Joel Laforet has been coaching bodies and minds for 28 years. He founded Awaken Yoga. He's built a garage gym. He's seven years sober. And he recorded this conversation fresh off a kettlebell hike up Mount Erskine.

This is not a polished interview. It's a real conversation between two men trying to figure out what it means to be strong and soft — to train hard and sit still — to be a father, a partner, and a person still very much in progress.

Joel talks honestly about early fatherhood at 21, the years he wasn't the man he wanted to be, and what sobriety cleared away to let him finally hear his own inner voice. They also get into samskaras, sauna prayers, urine therapy (yes, really), and why the most powerful thing a man can do is pause before he reacts.

Raw, grounded, and genuinely funny in places.

Topics covered: positive masculinity · sobriety · Ashtanga yoga · strength training · meditation · fatherhood · samskaras · intuition