Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning

How do we not just train harder, but also maximize everything around it including the mind, body, and soul? This is the question that drives Jeff Byers, a former NFL player and the current CEO of Amp Human, which offers innovative products that help athletes push the limits on their performance, adaptation, and recovery. With an interest in both sports and entrepreneurship from an early age, Jeff always harbored an interest in finding creative ways to push his boundaries for growth as a human. “I was always thinking about the little things I could do to get better,” he says. “I tried to use my brain to work smarter than always just work harder.” After retiring from the NFL, Jeff worked for a few years in the finance space before joining an early-stage biotech startup in late 2015. This company had discovered a way to deliver pharmaceuticals through the skin, bypassing the GI system which often limits the body’s ability to optimally absorb vitamins and minerals taken orally. Not long after joining the company, Jeff and one of his partners developed a broad vision for a business offering products specifically formulated to optimize human performance, a space in which they saw, at the time, a huge gap in the market. Listen in as Jeff talks all things human performance and optimization and why he refers to it as a “broad spectrum”. He also discusses the benefits of Amp Human’s flagship product, PR Lotion, and its newly released D+ Lotion.   Follow Amp Human @amphuman Follow Chase @chase_chewning   Episode resources: Get complete show notes at https://chasechewning.com/podcasts/episode/461  Save 15% on Paleovalley's 100% grass-fed beef sticks at https://www.paleovalley.com/everforward with code EVERFORWARD Get your free WHOOP 3.0 activity tracker and save on your new membership at https://join.whoop.com/everforward   Learn more about Amp at https://amphuman.com 

Mike Matthews is the Founder and CEO at Legion Athletics, Inc., a company which offers all-natural, science-based supplements, including pre-workout, post-workout, fat burners, protein powder, multivitamins, and more. Mike is also the author of several bestselling health and fitness books, including Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body and Thinner Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Female Body. Chase and Mike do a deep dive into supplementation and how to navigate an industry that has unfortunately grown to be filled with misleading claims, half-truths, and outright lies that leave the average fitness guy or gal at a disadvantage when it comes to getting informed on what the right products for them are. Listen in as Mike lists foundational supplements that nearly everyone would benefit from adding to their daily regimen. He shares common shady marketing tactics and gimmicks that many supplement companies use to promote subpar products. Finally, Mike explains the secret to becoming the number one all-natural sports nutrition brand in the world and what sets Legion Athletics’ product line apart from all others.   Follow Mike @muscleforlifefitness Follow Chase @chase_chewning   Key Highlights Since supplements are only supplementary to your nutrition, what should people really be focusing on to get the most ROI on their training when it comes to their nutrition? What supplements should be top priority for someone who is already following a healthy diet? How can you know for sure if you’re really getting what it says on the label? What should you be looking for in a protein powder? What does “naturally sweetened and flavored” actually mean? Mike explains what makes his superfood supplement, Genesis, different from all the rest.   Episode resources: Save 20% on your first purchase from Legion Athletics at https://bit.ly/2LmdpUr  Get Beyond Bigger Leaner Stronger https://amzn.to/31CUWYv  Get Bigger Leaner Stronger https://amzn.to/2PssBSn  Get Thinner Leaner Stronger https://amzn.to/3wmhXgr  Listen to Mike's podcast Muscle For Life https://legionathletics.com/podcast/  Listen to episode 292 "Back to Training and Diet Basics": https://chasechewning.com/podcasts/episode/292   

