Lift Free And Diet Hard with Andrew Coates

Steve Krebs joins the podcast to talk about the importance of establishing your values and making decisions in alignment with those values. Steve explains what he means by “make the main thing the main thing, always.” We talk about the importance of the people closet to us in our ability to thrive in our careers.

Jill Coleman returns to share wisdom, experience, and evolving attitudes as her career has grown and roles have shifted. Jill shares how she build her business to where she needed to embrace scaling her team and offerings. Jill highlights her willingness to invest in mentors, especially when it was financially challenging, and how it launched her forward professionally and financially. Jill shares her nuanced thoughts on what it means to scale your business. We also share why you should consider joining us at the fitness conference Raise The Bar February 24th-26th in Dallas where we are both speaking.

Ali Gilbert makes her first ever appearance to talk about her work coaching men and their health. Ali shares a lot of information about why men's testosterone levels are declining and what coaches need to know to help their clients. Ali shares how her niche found her plus her thoughts on if and how you should develop a career nice. Ali also shares why she's leaned into building her own brand and why she's passionate about speaking and creating her own event. 

Holly Baxter returns to talk about her career and life progression. Holly shares how her media has changed as her mindset and relationship with herself evolved. You see this evolution from someone who felt pressure to portray an almost superhuman physical aesthetic paired with entrepreneurial career success. Holly is now more open about the challenges and cost of such an effort and shows the difficult tradeoffs required to build her career. Holly also shares why she now utilizes a team of allied health care professionals with her clients, and her vision and effort to grow the ability to help more people through scaling her business delivery. Holly shares her interest in neuro-plasticity, AI, and psychology to create more effective systems to help people.

Sprint coach and educator Derek Hansen joins to share a lot of knowledge about sprinting, sprinting mechanics, and create a bridge to coaches like myself who don't have much knowledge or exposure to sprinting. Derek shares the value in not only working with Olympic medalists and major pro sports teams, but also in working as an educator within the fitness industry. Derek shares the value and fulfillment from his fitness industry relationships. 

Dr. Michael Mash guests to talk about his work with Barbell Rehab, offering educational resources to fitness professionals. We discuss educating coaches about how to deal with their clients experience with pain. Michael shares how to navigate language around pain, and offers nuance to the extreme trend to demonize barbells as tools in our world, all to get more people moving and strong. 

My friend Ben Mudge is back to talk about how and why he's build his new business Be More HQ with his friend Josh Taylor. We talk about how Ben's Cystic Fibrosis affects his long game career decisions. We talk about his brand ambassadorship with Ghost and how to ethically navigate brand partnerships. Plus a lot of discussion about our shared belief in supporting others and Ben's long game career philosophy. We also talk about our shared love of "geek culture" and leaning into it as a fitness professional. Please don't miss this episode. 

Dr. Nick Nwabueze joins to share his approach to getting his patients healthier and more active. Nick shares his philosophy of proactive health care in prescribing exercise before rushing to medications. Nick believes in practicing what he preaches as a devoted CrossFit practitioner but explains why he doesn't always point his patients to his preferred workout methodology. We also dive into navigating the extremes of tribal narratives around obesity and how to find effective messaging to help people. 

Joel Jamieson returns and shares his humble beginnings. Joel shares how he was broke but put everything he had into education and developing relationships with mentors. We discuss all of the keys to a successful career before worrying about social media likes and followers, but we also discuss how we've each approached social media engagement, and the tactics and deliberate effort in building it. Joel shares details about a new nutrition and supplement project he's about to launch called Precision Metabolix. Hope you enjoy. 

Don Saladino joins to reboot The Lift Free and Diet Hard Podcast after a brief hiatus. Originally intended as retiring this podcast to focus time and energy elsewhere, I realized just how valuable this platform is and I couldn't leave it and everyone behind. Don shares stories of his career, his former gym Drive 495, and the not so glamorous challenges he's overcome to get to where his career is today. This includes the self limiting beliefs he's discarded along the way. We talk about Don's new course, 5 Steps to Monetize an Online Fitness Business, and how the action steps will help you, literally step by step, create your own online fitness business, including build a website and email marketing systems, saving a lot of money compared to my investments along the way. We share why we believe abundance mindset is essential to a thriving and enduring career. Please share this episode with a friend in the industry who you believe would benefit from learning more from Don and his experience.