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Join Brad Kearns, New York Times bestselling author and champion triathlete, Speedgolfer, and masters high jumper, in pursuing peak performance with passion throughout life. Enjoy memorable insights from leading experts on diet, fitness, peak performance, personal growth, relationships, happiness, and longevity. Brad’s “Breather” shows provide step-by-step tips you can implement right away to improve your life. Let’s explore beyond shortcuts, hacks, and crushing competition to laugh, have fu ...
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FREE Weight Loss Podcast to Go Beyond the Food to the REAL Issue: Your Mindset. To end emotional eating, stop binge eating, lose weight and keep it off! Mindset is 92.8% of the challenge if you want to lose weight and keep it off. Tune in weekly with permanent weight loss coach JoLynn Braley, permanent weight loss coach and weight loss mindset expert. SPECIAL BONUS: Discover what's really been stopping you from losing weight for good in JoLynn's FREE 5-day e-course. Get it now at www.MyPodca ...
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I have a brilliant idea to share with you, a fantastic way to start losing weight right now. This is how Charles Barkley lost 80 pounds back in the 1980's before he became a pro basketball star. What Charles Barkley can teach you about successful weight loss is so simple and doable, but it will only work if you get going now. ;-) Listen in and get …
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My friend sent me a recent DEXA scan report and was distraught about his body composition score. This is a lifelong athlete—excuse me—super-athlete, who has performed at the highest level in his sport for decades. After being sidelined by surgery, and perhaps some less scrutinized dietary choices, he drifted outside his familiar performance zone in…
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Did you know that defensiveness not only causes a cortisol spike, but also releases the powerful enzyme aromatase, and that has an effect on testosterone? In this show, we’re hearing some more reflections from John Gray—one of my favorite podcast guests ever who always brings the most profound insights—about how to avoid breaking up and instead, re…
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Welcome back to Brad’s Olympic Track & Field wrap up! I hope you enjoyed the lengthy presentation summarizing the men’s events, and now it’s time for a show dedicated to the awesome performances of the females on the track and the field for the Paris 2024 Olympics. In the first show, I gave you a little bit of an overview about my fascination with …
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I thought I would do a fun, different style show—Brad’s Olympic Track & Field summary wrap up show! Track is my passion and in this episode, I go over some of the highlights, great performances, and fun backstories from this year's Olympic Men's Track & Field Competition. Enjoy the show! TIMESTAMPS: The import thing is not to win but to take part i…
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True Story! Listen in now to episode #181 of The JoLynn Braley Show now and I'll share with you what I used to buy at Costco. I would eat the whole box. The good news is I don't do that anymore but I do understand what it's like to want to lose weight, and your eating habits are totally the opposite of your goals. It's easy to know what you need to…
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I saw my friend the other day, asked “How are you doing?” and he said: “I’m trying to be a better parent.” What a cool answer! The quip alone speaks volumes about his desire to do the best he can, and his self-awareness as he makes his best effort to raise toddlers. We ended up having a whole conversation about parenting as he began self-reflecting…
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Here's why you should fight for your right to lose weight for good: because who else will? In other words.... who else but you can take the actions you need to take to lose that weight? Make sense? You have the right to fight for your commitment to yourself to lose weight for good. It will be a constant fight by the way, if you don't have a weight …
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You really can lose weight. You really can reach your goal weight! But... you cannot do this by giving your power away. If you blame people, places or things for why you're not losing weight then you've given your power away. Drop the blame game, take your power back, and lose weight now. Listen in now for details but first, be warned! This is Get …
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In today’s episode I welcome track star Sue McDonald to the show! Sue is no ordinary track star—she is shattering world records in the masters track and field arena going where no human has ever gone before in her age groups and putting out unbelievable times at 61 years old! This mother of three from Santa Barbara, California, is virtually on worl…
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I understand how frustrating it can be to get on the scale for your weekly weigh in and see your weight go UP. Don't throw in the towel if this happens! Use my tips in this free weight loss podcast episode. There's something you can do immediately so that you'll stay on your weight loss journey instead of backtracking and gaining all of that weight…
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Welcome back to another rebroadcast of a popular episode. This one dates back to 2022!What is the best way to eat? How about we go deep and sort everything out in a reasonable, thoughtful manner? This is going to be a multi-part presentation, with part one focusing on the rationale for eating an animal based diet. This topic can get so confusing, c…
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It’s time for more Q&A! Thank you so much to everyone for writing in—we have a ton of really interesting comments and questions that I can’t wait to work through in today’s episode. I really appreciate all your questions and contributions to this community (if you want to join in, email podcast@bradventures.com), and we thoughtfully read, consider,…
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There's a conundrum when it comes to comfort eating and it's pretty darned sneaky. It tricks you into a little bit of temporary comfort while it holds you back from reaching the goals you'd dearly love to reach. You see, you gotta leave your comfort zone to lose weight, but your comfort zone is where comfort eating thrives. Listen to episode #611 o…
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Enjoy this rebroadcast breather show giving an overview of what I eat in a day! While my diet is not super exciting or full of a ton of variety, I have locked into a pattern that works for me (while always remaining open-minded in case any changes are necessary—hence no more fasting, more carbs, fruit, and calories in general!). As you will hear, m…
