Most people know what is and isn’t healthy to eat.
You don’t need another ‘diet guy’ on the internet to tell you the latest and greatest.
When it comes to emotional eating, stress eating, and all kinds of habitual overeating, you can’t just give someone a diet plan and say, “Here, good luck!” There’s a lot more going on under the hood that influences why we do what we do and eat what we eat.
Embedded within this discussion, there’s also a key distinction between someone just ‘trying’ a new diet for a few months and someone who fully adopts a lifestyle as a way of being. That’s what I’m here to uncover and teach.
Your success with dieting goes way beyond the diet itself.
Obviously, the food you eat is important. It’s baseline. But isn’t is curious how, despite knowing what to eat, we often choose otherwise? Sometimes it doesn’t even feel like you have a choice. Believe me, I know what a night of binging is like. It’s utterly amazing…until two hours later when you feel sick and embarrassed.
You have to go deeper than baseline. Your success has far more to do with your mindset, your attitude towards learning, your willingness to sacrifice immediate results for long-term success, tapping into your motivation (and your resistance to motivation), the amount of time and effort you devote to preparation, and most importantly your habits — i.e, the way you carry yourself in the world, the automatic choices you make that require little to no effort.
In other words: mastering your diet and creating a healthy lifestyle that lasts forever is about constantly working on yourself. Going deeper and deeper to get to the core you. Which means, there is no end to the process. There’s no “on a diet” and “off a diet.” You’re ON life. So let’s treat it with respect.
The below 15 podcasts will help you improve your life.
The hosts are as generous as any souls alive — with their knowledge, their time and their insights — and the guests are as wise as they come. There’s a reason my clients have recommended each and every one of the following podcasts. Find out why:
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The Primal Happiness Show
Jonathan and Lian are nothing short of remarkable. Jonathan suffered from debilitating health conditions for most of his life, and Lian struggled massively with chronic pain and anxiety. But, eventually, they reclaimed their primal happiness—and they now want you to do the same. Whether you’re struggling with insecurity, fear, procrastination, a lack of confidence, anxiety, panic or stress…or you’d just like to lead a happier, more successful, creative, meaningful and fun life…you’ve found the right show. And even if you’ve already done so much self-help, personal development, or self-improvement that you could write a series of books yourself, you’ll find this show is something completely different than anything you’ve come across before.
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Optimal Living Daily
Justin Malik chooses to use his precious time helping the rest of us easily digest the best content from around the internet on personal development, minimalism, productivity, and more. (Digest…get it? Dad jokes forever.) Featuring articles by some of my favorite thought leaders like Tom Bilyeu, James Altucher and other internet-famous legends, you’ll soon gain clarity on why adopting a healthy lifestyle requires investing in yourself, over and over and over again (and why that’s something to love, not fear).
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The James Swanwick Show
James is a good friend of mine here in Los Angeles, and I’m thrilled that so many of my clients resonate with his message. A former SportsCenter anchor on ESPN, James has deep-probing conversations with world-class mentors including millionaires, doctors, celebrity personal trainers, New York Times best-selling authors, and nutritionists. Ever-admirable and super fascinating, James gave up alcohol many years ago and isn’t shy to talk about it. In the meantime he’s started a multi-million dollar business, has written a few books, and travels all over the world giving talks….so he knows a thing or two about accepting your current life situation and then improving it. He also has more charisma than pretty much anyone I’ve ever met, and that alone makes this worth a listen.
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MindSet By Design: NLP
Andy Murphy uses his 12 years of experience working with VIP clients such as TV producers, world-champions, and Saudi-Arabian royalty (yes, seriously) to give you the right mindset to dominate life. Mastering mindset is the core focus of my work, which is why so many of my clients resonate with Andy’s message. As I write about frequently, long-term success requires adopting a growth mindset. With a growth mindset, effort is the key to success. In a growth mindset, you believe ideas like: “I know I’ll master my diet eventually because I’m committing to putting in the effort, day after day. I know that if I focus on the process over the outcome – if I focus on making healthy choices instead of losing weight – I will lose weight and I will have the body I’ve always wanted.” Check out Andy’s exploration of a topic that fascinates me to no end.
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Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields inspires me. As a single bachelor who lives alone, I find entrepreneurship hard enough as it is. Jonathan is a dad, husband, serial entrepreneur, growth strategist and award-winning author (slaps head)….just listening to him awakens me to the power of MORE. Add in some acclaimed founders, makers, artists and world-shakers and you’ve got the formula for a powerful conversation. The Good Life Project will empower you to live a fully-engaged, fiercely-connected, and meaning-drenched life. Do yourself a favor and make this show a part of your regular rotation.
