The Unbroken Podcast

Sorry for the sound quality of this episode. I know it was bad.

I was able to drive up to Columbia, Missouri and meet with two amazing athletes Dylan Kelly and Patrick "Paddy" O'Hara.

Sorry for the sound quality of this episode.

I know it was bad. I had the privilege to drive to Peoria, IL to meet Mekenzie Riley at CrossFit 309 and hangout and talk fitness. I met Mekenzie a year ago at a competition hosted in Ozark, Missouri called Ozark Mountain Shredfest, and she was awesome. She added me as a friend on Facebook and offered to help me with my quest to lose weight. We have stayed friends ever since.

Mekenzie is a lifestyle coach and registered dietitian. She has her own business as well, Real Results Nutrition Consulting. Not only does she talk the talk, but she walks the walk. She is an amazing CrossFit athlete and competes with the best. She placed 3rd in her district in the last CrossFit Games Open.

We talk about how she started CrossFit and how it helped her change the way she approached her own nutrition. Now, she wants to share that knowledge with others. Her team has some big plans for this next Games season. We talk training and what it is like to work together as a team.

Episode was first released Dec 2015. Since the recording, she has been back to the games two times. Once again with a team and then 2017 as an individual.

You can tell Jordan is really passionate about what he does. He loves helping others find CrossFit and fitness. Even though he competes at a very high level, he takes the time to train athletes at all levels, and it shows by the growth of his gym.

If it was the end of the world or the zombies were here, Sherdian is the person you would want with you. He knows a little about everything and always has a good story to go with it. He has 29 professional kickboxing and boxing fights under his belt.

Sheridan is no stranger to hard work.

Running is mental, and all runners are crazy. Today's podcast is with James Pettit. We talk about how important endurance is for a person's fitness. James has run every distance from 100 meters to a marathon. His day job is practicing law at his family law firm, but his hobby is helping other reach their fitness goals.

We discuss the mindset of the endurance workout, his first time his dad took him out on a run and much more!

On today's episode of the Unbroken Podcast we talk to Ashley Humphries. On Facebook before we even started my podcast, I made a post about my own fight with my eating disorder of binge eating. She reached out to me afterwords in a private message and thanked me for sharing my story and then shared part of hers with me. I knew we had to have her on the Podcast.

On this episode of the Unbroken Podcast, I talk to Dylan Harris. Dylan has been my nutrition coach for 8 months, and I have lost a lot of weight working with him. We discuss working with a trainer for your fitness goals. We talk about how Dylan went from playing college baseball to bodybuilding and now CrossFit.

We also talk about how sick he got last year and discuss what kind of toll it took on his body, going through surgery and then recovery.

This is the first podcast I have ever recorded, and Macy Mitchell was awesome enough to let me figure out how to even do this thing with him. I felt really nervous at the start, but now I feel like I settled into the interview after saying "like" a thousand times.

Macy is a very busy person, but you can tell his family is always number one for him.

First ever episode of the Unbroken Podcast. In this episode we talk with Raymond and Robert Delgado. They were participants on Season 5 of Extreme Weight Loss with Chris and Heidi Powell. Over the year they were on the show, they lost 342 pounds combined.

We talk about the audition process and how it almost didn't even happen. Tons of motivational tips from these guys.