The Max Effort Podcast

The Max Effort Podcast

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The Max Effort Podcast episodes

  • Going Where Your Feet May Fail

    In today’s episode— I talk about the beginning phase of what it was like losing 130lbs. Knowing full well, it was the biggest risk of my life at the time and why it was the greatest thing I’ve ever done. 

     Hope this message encourages you!

    8 min
  • Leaving No Doubt

    In today’s episode, I discuss my own experience in battling doubt— with my career, goals, and just about everything else in my life. As well as some powerful ways that helped me overcome it! 

    I hope this episode encourages you if you’re someone who has been doubting yourself or other areas of life! 

    8 min
  • Why Is Today That Day?

    A short, but straight to the point episode of asking yourself a powerful question— “Why is today that day?”

    This is an episode for anyone battling a difficult season, discouragement, or any feeling of hopelessness about an area of their life. 

    Hope it encourages you! 

    7 min
  • It’s Not Over Yet


    In todays episode, I chat about the harsh period of the “backslide”. The part of the journey where we regain the weight back, where we fall out of routine, where we struggle find the spark we once had— if that’s you, I encourage you to take a listen.  Because It’s not over yet! 

    11 min
  • Navigating Setbacks

    In today’s episode, I touch on some key points I’ve implemented for navigating setbacks I’ve faced in prior years as well a current one I’ve been dealing with the last couple weeks. 
    How asking the right questions and changing perspectives ultimately impacts the outcome. Hope this episode encourages you! 

    13 min
  • Learned By Doing, Earned By Doing

    Doing more research, being a “perfectionist”, waiting for the right time— are all forms of postponing the initial discomfort of just starting. In todays episode, I dive into some of my own personal experiences of just taking the first step and then learning along way. (A lot of it was the hard way) but had I not done that, I may have still been waiting to move in the first place. I owe everything I have to just taking the leap of faith! 

    Hope this episode sparks something in you and encourages you on your path! 

    12 min
  • What Is Really Holding You Back?

    Todays episode is about taking the internally journey. A necessary quest of the growth process, in where we learn about the ins and outs of why something might be holding us back from taking that next step. 
    Going further than just surface level reasoning and realizing that there may be something deeper that is weighing us down. Hope this episode encourages you! 

    13 min
  • The Path

    In the peak of working on a lot of projects and having multiple irons in the fire, I felt todays episode would just work better as somewhat of a “motivational speech”, if you will. To act a message to myself and to any other individual who is in the process getting after it. 


    6 min
  • The Gift Of Today

    So much of the journey of self-improvement is a mental and emotional game. 
    It’s understanding and learning more about ourselves from the inside out. And how we deal with shame, guilt, and failure ultimately determines whether or not we continually move forward better than before. This episode dives into all of that and more. As always I hope it encourages you! 

    12 min

About The Max Effort Podcast

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Hosted by Christian McGahan (Personal Trainer, Writer and Frontman of Virtue)


The idea behind this podcast is to act as an ongoing resource of encouragement for anyone embarking on…