The Bear Essentials Podcast

In this episode, I speak with British Adventure Athlete, John Horsfall. He grew up in the South of England, and early on was addicted to Travel and Adventure. Even though he tried to suppress these desires and pursue a traditional career path as a Landscape Architect in London, he soon left the confines of his office to get back in touch with his adventurous roots. He is currently the host of his own podcast, The Modern Adventurer, where he talks to other Adventurers and Explorers like himself who do incredible things around the world.

In this short episode I discuss some things that you need to do and consider in order to start or re-start your journey towards fitness and overall better health.

It’s unfortunate, but true, we live in a world that is flooded with promises of instant gratification, short cuts, quick fixes, and easy buttons, Chad Austin helps people to stop constantly starting over so they can improve their quality of life and experience long term sustainable fitness success.    

Chad has been a leader in the fitness industry since 2003 and is the owner of Priority Fitness in Overland Park, Kansas. He is also the best selling, award winning author of the book series, “Make Fitness A Priority” and is a regularly called upon fitness and wellness guest expert for local and national media. He has hosted his own talk radio show and has been featured on over 40 podcasts.

In this episode I speak with Pennsylvania Senatorial candidate and former professional MMA fighter, Sam Oropeza. Take a listen and hear what this man stands for, it is just what the city of Philadelphia needs. Get out and vote on May 17 and help Sam give the citizens of Philadelphia a better quality of life and a much brighter future for our children.

In this episode I discuss the Ben Simmons for James Harden trade with Philadelphia 76ers beat writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Keith Pompey.

In this episode I speak with the world's preeminent “snow artist”, Simon Beck. He was born and raised in England, his first career path as a civil engineer lead him to the University of Oxford. It was in the late 00’s that he began his endeavors as a snow artist, most prominently in the French Alps, after following a whim after a day of skiing. The 63-year old has crafted hundreds of snow drawings (and sand drawings) across the globe.

In this episode I speak with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, James Booth. We talk about his life in Jiu-Jitsu and also the inspiring story of his young daughter Sophia.

In this episode I speak with Corey Jung, founder of UpRight Movement where their chief intent is to help improve people’s postures, patterns, and performance of locomotion, increase resilience, and longevity. They optimize how the human body, senses, perceives, moves, rests, and how each human moves his or her body in different environments. Essentially they restore and fine-tune the nervous system, movement and recovery to optimize human performance relative to the scale and context of the person.  

UpRight Movement is at the forefront of human movement and performance training. They are pioneering how to view and train the human body, and are leaders in the field of movement skill development.

In this episode I speak with New York Times best-selling author, Steve Alten. He is best known for his MEG series and famous for his character development and amazing story-telling abilities. Steve's first novel "The Meg" was made into a major motion picture starring Jason Statham and filming for the sequel, "The Trench" is currently under way in the United Kingdom.

Sam Alvey is a UFC fighter and was gracious enough to give me some time. He is not only a very dangerous competitor, but he is truly one of the good guys in the sport of mixed martial arts.