ABOUT MARK:  Mark Sisson is founder of Primal Nutrition, LLC and Primal Kitchen, LLC, New York Times Bestselling Author, health and wellness revolutionary, and founder of Mark’s Daily Apple, the #1-ranked blog for over a decade in its health and fitness category. He is also wrote The Primal Blueprint, which was credited with turbocharging the growth of the primal/paleo movement back in 2009.…

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Who Is The Paleo Mom?

Sarah Ballantyne, Ph.D. is the creator of the award-winning online resource www.ThePaleoMom.com; co-host of the syndicated top-rated The Paleo View Podcast; New York Times bestselling author of  Paleo Principles, The Paleo Approach, The Paleo Approach Cookbook and The Healing Kitchen; creator of the online program Go To Bed; and creator of the top-rated online course, The Autoimmune Protocol Lecture Series.…

The post 153: Sarah Ballantyne — The PaleoMom on How Eating Real Food Can Change Everything appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Who Is Paul Grieve?

Paul Greive is making a difference. He’s the co-founder and CEO of PastureBird – the country’s largest supplier of REAL pasture raised, free-range chicken. And what do I mean by real? Well, “pasture raised,” when you see it on packaging in the market, doesn’t mean what you think it does.…

The post 152: Farmer Paul Greive – Most “Free Range Organic” Chickens Never See the Light of Day appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Who Is Kevin Rose (and why should I care)?

Kevin Rose is a pioneer in the tech world. He’s been named in the list of the Top 25 Angel Investors (Bloomberg), Top 25 Web Celebrities (Forbes), Top 25 Most Influential People on the Web (Time and Businessweek), and
Top 35 Innovators under 35 (MIT).…

The post 151: Kevin Rose — Lifehacker, Visionary Tech Investor, and CEO of Oak Meditation appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Tracy Sundlun is best known as one of the co-founders of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series, which with his involvement, grew to 29 events in 15 states, Washington DC, and 6 other countries, in which over 500,000 runners competed each year.  He has over 4 decades of involvement in virtually every facet of the sports of track and field, long distance running, and race walking.…

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Dr. Mark Goulston is a psychiatrist, a mentor to top executives and CEOs, bestselling author, and is considered to be the world’s number one expert in deep listening and influence. His book, Just Listen, is the top book on listening in the world. He teaches listening for empathy around the world to highly diverse groups of people including FBI and SWAT hostage negotiators,  coaches, teachers and educators, and recently in Moscow to over 400 managers and CEOs from the Russian Federation.…

The post 149: Dr. Mark Goulston — Transforming Relationships and Upgrading Your Happy Through Listening appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

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Josh Mantz  graduated from West Point in 2005 and received the Purple Heart and Bronze Star with Valor while serving in combat in Iraq. In 2007, Josh died after sustaining a gunshot wound in Baghdad, only to be miraculously revived by an expert medical team after his heart stopped for a full fifteen minutes.…

The post 148: Josh Mantz – Back From the Dead With a Message About Living appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

“My father used to say ‘To whom much is given, much is expected.’ I try to live by that motto each day.”

FROM ANDY:  I was touched, moved, and inspired by Kevin’s commitment to helping others, especially after watching the video on his website here, and felt compelled to have him on as a guest.…

The post 147: Kevin Carter — Father, Philanthropist, Sports Broadcaster, NFL Veteran & Super Bowl Champion appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Charles Mayfield, both an early adopter and leader in the paleo nutrition world, got started down this road based on personal desire to put the best, healthiest, and nutritious food on the table for himself and his family. His intention recently expanded from that to now include being responsible for raising healthy livestock and taking care of our land, making it sustainable and renewable for years and generations to come.…

The post 146: Charles Mayfield — Farmer, Father, and Bestselling Author of Paleo Comfort Foods appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

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About Paul:  Paul Chek is a holistic health practitioner, a.k.a. “a healer.” He developed a knack for it quite by accident about 30 years ago, when his teammates on the US Army boxing team found that they felt better and healed faster after having him work on them. He went on to study healing arts for the majority of two decades all over the world.…

The post 145: Paul Chek — Founder of the C.H.E.K (Corrective Holistic Exercise Kinesiology) Institute appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

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Katie Wells, the “Wellness Mama,” is a wife, a mom of six, an award-winning blogger, author, podcaster, and a real-food crusader. Her mission with WellnessMama.com is to provide simple answers for healthier families through practical tips, real food recipes, natural beauty and cleaning tutorials, natural remedies and more.

