Theta Wave Podcast

Jeff is a hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals. He played baseball at Butler and received a master's degree from Louisiana Tech University in Kinesiology. He served as the Minor League Hitting Coordinator for the Houston Astros for 5 years before returning to the St. Louis Cardinals as a major league hitting coach. Jeff is a long time mentor and is responsible for shaping my mindset in regards to hitting, training, learning and life. We talk mental game, information consumption and lifestyle.

Brandi is a retired soccer player, two time FIFA Women's World Cup champion and two time Olympic gold-medalist. She is widely known for the 'kick heard around the world,' when she kicked the winning penalty kick in the 1999 World Cup championship game and ceremoniously ripped her jersey off of her back before she ran to celebrate with her teammates. We covered her upbringing, her philosophy now as a coach and what she hopes to pass on to the young women and men that she coaches.

JL Holdsworth is the owner of Spot Athletics in Columbus, Ohio, Co-Founder of RPR (Reflexive Performance Reset) and a World Champion Powerlifter.  He has gone through major personal changes through the use of RPR in managing his emotional awareness and credits his understanding of the nervous system with improving his outlook on life, relationships and management tactics.  His story is one of massive personal growth and overcoming a tumultuous upbringing in order to serve others.

Few 13 year olds know their life's purpose, but Vianez is the exception to the rule - in many ways.  Just a few short years ago, Vianez and her Mother and Father took a leap of faith and moved to Los Angeles from Puerto Rico to pursue Vianez's skateboarding career.  She is not only trying to be the best in female skating, but is bringing other young women along with her.  Follow her journey as she tries to qualify for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo! @vianezsk8 on Instagram

Twelve years ago, two college football players in a dorm room had an idea. Six years after that, I met James Peters & Hewitt Tomlin through using their incredible software, but have remained friends with them because of their work ethic, mission to serve & value based business tactics. Now they are tackling bigger issues than just strength training programming software by using their platform as a business to help the strength and conditioning community - WAY beyond an app for programs.

Brian Peters has played football in the NFL for 4 seasons with the Houston Texans.  -That is what he does for a living, but that's not why he's on the podcast.  His journey is one of absolute grit and transformation through failure and rejection on and off the field.  Listen as he gets vulnerable in sharing some low points of his young life that ultimately served as foundational learning experiences and led him down a path of knowledge seeking and growth later on.

First generation immigrant, the son of military parents, the grandson of holocaust escapees and a lifelong iron enthusiast, Zach Even Esh is one of the most passionate coaches I know.  I am always curious to know where undying obsession and relentless pursuit of a goal comes from.  No doubt, Zach was greatly influenced by his upbringing and lineage and it shows up in his coaching and mentality every day at Underground Strength Gym.

As a young boy, Marc took heed from several key mentors along the way to completely transform into an uber success in college and professional athletics as well as in the business world more recently. Currently, Marc is the leader at Anatomy gym in Miami, Florida.  He and the Anatomy TEAM are undoubtedly one of the most knowledge seeking, positive groups of people I have ever had the pleasure of being around.  Clearly, this stems from their leadership in Marc.

This is not about sets and reps.

Erin Cafaro Mackenzie is a 2 time Olympic Gold Medalist for the USA in women's rowing.  But that's not what this podcast is about.  She shared her struggles post Olympics with depression and identity loss after being an elite athlete.  We also hear about her journey from walk on to two time Olympic gold medalist and how she made the decision to remove herself from depression medication after battling intense bouts of depression several times post athletics.

This isn't about sets and reps. Mycal Anders (@coachderz) is the owner of Crossfit PHX, father, ex-Marine and podcaster (@feedmefuelme). After we dive into his upbringing and background, I asked Mycal to describe a very unique experience that he had recently. In 2017, he was invited to a veterans only retreat during which he experienced hallucinogens for the first time in his life. The benefits were plentiful and he shares the entire experience here. Vulnerability is the name of the game.