Primal King Podcast

We all want bigger and better. It may be the bank account, the house, the car or just about anything. Here is the question that Derek and Jess ask in this episode...is better ACTUALLY better?

Our life is just a giant collection of decisions. If we make one decision, it could affect several other things. So often in life we don't really think about the downstream affect of what becoming better may actually mean in other areas of life. If you want the billion dollar business, will that impact your home life? If you want the six pack abs, will it impact your relationships?

There may not be a "one size fits all" answer to this question but Derek and Jess dive into the tricky topic about better not always actually being better...

How is it that we have gotten to a point that down seems up and left seems right? How is it that we almost feel like we are living in an alternate reality? In this episode, Derek breaks down exactly how we got here and what we can do to improve our lives using this exact model...

Calley Means has gained a ton of traction over the past year and there's good reason. He is someone that graduated from Stanford and Harvard business schools and then went on to be a pharmaceutical and food consultant. Like so many of us, he had an event take place that changed his entire trajectory: seeing his mother get diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer and pass away 13 days later. This led him to find his true life mission which turned out to be leading the way for alternative ways to become healthier which also led him into a fight with\ big food and big pharma.

Although many of us know that some of the so-called "experts" don't have our best in mind, Calley has been on the inside and knows why this all works.

Is it some massive conspiracy?

Is it a coordinated attack on the American people?

Is it just simply greed?

This is a must-listen episode if you want to know the TRUTH behind how our food is now a weapon and what you can do about it to take back control and live as healthy as possible!

Human beings can handle just about anything. We can struggle through loss, heartbreak, job loss, financial collapse and so much more. The one thing that we CAN'T handle over even a short period of time is chaos. It can literally make us go crazy...

What some may not realize is that we were about a quarter inch away from absolute chaos just a few short days ago. If that shot had been just a few millimeters over, we may be watching chaos unfold like none of us have ever seen. Are we out of the woods now though? Derek doesn't think so.

This episode is not meant to be "doom and gloom." Instead, it is an intense look into what we should all be focusing on in this moment in history. It is an episode that should serve as a warning and a call to action; we have to get better and be better. It's our obligation. It's our duty.

When you live your day-to-day life, you may not think that you are making any type of an impact. It's very easy to discount what you do...

In this episode Derek and Jess dive into how the peaks and valleys of life can be hard but just a few kind words can change everything. If you think that what you do doesn't matter, this is the episode that you HAVE to listen to.

Derek and Jess are celebrating their 17 year wedding anniversary! Rather than just talking about how easy it has been, they decided to get real and lay out their best and worst qualities...

Often times in business, there will be team building exercises and personality tests and many other tools to help each other communicate at the highest level. Derek had an experience with a company that actually had the upper-level management lay out what they think the others' best and worst qualities were. This can help show an outside perspective of how people perceive one another and give insight into how you show up.

While this can be very uncomfortable, it can also spark conversations that will spur growth. Derek and Jess wanted to do this very exercise in front of you all in hopes that it will not only help them in their marriage journey but also to inspire these conversations to happen in your relationship.

Communication, honesty and growth has been key to their marriage and it can also be key to yours...if you're willing to do it.

You are encouraged to take this episode's topic back to your significant other and get real. Your relationship will be better for it in the long run...

Do you have days that feel like you are on a rollercoaster and the only thing you want to do is get off? In this episode, Derek and Jess take you through "how they do it." Hint; they don't do it well despite what some people may think...

Pursuing greatness will always be much harder and take much longer than we think so how is it that you can get through all of the days that feel like the lowest of lows? You keep going. You may cry (as Jess talks about). You might threaten to sell everything and go live in a subdivision (like Derek talks about). However, you dig down deep and keep going because the breakthrough always comes after the breakdown. You'll see how the day and even weeks of hell turned into one of the best and most rewarding days that they have had...simply because they kept going.

Ian Smith became known worldwide virtually overnight because of his stance on the lockdowns just a few short years ago. While most of the country was hunkering down and waiting on their "leaders" to tell them what they could do and how they could live, Ian took a different path: he refused to be locked down.

Despite numerous fines, arrests and becoming a national villain for so many that were on board with the Covid policies, Ian made the decision to stay true to his beliefs. Some people love him. Some people hate him. Whatever your thoughts are on Ian, it's impossible to argue with his determination and backbone to stay true to what he believes.

In this episode, Derek and Ian dive deep into his story and look at how he made his way through hell and come out the other side. If you struggle with sticking to what you believe in and how to stick to your beliefs, this is a must listen episode!

What do you accept as "normal?" Why do you think it's normal if it isn't right?

After a recent trip to the Bay Area, Derek reflects on a conversation that he had that drove home the fact that sometimes, there may be no coming back.

Sometimes the only way to stop doing something is to keep it from escalating yet so often, we let it get to that point anyways. Whether it comes to crime in our cities, our southern border or our own fitness or relationships, there is danger in simply accepting bad behavior.

In this episode, Derek breaks down how this happens and how to keep it from ever escalating beyond the point of no return because by that time, it's probably too late...

Life and business isn't all rainbows and lollipops despite what we see on Instagram. Usually, especially if you are trying to accomplish big goals, there will be more problems that most feel like they can handle. What then?

Recently Derek and Jess had to make a MASSIVE change in their business in order for it to be sustainable. It wasn't an easy decision. It certainly wasn't comfortable. How did they get through it? Honesty.

This episode breaks down exactly how they faced the problem and how they proceeded to deal with it. As with anyone, they definitely don't have it all "figured out." However, this will be an episode to give you the picture on how they dealt with this big decision and how it was received by their customers and hopefully this can help you if or when you are in a similar situation.