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  • When Feeding Your Neighbors Becomes Personal | Hannah Beall | Ep. 71

    A family can be working, paying bills, and still not know how they’re going to afford groceries.


    That is one of the realities behind the work of Central Texas Food Bank. The people who need help include military families, college students, older adults, and parents trying to keep food on the table for their children. Their circumstances may be different, but the next meal still has to come from somewhere.


    Hannah Beall understands that uncertainty from both sides.


    Growing up, her family relied on food assistance. She remembers stretching ingredients, cooking meals, and waiting for a grocery checkout line where nobody would recognize her using a Lone Star Card. Her family needed help. Being seen needing it was something she wanted to avoid.


    Today, Hannah is the Garden Manager at Central Texas Food Bank, helping grow fresh produce for people facing circumstances she remembers.


    In the chair with Tab Salsman, she opens a window into an organization whose work reaches far beyond collecting canned goods. Through its network across 21 Central Texas counties, the food bank connects neighbors with groceries, rescues food that might otherwise be discarded, helps people navigate benefits, and teaches families how to turn available ingredients into meals.


    At its on-site market, people can choose food their families will actually eat. Fresh vegetables from Hannah’s farm can be harvested that morning and taken home that day. Cooking demonstrations help make an unfamiliar ingredient feel like something worth bringing into the kitchen.


    For someone who remembers the discomfort of asking for help, those details carry weight. Having choices. Being welcomed. Leaving with food you know how to prepare.


    Hannah’s childhood gives her a personal connection to the families this work supports—and to the difference that support could have made when she was younger. Growing food to give away lets her help people who are standing where she once stood.


    The conversation also brings the work within reach: volunteering, helping distribute groceries, spending a morning on the farm, or finding a nearby food resource for someone who needs it.


    How many people around us are struggling to buy food without ever saying a word?


    Central Texas Food Bank works to reach those neighbors. Hannah helps grow what they take home, carrying a memory of what it felt like to need it herself.


    FIND HANNAH & CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK

    Hannah Beall: https://www.instagram.com/hcfhannah/

    Central Texas Food Bank Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ctxfoodbank/

    Website: https://www.centraltexasfoodbank.org/

    Find food near you: https://www.centraltexasfoodbank.org/get-help

    Volunteer: https://www.centraltexasfoodbank.org/get-involved/volunteer


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    CHAPTERS

    00:00 Hunger in Central Texas

    00:43 Meet Hannah Beall

    02:12 The food bank's mission

    07:37 Serving 21 counties

    09:06 Who needs food assistance?

    12:11 Groceries with dignity

    15:14 Food rescue

    19:44 Cooking classes

    27:36 Community funding

    29:49 Chefs and fundraising

    34:00 Learning to cook

    37:51 Growing up on food assistance

    40:53 A 10-acre organic farm

    42:36 Growing food to give away

    43:01 Kids and food

    48:50 Finding meaningful work

    50:23 How to volunteer

    52:30 Food dates and waste

    55:16 Mobile food distributions

    56:43 Fresh Harvest Farm

    59:46 A community ripple effect

    1:00:41 Kids and volunteering

    1:05:33 Access to food assistance

    1:08:49 Families falling through cracks

    1:12:28 Find Food Now

    1:14:24 The Empty Bowl Project


    The views expressed are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect those of their employers or affiliated organizations.

    1 hr 19 min
  • No Backup Plan | Bill Schultz on The Simpsons, Bobby's World, and a Life in Animation

    Bill Schultz turned down law school, got in a car with his girlfriend—now his wife—and moved to Los Angeles in 1982. There was no backup plan. He was going to make a life in entertainment, even if the route changed along the way.


    That willingness to course-correct took him from chasing work as a songwriter and screenwriter to discovering the role that fit him best: producer. A job in Capitol Records’ royalty department led to production-assistant work, and a sudden opening on a low-budget film taught him a lesson that kept paying off—sometimes the way forward is simply to say yes, then learn how to do the job.


