Hacking Your Health

In 2012, Mandy Logan survived a gang attack that led to four clinical deaths and a series of strokes — leaving her with no memory, no ability to speak, and no control over her own body. Doctors had no real precedent for her recovery.

What followed was years of near-total isolation, teaching herself a binary system just to communicate, and slowly, deliberately rebuilding her body and mind — eventually finding her way into weightlifting and, today, a respected voice in the cybersecurity community at events like DEF CON.

This is a conversation about what it actually takes to rebuild from nothing, and why she believes most people give up on their health long before they have any real reason to.

Connect With Mandy:
LinkedIn:   / mandy-logan-cdt-cesswi-qsp-a5b30b2b 
X: https://x.com/5urvivatrix
Instagram:   / tellallthestories 

More about her Communities & media:
Paul's Security Weekly: https://securityweekly.com/psw
The Diana Initiative: https://www.dianainitiative.org
Skytalks: https://skytalks.info

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We Hack Health: Twitter
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Philip Wylie has spent his career in offensive security - as a practitioner, podcaster, and conference speaker who's seen the industry from every angle. He's also spent decades proving that a demanding, high-stress career in cybersecurity doesn't have to come at the cost of your health.

In this conversation, Philip talks about why so many people in this field put their health last, the excuses that hold people back (time, travel, stress), and the simple, realistic approach that's kept him consistent for decades - even while working full-time in one of the most demanding corners of the industry.

If you work in cybersecurity and keep telling yourself "I'll start when things calm down" - this is the conversation to watch first.

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Training volume, intensity, deloads, exercise selection, weak points, recovery, nutrition, pre-workout fueling, and how the stress happening outside the gym can quietly kill your progress inside it.

Training plateaus and how to overcome them

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We Hack Health: Twitter
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Big Dave became small Dave, then big Dave again and now he is the leanest he has ever been - but feels small. The eternal battle of always wanting to be lean and be big... 

Join us this week as Dave jumps back into training with direction and what the plan is moving forward. 

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Book a coaching call here: https://calendly.com/bc-training/bc-discovery-call 

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Live behind the scenes at DEFCON 34  - He's the voice behind Darknet Diaries - the podcast that's pulled back the curtain on some of the internet's darkest, strangest, and most dangerous stories. Hackers, spies, cybercriminals, breaches that shook the world. He's told all of their stories.

He rarely tells his own.

In this episode, Jack sits down to talk about something he's never really spoken about publicly - the transformation happening behind the mask. Testosterone, discipline, sleep, mindset, and the hard lessons that took him from barely climbing a flight of stairs to rebuilding his body and mind from the ground up.

No script. No narration voice. Just Ben & Jack chatting...

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Eric Foster has spent 30+ years in cybersecurity. Three-time CISO, helped build and sell six companies, and now CEO of TENEX.AI

He also used to weigh over 400lbs.

In this episode we talk about how he went from 420 lbs to around 214 lbs to building one of the fastest-growing companies in cybersecurity.

We get into the shit that actually made the difference: food, training, GLP-1s, travel, stress, identity, confidence and building a system that works even when life is chaotic.

Because taking care of your health doesn't have to come at the expense of building something great.

If anything, it might be what allows you to.

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After 10 days in Vegas and a week of conferences with well over 100 conversations and 20 sit down podcasts, I have learned a lot.

I decided to try and organise my thoughts from those conversations and that is what this episode is - the things I saw, the conversations that stuck with me, the struggles that people have and the want for a better state of health in the industry.

I guess it's not so much a conference recap and more of an insight to the humans behind cybersecurity and why I believe we need to start taking their health and performance as seriously as the systems they're responsible for protecting.

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The biggest improvements in your health won't come from another supplement - they'll come from consistently doing the boring things well. We cover the fundamentals of sleep, hydration, nutrition, movement and why consistency beats complexity every time.

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Defcon is the biggest conference in the cybersecurity world accompanied with BlackHat and BSides Las Vegas - Hacker Summer Camp can be a difficult one to manage - join us this week where we break down how we plan to stay on top of our goals while battling Vegas. 

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Failure isn’t the opposite of success - it’s the process that creates it. In this episode, we unpack how setbacks, discomfort, and repeated misses build resilience, clarity, and real momentum.

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Where to find us

We Hack Health: Twitter
We Hack Health: Instagram
We Hack Health: Discord

Check out Overclock and Protein Protocol here