Contact 1:03:45 | A Weird 400 Mile Trip 1:06:39 | Seeking Out Challenges 1:08:54 | Freedom Along Gender Lines 1:17:00 | Lessons Raising Girls 1:21:31 | Near Death Experience 1:27:32 | Giving Meaning to Death 1:29:04 | Discussing His Next Book 1:32:34 | Relationship to Fear   QUOTES: “it means that you are not unfairly controlled by a greater power. That you’re self defining, within the limits, of course of the laws that bind all of us.” [1:25]   “That's the eternal human sort of balancing act is to defend themselves but then not wind up being oppressed by their own leaders.” [4:43]   “It's very clear that armed aggression is very adaptive, that it helps the aggressive group survive and thrive.” [8:49]   “The idea of freedom really only refers to the people within your own community.” [9:25]   “Going into a foreign country to defend oneself, puts the military in the whole society on more precarious moral grounds.” [12:29]   “first thing you need to do in order to feel safe is to be part of a group that has a kind of common agreement to defend itself against any threat” [16:17]   “The really interesting thing about humans is that a smaller fighter, or a smaller group, is capable of defeating a larger fighter or a larger group that size and strength are not the ultimate predictor of victory in combat.” [23:21]   “The small guy in the ring does not have to win, they just have to keep not losing long enough for this for the larger entity to run out of resources.” [26:12]   “We have an instinct for autonomy, we also have an instinct for, you know, not being uncomfortable and being safe and and having our ease” [49:30]   “In an affluent society, individuals need others less to survive. And so they're able to live more and more individualistic lives that are more focused on their own experience, and less focused on the experience of others.” [54:20]   “As wealth goes up in a society, broadly, the rates of depression and suicide tend to go up and in poorer societies despite the stresses of poverty, rates of depression and suicide tend to go down.” [54:48]   “Where evolution comes from, is testing new things, and evolving physically and psychologically to adapt to them.” [1:07:42]   “Leadership has to be completely selfless, like you need leaders who will die for you. Anything less than that is not a leader. They're an opportunist.” [1:12:59]   “The meaning that we give to life and the meaning that we give to death. It doesn't say anything really about the nature of existence, it says something about how we, as humans, create a place for ourselves in the world on this crazy planet we live on.” [1:28:00]   “Some feelings that you get in touch with, prevent you from doing something that needs to be done. Like that emotional denial is absolutely crucial when you're doing something that is scary or horrifying.” [1:34:04]   Follow Sebastian Junger: Website: http://www.sebastianjunger.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sebastianjunger Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sebastianjunger Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sebastianjungerofficial/

Check out our sponsors:  Indeed: Get a FREE $75 CREDIT to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/IMPACT LMNT: Go to drinkLMNT.com/Impact to try their brand NEW flavor - Watermelon Salt. NorthOne: Get 1 FREE month of banking by going to https://get.northone.com/impact Skillshare: Explore your creativity at skillshare.com/impacttheory for a 1 month FREE trial of Premium Membership. InsideTracker: Get 25% off their entire store at insidetracker.com/impacttheory Your life story begins as a child no matter who you are. Though our experiences are all uniquely different, pain and frustration from whatever reason usually leaves you scared, angry, and sometimes bitter. When Lewis Howes came face to face with his anger and rage, he got to work on understanding himself, his triggers and how he could improve everyday. After years of practice, he is sharing with you what doing the inner work involves and how feedback has become a critical part of his success. From sharing his 2 secret skills for success to exposing how his healing came along side a few f*ck you letters, this episode is packed with solid advice and exploration of what it takes to find great coaches and be great!   Check Out Lewis Howes First Interview on Impact Theory: https://youtu.be/YZ9kfXw9H54  If you want more, here’s Lewis Howes’ Top 3 Tips for Impact: https://youtu.be/SEkwkVGaMvk    SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction to Lewis Howes 1:22 | Most Important Skill, Vision 2:45 | Developing Vision 5:48 | What People Are Missing 7:50 | Preparing for Something Greater 9:45 | Perfect Storm for a Break Down 13:27 | Healing from the Shame 14:40 | F*ck You Letters & Darkness 17:28 | Prepared and Facing the Pain 20:44 | Need for Mind, Body, & Emotions 28:07 | Relationship Lessons 32:22 | Delaying Sexual Connection 35:29 | Connection Over Values First? 38:16 | Having Kids & Being Authentic 40:25 | Power of Therapy & Triggers 43:13 | Find Great Coaches & Feedback 44:27 | Practice of Taking Feedback 47:06 | Withstanding Physical Pain 48:02 | Finding Good Coaches 51:17 | Stacking Blind Spots 54:28 | Way of Language Learning 57:02 | Earn Your Respect 59:37 | Defining Greatness   QUOTES: “You've never mastered really anything, you can be great at something but there's always another level in sports to be better.” [3:53]   “We underestimate what people might be going through inside, even if they look like they have it all figured out on the outside.” [12:06]   “If you don't know how to manage the beast inside, you could really be struggling.” [12:20]   “I only let myself lean into the darkness until I know that now it's in danger of being corrosive.” Tom Bilyeu [15:05]   “To just know, if someone wanted to do something, I would be able to take care of myself, that gives me inner peace, that eliminates anxiety” [18:16]   “The discipline of doing something painful every day, I think, is one of the most important disciplines that any human being can have. Whatever that pain looks like for you, I believe we must lean into the pain every day.” [18:36]   “It's not enough to do the work in the past. It's a continual process in the present. That makes me feel at peace every day.” [24:19]   “Love is not enough for a long term committed, healthy relationship to fully work.” [29:28]   “I'm willing to grow and improve but I'm not going to just do something to create peace.” [39:51]   “The ability to have a beginner's mind, find and surround myself by great coaches, and be unapologetic in asking for feedback. Feedback has been a huge indicator of my success.” [43:55]   “Just because someone's giving you feedback doesn't mean it's true about you. So, don't take it personally. And see where is the truth in there, and how can you apply it” [45:16]   Follow Lewis Howes: Website: https://lewishowes.com/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/lewishowes/about  Twitter: https://twitter.com/LewisHowes  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lewishowes/

Check out our sponsors: Athletic Greens: Go to athleticgreens.com/impact and receive a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase! BLUblox: Go to blublox.com/impacttheory for 15% off your order or use discount code ImpactTheory at checkout. Audible: Start listening with a 30-day free trial, one free audiobook and access to the Plus Catalog. Visit audible.com/IMPACTTHEORY or text IMPACTTHEORY to 500-500 InsideTracker: Get 25% off their entire store at insidetracker.com/impacttheory If you have followed me for any amount of time, you have likely heard me say action cures all. Since starting Healthy Theory, I have interviewed over 90 specialists and experts about everything from brain cognition, to gut microbiome, to reverse aging. Information is meant to be put into action, so today I am sharing with you what my daily routine consists of at the moment. Goals are important and should always be considered when choosing what is best for you. This is not advice for anyone, just a look at how I’ve applied the plethora of expert advice I’ve received over the past few years. This episode is Health Theory In Action with my own routine:   Key Points to My Routine: 1. Exercise and Meditation are a must. 2. Diet is critical for health. I keep it simple with meat, eggs, and veggies. 3. Learn what works best for your body and act in accordance.   SHOW NOTES: Morning Routine | Why the order you prioritize in the morning matters [0:40] Workout Routine | Tom chooses push, pull, legs and abs for a weight lifting routine [2:01] Injuries | Tom shares how he is prone to low back pain and safely exercises his back [2:24] Back Pain | Tom reveals 2 reasons for low back pain, diet and not deadlifting [3:28] Deadlift | Tom shares how and why he deadlifts 5 days a week [4:54] Pull Day Routine | Why Tom opts for a 4 to 1 back to biceps ratio and it works for him [5:56] Push Day Routine | Working on chest, triceps, and shoulders [6:44] Meditation Routine | Tom shares his daily meditation practice he calls, Just Breathe [8:37] 4 Part Cycle | Tom explains the 4 part cycle breathing he uses from Mark Divine [11:06] Diet Routine | Tom breaks down your diet’s impact on emotions and cognitive function [13:46] Fasting Routine | Tom reveals why intermittent fasting is a must for him 7 days a week [17:13] Food Choices | Tom shares what his actually diet consists of: meat, eggs, vegetables [18:56] Fruit Caution | Tom explains why fruit is a “cheat” snack on the weekends only [23:00] Drinking Routine| Why Tom doesn’t drink after 2 PM and his rules for caffeine intake [24:21]   QUOTES: “If you haven't at least explored that getting strong is the answer to your pain, that working out even though it seems like the riskiest thing you can do is actually the thing that's going to solve your problem, then you haven't even begun to explore potential remedies.” [3:02]   “The workout that you do, even if it's a little wonky, is better than the perfect workout that you don't do.” [8:27]   “Literally at a cellular level you are made of the things that you consume. So every cell in your body is from something that you ate” [14:31]   “I have a gut instinct, that anxiety is probably 90% your diet, and then 10%, what you're thinking about” [16:21]  