    While Tab cuts his hair, the four-time Emmy-winning producer explains what a producer actually does, why the best ones tend to be control freaks, and how seeing every dollar and every department on a production helped him understand the entire machine.


    From there, the conversation moves through the shows and characters that shaped a generation. Bill talks about helping build Bobby’s World around Howie Mandel’s unmistakable creative voice, supporting the artists behind The Simpsons, and protecting what makes a creator’s idea feel authentic when it passes through a studio.


    His career also reaches into G.I. Joe, Transformers, Muppet Babies, Garfield & Friends, King of the Hill, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and decades of creator-driven animation.


    Bill and Tab get into persistence, creative ownership, the difference between manufacturing content and staying true to its source, and why audiences can sense when the people making something genuinely believe in it.


    This is a conversation about betting on yourself, changing direction without giving up, and building a life in animation one opportunity at a time.


    FIND BILL SCHULTZ

    IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0776202/

    Home Plate Entertainment: https://www.homeplateentertainment.com/


    FOLLOW TAB SALSMAN

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabcutshair/

    Splitting Hairs Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/splittinghairspod/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tabcutshair/podcasts


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    1 hr 13 min
  • What Is Homeopathy? PANS/PANDAS, Symptoms and Root Cause Medicine | Erin Paige

    Erin Paige, HHP, is a homeopath and host of The Remedy Revolution Podcast. Her path into homeopathy began after her young son developed a series of neurological and behavioral symptoms that eventually led to a PANDAS diagnosis.


    In this episode, Erin explains what homeopathy is, how remedies are selected, and how the practice differs from conventional and holistic medicine. We discuss individualized care, the immune system, symptom suppression, common remedies, and the history of homeopathy in the United States.


    Erin also shares the experience that changed the direction of her life. Her son began experiencing tics, personality changes, pain, episodes in which he appeared unreachable, violent rages, and an increasing unwillingness to leave home. After years of searching for answers, Erin tried homeopathy. That experience eventually led her to study the practice and begin working with families navigating PANS/PANDAS, autism, mental health challenges, and other complex conditions.


    What begins as a conversation about tiny sugar pellets becomes a larger question: What if some of the symptoms we continually try to eliminate contain useful information about what the body is trying to do?


    Whether you already use remedies such as Arnica or Oscillococcinum or have never heard of homeopathy, this conversation offers an introduction to a form of care centered on understanding the individual rather than relying on a diagnosis alone.


    CHAPTERS


    00:00 Meet Erin Paige

    03:16 What Is Homeopathy?

    06:30 How Homeopathic Remedies Work

    11:40 The Royal Family and Homeopathy

    13:30 Rockefeller, the AMA and the History of Homeopathy

    21:00 Healthcare and “Sick Care”

    24:10 Autism and Profound Autism

    28:15 The Illness That Changed Erin’s Son

    32:15 What Are PANS and PANDAS?

    38:00 When Her Son’s Symptoms Became Severe

    41:30 The Homeopathic Remedy That Changed Everything

    48:00 Nonverbal Autism and Spelling to Communicate

    53:30 How Homeopathic Remedies Are Made

    56:30 Arnica, Oscillococcinum and Common Remedies

    1:01:00 Why Symptoms Are Not Always the Enemy

    1:06:30 Why More People Are Exploring Homeopathy

    1:09:00 Chronic Conditions and Mental Health

    1:13:30 Treating the Person, Not Only the Diagnosis

    1:18:00 What a Homeopathic Appointment Looks Like

    1:22:00 Finding the Right Homeopath

    1:25:00 Homeopathy as a First Line of Defense


    FIND ERIN PAIGE


    Pre-order Erin’s book

    https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Healed-Roadmap-Parents-Patients/dp/1648212832


    The Remedy Revolution Podcast

    https://www.theremedyrevolution.com/


    Instagram

    https://www.instagram.com/remedyrevolutionpodcast/


    Heartwing Healing

    https://heartwinghealing.com/


    FIND TAB SALSMAN


    Instagram

    https://www.instagram.com/tabcutshair/


    Podcast Instagram

    https://www.instagram.com/splittinghairspod/


    YouTube

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeoP1NNmqoeqaxvrMV5SnyQ


    This episode presents Erin Paige’s personal experiences and views for informational purposes. It is not medical advice or a substitute for care from a qualified healthcare professional.