To handle her daily workload, Katie has developed systems and tips for living a Wellness Lifestyle™ with a family, and on a budget.…

The post 144: Katie Wells — The Wellness Mama appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

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This was a really special conversation for me. I have been a HUGE fan of Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone for many years. Leo has had a radio show called “The Tech Guy” (who is Leo) on KFI in Los Angeles on Saturdays for almost 20 years that I’ve listened to on and off since it’s inception.…

The post 143: Megan Morrone — Tech Guru, Mother, Whole Life Challenger appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

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Jimmy Rosenberg was looking for a way to make some dough in the summer of 1983. He got this idea…sell juice on the beach. So he got some fruit, blended it in his kitchen, and started selling the juice by the cup (poured from a jug) on the beach in Santa Monica.…

The post 142: Jimmy Rosenberg — If You Juice It, They Will Come appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

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Dr. Jeremy Brook, aka “The Spinechecker,” is a Los Angeles-based chiropractor, yogi, and movement specialist. He is the founder of  The Life Center Chiropractic, a unique healing oasis that incorporates the disciplines of chiropractic, spinal corrective protocols, yoga, and other movement art forms to make sure the spine, body, and mind are aligned.…

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How do you describe Ronnie Teasdale? Figuring out how to capture him in conversation and in writing, that’s the problem I ran into after spending a few hours with him recording the podcast.

Ronnie grew up in Michigan playing hockey practically every day of his life until he was 23 years old. At the height of his hockey “career,” he was what I’d call an “enforcer” — the guy you’d put in to take out (by brute force) whatever player on the other team was scoring goals or causing problems.…

The post 140: Ronnie Teasdale — On Unicycling, Water, Sound Healing and Supercharging Your Life appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

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Throughout his career, Dr. Michael Gervais has followed a central question: Is there a common thread connecting those who change how we understand how the world works?

As a high-performance psychologist, published, peer-reviewed author and recognized speaker on optimal human performance, Michael Gervais works in the trenches of high-stakes environments, where there is no luxury for mistakes, hesitation, or failure to respond.…

The post 139: Michael Gervais – On Unraveling the Secrets of Masters appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

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Kristen MacDermott is a consultant and performance coach who has created resilience training programs for some of the highest performing people on the planet, including Naval Special Warfare Command (Navy SEALs) and the Los Angeles Police Department. Kristin’s programs have also been used in more than 20 hospitals across the country, in the Duke Cancer Institute, and in the National Institutes of Health among others.…

The post 138: Kristin MacDermott – On Learnable Resilience Skills to Improve the Quality of Your Life appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

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In November of 1999, at the age of 24 and having just led an unsupported cycling trek across the United States with nine teenagers, Sam was in a car accident caused by a drunk driver. In an instant, he went from being an avid outdoorsman, athlete and Zen enthusiast to being paralyzed from the waist down.

Determined to not become the victim of his circumstances, Sam spent years learning from some of the world’s top experts in the fields of somatic healing, meditation, breath work and mind training.…

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As you might have noticed, this is the third podcast I’ve done with the folks from Human Garage. The first two were with the founders, Garry and Anela Lineham. Their stories and experiences are vastly different, yet they came together to create this extraordinary place of learning and healing.

Today, I’m moving the conversation toward the “how” of it all — in other words, what’s “under the hood” at the Human Garage.…

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Anela Lineham is the co-founder, along with her husband Gary Lineham, of Human Garage. Anela is an Intuitive Women’s Health Expert. She is a motion/breathwork master, and an expert in women’s health focusing on the biochemical, physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of a woman’s well-being.

Anela is also the co-owner Human Garage and has studied under Masters of NAAM, Kundalini, and Vinyasa Yoga for over thirty years.…

The post 135: Anela Lineham – On Courage and Resiliency, Living Into Your Intention No Matter What the Obstacle appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

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Diana Rodgers, RD, LDN, NTP is a “real food” nutritionist living on a working organic farm near Boston, Massachusetts. The farm runs a vegetable and meat CSA. She is the author of two bestselling cookbooks and runs a clinical nutrition practice.

Diana writes and speaks about the intersection of optimal human nutrition, environmental sustainability, animal welfare and social justice.…

The post 134: Diana Rodgers – Regenerative Farming, Paleo Nutrition, and Kale vs. Cow appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Garry Lineham, co-founder of Human Garage, is a lifelong bio-hacker who believes that the human body was designed to heal itself. He started Human Garage as a vehicle to give people the correct input to start that healing. Garry himself lived in chronic pain for over 20 years. During that time, he became increasingly frustrated with the countless treatment modalities that only addressed his symptoms.…

The post 133: Garry Lineham – On The Human Garage, His “Machine-Shop” for the Body Where They Heal the Un-Healable appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Dr.  Gibala is a professor and chair of the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. He studies the integrative physiology of exercise from the molecular up to whole body level, including the impact of training and nutrition on human health and performance.

