I actively choose content I want to bring into my brain. It must be content which improves and enhances my life, I do not listen for entertainment value alone. Here are the podcasts I am currently into:
Tim Ferris Podcast - Everyone knows Tim Ferriss by now... His books are classics, including: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich;
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman;
and the The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life.
Tim is the quintessential experiment of 1 and very inspiring to me in my quest for self-improvement through self experimentation.Rich Roll Podcast - Rich Roll is a recovered alcoholic and vegan ultra-endurance athlete. This is an awesome podcast, Rich is an awesome interviewer and a deep soul. His wife and he are beautiful, compassionate and enlightened beings. The guests are always quality people and I find myself inspired to be a better human after each episode. Rich also wrote his first book - Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
The Deer Park Dharmacast - Deer Park is a Buddhist practice center in Escondido, CA based in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hahn. The dharmacast is different teachers speaking on the teachings of buddism and meditation. I like to listed to the before or after meditation and when walking.
James Altucher Show and Ask Altucher - James is a writer and investor like no other. He is brutally open and honest about his life and his opinions, which is why I love his shows. His show is interview style with guests that include Tony Robbins, Mark Cuban and Seth Godin. On Ask Altucher he and his wife Claudia tackle listener questions in a shorter form podcast. To check him out visit the James Altucher Amazon Page
Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast - Ben is a treasure trove of information on all things fitness and scientificually and medically qualified to back up his opinions. When I google fitness things I always add his name to the search term to see his opinion first. I'm a member of Ben's Inner Circle forums online and follow most of his diet and triathlon training protocol ideas. Ben is a consistent sub 10 hour Ironman finisher, former competitive bodybuilder and now Spartan Racer. To check out his books go to the Ben Greenfield Amazon Page
Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey - Dave is an entrepreneur and founder of the "The Bulletproof Executive". His podcast guests are on the cutting edge of health science, fitness and wellness. Dave authored two books to date The Bulletproof Diet: Lose up to a Pound a Day, Reclaim Energy and Focus, Upgrade Your Life
and The Better Baby Book: How to Have a Healthier, Smarter, Happier Baby
Primal Blueprint Podcast with Mark Sisson - Mark was an elite endurance athlete, qualifying for the 1980 olympic trials running a 2:18 time in the Marathon and placing 4th at the Hawaii Ironman. Mark has changed his personal health by going "Primal" and living a lifestyle based on pricinples of epigenetics and evolutionary biology. Mark has writteh many great books, check them out here at the Mark Sisson Amazon Page
Entrepreneur on Fire with John Lee Dumas - John has the top entrepreneurs and business people from all over the world on his podcast, which publishes daily. Most are unknowns, which is really cool to learn about others and where they are in the processs. John has a great guide to starting a podcast aptly named - Podcast Launch: A complete guide to launching your Podcast with 15 Video Tutorials!: A step by step guide on how to launch a Podcast
The Ask Professor Noakes Podcast - Professor Tim Noakes has been on the cutting edge of sports science for decades, including co-sponsoring the Sports Science Institute of South Africa. He has also run more than 70 marathons and ultramarathons. His podcast is typically a short 5 minute answer to a listener question. His most current book and project is the Real Meal Revolution.
Robb Wolf - The Paleo Solution - Robb is a former research biochemist and authored The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet. He is also a former powerlifting champion and co-founded one of the first Crossfit gyms. His podcast features experts from athletics, crossfit, MMA, health, science, diet and general fitness.
Revolution Health Radio with Chris Kresser - Chris teaches and practice functional medicine and has written the book The Paleo Cure: Eat Right for Your Genes, Body Type, and Personal Health Needs
.Barbell Shrugged - It's 4 guys who started in their garage talking about Crossfit and Powerlifting, now it's a huge show featuring some of the best athletes in Crossfit, Olympic Weightlifting, Powerlifting and even Running. They are cool guys and it's an entertaining show.
Nourish Balance Thrive - Competitive Mountain biker Chris Kelly and his wife, Julie, a food scientist host guests and cover a wide range of topics for health, wellness and competitive sports. It is a very well rounded focus on the entire human and athlete.
The James Swanwick Show - Former Anchor on ESPN's Sportcenter and founder of the Alpha Male Club.
Those are the podcasts I listen too... I cherry pick other shows which have guests I want to listen too, like the Joe Rogan podcast.
I'd love to hear what podcasts you like to listen to or watch. I read and respond to all emails ~ douglashilbert@yahoo.com
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