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•  Don’t create a life that pleases others, create a life that you enjoy
  • “I think our default desires so often push us towards trying to create a life that is a spectacle, something that looks great to others but itself feels kind of empty” – Kyle Eschenroeder
• “If we can shape our desires even a little bit, it can create massive, massive, changes in our lives” – Kyle Eschenroeder
  • You don’t want to win in life but then find out you’ve been playing the wrong game this whole time
• When determining your desires, be careful of short-term desires
  • Kyle recites a quote from Naval Ravikant: “The modern devil is cheap dopamine” 
• Instead of chasing fame, chase impact
• Instead of chasing an easy life, chase a life with meaningful struggle
  • In one study, the people who retired at 55 died significantly earlier than those that retired at 65
• Viktor Frankl cities three sources for meaning in life:
  • Suffering for a cause you care about
  • Doing significant work
  • Caring for others
•  Fame can be a dangerous drug that makes people do the wrong action because they’re chasing attention
  • “The person who seeks fame is making their happiness largely dependent on the opinions of other people. Those people who have the power to build you up have the same power to tear you down.” – Kyle Eschenroeder
• Desiring Impact > Desiring Attention
  • Let fame be a by-product instead of the priority
• “The need to be extraordinary put this layer of disrespect on our life as it is” – Kyle Eschenroeder
  • It’s important to take a step back and release our default desire to compare our lives to the Joneses. Instead, do what is exciting and meaningful to you.

Kyle Eschenroeder is a marketer and a writer.

You do not want to live a life that you regret at the end of it. But working out what you WANT to want is a topic no one ever talks about.

When you follow your default desires, you're much more likely to find yourself at a place in life that you didn't really want to be, or mean to get to. Today, we learn how to step into our programming and actively design our direction in life. I love this topic.

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• If you’re a content creator, be prepared for people to make clips of your work and take it out of context
  • Often times people try to make the clips as outrageous as possible to get more eyeballs
    • “The internet has democratized outrage” – Jon Stewart
    • “You get these little sounds bites so there are little video clips and you don’t understand the full context of the conversation or what was actually said and then people get outraged at that” – Joe Rogan
• “The only thing standing between American socialism is an inability to reform to meaningfully reform capitalism…and if we can’t do that, then the people take to the streets” – Jon Stewart
  • Reform will save capitalism, not destroy it
    • Jon recites a quote from JFK: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”
• “It’s always about money. We always have money for war but we almost never have money to pay for what are the absolutely could have seen a mile away consequences.”  – Jon Stewart
• The government denies a lot of soldiers’ injuries or illnesses that happened during war so that they aren’t responsible for the medical bill
  • “There are people who are still fighting the government over Agent Orange and still being denied…Stop fucking with these people and help them” – Jon Stewart
• “The project of this next generation is to build a stronger foundation, a granite bearing for everyone to stand on” – Jon Stewart
  • “We built a great middle class in the ‘50s for white people, we have to do the same now for the country” 
• What does Jon believe the government should do to help people out during COVID?
  • “Suspend and extend” – Jon Stewart
    • Suspend rent and mortgage payments and extend the amount of time people have to pay it back. And give the landlords a real estate tax break.

• Behavior happens when 3 things occur concurrently (MAPS):
  • Motivation
  • Ability
  • Prompt
• There are 3 approaches to helping people perform certain behaviors:
  • 1) Train the person: Skill them up so that they know how to do something
    • E.g: If you want someone to eat more vegetables, teach them how to cook vegetables 
  • 2) Redesign the environment: Put tools or resource in the person’s environment
    • E.g: Get tools to chop up vegetables and recipes to make them taste good
  • 3) Scale the behavior back: Take whatever action you’re trying to do and scale it down
    • E.g: Instead of working out for an hour, scale it down and workout for a few minutes
• There are 3 core motivators of motivation:
  • 1) Pleasure & Pain: It’s what you’re sensing at the moment
  • 2) Hope & Fear: It’s if I do X, then Y will happen
  • 3) Social Acceptance & Rejection: Wanting to belong or being afraid of rejection
• Motivation and ability have a compensatory relationship, meaning they compensate for one another
  • “If motivation is low for any given behavior, then the ability must be high. In other words, it must be easy to do, otherwise, you won’t do it.” – BJ Fogg
    • If your motivation is really high, it means you can do both easy and hard things
• When your motivation drops, you need to scale back the difficulty of the task
  • “You’re adjusting the difficulty of the behavior according to the level of motivation in that moment” – BJ Fogg

Behavior scientist and author of Tiny Habits, BJ Fogg, discusses improving decision making, motivation trends, the role of emotion in sense of self and so much more.