Gibala’s research on the physiological adaptations to interval training has attracted immense scientific attention and worldwide media coverage.…

The post 132: Dr. Martin Gibala – Working Out for Busy People: Getting More Done in Less Time appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Dr. Sujit Sharma is a Harvard-trained pediatric ER doctor in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Sharma is also the CEO at Chuice and a member of the board of directors of Georgia Organics, a non-profit organization committed to environmental stewardship, farmer prosperity and community health. Early in his career, Dr. Sharma admits he thought he had a ‘great appreciation’ of health and healthy living.…

The post 131: Dr. Sujit Sharma – Chewable Juice? A Super-Healthy and Completely New Way to Consume Your Veggies appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

When Maryann Berry was in her 20’s she suffered from chronic knee, hip and back pain. She ended up in a wheelchair, unable to walk due to excruciating hip pain. She had multiple surgeries and tried every medical treatment under the sun including injections, prescription drugs, chiropractic adjustments, and physical therapy. She was left broke, still in pain, and with seemingly no prospects for healing.…

The post 130: Maryann Berry – How You Are Your Own Best Healer appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Ryan Munsey is a writer, podcaster, speaker, and high-performance consultant. He has worked with professional and Olympic athletes, Navy SEALs, and entrepreneurs — helping them optimize their minds and bodies, win medals, further their careers, and build multiple six-figure businesses. His work has been featured in Fortune Magazine, Men’s Health, and Men’s Fitness. Ryan is the author of his brand new book, F*ck Your Feelings (now available on Amazon in Paperback and Kindle editions), and the host of The Better Human Project podcast.…

The post 129: Ryan Munsey – Don’t Let Your Feelings Betray You appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Amber Lewis is the visionary behind The Good Kitchen, a meal delivery service that focuses on making it easy for you to make healthy food choices. She founded its predecessor, modPALEO, and grew it into what it is today, a small business that supports small farms, sustainability, a community of good people, and healthy living.

Amber’s passion for healthy food grew out of her own personal journey to wellness.…

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Steven Sashen is the CEO and co-founder of Xero Shoes. A serial entrepreneur and life-long athlete, Steven was an All-American gymnast and is now a Masters All-American sprinter. Also a former professional stand-up comedian and Emmy award-winning TV host, Sashen’s comedic and educational videos have over four million views.

With Xero Shoes, Steven is committed to helping people discover the fun and benefits of footwear that lets your body move and function naturally, and his enthusiasm for doing it hasn’t ebbed since getting involved in the barefoot movement almost ten years ago.…

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Drew Logan is a TV personality, best selling author, and celebrity fitness expert. He is also what doctors believe to be the only person to survive three sudden cardiac arrests in one night. Since that night, and partly because of it, Drew has dedicated more than 20 years of his life to helping people reach their full physical, mental, and emotional potential.…

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Dr. Jason Fung is a Canadian nephrologist and a world-leading expert on intermittent fasting and LCHF (low carb, high fat), especially for treating people with, or at risk for, type 2 diabetes. Dr. Jason Fung earned his medical degree and did his residency at the University of Toronto before heading to UCLA for his fellowship in nephrology. In addition to his practice as a kidney specialist, Dr.…

The post 125: Dr. Jason Fung — On Cracking “The Obesity Code” – Making Better Food Choices and Eating Less appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Jill Miller, C-IAYT, ERYT is the co-founder of Tune Up Fitness Worldwide and creator of the self-care fitness formats Yoga Tune Up® and The Roll Model® Method. Jill is the anatomy columnist for Yoga Journal Magazine and has been featured in Shape, Men’s Journal, Good Housekeeping, Women’s Health, Yoga Journal, Self, and on the Today Show and Good Morning America.…

The post 124: Jill Miller — Erase Pain, Improve Mobility and Live Better in Body and Mind appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

“My mission is to empower people to take control of their own health, well-being and fitness using simple breathing exercises proven to improve body oxygenation”. — Patrick McKeown

Breathing. It’s fundamental to human life, and we’ve been breathing air since moments after birth. It’s so instinctual, we do it correctly right from the start — diaphragmatic breathing with the mouth closed.…

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Chris Kresser, M.S., L.Ac, is the founder of Kresser Institute, co-director of the California Center for Functional Medicine, the creator of ChrisKresser.com, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Paleo Cure. He is one of the most respected clinicians and educators in the fields of Functional Medicine and ancestral health, and has trained over 400 practitioners around the world in his unique approach.…

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This is a particularly personal interview for me. Not the subject matter, but the broader context — the fact that the editor of Outside Magazine is on my podcast! You see, Outside has been my magazine “bible” since the early 1990s. It was the place I turned for articles, inspiration, gear, adventure, and innovations. It was where I turned time and again when it came to figuring out what to buy, where to go, and what sponsors to go after when looking for new gear for adventure racing.…

The post 121: Chris Keyes — Editor, Outside Magazine appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Philip Folsom is America’s most experienced and impactful expert in experiential leadership development, human optimization, and the creation of high performance teams and cultures. Philip is the Tribe Guy.

