Scott Jones started a fight promotion as a joke name between friends — "husky fat" meaning a dad bod with an attitude — and turned it into a memorial show for his training partner Nick Phillips, a world champion kickboxer who died of pancreatic cancer three months after diagnosis. That show raised money for the Pancreatic Cancer Foundation's Oklahoma chapter and felt good enough to keep going.

Four years later, Husky Phat Promotions runs kickboxing events out of Oklahoma with small gloves divisions, Glory-style clinch rules, and a 45-year-old bald male ring girl. Jones hosted the U.S. leg of the K-1 Grand Prix last year and sent a fighter to the world tournament. He also runs a roofing company that pays the bills while every dollar from the promotion goes back into it.

Jones talks about why kickboxing is the most underrated combat sport in America, the community organizations he partners with to get underprivileged kids into martial arts, and what it's like to build something when you started with a trailer park childhood and deal with depression daily. His best idea: worst case scenario is bankruptcy — kids are healthy, wife still loves you, life moves on. Take a risk.

Thanks for listening.

Husky Phat Promotions: huskyfat.comHusky Phat YouTube: youtube.com/@huskyfatpromotions1882Husky Phat Instagram: instagram.com/huskyfatpromotionsCleats for Kids: cleatsforkids.orgThe Come Up Foundation: comeupfoundation.comBig Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma: bigoklahoma.org

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Sav Hill is a mobility and kettlebell specialist in Nashville running Fight Flight Conditioning. She played music for half her life before fitness, climbed Kilimanjaro on her brother's behalf, and has been called the world's best or worst influencer — a title she's proud of.

Sav came up through injury and an eating disorder she didn't understand at the time, got educated instead of staying stuck, and rebuilt everything around joint health and functional movement. NASM corrective exercise. FRC mobility cert. Hardstyle kettlebell training under Zach Henderson. Then she found Bellfest and discovered entire other worlds of kettlebell work she didn't know existed. Now she coaches with a joint-first philosophy and treats the boring prehab work as the actual work.

We talk about what functional training actually means and whether transference or intentionality is the better definition, why kettlebells open more doors than barbells, what it looks like to train for your life instead of a number, how sitting in discomfort is the thing that actually builds you, and why the strategy is having no strategy when it comes to social media. Sav's best idea: if you go to the root cause, you don't have to keep going back for the bandaid fix.

Thanks for watching. If this one hit, subscribe and leave a comment.