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• ClassPass is a monthly subscription membership where customers can spend virtual currency on a variety of fitness and wellness experiences, from a regular gym to cryotherapy to yoga, in fitness centers around the world
  • It currently has a billion-dollar valuation with lots of growth indicating much more upside and secular trends pointing toward an increased focus on fitness and wellness
  • “The industry desperately needs an aggregator. Most industries have an aggregator to help them fill excess capacity and I think the model we landed on is a really elegant one.” – Fritz Lanman
• The effects of the coronavirus have been devastating to the fitness industry
  • “We saw 95% of our gyms and studio partners having to close their locations down” – Fritz Lanman
• ClassPass has operations in China, Singapore, and Hong Kong so they got their first taste of the coronavirus before most of the American fitness industry
  • “We saw reservation volumes collapse and then rebound so we thought every Western government would what those countries, countries like Taiwan and Korea, are doing and just emulate those responses” – Fritz Lanman
• The future of fitness will be a mix of both brick-and-mortar and digital in Fritz’s eyes
• “I don’t think there’s some structural shift that’s going to favor only digital versus offline. In fact, we’ve seen demand is incredibly resilient for offline, and probably more so after people have been locked up in quarantine.” – Fritz Lanman
  • “There’s just nothing like the immersiveness of having that community, equipment, that intimate atmosphere, the camaraderie, and the instructor interaction” 

Today I’m joined by Fritz Lanman the CEO of ClassPass. 

In this episode, we talk about why the company changed its business model and pricing over the years. The opportunity for growth in areas like corporate benefits, wellness experiences, and streaming workouts. What makes ClassPass worth $1B. And Fritz’s plan to take the company public. 

Let’s get into it. 

More from Fritz >> 

Fritz Lanman is the CEO of ClassPass and previously served as Executive Chairman. He has been involved with the company since 2013 when he led both the Seed and Series A financing. In addition to his role at ClassPass, he is an active angel investor who backed Square, Pinterest, Wish and several other companies. Before ClassPass, Fritz founded Livestar, Verst and Doppler Labs and worked in Product Management and Corporate Strategy at Microsoft.

Website: https://classpass.com/

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From product launches and funding news to game-changing innovation, Fitt Insider provides listeners with insights and analysis on this ever-evolving industry. 

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Treating The Underlying Causes Of High Blood Pressure with Dr. George Papanicolaou | This episode is brought to you by AirDoctor

Almost a quarter of the worldwide adult population has high blood pressure or hypertension. An additional third of American adults have what is called a pre-hypertensive condition. Hypertension is a leading cause of heart disease and can lead to kidney failure, stroke, dementia, and more. Conventional medicine typically treats hypertension with medications which is generally effective in reducing risk of these complications. However, these medications frequently come with unintended side effects. Functional Medicine, on the other hand, seeks to get to and treat the root cause of whatever is causing hypertension.

In this episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Dr. George Papanicolaou to discuss the Functional Medicine approach to treating high blood pressure. They discuss how things like diet, sleep apnea, insulin resistance, and more are often the driving forces of hypertension.

George Papanicolaou is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and is Board Certified in Family Medicine from Abington Memorial Hospital. He is also an Institute for Functional Medicine Practitioner. Upon graduation from his residency he joined the Indian Health Service. He worked on the Navajo reservation for 4 years at the Chinle Comprehensive Medical Facility where he served as the Outpatient Department Coordinator. In 2000, he founded Cornerstone Family Practice in Rowley, MA. He practiced with a philosophy centered on personal relationships and treating the whole person, not just not the disease. He called that philosophy “Whole Life Wellness”. Over time as the healthcare system made it harder for patients to receive this kind of personal care Dr. Papanicolaou decided a change was needed. He began training in Functional Medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine. In 2015, he established Cornerstone Personal Health – a practice dedicated entirely to Functional Medicine. Dr. Papanicolaou to join The UltraWellness Center in 2017.

In this conversation, Dr. Hyman and Dr. Papanicolaou discuss:

• What’s is considered normal blood pressure and why this metric is constantly changing

• Why high blood pressure is so dangerous

• The traditional medicine vs Functional Medicine approach to treating high blood pressure

• Why blood pressure needs to be treated

• How to get an effective blood pressure measurement

• Major causes of hypertension including insulin resistance, sleep apnea, low magnesium, low Omega-3 fats, and environmental causes

• Is salt an issue for high blood pressure?