His work has dramatically improved the lives of over 500,000 individuals over the last 25 years. Philip’s transformational High Performance Tribe program has been successfully implemented at Fortune 50 companies including Sony, Microsoft, Dreamworks, Medtronic, Apple, and Northrop Grumman.…

The post 120: Philip Folsom — The Way Out Is Through, and Your Tribe Will Take You There appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

What if you could align healthy eating with the health and well-being of of animals and livestock, while simultaneously improving the health our planet’s grasslands? According to Bobby Gill, that is not only possible, but is currently in process. Livestock provides much, much more to us than meat, and how livestock is raised can either degrade or improve the land.…

The post 119: Bobby Gill — Can Cows Save the World? appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

We’ve all been to the doctor before. The typical advice that follows a cursory exam is basically, “Do this for the symptoms,” with little in the way of addressing the underlying issue. High cholesterol, for example, is a symptom, not an underlying issue — bringing down cholesterol is not the same as treating the underlying problem, if there even is one.…

The post 118: Dr. Anthony Gustin — (Only) You Can Fix Yourself! appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Are you sure you’re getting enough oxygen for optimum health?

You know the numbers — you can go without food for three weeks, without water for three days, and without oxygen for just three minutes. With such a clear and constant need for oxygen, it is surprising that the oxygen debt many of us live with every day isn’t addressed more in fitness culture.…

The post 117: Tom Butler — Adaptive Contrast Oxygen Therapy with LiveO2 appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Danny Clark, CSCS is a MovNat Master Instructor and the Performance Director for MovNat. Danny “sets the bar” for MovNat certification standards. He is also the owner of Rebar Fitness, a science-based strength and conditioning training center. A wrestler, a scholar, and a lifelong student of exercise science and strength and conditioning programming, Danny’s skill set, experience, and expertise enable him to develop MovNat movement progressions and performance programming standards.…

The post 116: Danny Clark — On What Is Natural Movement and Why You Should Care appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Danny Dreyer, our guest on this week’s podcast, is the co-founder of ChiRunning and ChiWalking, revolutionary forms of moving that blend the subtle inner focuses of T’ai Chi with running and walking. His study of T’ai Chi with Master Zhu Xilin and internationally renowned Master George Xu, along with his 35 years of experience running, racing ultra marathons, and coaching “intelligent movement” have all come together to make ChiRunning what it is today.…

The post 115: Danny Dreyer — You, Too, Can Love Running appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

It’s easy to find someone willing to tell you “everything you need to know” to achieve your top athletic condition and performance these days. The Internet has given anyone with an opinion a massive platform to launch their ideas from. But when one of the most learned experts in the field says even science may not have the answers you need, where do you turn?…

The post 114: Dr. Andy Galpin — On a Mission to Lead, Educate, and Inspire Performance appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

“For people who live in the world and other people depend on, the goal of meditation is adaptation. It’s so that you thrive in your daily life.” – Lorin Roche

Did you realize that every time your breath cycles, you’ve experienced a tiny meditation cycle?…

The post 113: Lorin Roche — You Might Already Be Meditating appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

“You’ve got to roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair.”
– Bruce Springsteen, from Thunder Road

Julia Michels — a name you might not know, but a woman whose work has undoubtedly touched your life. She has spent over two decades working in the film music industry and has had great success in various roles throughout her storied career.…

The post 112: Julia Michels — Matching Music to Moods appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

2008 Olympic Silver Medal Gymnast, Sam Peszek, summed up the simple choice presented to her over and again during the first fifteen years of her life:

I can either eat the cookie and not go to the Olympics or leave it be and go to the Olympics.

This week’s guest on the WLC podcast is a little different than most of our recent guests.…

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Could you go a week without your phone, email, Facebook, or even text messaging? Sometimes the thing we try to avoid is the thing we need the most.

My guest today, Joe DiStefano, found that, despite his fears, a “digital detox” was exactly what he needed to break out of stress and stagnation.

For more than six years, Joe has been working with Spartan Race, Inc, and is now Director of Sport & Training Initiatives at Spartan Race.…

The post 110: Joe DiStefano — Spontaneous Digital Detox appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

When we hear the term personal branding, most of us think of social media “stars” who are trying to market a product with their personalities. But a personal brand is both more pedestrian and more important than that. In fact, we should all have a personal brand, if you ask Richard Janes.

Richard describes himself as “a personal brand expert with a passion for storytelling.”…

The post 109: Richard Janes — Find Your Passion, Purpose, and Authenticity appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Hey, everybody, Andy Petranek here. I’m living in kitchen remodeling hell this week. Perhaps you’ve been through something similar? The struggle is real. Or, it was until I realized that my experience of the situation was a choice I had made. Get the details in the intro to the podcast.

