Pure Ambition

Steven Arena aka @reallytanman, is the Founder of Ancient Crunch which makes seed oil-free snacks with real ingredients. Their first product is MASA Chips and they plan to recreate all your favorite snacks with versions that taste better and are healthier.

In this episode, Steven shares his personal journey of discovering the power of food and its impact on his health, and why he is so passionate about educating people about the importance of eating real, unprocessed foods and how by prioritizing our health, we can cultivate a thriving society.

Key Points:

Why beef tallow is superior to cooking oils The dangers of seed oils and how they are destroying your health What is saturated fat, and is it bad for us? How food can fix our country's health problems What foods are considered "real" or "fake"? Making healthy foods affordable Trade money for convenience, and prioritize healthy food 7 "health foods" that are ruining your health Processed foods make money. Why alternative milks are bad for your health How big food has monopolized the industry and the difficulties for smaller brands to thrive Fight processed food stigma: Educate, and make real food accessible. Creating routines that allow you to optimize your health and energy Health leads to a better society Steven's definition of ambition

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Buy MASA Chips

Steven's Instagram

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Yedda Stancil is the author of 'Shut Up and Sit,' as well as a Success Strategist, Motivational Speaker, and Executive Consultant. She is on a mission to make the behavior change process accessible to everybody, so we can all live as the most authentic, empowered leaders of our lives. She takes the confusion out of the personal development space and teaches you to harness the power of your ego so you can create a personalized roadmap to help you remove the blocks that are keeping you stuck and achieve your goals faster than ever before.

In this episode, we discuss her unique approach to personal development and how our thoughts and beliefs dictate the actions we take and ultimately determine the quality of our lives.

Key Points:

[00:03:51] Doing the inner work to discover our unique purpose in life. [00:08:32] Living in curiosity, discovering identity, permission to be self. [00:19:24] Write your own destiny through self-inquiry, self-awareness, and self-empowerment. [00:24:16] Wake up, take risks, and be a rebel. [00:29:36] Coming together to change culture in a positive way. [00:34:51] Use curiosity to cultivate habits of self-awareness. [00:38:54] Skills become habits that contribute to self-growth. [00:44:30] Journey to self-discovery through love and compassion. [00:48:44] Create your own path, remove barriers, and define success for yourself. [00:53:27] Level up your mind, body, and spirit [00:57:44] Explore self-love, forgive, connect, and let go. [01:05:51] Yedda's definition of ambition.

Connect with Yedda:

Facebook Business Page:

https://www.facebook.com/sitwithyedda

Facebook Personal Page:

https://www.facebook.com/yeddastancil

Instagram Business:

https://www.instagram.com/sitwithyedda/

Instagram Personal:

https://www.instagram.com/yeddastancil/

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/yeddastancil

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/@YeddaStancil

Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yeddastancil/

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Mike McKnight (A.K.A. The Low Carb Runner) is a professional Ultramarathon Runner, a Running, Strength, and Nutrition Coach, Motivational Speaker, and Podcast Host. He currently holds the record for the Triple Crown of 200s.

Key Points:

• Breakdown of Cocodona 250
• What it takes to run and win a 250-mile race
• How to adapt your body to warm climates through heat training
• Hydration mistakes runners make and how to avoid them
• Using cross-training to improve as a runner
• How to be resilient and push through discomfort during a race
• Best exercises for runners to build strength and prevent injury
• Why Mike decided to focus on 200+ mile races
• Using raw milk to get 90% of his calories in a 250-mile race
• The benefits of taking on a low-carb approach to training
• Keto vs. low-carb
• How to use carbohydrates as a tool in your training
• Nutrition strategies for short vs. long distances
• Mike's daily diet and race day fueling strategies
• Why comfort is a waste of our potential

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Mike's Website

Mike's Instagram

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Jason Loebig is the Co-Founder of Live Better Co., Nike Trainer, Nike+ Run Club Coach, & Performance Coach. Live Better Co. designs wellness experiences to connect people to a community-driven to move better, eat better, think better, and give better. He focuses on helping his clients and community take care of their mental and physical health so they can do everything else in life, better.