• The connection between gut issues and high blood pressure

For more information visit drhyman.com/uwc 

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Additional resources:

Natural Remedies for Healthy Blood Pressure

https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2018/04/12/natural-remedies-for-healthy-blood-pressure/

5 Strategies for Better Sleep

https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2020/03/19/5-strategies-for-better-sleep-2/

Magical Magnesium

https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2020/03/11/magic-magnesium/

A Functional Medicine Approach to Obesity: 10 Ways to Lose Weight & Keep It Off

https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2018/04/03/a-functional-medicine-approach-to-obesity-10-ways-to-lose-weight-keep-it-off/

10-Day Rest

GetFarmacy.com

Should We All Avoid Gluten

https://drhyman.com/blog/2018/09/26/podcast-ep20/

8 Simple Hacks for a Better Night’s Sleep

https://drhyman.com/blog/2016/04/13/8-simple-hacks-for-a-better-nights-sleep/

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• A ketogenic diet stimulates metabolic flexibility and functions similarly to muscle memory: the more you do it, the more your body will remember
• The target of a restricted ketogenic diet is to achieve glucose-ketone index between 1 and 2
• Biosense breathe acetone meter is the ketone measurement device of choice for Dom if he can’t measure blood

Back by very popular demand for a special AMA episode, ketosis expert Dom D’Agostino joins Bob Kaplan, Peter’s Head of Research, to address many lingering questions about the ketogenic diet, exogenous ketones, and exercise for overall health. Dom also shares valuable insights from his personal experience with training, supplements, intermittent fasting, and other nutritional strategies to optimize his own health and performance. If you’re not a subscriber and listening on a podcast player, you’ll only be able to hear a preview of the AMA.  If you’re a subscriber, you can now listen to this full episode on your private RSS feed or on the website show notes page.

We discuss:

• Dom’s recent and ongoing projects [3:00];
• Benefits of a ketogenic diet for an otherwise healthy person [7:00];
• Book recommendations to become more knowledgeable about a ketogenic diet [11:30];
• Best devices for measuring ketones [13:45];
• Genetic factors that influence how someone responds to the ketogenic diet [24:45];
• Ketogenic diet for those with the APOE e4 allele [28:15];
• Impact of long-term ketogenic diets on thyroid function [34:25];
• Low-carb and ketogenic diets for appetite control and weight management [39:00];
• Ketogenic diet and the microbiome [43:00];
• Comparing monounsaturated fat versus saturated fat on the ketogenic diet [45:55];
• Implications of long-term genetic and epigenetic adaptations to a ketogenic diet [47:45];
• Why some people see a rise in LDL-C and LDL-P when on a ketogenic diet and what they can do about it [50:15];
• Should someone with familial hypercholesterolemia consider a ketogenic diet? [55:00];
• Exogenous ketones—benefits, therapeutic uses, and ketone supplements that Dom has tested [56:45];
• Ketogenic protocols for management of traumatic brain injuries [1:06:00];
• Comparing the benefits and therapeutic uses of various medium-chain fatty acids—caprylic acid (C8), capric acid (C10), MCT oil, and coconut oil [1:08:45];
• Nootropics, caffeine, and other stimulants [1:16:15];
• Supplemental use of testosterone, DHEA, and creatine for muscle growth and performance [1:23:45];
• Impact of fasted-state training on strength and performance [1:30:15];
• Stacking exogenous ketones with MCTs for optimal effectiveness [1:33:30];
• BCAA supplements during a fast for muscle preservation [1:35:45];
• What app is Dom using to track his macros? [1:42:00];
• Getting enough micronutrients while on a ketogenic diet [1:47:15];
• Ideal macros and getting enough protein for strength training in ketosis [1:48:15];
• Pros, cons, and ideal macros of one meal a day [1:51:15];
• Dom’s take on “carb backloading” [1:54:45];
• Dom’s take on “carb up” days for ketogenic dieters [2:01:00];
• Dom’s thoughts on the carnivore diet and the paleolithic ketogenic diet [2:05:30];
• Advantages of the ketogenic diet for extreme endurance athletes [2:10:30];
• Impact on strength, power, and performance during the adaptation period of the ketogenic diet [2:14:00];
• Fasted-state elevation in growth hormone and its impact on training [2:17:45];
• Is it possible to build muscle on a ketogenic diet? [2:23:30];
• Why Dom took a year off from weight training [2:28:00];
• What does Dom do for cardio exercise? [2:30:45];
• Protocols for hard training recovery [2:33:15];
• Dom’s personal approach to fasting, time-restricted eating, and sleep [2:35:45];
• People, books, and other resources that shaped Dom’s training and nutrition [2:38:45]; and
• More.

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