    1 hr 26 min
  • Breast Implant Illness: What Dr. Rob Whitfield Found in Explant Patients

    In 2016, a patient asked plastic surgeon Dr. Rob Whitfield to remove her breast reconstruction and let her go flat. Rob says routine testing of tissue from her surgery found an E. coli infection. After treatment, he says, her fatigue resolved. It was one case, not an answer for everyone. But it changed the questions he began asking of patients who came to him for explant surgery.


    Rob spent years reconstructing patients after cancer. Breast implants are often the most accessible option, though his training also taught him to rebuild a breast using a patient's own tissue. He does not argue that implants should simply disappear. He wants patients to understand their options and the possible trade-offs. Tab brings him questions he has heard behind the chair: Could an implant cause inflammation? Is that like organ rejection? If someone feels unwell, what can a surgeon actually see or test? Rob explains why an implant and a transplanted organ do not provoke the same response.


    Rob describes an analysis of 694 scar-tissue samples, 203 of which returned positive microbiological findings. He and Tab discuss what those results may suggest, what they cannot prove, and why patients with similar implants may have different outcomes. Tab presses him on whether common blood tests can answer every patient's question. Rob also describes his efforts to track inflammation in patients following his program, and the limits of that work without a control group.


    The conversation moves from the textured-implant recall and Rob's 2019 FDA testimony to sleep, nutrition, and the emotional weight of explant surgery. Tab shares his mother's difficult recovery and asks what informed consent should sound like when a patient is weighing reconstruction, implants, or removal. Rob explains the preparation and follow-up built into his S.H.A.R.P. program, and why the decision belongs to the patient.



    CHAPTERS

    00:00 Meet Dr. Rob Whitfield

    04:25 From cancer reconstruction to plastic surgery

    09:23 Can breast implants cause inflammation?

    13:22 Implants, autoimmunity, and organ rejection

    18:46 Why breast implants are used in reconstruction

    20:29 Implant safety and informed consent

    24:29 Why every body responds differently

    26:15 Genetics, detoxification, and environmental toxins

    29:18 What toxins are we being exposed to?

    31:03 Nutrition and preparing the body to recover

    33:38 Why sleep matters for healing

    45:30 Women and undiagnosed sleep problems

    48:00 Preparing patients before surgery

    57:25 Inside Dr. Whitfield's recovery process

    58:38 What inflammation actually looks like

    1:08:00 The patient who changed Dr. Whitfield's direction

    1:13:28 Breast implant illness and medical censorship

    1:17:14 Dr. Whitfield's FDA testimony

    1:20:37 Detoxification after explant surgery

    1:23:38 The S.H.A.R.P. Protocol


    FIND DR. ROB WHITFIELD

    Website: https://www.drrobertwhitfield.com/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robertwhitfieldmd/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@robertwhitfieldmd

    S.H.A.R.P. program: https://www.drrobertwhitfield.com/sharp

    Books: https://www.drrobertwhitfield.com/books#books

    Published tissue study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39338504/


    FIND SPLITTING HAIRS

    Splitting Hairs: https://splittinghairspodcast.com/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tabcutshair

    Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/splittinghairspod/

    Tab's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabcutshair/

    Rob's medical observations and recommendations are his own; this conversation is not personal medical advice.