Chris Bello is a Houston-based real estate agent and investor and the host of the Entrepreneur Motivation Podcast. His journey from employee to entrepreneur is a familiar one to many who have been, or currently are, in his shoes. The Texas native followed his friends and family into the oil and gas industry right out of college for no other reason than that’s what everybody else in his circle did. Right away, Chris realized that he was on the wrong path. He recalls asking himself, “What could there be for me outside of the cubicle?” He began reading books such as Rich Dad Poor Dad and The 4-Hour Workweek. Bit by bit, an inspiring new vision for the future was taking shape in his mind. “I didn’t put all the pieces together,” Chris recalls of that time, “but the questions started being asked in my mind.” Chris finally quit his job in 2018 to dive into the world of entrepreneurship and self-development, and hasn’t looked back since. Listen in as Chris shares the practical steps he took to create freedom in his life, including how he set up systems and processes appropriate to his work and lifestyle, the value of the phrase “fail fast, fail often”, why you don’t have to have the “perfect” plan to start right now, and what it means to embrace your zone of genius while encouraging your team to embrace theirs.   Follow Chris @chrisbello_ Follow Chase @chase_chewning   Key Highlights Taking control of your life isn’t just a matter of vision and goal-setting. It’s also about setting up the right systems to make your lifestyle choices sustainable. Chris shares how he did all this for himself. Chris explains his process for evaluating failure to learn from mistakes and pivot when he needs to. How do you stop yourself from falling into the perfectionist mindset while being able to gauge whether you’re making progress? How do you make sure you have the right team in place and that you’re cultivating a supportive work environment?   Episode resources: ChrisBello.com Save 60% on the Level 201 course from Operation Podcast with code EVERFORWARD60 at https://operationpodcast.co/201 

Dr. Casey Means, MD is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Levels, a metabolic health company that provides individuals “real-time continuous glucose biofeedback coupled with machine-learning driven insights to inform personalized diet and lifestyle choices.” Glucose, unlike other biomarkers, provides us a closed biofeedback loop which if tracked helps us make better diet and lifestyle choices on the fly. Other biomarkers, such as genetics or cholesterol, do not provide that real-time information which means we cannot track changes around them based on our nutritional and lifestyle choices on a day-to-day basis. “The beauty of glucose,” says Dr. Means, “is that there are tools, right now, that can measure our glucose levels in real-time, at home, with a wearable sensor. Unlike these other variables, we can actually see how this biomarker is changing based on choices that we made five minutes ago.” For several years, glucose monitors have been available as a treatment tool for diabetes. What Levels has done is take this technology to the mass consumer market to be used as a precision nutrition tool. Listen in as Dr. Means explains how Levels translates real-time insights around your blood glucose into actionable steps that you can use to improve your metabolic health today.   Follow Dr. Casey @drcaseyskitchen Follow Levels @levels Follow Chase @chase_chewning   Key Highlights Why did Dr. Means decide to focus on metabolic health specifically in helping people improve their diet and lifestyle choices? Why should someone who is not diabetic or prediabetic be concerned about monitoring their glucose? What are the “reps” we need to put into improving our metabolic fitness? What are the indicators of potential blood sugar problems?   Episode resources: Get your FREE variety sample pack of Recharge electrolyte drink mix at https://www.drinklmnt.com/everforward  Learn more about Levels at https://www.levelshealth.com   

William is the founder of Moore Momentum. His story of success started in 2007 during the real estate market crash. He created a company called Doorstep Delivery- a restaurant delivery service and became the largest food delivery service in the southeast and had 19 branches. A year and a half later, Doorstep Delivery was bought for its recognizable success. From his experience, William decided to share his knowledge of success in unity and growth and built a new company called Moore Momentum, a professional training and coaching service to help you become the best version of yourself.  Moore Momentum's mission is to "create a movement of change that shifts the mindset of the world toward unity and growth." In this episode, William shares five core areas of life if done properly will completely level-up your success, increase productivity, regulate the flow of energy by combining the latest in science and technology, and universal principles to gamify your life!   Follow William @5corelife Follow Chase @chase_chewning   Key Highlights Why are the 5 cores important? Why is connecting to your why more effective than for? Keep understanding, keep reading, and keep studying. The role of mindset, goal setting, and accountability. Why your morning routine matters.   Episode resources: Save 15% on grass fed beef sticks from Paleovalley at https://www.paleovalley.com/everforward  Save 15% on all natural CBD products from Cured Nutrition at https://bit.ly/2RmXcja  How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie https://amzn.to/3fwwOza  Atomic Habits by James Clear https://amzn.to/2QRFRjL  13 Virtues by Benjamin Franklin https://amzn.to/3wiEvyU  Hooked by Nir Eyal https://amzn.to/3wf2mPZ 