Check out our sponsors:  Paleo Valley: Visit paleovalley.com and enter code impact for 15% OFF your first order. MindPump: Download their FREE guide at fatlossimpact.com Blinkist: Go to https://blinkist.com/impact Try it FREE for 7 days and save 25% off your new subscription. Ten Thousand: Go to tenthousand.cc and enter code IMPACT to receive 15% off your purchase! So many people are easily trapped in the stories of their lives. Falling victim and feeling helpless is not about being weak or strong, but it is about self-awareness and making a mental shift to see what is possible. Stepping back and asking yourself, what is in your control and deciding how you want to respond is critical. Viktor Frankl says in his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Danny Trejo, an actor and  Hollywood Icon, joins me today to discuss a few of the stories from his new memoir, Trejo. Hearing these stories should remind you that it never matters where you are or how you start in life, it only matters how you decide to respond. Yes it’s hard, yes all excuses and reasons you have to not try and give up are valid, but ultimately the choice is yours to make. Danny’s story is beyond inspiring when you see someone come from a mindset and situation that consumes and devours over 90% of the people engulfed in that life. Which really means, anything is possible and your potential is nearly limitless.   Order Danny Trejo’s new book, Trejo: https://bit.ly/trejolifebook   SHOW NOTES: Boxing Champ | Danny shares his time in San Quentin Prison and being a boxing champ [1:12] No Love | Danny explains growing up with no love in the home born into the Trejo gang [2:28] Danny’s Mentor | Learning life skills from a mentor that was criminal in same situation [3:09] Prison Life | Danny on surviving prison and being tough because of his uncle [5:56] Rehabilitated | Danny’s gratitude for a troubled past and why he’s as grateful as he is now [9:14] Confessions | Danny on why his book is so raw and not sugar coated, it’s the real Trejo [10:19] Redemption | Danny on taking inventory and questioning his behaviors and his mottos [12:38] Taking Out Trash | Why Danny began taking out trash for old neighbors, new reputation [13:56] Service to Others | Danny on why helping others is so important to the way he lives [17:15] Arguments | Danny on the bottomline of arguing, not engaging and the toxicity of it [22:13] Legacy | Danny reveals the love is his family and the legacy that holds value for him [25:51]   QUOTES: “I got a couple of scars from what I wasn't quick enough to duck. But you know what, it really showed me that I didn't want to get hit.” [2:04]   “I've realized about prison, it's easy to be a big fish in a little pond” [6:00]   “There's only two kinds of people in prison, there's predator, and there's prey, and you have to figure I'm gonna be a predator, or you'll be prey.” [6:31]   “Remember that you’re only sick as your secrets” [13:36]     Follow Danny Trejo: Website: https://dannytrejo.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/officialDannyT Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialdannytrejo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialdannytrejo/?hl=en    

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Check out our sponsors:  Indeed: Get a FREE $75 CREDIT to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/IMPACT Butcher Box: Bacon for Life is back! New members get a package of FREE bacon in every box for the life of the subscription at ButcherBox.com/impact Helix Sleep: Go to HelixSleep.com/impact for up to $200 off your mattress and 2 free pillows. Skillshare: Explore your creativity at skillshare.com/impacttheory for a 1 month FREE trial of Premium Membership. Many of us can admit to loving a good underdog story. You want to see the main character go through their perilous journey and come out on the other side victorious after the big battle or challenge that was seemingly impossible. When that story is real life, it causes you to pause and take inventory of your own story. What situation are you facing, how is your current situation in comparison to the underdog you just cheered for? Sometimes those questions can really sting, especially if you feel like or can see proof that you are not living up to your full potential. Wallo267, is an incredible entrepreneur, marketer, and self-made millionaire that joins me to discuss how his no BS mentality took him from a life of crime to a life filled with meaning, purpose, and unmistakable success. He was in and out of jail from the age of 11 and eventually served a 20 year prison sentence. What he’s accomplished in this time and came out of jail equipped and prepared to do will leave you speechless and questioning exactly how you’re using excuses and potentially clinging to a victim mentality.. From Philly to Hollywood, these are lessons on building an extraordinarily successful business from nothing.   SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction Wallo 267 2:58 | No One to Blame 3:57 | Locked Up Age 11 7:29 | No Time for Excuses 13:25 | Serving Time, Not Mad 15:08 | Imagination & Potential in Jail 17:40 | Starts New Marketing Business 19:03 | Google & YouTube Universities 22:04 | Willing To Do The Work 24:23 | Free Marketing Available 26:04 | Wallo on Allow Self To Cry 30:31 | Exposure Is Everything 31:29 | Stop Copying Others 32:47 | Knowing Yourself 35:55 | Surviving Prison 38:39 | Adapting to the Real World 40:15 | Going to Atlanta & Business 48:38 | Next Level Application 51:41 | Positive Not Angry   QUOTES: “We go through some we're always looking for somebody to blame for our existence in a fucked up place. No, I paid for this train ticket to here. I paid for the train ticket. I got on the train. It was many stops before that I could have got off. No, I went to the final destination.” [3:24]   “I spent more time incarcerated than I did free on this planet that fucked me up.” [5:52]   “Now it's time to just be out here on a journey through life experiencing new things, new ideas, exposure, and that's what I realized. A lot of us don't expose ourselves to new things, new ideas. We're not open, open to different open to change. And that's what helped me I became open to all this shit.” [9:51]   “I wasn’t in jail, I was in Yale. I wasn't in prison, I was in Princeton. I wasn't in the state pen, I was in Penn State.” [13:29]   “The world is one big library and everybody's a book, [...] read your books wisely. Choose them wisely. Watch what books you read.” [25:08]   “Sometimes you got to remove yourself from people, places, and things. That's not just not going to allow you to embrace the reality in your individualism of who you are.” [32:56]   “You got to have a conversation with self about the reality of your journey, and once you connect with that it's a wrap.” [33:35]   “A lot of times you got idea killers out here and sometimes idea killers and dream killers be yourself.” [34:37]   Guest Bio: Wallo rose to cultural phenom status in two short years after serving a 20 year prison sentence by catching lightning in a bottle: crafting powerful viral content inspiring people across the world to step into their greatness and discover their purpose.   Follow Wallo 267: Website: https://www.wallo267.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WALLO267 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wallo267/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSq2DFO-UlLVtifFsD3DJ5g

Check out our sponsors:  Athletic Greens: Go to athleticgreens.com/impact and receive a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase! LMNT: Go to drinkLMNT.com/Impact to try their brand NEW flavor - Watermelon Salt. InsideTracker: Get 25% off their entire store at insidetracker.com/impacttheory MindPump: Download their FREE guide at fatlossimpact.com When you think of fitness and training, it’s easy to think of the physical effort it takes to get healthier, leaner, and stronger, but what about the mental effort? How much effort and time do you spend thinking about the mental work that goes into fitness and training? How often do you consider your diet failures and pitfalls as being part of the mental training that is possibly lacking? Dolvett Quince is a celebrity trainer, fitness expert that is known for being one of the trainers on The Biggest Loser. As a health and fitness expert, he speaks more to the mindset, mental demands, and inner struggles than most physical trainers. Getting after your health goals successfully is intertwined with how you approach all areas of your life. He shares the 5 pillars of health, how he stays hungry for more and the formula for success that will help you discover your own greatness.   SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction Dolvett Quince 1:41 | How To Love Yourself 2:34 | Know Your Excuses & Enablers 3:50 | The Ultimate Self-Love 5:30 | Relatable Pain, Fear & Doubt 6:12 | Dolvett’s Adoption & Abuse 8:21 | Conquer Anything & Face Failures 12:06 | Balancing the Dark Side 13:00 | Root of Transformation 15:26 | Clinging to Excuses 16:57 | 5 Pillars of Health & Choices 18:53 | Change Up Your Diet, 3-1-2-1 22:35 | Recovering from Bad Diet Choices 25:15 | Facing Your Fears 27:53 | Dolvett’s Fear of Heights 29:22 | Stay Humble Stay Hungry 31:21 | Dolvett’s Definition of Succes 33:20 | Be Humble Stay Hungry 34:40 | Dolvett’s Formula for Success 37:07 | Demand for Greatness 39:39 | Practice of Cultivating   QUOTES: “Despite my flaws despite my shortcomings, my looks, my income, I like me, I love me. When you love your self you treat yourself as such.” [4:13]   “That relentless, ‘nothing’s going to stop me,’ when you use that power, that’s just as beautiful as the smile” [12:50]   “I can’t tell people to be fearless and look past their insecurities if I don’t do the same.” [28:35]   “If you practice honesty with yourself, that’s who you are, and you’ll naturally become that for everyone else.” [29:45]   “We are always trying to get better, you never land on betterment. We’re never always great.” [31:23]   “Even though you may know, you may know a lot. But, there is something in the moment in which you know a lot, if you overpower that moment, you’ll miss learning something. You can always add something to what you know.” [33:26]   “Why are you limiting yourself because of what other people think. We hold so much weight on other’s opinions that it becomes our opinion.” [37:30]   “Then you don’t want to be great. You want to be good, you want to be okay. You don’t want to be great because great takes work. Great takes a level of discipline that is distraction-free.” [38:40]   “Love what you’re doing but challenge yourself every day” [40:55]   Follow Dolvett Quince: Website: https://www.dolvett.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dolvett?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dolvett Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dolvett/?hl=en  