    1 hr 29 min
  • Are We Raising Kids Who Can Handle the Real World? | David Scott

    What if one of the most useful things you can give a child is a bigger comfort zone? At Earth Native Wilderness School, David Scott sees what happens when kids spend a day outdoors: getting wet, building forts, learning to use tools safely, identifying trees through games, and discovering that they can handle more than they thought.


    David's route here was anything but straight. As a child, he tagged along on his father's search-and-rescue calls in Colorado. As a teenager, he helped at the scene of a mountain plane crash. He went on to serve six years in the Army Military Police Corps, including a deployment to Guantanamo Bay. Then a chance movie screening during a travel delay led him to a wilderness survival school—and eventually to founding Earth Native with his wife Mikki in his hometown of Austin.


    Tab and David talk about childhood in a world of screens and instant answers. David worries about risks parents cannot fully see yet. Instead of stopping at screen limits, he describes experiences that make children curious and capable: a rainy day they get through, a fire they learn to tend, a game that teaches them to recognize plants before they realize they're studying anything. He calls that approach “invisible school.”


    The conversation also gets practical. What does age-appropriate risk look like when knives and fire are involved? How do you teach a child to try something difficult without treating them as fragile? Where does an outdoor program fit alongside public school, private school, or homeschooling? David is clear that Earth Native supplements academic education; it does not replace it. The school offers programs from forest preschool through adult survival classes, including an intensive that ends with a five-day trip using limited gear.


    For David, the real payoff is not the survival skill itself. It is the moment someone realizes, “I can handle this.”


    CHAPTERS

    00:00 Innate survival skills in children

    00:46 Meet David and Earth Native Wilderness School

    05:50 Growing up outdoors

    09:45 Search and rescue as a kid

    15:05 Joining the Army Military Police

    16:40 Working at Guantanamo Bay

    18:12 Thirteen days on, one day off

    20:20 The movie that changed his career

    23:05 Becoming a wilderness survival instructor

    27:30 Building Earth Native Wilderness School

    35:20 Kids, social media, and screen time

    39:00 What screens may be doing to children

    44:30 Risk, parenting, and the unknown

    49:00 Getting kids back outside

    56:30 Survival skills and self-reliance

    1:02:45 Homeschooling and alternative education

    1:06:25 Where Earth Native fits into education

    1:10:40 What survival training teaches adults

    1:16:30 Why kids need challenge

    1:21:00 Why kids are drawn to fire, forts, and the wild


    FIND DAVID SCOTT

    Earth Native Wilderness School: https://www.earthnativeschool.com/

    David's bio: https://www.earthnativeschool.com/staff-bios

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/earthnativeschool/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@earthnativewildernessschool

    Bird Feathers: A Guide to North American Species: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bird-Feathers/S-David-Scott/9780811736183


    SPLITTING HAIRS WITH TAB SALSMAN

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    1 hr 23 min
  • Emmy Robbin on the Birth That Changed Her Life—and Why She Became a Doula

    Emmy Robbin says her first birth ended in a C-section and a recovery that nearly killed her. At 41, she chose a home birth for her second child. Those two experiences changed the direction of her life—and the questions she now asks about pregnancy, medical care, and who gets to make the decisions.
    
    Emmy is a doula, birth-trauma coach, educator, and author of Faithful Beginnings. While Tab cuts her hair, she makes the case for understanding what she calls physiological birth: what the body does on its own, what can change when an intervention is introduced, and why she believes a person's sense of safety matters during labor. She explains the different roles of a doula and a midwife, talks through induction, Pitocin, epidurals, C-sections, breech birth, and the decisions families may face when a home birth needs to move to a hospital.
    
    Tab meets Emmy's convictions with specific questions about how labor is measured, when an intervention helps, and who decides. He also brings his own family's experience into the room. After an induced birth, his newborn son spent 11 days in the NICU. Tab describes the moment he and his wife knew something was wrong, how they advocated for their baby, and the questions he still carries from that experience.
    