Adam Lowry is an entrepreneur and one of the four co-founders of Sugarbreak, launched last September 2, 2020 as the first all-natural, complete solution to help reduce sugar consumption and promote healthy blood sugar management. Sugarbreak, which raised $3 million in seed funding, offers pills and tongue strips to reduce sugar cravings. A suite of products backed by science was the goal. The brand itself was built on three pillars: all-natural, proven, and measurability. Sugarbreak’s marquee product is Resist, a dissolvable minty breath strip that blocks your taste buds from tasting anything sweet for about 45 minutes, curbing sugar cravings on the spot. Its key ingredient is gymnema sylvestre which makes sugar taste like “sand on your tongue”. In other words, “it interrupts your ability to enjoy sweets” by “break[ing] that connection between your brain and the reward of sugar.” Its other two products are Stabilize, a pre-meal capsule which helps block carbs and sugars and stabilizes post-meal sugar spikes and crashes, and Reduce, which supports consistently healthy A1c and blood glucose levels. The company was founded to support diabetics and prediabetics through a clinically-tested supplement line that supports healthy blood sugar levels. However, for the consumer who has no medical need to reduce their sugar intake and simply wants to stay healthy, Sugarbreak’s products are “a convenient way of having on-demand willpower”.   Follow Sugarbreak @takeasugarbreak Follow Chase @chase_chewning   Key Highlights What problem is Sugarbreak looking to solve, exactly? Adam explains how, aside from direct consumers, Sugarbreak is also looking to create products that primary care providers and other healthcare professionals can offer to their own patients. What’s on the horizon for Sugarbreak?   Episode resources: Get your FREE variety sample pack of Recharge electrolytes from LMNT at https://www.drinklmnt.com/everforward  Learn more about Sugarbreak at https://www.sugarbreak.com/   

Sean Dollinger is the founder of Vancouver-based PlantX, an online one-stop shop for all things plant-based, including meal delivery. The ultimate goal of the platform “is to educate people on the benefits of a plant-based lifestyle, eliminating the barriers to entry for everyone.” He has been involved in the ecommerce space for over two decades, and has a growing portfolio that includes more than 15 companies. Having been overweight growing up, Sean discovered the power of eating a plant-based diet ten years prior, which helped him lose 60 pounds of bodyweight. It was a transformation that not only completely changed his body, but his mind as well. Sean was inspired to create a platform to share what he had learned over the past decade and it developed into what is today PlantX. Sean goes on to share how he found success as a serial entrepreneur, from why he sleeps only four hours a night, to how he scaled PlantX from $6 million to $1.5 billion in a year-and-a-half, to how he spots opportunity in times of crisis.   Follow PlantX @goplantx Follow Chase @chase_chewning   Key Highlights Why did Sean decide to start a business around plant-based products and services? Is a plant-based diet something that people can realistically integrate into their lifestyle? Why Sean feels best sleeping for only four hours a night. How do you find and capitalize on an opportunity amid crisis?   Episode resources: Save 10% on Four Sigmatic with code EVERFORWARD at https://bit.ly/3eXekUL  Learn more at https://www.plantx.com 

Eliot Marshall is a martial artist, business owner, podcaster, bestselling author, and a self-proclaimed “ex-UFC fighter turned motivational speaker”. Eliot points to change as the defining characteristic of his life and career. He looks at each new day as an opportunity for growth, and believes fully that he is a better man today than he was at any other point, regardless of past successes. In fact, even with a prolific run in MMA behind him, Eliot admits that “my UFC career was literally just me trying to hide all these insecurities I have.” Today, instead of running away from the coward within, Eliot embraces that side. He made it a point to learn all about his fear, and to coexist with that fear. He goes on to speak about how love from those he cared about the most yanked him out of the literal death spiral of negative self-talk that enslaved him early on. Eliot explains how anybody can reverse engineer their ideal life in order to start taking steps toward it. This includes going through the three Is that you need to write down to start calibrating your mindset for growth: your I ams, your I cans, and your I wills.   Follow Eliot @firemarshall205 Follow Chase @chase_chewning   Key Highlights Eliot explains how and why he used his career as a professional fighter to hide the coward inside of him. How was Eliot able to surround himself with a great community of people that he could trust in his darkest hours? How good can our life become just by changing our mindset? Eliot may no longer be in the UFC, but he is clearly still a fighter. He shares what he is fighting for today.   Episode resources: Save 20% on The Good facial serum from Caldera + Lab at http://bit.ly/calderalabef with code EVERFORWARD Eliot Marshall The Gospel of Fire Podcast The Gospel of Fire Book

