From Dean

In this episode, I’m talking to Blake Bowman, a postural alignment and corrective exercise coach who’s been in this industry for over a decade. During that period, he learned that health and performance is a chess board consisting of many critical moving pieces.

Blake has been a guinea pig almost his entire life. After suffering a grueling injury, he couldn’t find help to get his body repaired. He could lift 500 pounds on a deadlift at one point but couldn’t go on a hike. So, he took matters into his own hands and learned how to fix himself. Today, he’s stronger, has better posture, and is healthier than ever.

How do you run a multi-million dollar business while raising a loving family and taking care of your well-being? It’s a question that so many high achievers have failed to answer for themselves.

Today, I’m speaking with Matt Allison, a man that has. Matt went through all the trials and tribulations of founding and then selling a wildly successful business. He was the Founder and CEO of the digital analytics & PR company, TrendKite, that in 2019 was acquired for $225 million.

In this episode, we’re discussing why being financially broke doesn’t mean that you also have to be mentally broke, the importance of unplugging and finding what provides meaning to your life, why discipline equals freedom, and much more.

Today I’m excited to bring my favorite person on the planet onto my podcast – my wife, Marisa Pohlman – to talk about the changes we went through becoming parents, how we stay fit, and the challenges we face in family life.

If you’re wondering, Marisa is a PT (Physical Therapist) with a doctorate in physical therapy. She’s also an Orthopedic Certified Specialist (OCS), putting her in the top 5 – 10% of PTs in the country who are also an OCS.

Since having Declan, our lives went through a tectonic shift. It made us reevaluate our priorities, daily activities, and eating and work habits.That inherently brought new challenges we had to tackle in our relationship to build a healthy role model for Declan to look up to. And so far, I’d say we’re crushing it!

There’s more to peak performance than just training your body, and we get into that in detail today with my guest, Brandon Epstein, founder of Jump Rope Dudes and CEO of The Owned Industries.

Brandon Epstein is a mental health and performance coach and the co-founder of Jump Rope Dudes, an online fitness community with over 120 million views on YouTube and a following of over one million people worldwide. He’s also the CEO of The Owned Industries, where he helps people with their mental performance and beyond.

In this episode, I speak with my weight training coach, Jesse O’Brien of Central Athlete, about working through mental roadblocks and creating fitness goals. I started working with Jesse in December of 2020 when I realized I wanted to get serious about my strength training, and I can honestly say that I would not be anywhere close to where I am right now without his expert guidance.

A few years after giving up weights, I started to feel like I wasn’t “myself” anymore. The body I saw in the mirror wasn’t the body I pictured in my mind, and I decided to start weight training seriously again. Now I’m pretty solid when it comes to creating yoga programming, but weight training isn’t a topic in which I would consider myself an expert. That’s where Jesse came in.

Join me in this week’s podcast episode as we Matt Vincent’s story and how the power of suffering has taught him to find happiness, to work through adversity, and to be grateful for what he has.

Matt Vincent is a two time Highland Games World Champion and the founder of the successful brand HVIII Brand Goods that helps people eliminate the bullsh*t in their lives through movement, mindset, and motivation.