The Small Moves Podcast

In this episode of The Small Moves Podcast, I interview George Bryant:

Best-Selling Author, Marketing Adviser, and Founder of Civilized Caveman Cooking.

Instead of discussing George’s numerous projects, I take a deep dive into George’s perspective and mindset – fleshing out the framework that has allowed for his success through thick and thin.

George describes growing up in an abusive household, nearly losing his legs while an active duty serviceman, and many other painful experiences that inevitably strengthen him every day, allowing him to impact literally millions of people.

Show highlights and timestamps:

[11:26] – What Paleo is, and how George decided to go with Paleo, versus other diets

[15:45] – How George was able to determine he had celiac disease

[22:36] – Jason & George extensively discusses Meditation, and how different methods of meditation have shaped their day-to-day lives

[36:04] – George’s story behind his PTSD, and how his service dog helps interrupt night terrors

[47:20] – Where George’s “Why” comes from, and the steps he’s taken to create it.

In this episode, George tells us about the book that exposed him to paleo for the first time, The Paleo Solution, by Robb Wolf. We discuss his own book, The Paleo Kitchen. And the author that first got him thinking about how diet could change everything else in his life, Tim Ferriss of The Four Hour Work Week, Four Hour Body, Four Hour Chef, Tools of Titans, and his newest book, Tribe of Mentors. (I’m a huge Tim Ferriss fan, sorry, needed to geek out on his books! I digress…)

George has an incredible story that everyone needs to hear and needs to think about how it applies to their own life! If you ever feel you’re lacking in motivation, remember this man’s story… and just GET AFTER IT!

Thanks for reading.  I appreciate you!

YOU GOT THIS!

Jason

Thank you, everybody for tuning in to the Small Moves Podcast!

This week, I had a great conversation with Dan Gaskell, a tennis coach from Tyler, Texas,  who was prompted into the game by a $1.00 flea market tennis racket that his mom bought him 46 years ago.

We talk about how tennis is a great game for a range of ages, all the way up to seniors. He reviews his experience as a private tennis coach, a high school the a college coach. He’s now semi-retired and focuses on his tennis podcast and trading stocks (similar to Russ Comer, subject of Episode 6 of the show).

Dan and his wife decided to sell everything and move to Costa Rica in 2015. He lived in Grecia, right in the center of the country. They lived there for over a year and had one of most amazing experiences of their lives!

I learned a lot with this show. Tennis is a sport that is foreign to me, and Dan did a great job explaining both the basics for a novice like me, as well as got into the weeds with how the scoring system works in tennis. It was really great and I hope you get something out of it too.

Dan’s show is called the Tennis Shorts Podcast. You can find it on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher.  You can find him on Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube.

Links:

-The USTA

-The USPTA

I appreciate you so much for listening to my show. Let me know what you think of the show!

Best,

Jason

Everyone has their own challenges! It's just that some people choose which challenge they want, while others take what's thrown at them!

In today's episode, Arvind Budhram talks about how his strategy of using a series of 30 day challenges to completely change his life!

(See my funny play on words in the title… “would ‘trade’ anything for this.”  haha, get it?!… I’m funny) . MOVING ON….

This episode features a good friend of mine, Russell Comer!  Russ is a full time government contractor for D.O.D., and his job description there seems to fall into the “I’ll tell you but then I’ll have to kill you” category. Being as you are reading these notes after our interview, you can assume this wasn’t the topic of conversation during our interview….

Or maybe it was, and I’m not really here… Maybe the CIA is writing this… Maybe since I scheduled this show to release a couple weeks after our conversation, I was killed a week ago, and the G-man hit squad forgot to stop the podcast from launch and you are about to hear the super secrets of our Defense Department… I’m going to keep thinking like this until I know I’m safe… But what if I never am… What if I go on and on like this… What if I keep talking in rhetorical questions until you just can’t take it anymore… Or what if… Know what, Let’s reign in that colorful A.D.D. imagination of mine.  I FULLY pledge to you, my audience, that as of this moment, I am not dead due to my conversation with Russell Comer.  (they are making me type this…….help.)

