In this episode, Jacob sits down with Grant Johnson and Dane Laughlin (previous interviews are #34 and #42, respectively). Grant is a self-taught developer and college dropout and Dane is a leading expert in the XR industry who has spoken at MIT (x2) and Amazon ReInvent. In this episode, we discuss Grant's Humanoid, the future of technology, what businesses' Dane and Grant would start tomorrow, and much more.

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Brady Palen is a Division one high jumper for Wichita State University. He's First Team All American, Top 10 in the NCAA, 4x All-Conference, and 3rd in Wichita State history with a 7'3.25 jump. In this episode, we talk about Brady's crazy dunks in high school, having a pet raccoon, raising cattle, ice baths, and his success with high jump.

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Sydney McKinney is a softball player at Wichita State University where she holds three records, including leading the nation in batting average last season (.522). Last summer Syd played for the Women's National Team (Team USA) in Japan for the All-Star Series. As of this season, she is leading the NCAA in batting average (.539) and just became #10 in NCAA history in hits. She is currently a Top 25 finalist for Player of the Year.

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In this episode, Jacob heads to Nashville to hang out with Todd Anderson. Todd shares his remarkable story of growing up in a small town, becoming a Walk-On for Michigan State University, and making it to the NFL. Now Todd is a human performance coach, recovery expert, angel investor, and entrepreneur. He works with professional athletes from various sports. In the past few months, Todd has gained a lot of traction on Instagram for sharing science backed, educational content pertaining to human performance and recovery.

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Logan Mize is a country music artist with over one billon streams of his music across all platforms with hits including "Better Off Gone", "Grew Apart", and "Somebody to Thank". He has opened for multiple headlining acts including: Lady Antebellum, The Band Perry, Eric Church, Dierks Bentley, Charlie Daniels Band, Blake Shelton, Hank Williams and Merle Haggard. In this episode, Logan shares some crazy stories and dives deep into what it's like being a country music artist. His new single, Bloodline, is out now and streaming on all platforms.

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In this episode, Jacob reconnects with Jimmy DeCicco-- the the Co-Founder of the #3 bottled coffee brand in the US, Super Coffee. Jimmy left his Wall Street job to launch Super Coffee. 7 years later and Jimmy has been on Shark Tank, the company has raised $150M+ from investors like: Alex Rodriguez, Aaron Rodgers, Jennifer Lopez and removed more than 10,000,000 pounds of sugar from the American diet. We also discuss Jimmy as an athlete, the 50 acre ranch in that he and Devon Lévesque bought and the awesome retreat they're creating, and doing business with the right people. 

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