My guest this week is Ryan Parsons, co-author (with MMA star Chael Sonnen) of The Four-Pack Revolution: How You Can Aim Lower, Cheat on Your Diet, and Still Lose Weight and Keep It Off.…

The post 108: Ryan Parsons — The Tremendous Power of Self-Patterning appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

How do you keep track of all the things you need, and want, to do? Do you use a calendar? A notebook? Your memory? My choice is an app called Productive: Habits and Daily Goals Tracker. Like the Whole Life Challenge, Productive is a tool you can use to foster good habits and help you make consistent progress toward your goals.…

The post 107: Dr. Christopher Neck — The Surprising Benefits of Setbacks appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Aaron Alexander, CR, LMT, CPT, has over a decade of success as a manual therapist and movement coach. As the founder of Align Therapy, Aaron helps his clients move from pain into health through an integrated approach to functional movement and self-care. He works with everyone from office workers to Olympic and professional athletes, as well as speaking and teaching nationally and internationally.…

The post 106: Aaron Alexander — Change Your Body, Change Your Life appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

“There is this misconception that we have that we can kick the can down the road in anything in our life that we’re not happy with. We can just wait ‘til tomorrow…these tomorrows may never come.” — Eric Remensperger

We each have moments in our lives that forever shift our trajectory. Sometimes they are clearly positive — graduating from college or meeting our future spouse, for example.…

The post 105: Eric Remensperger — Curing Cancer, Saving Yourself appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Dr. Lane Sebring is founder and director of the Sebring Clinic in Wimberley, Texas. His practice focuses on healing people who don’t know where to turn and have exhausted all other options. The root of his philosophy? A no-sugar, paleolithic approach.

People come to see Dr. Sebring because they are desperate for help. This is, in part, why they heal.…

The post 104: Dr. Lane Sebring — Paleo Plus Ketosis for Super-Health appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

In 2013, Dan “Nitro” Clark went from American Gladiator to heart-attack survivor. Rather than letting it beat him, Dan was able to turn his near-death experience into inspiration for positive change in his own life as well as helping others.

For seven years, Dan Clark played “Nitro,” the iconic American Gladiator. Before that, he was a defensive lineman at San Jose State University and even played for the Los Angeles Rams.…

The post 103: Dan “Nitro” Clark — An American Gladiator Goes Down appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Dorothy Breininger is one of America’s Most Trusted Professional Organizers and is on a mission to create more space on the planet.

“Dorothy the Organizer” is most widely known as the problem solver on the Emmy-nominated show Hoarders. She is also the best-selling author of five books.

In her latest book, Stuff Your Face or Face Your Stuff, she approaches organizing from the perspective of what our clutter says about our emotional condition, and how that can translate into other self-destructive or self-sabotaging behaviors such as overeating.…

The post 102: Dorothy the Organizer — Declutter Your…Everything appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Dr. David Perlmutter is a board-certified neurologist and four-time New York Times bestselling author.

He serves on the board of directors and is a fellow of the American College of Nutrition. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed scientific journals including Archives of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and The Journal of Applied Nutrition.

His books have been published in 28 languages and include Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs and Sugar, with over one million copies in print.…

The post 101: David Perlmutter — “Grain Brain” Author and Empowering Neurologist appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Jeff Tucker, a former Fort Worth, Texas, firefighter, bomb tech, and arson investigator for twenty years, has spent the last ten years as director of CrossFit Gymnastics. Jeff got his start in gymnastics as a competitive gymnast in the 1970s.

“Tucker,” as he is known to his friends, was a guest speaker for United States Gymnastics Association congress, coached gymnastics and cheer for six years at Texas Christian University (TCU), and is the CEO of GSX Athletics and GSX CrossFit.…

The post 100: Jeff Tucker — Firefighter, Gymnastics Coach…Cheerleader appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”—David Allen

Do you find yourself wondering where all the time is supposed to come from to meet your commitments? How about time for yourself, your family, and friends? And just when you think you’ve got a handle on all that, something else comes up!

How do the world’s busiest people handle it all?…

The post 99: David Allen — The Art of Stress-Free Productivity appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Dr. H. Ron Hulnick is recognized as a pioneer and worldwide leader in the field of spiritual psychology. Together with his wife, Dr. Mary R. Hulnick, he serves as the University of Santa Monica’s Founding Faculty and Co-Director, designing USM’s extraordinary curriculum and facilitating their transformational graduate programs.

In 2011, Ron and Mary co-authored Loyalty to Your Soul: The Heart of Spiritual Psychology, and it is now available in twelve countries and eight languages.…

The post 98: Dr. Ron Hulnick — The Keys to Improving the Experience of Your Life appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

John Durant is the author of The Paleo Manifesto and co-author of Spartan Fit! with Joe De Sena, founder of the Spartan races. He is also the founder of Wild Ventures, an angel syndicate focused on consumer health products and technology. He advises Thrive Market, Exo, AOBiome, Greatist, Brilliant Bicycles, Hu Kitchen, and Power Supply.

