What happens when a former evangelical Christian raised on a beef cattle farm becomes one of the leading voices in HRV, recovery, cannabis, longevity, and human performance?

In this episode of Breaking Normal, I sit down with Don Moxley for one of the most unexpectedly hilarious, deep, and synchronistic conversations we’ve had in a while.

We go from Don’s SEVEN knee surgeries and surviving a MRSA infection… to cutting from 220 pounds down to 177 for wrestling… to growing up around Italian cattle and going to church “for the girls.”

This conversation is all about heart sync over groupthink.

We talk about:• Native spirituality vs organized religion• Why Jesus probably wasn’t religious at all• Sacred contracts & synchronicities• HRV, stress & nervous system resilience• Cannabis, spermidine & longevity science• Why modern humans are under-recovered• Why Don prefers red light while I prefer sunlight & naked sun time• Bison testicles, tallow balm & ancestral nutrition• The strange feeling of talking to someone who somehow already feels like family

This one gets weird, heartfelt, philosophical, funny, and very human.

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What happens when two brothers—cut from the same cloth, yet living their own paths—sit down and stop taking life so darn seriously?
This one starts very Breaking Normal… Timothy refuses to do what I ask him within seconds 😂
And from there, it turns into one of the deepest, strangest, and most heartfelt conversations I’ve ever had—with my own brother.
We go from:
* Identity — why Timothy may relate more to “brother” than his name
* What Jesus may have (or may not have) identified with
* Language, labels, and the illusion of who we think we are
* Stories from our travels around the world — including the time he may have saved my life… and the time he gave me stitches but accidentally glued my butt cheeks together 😳
* How he met his now wife… while she was with her ex-husband
* The blessing/dream… her ex-husband gave him later
* Nicaragua, sickness, and a moment that felt like our mom made a deal with God
* Prayer… live on the podcast
* god, Kenya, Carl Jung, synchronicity, dreams, and moments you can barely explain—but can never forget
* Trusted house sitting as a real-life treasure hunt
* His raw, honest take on Tribe Vitamins
* And a powerful moment where he speaks directly to his son—imagining him at 15, about to get his driver’s license, listening to this episode… and what he’d want him to know
And somehow… it all leads to a moment where I ask him for one final question—
and instead, he ends in tears… expressing pure gratitude.
No script. No filter.
Just two brothers exploring life, God, memory, and meaning in real time.
If you’ve ever wondered how deep a conversation can go with someone who shares your blood… this is it.
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This is back-to-back with the episode I just recorded with my dad…
Something powerful is happening in these family conversations.
Expect nothing. Experience everything.

This one goes all the way in.

From my grandparents surviving the Holocaust…

to hunting diamonds in Russia…

to my dad’s evolution from drug user to legal drug dealer…

We unpack the real story behind where I come from—

the chaos, the lessons, and the moments that shaped everything.

From flipping my mom’s car at 16…

to getting caught going 100+ with a learner’s permit…

to underground fight clubs…

to a college story that will absolutely make you laugh.

We talk family, legacy, Boulder, my siblings, his grandchildren,

and the people who’ve inspired us most along the way.

This might be the most Breaking Normal episode yet.

Honored to sit down with one of the coolest humans I know—my dad.

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What actually makes a coffee shop feel different?

In this episode of Breaking Normal, I sit down with Greg Lefcourt — co-owner of Beleza Coffee in Boulder — to explore what’s really happening beneath the surface of coffee culture.

Greg has spent decades at the highest level of specialty coffee… competing, judging, and helping shape the scene. But what he’s building with Beleza goes beyond coffee — it’s about connection, presence, and creating a space people actually feel.

We get into:

- Why he killed the Wi-Fi (and what that revealed about people)

- What coffee taught him about human nature

- The fine line between mastery, ego, and art

- How drinks like the Persian Love Latte (with saffron, rose, pistachio) can shift your state

- What makes a great barista vs. just a skilled one

- His favorite coffee shops around the world

- What actually creates a magnetic community vibe

Questions we explored:

- What has coffee taught you about humans that has nothing to do with coffee?

