Unsatisfied Podcast

Because your life should be more than just a yearly tax return that you “have to” do and greatly dread. Instead, by taking this quarterly review approach, you turn your life into something you actually lead—adjusting, refining, and building with intention—so you’re not just accounting for where you’ve been, but actively creating where you’re going.

The Quarterly Review Approach to goals specifically in health and wellness allows you to stop writing-off regrets, refund your time, claim your life back, and budget for a better tomorrow.

It's not about making more income, it's about paying less tax.

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Stop dreaming of the perfect day. Instead, build a system for a 5 Star Day every single day.

Math so simple, you don't even need an excel:

(5S+3P)/24H=⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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1. Four Sigmatic: https://us.foursigmatic.com/MORGAN83811

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Science says young blood can rejuvenate old mice. But we don’t need a transfusion to experience that. When the young bring energy and the old bring wisdom, something incredible happens — we don’t just extend life… we deepen it.

Resources: Innovation in Action. (2021, October 31). Scientist Gave Old Mice Blood Component from Young Mice and They Lived Longer and Looked Younger [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBVpQTRrdnIHuberman Lab. (2026, February 23). Restore youthfulness & vitality to the aging brain & body | Dr. Tony Wyss-Coray. Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3QTRmGD5zP6Zr0hrtkFEV4?si=In_S3ZyARX6HthgszG5jggTED. (2015, September 11). How young blood might help reverse aging. Yes, really | Tony Wyss-Coray [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsECS5qsGLsGoldman, B. (2025, July 1). Blood from marathoner mice boosts brain function in their couch-potato counterparts. News Center. https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/12/mouse-blood-exercise.htmlBrands I love: Four Sigmatic: https://us.foursigmatic.com/MORGAN83811 Holstrength: https://www.holstrength.com CODE: MorganPBuiltSupps: https://brickhousebuiltsupplements.com/ CODE: MoPete

Health isn’t about looking impressive.

It’s about being useful for the life you want to live.

And the beautiful thing is… that life is built on really simple things.

Specifically 5 Simple Tips I go over:

Walk.Eat real food.Sleep well.Lift heavy things.And don’t put stuff in your body that works against all of it.

SHOW NOTESLINKS:

1. Four Sigmatic: https://us.foursigmatic.com/MORGAN83811

2. Holstrength: https://www.holstrength.com CODE: MorganP

3. BuiltSupps: https://brickhousebuiltsupplements.com/ CODE: MoPete

Resources:

Alcohol Studies: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/08/moderate-alcohol-consumption-drinking-health-benefits-impacts-research

Women's Strength Training: Isenmann, E., Kaluza, D., Havers, T., Elbeshausen, A., Geisler, S., Hofmann, K., Flenker, U., Diel, P., & Gavanda, S. (2023). Resistance training alters body composition in middle-aged women depending on menopause - A 20-week control trial. BMC Women S Health, 23(1), 526. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-023-02671-y

We’ve outsourced stimulation to algorithms and settled for predictable, low-risk conversations in real life. The result? Endless content consumption and a growing deficit of meaningful connection.

This episode examines the psychology of reward, attention, and novelty — and how we can apply it to transform the way we talk to each other. Learn how to replace empty small talk with conversations that create energy, intimacy, and real engagement.

Intimacy can’t be mass-produced. But it can be rediscovered.

Show Notes:

MSc, O. G. (2025, June 30). Brain reward system. Simply Psychology. https://www.simplypsychology.org/brain-reward-system.html

Andrew Huberman. (2021, September 27). Controlling your dopamine for motivation, focus & satisfaction [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmOF0crdyRU

https://medium.com/@theceosmind/dopamine-formula-make-people-addicted-to-talking-to-you-5ceae1aafd5c

TEDx Talks. (2017, June 27). You are contagious | Vanessa Van Edwards | TEDxLondon [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cef35Fk7YD8

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Four Sigmatic: https://us.foursigmatic.com/MORGAN83811

Holstrength: https://www.holstrength.com CODE: MorganP

BuiltSupps: https://brickhousebuiltsupplements.com/

CODE: MoPete

Dreaming is not passive. It is active preparation.

This episode breaks down the neuroscience of REM sleep and why the brain treats dreams as a training ground for memory, emotion, creativity, and survival. We connect sleep science to strength training principles — showing how your mind uses the night for progressive overload, recovery, and threshold work.

If you’ve ever woken from a nightmare, solved a problem in your sleep, or felt mentally sharper after rest, this is why.

Your brain is training — whether you realize it or not.