John studied evolutionary psychology at Harvard under Steven Pinker before moving to New York City and becoming a “professional caveman” — mimicking a hunter-gatherer diet, running barefoot through Central Park, experimenting with intermittent fasting, and doing polar bear swims in the Atlantic.…

The post 97: John Durant — The Past Leads the Way Forward appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

What if your urge to eat was just as understandable as your urge to save yourself from drowning? How would that affect your feelings of guilt, your self-talk, and the way you think about your relationship to food?

The processed food industry develops hundreds, if not thousands, of new, ever-more-palatable concoctions every year. Each one is designed to play on your urge to survive in order to make you want more and more.…

The post 96: Robb Wolf — How We’re “Wired to Eat” appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Journaling is as old as language. While journaling may have begun as a way to simply keep a record, it has evolved into a method used by millions of people to clarify their thinking, increase creativity, and even become better leaders. Our guest today is an online teacher and somewhat of a celebrity in one of those journaling systems known as “bullet journaling.”…

The post 95: Kara Benz — Bullet Journaling for Creativity and Growth appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

“This [book] took more than two years of my life and 20ccs of my soul to complete. It contains the answers I wish I’d had many years ago about what leads to a successful life, all drawn from scientific research and expert insight.” — Eric Barker, on his book Barking Up the Wrong Tree

How do we know what success is?…

The post 94: Eric Barker — Mythbusting the Quest for Success appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Greg Glassman, the founder of the global fitness company and community movement, CrossFit, Inc., is a true visionary. Not afraid to speak his mind or upset people if that’s what it takes to deliver his message, Glassman is on a quest to end the involvement of “Big Soda” in the health sciences.

Wait, back up. Did you even know that PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, Inc.…

The post 93: Greg Glassman — CrossFit and the Battle with Big Soda appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Mark England, the founder of Procabulary, has been on a life-long quest of self-improvement. Through a series of adventures (some intentional, others completely unplanned), he found his way to the world of language.

There, he discovered the impact of the words we use on our actions and behavior. He found that language can influence behavior, and changing our language is the first step in changing our lives.…

The post 92: Mark England — The Surprising Tool You Already Have to Change Your Life appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Robbie Ventura is a former American professional cyclist who rode most notably for United States Postal Service Cycling Team from 2001-2004. A pro for over eleven years, he got his start in bicycle racing by developing his skill, strength, and speed while riding, racing, and supporting teammates in velodrome racing (an oval, banked, indoor cycling track).

A successful competitive athlete his entire life (he also played collegiate hockey), Robbie found quickly after retiring from cycling that he had more to contribute to the world by way of coaching.…

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You may remember Jack Osbourne from the hit TV show The Osbournes. He’s the son of the heavy metal singer Ozzie Osbourne and is a regular member at CrossFit Los Angeles.

Jack has a thriving business producing travel and history shows alongside his dad (who’s a closet history buff). He’s also a husband and a father to two daughters.…

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You may have seen this week’s guest on a random Saturday afternoon while watching the Olympics or an extreme sports show with people hucking themselves off 100-foot cliffs on mountain bikes.

Sal Masekela has been hosting shows like this for NBC and Red Bull for many years, and he is currently the persona of the Red Bull Signature Series.

But I know Sal through his participation with our fitness community at CrossFit Los Angeles, where he was a member for over five years.…

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What if I told you one of the three fittest women on the planet was (at the time she earned the title) 35 years old, a mother, a wife, and a school teacher who limits her training to ninety minutes per day? Would you believe me? If not, you’d be sorely mistaken.

In 2013, Val Voboril took third at the CrossFit Games.…

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Teacher, speaker, and psychotherapist, Megan Devine, has been stirring up our culture’s ideas around grief and loss since 2009. That year, on a beautiful sunny day, she witnessed the accidental drowning of her beloved partner Matt.

At that moment, all of her professional experience as a therapist became meaningless. What she found in processing her own grief was that grief literature is loaded with well-intended advice that can actually worsen and extend someone’s pain.…

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I’ve often wondered how a song becomes a song. The process seems mysterious and, frankly, impossible for a “normal” person like myself. What comes first — the title, tune, chords, or words? How do you put them together? How do you write the lyrics? And what about the structure? It’s all overwhelming to me and completely outside my comfort zone.…

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Dr. Steve Orma is a clinical psychologist and happiness expert specializing in the treatment of insomnia, anxiety, and stress. If you’ve ever had a hard time falling asleep, or getting back to sleep after waking up, you’ve had firsthand experience with the way anxiety (or your worry about things in the future) can sabotage your efforts. That is why I thought Dr.…

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I asked Traver Boehm back as a guest on the podcast this week specifically to talk about the impact he’s felt from disconnecting from electronic media over the course of the past year. He’s taken multiple month-long breaks from any sort of online interaction, as well as recurring short breaks over the course of his daily routine.

