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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Exercise:
  • Treat exercise like a skill
    • “When you treat exercise like a skill and you go to the gym to practice, rather than to go beat yourself up, you’ll see better success in the short-term and especially in the long-term”
    • Go to the gym to “practice squatting”, “practice deadlifting” etc.
  • Having more muscle speeds up your metabolism
  • Muscles don’t “tone” – they either build or they shrink
    • “Tone” and “toning” are terms invented by the fitness industry to attract women to work out
  • As a female, you will NOT get bulky if you start lifting weights
  • Exercise really just serves as a stimulus for your body to adapt
    • If you’re stressed, eat like shit, and hardly sleep – going to the gym and besting the crap out of yourself just won’t work
  • Working out fasted is up to personal preference
• Diet and Nutrition:
  • “We eat because of emotion, we eat because of context, but very rarely do we eat because we’re hungry”
  • “Most of us who were born and raised in modern Western societies have never felt true hunger”
    • What we’ve associated with hunger is actually more like emotion, cravings, and boredom
  • Most people only associate food with taste
    • Learn to associate it with its health benefits
      • For example, more vegetables = better bowel movements, better mood, improve skin
      • Become aware of all the things food provides for you aside from just the taste of it
  • “If I were to list the top 15 priorities of building muscle and burning body fat, eating after you workout wouldn’t even make the list”
    • The whole “post-workout anabolic window” thing is a myth made up by the supplement industry to sell more protein powder
  • “Nobody needs to take a protein shake”
    • “Somewhere along the line protein shakes became a health food, but they’re not –  it’s a processed food”
    • The right amount of protein for athletic performance is about 0.6 to 0.8 grams per pound of body weight for lean individuals
      • If you can’t hit that with food – then sure use a protein shake
    • Related – Organifi makes a really good vegan protein powder
• Weight loss and muscle gain:
  • To lose weight – you want your metabolism to speed up
    • It is NOT all about eating fewer calories
    • How can you speed up your metabolism?
      • “Nothing speeds up the metabolism or gets your body to burn more calories naturally like resistance training.”
  • Tips for gaining weight (and muscle):
    • Focus on the old-fashioned compound lifts – bench press, squats, deadlifts, overhead presses
    • Increase your caloric intake
      • If you can’t eat more, drink some of your calories – add a healthy smoothie with protein powder, fruit, and dairy in between meals
  • Other:
    • “Being vulnerable and being real is one of the best ways to get people to connect with you”
    • Long-term behavior changes start with small behavior changes that stick
      • The best diet/workout program/etc. is the one you actually stick to

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Mind Pump consists of 3 super smart fitness trainers; Sal DiStefano, Adam Schafer, and Justin Andrews, all dedicated to exposing the truth about fitness and the industry.

“I really try not to pay attention as much as I can to the reaction to the art. For me the reward is in the making of the art in the first place.“

Mike Posner 

An accomplished singer, songwriter, poet & producer, Mike Posner knows what it’s like to be rich and famous.

He also knows what it’s like to be forgotten. To grieve. To grow. To embrace that which is most important. And ultimately express his truth through art.

This is the story of a remarkable talent’s attempt to live an artist’s life — the struggles faced and lessons learned along his most mercurial path.

In 2010, while still an undergraduate at Duke, the Detroit native’s career exploded with the release of his debut song Cooler Than Me. The irresistible pop song topped charts worldwide, selling more than two million copies and launching him into the stratosphere almost overnight.

But fame is fleeting. Unable to immediately top his debut, Mike’s solo career soon faltered. Turning to writing, Mike spent the next several years behind the curtain churning out hit songs for everyone from Justin Bieber (‘Boyfriend’) and Maroon 5 (‘Sugar’) to Pharrell, Snoop Dogg, Nick Jonas and Avicii.

Then, in 2016, his career as a solo artist once again blossomed. A remix of his song ‘I Took A Pill In Ibiza’ unexpectedly surfaced as an international smash on the electronic dance scene, landing him a Grammy nomination for Best Song that year.

Not long after, Mike was hit with a trifecta of heartache. He weathered a break up with his girlfriend. His father passed after a bout with brain cancer. And his friend and frequent collaborator Avicii took his own life. It was a dark time for the young musician. But the life of an artist is one of persistence. No matter what, Mike continued to show up for music.

The result, and his best work to date, is the recently released album, A Real Good Kid — a mature, vulnerable and infectious pop meditation on grief, celebrity, ego, loss, art and personal growth.

Without a doubt, Mike is an incredibly talented musician. But what inspired this conversation has little to do with music and everything to do with character.

What draws me to this human is his spirit. An old soul with an expansive perspective on art, life and meaning that belies his age, Mike overflows with emotional wisdom forged from experience. And his unbridled, authentic enthusiasm for life and personal expression is as infectious as it is instructive.

This is the story of unpredictable highs. Low lows. Love and loss. What it means to move on. And finding solace while stuck in the middle.

I first saw Mike perform before an IN-Q spoken word event several years ago and ever since have appreciated him from afar. But I fell in love with him during our conversation. I’m fairly certain you will too.