- Why did you remove Wi-Fi when most cafés are doubling down on it?

- What made you step away from the “high-level coffee world” to build something more human?

- When does mastery become ego… and when does it become art?

- What kind of ritual are people craving right now without realizing it?

- Can a drink actually shift someone’s emotional state?

- What’s a place or experience that changed how you see what a café can be?

- What makes a truly great coffee shop?

- What separates a great barista from everyone else?

- What do people reveal over coffee that they don’t say anywhere else?

- What would the perfect café for human connection look like?

Connect with Greg & Beleza:

https://www.instagram.com/belezacoffeebar/

If you’re in Boulder, this is one of those spots you don’t just visit — you feel it.

Coffee might be the excuse… But connection is the real product.

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Is your training program fueled by ego or biology?

Daniel Eisenman sits down with local legend and Olympic alpine skier Ryder Sarchett to deconstruct the "weird" habits that separate world-class athletes from the pack. After getting cut from the US Ski Team at 19, Ryder "burned the boats," left college, and clawed his way back to the Olympic stage by rejecting traditional endurance protocols in favor of neurological flow.

In this episode, we dive into:

• How raw milk became Ryder's secret weapon for eliminating back pain and inflammation.
• The "Anti-Push" parenting method that fosters genuine obsession over burnout.
• Why tapering and nervous system regulation are the keys to 80mph precision on the ice.
• The College Dropout mentality: Choosing real-world mastery over a $100k debt.

This is a deep dive into the shift from traditional "talk therapy" styles of coaching to neurological and ancestral solutions for peak performance.

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What if sustainability isn’t about optics—but about doing the hard, unglamorous work no one wants to deal with? In this episode of Breaking Normal, host Daniel Eisenman sits down with Kathey Pear, lifelong entrepreneur, sales strategist, and sustainability realist, to unpack why “green” has become more marketing than practice. From office furniture landfills to the myth of retirement, Kathey shares decades of lived experience navigating business with integrity. This episode is for founders, operators, and thinkers who want to build something useful, honest, and human—and understand why that matters now more than ever.

Main Topics Covered

• Why “retirement” is a broken concept for people who love their work

• Sales as service, triage, and truth—not manipulation

• The hidden environmental cost of office furniture and business moves

• Why 90% of office furniture ends up in landfills

• Greenwashing vs. real sustainability practices

• The real constraints: storage, real estate, and economics

• Why scaling too fast destroys otherwise good businesses

• Potlatch economics and redefining wealth, value, and success

Key Takeaways

• Sustainability fails when it’s cheaper to throw things away than deal with them

• Sales done well is about helping people make better decisions

• Going slow allows you to survive your mistakes—and learn from them

• Real impact often starts long before profit or recognition

• Wealth isn’t what you accumulate—it’s what you circulate

Connect with the Guest: Kathey Pear

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What if The Matrix wasn’t fiction—but a documentary?

In this real-deal Breaking Normal conversation, I sit down with Clark, the founder of Birdlimb, and we go far beyond the red pill vs. blue pill narrative.

We dive into:

• Why The Matrix feels more like a documentary than a movie

• Raising Neos, not NPCs (including Clark’s youngest son, Neo)

• Healing outside the modern medical model through meditation, awareness, and self-trust

• Pulling kids out of the medical matrix and becoming your own doctor

• How a month of working together—and Tribe Vitamins—supported that shift

• Tallow, ritual, and commitment (100 Sundays at 1 PM)

• Remembering the future and the possibility of a Boulder Creek retreat

• Bringing outside nature inside our homes through Birdlimb

• Laughter, presence, goofy essence, and bird songs to close it out

This is a conversation about sovereignty, intuition, family, and seeing opportunity where others see limitation.

If you’re ready for something beyond red or blue—

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Recorded in the spirit of curiosity, freedom, and remembering what we already know.

In this deeply inspiring episode of the Breaking Normal Podcast, I sit down with Timothy O’Donnell—world-class triathlete, coach, speaker, and father of three—who has been living and training in Boulder, Colorado for the past 17 years.