This has all been part of his Year To Live Project — something he started at the beginning of 2016 when he asked himself the question, “What would you do if you knew you only had a year to live?”…

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Coby Kozlowski is a modern-day meditation and consciousness guru (though she would never describe herself that way). Ever humble, she’s amassed 25 years of experience through working with teachers in the yogic, meditative, and consciousness realms. Now a teacher of teachers, she has appeared on the cover of Yoga Journal and Mantra Magazine, and was named as “one of the seven yoga teachers who have changed the practice [of yoga]”.…

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Carolyn Freyer-Jones is a professional life coach. She has supported hundreds, if not thousands, of men and women in learning how to use life’s challenges and obstacles to stimulate insight and growth. She has helped them launch new businesses, strengthen relationships, transform careers, grow as leaders, and experience greater peace and joy. Her clients include corporate executives, business owners, authors, lawyers, television hosts, salespeople, and more.…

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Ryan Hurst is one of the co-founders and the head coach of the online fitness program known as GMB, or Gold Medal Bodies. GMB is a physical training system that focuses primarily on teaching people of all ages, shapes, and fitness levels how to know their own body and move it well.

I mean really, what else is there?

I’ve seen firsthand the challenges people face with their bodies that are caused by inactivity, lack of awareness, and general weakness.…

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Reminder: I’m starting every podcast episode by addressing one topic or answering one question that you bring to my attention via our WLC Podcast email address: podcast@wholelifechallenge.com. Send anything you think would be of value for me to see or any thought or question you’d like me to talk about or answer.…

The post 79: Miki Agrawal — The Unconventional Inventor of Tushy and THINX appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

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You may have heard of Thrive Market (think Whole Foods meets Costco), but you may not have heard of its co-founder and co-CEO, Nick Green. Nick started Thrive as a wholesale buying club with a mission to make healthy living easy and affordable for every American family. It was a risky venture, since nothing like it had ever before been attempted.…

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Scott McGee is a police officer, serving in Santa Monica, California as a detective, beat officer, and member of the SWAT team. He’s one of three hosts of the popular CrossFit-related podcast the WODCast Podcast. He’s also recently created a blog called The Sisu Way where he writes regularly. And he’s a husband, plus the father of two awesome boys.…

The post 76: Scott McGee — On Grit, Resilience, and Having an Unconquerable Soul appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Dr. Andrew Hill is one of the top peak performance coaches in the country. He holds a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from UCLA’s department of Psychology and does research on attention and cognitive performance. Dr. Hill is the founder of Peak Brain Institute, host of the Head First Podcast with Dr. Hill, Lead Neuroscientist at truBrain, and lectures at UCLA, teaching courses in psychology, neuroscience, and gerontology.…

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When was the last time you heard someone talk about getting in shape and losing weight and they said they were going to start by addressing sleep? I’m in the health and fitness business, and I’ve never heard someone say that.

Why not? Sleep isn’t sexy. Getting more sleep means having less time to do other things. In the type-A, results-oriented, success-driven world we live in, many people look at sleep as a waste of time.…

The post 74: Dr. Kirk Parsley — A Navy SEAL Doctor’s Unconventional Sleep Advice appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

Rafe Furst, a graduate from Stanford in computer science, has seen his share of swings in the tech and business world, having been involved with startups since the mid-1990s. He’s also an avid poker player, both in private games and public tournaments, once winning a World Series of Poker Championship. He’s raised millions for charitable causes over the years and is a pioneer in quantitative venture capital, a nascent field based on the convergence of equity crowdfunding, complexity economics, and securities law reform.…

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Imagine you’re a motivational speaker for a living (I know, it’s a stretch for me too), and you’re asked to give a talk to a bunch of college students about unhealthy addictions — one of which is overeating. Now imagine you weigh over 450lbs, have a 58-inch waist and wear size XXXXXL clothing. See the problem?

This was the exact scenario my guest this week faced.…

The post 72: Tinier Tim Bauer — How He Lost 250 Pounds appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

“I am coming to the realization — albeit slowly — that to be content, you have to be authentic. And to be authentic, you have to be vulnerable. If you’re not open to the problems that come in life and aren’t willing to accept setbacks and failures and ridicule and criticism and wear that and move forward, you’re going to be in trouble.”…

The post 71: Adam Stanecki — On Life, Listening, and Living Authentically appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

“Everything that matters in my life came after ‘f**k it.’ So there’s just so much magic on the other side of ‘f**k it!’” ~ Mary Shenouda, The Paleo Chef

Have you ever thought about what you would do if you just said, ‘f**k it?”

Seriously.

Stop and think about that for a minute.…

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Curtis Estes has been a wealth management advisor for Northwestern Mutual for 25 years and is, quite frankly, a superstar. He has built an expansive network of people he serves all over Southern California — his book of business is a Who’s Who of Los Angeles. But that isn’t why I invited him to be on the podcast.

