Sleep focused, Paleo fed co-hosting: The key to fitness, health and wellness are sleep. With poor sleep comes poor foundations. With poor foundations, we cannot build. Everything will come crashing down. People through time have worn a lack of sleep, due to hustle and getting stuff done, as a badge of honor. It’s time to…

Sleep focused, Paleo fed co-hosting:

The key to fitness, health and wellness are sleep. With poor sleep comes poor foundations. With poor foundations, we cannot build. Everything will come crashing down. People through time have worn a lack of sleep, due to hustle and getting stuff done, as a badge of honor. It's time to put to bed that misconception with Episode 44 and our co-host Kevin Cottrell of fitfluentialradio.com and the HealthCast Now Podcast. Kevin found out the hard way. Through poor lifestyle and environmental choices, Kevin developed a Melanoma Cancer. Although he was a fit guy, his fitness was built upon a foundation of poor sleep. Kevin made critical lifestyle choices and is now healthier than ever. This episode is about the importance of sleep and lifestyle choices.

On This Episode You Will Hear:

Kevin left College in the 80's, he went back to where he grew up in the Palo Alto area. Kevin got involved in a number of startups in the 90's, he was the typical Biz Dev Executive working 80-90 hours, traveling excessively, not getting enough sleep but he worked out every day. He thought he was on track. Then came the late 90's into 2001 and the Dot Com crash. He had stock options on a startup that went public. The shares went from $100 a share to $1 a share in 60 days. An inner layer of stress started to form. Kevin was a guy, during that period of his life that thought sleep was overrated. As long as he kept working out things would be OK. Moving forward to the summer of 2006, Kevin had a mole removed, just a straight forward procedure. He gets a calling saying he needs an emergency procedure to remove some skin from his neck as he has a pretty serious Melanoma (Type of Skin Cancer).

One of the things Kevin got really good at as an Executive was when lots of drama and chaos comes up, Leadership and Executives fall into one of two camps, they are either a problem solver or you are part of the problem and chaos. Kevin had developed quite a good reputation as a problem solver so he began systematically asking questions at the Doctors office about the problem. He kept a level head despite the stress surging through his body.

At the point in time Kevin had the Cancer, he had the belief the Cancer was to do with family history but he came to find out since then it was much more to do with his lifestyle that put him at risk than it was any family history.

In 2009 Kevin was known as 'Fat Kevin'. Now he wasn't obese, but he looked obese. He was heavier and started to trend towards type 2 diabetes. This was from following the conventional advice from the Doctors. He was back to working out at four in the morning five times a week. He wasn't getting enough sleep and was starting to move towards a different direction from a lifestyle stand point. He knew something was not right still. After listing to a Podcast about the Paleo Diet, Kevin knew he had to start looking into it. It wasn't about the diet he was interested in, it was the lifestyle concept. A Doctor Friend, Dr. Jack Kruse, challenged him to go look at the incidents of melanoma and look at the further you are from the equator are the incidents. Kevin started to change his lifestyle. He began to focus on sleep and getting a healthy dose of sunlight. What happened was he got really healthy. His blood marker ratings went from a 6 to less than 1. He dramatically reduced the inflammation in his body. All by changing his environment and his lifestyle.

 Key Bio Markers, BUN to Creatinine Ratio, Blood Marker for Inflammation. Vitamin D levels. If you are in an environment where you have way too much blue light, you are indoors way too much, you can take Vitamin D Supplements or even Sun outside and remarkably our bodies do not react.

Kevin takes fewer supplements now. He concentrates on core lifestyle changes. Getting out and getting sunlight. Anchoring his Circadian rhythm.

Sleep is something we do have control over.

Reflection Kick-off 2017: This episode is a short solo hosted 2017 reflection episode. I’ve been home for 24 hours after an epic skiing break in Colorado. Celebrating freedoms by skiing Vail, Beaver Creek, Arapahoe Basin and more! I simultaneously recorded this episode on Facebook Live which you can replay on the below linked video. This reflection…

Reflection Kick-off 2017:

This episode is a short solo hosted 2017 reflection episode. I've been home for 24 hours after an epic skiing break in Colorado. Celebrating freedoms by skiing Vail, Beaver Creek, Arapahoe Basin and more! I simultaneously recorded this episode on Facebook Live which you can replay on the below linked video. This reflection episode is about the people you surround yourself with while making a positive change in your life and other people's lives.

On This Reflection Episode You Will Hear:

Reflection on returning to Colorado for an Epic ski break. Skiing the Loveland Pass, the Vale Pass and Crested Buet

Geeking out on stickers. Adapting to altitude. Prepping for the trip by detoxing. Being able to detox your body, which is a naturally occurring process, is so crucial to your overall health every single day. It important to detox the body because it helps flush out your fat cells - Read Dr. Syliva Tara's book The Secret Life of Fat. It's not about the calories, it is about your hormones, that is what effects your weight gain and weight loss.

Politics, speak to what you believe in.