At the pinnacle of his professional fitness career, Tim suffered a heart attack during a race in Miami—yet still finished the race, missing the Top 10 by just one place. Later that night, he found himself in the hospital, a moment that would permanently change his relationship with training, recovery, and life itself.

Before undergoing a life-saving stent procedure, Tim made a pivotal phone call to previous Breaking Normal guest David Tusek. With the support of cutting-edge diagnostics, elite cardiology care, and deep self-reflection, Tim was eventually cleared to return to training—but with an entirely new philosophy.

This conversation explores:
• What it means to “fitness for life” instead of chasing peak performance at all costs
• How a heart attack reshaped Tim’s identity as an athlete, husband, and father
• The quiet cost of being world-class—and the freedom found in doing less, better
• Longevity, recovery, fatherhood, and redefining what winning really means

We also touch on the powerful role Tim’s wife plays in the endurance racing world, the importance of community, and how elite athletes evolve when performance is no longer the only metric that matters.

Before we wrapped, I shared what many of our top performing athletes personally love using from Tribe Vitamins—including elk velvet antler, bison testicles, and tallow balm to support recovery, resilience, and skin health in harsh conditions.

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What if success wasn’t about climbing higher—but about creating community?

In this truly Breaking Normal episode, recorded inside the house & home of Matt Winkley, who retired at age 39, is now a stay-at-home dad, and gives back deeply to his community… from a podcast studio inside his own home.

Matt lives with his dream partner, Julie, and their 11-month-old son Adam—a highly meditated, not medicated, little human who just took his first steps. That moment becomes a mirror for the episode itself.

Because before Matt ever found peace, he took a much scarier first step.

He escaped the small town he grew up in with a one-way ticket to San Diego, full of stoke—but no clear plan for how to pay for the life he felt called to live. That uncertainty sparked an obsession with entrepreneurship, which eventually led to burnout, illness, and a complete unraveling.

From that breakdown, something unexpected emerged.

Matt found healing through Sufi mysticism, devotion, ann his dharmic diligence—aligning his work with service. That path led him to building and scaling a business working with autistic children, which ultimately allowed him to retire early, transition into real estate, and design a life around freedom, family, and peace.

In this conversation, we go deep into:

• Home vs. house—and why it matters

• Meditation vs. medication (especially with children)

• Vision planning that actually creates freedom

• Designing the ideal day vs chasing distant goals

• Moving from hardworking middle class to financially free

• What peace actually feels like—starting today

• Meditating with your children

• Sufism: the whirling, the path, and the practice Matt follows

• Burnout as initiation, not failure

• What it really means to be unemployable

This episode is full of synchronicities, lived wisdom, and embodied truth. Matt doesn’t just talk about Breaking Normal—he lives it.

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👉 Instagram: Matt.Winkley

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I walked in thinking I was about to interview a chef from Highland City Club…

Turns out, I was sitting down with Stewart Ward, a Boulder realtor who grew up in Miami in the 80s and has carved out his own path in the world of Colorado real estate.

In this episode we explore:

• The number of realtors in Colorado vs. Boulder

• How someone like me could make money in Boulder real estate without being a realtor

• Why having your own real estate license can be useful for flipping homes, the way Stewart has done in Oregon and the way my brother does in Georgia

• Affordable housing in Boulder, land leases, rentals, and luxury homes all existing within blocks of one another

• What his home recommendation would be for someone on a budget vs. someone with no budget at all

• The “glass castles” and other iconic homes in Boulder and around the world

• The types of home features I gravitate toward — gas-burning stoves, mold-free hardwood floors, clean materials, functional layouts

• Wood-burning fireplace restrictions in new Boulder homes — and how people try to work around them

• How private memberships and other creative structures may play into future housing or property loopholes

• His take on the best deal he currently has listed in Boulder

• The new hotel developments shaping the next chapter of the city

We also touched on lifestyle adjustments for newcomers to Colorado’s climate and why Stewart was curious about Tribe Vitamins products for clients adapting to the dryness.

Sometimes you think you’re interviewing a chef…

Sometimes you end up learning how Boulder real estate really works.

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