For those visually inclined, you can watch our conversation on YouTube at: bit.ly/mikeposner431 or listen in on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways (and products mentioned)

• Cordyceps mushrooms:
  • Increase endurance
  • Are incredibly rich in antioxidants
• Lion’s Mane mushrooms:
  • Improve cognitive function
• Reishi mushrooms:
  • Reduces stress and helps people get more deep sleep
• Shiitaki mushrooms
  • Are high in antioxidants and help with liver detox
• Black foods (like Chaga mushrooms, coffee, and poppy seeds) are good for the heart and longevity
• Mushrooms have different benefits and should be used for different scenarios:
  • In the morning, take: Chaga or Lion’s Mane to get ready for the day
  • Afternoon: Cordyceps for a boost in stimulation
  • Evening: Turkey Tail to calm the body
• Only build a business if you’re passionate about it because it sure as hell is a lot of work

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Tero Isokauppila is the CEO and founder of Four Sigmatic, a company specialized in helping people reach optimal human performance through superfoods, functional mushrooms and adaptogenic herbs. It's an odd business. And that's why it works. Because Tero doubled down on everything he loves. This episode walks you through the health and business of mushrooms. And teaches you how someone combines interest and skill to successfully build a business.

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Arm yourself with specific knowledge. It can't be trained but it can be found by pursuing your genuine curiosity.

Don't partner with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are self-fulfilling.

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Good writing is an invaluable skill
  • It is SO important to be able to clearly express your thoughts and persuade others
• One way to improve your writing skills – read high-quality books
• Nick prefers to hire for intellectually curious people
  • How does he filter for this? – In the interview, Nick will often ask what books a candidate has recently read
• Your job as the CEO of a company is to spend time finding the asymmetric ideas that will really move the “company needle”
  • Then evaluate those ideas in terms of expected value
• “All business is storytelling. You NEED to be able to tell your story.”
• “Inspiration is for amateurs, a real artist grinds shit out every day”
• The book industry is seeing a move away from utilizing publishing companies

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Sean thinks todays guest is one of the most interesting people in the world and if you’re going to listen to one episode of What Got You There this could be it. Todays guest is Nick Kokonas.

Nick Kokonas is co-owner and co-founder of Alinea, Next, Roister, and the Aviary. He manages the marketing, business development, and strategy for current and future operations. Alinea has been 3 times named the best restaurant in North America. Next was named best new restaurant in America. and The Aviary was named best bar in America.

He is also the founder and CEO of Tock, Inc, a reservations and CRM system for restaurants with more than 2.5M diners and clients in more than 20 countries.

If that wasn’t enough he has co authored three books including The Aviary Cocktail Book which has sold $2.5 million since November. Yes he has also completely disrupted the publishing industry.

This episode is going to uncover Nick’s decision making framework, his creative process and so much more!

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Keith Rabois is General Partner at Founders Fund, a VC firm focused on supporting entrepreneurs building revolutionary technologies. Keith is known for guiding early-stage startups to become successful businesses, and his impressive resume includes executive positions at PayPal, LinkedIn and Square. After 13 years in the C-suite at high-growth companies, Keith transitioned to venture capital, joining Khosla Ventures in 2013 and moving to Founders Fund in February of this year. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School.

“There’s no path towards evolution and making something better unless we can talk about it.“

Jack Dorsey 

Imagine shouldering responsibility of one of the planet’s largest social networks. Now imagine that’s just one of your jobs, the second focused on reinventing the world’s relationship with money.

This is Jack Dorsey’s life.

The co-founder and CEO of both Twitter and Square, today’s guest is one of the most influential figures of the modern age — a man who has made an indelible impact on our cultural landscape by quite literally shaping how society communicates in the emergent digital era.

What started as a simple means to share personal status updates, Twitter has swelled into arguably the most important social media platform for breaking news, journalism, and political discourse. A powerful tool for speaking truth to power, it’s put wind in the sails of important social movements. Provided safe haven for whistle blowers. And given marginalized groups and dissidents a voice that can be heard across the globe.

But Twitter must also account for the noxious devolution of civil discourse —  a behemoth apparatus easily weaponized for motives nefarious.

Twitter is nothing if not controversial. And Jack is the face of such controversy — a polarizing figure in the crosshairs of Twitter critics across all sides of the social and political spectrum.

Recognizing the need to more thoroughly address Twitter’s role and responsibility in the growing toxicity of public conversation, Jack has spent the last month publicly addressing the platform’s missteps, challenges and aspirations on a wide variety of media platforms and podcasts that include two appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience, Sam Harris’ podcast Making Sense, and many others.

My sense is that critics were left unsatisfied with Jack’s answers to the many hard questions posed.

I understand and appreciate the criticism. Just how exactly can Twitter successfully promote healthy conversation, eliminate toxicity and fairly police bad actors across 500 million daily tweets? I don’t know the answer. But I do know that I heard an intelligent, empathetic and well intentioned man in an almost impossible situation — someone owning his failures and transparently endeavoring with great equanimity to solve these herculean problems in both good faith and real time.

In approaching this conversation, I made the choice not to retread territory explored at great length on Rogan. Instead, my interest is to better understand the human behind the curtain.

What does it actually feel like to be at the helm of one of the largest and most powerful social media platforms in the world? What is a day in the life of Jack Dorsey like? What daily self-care practices does he employ to mitigate the stress of his gargantuan responsibilities? And just how did this young man blaze such an extraordinary entrepreneurial path?

I first met Jack about two years ago during a visit to San Francisco. A fan of the podcast, he invited me up to the Square offices. Although our encounter was brief, I liked him immediately. Soft spoken, kind and curious, I left our meeting wanting to better understand what makes him tick.

Open to sharing his story on the podcast, I visited his San Francisco home on a foggy Saturday morning a few weeks ago. Unsurprisingly, his home is beautiful and well appointed. But it’s also strikingly modest given his stature. Minimal to the point of spartan, it’s devoid of material excess. No entourage. No private chef. No crazy car collection. Not even an assistant. Just Jack, barefoot, unpretentious and excited to show me his infrared sauna, his cold plunge,