Russ is going to talk to us today about the thing he does as a side hustle outside of the confines of his government work….. stock trading!  Now, if you are just itching to click the link to his web site and see pictures of him sitting on the hood of his Bugatti, parked in front of his private jet, while “casually” holding a bag of $100 bill toilet paper, while making a point to say like 10 times, “You see all this stuff. I don’t care about any of this stuff. It’s no big deal. I just am showing you all this so you know what’s possible!”…then you are going to be highly disappointed in this interview and should stop reading/listening now.  This is not what Russ is about and not what his style of stock trading is about. And it’s absolutely not behavior or strategy that I want to encourage for listeners of my show.

We briefly discussed the concept of futures trading, which is something I’m completely ignorant about. One of my favorite podcasts, Planet Money, put out an episode lately that researched the movie Trading Places, with Eddie Murphy. This is one of my favorite movies, and I still don’t understand futures trading.  But the Planet Money episode was AMAZING! I highly recommend you give it a listen.

As an aside: We talked about the concept of placing stop orders and limit orders when you place your initial trades. Investopedia has a great explanation of what these things are. When trying to calculate what to set as your stop and limit orders for when purchasing stock, he has a super cool and very simple calculator on his web site. This calculator follows Russ’s general rule of following a 3-to-1 ratio rule when trading. Simply explained with example: Your account is worth $100,000. You are not allowed to invest more than 25% of your total account value in any one trade, so $25,000 max in any one investment, so no more than 4 active trades happening at any given time. This help keep you focused and not overwhelmed by trading dozens of stocks at a time. You then set the max upside on that trade at a 3% return on TOTAL...

Today’s guest is Dr. Pam Woodward, of the wonderful world of Chiropractic.

She is a graduate of Life University’s College of Chiropractic in Marietta, GA.  She was valedictorian of her graduating class there, earning Summa Cum Laude Honors and induction into the Pi Tau Delta Chiropractic Honor Society. She was awarded the Learning Theory and Critical Thought Core Proficiency Award by her peers. While at school, she was a tutor in biochemistry and anatomy. Dr. Woodward is a member of the International Chiropractic Pediatrics Association, which specializes in chiropractic care for pregnant women and children. She is certified in Webster Technique and is working towards her Diploma in Pediatrics through the ICPA. Dr. Woodward is also proficient in Activator, Diversified, and Sacro-Occipital techniques.

I must claim some bias here in that Dr. Pam is my and Carrie’s (see: wife) personal chiropractor, and we have been working with her for roughly a year as of the release of this episode.

We discuss a range of topics in this episode, the most important one in my opinion being that there is a large amount of what some call a placebo effect when it comes to those treated by a chiropractor.  Facts, research, history aside… because anyone that knows the history of chiropractic knows it to be decorated with some of the more colorful characters you’ll ever come to meet, here is my summed up view of placebo effect:

* New joint relief medication: Patient takes placebo pills.  Starts feeling better. But it’s placebo!!!! Who gives a damn… my knee feels better.

* Chiropractor: “They are just snake oil salesman!” “They aren’t actually doing anything to you!” “Oh, its just psychosomatic.” But my sciatic nerve hasn’t flared up in over a year since starting treatment, so… who gives a damn.

* Religious faith: “You’re delusional!” “You’re teaching your children a lie!” “GOD IS DEAD!” Meanwhile most with a religious faith are some of the most upstanding members of any community and are in a state of peace with the world and their neighbors more than the average Joe or Jane, in my own personal experience. So agree or disagree with someone’s faith-based choices, as long as they remain kind people, who gives a damn.

* Essential oils: “It’s a scent. It’s NOT medicine!” “You just like the smell of it. It’s not actually doing anything for you.”…….Meanwhile you fall asleep easier and (change the oil in question in your diffuser) you feel more energized throughout the day.  Are these effects real or just placebo?  Who gives a damn!