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Not Too Deep
If you know me, you know I like to get deep with all the personal development stuff. I talk about transformation and creating breakthroughs and mindfulness pretty much every waking second of the day. But sometimes, you need to go a little less deep. Sometimes you need to play, which requires pretty much no thought at all. You know those podcasts where famous people recount their lives and careers, and then things get emotional? That is NOT this show. Hosted by internet superstar Grace Helbig, Not Too Deep is a ridiculous, silly, and unapologetically superficial interview podcast that’s more about the laughs than the feels. I’m going to curse here and say I fucking love this show!
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Project Life Mastery
Stefan James began his journey into personal development at an age when most people are just learning how not to need diapers: 17. (What, just me?) Seriously though…Stefan has been running Project Life Mastery since 2012 because he wants you—yes, you—to stop settling for anything less than extraordinary. Lucky for us, his life’s purpose is to grow and to give…hence this awe-inspiring podcast.
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The MenProvement Podcast
One for the fellas. Sean Russell’s podcast is a place for men who won’t settle. Men who want to design their lives in the best way possible. Men who want to act from a place of authenticity and integrity at all times. Men who want to redefine themselves as action-takers. All of these things, not coincidentally, are necessary when it comes to losing weight and actually keeping it off forever. Living in integrity with self is both the practice and result of my work, and Sean is tapped in.
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The 5 AM Miracle
The 5 AM Miracle is dedicated to dominating your day before breakfast, and I’m completely enrolled in his message. I happen to live in Santa Monica and, gloriously, a mere two blocks from the beach. Every morning I wake up at 4:45am, run down to the oceanfront and just before the waves meditate under the moon and stars. I’m not joking. Then I jump in the freezing dark cold water and, after a few moments of hyperventilating, splash around like a little kid for ten or fifteen minutes before I run home and start my day. I am not a morning person by nature and I want to personally salute Jeff Sanders for creating this podcast, because it’s easily changed my life and can definitely change yours too. Thanks Jeff 👊
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Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod
Hal Elrod has a heart of gold. He’s all about empowering and equipping you with practical advice and strategies to achieve your goals and dreams. A number of my clients listen to his show to help them stay motivated while training to lose weight, get back control of their diets, and give up their sugar addictions. If you’re personally looking for a helping hand, Hal will give you the motivation and an action plan to level up your life.
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Let It Out
Katie Dalebout gives us long-form conversations with people who are good at being themselves. I love her light, her vibrancy and her authenticity. I also love her suggestions. She’s literally written a book on the practice of journaling, a habit I encourage every one of my clients to adopt. Because she’s an enthusiast in a whole bunch of things, she has an extremely diverse group of guests on her show, including visionary bloggers, authors, yogis, artists, entrepreneurs, comedians, and actors. Sometimes things get super deep and spiritual, and sometimes they’re really funny—because life is both. (And guess what…living and eating healthily can be fun as hell!)
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On Air With Ella
What I love about Ella is that she knows we’re human beings. Revelatory, I know. But what I mean is that she knows we’re beautiful souls who live complex and challenging lives, and there’s no one thing that’s all of a sudden going to make you happy, forever. Just like there’s no one thing that’ll make you lose weight and keep it off forever. I really love her message and this show and I know you will too.
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The Kickass Life Podcast
I mean, with that name how could you not want get down?? World-renowned and highly acclaimed trainer David T.S. Wood teaches you to turn life around and take it to new heights of joy, happiness and fulfillment that you have never experienced before. Through his own incredible adventures and successes and through eliciting the wisdom and lessons of his guests, David shares practical ways to make do-able changes to life that you can start implementing today. David brings both his humor and a deep, heartfelt passion to a genre that can often feel forced and gives self-improvement a bad rap.
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The Ultimate Man Podcast
Paul McGregor invites experts in all areas of life onto the show to discuss confidence, fitness, health, mental health, and more. If you take anything from this show, it’ll be this: you are capable of transformation; each and every one of us can always improve—a message I remind my clients (and myself) daily.
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The Elite Man Podcast
Another one for the gents. On the Elite Man Podcast you’ll hear from some of the best minds in the business, lifestyle, health and dating worlds. This show will help you overcome and conquer life’s greatest challenges and is the #1 men’s self-help podcast in the world. If these guests don’t sell you like they did my clients, then literally nothing will: international best-selling author Robert Greene, billion-dollar business creator and Shark Tank member Kevin Harrington, world-renowned life coach Dr. Sean Stephenson, Mixed Martial Arts and UFC superstar Rich Franklin, the world’s best online business marketer Neil Patel, and New York Times best-selling author & self-help legend Dan Millman.