Surround yourself with the right people. We are the product of our inner circle and environment.

"You're The Average Of The Five People You Spend The Most Time With" Jim Rohn

New Years Resolutions equals short term mindset. You should be focusing on long-term commitment, this goes for health, business or lifestyle. Everything we are doing now is to build to a long term successful lifestyle.

 

Links and Resources

The Secret Life of Fat

Bullet Proof Coffee

Local Businesses

Become A Healthy You

Greenmouth Juice Cafe

American Male Bethlehem

Buckmans Ski and Sporting Goods Store 

People Mentioned

Dr. Sylvia Tara

Dave Asprey

Carey Frick

Final Words

Make a positive change in your life while impacting positive changes in other people's lives for 2017.

Action Steps

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Join THE FUEL TANK our community on Facebook! - “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” ~ Quote by Jim Rohn

Be sure to check out our Resources and a reminder to "Keep Living The Fired Up Epic Life everyone!" #livethefuel

Goals C-Hosting and Return of Dr. Megan: On this episode of LIVETHEFUEL we bring back Mind of the Athlete Co-Host Dr Megan Cannon to talk about Goals. This is a great episode to help you understand the principles of setting and achieving our goals. Using a combination of Fueling our bodies in the right way…

Goals C-Hosting and Return of Dr. Megan:

On this episode of LIVETHEFUEL we bring back Mind of the Athlete Co-Host Dr Megan Cannon to talk about Goals. This is a great episode to help you understand the principles of setting and achieving our goals. Using a combination of Fueling our bodies in the right way and having patience will create a solid foundation to achieving our long term goals, but a great take away from this episode is we all have bad days. We are all Human.

On This Episode You Will Hear:

Why Dr. Megan joined Mind of the Athlete

Setting up our own failures.

There is a trend of over training and sever injuries occurring at younger ages

The Secret Life of Fat. Training like an adult as a kid will change your bodies hormonal and chemical make-up.

Let the coach be the coach. The number one negative memory across the board with the athletes Dr. Megan works with is the car ride home. Mind of the Parent

Side line parent coaching

A goal is the pathway to a dream.

R&R - Rest and Recovery. Outcome goals. Visualize outcome goals as a spiral staircase with your outcome goal at the very top. To get to the top you have to break it down into two types of steps, Performance Goals and Process Goals

Patients. Having small goals that will help you reach your long term goal.

Fueling your body. If we are not fueling our bodies right, all these new goals we are throwing in will just come crashing down. Build a solid foundation first.

Celebrating the wins and getting past the negativity

If all you see day in day out is negativity (Newspapers, Magazines, Cable) you are going to set a negative dialog through our minds. Expose yourself to positive messaging.

The Bucket List Life. Catch yourself, don't let yourself fall down that negative spiral. It doesn't happen overnight.

Mood tracker apps - The Five Minute Journal

Choice Theory

Book club

Final Words

Links and Resources

Dr. Megan Cannon on Twitter

Mind of the Athlete

MindoftheAthlete.com on Facebook

MindoftheAthlete.com on Twitter

MindoftheAthlete.com on YouTube

MindoftheAthlete.com on LinkedIn

MindoftheAthlete.com on Instagram

Secret Life of Fat

Choice Theory

The Bucket List Life

MoodTrack Diary App

Five Minute Journal

Evernote.com

People Mentioned

Brian Strauser

Dr. Sylvia Tara PhD

Vinnie Tortorich

Final Words

Make a goal, make a plan and make a choice everyday.

Action Steps

Please Submit an iTunes Show Rating & Review, we need more reviews to increase our ranking and appearance. We love 5 Stars!

Join THE FUEL TANK our community on Facebook! - “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” ~ Quote by Jim Rohn

Be sure to check out our Resources and a reminder to "Keep Living The Fired Up Epic Life everyone!" #livethefuel

Scheduling Virtually: On this episode of LIVETHEFUEL, we bring you a great example of taking a side hustle full time. Discovering a scheduling pain point while working on a web design for clients, Gavin Zuchlinski created Acuity Scheduling a by-product of working on his side hustle. On This Episode You Will Hear: Scheduling out your day to reduce the…

Scheduling Virtually:

On this episode of LIVETHEFUEL, we bring you a great example of taking a side hustle full time. Discovering a scheduling pain point while working on a web design for clients, Gavin Zuchlinski created Acuity Scheduling a by-product of working on his side hustle.

On This Episode You Will Hear:

Scheduling out your day to reduce the clutter in your lifestyle and to add structure to your life.

Managing multiple calendars through Acuity. The goal for Acuity is for people who's day revolves around scheduling appointments, can just sit back and allow Acuity take care of it so they can just focus on the clients.

Calendars are important because it gives you a platform, a system and a tool to start given you some structure.

Integrations and hooking up with Zero

Removing complexity. Building the right team members at the right time. The best asset you have is time.

Have patience and not trying to grow too quickly. Gavin grew Acuity from a part time hustle to what it is today.