    Emmy also tells the story behind her work: feeling unheard during her first birth, choosing a different path with her second, and helping other families prepare to ask informed questions. She is an outspoken advocate for home birth, but she also describes a recent case in which a midwife recommended a hospital transfer when a baby's heart rate raised concern. That distinction—between trusting a process and knowing when to seek medical help—is worth hearing in her own words.
    
    There is a personal reason this haircut matters, too. Emmy's mother was a hairdresser and cut her hair until she died when Emmy was 25. Tab tells Emmy he hopes she feels a little of her mother in the room when she sees the finished cut.
    
    The conversation moves from birth-room decisions to Emmy's own fertility fears, her wider beliefs about children's health, and what it means to feel heard when the stakes are high. It is personal, funny, and at times fiercely argued—a close look at the experiences behind her convictions.

    CHAPTERS
    00:00 Meeting Emmy and the haircut
    05:45 From acting to birth work
    08:20 Why home birth?
    18:25 Birth trauma and feeling unheard
    25:00 Home birth, hospital birth, and transfers
    29:20 Cervical checks, Pitocin, and labor
    42:00 Birth, breastfeeding, and early health
    50:45 Birth control and fertility
    56:20 Knowing when to transfer—and Emmy's birth story
    1:06:45 Parents, children, and medical decisions
    1:16:00 Epidurals, hormones, and breech birth
    1:29:25 Doula vs. midwife
    1:37:20 Tab's son and 11 days in the NICU
    
    FIND EMMY ROBBIN
    Website: https://www.emmyrobbindoula.com/
    Book — Faithful Beginnings: https://www.emmyrobbindoula.com/book
    Podcast — Empowered Birth, Love & Life: https://empoweredbirthloveandlifepodcast.buzzsprout.com/
    Instagram, Facebook, TikTok & YouTube: @emmyrobbindoula
    
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    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@splittinghairspod
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/splittinghairspod/
    Tab's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabcutshair/
    
    What question about birth would you ask if you knew you would be taken seriously? Leave it in the comments, and subscribe for more conversations from the chair.

    Emmy's medical and health claims reflect her own views and experiences. This conversation is not medical advice or a substitute for individualized care from a qualified professional.

    1 hr 47 min
  • Andrew Wakefield: Would He Do It All Again?

    Andrew Wakefield has spent years at the center of a debate that changed the course of his life. Near the end of this haircut, Tab asks him a simple question: knowing what he knows now, would he do it all again? Wakefield's answer is immediate. Getting to that answer is the conversation.


    Tab first heard Wakefield's name from clients who believed their children had changed after routine vaccinations. He wanted to know how Wakefield himself arrived at the center of that argument. Wakefield traces his work back to 1995, when, as a gastroenterologist researching inflammatory bowel disease, he says parents came to him describing both developmental changes and gastrointestinal symptoms in their children. He explains why he investigated the bowel complaints, how the question of a possible connection to MMR entered his work, and what followed his team's 1998 paper in The Lancet.


    Tab also asks about the professional and public consequences: the allegations of research fraud, his dispute with the British Medical Journal, and the way he believes the press told his story. Wakefield shares his account of a deposition and the Texas litigation.


    Then the story takes a different turn. Wakefield recalls standing in a field in Bandera, Texas, deciding that instead of fighting the same battle through courts and journals, he would make films. He describes the Chicago family and the death of teenager Alex Spourdalakis behind his first documentary, Who Killed Alex Spourdalakis?, and explains why that experience convinced him of film's power. Tab asks about his later narrative feature Protocol 7 and why he moved from documentaries into scripted stories.


    The final part of the conversation is about the question behind Wakefield's novel The Bequest: who will care for a person with profound autism when their parents can no longer do it? He tells Tab about an encounter with a mother that made that question impossible for him to put aside. Before the haircut ends, Tab returns to the choice that changed Wakefield's life: would he make it again?