Check out our sponsors:  Butcher Box: Bacon for Life is back! New members get a package of FREE bacon in every box for the life of the subscription at ButcherBox.com/impact Indeed: Get a FREE $75 CREDIT to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/IMPACT Bambee: Bambee: Go to Bambee.com/impact to schedule your FREE HR audit. InsideTracker: Get 25% off their entire store at insidetracker.com/impacttheory We’ve all experienced those moments when it feels like the odds are stacked against you in a mighty way. In those moments, your willingness to survive, fight back, and come out on the other side unscathed is critical. But, when the odds are stacked against you in the form of corruption that leads to being wrongly convicted and railroaded into a life sentence in prison, it takes an immense amount of resilience and fortitude to strategically plan a way through a broken unjust system. Isaac Wright, Jr. has experienced this first hand after 7 years imprisoned and 9 additional years under investigation after passing the New Jersey State Bar exam. Isaac speaks to patience, calculated moves, and what it takes to turn anger and bitterness into usable skills that have a real impact.   SHOW NOTES: 0:00 | Introduction to Isaac Wright 1:33 | Self Representation And No Believers 3:52 | Having a Voice Most Important 5:07 | Surrounded by Corruption 6:38 | Sentenced but Setting The Next Move 10:45 | Creating New Case Law From Jail 15:44 | Moving Through System As 2 People 18:30 | Managing Emotions In Midst Of Chaos 23:36 | Isaac Defending Self In 3rd Person 29:45 | Running For Mayor of NYC 33:33 | Making Complex Problems Small 44:23 | Breaking Injustice With Minute Details   QUOTES: “Because at that point, I was going to be a slave to somebody else's strategy, somebody else's thought process, and someone else's motives” [2:30]   “The level of corruption that had engulfed me as a young man alone, the book was written before the indictment came down, and that was really my reality.” [5:39]   “My strategy shifted to making sure that when I went to prison, they wasn't going to be able to keep me. And so everything I did was not for the day, everything that I did was for years down the line.” [10:16]   “The more I know about them, and the less they know about me, the better off I am” [13:20]   “One of the things about injustice, if you fight injustice with justice, you wreak havoc upon injustice, it's like water and oil, it's never going to mix” [16:55]   “As a six-year-old kid, I understood the importance of fighting back no matter how much danger you're in.” [21:59]   “I needed to separate myself from what I was going through in order to stay focused and it took me some time, but I literally became a different person. I was representing myself as someone else.” [24:48]   “I always take a granular approach to the things that I'm experiencing in life.” [34:22]   Guest Bio: Isaac Wright Jr. (born January 23, 1962) is an American lawyer in the state of New Jersey. He is a candidate for mayor of New York City in the 2021 New York City mayoral election. Wright was convicted in 1991 after a five-week trial by a 12-person jury of 10 charges involving the sale of cocaine and sentenced to life in prison, but his conviction was overturned in 1997 after litigation brought by him and his lawyer, on the basis that police concealed evidence.   Follow Isaac Wright Jr: Website: https://hunthamlinridley.com/attorneys/isaac-wright-jr/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacwrightjr/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/isaacwrightjr Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isaacwrightjr/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/IsaacWrightJr  

Check out our sponsors:  Butcher Box: Bacon for Life is back! New members get a package of FREE bacon in every box for the life of the subscription at ButcherBox.com/impact Podcorn: Learn more at https://podcorn.com/podcasters/ Better Help: Get 10% off your first month at https://betterhelp.com/impacttheory Ladder: Go to LadderLife.com/impacttheory InsideTracker: Get 25% off their entire store at insidetracker.com/impacttheory What utility do your beliefs have in your everyday life? From the way you decide on political issues to the way you tune out dissenting views, and decide against conversations with certain people every choice is backed by some belief in what you consider to be right. Michael Shermer, who I dubbed, the King Skeptic, joins me and discusses why free speech matters most when people don't want to hear it, and the power behind social signaling that helps shed light on some of the breakdowns being seen on a global scale. Michael’s ability to think through strong opposing arguments searching for truth and charitable interpretation and tolerance for others is foundational.   Order Michael Shermer’s book, Giving The Devil His Due: https://amzn.to/2TWVvfq   QUOTES: “much of decision making about truth is made under uncertainty.” [14:31]   “if you want to speak out, because you don't believe this ideology, and you see your neighbor, you know, hauled off and you never see him again, it's like, ‘I'm keeping my mouth shut.’” [33:02]   “if the only answer could be I'm 100% behind it. Or else, I'm not gonna say anything. Well, that's not good for society.”   “so social media is basically taking this natural human propensity to talk about other people. And marrying it to the negativity bias where we notice negative things more than positive things.” [50:26]   “losses hurt twice as much as gains feel good.” [50:46]   “try to separate what I want to be true from what is actually true.” [1:04:01]   “ it's good to remember on commercial television, there's commercials. And so the content is basically whatever it takes to get people to get from one commercial to the next with that clicking away.” [1:07:25]   “if you're going to write a law, you should write it in a way that you don't know which group you're going to be in,” [1:20:03]   “put yourself in the position of you're the lone voice. And do you or do you not want to be heard? Of course, people want to be heard. So free speech is for those with whom we disagree.” [1:34:29]   Follow Michael Shermer: Website: https://michaelshermer.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelshermer Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Michael.Brant.Shermer Podcast: https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/

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He has been pioneering his way from janitor for Frito-Lay, to a top-level executive, author, and motivational speaker, and it is beyond inspiring. This is why I say action cures all. It doesn’t matter where you start, all that matters is the skills you work hard to acquire and what you do with those skills to forge a life worth living, with meaning and purpose.   Order Richard Montanez new book, Flaming Hot: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593087461?tag=randohouseinc7986-20   SHOW NOTES:   Pioneer | Why Richard sees himself as a pioneer beginning with picking grapes [1:44] Fun Poor | Using imagination and community to have fun in poor conditions at labor camp [4:19] Janitor | Richard’s excitement and gratitude becoming a janitor at Frito-Lay [6:50] Initiative | Almost fired for no initiative, Richard learns the word and changes his world [11:43] Truth Hurts | Richard on why you can’t get offended when someone gives you the truth [14:41] Production Line | Richards journey from janitor to working line and creating new specs [16:00] Record History | Richards advises you to write your history down and take the shot [21:38] PhD Calling | How Richard earned his PhD, poor, hungry, and determined [24:29] Influence | Focusing on the right people to influence, not on everyone [25:51] Command Control | Richard on the revelation being told to act like an owner by the CEO [31:15] What If | Richard’s revelation leads him to “what if” and calling the CEO with a new idea [36:37] CEO Presentation | Richard details his journey to layout a $2 billion product for pennies [44:35] Cookie Line | Why you have to get out of line, break ranks, and beat fear with hunger [50:25] Overcome Adversity | Richards attitude and grit that got him through the adversities [54:57] Career or Calling | Richard on legacy and having the power of a calling to entrepreneurs [59:27]   QUOTES:   “as much as I love the compensation, the promotions Frito Lay, Hot Cheetos, Pepsi. The truth is, it was never about them. It was always about my last name.” [9:33]   “I could influence people without saying one word, by my work ethics…” [10:49]   “When somebody tells you the truth, you've got to learn not to be offended, and use that because it is the truth [...] don't get abused. But hang in there, you know, build something.” [14:55]   “I'm not trying to influence everyone, only the right ones, who are the right ones, those who come into your life, they can help you and you can help them.” [26:00]   “A revelation is something that was always there, but it's been revealed or unveiled to you.[...] and here's the beauty of revelation, what do they do? They lead to revolutions. One revelation will lead to a revolution.” [31:22]   “don't become such an expert that you can't see things anymore [...] don't bring me ideas everyone can see, tap into the unseen, and together, let's pull it out into the scene and make it a reality.” [34:08]   “I've always been amazed at the leadership of a woman because of my grandma, my mom, and my wife, I consider it to be the best. My leadership is because of the leadership of a woman” [42:49]   “When somebody is inspired, encouraged, and reminded of their value, they'll conquer the world.” [47:10]   “there was something inside of me that was greater than the fear that was outside of me.” [50:33]   “Your job is to get out of that line they told you to get into and get into the cookie line. The line is your choice.” [52:15]   “Hunger is the antidote to fear when you're hungry to start a new business fear will leave.” [53:08]   “Many times greatness will come in a ridiculous form, and if you're not willing to look ridiculous, you will never achieve your greatness.” [54:23]   Guest Bio: Montañez was raised in a California migrant labor camp as one of ten siblings. He dropped out of school and worked as a laborer before being hired at the age of 18 as a janitor for Frito-Lay, at its Rancho Cucamonga factory, in 1976. Montañez was subsequently named vice president of multicultural sales & community promotions for PepsiCo. He is also a motivational speaker and instructor in leadership

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Check out our sponsors:  Athletic Greens: Go to athleticgreens.com/impact and receive a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase! Indeed: Get a FREE $75 CREDIT to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/IMPACT Helix Sleep: Go to HelixSleep.com/impact for up to $200 off your mattress and 2 free pillows. Skillshare: Explore your creativity at skillshare.com/impacttheory for a free trial of Premium Membership. Greatness isn’t for the faint of heart but it is certainly within reach for all that want it. Chris Bosh, a former NBA player drafted in 2003, retired early after a health scare and his story gets so much more interesting from there. We dive into his new book, Letters to a Young Athlete, which is easily an instruction manual for greatness and leadership, to uncover what the process for excellence really looks like at the elite level. It comes down to the “inner game of success” and leaving it all on the table knowing you’ve reached the depths of your existence to give it your all.   Order Chris Bosh’s Book, Letters to a Young Athlete: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1984881787?tag=randohouseinc47720-20   SHOW NOTES: Self Discovery | Chris on the health issue and the struggles that created his book [1:33] Talent Isn’t Enough | Chris explains why hard work has to go with talent for greatness [6:27] The Process | Chris breaks down work ethic and what it takes [7:54] Empty Light | Chris on giving everything and “scratching the depths of your soul” [9:40] Beyond Pain | Turning potential into skills and getting through the pain [12:43] Love It | Chris on loving the game and loving what you do from deep why [17:04] Blame | Chris talks about how deflecting keeps you from looking within [20:14] Perseverance | Chris on why not persevering through tough times blocks greatness [22:17] Miami Heat Dream | Chris recalls the experience of moving to Miami Heat and Season 2 [25:46] Teamwork | Chris on learning how to sacrifice and doing what’s best for the team [28:36] Challenges | Chris on finding striving for your goal and finding magic in the hard work [32:13] Beginner | Chris on being the beginner at music and starting at the bottom in new ways [35:32] Visualize | Chris shares why visualizing has been key for his success to be self-doubt [38:21] Confidence | Chris talks about confidence from hard work and rising to the occasion [39:33] Mind-Body | Chris on using your body & being connected with your mind, staying active [42:13] Criticism | Chris recalls criticism coming from Toronto and caring what others think [44:56] Anger | Chris talks about using anger and dark energy to fuel you in a positive way [49:20] Be Hungry | Chris talks about aspiring and not allowing yourself to be satisfied [51:40]     QUOTES: “in the daily practice of pushing yourself, you have to know how far you can go.” [10:22]   “When you're training for those moments, when you hit that wall of being tired, that's when you're starting.” [13:12]   “if you externalize, you don't ever look within, and you'll never get to the point where, you know, you're thinking like how can I What could I have done better to ensure that we could have been successful and what will I do better next time, that's the better thought” [21:33]   “I thought I knew what pain is when I was working out. I thought I knew what pain is when I thought I was pushing myself.” [26:45]   “Sometimes the ego can really, really get in the way of yourself being successful.” [29:18]   “Because those days that are hard, those days that suck, that's where the magic is, you go do it, and you get your work in any way.” [32:57]   “If someone is feeling frustrated, I say Good, good job, that means you that means you're working, that means you're doing something” [36:46]   “When you practice, you have to put yourself in those moments continuously over and over and over, so that when they come, you just do what you've done.” [40:47]   “The minute you look and you give it attention, it gets louder” [46:38]   “if you want to go after something you have to have that hunger and that fight because that's going to give you that edge to overcome stuff.”   Guest Bio: Christopher Wesson Bosh is an American former professional basketball player. A Texas Mr. Basketball in high school, Bosh played one season of college basketball for Georgia Tech before declaring for the 2003 NBA draft. He was selected fourth overall by the Toronto Raptors.   Follow Chris Bosh: Website: https://www.chrisbosh.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrisbosh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialChrisBosh/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisbosh/?hl=en  