Key points:

• Leaving his career as a CPA to pursue one in health and wellness
• Turning a protein bar concept into an experiential health and wellness company
• How Live Better Co. came to be
• What Ikigai is and why it matters
• Optimize your health while you work in inherently stressful environments
• Creating healthy habits to perform your best in all areas of life
• Building strength and endurance has carryover into the rest of your life
• Jason's daily routines and habits that help him be the best version of himself
• Simplifying nutrition to make it work for your lifestyle and preferences
• The difference between eating for performance vs. aesthetics vs. general health
• Working in youth wellness to empower the next generation to live happy, healthy lives
• Changing the education system to make health and wellness and physical activity just as much a priority as math and science
• Benefits of guided vs. unguided meditation
• Positively change your health by monitoring what's going on in your own body and your own brain

Connect with Jason:

Jason's Instagram Live Better Retreats

For listeners, Use the code "PUREAMBITION" at checkout for a $250 discount on their upcoming Retreat!

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Kevin Curry is a fitness and foodfluencer, blogger, TV personality, chef and founder of FitMenCook, an online community that has reached millions of people worldwide to help them live healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives. His healthy and delicious recipes have been featured on the TODAY Show, Rachael Ray, Good Morning America, Forbes, Men's Health, and more. Over the past 10+ years of sharing his recipes and health and wellness journey, he has amassed an audience of over 2 million people worldwide.

Kevin has not always been the happy-go-lucky guy you see on his social media channels or national television. In this episode, he shares his battles with mental health and depression and how cooking and sharing his health and wellness journey with others has helped him combat those struggles and given him the sense of fulfillment he has been searching for since he was a kid.

Now, Kevin has become one of today's most sought-after personalities in nutrition, health, and wellness is continues to provide resources like free videos and blogs to books, his app, and meal prep service companies to make living a healthy life more accessible to democratize wellness.

Key Points:

• How our excess of resources has led to confusion about how to eat healthily
• What Kevin has learned about how food and the role it plays in our quality of life from traveling the globe
• Changing our relationship with food and the perception that certain foods are good or bad
• Learning to be creative with our diets to make healthy eating enjoyable
• Sharing recipes on Tumblr and discovering a love for creating content that helped others and made him feel fulfilled
• Overcoming the fear of judgment and sharing his journey on the internet
• Using faith to develop the courage to do what he felt he was being called to do
• 3 key things to make meal prep easy, affordable, delicious, and less intimidating
• Why eating out is beneficial and taking a break from meal prepping is actually a good thing
• How to get rid of the all-or-nothing approach we often have with health and wellness
• Turning down a job offer from Google to pursue his passion
• Letting the fear of regret drive you to begin working on the thing you've always wanted to start
• The things we learn from health and wellness are transferrable to everything we do in life
• How to make going to the grocery store a less intimidating experience
• Health and wellness is not one-size-fits-all, we have to define it for ourselves
• Democratizing wellness to make it accessible to everyone
• Kevin's definition of ambition

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Fitmencook.com

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Eli 'The Travel Guy' Facenda is a travel-loving entrepreneur with a nerd-like passion for maximizing credit card points for world-class travel experiences. He has visited 42 countries in the last 5 years and is able to leverage credit card points to get on average around $100k of luxury travel per year.

He is the founder of Freedom Travel Systems where he and his team help travel-loving business owners maximize luxury travel on points without the headaches or wasted time trying to figure it out.

I have witnessed first-hand how travel can positively impact our quality of life and help us gain new perspectives. In this episode, Eli shares how and why he fell in love with travel, why he is so passionate about helping others experience the wonders that travel provides, and how we can start leveraging credit card points to visit our dream locations for little to no cost.

Key Points:

• Gaining new perspectives on life from visiting different cultures
• The importance of "intention setting" for travel
• Starting an international tour company for youth sports teams
• How to use credit cards and points to earn free travel
• Credit mistakes to avoid
• The top 4 banks to open credit cards with
• Basic foundations to know about credit to start earning free trips and stays
• Take advantage of sign-up bonuses to get the most points for the least amount of effort
• Tips to stay fit and healthy while traveling
• Using travel to gain a new perspective and increase the quality of life
• Eli's definition of 'ambition'

Connect with Eli : @elitravelguy

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Todd Anderson is an entrepreneur and human performance coach. With over a decade of experience in health, wellness, human performance, and business, Todd has worked with some of the strongest brands in the industry. He has helped thousands of athletes achieve peak performance, including players from the NBA, NFL, MLB, top NCAA programs, and Olympians.

