Welcome to another episode of The Pursuit Podcast. Join your hosts Sam Tooley and Joe Rinaldi as they have a conversation with Chris Ashenden. Chris is the founder and CEO of Athletic Greens, a company exclusively focused on wellness and health with a catalog of superfoods, vitamins, minerals, and probiotics. Chris shares his background with challenging experiences in life like loss of money and getting sick often – which was the base for him to create Athletic Greens – and why he finally decided to step away from his past and step into his future.

"The thing that I'm insanely passionate about is the problem that I solve." – Chris Ashenden

In this episode, Chris also talks about how important it is for him to work with health, wellness, and inspiring people's lives. According to Chris, he is the live proof that physical health and mental health are intertwined. You'll also learn how central it is for the overall entrepreneur and business owner to be passionate about the problem that they are trying to solve with the business itself.

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Welcome to another episode of The Pursuit Podcast. Join your hosts Sam Tooley and Joe Rinaldi as they talk with Kelsey Ramsden. Kelsey is the co-founder and CEO of MINDCURE Health whose purpose navigates around psychedelic therapy and the research and studies about this topic. Kelsey talks about the benefits that psychedelic substances have on people who have suffered traumatic experiences such as the loss of a family member, health issues or health diagnoses.

"Not that I'm chasing the finish line but the finish line is determined by the day that I die. And everything before that is just the pursuit." – Kelsey Ramsden

Kelsey also shares her journey as an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship is a brave route to take but everybody wants to run a business… until they need to run a business. Kelsey explains the importance of dealing with traumas and scars from the past in order to build your company, acknowledging that failure is important for the process.

You will also hear good insights about living life from a more grateful perspective after health issues, and how we should keep learning while we are still living. Enjoy!

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Welcome to another episode of The Pursuit Podcast! This week your hosts Sam Tooley and Joe Rinaldi have Will Thomas as a guest. Will shares a little bit of his background with fitness and exercising and the early steps of his career as a fitness coach. He also talks about balance when it comes to building a business, how to feel productive in your day without doing "work things" all the time, and how to have fun and just enjoy the process of work and fitness goals without setting aside performance and discipline.

"Through the gym I found confidence and [the concept of being] who I wanted to be, unapologetically. I want to help other people find that as well." – Will Thomas

In addition, Will talks about all the benefits that come along with fitness, such as: confidence, growth, self belief, and mental strength – besides the physical ones. A lot of these same benefits also show up when you're running a fitness coaching business. Being a coach and helping others is the same as being a leader and to become a better leader you need to have better communication skills. Oftentimes, this is the result of more listening, more understanding and less talking.

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In this episode, your host, Joe Rinaldi has a conversation with Logan Weisberg. Logan talks about his personal experiences with transitions in life and periods of uncertainty. Everyone goes through a moment where it might feel that we need to go right or left and feelings of unease somehow come to surface. We start to feel anxious, fearful, full of self doubt, and worried about the path. In these moments, according to Logan, it's really important: to know exactly what are the things we love; what activities we are passionate about; and what works for us. Figuring out what we want to do for the rest of our lives, and then just do it.

"One of the big things that I've been working on is: figuring out what it is that makes sense in my life, but that I'm also passionate about so that I can do it for a very long time." – Logan Weisberg

You will also learn Logan's secret to keep putting content out through his podcast Forever is Temporary even though he is in the early stages of it. Logan highlights that if the effort he puts into the episodes and the production and the overall content ends up helping just one random person, it will be worth it after all. He also comments on "hard things" in life, and the way we all need to keep moving forward despite the obstacles life throws at us.

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The Pursuit Podcast is back with interviews this week! Enjoy an inspiring conversation between your hosts Sam Tooley and Joe Rinaldi who are joined by guest David Swedburg. David is a fitness trainer, youth pastor and father of two who has been learning through fitness how to live a more fulfilling life. David talks about the importance of having goals, but also, how important it is to not let yourself forget to enjoy time with your children, partner, family and friends when pursuing those goals.

