My guest today is a very good friend of mine, it is coach Rodrigo Silverback @rodrigosliverback , and we're here to talk fitness, competitive, and personal, and everything in between. Of everyone I know, there are few who rival Rodrigo in his passion for fitness, strength, and his lifetime commitment and involvement in the fitness industry. This guy lives and breathes the gym, between personal training, online coaching, nutrition programming, and working on the supplement side of everything at Popeye's supplements (which some of you may know him from).

We go everywhere in this podcast, I felt like this could have easily been a 3 hour show, and I mean I knew that - if you get Rod going on any topic in fitness and in nutrition, and show an interest, you can be in for a long long conversation, so I had no doubt that we would have plenty to talk about. I tried to use this as an outlet, and to showcase some insider knowledge, from Rod's perspective - in particular, the practical nature in his approach to fitness - he won't throw studies at you, or talk about theoretical things he learned in whatever education program, no he'll tell you real world examples in which he watched something work or not work, and tell you why. So that was my direction going into this, got some real good insights, from the shakeup of the fitness industry with respect to the COVID lockdowns here in Ontario, we talk about taking gyms for granted, we talk about coaches, and what drew Rodrigo to become a coach himself... I think he's always had that attitude as long as I've known him, wanting to include people who take an interest in fitness, even in his high school days, talking about not wanting to see kids drop phys ed after 9th grade.

Great show, great conversation, loved getting to talk business with my boy, and I hope you enjoy as well, the 3DD podcast, with Coach Rodrigo Silverback

OH MY LORD IT FEELS GOOD TO DO THIS AGAIN

After almost 10 months of hiatus, we're back with a special annual one-shot of the podcast. No guest (for obvious reasons), just me, a microphone, a camera, and my own directionless rambling. I took the podcast to reflect on 2020, for everything that it has been. For a lot of people, the legacy of this year will be negative, and centred around the pandemic as being this all-encompassing villainous force that stops them from doing everything. It's hard not to fall into that same mindset, but really when I look back on it, a lot of major things happened for me, which is my focus going into 2021.

I talk accomplishments, setbacks, goals achieved, goals not achieved, pivoting amidst wild circumstances, but ultimately I think it's important most of all to view 2020 for the year that it HAS been, and not for the year that it COULD or SHOULD have been. Life happens, and we live within it.

Enjoy the podcast, wherever/however you get your podcasts, and happy new year, I appreciate all of you endlessly.

#DOMORE

Consider this my way of trying to contribute in the manner of some kind of distraction in a time when all there seems to be is time to be alone with anxiety. I do genuinely hope that you are all doing okay through all of this - hopefully once this is all over, hugs are still socially acceptable and we can all have one big collective group hug. Enjoy this episode, we all had a great time making it, if I can induce one smile, perhaps a laugh or two, that's all I need to keep me going. Thank you all.

Welcome back to the 3DD podcast! My guest this week is an absolute boss - a literal boss! Co-Founder and CEO of Cheer District, and the Cheer District app, which has absolutely taken the Cheer world by storm! Brianne and Cheer District opened the world of competitive cheerleading to me years ago when I was early on in my own professional career, so she and I have kind of both come up together (I like to think) though she really did dive in completely into the world of entrepreneurship, turning her own business into a thriving enterprise that is bursting at the seams with growth. Very interesting human being, loved getting a chance to sit down and talk and share stories about trying to make it on our own.

You can find Brianne on instagram @briannehanson , she actually hosts her own podcast, available on the Apple podcasts network called Becoming Entrepreneurs, you can follow the socials for that as well @becomingentrepreneurs and of course check out the Cheer District App and the Cheer District socials @cheerdistrict and enjoy this episode of the 3DD Podcast, with Brianne Hanson.