Ashley Stahl is a counterterrorism professional turned highly sought-after career coach, TEDx speaker, Forbes blogger, podcaster, and author. In January 2021, she published her first book, You Turn: Get Unstuck, Discover Your Direction, and Design Your Dream Career. She illustrates her approach to getting “unstuck” as traveling from one lilypad to another. The first lilypad is where most people start out: They have a dream (or at least the outline of one) but are too afraid to take the next step thanks to the myriad of what-ifs plaguing their mind. Getting over to the second lilypad is all about creating a “river channel” by figuring out your unique gift and learning how to harness your primary skillset. It’s about acknowledging that the key to getting unstuck in your career is to not do what you love, but to do what you are. The third and final lilypad is “a level of dharma” achieved only after consistently putting that skillset into action. Ashley explains that “when you’re vibing in the current of your gifts, what happens is, on the periphery, people start noticing where you’re talented.” When you work only where you thrive, and you own your unique gift, opportunities naturally arise and your career creates itself. Ashley goes on to share how to get clarity on your best career fit, uncovering your identity, nipping resentment at work in the bud and finding your purpose, and the biggest myths that keep you stuck in your career.   Key Highlights Ashley explains how to get unstuck in life by hopping from the first lilypad to the second and to the third. She addresses the many challenges that everyone will encounter on their personal journey along the way. What did Ashley carry over from her previous career in intelligence into her current work as a coach? Ashley gives her thoughts on identity and why the search for who you truly are can be freeing or limiting depending on how you approach it. How do you address burnout and regain a sense of purpose?   Episode resources: Save 60% with code EVERFORWARD on the Level 201 podcasting course from Operation Podcast at https://www.operationpodcast.com/offers/dFLttNNy?coupon_code=EVERFORWARD60  Learn more about Ashley at https://ashleystahl.com  Get Ashley's book You Turn from Amazon at https://amzn.to/3elOSv6  

Dr. Anthony Balduzzi is a naturopathic doctor, national champion bodybuilder, and founder of the Fit Father Project and Fit Mother Project—online health and fitness communities aimed at empowering busy parents to get healthy, lose weight, and build muscle through practical nutrition and exercise plans. Seeing his father suffer through sickness and pass away at the age of 42 imprinted in young Anthony’s mind that life is both finite and fragile. Being faced with mortality so early on, no less through a parent, catapulted him into the world of health and fitness. He realized, as he went down this path, that it all comes down to “how we manage our nutrition, our sleep, our movement, and our mindset.” The tragic, early experience of losing his dad planted a seed within Anthony to help others like his father who were “just busy and caught in the throes of managing everything” at the expense of their healthy routines. “Health,” he continues, “is often put on the backburner when we have bills and responsibilities, and I saw that happening to so many people.” To this end, Dr. Balduzzi created the Fit Father Project alongside the Fit Mother Project, programs that simplify—and make sustainable—exercise and nutrition for everyday busy parents.   Follow Dr. Balduzzi @fitfatherproject Follow Chase @chase_chewning   Key Highlights Dr. Balduzzi’s father passed away at the young age of 42. He explains how this tragic period of his life served as the catalyst that began his journey into the world of health and wellness. In a nutshell, what do busy people need to know about taking care of themselves for the long haul? How do we ensure our children’s success through epigenetics? Community is immunity. When we have deep, meaningful connections with other human beings, how do those connections impact us, chemically and physiologically?   Episode resources: Save 20% on your first purchase from Legion Athletics and then double loyalty points with code EVERFORWARD at https://bit.ly/2LmdpUr  Fit Father Project Fit Mother Project Fit Father Project on YouTube Fit Mother Project on YouTube