Curtis is a lifelong committed learner — a student of life.…

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“If people aren’t getting the results they want in life, they need to just sit in a room and fully internalize that they are solely responsible for the nonsense they are creating.” ~ UJ Ramdas

Whether you agree with him or not, UJ’s words get to the heart of the matter in transformational change. When you take full responsibility, anything and everything is possible.…

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“The wheel doesn’t roll if you’re missing a spoke.” — Charles Staley

Seems obvious, right? But when it comes to the context of your life — where spokes are represented by the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, financial, and sexual realms and are satisfied through things like family, work, friends, hobbies, personal time, relationships, and health and fitness — chances are your wheel isn’t rolling the way it could be.…

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Raise your hand if the first thing that pops into your mind when you hear the word “self-defense” is some sort of fighter’s punch, kick, spin, or throw. Come on, be honest. That’s exactly what used to happen for me. That picture in my mind came from my misunderstanding of the concept of self-defense. I’ve always considered self-defense to be the answer to the question, “What do I do after I am attacked?”…

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V Capaldi, aka PaleoBOSS Lady, is nothing short of a miracle. Her story brings hope where there is despair, joy where there is pain, and future where there is hopelessness. Her life is an example of what can happen when you take full responsibility for the hardships (and blessings) that you’ve been given. Her story is not magic, or a miracle, really — it’s the story of someone who never gave up, was receptive to new concepts and ideas, and willing to take action.…

The post 65: V Capaldi – How Food Cured Her “Uncurable” Disease appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.

“What would you do if it were your last year alive?” That is the question my guest on this episode of the Whole Life Podcast set out to answer as his year-long project for 2016.

For much of 2015, Traver Boehm faced a universe that was seemingly conspiring against him — losing his wife, business partner, home, and all his sources of love and stability.…

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My guest this week is Erin Cafaro Mackenzie. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist—she was part of the United States women’s eight crew team that won back-to-back gold medals in 2008 and 2012. She’s also won gold at six out of eight World Championships (and bronze at the other two). She is also only 5’9″ and 160lbs—that’s tiny in the world of Olympic rowing.…

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This week, we’ve got Valerie Waters on the podcast. Val is a personal trainer to the stars. No, really. She’s been training Cindy Crawford for twelve years now, as well as Jennifer Garner, and she has an entire book of A-listers to her credit. She’s one of the go-to trainers for Hollywood agents, directors, managers, and actors who have goals and deadlines they absolutely, positively have to meet.…

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Christine Hassler is a highly sought after professional speaker, a life coach of over twelve years, and the author of three books: Expectation Hangover, 20 Something, 20 Everything, and 20 Something Manifesto. She’s someone you look at and think, “Wow, she’s so successful, positive, confident. She’s really got it all together.”

And while yes, she does, if you look a little deeper, it hasn’t been all roses for her.…

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My guest today is Brian Mackenzie. Brian and I go back to 2005, when I attended his first ever CrossFit Endurance seminar. At the time, he was a Master Pose Running coach, ultra-marathoner, swimmer, and triathlete, as well as a newly-minted CrossFit affiliate owner. That seminar was my first introduction to proper running mechanics, as well as my introduction to the concept of short, intense workouts for building endurance.…

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Robert Morton might as well be named John Smith, Fred Jones, or insert any Fname Lname combination. His name isn’t what’s important, but the extraordinary action he’s taken in his life is.

Robert was a typical forty-something with a well paying job, kids, wife, cars, and a house in a good neighborhood. He had earned his way to being the head of global marketing for the education technology giant Blackboard.…

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For today’s podcast, I sat down with throwing champion, Fulbright Scholar, full-time author, and religious studies professor, Dan John. Yeah, that’s one person I’m talking about – a fascinating individual who’s incredibly well-traveled and has the perspective of an academic with the body and physicality of an athlete.

Dan is a guy of firm principles that are a constant in his life, and he follows a formula of the Three Fs: fitness, finance, and – you’ll have to tune in to find out what the third F is.…

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In today’s podcast, I have a conversation with bestselling author Matt Fitzgerald, author of the book How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Psychology of Mind Over Muscle. Matt is an endurance athlete and writer who has been a student of running, triathlon, and other endurance sports for decades.

Matt also studies the limits of human performance in relation to your brain, what you believe, and how you can improve performance in all parts of your life simply by shifting how you think.…

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Technology is pervasive in our everyday lives, yet so much of it is incredibly useful — we can get instant directions to our destinations, track our fitness progress, and organize our hectic schedules. But my recent conversation with Nir Eyal, author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, made me realize the dangerous side of technology and the hold it has on us through a mechanism Nir calls the “hook cycle.”…

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My recent conversation with wine distributor Todd White, founder of Dry Farm Wines, changed everything I thought I knew about alcohol — wine in particular. It’s fascinating to consider that wine has no nutritional labeling, and we don’t even think twice before pulling our favorite brand off the shelf.

What if you knew that 51% of all wines produced in the U.S.…

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