Sleep is the single most important thing we can do to increase our health, performance, happiness, longevity, and quality of life. It's no secret that there are tons of health benefits that come with sleep, but why is it that so many of us struggle to actually get good quality sleep and wake up feeling fresh and energized?

In today's conversation, Todd talks about how he used sleep to gain an edge while being a walk-on to the Michigan State football team, how he has helped thousands of individuals from pro athletes and Olympians down to youth athletes improve their performance through sleep, and simple, practical things we can all implement in our days to enhance the quality of sleep so that we can show up as the best versions of ourselves each and every day.

Key Points:

• Benefits of using a sleep mask to improve the quality of sleep
• Why mouth tape for sleep has gained popularity and the benefits behind it
• Starting Dream Recovery to help others optimize their sleep
• How nasal breathing improves our health and quality of life
• The importance of sleep for testosterone production
• The role and impact sleep has on our long-term health
• Attempting a 605 lb. deadlift, 405 lb. bench, and sub-4-hour marathon on the same day
• Balancing strength training with a running goal
• Carbs vs. fat as the best source of fuel for running and strength training
• Why social connections are so important for our long-term health
• Lead with value and do extraordinary things to get your seat at the table
• The importance of dialing in nutrition at a young age
• Todd's definition of ambition

Connect with Todd:

Dream Recovery

Todd's Website

Todd's Instagram

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Noah Huisman is an Author, Philosopher, Fitness Enthusiast, Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, and Startup Lawyer. His first book, This Way to the Stars: An Introduction to Philosophy takes the reader on a journey across the ages to learn from some of history's greatest thinkers and hear what they have to say about the eternal questions.

In this episode, Noah shares what he has learned from years of studying philosophy and how he has taken that and applied it to his own life and uses it as a guiding light in pursuing the best version of himself and maximizing his potential in life. What I admire most about Noah is his passion for educating and empowering others to unlock their full potential and cultivate a healthier, happy, more united world. This conversation is full of wisdom on what it means to live a good life and how we can focus our attention and energy on what is True, Good, and Beautiful.

Key Points:

• Identifying what is most important in life and prioritizing it daily
• Contentment vs. complacency
• Building your ideal day and life
• Turning away half a million dollars to go follow his entrepreneurial passions
• Learning to delegate things to elevate all areas of your life
• The importance of energy management
• How to prioritize your energy and focus on what matters most
• Burnout can actually be a good thing to help us find where our limits are
• Maximizing our potential in life by finding how we can best serve the world
• Attempting to run a sub-5-minute mile, 500 lb. squat, and a 500 lb. deadlift on the same day
• Focus on integrity and doing the work, and let that be the reward

Connect with Noah:

Instagram

Buy Noah's Book

Subscribe to Noah's Newsletter

Noah's Website

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Joey Miuccio is an Airline Pilot, Athlete, Content Creator, and Fitness enthusiast. His unique lifestyle and entertaining and inspirational content have amassed him an audience of hundreds of thousands of people. His goal is to motivate and inspire others and show people that you don't have to sacrifice your health and fitness just because you have a busy lifestyle. His Upcoming goals are completing the Leadville 100 and running sub-3 hours at the NYC marathon.

In this episode, you'll get an inside look at what life as an airline pilot is like, how Joey trains as a hybrid athlete while living a busy, non-structured lifestyle, how to make money leveraging your passion as a side hustle, how fitness is the ultimate networking tool and a means to create and foster meaningful relationships, healthy meal ideas and simple things to incorporate in your lifestyle to stay fit, lean, and healthy, and how a positive attitude and energy is the key to attracting the things and people you want into your life.

Key Points:

• Making the decision to become a runner and hybrid athlete
• Balancing running and strength training
• Staying fit while traveling as a pilot
• How to make money through fitness as a side hustle
• Creating content and overcoming the fear of judgment
• The Power of the fitness community
• Benefits that come from delayed gratification
• How to create and foster meaningful relationships
• Fitness is the ultimate networking tool
• Simple things to incorporate in your training and lifestyle to get shredded
• Healthy meal ideas
• How to stay consistent with fitness, content creation, and a healthy lifestyle
• Joey's definition of ambition

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Joey's Instagram

Deals on Joey's Partnerships

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In this solo episode, I recap the Coastal Delaware Running Festival Marathon where I attempted to run for a sub-3-hour time and qualify for the Boston Marathon.

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