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He breaks down quantum entanglement and the expanding universe and a way that is digestible for nearly everyone.   SHOW NOTES: Star-stuff | Alex shares what people should understand about coming from “star-stuff” [3:07] Contribution & Purpose  | Alex on meaning and contributing to understanding the universe [5:54] Theory | What a good model of theory is and why an ultimate theory may never exist [12:46] Spinoza’s God | Alex speculates what Einstein meant by God in relation to theory [15:31] Expanding Universe | Alex demonstrates what it is to simplify the 4th dimension visually [18:57] Gravity | Why gravity is the weakest of all forces & how it may explain multiple universes [27:46] Black Holes | Speculation of being ripped apart on squeezed singularity and possibilities [31:53] Negative Mass | Making sense of mathematical solutions that appear to be unphysical [42:29] Open Minded | Alex shares why staying open minded is essential and avoiding the trap [50:35] Spooky Action | Alex breaks down quantum entanglement that Einstein called spook action at a distance [55:35] Richard Fineman | Alex shares Fineman’s intuitive view of nature & theory [1:01:04] Always Learning | Alex on educational opportunity and learning as much as possible [1:05:16] Quantum Entanglement | Information traveling faster than the speed of light [1:08:28] Novel Insights | Tom & Alex discuss areas of overlap that creates novel insights [1:16:56] Quality of Life | Alex on quality of time and what you do with your time not stagnate [1:23:18] Into The Future | Alex on the future of humanity, space exploration, life on Mars [1:26:12] Life On Mars | Considering life on Mars and human nature for exploration [1:30:22] Inhabiting Other Planets | Alex on how we could use robots to get humans farther out [1:38:33] Immortality | The possibility of immortality recreating consciousness with computers [1:45:29] Solar Eclipse | Alex warns of the next total solar eclipse coming April 8, 2024 [1:50:39] Aliens |  [1:54:47]   QUOTES: “In a sense, we are the way in which the universe has found to know itself.” [5:30]   “Work hard at maintaining an open mind so you don't get fossilized, so you don't get set in your ways.” [51:59] “If you ever feel comfortable with quantum physics, it probably means you haven't thought about it sufficiently” [1:00:21] “But one of the great things about homosapiens is that we embrace technical challenges. We go for it, we climb the mountain because it's there, first because it's interesting, but secondly, because it ends up having unanticipated spin offs.” [1:14:26]   “to have novel insights, I've just got to take in data that I can't yet predict how it's going to be useful.” Tom Bilyeu [1:17:33] “as physicists, as scientists, initially, we come across these new ideas, quantum entanglement, and you have to just struggle with them and work hard on them and approach them from different perspectives. It's not going to be easy, but good things are hard to do and hard things are good to do.” [1:19:26] “it's the quality of the time that you live. That's actually more important than the duration” [1:23:29]   “You can't just say there are a lot of stars out there, and surely they're teaming with life. There are a lot of factors that lead to life, and then intelligence and mechanical ability at our level. And I think they're fairly rare. I don't think we're unique, but I think they're pretty rare.” [1:56:11]   Follow Alex Filippenko: Website: https://astro.berkeley.edu/people/alex-filippenko/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-filippenko-a35520a1/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alex.filippenko Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/filippenkoalex/   Guest Bio: Alex Filippenko is a Richard & Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences, and a Miller Senior Fellow in the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science (UC Berkeley). His accomplishments, documented in about 960 research papers, have been recognized by several major prizes, including a share of both the Gruber Cosmology Prize (2007) [...] In 2017, he was selected for the Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award. He has won the most prestigious teaching awards at UC Berkeley and has also been voted the “Best Professor” on campus a record 9 times… SOURCE: https://astro.berkeley.edu/people/alex-filippenko/      

Check out our Sponsors BLUblox: Go to blublox.com/impacttheory for 15% off your order or use discount code ImpactTheory at checkout. Indeed: Get a FREE $75 CREDIT to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/IMPACT Helium 10: Get 50% OFF your first month of Helium 10 Platinum at Helium10.com and use code IMPACT at check out. 1440: Subscribe to get all your news in a single email at Try1440.com William “King” Hollis, is an international motivational speaker with one of the most inspiring stories. Born to a teenage mother who had started selling drugs at the age of 14, King Hollis had to learn life the hard way. He helped his mother as she struggled with drug addiction, abuse, and hopelessness. His every word is imbued with passion, confidence, and energy. Open up and let his experiences encourage you wherever you are in your journey. Facing struggles is not a curse, it’s a gift when you find the strength to use its power and take control.   Order William “King” Hollis’ new book, The Best Gifts Come From the Bottom: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LMJH96D?tag=wixlabs1234-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1   SHOW NOTES: Best Gifts | William explains why he believes the best gifts come from the bottom [1:39] William’s Story | William shares his incredible story of pain, set-backs and hurt [2:49] Save Your Life | How trying to save his mother’s life taught him how to save his own [7:37] First Speech | William shares what he said at his mother’s funeral [8:58] Find Your Story | William shares where his story transition him to becoming a man [12:16] Suicidal | William explains how telling his story for the first time left him suicidal [16:17] Belief | William break down whats it means to have faith, keep going & focus on solution [20:22] Success | Choosing what you love and starting the journey to find success 24:44] Made Into A Man | William shares his experience forced to be a man before time [26:08] Giving Up | Why people give up and don’t get in the gam [28:03] Hit ‘Em In the Mouth | How to “Beat them getting up” in business [30:53] Find Your Gift | William’s advice for rediscovering your gifts and what you once loved [33:07] Control Your Life | William on what it takes to be the greatest version of yourself [36:28]   QUOTES:   “I started to realize that I wasn't hurting. That’s where I was being made” [2:12]   “In our mentalities when people are nice to us, we feel endangered. When people are mean to us, we in our habitat, we're fighters.” [13:08]   “you gotta want the best out of your life for you. Because we only have a moment on this earth.” [20:27]   “ You cannot be great if you cannot operate in chaos [....] because if you can operate in chaos, the world becomes Disneyland. problems become scratches.” [21:33]   “sometimes you're gonna have to be a man before you become one, but you ready for it, and you built for it.” [26:09]   “most people never get out the stands and get in the game. They stay fans their whole life. So I tell everybody get out the stands and get in the game, get in the game of life, and leave your mark here.” [28:41]   “the same formula to get you your first opportunity will get you your second, but this time you execute, this time you'll be mentally ready. this time you will remember how you failed. ” [31:32]   “get back to the child and laying on your mother's lap, there was the child that dream, believed in the world.” [35:44]   “Think for yourself. Question everything, and believe in yourself. When you’re falling, don't pretend like you're not. When you hurting don't pretend like you're not” [36:35]   Bio: William "King" Hollis is an international motivational speaker, author, & coach. From being homeless to quickly becoming one of the top motivational speakers in the world, he has truly spoken his way to success. From everyday listeners to celebrities, actors, professional athletes, and leading corporations, his speeches continue to make him a household name in personal development. He continues to pursue his mission with a hunger for inspiring tomorrow’s leaders within every community.   For More Extraordinary Stories Check Out These Interviews: T.D. Jakes: https://youtu.be/0ytRBkE7K0o Jason Mayden: https://youtu.be/664QJQ90-sM David Goggins: https://youtu.be/78I9dTB9vqM   FOLLOW (NAME): Website: https://www.kinghollis.co/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WilliamKingHollis Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/williamkinghollis Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/williamkinghollis/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kinghollis_co  