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Preview

0:57 Sav Hill in Nashville

1:55 How injury led to education

4:35 Sharing what the fitness world gets wrong

6:15 Fitness is a personal journey

7:34 Injuries happen for you not to you

8:17 Nutrition myths and assumptions

10:04 Kettlebells changed everything

10:50 Zach Henderson and kettlebell mentors

12:26 Bellfest and discovering other styles

13:35 Defining functional training

14:45 Intentionality vs. transference

16:54 What do you visualize when you grind

18:14 Stay in the suck

18:56 Training for real life and Kilimanjaro

20:43 Silence on the mountain

21:06 His bucket list

22:33 Training through grief

23:13 You don't do anything alone

25:23 Prehab as a philosophy

29:41 The world normalized pain and injury

31:04 Root cause vs. bandaid fix

31:49 Walter Cannon and homeostasis

34:59 Hustle culture and the Apple Watch trap

35:44 Sit with your own thoughts

37:34 You can't be a victim or toxic positive

38:14 Social media and the coach's dilemma

42:08 I'm more than a fitness person

42:48 World's best worst influencer

46:24 Trainers vs. influencers

48:03 Making content as art

48:48 Tattoos and sisters

50:37 Meditation and building habits

53:52 Prioritize yourself to serve others

56:40 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

57:34 What is art to you

59:43 Art in the snatch

1:02:49 David Weck and intellectual confidence

1:06:26 Flow arts and expression

1:07:19 Stop asking for opinions

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Shawn Sherman thinks exercise is making you worse. Not always. But more than you'd like.Shawn played high school basketball in Pennsylvania until a kid jumped on his back during a loose ball scramble — sophomore year, done. He went to Penn State for exercise science, found a system called Muscle Activation Techniques, got 90% of his own back pain resolved, and became the first MAT practitioner in Major League Baseball, working with the Chicago Cubs. Then one client kept getting worse under the protocol. So Shawn did the opposite of everything he'd been taught. The guy called him the next day — pain gone, 2–3 inches taller, 11 strokes off his best round of golf. That accident became Square One System.Now Shawn runs workshops and online courses teaching movement professionals — rehab, fitness, performance — a neurological problem-solving framework. Over 200 joint actions, six head positions, four eye positions. Binary input: threat or safe. Find the threat, show the brain it's safe, let it reorganize. He's taken a few thousand people out of pain himself. His students have scaled that into the tens of thousands.We get into why he deliberately stopped reading industry material for three and a half years to keep his thinking uncontaminated. How he compares to systems like Go-To, Counter-Strain, and MAT. Why he thinks the rehab/performance split is an insurance artifact, not a real boundary. And his best idea — your brain is running old software from injuries that healed decades ago. Square One doesn't add new apps. It restores factory settings.Thanks for watching. New episodes when they're ready.—Square One System: https://www.square1system.com/Square One on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/square1system/Quality Values Podcast: https://www.jacobconlanshields.com/pages/podcast—0:00 Preview0:58 Intro1:47 What is Square One System3:09 Injury stories and how Shawn found this niche7:12 Muscle Activation Techniques and the split from MAT11:32 Neuroplasticity as a physical thing14:01 Long-standing compensations and how to treat them20:07 Comparing systems — Go-To, Counter-Strain31:14 Shawn's why35:17 Is Square One finished38:28 Where new ideas come from42:24 Rehab vs performance — the insurance gap49:05 Same philosophy for everyone, different points on the curve51:12 Fascia and the software/hardware line55:08 Perception vs reality1:02:39 Talk therapy, delusions, and closing the gap1:05:10 Where to find Shawn#squareonesystem #nervoussystemtraining #movementrehab #qualityvaluespodcast

Josh Dorfman wanted to be a spy. Ended up building the future instead.

Two years in 1990s China. A parking lot full of Mercedeses in a communist country. An epiphany that sat in his back pocket for seven years before he knew what to do with it. Now he grows perennial grass, presses it into building panels stronger than the OSB in most American homes, and locks carbon into walls and roofs instead of the atmosphere. Josh Dorfman is the founder of Planted and runs Super Cool, a media platform covering the companies scaling the low-carbon economy. He recently returned to Planted as CMO.

We talk about how the business works, why they built their own machines from scratch, why farmers aren't risk-averse — they're risk-saturated — and why China is the Standard Oil of the 21st century while most people aren't looking.

Good conversation. Worth your time.

Planted: plantdmaterials.com | Super Cool: getsuper.cool | Josh on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dorfmanjosh

#sustainability #carbonremoval #buildingmaterials #climatetech #podcast

Dr. Richard Amerling is a nephrologist with over 40 years of experience who watched American medicine go from high-quality care to a metrics-driven system that's lost the plot entirely. In this conversation, we trace the root causes — from the moment doctors accepted third-party payment, to the Marxist formula that dictated their billing, to the vaccine mandates that got Richard himself fired from his teaching position in Grenada.

We go deep on what quality actually means in medicine (hint: it has nothing to do with hitting benchmarks), why the doctor-patient relationship is fundamentally an act of love, the cholesterol and statin scam, homeostasis and the kidney as the body's silent regulator, and why Richard now proudly calls himself an anti-vaxxer.

This one challenges a lot of assumptions. Worth the full listen.

🔗 Dr. Amerling's Substack: https://substack.com/@richardamerlingmd437332

🔗 Gold Care Health & Wellness: https://www.goldcare.com/

CHAPTERS:

00:00 – Intro clips: "They've completely lost the plot"

00:50 – Welcome & the Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance connection

01:38 – Richard's background: 40 years in nephrology

04:20 – What quality actually means (and why you can't measure it)

05:10 – What a quality doctor-patient relationship looks like

07:40 – The root of the dysfunction: where American medicine went wrong

08:04 – Third-party payment and the beginning of the end

14:24 – Skin in the game: time, money, and the patient-doctor equation

16:12 – Confidentiality, insurance, and what's really being broken

17:44 – Are there better systems? Looking at the UK and beyond

24:51 – How Richard built his practice after leaving the system

27:50 – Gold Care Health & Wellness: what it is and how it works

28:35 – What he actually coaches: diet, medication, and getting back to basics

30:28 – The cholesterol scam and why statins are "slow motion poisons"

33:40 – Homeostasis, the kidney, and the sodium-potassium pump

37:32 – Salt restriction, balance, and what the kidney is really doing

39:26 – Vaccines: where did Richard's skepticism come from?

43:32 – "I am thoroughly anti-vax. Throw the insults — I don't care."

45:01 – RFK Jr., DOGE, and the shifting political landscape around vaccines

49:16 – Financial incentives, the childhood schedule, and the vaccine gravy train

50:23 – Is the cultural tide on vaccines actually changing?