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Resources:

Be Smart. (2021, December 22). The strange science of why we dream [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK4yjmApcHo

Huberman Lab. (2021, February 1).Understand and use dreams to learn and forget. Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/episode/61Lak7dzmChM8sc5mkr0yZ?si=5H3Uyix-Sd2BgcD-8C9qOQ

Huberman Lab. (2024, May 8). GUEST SERIES | Dr. Matt Walker: The Science of Dreams, Nightmares & Lucid Dreaming. Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4FfhJuilpChK7TWdlRt9wO?si=Bjq9HnWhSn-tmsfOlrtNcQ

Neuroscientifically Challenged. (2025, October 11). Sleep - Deeper Dive [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTUuXkYnXcQ

Gym Crush — Falling for Your Future Self

This Valentine’s week, the crush isn’t on someone else — it’s on the version of you staring back in the mirror after the pump. In this episode, we unpack the science and psychology of “the pump,” why it feels like a glimpse into your potential, and how to turn that moment of attraction into permanent change using a Ulysses contract — a decision that binds you to your better future when motivation fades.

Because the pump is just the preview. Discipline is the relationship.

If you’ve ever seen who you could become and felt both inspired and unsettled by it, this episode is for you. Stay hungry. Stay unsatisfied.

RESOURCES: 

1 Up Nutrition Athletes. (n.d.). The pump and why it’s important. 1 up Nutrition. https://1upnutrition.com/blogs/training/the-pump-and-why-its-important?srsltid=AfmBOor8XpDLaeM2VwnTlK1_y0VY7axdELXAtZagOWvL6LL_ItkGmFlO

Bahn, M. (2025, January 11). The true history behind Valentine’s Day and why we celebrate. The Pioneer Woman. 

​​Renaissance Periodization. (2022, May 12). Detect and perfect the muscle pump [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIZiZjhuLCE

Robertson, T. (2026, January 30). A brief history of Valentine’s Day—and how it became romantic. Country Living.

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1. Four Sigmatic: https://us.foursigmatic.com/MORGAN83811

2. Holstrength: https://www.holstrength.com

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3. BuiltSupps: https://brickhousebuiltsupplements.com/ CODE: MoPete

90% of podcasts don't make it to 12 episodes... congrats Unsatisfied listeners - we made it into the top 10%!

In this episode, we walk through Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life—not as self-help advice, but as a biological and philosophical framework for standing in chaos.

From posture and neurochemistry, to truth-telling, risk, discipline, and meaning, this conversation explores why confidence isn’t willpower, why comfort is failing us, and why being unsatisfied might actually be the point.

We talk about:

• Why posture, breath, and body position shape confidence and stress

• How meaning stabilizes the nervous system when pleasure fails

• The danger of comfort, overprotection, and avoiding responsibility

• Why truth isn’t moral—it’s physiological

• How small moments of presence can make unbearable seasons survivable

This isn’t about being happy.
It’s about becoming capable.

Starve the lies.Build your body.Fortify your mind.Stay hungry. Stay unsatisfied.

Four Sigmatic: https://us.foursigmatic.com/MORGAN83811

Holstrength: https://www.holstrength.com/ CODE: MorganP

BuiltSupps: https://brickhousebuiltsupplements.com/

CODE: MoPete

What do you do when your life is moving—but not going anywhere?

In this episode of Unsatisfied, I talk about the treadmill—not as a workout, but as a metaphor for life. The treadmill is consistent, reliable, and safe. It keeps us disciplined. It keeps us busy. It keeps us showing up.

And sometimes, that’s exactly what a season requires.

But over time, reliability can replace discernment. Competition can replace calling. Control can replace surrender. You can work harder every day and still end up exactly where you started.

Inspired in part by Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, this episode explores when the treadmill is a gift—and when it quietly becomes a trap.

Because effort on a treadmill leaves you in the exact same place where you started.

And unsatisfaction might not be a flaw—it might be the signal that you were made to go somewhere.

Four Sigmatic: https://us.foursigmatic.com/MORGAN83811

Holstrength: https://www.holstrength.com

CODE: MorganP

BuiltSupps: https://brickhousebuiltsupplements.com/

CODE: MoPete

I’ve always been unsatisfied. I've practiced and put in the reps to be disciplined, driven, and ambitious — but had become deficient in love as a side effect. This episode is a personal confession about how self-improvement can quietly starve relationships when dissatisfaction is selfish, and why I've reframed it as unselfish unsatisfaction that seeks to serve, not just grow.

Share with someone to walk with you as we all pursue unsatisfaction together.

Four Sigmatic: https://us.foursigmatic.com/MORGAN83811

Holstrength: https://www.holstrength.com CODE: MorganP

BuiltSupps: https://brickhousebuiltsupplements.com/

CODE: MoPete