    CHAPTERS


    00:00 Why Tab wanted to meet Andrew Wakefield

    03:03 The parents who came to his clinic

    06:39 Gut symptoms and the questions he investigated

    10:55 Asking about MMR—and a warning about his career

    19:41 The 1998 Lancet paper

    29:18 The British Medical Journal dispute, in Wakefield's account

    36:11 Why he became a filmmaker

    39:26 The story behind Who Killed Alex Spourdalakis?

    45:11 Autism, genetics, and the environment

    55:26 Protocol 7 and telling the story through film

    1:00:35 Responding to the fraud allegations

    1:07:23 The Bequest: who cares for a child when the parents are gone?

    1:18:34 Would he do it again?


    FIND ANDREW WAKEFIELD


    Website: https://wakefieldmediagroup.com/

    Book — The Bequest: https://www.thebequest.co/

    Instagram: @andrewjwakefield

    X: @drandywakefield


    FIND ANDREW WAKEFIELD

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrewjwakefield/

    @drandywakefield: https://x.com/drandywakefield


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    Website: https://splittinghairspodcast.com/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@splittinghairspod

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/splittinghairspod/

    Tab's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabcutshair/


    What question would you have asked Wakefield in the chair? Leave it in the comments, and subscribe for the next conversation.


    Andrew Wakefield's views and claims are his own. This episode is not medical advice.

    1 hr 20 min
  • Can Mouth Breathing Affect Sleep, ADHD Symptoms, and Jaw Development? | Dr. Hilary Fritsch

    Can mouth breathing change how a child sleeps or how their jaw develops? Could it also play a part in symptoms that look like ADHD? Dr. Hilary Fritsch, a biological and airway dentist, believes those questions deserve attention alongside the usual conversation about braces. During her haircut, Tab asks her to explain the connections she sees, what parents might notice at home, and why straight teeth do not always tell the whole story.


    They start with the choices made long before anyone visits an orthodontist: how children eat, how their jaws develop, and what happens when the tongue does not have enough room. Hilary explains why she pays attention to nasal breathing, sleep, jaw width, and the space behind the teeth. Tab presses her on what a parent can really see, especially when a child seems fine and has never been told there is a problem. Hilary shares her own history of congestion and the questions that eventually changed how she practices dentistry.


    The conversation gets practical. Hilary walks through the four things she examines—the nose, room for the tongue, tongue function, and the airway itself—and describes the remote-care model she uses to reach families who cannot easily find an airway-focused dentist. She and Tab compare what they noticed with their own children, talk about grinding and restless sleep, and discuss why she considers the airway when families are weighing orthodontics or treatment for enlarged tonsils and adenoids. Tab also asks the question adults will have: if you missed this as a kid, is there anything you can do now? Hilary explains the expansion, aligners, and myofunctional therapy she uses in her practice.


    Near the end, Tab asks what she would say about her profession if she did not have to worry about blowback. Hilary answers without softening it. From there, Tab asks why she wants families to look at sleep when a child shows ADHD-like symptoms, what signs she notices during ordinary daily life, and why she urges families to ask questions early. You do not need a dental background to follow the discussion—Tab is learning in the chair alongside the audience.


    CHAPTERS

    00:00 The question she thinks orthodontics is missing

    00:30 Meet Dr. Hilary Fritsch

    03:16 Food, chewing, and jaw development

    07:02 When straight teeth are not the whole picture

    10:45 Hilary's own search for answers

    16:15 Finding airway-focused care, even from a distance

    21:49 The four parts of her airway evaluation

    25:19 What families might notice at home

    30:02 Tonsils, adenoids, and treatment decisions

    32:25 What options do adults have?

    34:43 Retainers and myofunctional therapy

    37:09 Her unfiltered view of orthodontics

    41:02 Sleep, attention, and why she favors early questions


    FIND DR. HILARY FRITSCH

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hilaryfritschdmd/

    Saddle Peak Dental: https://saddlepeakdental.com/


    WATCH NEXT

    Anthony Lolli on biohacking, biological dentistry, and the documentary he is making:

    https://youtu.be/A7NHV5xYjKY


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    What would you ask Dr. Fritsch if you were in the chair? Leave your question in the comments, and subscribe for the next conversation.