Check out our Sponsors Better Help: Get 10% off your first month at https://betterhelp.com/impacttheory Oxygen: Download Oxygen on the iPhone App Store or Google Play for Android.  Unidragon: Search for Unidragon puzzles on Amazon.com and use the discount code Impact for 10% OFF. Theragun: Try Theragun for 30 DAYS starting at only $199. Go to Theragun.com/impact Thryve: Get 50% off your at-home gut health test at trythryve.com/impact You make think of insulin resistance as being reserved for diabetics, and you may have even drawn the same conclusion I have, that the problem is glucose being too high. After speaking with Ben Bikman, a scientist that studies metabolic disorders caused by insulin resistance, I was shocked to find out that insulin resistance can still develop even in people with seemingly normal glucose levels. Ben’s explanation of the complicated nature of insulin in the body and his unique take on facts that can literally save your life with knowledge are exactly what we need more of.  Whether you consider yourself to be healthy, prediabetic, or struggling with other health issues this episode may give you the insight you need today. Check out HLTH CODE and use BEN10 for 10% off your order! https://gethlth.com/  Order Dr. Benjamin Bikman’s new book, Why We Get Sick: https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Sick-Disease_and/dp/194883698X   SHOW NOTES: Glucose | Ben on why leaving insulin levels unchecked to check glucose is problematic [1:07] Hyperglycemia | Ben reveals the dangers of elevated sugar levels in the body [6:06] Nerve & Vascular Damage | Ben explains how hyperglycemia destroys these systems [8:34] Glucose Control | Ben on the simple solution to eat less sugar vs. prescription choices [11:58] Diet Habits | Changing dietary habits to control glucose vs medication and power of diet [15:10] Insulin Resistance | Ben explains 2 problems, cells not responding and elevated insulin [18:47] Storing Fat | Ben maps out which cells are resistant to insulin & which will store more fat [23:50] Elevated Insulin | Ben explains the effect of insulin and how too much affects your cells [31:40] Hypertension | Ben reveals how insulin is nearly always tied to high blood pressure [32:23] Exercise Cure | Ben on how exercise impacts insulin levels and muscle cells take over [36:37] Diet | Ben underlines that diet beats exercise in terms of helping insulin resistance [41:38] Diet Principle #1 | Control Carbs, Ben explains why carbs are not essential for humans [42:31] Vegan Diet Problems | Ben explains how vegan diets are missing iron and omega 3s [44:26] Diet Principle #2| Prioritize Proteins, Ben urges animal-sourced proteins are best [47:17] Diet Principle #4 | Fasting, Ben simplifies it and only advises eating earlier is better [50:01]   QUOTES: “when you start asking someone to change habits, you are probably asking them to do the most difficult thing they can do. It's just so much simpler to take a pill. And consequences be damned” [15:31]   “... it might be empowering, that rather than hopelessly taking medications every day, knowing that the only the only future is increasing the dose of those medications. Let's actually address the true origins of the problem, which [...] is often going to be insulin resistance.” [18:17]   “insulin’s telling the body how much fat to store, the sex hormones are just telling the body where to store it, and how” [28:08]   “the muscle is so hungry during exercise, that it just basically tells insulin look when I'm at rest, you're the boss, but when I'm exercising, I'm the boss. I'm going to get what I need, and so it basically pushes insulin to the side.” [39:01]   “if you try to compare diet to exercise, diet will beat the hell out of exercise, as a variable for insulin resistance.” [42:00]   “it [vegan diet] is a privilege of the elite. You have to be educated enough to know what your deficiencies are, and you have to be wealthy enough to afford the supplements” [44:47]     Follow Ben Bikman: Website: https://www.insuliniq.com/about-dr-benjamin-bikman Twitter: https://twitter.com/benbikmanphd?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/insuliniq Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benbikmanphd/?hl=en Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCblbxPFG0XAsQA2LwzT6xDQ  

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Check out our Sponsors Athletic Greens: Go to athleticgreens.com/impact and receive a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase! Helium 10: Get 50% OFF your first month of Helium 10 Platinum at Helium10.com and use code IMPACT at check out. Headspace: Go to headspace.com/impact for a FREE ONE-MONTH TRIAL with access to Headspace’s full library of meditations for every situation. Audible: Start listening with a 30-day free trial, one free audiobook and access to the Plus Catalog. Visit audible.com/IMPACTTHEORY or text IMPACTTHEORY to 500-500   To know where you are going, they say you should know where you’ve been. Science fiction has been well documented for its often accurate predictions and a loved being a social curiosity for many. In this episode, Tom is joined by physicist and bestselling science fiction author, David Brin. David exposes how science fiction can be more accurately described as “speculative history” than anything else. Their conversation explores society through history from the Periclean times all the way through modern U.S. politics and what a transparent society top-down, and bottom-up would imply and necessitate.   TASAT project mentioned to check out: http://tasat.ucsd.edu/   SHOW NOTES:   History | Using history to write science fiction and being a good ancestor[1:42] Science Fiction | Writing sci-fi and the historical connection making it speculative history [6:15] Anticipation | How empathy allows anticipation & resilience to increase taking hard hits [9:51] Hollywood Propaganda | David breaks down the notion of improve-ability [16:45] Positive Sum Game | Winning more while helping others win versus zero-sum game [21:14] Self Preventing Prophecy | The propaganda messages saying all humans are bad [27:08] Criticism & Delusion | Being maximally creative using criticism to fix error & delusion  [37:24] Periclean Experiment | The Athenian society crushed to preserve pyramid society [41:38] Death of Politics | Losing friction and negotiation of “adaptation to new times” [44:55] Enlightenment | David on 5 accountability arenas and need for regulated competition [50:15] Experts Under Attack | David explains how media is twisting lies to attack the experts [56:31] Attacking Facts | Davids solution to end the attack on facts that are being ridiculed [1:04:29] American Civil War | David reveals eight phases of civil war in America [1:12:36] Transparent Society | David on potential lateral oppression & need for cultural values [1:16:44] Learning | David reveals his thoughts and approach to learning & exploring curiosity [1:21:16]   QUOTES:   “science fiction should have been called speculative history. Because it speculates about what this story is going to show next” [8:25]   “criticism is the only known antidote to error.” [37:59]   “become maximally creative by reciprocally holding each other accountable.” [40:32]   “together, if we criticize each other, we can cancel each other's delusions, but work together on each other's good ideas. It's a positive-sum game” [41:21]   “...there are attempts to resurrect it [politics], but I'm afraid it's going to have to be resurrected over the smoldering carcass of one of our parties.” [47:13]   “individually we are flawed, but that we can, together, increase the amount of light in the world.” [50:37]   “So the right tends to say ‘yay, competition, boo regulation’. The left tends to say ‘yay regulation, boo competition’ [...] regulated competition is how we got the spectacular success of sports” [52:25]   “the worst thing that's happened to destroy us is also the easiest to solve.” [57:49]   “I tell them [students] that if they spend their time at a university, just studying what they're there to study, they have betrayed their civilization, [...] let alone betrayed themselves.” [1:21:41]   “...but raging systematically against your limitations. I am not a limited being, oh, I am limited time, I'm limited in resources, I'm limited in brainpower, I'm limited in all those things, but I can be interested in more than one thing.”   “It's the attitude that makes you a member of this civilization. I am surrounded by wonders I deserve to know about them.” [1:33:25]     Follow David Brin: Website:https://www.davidbrin.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidbrin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AUTHORDAVIDBRIN/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbrin/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4nGhCpeW3v1McoV1p71okw  

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Check out our Sponsors Butcher Box: New members can get a free Essentials Bundle in their first box. That’s 3 lbs of chicken breast, 2 lbs of pork chops and 2 lbs of ground beef all for FREE in your first box by going to ButcherBox.com/impact. Paleo Valley: Visit paleovalley.com and enter code impact for 15% OFF your first order. Thryve: Get 50% off your at-home gut health test at trythryve.com/impact Imagine Golf: Download the Imagine Golf app for FREE in the Apple app Store and check out their 7-day FREE trial. https://www.imaginegolf.com Which diet are you following? Are you doing the carnivore diet? Vegan? Keto? The choices and variations of every diet plan available is nearly endless. At the heart of the matter, diet consciousness is a question of overall health and better managing and preventing diseases and conditions that hinder your performance and destroy your ability to live a happy and healthy life. In this episode, nephrologist and intermittent fasting expert, Dr. Jason Fung, exposes the overarching importance of understanding your body’s hormonal response to insulin activated by what you eat and the frequency with which you eat. He also breaks down the three major paradigms for cancer, and ranks the danger of a poor diet as high as cigarette smoke in terms of high risk contributors of cancer. Dr. Fung is also the author of the #1 best seller, The Obesity Code.   Order Dr. Jason Fung’s Book, “The Cancer Code”: https://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Code-Revolutionary-Understanding-Wellness/dp/0062894005   SHOW NOTES: Weight Loss | Dr. Fung on why weight loss is critical and counting calories doesn’t work [1:23] Calories | Dr. Fung reveals how hormones impact your body’s response to less calories [3:31] Carbohydrates | Dr. Fung on how carbs stimulate insulin and signal the body to store fat [6:59] Protein vs. Carbs | The hormonal response of these nutrients on satiety & effect on insulin [9:50] Processed Carbs | Dr. Fung explains the danger behind processed carbs & hormones [13:03] Insulin | Dr. Fung explains getting fat on calorie restriction when insulin is high [15:49] Low Insulin Diet | Dr Fung on losing weight by lower insulin and cycle feeding & fasting [23:32] Fasting | Dr. Fung introduces options to get through fast with salt, magnesium or broths [26:32] Cancer | Dr. Fung breaks down 3 paradigm shifts in cancer research & treatments [28:50] Growth Paradigm | How the overgrowth of cells have been treated by cut, burn or poison [29:41] Genetic Paradigm | Understanding genetic mutations and the complication curing cancer [30:36] Evolutionary Paradigm | The primitive mutation of cancer treated with immunotherapy [34:00] Seed in Soil | Preventing cancer “seeds” to grow, understanding chronic stressors  [42:30]   QUOTES: “So it's simply false to say, if you cut 500 calories a day down, you will lose a pound of body fat a week, it's actually not true in any way, shape, or form.” [5:31]   “when you're thinking about weight gain, weight loss, you really have to think about hormones, because it's really a hormonal imbalance, not a caloric imbalance” [12:04]   “when insulin is going down you're going to burn body fat, [...] you can't burn body fat if insulin is high.” [21:05]   “...we're not trying to kill cells with immunotherapy, we're not trying to fix genetic mutations. What we're trying to do is treat these cancers like a foreign species, like an invasive foreign species...” [40:03]   “diet actually plays a massive role, and by understanding it, perhaps you can reduce your risk of cancer.” [47:45]   Follow Dr. Jason Fung: Website: https://thefastingmethod.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jason.fung.313 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjasonfung/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/drjasonfung Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoyL4iGArWn5Hu0V_sAhK2w  