55:36 – Is there a depopulation agenda, or is it just greed?

56:43 – The spike protein, the trials, and what pharma knew

1:01:46 – Wrapping up: care + homeostasis = healing

1:05:40 – Final synthesis and where to find Richard

On this episode of the Quality Values Podcast, I’m joined by Oliver Brossman from Prevolve Footwear — a company building custom-fit minimalist “barefoot” cleats designed from your foot scans. We dig into WHY conventional cleats can wreck your feet/knees, what “custom” actually means in performance footwear, and how Prevolve uses scanning + iteration to create wide toe-box, zero-drop, flexible cleats for sport.

If you play soccer, football, baseball/softball, or flag football — and you care about foot strength, injury risk, and performance — this one’s for you.

👇 LINKS (Guest + Prevolve)

Prevolve Footwear (Website): https://prevolvefootwear.com/

Prevolve Foot Scanning Guide: https://prevolvefootwear.com/pages/foot-scanning

Prevolve Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prevolve_/

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(Subscribe here on YouTube + drop a comment with your sport + what your feet/knees have been through.)

CHAPTERS

00:00:00 Why cleats hurt: knee surgeries → barefoot “aha” moment

00:01:18 Meet Oliver + what makes Prevolve different

00:02:04 Oliver’s origin story: soccer injuries, 3D printing, and the road to custom cleats

00:16:36 Cleat design rabbit hole: stud patterns, surfaces, and performance tradeoffs

00:32:06 Foot scanning + customization process, transition tips, injury risk, and how to order

KEY TOPICS

- Minimalist / barefoot cleats for field sports

- Wide toe box, zero-drop, and foot strength

- 3D printing + iteration in footwear design

- Stud patterns, traction, and plate stiffness vs flexibility

- Scanning your feet (Volumental) + customizing fit

- Transitioning safely + reducing injury risk

#barefoot #minimalistshoes #soccercleats #footballcleats #baseballcleats #foothealth #3dprinting #injuryprevention #performance

Andy Bryant is a podiatrist, movement thinker, and educator with **The Foot Collective**, one of the leading voices in changing how we understand feet, footwear, and human movement.In this episode, Andy walks through his evolution from *traditional podiatry* to a **movement- and nervous-system–informed approach**, shaped by his own athletic background, injury history, and years of working with people in chronic pain. We explore why the foot is not a rigid structure to be “corrected,” but a dynamic sensory organ that adapts to environment, load, and lifestyle.This conversation spans barefoot shoes, injury rehab, posture myths, footwear for athletes and kids, ultra-running, nervous system feedback, and why changing how your feet interact with the ground often leads you to question *everything else* about how you live and move.---🦶 CONNECT WITH ANDY BRYANTInstagram: *@andybryant_podiatry*---🌍 THE FOOT COLLECTIVEWebsite: [https://www.thefootcollective.com](https://www.thefootcollective.com)Instagram: [  / thefootcollective  ](  / thefootcollective  )Podcast: The Foot Collective Podcast (available on all major platforms)---⏱️ CHAPTERS00:00 – Andy’s journey into podiatry & questioning traditional foot care12:00 – The foot as sensory input: movement, variability & nervous system feedback25:00 – Injury rehab, barefoot exploration & chronic pain38:00 – Shoes, kids, athletes & changing cultural assumptions52:00 – The Foot Collective, education & the future of foot health---🎙️ QUALITY VALUES PODCASTHost: Jacob ShieldsInstagram: [  / quality_values  ](  / quality_values  )If this conversation shifted how you think about shoes, posture, or movement — share it with someone who’s dealing with foot pain, transitioning to barefoot footwear, or rethinking how the body actually works.

