Make your relationship better with these 11 tips for couples. See how to painlessly resolve typical relationship problems, communicate correctly & improve your love life. Relationships can be easy and awesome if you’re willing to do the work and you have the right tools. Check out the podcast and see how to turn your relationship around and make it awesome again.

Happy New Year! As it is the 3rd of January you've probably heard a lot of podcasts talking about how to make this year "the best year ever!" or "how to keep your new years resolutions". Well this isn't one of them.

This podcast gives you 39 very conventional ways to make this year epic, no resolutions required. Everything from swearing more to choosing success over perfection to the books to read to make laugh, cry and be better at life, love & business. You'll see why the Spark Planner rocks, Hydro Flask is the best/only water bottle you need and why Dollar Shave Club razors are the best in the world. You'll learn about 30-day awesome person challenges on Facebook, why dogs are so important and why finding a twenty in your jeans is the key to life.

For the complete list and links mentioned in the show check out: www.makelifeepic.com/39

In the podcast today I interview two gods of crossfit, Blake Bender & Eric DePaula, owners of Crossfit Society in Solana Beach, CA. If you’ve listened to any other of my podcasts you probably already know that I love crossfit (and not just because it’s another excuse to wear tank-tops). In fact, one of the single greatest changes in my life this past past year has been crossfit. I love it so I asked Eric and Blake to come on the show and tell you all about it.

In this episode you’ll learn about the biggest benefits of crossfit (probably not what you think). Blake & Eric also dispel some common myths of crossfit and talk about their unique approach to crossfit coaching. I’ve been going for over a year and I can honestly say I’ve never been stronger and have never gotten injured, largely due to their coaching.

Eric & Blake have been friends since they were 5 years old so interviewing them was a lot of fun. They’re genuinely good guys and they even helped me pronounce “militaristic” during the show since I forgot how to talk for a minute:)

So check it out to hear who swore first (wasn’t me for once), who Eric’s childhood sports hero was (complete surprise) and who got them both into crossfit first.

Some of the questions I asked them

Why did you start a crossfit gym?

Why do you do what you do?

What are the 3 biggest benefits of doing crossfit?

What are the unique benefits for women doing crossfit?

How are you different (better) than other crossfit gyms out there?

What are the biggest myths about crossfit?

What do you like best about running this business? What are the biggest challenges? What’s it like being in business with your best friend?

Who are your heroes and why?

In your opinion what are the 3 biggest keys to making life epic?

Show Notes

The competition we talked about in the beginning of the show was held 12/12 at the gym a week after we recorded this. A total of nine teams doing 3 different events. At the end, I was completely exhausted but stoked to have been able to finish.

I cut off Eric about 100 times because I was pretty enthused about what were talking about. He’s too nice of a guy to say anything about it so I’m apologizing here.

You know when you think of a particular friend and you just can't stop smiling? The one who inspires you and makes you feel awesome?

Heather Lindemenn is that person for me. She can't help but be inspiring and empowering even as she's swearing like a drunken sailor.

Check out my interview with her to learn more about:

Empowering yourself by coming home to your soul

How she quit high school and just went straight to college and kicked ass (still not sure how she pulled this off)

How to be comfortable in your own skin and love yourself

This was one of my most enjoyable interviews. Heather and I plan on bringing you some fun stuff together in the future as well so stay tuned.

For more about Heather, check out http://www.HeatherLindemenn.com (www.HeatherLindemenn.com)

In writing a book about creating an Epic Life I've found that there are 5 key components to making your life epic: Vision, Confidence, Balance, Relationships & Legacy. In today's podcast I go through each briefly and give you some insights on how to put these concepts into use in your own life.

In today's podcast I interview my friend, Derek Wiback about his experience running a start-up cycling company. Derek epitomizes the phase "Do what you love" and he serves as a great example of someone connecting their passion to their purpose.

Listen in to hear how to connect your passion to your life's purpose and how to make a career out of it. You'll learn how to develop a team, have a healthy business partnership and how to connect your values with your career.

Derek Wiback is one of the founders of Eliel Cycling. He lives in Encinitas, Ca with his wife and two daughters (sound familiar?). For more about his company, check out:

www.ElielCycling.com

In this podcast I interview two of my good friends, Cookie and Daveed about how they created and maintain their healthy relationship. I have always been struck by how vibrant and positive they both are and how happy they always seem in their relationship.

So I got them on the show and asked them a ton of questions about their relationship, including:

What do you love most about the other person?

How do they support you?

What advice would you give to someone in a new relationship?

What advice would you give to someone dating?

What are the 3 keys to a strong relationship?

I also had them do a rapid-fire quiz about each other that turned out to be pretty funny and insightful.

And much love to La Croix seltzer water which I drink every day and what we all drank during the recording. Love that stuff...

A big part of creating an Epic life is knowing how to spend your money. I am a firm believer in spending money on experiences and not things.

On this podcast I talk about why spending money on experiences is so important. I also talk about the Red Hot Chili Peppers, why they are my favorite band and why I'm dropping $1000 to see them this Sunday.

If you really want to crush your 20s then check out this podcast. Today I let Ryan Simcoe and Jeremy Bare (two twenty year olds) take over the show and interview me. I went through my 20s a long time ago so it's pretty interesting to answer their questions about life, career, purpose, dating/relationships, etc.

This is a completely unscripted Q&A as I didn't know any of the questions they were going to ask. Some of their questions included:

1. How do you find life's purpose and fullfilment if you don't know what career you want to pursue? 2. How do you have an awesome relationship? What mistakes did you make in your 20s? What's the most important thing to learn in college? (Hint: it has nothing to do with school).

Ryan is my brother from Boston and it was a pleasure having him and Jeremy on the show.

Check out Ahhhhnold's wisdom (really) on life and 6 rules to live by.

We take a look at each rule and apply it to life even if you're not professional bodybuilder/governor/ action movie actor. The Terminator's rules:

Trust yourself

Break some rules

Don't be afriad to fail

Ignore the naysayers

Work your ass off

Give something back

Listen in to hear how to apply these rules to your life and see why cauliflower is surprisingly like failure.

Check it out..