Check out our Sponsors Athletic Greens: Go to athleticgreens.com/impact and receive a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase! Indeed: Get a FREE $75 CREDIT to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/IMPACT Helix Sleep: Go to HelixSleep.com/impact for up to $200 off your mattress and 2 free pillows. Skillshare: Explore your creativity at skillshare.com/impacttheory for a free trial of Premium Membership. In honor of the 2 MILLION subscribers, a.k.a 2 MILLION Impactivists that recognize human potential is nearly limitless, we are celebrating with the very first episode of Impact Theory with the legendary Michael Strahan. In this episode, Strahan shines like the incredibly humble and authentic person he is and Tom steps on the scene from day one sharing his mission to pull people (at scale) out of the Matrix.   If you’ve wondered about the secret to reinventing yourself, beating your limitations and discovering what true leadership looks like, this episode does not disappoint. Michael breaks down the importance of making everyone you come across feel valuable from the janitor to the CEO, and how he’s reinvented himself figuring out life and understanding there’s level to this shit!   Order Michael Strahan’s Book, Wake Up Happy: https://www.amazon.com/Wake-Up-Happy-Dream-Transforming/dp/1476775699   SHOW NOTES:   Perspective | Strahan reframes stress of travel with the reality of life and finds gratitude [2:55] Not If, When | Strahan on getting after the hard things, lessons from dad and no doubts [4:07] The Switch | Strahan exposes how he found common ground with Tom Coughlin [9:17] Leadership | Strahan on how to lead and have everyone to feel valued and do anything [13:54] Psychology | Strahan explains how he gets everyone on same page for the win [17:42] Routine | Strahan on his routine to get past self doubt, know the job & execute [23:47] Unseen | Strahan on bringing joy and respect to every position you interact with [27:21] Self-Limiting | Breaking out of the Matrix, overcoming self-limitations, and doubt [30:24] Fear & Failures | Getting ready for what’s next and get better [37:04] Reinvention | Figuring out life, finding the fear, going all in, master it, on to the next [41:45] Put the Work In | Strahan on putting in 100% work and taking credit for the win or fail [44:57]     QUOTES:   “Well you make decisions, it’s up to you. You know, you make choices in your life. You program your mind to either be happy or not. That’s a choice that you make.” [8:35]   “...you get so much more out of yourself, and so much more out of people, because you’re in an environment you created.” [28:27]   “Life is not going to be perfect and if you excerpt it to be perfect, you’re fooling yourself. A perfect life without a challenge is not a perfect life, it’s a boring life.” [38:09]   “You have to have role models, you have to have people that you look up to that make you push yourself and make you want to be better.” [46:27]   Follow Michael Strahan: Website: http://www.michaelstrahan.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelstrahan?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michaelstrahan92 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelstrahan/?hl=en

Check Out Our Sponsors Alto: Download the Alto app today and add code IMPACTTHEORY to receive $30 toward your first Alto ride anytime this month. https://www.ridealto.com Headspace: Go to headspace.com/impact for a FREE ONE-MONTH TRIAL with access to Headspace’s full library of meditations for every situation. Helium 10: Get 50% OFF your first month of Helium 10 Platinum at Helium10.com and use code IMPACT at check out. Thryve: Get 50% off your at-home gut health test at trythryve.com/impact Are you part of the many struggling with finding meaning in the midst of the chaos, disease, falling governments, unspeakable human conditions? What does it even look like to show up your best these days when your heart is heavy and you’re surrounded with so much uncertainty? This episode today takes the plunge and leans off the edge with Jamie Wheal unpacking the depth and complexities he’s addressing in his latest book, Recapture the Rapture. The conversation is heavy and will challenge you to rethink your stance and what leaning into our global community could be for you. Enjoy peak experiences, spark the human initiative in your community and have some compassion for the world around you.   Order Jamie Wheal’s new book, Recapture the Rapture: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08DNT8B9B/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0       SHOW NOTES:   Loss of Meaning | A break down of the conflicting directions of major institutions [3:33] Meaning 1.0 & 2.0 | Jamie breaks down the difference and problem for salvation & inclusion [7:54] Meta Crisis | Jamie details the complexity of meta crisis and where it intersects [12:06] Storytelling | Jamie walks through shapes of stories & where we are in our story of humanity [16:16] Acceleration | Jamie on why rushing to clean the slate is ignorant of history [18:56] The Drop | Jamie lists problems (the drop) we have to lean into to get to the better side [24:31] Narrative Problem | Jamie breaks down coming alive vs. staying alive, narrative or reality [28:37] Rearview Mirror | Jamie summarizes where the U.S. is after war in 1945 through 60s [30:55] Tribalism | Jamie reveals what unhealthy tribalism is versus healthy that is for community [32:16] Cults | Jamie exposes history of cults, how some succeed, when it gets too far extreme [36:42] 4 Cult Responses | Jamie explains the 4 feelings and 4 responses to cult leaders [44:44] Top Down Solutions | The issue being detached from complexity of interconnected problems [53:13] Global Rage | Jamie on the human initiative and the propensity for collective rage [57:14] Finding Grace | Significant decisions in history that were against the rage & violence [1:02:44] Cultural Architect | Escaping doomsday and thriving into the future [1:10:21] Soul Force | Jamie explains the root of peaceful nonviolence anchored to Civil Rights [1:15:09] Big 5 | Jamie reveals the big 5 evolutionary drivers, discusses healing and peak states [1:20:15] Sex & Healing | Jamie explores the power of orgasms, women, its evolutionary nature [1:34:00] Out of Hand | Jamie shares why people don’t know what they’re doing, forgiving ourselves [1:47:11] Trickster | Jamie on dissonance between God & Satan, Good & Bad and the unknowing [1:50:51] Omega Point | Jamie reveals the point where death and rebirth come together [1:58:02]   QUOTES:   “There are intersecting, overlapping and reinforcing meta crisis happening right now. And so it's not just any single thing, and none of the challenges that we're facing, stop or respect, zip codes or political boundaries” [9:42]   “And so we have to actually be willing to lean into that drop. It's like skateboarding or snowboarding or anything, like you're standing on the lip of something steep, you don't fall back away from it, you actually have to lean into it, to stick the landing.” [17:52]   “...the point isn't to end the game victorious. The point is to keep playing for as long as possible, with as many people as possible.” [21:39]   “...the narrative challenge,[...] is actually, can we acknowledge that both are true? It's an incredibly complex quadratic equation. We don't know how it's going to turn out, our participation in it plays a big part in how it turns out. So we need to be vigilant and subtle, and adaptive, and responsive, all at once.” [30:28]   “No one beats our collective intelligence.” [57:12]   “grieve globally, [...] actually open our hearts to the wound of the world right now, and everyone and everything on it, but thrive locally.” [57:49]   “tribalism is destiny and humanism is optional” [1:02:33]   “we need to get more effective and more deliberate and more inclusive about our access to healing, inspiration and connection.” [1:10:31]   “...when we try and suppress the random and fickle and unknowable nature of existence, right, we tend to create more trauma, we tend to create more heartache, versus just bearing witness in the not knowing of it all.” [1:56:00]   “I wake up in the morning torn between the desire to save the world, or savor it.” [1:58:52]   “...instead of me trying to escape my mundane existence, I'm coming back to it. And I'm coming back to it with fresh eyes and an open heart and gratitude.” [2:04:23]   Follow Jamie Wheal: Website: https://www.recapturetherapture.com/ Website: https://www.flowgenomeproject.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-wheal-887212a/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Flowgenome Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flowgenome/  

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That’s 3 lbs of chicken breast, 2 lbs of pork chops and 2 lbs of ground beef all for FREE in your first box by going to ButcherBox.com/impact. Paleo Valley: Visit paleovalley.com and enter code impact for 15% OFF your first order. Mint Mobile: To get your NEW wireless plan for just $15 a month and get the plan shipped to your door for FREE, go to mintmobile.com/impacttheory Mint Mobile: To get your NEW wireless plan for just $15 a month and get the plan shipped to your door for FREE, go to mintmobile.com/impacttheory Skillshare: Explore your creativity at skillshare.com/impacttheory for a free trial of Premium Membership. Thryve: Get 50% off your at-home gut health test at trythryve.com/impact Nearly everyone has a platform of some kind. Maybe your platform is on social media, or it’s home with your immediate family and close circle of friends. Regardless, what you say out of your mouth to the people around your platform matters. In this episode, Tom is joined by the legendary T.D. Jakes, who shares the incredible value of what we say to communicate and even more importantly, how we listen. T.D. Jakes break down the depth of becoming a better listener and the importance and urgency of being creative, innovative and finding mastery to strive for something greater in your entrepreneurial life and in your personal life.   Order the new book from T.D. Jakes, Don’t Drop the Mic: https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Drop-Mic-Study-Guide/dp/154602946X/ref=pd_lpo_14_img_0/132-0114708-7465409?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=154602946X&pd_rd_r=9f5b6008-3bde-4812-a0f6-2980154e031c&pd_rd_w=drzwh&pd_rd_wg=g0YzA&pf_rd_p=337be819-13af-4fb9-8b3e-a5291c097ebb&pf_rd_r=SPXA1HE9N6QM9GQM6EBG&psc=1&refRID=SPXA1HE9N6QM9GQM6EBG   SHOW NOTES: Power Mic | T.D. Jakes shares how he discovered the power of a platform and audience [1:46] Get it Out | Coming out of your bubble for a new experience ready to talk, listen and learn [6:37] Listen Better | T.D. Jakes explains how listening leads to understanding and less hate [10:49] New World | Why mentoring each other is necessary to get others out of their subculture [15:47] Potential | Break past limiting beliefs and expectations of others to explore possibilities [21:58] Intention | T.D. Jakes explains what’s intended versus what’s understood, being bilingual [29:15] Understand | To better understand, just listen, don’t run away, don’t try to fix the person [33:08] Seasons | Reality of not holding onto past labels and experiencing new stages of life [38:15] Action | T.D. Jakes breaks down how life requires a process to create and innovate [42:36] Urgency | T.D. Jakes reveals the urgency action in the ‘now’ and relationship value [46:45] Survive Strong | T.D. Jakes on what’s left after the trauma is always enough to rebuild [51:39] QUOTES: “...it takes courage to come out of your bubble and talk and listen and learn and not always show up as a teacher, but to come into the room as a student.” [10:19]   “And a lot of people black, white, brown, rich, poor, [....] run the risk of dying, the death of being normal, or average, rather than being exceptional, and being fruitful, to the full extent of your potential, wherever that takes you.” [18:02]   “Don't drop the mic, because destiny is in front of you, and history is behind you. And why would you live in your history when you can excel in your destiny?” [20:51]   “Don't let people describe you because if they do, they will incarcerate you.” [23:17]   “...the best things in life require process, and if you run from the process, you alleviate the promise.” [44:24]   “The currency of relationships is your greatest resource is better than any dollar amount in the world.” [49:35]   “Your future is never predicated on what you lost. It is predicated on what you have left.” [51:39]   “...there's always something to do with what you have experienced.” [54:37]   Follow TD Jakes: Website: https://www.tdjakes.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bishopjakes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bishopjakes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bishopjakes/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjQbTcszB-gRhDByY9WhySw