This is my second conversation with Kevin Oestreicher — Baltimore sports reporter, host of *Locked On Ravens*, and one of the most consistent voices covering the Ravens and Orioles.Almost exactly a year after our first conversation, Kevin returns to break down a pivotal moment for Baltimore sports: massive offseason changes for the Ravens, a shifting Orioles organization, and what all of this reveals about leadership, alignment, money, and timing in professional sports.We also zoom out into Kevin’s personal journey in sports media — how he found his lane, how he sustains an intense daily output, the difference between reactive media and long-form value conversations, and the kind of impact he’s actually trying to make through community and storytelling.This episode blends *current sports analysis* with **timeless media, career, and values-based insights**.---🎧 CONNECT WITH KEVINInstagram & X: *@koestreicher34*---🔁 PREVIOUS EPISODE WITH KEVINWatch our first conversation here:[   • #31 Kevin Oestreicher - Ravens/Baltimore S...  ](   • #31 Kevin Oestreicher - Ravens/Baltimore S...  )---⏱️ CHAPTERS00:00 – Welcome back: Kevin Oestreicher returns (Episode 2)01:03 – Ravens offseason reaction & Harbaugh’s departure03:49 – “Successful breakups” & coaching cycles in the NFL06:56 – Ideal next head coach fit for Lamar & the Ravens07:42 – Orioles outlook: young cores & competitive windows12:16 – Organizational alignment: Ravens vs Orioles16:09 – Orioles leadership, culture & feel vs analytics19:58 – Why Ravens & Orioles jobs are so attractive21:22 – Media narratives, Ravens vs Steelers expectations22:14 – Orioles spending: Pete Alonso vs Chris Davis contracts26:05 – Kevin’s path into sports media & long-term goals33:41 – Finding your lane & following what feels right39:42 – Daily sports media vs long-form value conversations46:36 – Flow state, creative energy & sustainability53:07 – Admin work, systems & avoiding burnout58:54 – Community, impact & who Kevin is really speaking to01:03:56 – Final thoughts & where to follow Kevin---📌 QUALITY VALUES PODCAST🎙️ Host: Jacob Shields📸 Instagram: [  / quality_values  ](  / quality_values  )🐦 X: [https://x.com/quality_values](https://x.com/quality_values)If you enjoyed the episode, like, subscribe, and share it with someone who cares about sports, media, and building something that actually lasts.

In this episode, Jacob Shields sits down with Tyler Cullender, microbiologist and founder of Feral Ferments, to explore how fermentation connects gut health, sustainability, and flavor. From the genetic complexity of our microbiome to the ancient roots of fermentation, this conversation dives deep into how microbes shape our food and our health.Tyler shares the science behind wild fermentation, why it’s one of the safest and oldest ways to preserve food, and how the bacteria that live on fresh produce can strengthen your immune system, improve digestion, and even influence your mood.⏱️ Chapters00:00 – Introduction: How Jacob Discovered Feral Ferments02:00 – Tyler’s Journey: From PhD in Microbiology to Pickles05:00 – The Hidden Power of the Gut Microbiome08:00 – Fermentation vs. Cooking: Making Nutrients More Bioavailable11:00 – How Fermentation Shaped Human History13:30 – Lactobacillus & The Art of Balancing Microbes17:00 – The Safety of Fermented Foods (and Why Salmonella Can’t Survive)24:00 – Common Mistakes in Homemade Fermentation27:00 – Microbes, Immunity, and Modern Diets40:00 – Sustainability: Food Waste and Energy Savings48:00 – Where to Find Feral Ferments in Nashville50:00 – Closing Thoughts🔗 Connect with Feral Ferments🌱 Instagram: @feral_ferments🌿 Website: feralferments.com🎙️ Connect with the Quality Values Podcast📩 Email: [email protected]📸 Instagram: @quality_values🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube📚 Hashtags#Fermentation #GutHealth #FeralFerments #Microbiome #QualityValuesPodcast #Nashville #FunctionalHealth #WildFermentation #NutritionScience #SustainableFood

In this episode, Jacob Shields sits down with Chad Dunn, founder of Dunn Movement Co., to explore what it really means to move well, recover intelligently, and connect physical training with emotional and neurological balance.Chad shares his experience helping athletes, martial artists, and everyday movers reconnect with their bodies — through awareness, mobility, and functional performance. They discuss the connection between injury and identity, how nervous system regulation influences recovery, and why stillness can sometimes be the most powerful form of movement.⏱️ Chapters00:00 – Intro: Chad Dunn’s Journey into Movement Coaching04:00 – The Moment Chad Rebuilt His Own Body09:30 – What People Get Wrong About “Mobility Work”15:20 – Nervous System & Emotional Regulation in Training22:10 – The Real Path to Sustainable Performance29:00 – Pain, Injury, and the Mental Game37:20 – Helping Clients Reconnect to Themselves44:00 – Finding Balance Between Rest and Drive52:10 – Closing Thoughts🔗 Connect with Chad Dunn🌐 Website: https://moveperformance.com/📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moveperformance/🎙️ Connect with the Quality Values Podcast📸 Instagram: @quality_values🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube🧩 Affiliate Links🌀 Alleviate Your Deepest Tensions – The Body Lever💧 Water-Filled Rope Flow – AquaSwing👣 VivoBarefoot – 20% Off First Orders📚 Hashtags#QualityValuesPodcast #FunctionalTraining #Mobility #MovementCulture #Neuroscience #Recovery #BodyAwareness #NervousSystem #EmotionalHealth #ChadDunn