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If you are in the habit of fasting until noon or are having a 16-8 eating pattern, that puts you at risk.. This show is about second guessing fasting—something I’ve been talking about extensively for the last few years on this podcast, sharing the revised strategy I have been following: putting fasting aside in favor of striving for maximum nutrien…
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I've been at The Point of No Return many times. That's the place where you're moving along on your weight loss journey just fine, but then you get the thought to stray. If you go down that road we all know it's far too easy to slide right back into those old eating and lifestyle habits and then your weight loss progress is lost. :( Listen to episod…
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I am so pleased to introduce a fantastically awesome show with Thais Gibson, creator of the Personal Development School! She sent me a very intriguing overview of what she might talk about on the show and I said, “Sure, let’s talk about it,” but I gotta tell you, I was blown away—this is one of my favorite shows I have ever had on the B.rad podcast…
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Welcome to the “Start Here” breather show! As you may know, I recorded a comprehensive episode entitled “Start Here” that you can share with any potential new listener as I cover the big-picture topics of how to lead a long, healthy, happy life, categorized as Sleep, Recovery and Down Time, Diet, Exercise, and Stress Management. It was a lengthy an…
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After 500 shows of the B.rad podcast, I figured it was time to record a helpful, useful, “Start here” episode that you can share with friends, family, and loved ones! Inspired by a friend of mine who had just started to become acquainted with my podcast and asked me: “What’s a good episode to start with?,” this show will provide you with an overvie…
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Welcome to the final episode in this series all about overtraining symptoms! We have already talked about symptoms like thirst, overheating, frequent urination, sodium/potassium imbalance, cortisol, digestion, menstruation, twitchy muscles, skin problems, sore throats, libido, cardiac symptoms, crash and burn patterns, insomnia, teeth grinding, and…
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It’s time to welcome back to the show for the third time, my good friend Dr. Cate Shanahan on the occasion of the publication of her latest, sensational book! This best-selling author is back at it again with Dark Calories—How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back. This stuff has a high shock value, starting out with the book…
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Welcome to the continuation of our series of breather shows on overtraining symptoms! It’s been a little while, and hopefully you haven’t been overtraining in the meanwhile since it’s time to jump into a few more short segments where we cover certain aspects of overtraining to help you get a greater understanding of them (and get better at preventi…
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College students pepper me with more thoughtful questions! In this episode, I discuss melatonin supplements, overcoming knee pain, and a lengthy discussion of how to set yourself up for a good night’s sleep, every night. I describe how tracking visceral fat is the best way to determine overall health status, and ponder the philosophical question of…
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I understand how frustrating it can feel when you really really want to lose weight but you're not making any progress. The thing is.... it's important that you never give up. You can get normal with food, you can lose weight for good, you really can do it, but you'll need more than a food diet to do it. For now, just commit to never giving up. Lis…
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In this show, we’re focusing on what easy workouts and rest days really mean for us mere mortals trying to improve our performance—not only in endurance sports, but in all manner of athletic endeavors. Tune in to hear me discuss the great Eluid Kipchoge and some stunning revelations that have come forth from detailed analysis of his training logs t…
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It's easy to get caught in the sneak tray comfort eating offers, after all, it's supposed to provide comfort, right? Well you know what? The sneak trap of comfort eating is SO SNEAKY that I'll have to do a follow-up! That's how sneaky it is! It bamboozled me while I gave you the Top Deets to uncover this problem in episode #605 of The JoLynn Braley…
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I'm pleased to celebrate with you on the occasion of publishing our 500th episode of the B.rad podcast! Since launching in 2018, it's been great fun to connect with those of you who shared email feedback and Q&A, and also a tremendous honor to bring so many amazing guests to you. I've learned so much and been so inspired by these interviews—they ha…
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It can be super frustrating and disappointing to continue trying to lose weight but it's just not happening. Maybe you even made a New Year's Resolution at the beginning of the year and that didn't last. Well you're not alone on that. Most people only get through until January 14! But now we're heading into summer and we only have so much time left…
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It’s time to talk about polarized training—a popular training concept often referred to as the “80/20 principle.” Unfortunately, many athletes have misinterpreted and misapplied this strategy, so we will be reviewing this training philosophy in this episode. Tune in if you want to learn what polarized training truly entails and the benefits of this…
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Get ready to go deep into the cutting edge of health optimization that is customized precision medicine! I discuss my personal experience with WildHealth.com precision medicine, so this show focuses on the results of my genetic testing, blood testing, and expert 1:1 physician and health coach support. Today, we have an opportunity like never before…
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I know what it's like to have the best of intentions when you want to lose weight but then one or two days in and you're veering off into the same unhealthy eating habits that put the weight on in the first place. It's a really big challenge, I know! But the problem is, if we give into the desire for the instant gratification that food can give, th…
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We have more relationship tips inspired by John Gray for listening and communicating in today’s episode! Tune in to hear what John has to say about giving unsolicited advice, criticism, suggestions, complaints, and judgments to your partner and why these things can be so unproductive for a relationship. You will hear about what happens when you rea…
