Cool, Calm, & Chaotic

This Episode We're Gonna Party Like It's 199, Because Yup It's Episode 199. In This Episode I Talk About The 4th of July Quickly and Why We Should Celebrate The Good Things of Life All Year Round. Then I Talk About Ways That We Can Build A Routine Into Our Life That Helps Us Stick To Exercising… For Life! Going From 'All In' To 'I Haven't Worked Out In Months' Is A Vicious Trap So We Talk About How To Stay On Track Forever. Everything From Mapping Out A Sound Plan, When To Push and When To Play, Switching It Up To Build Sustainability and Fun, Enjoying What You Do, Eating Better With Movement, Forgetting The Gap, Finding Your Reality, and Much More! As Usual There's A Whole Lotta Other Ramblings and It's An All Around Good Time! So Stick Around, You're Gonna Love It!

Topics Include…

✔️ A 4th of July Weekend Recap

✔️ What Is Involved In The Ultimate Celebration

✔️ Not Letting Your Love of Things Be Confined To One Day A Year

✔️ Building In Tactics That Make You An Exerciser For Life

✔️ Winning Every Day and Letting Go of The Gap

✔️ Being Realistic With Yourself and Your Life's Situation

✔️ Expecting The Busy Times Ahead of Time

✔️ Get On A Solid Program Early Even If You Need Some Help Finding It

✔️ Plan The Times When You Can Really Get After It

✔️ Get Your 'Why' Up Everywhere To Keep You In Line

✔️ The Need For Both Short and Long Term Goals At The Same Time

✔️ Take Pre-Determined Breaks Away From It All To Enjoy Life & Refresh

✔️ Switch Things Up and Even Take Some Classes.. With Buddies Is Even Better

✔️ Celebrate Your Success... You're Not a Robot

✔️Being Selfish Is A Good Thing Sometimes

• ✔️Fireworks Being Awful, Cheesy Potatoes Always, Bad Speaking, & Much More!

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This Episode Is A Fantastic Conversation Into The Great Unknowns of Fitness, Faith, Philosophy, Van Gogh Paintings, and Cornbread With The One and Only Mr. Pat Flynn. Pat Is A Fitness Coach, Writer, Philosopher, Minimalist, Podcaster, Musician, Thinker, and All Around Purveyor Goodness. If It Is A 'Thing' On This Earth Pat Probably Does It, and Does It Well. This Chat Is A True Cool, Calm, & Chaotic Episode Where We Go Off On Tangents But Then Dig Way Deep Into The Rabbit Hole On Them. Pat's Life Is A Great Testament To Living A FULL Life and Why It's A Good Thing To Live Out All of The Elements That Make You YOU! After A Background We Talk Kettlebells, Faith, Christianity, Catholicism, Thomas Aquinas, Philosophy, Overcoming Stalling, Taking Action, Pursuing More, Death Metal, Cornbread, and Love!… Yup Yup, We Do It All This Episode! As Usual There's A Whole Lotta Other Ramblings and It's An All Around Good Time! So Stick Around, You're Gonna Love It!

Topics Include…

✔️ Trying To Describe The Indescribable Mr. Pat Flynn

✔️ What Has Made Pat Happy Recently

✔️ Life Is More Than Just One Thing and You Can Be Good At A Lot of Them

✔️ Making The Time To Do The Important Things In Life

✔️ Going From An Overweight Kid Into A Love of Fitness

✔️ Mentors Leading The Path Toward More In Life

✔️ Taking An Interest of Things In Life Into Action Instead of Complacency

✔️ Being A 'Go-Getter' In Some Areas of Life But Not Others

✔️ Pat's Path From Unbelief To A Catholic Faith

✔️ Philosophy and The Pursuit of Understanding (In All Areas)

✔️ What Is The 'Good Life'

✔️ Thomas Aquinas and The Strength of Metaphysical

✔️ Overcoming Ignorance While Committing To A 'Step' of Faith

✔️ You CAn't Do Everything, But You Can Do Something

✔️ Pat's Relationship With Dan John and How It Grew Into A Podcast

✔️ Living A Life of Love & Kindness Is A Can't Lose

✔️ Why Pat's Wife Is So Amazing

• ✔️Being A Rocker, The Hauntingness of 'Starry Night', Everyone Loves Cornbread, Elaine Dancing, & Much More!