"In the gym you can learn all these things about discipline, you can learn about pushing yourself past your mental barriers of what you can really do." – David Swedburg

David also opens up about his personal struggles working directly with people – especially young adults. When you share your own difficulties and struggles, a door is open for people to relate to you. Vulnerability cannot be seen as weakness and being vulnerable and intense and available around people you trust is the best way to attract more trust. That's a really important thing to consider if you are in the coaching business.

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Welcome to another episode of The Pursuit Podcast! This week your hosts Sam Tooley and Joe Rinaldi debate on some very captivating personal questions asked from their social media followers. On a more entertaining note, you will hear and learn the most hidden secrets of Sam and Joe as they try to go through this Q&A until the end. Tune in to see if your question made it to the show, if not, stick around to learn more about this podcasting duo!

Check out their Instagram, give it a follow and stay on the lookout for another Q&A!

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Join your hosts, Sam Tooley and Joe Rinaldi, as they go through another Jam Session. This time the conversation flows around how to keep following your path, sharing stories and doing what you planned for yourself even when others don't seem to be relating. Creating content online – fitness content, health content, mindset content – is an expression of our own ideas and thoughts and when someone doesn't connect, it might feel personal.

"The more in line we feel with who we really are, and the more that we are actually living that each day, I think that's when we feel like everything is clicking." – Sam Tooley

They also share some of their goals for this year. Sam explains that he is opening a new gym facility away from his community and about the expectations he's encountering. Sam also dives into why it is important to venture in a new direction when you have a business! Joe, in addition to his work as a physical therapist, is planning to keep working on the podcast, on the weekly newsletter for his audience and on a new adventure – running a marathon! According to him there are many things we don't have power over but effort isn't one of them.

"Effort is one of those things that we are in complete control over." – Joe Rinaldi

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Join your host Joe Rinaldi as he interviews Mike Jeffery on a very important topic today, mental health. Mike opens up about his story in terms of dealing with mental stability, anxiety, substance abuse, and compulsive behaviors. He explains that, struggling with these mental health issues at a very young age is very confusing. Mike then shares with us which strategies he took throughout his life in order to win this battle and just keep living life in the best way he could.

"Life and growing and achieving our best selves is such an individual process that what I really want to encourage people to do in my day to day is: find something that works for you." – Mike Jeffery

As Mike explains in this episode there are five steps you can take that will help you comprehend and handle mental health in a more attainable way: awareness – listening to ourselves; strategy – learning what we can or cannot change; faith – believing in you; action – working towards getting better; and accountability – asking for help. Mike addresses each one of these today, in efforts to help you come to terms with yourself.

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There comes a time in life when we need to evaluate everything that's going on with us and everything that's somehow missing. Having the wisdom to do so and taking the first step was exactly what Tony Reyes did back when he weighed 400lbs. In this week's episode, Sam Tooley and Joe Rinaldi have a very honest conversation with Tony in which he addresses all of the barriers and obstacles that he faced in order to overcome his reality and make necessary lifelong changes.

"Your mind is either going to help keep you exactly where you are - safe, comfy - or it's going to help push you into becoming who you want to become." – Tony Reyes

Tony made the transition from obesity to running a marathon. In this episode you will hear how he was able to visualize this future for himself – even when he didn't believe he could actually do it. Envisioning the best versions of ourselves is not always an easy task: it requires reflection, being honest with ourselves, being forgiving with ourselves, but most of all, understanding what our deep core values in life are.

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In this week's episode of The Pursuit Podcast hosts Sam Tooley and Joe Rinaldi chat with Sirena Abalian. Sirena is a Mindset Mentor and Speaker whose philosophy of work is based on the concept of listening to your inner child in order to make progress in adult life. Here, Sirena talks about the importance of trusting and understanding your deep emotions and saying yes to your truth.

"I can just imagine a world where the greatest leaders that are sitting at the greatest tables, if they were operating from a place of 'soul-centered inner-childness' and not a place of ego and not a place of a different agenda, how different the world would look." – Sirena Abalian

More than that, Sirena talks about her opinion on what it means to be a coach, a mentor and a teacher. She dives into her background with acting and the parallel between this activity and fitness as both require showing up consistently. Sirena also shares her own personal story with anxiety and mental health.

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Athletic Brewing: grab some athletic brews