Saying Yes. When you are saying Yes to something you are saying No to something else.

Acuity Scheduling Pricing Page.

Do you need to recreate the wheel or just integrate with what already works

The platforms we use can change like Facebook, Google, Wordpress or even SEO, the one thing we can control is growing our email list and growing our captive audience. Have systems that talk together

Leaving a Government job to grow Acuity full time and where the original idea came from.

Your time is something that cannot be replaced

Growing a lean virtual team to suit your lifestyle

Employee happiness

Final Words

Links and Resources

AcuityScheduling.com

https://acuityscheduling.com/livethefuel An extended 45-day trial (instead of 14 days).

Profit First

E-Myth Revisited

Quickbooks

Xero

Freshbooks

Medium.com

Aweber.com

Mailchimp.com

People Mentioned

Michael O'Neal

Mike Michalowicz

Chris Mulvaney

Final Words

Acuity Scheduling main focus is to help you offer and manage appointments online so you can spend more time focusing on what you truly love in life and which you are best at and leave all the other rigmarole and drudgery of appointments to us at Acuity. Whatever time spend and whatever time you end up saving because of Acuity you can spend more time enjoying life.

Feel free to reach out to Gavin via [email protected]

https://acuityscheduling.com/livethefuel that will give people an extended 45-day trial (instead of 14 days).

Action Steps

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Join THE FUEL TANK our community on Facebook! - “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” ~ Quote by Jim Rohn

Be sure to check out our Resources and a reminder to "Keep Living The Fired Up Epic Life everyone!" #livethefuel

Podcasting Magazine Co-Host: The messaging we receive from Podcasts can be a very powerful thing. The medium has changed countless lives and is different to other mediums due to its intimate nature. Today’s Co-Host seeks to expand on Podcasting in its current form. On this episode of LIVETHEFUEL, we are joined by Drew Griffin of…

Podcasting Magazine Co-Host:

The messaging we receive from Podcasts can be a very powerful thing. The medium has changed countless lives and is different to other mediums due to its intimate nature. Today's Co-Host seeks to expand on Podcasting in its current form. On this episode of LIVETHEFUEL, we are joined by Drew Griffin of Neato Media and Podcasting Magazine App. Drew spent twenty-three years as a Hyperbaric Wound Care Nurse and has now taken his marketing background and experience into the Podcast industry and created the Podcasting Magazine App.

On This Episode You Will Hear:

How Drew became a Hyperbaric Wound Care Nurse.

Hyperbaric Chambers

The dawn of the iPhone caused a wave of excitement for Drew as he saw an opportunity to create apps for the health care industry. After getting 30,000 download he decided to get out of the clinical side of medicine and into creating apps.

His app was eventually acquired in 2012

Drew has a few more apps coming out this year, one of them is another magazine app called Install Magazine. Which is all about tech.

Podcasting Magazine was created about a year ago. Due to other things going on in his life, Drew didn't keep it up to date. But as other the date of this recording the app has been updated. The goal in 2017 is to grow Podcast Magazine as much as possible.

Drew has interviewed many top podcasters for the magazine

Thanks Giving Cooking with Sister Mary

People need to be more transparent. The conversation style podcasts vs the over produced ones

Do you. The smart device in your pocket has leveled the playing field in terms of a broadcasting perspective. You can pretty much run a business from your phone and apps. Apps that we use and how we use them.

The advancement of tech

Neato Media has it's eye on emerging tech. In the app world, Drew is teaching people how to build directory apps. Drew has creates a course called "Directory App Blueprint" This course can teach anyone how to build mobile apps.

It's important to grow your network and where Drew and I connected

Taking action. Receive 3 Months Free of the Podcast Magazine using the Promo Code: PMVIP3

Podcasting Magazine is currently only available on iOS but will be launching on Android February 1st 2017

The Carolla Effect

Intermittent Fasting

The Secret Life of Fat

Final Words

Links and Resources

PodcastingMag.com

Podcasting Mag on iTunes

Neatomedia.co

Receive 3 Months Free of the Podcast Magazine using the Promo Code: PMVIP3

Drew on Facebook

Drew on Instagram

Drew on Twitter

Drew on Youtube

Drew on LinkedIn

Salesforce.com

Trello.com

Slack.com

Dropbox.com

MAPCON Mid-Atlantic Podcast Conference

SingularisIT

People Mentioned

John Lee Dumas

Gary Vaynerchuck

Lewis Howes

Pat Flynn

Sister Mary

Semon Dorgam

Vinnie Tortorich

Adam Carrola

Dr Drew

Dr Silvia Terra

Final Words

"Be BOLD, do what the ordinary fear" Take a chance on yourself!

Action Steps

Please Submit an iTunes Show Rating & Review, we need more reviews to increase our ranking and appearance. We love 5 Stars!

Join THE FUEL TANK our community on Facebook! - “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” ~ Quote by Jim Rohn

Be sure to check out our Resources and a reminder to "Keep Living The Fired Up Epic Life everyone!" #livethefuel