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This Episode Is An Overview of My 36 Quick and Off The Top of The Head Life Lessons From My 36 Years On Earth. Coming Off of A Birthday Weekend I Thought It'd Be Fun To Highlight Some Tips I've Picked Up From My Time On This Planet. Aside From That We Do A Quick Weekend Recap and Then Answer A Few Questions At The End. In This Episode I Talk About Birthdays, Grocery Shopping, Polenta Struggles, Taking Care of Your Body, Taking Care of Your Salvation, Telling People You Love Them, Supporting Local Things, Trying New Things, Not Ruffling Feathers, Sardines With Keys & More! As Usual There's A Whole Lotta Other Ramblings and It's An All Around Good Time! So Stick Around, You're Gonna Love It!

Topics Include…

✔️ A Weekend Recap

✔️ Celebrating Birthdays & Fathers

✔️ Grocery Shopping Can Be Dangerous But Also Fun

✔️ What To Do With Polenta Is Mysterious

✔️ Why You Should Tell People You Love Them

✔️ Finding Jesus Is More Paramount Than Health & Fitness

✔️ Your Tastebuds Change… Test Them Often

✔️ Find A Mentor Sooner Than Later & Accept That You Don't Know Everything

✔️ Talk To Strangers With Genuine I

✔️ Old School R&B/Soul Solves A Ton of Life Problems

✔️ Be Firm But Not Unwilling To Change

✔️ Sweat More Often & Get Outta Your Comfort Zone

✔️ Make Time To Spend With Your Wife

✔️ How Much Dairy & Overall Calories Should You Eat

✔️ Taking Bias Out of Teaching & CRT

✔️ Exciting Things In Fitness These Days

✔️ Sardines With Keys, Pepperidge Farm, Not Being A Jerk, & Much More!

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This Episode Is A Quick Overview of My Recent Weekend Trip To Kentucky, A Quick Overview of Some Basic Advices To Follow To Keep Trips Healthier & Happier, and Then A Few Quick Answers To Some Questions. Coming Off of A Short Trip Down South There Was No Better Time To Highlight Some Basic Ways To Add A Little Bit of Health With Not A Bit of Stress To The Travels. There's A Lot of Rules & Protocols You Can Follow While Traveling To Stay Completely On Track and At One Point I Was Mr. Diligent & Strict When Traveling…But For Most Normal Humans That's Just Preposterous and Silly… So Let's Talk About It! In This Episode I Talk About Road Trippin, Cincy Breweries, The Kentucky Hot Spots We Found, Why Tacos Win Out Always, Lexington For Non-Drinkers Is Still Fun But Something That Comes At You Quick, Things Outta My Comfort Zone, Yoga, Southern Accents, & More! As Usual There's A Whole Lotta Other Ramblings and It's An All Around Good Time! So Stick Around, You're Gonna Love It!

Topics Include…

✔️ An Obligatory Life Recap From The Past Week

✔️ A Recap of Our Lexington, Kentucky Weekend Trip

✔️ Finding Hot Spots From Both Recommendations and Exploration

✔️ The Gifts & Curses of Not Planning A Detailed Itinerary When On Vaca

✔️ Southern Accents Are An Imminent Sign of A Happy Mark

✔️ The King of Overpaying and Spending Like A Moron

✔️ Favorite Places To Eat, Drink, & Play In Lexington, KY

✔️ Breaking Up Road Trips

✔️ Owning At Least One Meal & Making Step Counts Your Modus Operandi

✔️ The Cheap Minimal Equipment You Can Travel With

✔️ Doing Some Recon Work Ahead of Time Can Save You Thousands of Calories

✔️ Stop Stressing and Just Travel The World With Happiness In Your Heart

✔️ Melting Ice Cream, Traffic Cone Thugs, Frank Costanza, & Much More!

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This Episode Is One of The Best Conversations We've Had With What Is Probably The Most Interesting Man In The World… Take That Dos Equis Guy! JEB Stuart Johnston Is More Than A Civil War General, More Than A Soul-Blues Singer, and More Than A Health & Nutrition Coach… He's Pretty Much Done Everything Under The Sun and Lived A Life That Seems Unbelievable. In This Episode We Do Dig Into The Environment That Surrounds Emotional Eating and Developing A Better Approach To Nutrition and Your Life. Along The Way Though We Reveal The Journey of JEB and The Lessons He's Learned Along His Path. We Talk About Everything Ranging From From Mindfulness, 90s Detroit, Hairdressing, Opera Singing, Slowing Down, Working Out, Delis, Favorite Athletes, and Much Much More! But As Usual There's A Whole Lotta Other Ramblings and It's An All Around Good Time! So Stick Around, You're Gonna Love It!