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Chuck PALAHNIUK, well known author for the Fight Club, Guts and many more, takes you through a journey of highs and lows as he reveals the world through the lens through which he sees the fascination called life.   Order Chuck Palahniuk’s new book, Invention of Sound: https://www.amazon.com/Invention-Sound-Chuck-Palahniuk-ebook/dp/B083J15DPM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?dchild=1&keywords=Chuck+Palahniuk+the+invention+of+sound&qid=1586887098&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=officchuckpalaha&linkId=fc193892f0f2fd560adce4b020133392&language=en_US   SHOW NOTES:   Dark Side | Chuck’s take on types of people not dealing with unresolved darkness [2:42] Guts | Chuck’s experience publicly reading his book Guts & shedding pretense of looking good [5:06] One Thing | Chuck explains history without one person and committing to one thing in life [9:50] Live Forever | Opposing ideals of living forever and doing infinite things or one thing [12:13] So What | Chuck shares his take on this mantra to not be hindered by someone else’s agenda [19:00] Choose Your Problem | Chuck explains the power of inventing your own major problem [22:18] Invention of Sound | Chuck explores the commodification of human experience [25:03] Henry Kissinger | Chuck recalls the game he played and shares why emotional pain is so hard [35:26] Universal | The effect owning your shame and saying it happened can have to freeing others [40:31] Self Soothing | How vulnerable truths are self serving and allowing Chuck to process [49:59] Broken Silence | Chuck defined the tension of silence and the power it can give to narrative [54:10] Break the Rules | Chuck breaks down not wasting life and having the guts to go too far [57:18] Unique Characters | Chuck explains the importance of community and despicable nature [1:02:41] Too Far | Chuck shares his shock about Fight Clubs impact and changing culture [1:06:36] Hospice Volunteer | How Chuck came to accept death and found joy in not dying [1:13:44] Accepting Shadows | Chuck on the comfort of accepting the shadows know they exist [1:19:59] Dominate | Navigating people’s urge to dominate and be right, trolling for an epiphany [1:23:48] Master Storyteller | Chuck reveals the power of elicited emotion and burning “failed” stories [1:27:50] Chuck’s Dad | Chuck recounts the murder of his father and the fate that led to his death [1:33:48] Self Comforting Storied | Chuck explains why these stories are emotionally exhausting [1:40:28] Storytelling | How the repetition of a story without emotion through workshop is a therapy [1:46:47]   QUOTES: “....you talk about how we human beings are meaning making machines. We are also looking good machines, and we are machines that just spend all of our time trying not to be dominated, and trying to look good” [5:17] “by focusing on one thing, I've got a bigger life than I ever, ever could have imagined for myself.” [12:07] “It's so often the broken way in which you depict something that establishes your authority” [55:15]   And so every book is only something you can do at a certain point in your life. And if you pass that point, without having done that thing, you always look back and think Why was I so gutless? [57:56] “unless you go to the too far you're kind of wasting your life, in my opinion.” [59:35] “I'm much more compelled by a character who is corrupt, but is just trying to do the right thing. Even if it's kind of a despicable thing. But it's the only right thing that the character can think of doing. “ [1:02:50] “...the other thing about sort of working the vein of the extreme, is that if you can lodge yourself in people's memory, whether or not they like you the first time, if they remember you, people change and the culture changes.” [1:07:20] “I am this constant, sort of gathering this harvesting, of human experience, and then organizing, that experience and presenting it in a narrative, so that the experience has a context.” [1:30:35] “...getting back to zero, getting back to sort of empty and meaningless so that you can start the next project without being too attached to the previous project.” [1:32:31] “So in lieu of fixing somebody, I always kind of strive to kind of present them with something that is going to make them excited about living. Blah blah blah” [1:54:34]   Follow Chuck PALAHNIUK: Website: https://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chuckpalahniuk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chuckpalahniuk/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/chuckpalahniuk?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Check out our Sponsors LMNT: Go to drinkLMNT.com/Impact to get your sample pack for the cost of shipping. Only $5 for U.S. orders. Indeed: Get a FREE $75 CREDIT to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/IMPACT Blinkist: Go to https://blinkist.com/impact Try it FREE for 7 days and save 25% off your new subscription. Better Help: Get 10% off your first month at https://betterhelp.com/impacttheory The word ‘capitalism’ seems to make some people happy, while making others cringe. The U.S. started as a capitalist society and has evolved into a mix of capitalism and socialism. As society and technology evolves, how should our economic system evolve in response? In this episode, Sir Ronald Cohen, “the father of British venture capital” speaks with Tom about the importance of social impact and what impact investing is evolving into and how it can change the social world for the better. Creating systems that support entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and social responsibility of big companies is just the tip of a massive iceberg. Listen in to see how this all ties into our natural desire to evolve and strive for more than just money.   Order Sir Ronald Cohen’s new book, Impact (all proceeds donated to impact charities): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Impact-Reshaping-capitalism-drive-change/dp/1529108055/   SHOW NOTES: Impact Investing | Sir Ronald explains what’s reshaping a new economic system [1:57] Coming to Britain | Sir Ronald reveals how he moved from Egypt and ended in Britain [4:48] Venture Capital | An overview of how venture capitalism came to be and what it is [7:23] Social Impact | Getting an accurate view of a company’s impact not just profits [9:41] Deciding | Sir Ronald gives tips on what to look for evaluating a company’s impact [12:47] Redistributed Wealth | Why redistributed wealth is needed, but it’s not enough [15:30] Poverty Problem | Sir Ronald discusses what’s been missing from solution [18:20] 1800 Companies | The $3 trillion environmental damage being measured [21:28] Capitalism | Sir Ronald breaks down capitalism driven by profit and social impact [28:05] Communism | Setbacks of communism and how increased prosperity redistributed is better  [32:30] Turning Point | Recognizing social problems and having technology to measure impact [34:59] Striving | Sir Ronald introduces human nature to strive for money & quality of life [42:14] Re-Skill | Sir Ronald identifies why opportunities for new skills is part of the system [45:12]   QUOTES: “Because making money at the expense of the environment, or poor people isn't the way to do business. And it doesn't help solve the social and environmental issues we face.” [10:45]   “...we can't let capitalism be driven by profit only. We must have markets trying to achieve profit, and something good for society or the environment. Otherwise, capitalism creates problems.” [28:31]   “I think most company leaders would rather do good and do well, than create problems and make money. But it's the power of consumers and employees and investors together that are going to get them to change their behavior.” [30:40]   “...if you plan everything for people, you kill innovation, and entrepreneurship, with the ability to think out of the box, [and] the freedom to try to execute it.” [33:08]   “Human nature is about striving, striving for survival, striving for success, it’s all about striving, and our system encourages and enables the striving.” [42:28]   “a system like capitalism, which is dynamic, and resilient, and reactive, if it is channeled in the same way, it will be better than a system where the government tries to plan everything from above.” [50:40]   ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: The Harvard Business School Impact-Weighted Account Study (hbsiwa.com): https://www.hbs.edu/impact-weighted-accounts/current-state/Pages/default.aspx FOLLOW SIR RONALD COHEN: Website: https://sirronaldcohen.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sirronniecohen LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sir-ronald-cohen-437a481b3/