    Dr. Fritsch's clinical opinions and health claims are her own. This conversation is not individualized medical or dental advice.

    48 min
  • He Lost 125 Pounds, Built Biohack Yourself, and Faced a Dental Emergency | Anthony Lolli

    Anthony Lolli built a real estate business in New York with a company culture so strong that more than 100 agents tattooed its logo on their bodies. At home, he was 315 pounds, dealing with sleep apnea, and hearing from his wife and children that they wanted him around. Tab asks what it took to change a life that looked successful from the outside.


    Anthony started renting apartments at 19 and found mentors among the landlords he worked with. He built a brokerage, expanded it, and eventually sold it. He tells Tab that changing his health was harder. After a gastric sleeve, he lost weight and gained back more. So he put his next attempt on camera, knowing a documentary would make it harder to quit. He lost 125 pounds and underwent loose-skin surgery. Tab asks what that experience was actually like and why Anthony chose to share it with strangers. Anthony tells him about the men who began writing after seeing the film.


    That first documentary led Anthony and his wife to film their fitness competitions and, later, their search for answers about their children's health. Anthony says they interviewed 114 people for Biohack Yourself. Their work grew into a media company and brought them to events such as the MAHA inaugural ball. While all of that was taking off, Anthony says a dental implant led to a severe sinus infection that affected his sight and hearing and required urgent treatment. Tab stops him to ask what a biological dentist is, what happened when Anthony sought help, and why he decided to put this experience on film too.


    Tab loves documentaries, but he wants to know what happens when the credits roll. Can a viewer actually find someone who can help, or does the film leave them worried? From there, they talk about the small changes Anthony calls “swapportunities,” his next film, and what it means to keep your word to yourself and your children. Anthony calls it “generational health.” It starts with the same people who asked him to change: his family.


    CHAPTERS

    00:00 The sinus infection that changed Anthony's plans

    02:30 From a teenage real estate agent to a brokerage owner

    09:00 The company-logo tattoo story

    10:30 Reaching 315 pounds and deciding to change

    13:30 Losing 125 pounds and filming the transformation

    19:40 Why making a documentary kept him accountable

    27:30 Family health and the origins of Biohack Yourself

    35:00 Building a health media company and the MAHA ball

    41:00 A dental implant and a severe sinus infection

    42:45 What Anthony means by biological dentistry

    53:00 Making health documentaries people can act on

    1:02:40 “Swapportunities” and small daily changes

    1:09:45 The next film and another reinvention

    1:14:30 Generational health versus generational wealth


    FIND ANTHONY LOLLI

    Biohack Yourself Media: https://www.biohackyourself.com/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anthonylolli/

    Lolli Brands Entertainment: https://www.lollibrands.com/


    FIND SPLITTING HAIRS

    Website: https://splittinghairspodcast.com/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SplittingHairsPod

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/splittinghairspod/

    Tab: https://www.instagram.com/tabcutshair/


    Anthony's accounts of his health and dental treatment, and the views he expresses about medical and dental practices, are his own. This conversation is not medical advice.

    1 hr 21 min
  • What the U.S. Immigration Debate Leaves Out | Attorney Arslan Chaudhary

    Arslan Chaudhary is an immigration attorney with over 16 years of experience, working across family-based cases, work visas, and earlier in his career, asylum and deportation.

    In this episode, he breaks down what the U.S. immigration system actually looks like beyond headlines, including why the process is so complex, how policy and reality often don’t match, and what happens when the system starts working against the people trying to follow it.

    The conversation also touches on the economic side of immigration, including how entire industries rely on labor that exists in a legal gray area, and why that reality makes meaningful reform difficult.

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    1 hr 24 min

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