Topics Include…

✔️ What's Made JEB Happy Recently

✔️ Who Exactly JEB Stuart Is and How He Got To This Point

✔️ Growing Up All Over The Country Including Metro Detroit

✔️ How He Got His Name and Why The Second Option Is Better

✔️ Going From Music, To Acting, To Hairdressing, To Fitness Instructor

✔️ Acquiring Skills From Helping People In A Variety of Fashions

✔️ A Better Way To Approach Nutrition To Help The Most People

✔️ Accepting That Mom Was (And Probably Always Is) Right

✔️ Behavioral Models To Eating & Nutrition For Long Term Success and Freedom

✔️ Meeting and Connecting With Like Minded People Helps Everyone

✔️ Applying Certain Skills To Your Life To Improve How You Problem Solve

✔️ Acceptance Is Reality

✔️ Describing Gold, Deli Names, Making French Toast, Hershel Walker & Much More!

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This Episode Is A Travel Around The World To Beautiful Australia Where We're Joined By Health & Fitness Coach Ruby Cherie As She Drops Bombs of Health, Wellness, and Goodness On Us. Ruby Is A Coach That Has A Grip On The Realities of Weight Loss, Maintenance, Fitness, Etc. and How There's A Lot More That Goes Into It Than Macros & Exercises. Ruby Covers Everything From Having Empathy, Understanding Personal Histories, Her Own Journey, The Progression of Different Situations, Creating Stepping Stones, Coloring Your Life, Clean Eating & Context, Hiking, Cupcake Batter, and Much Much More! But As Usual There's A Whole Lotta Other Ramblings and It's An All Around Good Time! So Stick Around, You're Gonna Love It!

Topics Include…

✔️ What's Made Ruby Happy Recently

✔️ Overcoming Many Struggles To Gain Empathy

✔️ Understanding The Hardships Makes Progress More Possible

✔️ Scripted Plans Might Not Fit Real Human Beings With Complete Lives

✔️Focusing On More Than Only The Negatives, Highlighting The Positives

✔️ Balancing Being Strict With Yourself and Letting It All Go Because It's Easy

✔️Keeping Your Flavors Simple After Knowing Yourself Better

✔️Mixing Up Your Health & Fitness That Fits Your Lifestyle

✔️Adding Color To The Rest of Your Life

✔️We All Need To Zoom Out At Times

✔️The Batter Is Better, Back Squats, Squidward, Mountain Hiking, & Much More!

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This Episode Is A Much Needed Random Chat With Good People. The Audio Quality Is Beyond Suspect, But That's Because It Was A Completely Spur of The Moment Recording… But A Great One. I'm Joined By 3 Fellow Teachers, Friends, and Returners To The Podcast Thomas Austin & The Finks and We Simply Talk About All Things Life. Sometimes You Just Need Random Conversation Because It's Therapy, and In This Therapy Session We Talk About Everything From Upcoming Surgeries, Travel Plans. Why You Shouldn't Wait To Make Good Choices, How Priorities Change Over Time, Underrated Movies, Being Kept Organized, The Positives In Negative Times, Semi-Creepy Enjoyment In Cadaver Labs, and Much Much More! But As Usual There's A Whole Lotta Other Ramblings and It's An All Around Good Time! So Stick Around, You're Gonna Love It!

Topics Include…

✔️ What's Been Happening In Life From The Past Week, Month, Year

✔️ Getting Older, Random Injuries, & The Perils of Surgeries

✔️ Lessons Learned As You Go Through Seasons of Life

✔️ Being Content With The Family You Have & Enjoying The Bitter Sweet

✔️The Case For Marriage Counseling In The Best of Times

✔️ There's Always Something To Be Done, Make The Most of What You Have Always

✔️ Air Conditioning Is A Must For Some People... Everything

✔️ What Is It That Will Make Your Marriage, Friendships, & Life Fulfilled

✔️ Movies That Are Underrated

✔️ When Your Wife Keeps You Organized and May Kill You For Saying So

✔️ Cloud 10, Traveling With Parents, Not Regretting Things, & Much More!

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This Episode Is A Cool, Calm, & Not 'Too' Chaotic Discussion of Thoughts & Realizations About Life That Have Come Up In The Past 5 Years. Today, May 19th 2021 Is The Day I'm 5 Years Cancer Free and Along The Way There's Been A Lot of Changes… This Is Just Me Talking About A Few of The Things That Have Stood Out To Me In This Whole Process. Not So Much of A List of Tips, Guidance, or 'Lessons Learned' Type of Thing… But More-so Just A Little Reflection of Some of The Things That Have Become Known To Me, and Some Major Ways That I Have Been Learned To View The World As A Result. IN this Episode Is Everything From Perspective Changes, Being Grateful, Differences In Dealing, Ice Cream, Flying Kites, and Much Much More! But As Usual There's A Whole Lotta Other Ramblings and It's An All Around Good Time! So Stick Around, You're Gonna Love It!