Got off on a tangent there… sorry. I do that. You’ll come to love me for it. Or you won’t. Who gives a damn. 😉

Dr. Pam and I, at one point in the conversation, discussed the large amount of deaths caused in the U.S. by medical mistakes. Here is a story I found from NPR that gives some background. So please read before yelling at me.

Now, Dr. Pam shares a lot of great information about the ways to effectively work with a chiropractor. One of the most important ones being how best to screen the practitioners you are considering working with. This is critical information because, being honest, working in a field that doesn’t have the blessing of the N.I.H. (National Institutes of Health) and the billions of dollars of research funding that come with it,

Today, we learn if we are fit to run or not!

Today’s guest is Cory Smith, who resides in Santa Barbara, CA.  He holds a personal best of 4:03 in the mile and is a former 2-Time NCAA Division 1 National Championships Qualifier. He is the owner and head coach of  RunYourPersonalBest, an online running coaching site dedicated to helping runners of a stripes hit their next round of goals for their running practice.

Cory is not only a decorated runner in his own right, he’s a wealth of knowledge on the topic.  He’s a contributing writer for Philadelphia Magazine’s Be Well Philly, a featured product review and reporter with Gear Institute, not to mention his own blog.  Here’s a great post he recently put up that is very “new-guy” friendly for those of us not hailing from the runner world.

Cory and I delve into the details of why people take up the sport/hobby of running. What shoes are best for beginner vs. advanced runners. People looking to set a goal of running for an event and whether that event is a traditional 5k/marathon type race or a more broad focused event like a Tough Mudder. This episode is a great compliment to last week’s interview with Monica Beeman, where we discussed the process of getting into another difficult sport, body building.

We really hit a bunch of points that I found fascinating! This is a conversation that I’ve been wanting to have for sometime, because Cory, aside from his many accolades as an athlete and coach, happens to be my wife, Carrie’s, cousin. If you have just started listening to the Small Moves Podcast, she was interview subject one on this show. You can find that show here. I hope you enjoy the show.  Below are a bunch of links to the things we talked about in the show.  Feel free to click away, but also remember to click subscribe on your podcast player of choice so that you get to hear all the other episodes that are coming out soon. Thanks again for listening.  I really appreciate you!

Best,

Jason

Links:

Spartan Race

Tough Mudder

Gear Institute

Vibram fivefinger shoes

Charm City Run

North Wales Running Company

Philadelphia Runner

And, MOST IMPORTANT: www.runyourpersonalbest.com

$100 Purchase: Final Surge, an app-based athletic training log, free for users.

 

Where to find Cory:

Email: [email protected]

Gear Institute author page

Today we interview one of my best friends, Monica Beeman.  She’s one of the resourceful people I’ve ever met in my life!

This social media and marketing genius details how she’s been able to squeeze in being a mom of three, a professional marketer, a wife, and an amateur bodybuilder!  Bodybuilding is one of the most strenuous fitness activities there is, and she was able to START doing it in her 30’s after she had kiddo #3.  AMAZING!

She details the types of systems you need in place with yourself and your family to make an achievement like that possible.  She talks about how marriages aren’t always 50/50, which is commonly quoted as being what makes marriages work.  Sometimes its 90/10, sometimes 25/75.  Things balance out for the family.

Also talks about the type of ratios needed to maintain that level of physique (weights vs. cardio vs. diet).  Also she talks about the HUGE red flags she has seen when selecting a personal trainer or coach.

Links:

Connect with Monica on LinkedIn here.

Where Monica did her first bootcamp, Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore

FitnessRX for Women Magazine

Fitness in Shape Magazine

Oxygen Magazine

Avatar Nutrition

Dr. Dominic D’Agostino

Trainers she knows and likes:

Shelby Starnes

Layne Norton

Welcome to the first episode of the Small Moves Podcast, a podcast dedicated to finding small steps to make big progress in many areas of life, and how best to implement those steps to avoid burnout. Please subscribe to the show so you don’t miss out!

