Apogee Strong

The hometown mentality. It can either hold you back and keep you within the range of all you've ever known, or you can take a look around and decide you're meant for more. The latter is the case for today's guest, Derek Woodske. Derek has overcome tremendous challenges, injuries, and treacherous travels throughout his life. Today, he shares with the young men of Apogee his story and the importance of living life without regrets. DEREK WOODSKE Derek is considered to be one of the premier lecturers on the topic of strength and conditioning and exercise sports performance currently working today. In the past eight years, Derek has spoken in more than a dozen countries and has influenced thousands of coaches and personal trainers around the world. Derek began his journey and passion into the world of human performance through his own athletic success as an NCAA All-American and National Champion in the sport of track and field. He went on to represent his home country of Canada on two separate occasions as a member of the Canadian National Team, breaking two Canadian National Records and winning multiple National Championships in the process. Derek also worked in both the NFL and NCAA as a professional coach. Since then, Derek has taken his experience as a professional coach and blended it with his educational background as both an interpersonal communications expert and therapist to create a holistic approach to teaching and understanding the complexities of not only performing human movement but also teaching it to others. MORE PLACES YOU CAN FIND DEREK Instagram - @derekwoodske MORE CONTENT Follow Matt on social to get the latest updates and Essential content. Instagram: @mattbeaudreau Twitter: @mattbeaudreau YouTube: Matt Beaudreau

ough and well-versed in fighting, today's guest has made a career for himself as a secret agent, a detective, police officer, lawyer, and more through acting. As you can tell, he wears a lot of hats- on and off-screen- father, boxer, jiu-jitsu fighter, producer, and actor. It takes massive discipline to cover all of those and do so successfully. Today, Frank Grillo shares with the young men of Apogee how he gets it done. Today's sponsor is Discover Praxis. Right now, listeners of E11 can get a $1,000 scholarship + a free book! Simply follow the link: discoverpraxis.com/essential11 FRANK GRILLO Frank is an American actor best known for playing Brock Rumlow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, and Avengers: Endgame. Grillo was born the first of three boys in a working-class family in New York City, and raised in the Bronx and in Rockland County, New York. Grillo began wrestling at eight years old and took up boxing at eighteen. In 1991, he started practicing Brazilian jiu-jitsu, in which he has studied under Rickson Gracie and holds a brown belt. MORE PLACES YOU CAN FIND FRANK Instagram - @frankgrillo1 MORE CONTENT Follow Matt on social to get the latest updates and Essential content. Instagram: @mattbeaudreau Twitter: @mattbeaudreau YouTube: Matt Beaudreau

US Marshal Fugitive Taskforce officer and swat operator. Matt never met his father which left a massive hole in the development of becoming a father and a husband himself- his mother having several marriages over the course of his childhood left him confused and unprepared for the challenges of fatherhood and marriage. Through the relationships he's made and the different challenges he's had to face, he's learned the virtues of honor, integrity, strength, and character. As an instructor for The Project, his role is now to teach men to become the sheepdog, training situational awareness, and how to use firearms for protection. MORE PLACES YOU CAN FIND MATT SCHNEIDER Instagram - @mattshneider_official Coaching - IgnitionYear.com MORE CONTENT Follow Matt B on social to get the latest updates and Essential content. Instagram: @mattbeaudreau Twitter: @mattbeaudreau YouTube: Matt Beaudreau

Urijah is an American mixed martial artist who is signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He competed as a bantamweight and formerly competed as a featherweight. Faber was an NCAA wrestler. With his base in wrestling, he later started Brazilian jiu-jitsu and quickly earned a brown belt under Fábio "Pateta" Prado. Faber won the WEC Featherweight Championship at WEC 19 on March 17, 2006, and held the title for over two years. He went on to challenge for the WEC Featherweight Championship two more times and challenged for the UFC Bantamweight Championship four times. Faber is widely regarded as one of MMA's pioneers for establishing legitimacy to lighter-weight classes. After his retirement on July 6, 2017, Faber was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame as a part of the Modern-era wing. He came out of retirement in 2019 and defeated Ricky Simón by first-round TKO. MORE PLACES YOU CAN FIND URIJAH Instagram - @urijahfaber Facebook - Urijah Faber Twitter - @UrijahFaber MORE CONTENT Follow Matt on social to get the latest updates and Essential content. Instagram: @mattbeaudreau Twitter: @mattbeaudreau YouTube: Matt Beaudreau