Topics Include…

✔️ What's Been Happening In Life From The Past Week

✔️ Being Sure To Prepare For Taking A Picnic

✔️ It's Been Half A Decade Since My Life Changed

✔️ A Reflection On The Things I've Learned In The Past 5 Years

✔️ Being Cancer Free and How It Never Really Leaves You

✔️ Keeping All of Life In Perspective… The Goods & The Bads

✔️ Feeling Like You're In 'No Mans Land' Is Ok

✔️ People Deal With Things Differently, Give Em Space

✔️ The Benefits of Belief In God While On This Earth

✔️ Investing In Your Health Is Your Greatest Insurance Policy

✔️ Your Life Is Not About You, Elevate Others & Lower Your Problems

✔️ None of Us Are Special, Consider Everyone's Underlying Angst

✔️ 'Best' and 'Best For You' Are Usually 2 Different Things

✔️Flying Kites, Cardinals Are Awful, Celebrate With Ice Cream, & Much More!

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This Episode Is Cool, Calm, & Chaotic Rambling Rant About Making Decisions. After Thinking A Bit About The Trap of Being Indecisiveness and How It's Really Becoming A Pandemic It Turned Into A Spur of the Moment Unloading of Thoughts On The Topic. There Is Virtually Nothing Good About Being Indecisive… It Causes Stress, Fatigue, Low Confidence, Low Self-Esteem, and Learned Helplessness... It's A Vicious Cycle and It's For Sure A Pandemic of Its Own. Aside From Talking About That We Do A Catchup On All Things Life Recently, Traveling, Dope Breweries, Old School Video Games, Steely Dan, Paving A Middle Path, Super Tennis, and Much More! … As Usual There's A Whole Lotta Other Fun And Just It's Another All Around Good Time! So Stick Around, You're Gonna Love It!

Topics Include…

✔️ What's Been Happening In Life From The Past Week

✔️ Good People Working In Good Establishments

✔️ Old School Video Games & Vinyl Records Make Life Better

✔️ Watching All of The Marvel Movies In Chronological Order

✔️ Being Decisive & Paving A Firm Middle Path

✔️ Living In The Middle, The Lukewarm, and The Wishy Washy Is Still Bad

✔️ How Indecisiveness Pervades Every Area of Our Life

✔️ The Stress From All Angles That Come From Not Making Solid Choices

✔️ Why You Don't Have To Fall Hard Into One Camp or The Other

✔️ Take The Positives of Multiple Areas That Fit Your Life and Live Them Boldly

✔️Overall 'Best' and 'Best For You' Are Two Different Things

✔️Steely Dan, Captain America For The Win, Diddy Kong, & Much More!

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Checkout Episode 190 of Cool, Calm, & Chaotic! This Episode Starts With A Quick Life Catchup and Then A Q&A About Whole Bunches of Topics. There's A Lot of Different Things In This Episode That Ranges From What Is Perhaps The Dopest French Toast On The Planet, Sweaty Summer Workouts, Civil War History, Getting Over Late Night Snacking, Biggest Pet Peeves, Occupying Your Mind, College Football Opening Day, Systemic Issues, Major Life Lessons, Macros For Fat Loss, Ice Cream Sammies, and Much More! As Usual There's A Whole Lotta Other Fun And Just It's Another All Around Good Time! So Stick Around, You're Gonna Love It!

Topics Include…

✔️ Life Happenings From The Past Week

✔️ Upcoming Summer Trip To Lexington, KY

✔️ The Single Best French Toast Order On This Planet

✔️ Some of The Best Summer Workouts You Can Do Most Anywhere

✔️ The Right Amount of Times To Eat Out At Restaurants Per Week

✔️ Macro Splits For Fat Loss

✔️ My Favorite Topics To Teach In School & History In General

✔️ Major Life Lessons That I've Learned In The Last 5 Years

✔️ Thoughts On Systemic Racism and The Lack of Clear Communication

✔️ Why I Love Sushi and Think It Fits Into Any Healthy Diet

✔️ Pet Peeves & College Football

✔️ Tips To Stop Late Night Snacking

✔️ Creep Out Guy, Ice Cream Sammies, Summer Sweatiness, & Much More!

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