Cooper Brunner Podcast

Cooper and Kirsten virtually chat with Max George. Max was a three sport standout out of Regis High School (Colorado) and is currently playing professional baseball in the Colorado Rockies Organization.

Max walks us through his tough decision on forgoing college and accepting his opportunity in the sixth round of the MLB draft to go play professional baseball for the Rockies.


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MAKE TODAY COUNT.

- Cooper 

You have 24 hours in a day. And on average, you’ll probably sleep anywhere from 7-9 hours, 10 probably on weekends. 

60 minutes in an hour, so if you remove the amount of time you spend sleeping, on avg im gonna say that probably is going to equate to about 1,000 minutes left (easy to remember) to make something happen every day. 

You have 1,000 minutes, and you get to choose how you spend those minutes each day.

1. Audit yourself every day

Some things that I find value in are making appointments on my calendar for work that I need to get done. If I have a contract to write or a meeting I need to prep for i put that on the calendar so it gets done and I dont get double booked. Fill your calendar with things you need to do and make people work around your schedule. If you value your time so will others. By doing this if you get something done early you can either start the next task ahead of time or take a littl3 break, scroll through IG and mot feel bad about it.

1. Multi-task when you can

• I do these strategically, but during the day I can get away with multi-tasking and still be effective. IE I am constantly learning… When I run in the morning, instead of just listening to music, which occasionally I do because it helps me relax mentally or motivate me temporarily, but most  of the time I am listening to Audiobooks, learning new concepts, new perspectives, and continuously challenging my knowledge. 
• Meal Prep your lunches
  • Saves you money
  • Adds discipline to your diet, creating minimal room for cheating or becoming lazy with your diet. 
  • Don’t waste time driving to grab food or choose a poor meal option
  • Meal prep on sundays for  an hour saves you time

In addition to what cooper said other things thay you can do are clean while you cook, pick things up as you go.

If you are in a meeting where you don't have to be 100% involved answer emails.

I've told contractors thay im very busy and don't have time to attend all of their meetings. We comprised and when they need me they address my name to get my attention, I answer the question or provide feedback and them go back to doing whatever else I needed to do.

1. You can wake up earlier

• I don’t wanna hear it, matter of fact, if you are OK with living a mediocre life, then go ahead and enjoy your beauty sleep. That’s OK with me, and that’s OK with all the rest of us working our ASS OFF waking up at 530-6am everyday working towards someday making our dreams our reality because look… I don’t know a single successful person that started with nothing and created something that didn’t wake up early PISSED OFF or FIRED UP to make/create something epic. Not a single one. They sacrifice sleep, maybe not every single day, but they go through the week with 5-7 hours of sleep and are accomplishing WAY MORE than someone that sleeps 8-9 hours a day. I can promise you that. 

When I need to get something done the first thing that goes is sleep. Your goals are worth your time. I don't want to miss out on life to sleep. It is important but making memories and hitting goals is more important to me.

If you take anything from this, remember this:

YOU are the CEO of your own bank of time and YOU get to decide where that time gets spent. 

Time is a commodity that you don’t get back. It is not like money you can’t make more of it. 

Make each minute count,

We’re out. 

MAKE TODAY COUNT.

"Your only goal should be to help other people." - Anthony Simon 

Anthony Simon is a leader. Period. And he's one of the most driven/passionate people you will ever meet.

After suffering a career ending injury playing college football at SD State, Anthony committed himself to the US marines (serving currently over 20+ years). 

He has served multiple leadership roles within the Marines and has inspired 100's of marines while also creating his fitness business, "The Pride". 

In this episode, Anthony explains his war/combat experiences, what it takes to become a leader in the Marines, and how "The Pride" fitness community became more than just a "bodybuilding club."

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-  Cooper

Cooper reconnects with good friend, former Washington State Football player Clayton Simundson. Clayton talks about his experience playing football for the COUGS, his experience playing in the New Mexico bowl and what he learned playing football at the college level. Clayton is currently Vice President (VP) of an insurance company.

Additional topics discussed on the episode:

• Cultivating new business during COVID
  • The shift of doors being shut to ‘WE NEED HELP”
  • United States Return to Work 
  • First time in US history where a majority of the U.S. economy was just shut down, so it was a once in a lifetime scenario of helping companies reopen their doors and return to work safely. 
    • Testing and Tracing 
    • Worksite Wellbeing 
    • Creative Communication
    • Strategic Support
  • Testing and Tracing 
    • Using technology to help employees get better access to tests and provide better reporting to executives so they know where their workforce is at
  • Worksite Wellbeing and Stress Management 
    • Whether employees end up with COVID or not, you now have a ton of new stress added to the workplace: Am I safe in my office? Financial Stress of not working for 1-5 months (different surveys say anywhere from 50-74% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.)
    • Better engagement
      • Text Therapy versus in person versus virtual. 
      • Talk to how as preventative visits fell at the start of COVID because Healthcare halted elective procedures, but at the same rate that those services fell, you saw Mental Health Claims raise at the same rate. 

How to get in contact with Clayton:
IG: @claytonsimundson
Email: [email protected]

In this episode, Cooper offers diet tips and training strategies you can add to your routine that during your bulking/muscle mass phase of training.



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- Cooper

Cooper and Kirsten sit down with MMA Competitors Tunde "Lion Machine" and Zach Martin, discussing their passion for fighting and how it has positively impacted their lives.

Having so much passion for the sport, Tunde explains mixed martial arts as a skillset that has helped build his confidence and discipline growing up. Moving from Nigeria, it was difficult for him to "fit in".

At a young age he felt like an outsider, thus found martial arts as an escape from feeling like a misfit.

Tunde and Zach dive deep into the world of MMA and provide their thoughts as to why competing in fights has been helped them become better men and disciplined/mentally strong individuals.


Tunde Arigbon is the 7th ranked of 91 active Pac Northwest Amateur Welterweights.
Also ranked at: Lightweight (11th)

Tunde Arigbon is the 48th ranked of 557 active US West Amateur Welterweights.
Also ranked at: Lightweight (53rd)

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- Cooper

Cooper sits down with athlete, coach, and mentor DJ Dominguez and Tualatin High School athlete Logan Larrance. 


Topics we discussed:
- Law of Attraction
- Relationships "Think Like a Woman"
       - Finding the Right Partner in your Life
       - Finding Someone Positive, There is no Room for Negativity
- Maintaining a Relentless Mindset
- Thinking Outside of the Box, Adapt and Innovate
- Pushing People to Become Better

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- COOPER

Kirsten and Cooper sit down and speak with Oregon-Qatar Bodybuilder Abdulla Musa.

Abdulla has won several professional bodybuilding competitions, in 2019 he dominated the Pro Bikini Finals from the 2019 IFBB Pro League Portland Classic held on August 17th at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR. Not only is he a champion bodybuilder, but he is also high level engineer, helping his country build the stadium for the upcoming World Cup being held in Qatar  in 2022.

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-  Cooper

Cooper sits down with podcast host of the "All The Best Things' Podcast and Founder/Coach of BST fitness Jake. 

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As Always,

Make Today Count.
- Cooper