Check out our Sponsors Butcher Box: New members can get a free Essentials Bundle in their first box. That’s 3 lbs of chicken breast, 2 lbs of pork chops and 2 lbs of ground beef all for FREE in your first box by going to ButcherBox.com/impact. Alto: Download the Alto app today and add code IMPACTTHEORY to receive $30 toward your first Alto ride anytime this month. https://www.ridealto.com Mint Mobile: To get your NEW wireless plan for just $15 a month and get the plan shipped to your door for FREE, go to mintmobile.com/impacttheory InsideTracker: Get 25% off their entire store at insidetracker.com/impacttheory Digestive diseases are affecting tens of millions of people everyday. So often gut issues are being misdiagnosed and ineffectively handled due to poor diet, misinformation, and general confusion. In this episode, the Gut Health MD, Dr. Will Bulsiewicz (or Dr. B for short) breaks down what is really going on with the microbiome and what we can do to stop damaging it and start supporting it. He drops some shocking facts about microbes and even how your past trauma and unresolved emotional scars can impact the health of your gut. Dr. Bulsiewicz is well researched and an actively practicing physician that wants to simplify how you can improve your overall health by understanding your unique ecosystem and making better food choices to change your microbiome as early as tomorrow.   Order the new book from Dr. Bulsiewicz: https://www.amazon.com/Fiber-Fueled-Plant-Based-Optimizing-Microbiome-ebook/dp/B07ZY7J2XW/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=fiber+fueled&qid=1588281371&sr=8-2   SHOW NOTES:   Microbiome | Dr. Bulsiewicz explains the microbiome and relevance to biodiversity [2:38] Ecosystems | An explanation of ecosystems within our gut and danger of instability [6:15] Biodiversity | Rebuilding biodiversity after terrible diets and inauthentic lifestyles [8:42] Fiber | Dr. Bulsiewicz discusses how critical fiber and different types for gut microbes [10:02] Digesting Fiber | Dr Bulsiewicz explains how fiber is broken down and building tolerance [14:00] Rebuilding Microbiome | Dr. Bulsiewicz shares ways to reintroduce microbes to the body [20:29] Microbial Intake | Starving microbes with lack of fiber and not needing more probiotics [23:40] Gut Rehab | Dr Bulsiewicz explains introducing plants low and slow is good at the right time for complex gut issues [26:02] Diagnosing Tools | Dr. Bulsiewicz shares 3 most powerful tools for diagnosing patients [28:28] Food Sensitivity | Dr. Bulsiewicz breaks down 3 common causes that are reversible [29:11] Constipation | Signs of constipation that may shock you [29:19] Celiac Disease | Blood tests are often wrong and it's more common than you think [31:24] Gallbladder | Another common cause that may be waking you in the middle of night [31:47] Dietary Fiber | Dr. Bulsiewicz talks about supplemental fiber and having extra support [32:33] Saturated Fats | Dr. Bulsiewicz’s concerns of the effects these fats have on microbiome  [34:55] Dietary Impact | The impact plant-based vs. animal-based diets have on microbes [38:04] Shared Microbiome | The benefit of shared microbiomes with pets and others [40:53] Unresolved Trauma | Impact trauma and abuse has on the microbiome can’t be ignored [41:30]   QUOTES: “I think one of the major issues [...] is that we live in a society that is completely devoid of fiber consumption. And fiber is the preferred food of these gut microbes.” [10:03]   “I personally am vegan [...] I'm not teaching the science because I'm vegan. I'm vegan, because the science led me to where I am today.” [11:42]   “with every single dietary choice, we are contributing to the balance that exists within our microbiome.” [18:33]   “our fiber deficiency is causing us to suffer consequences because our gut microbes are not being fed.” [24:56]   “...the microbiome changes in less than 24 hours, whatever dietary choice you make. So literally, the food that you're eating today will have an effect on your microbiome tomorrow.” [37:04]   “If you are suffering from trauma, and abuse history, whether it was physical, sexual, emotional, psychological. If you don't directly address that issue, you will not heal your microbiome. The stress that is driven by that underlying trauma history is an open wound that persists, and it festers until it is addressed.” [41:30]   Follow Dr. Will Bulsiewicz: Website: https://theplantfedgut.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theguthealthmd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theguthealthmd/

Check out our Sponsors BLUblox: Go to blublox.com/impacttheory for 15% off your order or use discount code ImpactTheory at checkout. Joovv: Get an exclusive discount on your first order at Joovv.com/impact and use code IMPACT Helix Sleep: Go to HelixSleep.com/impact for up to $200 off your mattress and 2 free pillows. Skillshare: Explore your creativity at skillshare.com/impacttheory for a free trial of Premium Membership. It is one thing to be the toughest woman in the room and it is entirely another thing to be the toughest person in the room. When you allow yourself to be haunted by past fears and failures you put yourself at a disadvantage and lock your potential away in the safety of a box. In this episode today, one of the toughest and most resilient people you will ever come across joins Tom to share her insight on what it takes to beat the odds and kick ass, failure after failure. Lupita Nyong’o said, “It’s only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you’re not expressing the utmost of your human experience.” The essence of being a total badass, owning your failure and swinging hard to conquer no one but yourself is what Sarah Robb O’Hagan brings to the table. Get ready to take action, it’s the only way forward.   SHOW NOTES: Assness Level | Levels of toughness in behaviors that show how kick-ass you are [3:59] Humility | Finding success with humility after setting aside arrogance [6:12] Hiring the Best | Making sure you are hiring the right people and behaviors [8:10] Leading the Team | Expressing your values and demonstrating them for your company [10:39] Gritty Leadership | Pushing your team and reassuring them by example  [12:50] Resilient Employees | How to get the best out of your employees and find resilience [14:20] Fired | Being vulnerable and honest with yourself and others after being fired [15:50] Step Out of Line | Clutch moments you get to reframe a ‘no’ to bring more value [18:13] Fight for Yourself | When odds are stacked against you this is how to take action and create opportunity [23:42] Supercharged Career | Don’t please the boss, show how you can solve their problem [26:19] Your Mountain | Stay in and grind it out by choosing your mountain to climb and win [27:38] Secret to Success | Outperforming your peers no matter who they are [31:00] Self-Improvement | Happens outside of the comfort-zone with new experiences and skill acquisition [32:38] Extremely You | Sarah defines what extremely you is and how challenging yourself [34:34] Behaviors | Sarah shares the common behaviors she found driving people’s success [37:44] Movement | The reason for Sarah’s Extreme Living movement [38:40] Processing Failure | When the stakes are high have the fortitude to handle it [39:43]   QUOTES: “I just don't want to get fired, so I will do anything to help and support and listen and learn and truly, like that is what I think made me successful there because I was a sponge like taking it all in and recognizing there was a hell of a lot more that I needed to learn to be good”  [7:28]   “I’ve learned along the way when you are trying to be something you’re not that is when you lose your confidence” [10:20]   “The minute you acknowledge what you did you have control over changing that.” [17:23]   “Don’t ever worry that someone didn’t ask you to do something, just get on and do it.” [25:41]   “It’s about getting them to understand that you will be happy and fulfilled if you do whatever you do in your life off of your own steam, [...] For me the single biggest learning is like, don’t look for shortcuts, don’t look for people to give you handouts. Go figure it out for yourself because that is what will make you the most satisfied happy person you can be” [30:15]   “I just have worked in predominantly male industries the whole way through, and it just I never even really noticed that I was the only woman at the table very often, I just was like ‘well fuck I’m here’, so I am going to do the best I can and it’s up to me to outperform my peer group whoever they are.”   [32:14]   “Until you’ve been to the depths of the canyon of despair like that’s where the learning and the growth comes from and you come back so much stronger on the other side. [40:18]     FOLLOW SARAH: Website: https://extremeyou.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExtremeSRO Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ExtremeSarah/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-robb-o-hagan-249130 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC47oni1fY5azI3qOnFm_tSQ

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Donald shares the possibilities of consciousness and the infinite nature of theories that exist outside of the virtual reality headset he uses to describe the version of reality you may still be experiencing. Take the plunge into this conversation and challenge the consciousness of what you call your true self.   Order Donald’s latest book, ‘The Case Against Reality’: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Reality-Evolution-Truth/dp/0393254690   SHOW NOTES:   Consciousness | The theory of reality beyond the physical space and time [1:24] Spacetime | Donald relates Grand Theft Auto to understanding reality beyond space time [7:48] Testing Reality | Testable predictions of reality outside of space time and the fundamental nature of consciousness [10:40] Conscious Agents | Donald introduces conscious agents using the Twitter model [16:00] Conscious Illusion | How consciousness is not bound to the laws of physics and is created as needed in a simulation [22:00] Evolution | Why evolutionary theory only exists in space and time within the VR experience [26:34] The Unknown | The dark side of letting go to explore unknown concepts [33:40] Spacetime Simulator | Donald takes us through how consciousness is explored [37:33] Predicted Consciousness | Enjoying experience and predicting the realm of consciousness [49:57] Girdles Down | The Girdles theorem and why everything can not theoretically be known [54:46] A.I. Consciousness | How reductionism makes it possible to give rise to consciousness [1:03:54] Created Consciousness | Donald explains the creation of consciousness from portals [1:10:29] God Hypothesis | Donald’s hypothesis of science of God as agent of consciousness [1:15:05] Asymptotic behavior | Long term behaviors from far away that use spacetime theory [1:26:07] Alien Intelligence | Donald discusses alien intelligence and being in a simulator [1:31:22] Living vs NonLiving | Being unplugged from VR game and notion of self [1:33:53] Meditation | Donald shares how meditating to let go and have complete silence transforms his thoughts [1:46:20]   QUOTES:   “ Science has not yet been studying objective reality outside of our space time virtual reality, that from an evolutionary point of view, was just evolved as a way for us to play the game of life, and stay alive long enough to reproduce, not to show us the truth.” [8:06]   “That's what spacetime is. Spacetime, the sun and the moon, physical objects, everything that we see inside of space and time is just our visualization tool. The reality we're interacting with is nothing like the visualization tool. There's nothing like space and time. It's a whole network of interacting conscious agents outside of space time, a vast social network. And we've made the rookie mistake of assuming that our headset, VR, our visualization tool, is the final reality.” [17:55]   “no matter how much consciousness explores its possibilities, it could never come to the end of its own possibilities. And so it's in a never ending self exploration.” [31:22]   “And right now we're sort of stuck on this little headset, three dimensions, small amount of color that we can see and so forth. Just, we thought it was the whole world. No, it's just it's a little headset.” [33:08]   “...we’re chasing that consciousness itself is only about exploring new possibilities of experience.” [35:55]   “So the reason I'm doing this is because I can't even imagine a specific color that I've never seen before, I can't imagine in four dimensions. In other words, I take it as a given that I'm deeply, deeply limited in my imagination. And I need all the tools I can get to help me step outside of my headset and try to guess, the unfathomable outside of there.” [52:47]   “There seems to be reward for absolute silence, no concept whatsoever, and out absolute precision on the other hand. And there's no reward for sloppy thinking in the middle.” [1:51:57]   “don't hold on to anything dogmatically right as that's the sort of the point explore and then be the first to kill off the things that you know really don't make sense don't don't hold on to them so it's an anti dogmatic point of view” [1:54:37]   FOLLOW (NAME): Website:http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/ Email: ddhoff@uci.edu Twitter: https://twitter.com/donalddhoffman?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/donalddhoffman/