The godfather of online coaching Erik Ledin joins us on the show for the second time to share more about his journey through failure and adversity to building one of the most successful online coaching businesses in the world. As sweet as being successful looks like, Erik shares that it's not always as pretty on the inside as it may seem on the surface and how his faith has been so important in helping him to persevere and overcome so many challenges along the way.

We sit down with competition prep guru Sean Tierney to hear his story of becoming one of the most sought after bodybuilding and female physique sport coaches around. Sean shares the ups and downs of his journey and how to be a great coach it takes years and years of learning and working with all kinds of different people. You can't just start a social media account and give yourself the title of coach or trainer and be legitimate. You have to put in your time and earn your success every step of the way.

Coach Erik Ledin is one of the founding fathers of online training and nutrition coaching, and like the majority of successful people, he's journey to success wasn't a smooth one. Erik shares his powerful story of how he started training and coaching people online many years ago before social media even existed and how in the beginning the concept of coaching people over the computer was so weird and borderline creepy. Erik also shares how he grew his coaching business into one of the biggest on the planet!

Fitness entrepreneur Sean Kelly shares his remarkable story of the ups and downs in his life from losing everything and being flat broke at 40 years old to starting one of the most respected gyms in the city! Plus, Sean shares his experience of being a life-long lifter including the crazy time he spent training with the legend Louie Simmons at Westside Barbell, the most notorious strength gym in the world. We were fortunate to this genuine conversation with Sean about his journey from failure to success.

Special guest Lee Boyce shares his up and down journey of becoming a world renowned fitness author and trainer. Lee is a prime example of how perseverance and dedication is essential for achieving a goal that you have set out for yourself. Lee talks about his story and how even in the face of failure, rejection and uncertainty, you can still push through and become successful. All it takes is some hard work and a never quit attitude. Enjoy!

In this episode, we speak with former Dallas Cowboy Phil Costa about his journey from high school athlete to Pro NFL stardom. Phil openly and honestly shares the ups and downs of his path to the top and how even the best athletes in the world deal with self-doubt and uncertainty on a daily basis, no matter how successful other people see them as. He also talks about his new book and his mission to help other elite athletes transition from sport into the real world after their careers come to an end.

In this episode we sit down with world renowned strength coach and nutrition guru Marc St. Pierre to discuss his journey and what he has learned from doing thousands of body composition tests over the years. Marc learned his craft mentoring under the king of strength coaches, Charles Poliquin. Marc is an incredible wealth of knowledge and we pick his brain on all things nutrition including post workout nutrition, supplements, meal timing and frequency, protein intake, carb intake and more. Enjoy!

Coach Karsten Jensen joins us on the show again and we have one of our favourite conversations this year! Mindset is one of the most important factors to elite human performance and if you're not dedicating time to learning more about it and developing mindset skills you're selling yourself short. We go deep on this one, so if you are interested in the power that your mind holds you will love this episode! Check it out!

Where do we start? In this episode we had the pleasure to sit down with Canadian Athlete Legend, and Olympic Gold Medal Winner Mark McKoy. Mark openly shared his journey from a high school kid who just loved to run all the way to winning the Olympic Gold Medal on the world stage. We spoke about what it takes to achieve greatness at the highest level, the common barriers that will get in your way and a simple, honest reason why a world-class athlete might decide to use performance enhancing drugs.

Karsten holds a Masters in Exercise Physiology and is an international presenter, author and expert in program design. He has helped world class and Olympic athletes from 26 different sports for over 20 years. Many of his athletes have won Olympic medals, European Championships, and World Championships. Karsten shares his approach to training and how he created The Flexible Periodization Method - the first complete method of periodization dedicated to holistic, individualized and periodized programs.