This show has been a long time coming for me.  I’ve been an avid listener of podcast since the early days of podcasting, and always felt it would be a great medium for me to share information with others.  This is the first time I’m broadcasting my voice to the world, so I very nervous!  Please bare with me as I take on this journey.  It will be worth ride.

In this episode, I detail what you can expect from my show, broadly, as well as specific information regarding the shows format so you know what to expect from me now and in the future.  This show will be highlighting experts in five major areas:

* Fitness and Nutrition

* Savings and Personal Finance

* Business, Employment, and Entrepreneurship

* Friends, Family, and Relationships

* Hobbies and other Personal Interests

The planned format of the show is going to be a weekly release, every Tuesday, for the first few months.  Then twice weekly.  I will be interviewing experts in areas spanning the above five categories.  Initially, interviews will be every other week and a show where I detail strategies that I have come across that I feel you should know about.

The guests that I will be talking to will run the gamut of personal and professional backgrounds in order to get a broad view for you to consider.  Also, we may periodically touch on topics of a sensitive nature: political, social, financial, or religious issues.  I’ll make no attempt to conceal my personal opinions and I will make every effort to expose you to informed opinions that are different from my own.  Learning happens one small step at a time, and those steps often include uncomfortable conversations.  I hope you will stick around and hear out me and the guests I have on these sort of topics. Never forget that you can always learn something!

I appreciate you!

Thanks for listening.

Best,

Jason

This is an experimental format for the Small Moves Podcast, where I hop on with guest co-host, Carrie Paxton.  A brilliant, beautiful, and amazing woman… who I happen to be married to.

The entire concept of Small Moves is to show the incremental steps need to make drastic change over time in whatever area your life.  Well, I’d be a hypocrite if I didn’t showcase that strategy in my own life!  Carrie and I are constantly experimenting with things, trying to make our lives and businesses and health better.  This is the first try at doing a periodic check in episode with the two of us discussing things we’re working on and the successes and failures we’ve experienced.

We talk about my new business and website, Small Moves

We discuss her new business, launching by weeks end, Building Blocks Education

We talk about our kiddos and all the crazy stuff we are planning to do with them.

This was a fun chat for me. As it always is when Carrie and I dig in to stuff.  I hope you all enjoy it and give us some feedback about what you thought of the show.  Please subscribe to the show and leave us feedback with your thoughts on great potential guests for the show.  I’m really looking forward to the journey and hope you will come along with us!

 

I appreciate you!

In today’s episode, we talk with Dori Martin.  A specialist in Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, and owner of Optimal Health by Design.

Dori is also the host of a new podcast called Off The Medical Grid, a show that highlights cases of people who received a terminal diagnosis from doctors. These cases show that these people who went off the medical grid, which means that they began to seek out treatments for their conditions that fall outside the commonly accepted medical procedures. Its a very cool show, and I recommend you check it out if you like this interview.  Like me, Dori is new to the podcasting space so she would welcome the encouragement to keep the show going!

In this episode, Dori details how she has experienced some tragic family history related to cancer, and a few other conditions. She had two young children when she met the man would would become her husband, before he himself received a terminal cancer diagnosis. She believed in keeping your options open to treatment options outside of the traditional model, and Dori will share the astounding results that her family has seen.

I thoroughly enjoyed this episode and I think you will to!

Books referred to in this episode:

The Virgin Diet – JJ Virgin

Miracle Mindset – JJ Virgin

Radical Remission – Dr. Kelly Turner

Links from the episode:

www.optimalhealthbydesign.com

www.offthemedicalgrid.com

www.functionaldiagnosticnutrition.com

Her new Facebook community group for her podcast.

As a final point, I wanted to thank everyone for listening to the podcast, and to ask if you could please subscribe to the show.  You can subscribe through whatever podcast app you use.  It helps me know that the podcast is reaching people.  I’d really appreciate it.  Also, please leave a comment below about what you thought about the show.

I appreciate you!

Jason