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My old friend Courtney on the east coast has me occasionally speak to her college students studying health and fitness. As part of their assignment, they peppered me with really thoughtful questions. It was great to reflect on the thought processes of today's youth, and their keen interest in living, healthy, active, evolved lifestyles. I think you…
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It’s a breather show with insights from Dr. John Gray (author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus) because we can never get enough reminders, primers, and insights from the one and only John Gray! Possibly my favorite podcast guest ever, my first interview with John was so profound it inspired me to propose to Mia Moore the very next day! I …
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Is hard work overrated? I share my thoughts on this in today’s episode, which I was inspired to record after watching a TikTok video a friend sent me about the importance of working hard, never missing a day, and why cranking out 100 shots a day is the “simple formula” to help you get a full scholarship. As you will hear, I strongly disagree with t…
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Hey listeners, I thought that my introduction to my upcoming fourth interview with Dr. John Gray would be a wonderful breather show to entice you to listen to our full-length interview, where he basically provides the secret to world peace—at least, relationship peace—and drills down on the topic of overcoming ruts and relationship dysfunction and …
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I know, it might sound funny and you can laugh if you want to but Whiny Butt Weight Loss is a real thing. How do I know that it's a real thing? Because I've been stuck there before, too! Why would you want to break free of it? Because whiny butt weight loss is a place where you're not losing weight. Yep, it's a misnomer. ;-) If you want to break fr…
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Listeners, please welcome Louise Digby to the show, from all the way over from the UK! It is so nice to connect with an international guest like Louise and to hear, unfortunately, that the same problems that exist in America also exist in Europe, especially when it comes to the issues aging women have with losing body fat. In this episode, you will…
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Do you have a healthy eating plan that was working for you in the past but you kicked it to the side and are back in your old eating patterns? That healthy eating plan was helping you lose weight, correct? If you answered yes to all of the above then this podcast episode is for you. You can lose weight and if you get over the hump you'll be on your…
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Did you know that there is no data that has ever been presented that has shown that elevated, cushioned shoes prevent running injuries? In this podcast, we’re getting to the truth behind the stunning and embarrassing rate of overuse injuries. A 2021 meta study from Europe revealed an annual injury rate of 37 to 56% of regular runners, Runner’s Worl…
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Is it really possible to eat cake and lose weight too? It depends on a few things and I cover them in free weight loss podcast episode #596. Make sure to download my FREE Recipe also! Get my clean-eating cake recipe here (it's Free!). Use this recipe to avoid feeling restricted and avoid FOMO while you are living a healthy lifestyle. Get more in my…
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I want to talk about the concept of aerobic deficiency—something that is very common, even amongst very fit, high-performing athletes. Aerobic deficiency (a term coined by Dr. Phil Maffetone), or anaerobic excess, means that while you’ve developed tremendous performance skills, the capacity of the aerobic system is lacking due to insufficient aerob…
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In this breather show, you will learn how slowing down can actually help you go faster, which is a crucial subject to gain a deep understanding and appreciation of, lest you have the inclination as a hard-driving athlete to speed up a little bit in the pursuit of getting fitter. It is an unassailable fact of exercise physiology that a robust aerobi…
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I am pleased to introduce a rebroadcast of my Deconstructing Dr. Tommy Wood Insights, part 2 show! This episode covers a variety of topics, such as gut health and how it relates to autoimmune and other inflammatory conditions, polarized training, the benefits of consuming more food (and how you know when to dial it back), how long the (negative) ef…
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Here's something you never hear the mainstream diet industry talking about: What if you must Grow Up to lose weight? Well... if this is true, how in the world can a regular food diet address this? And if this is true, how do you go about growing up to lose weight? The first step is to Get Real with yourself, which means to get honest with yourself.…
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Welcome to a new episode in the ongoing series of symptoms and signs of overreaching, overtraining, and burnout! This content has been inspired by the amazing, comprehensive look at overtraining that I’ve spent a long time working on and is unlike anything you will find anywhere. I intended this to be the go-to guide for everyone—whether you’re wor…
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My thoughts on the $2 million dollar anti-aging man? You’ll hear them all in this episode—I’m talking about Bryan Johnson and his highly debated lifestyle. You may have already heard of Bryan, a tech centi-millionaire based in Los Angeles, since he has become a pretty controversial figure and has faced a lot of ridicule for ridiculously regimented …
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Welcome to another episode in the continuing series about signs and symptoms of overtraining, overreaching, and impending burnout. As you’ll hear in this episode, libido is the single best regulator of training, and I would argue that libido is a proxy for your overall state of heat and vitality, especially as you age, since cortisol doesn’t just a…
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We’re going to get really science-y in today’s episode, but thanks to my former podcast guest Dude Spellings and his brilliant interpretations of the research published by Dr. Jack Kruse on cold thermogenesis, we will be reviewing these mind-blowing insights in an easy to understand way. If you want to learn essential information about cold therapy…
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