Split is one of Matt's favorite movies, simply for the concept of how our mentality can directly affect the physical manifestations that take place in our body and our life. If you've been listening to this podcast at all over the course of the past 120 episodes, you've definitely heard him talk about it. Today's guest is a man who knows all about the power of the mind, and how you can use your mentality (or rather the mentality of others) to achieve your goals. Today's sponsor is Discover Praxis. Right now, listeners of E11 can get a $1,000 scholarship + a free book! Simply follow the link: discoverpraxis.com/essential11 TODD HERMAN Todd is the author of the WSJ & International Best Selling Book, The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life, which has been translated into 11 languages. It’s the transformational book for people who want the tools elite people use to master their identity and make change happen fast – with a solid helping of science. Todd has built courses, training programs, software, and businesses that have transformed the lives of over 2,000,000 people. MORE PLACES YOU CAN FIND TODD Twitter - @todd_herman Facebook - Todd Herman YouTube - Todd Herman Instagram - @todd_herman MORE CONTENT Follow Matt on social to get the latest updates and Essential content. Instagram: @mattbeaudreau Twitter: @mattbeaudreau YouTube: Matt Beaudreau

Our listeners who have been with us since the beginning likely recognize this name, and anyone who is involved in the traditional masculinity space definitely knows this name. Ryan Michler was episode number 13 on the Essential 11 and it was a pleasure having him back on to speak with the men of young men Apogee. RYAN MICHLER Ryan Michler is a husband, father, Iraqi Combat Veteran, and the Founder of Order of Man. Ryan grew up without a permanent father figure and has seen first-hand how a lack of strong, ambitious, self-sufficient men has impacted society today. He believes many of the world’s most complicated problems could be solved if men everywhere learned how to be better husbands, fathers, businessmen, and community leaders. It has now become his life’s mission to help men across the planet step more fully into their roles as protectors, providers, and presiders over themselves, their families, their businesses, and their communities. You can find him blogging and podcasting at Order of Man where he is working to help men become all they were meant to be. MORE PLACES YOU CAN FIND RYAN Instagram - @ryanmichler Twitter - @ryanmichler Podcast - Order of Man Website - orderofman.com MORE CONTENT Follow Matt on social to get the latest updates and Essential content. Instagram: @mattbeaudreau Twitter: @mattbeaudreau YouTube: Matt Beaudreau

If you've ever wanted to hear a conversation between two Matt Beaudreau's, this is the episode for you. Matt has been in the education space for a long time and has seen how the game is played. If you've listened to any of our other episodes, you know how much he does not believe that college is necessary for success, and today's guest Isaac Morehouse shares that thinking- so much so that he built a business around it. Character, work ethic, communication, and an ability to learn are highly valued by employers above degrees and it's something that businesses are seeing less and less of in the workplace. Isaac is working to change that and offers amazing advice to the young men of Apogee on today's episode. ISAAC MOREHOUSE Isaac Morehouse is the founder and CEO of Crash (a career launch platform that helps you discover your professional interests, build a strong profile to showcase your talent, and launch into the best early career opportunities) and the founder of Praxis (a college alternative that builds your skills, your network, and leads to a full-time job at a growing business). Isaac is dedicated to the relentless pursuit of freedom and is a lifelong advocate of self-directed living and learning. He loves writing, talking, building companies, spending time with his family, and getting angry about sports teams from his home state of Michigan. MORE PLACES YOU CAN FIND ISAAC Twitter - @isaacmorehouse Books - https://isaacmorehouse.com/books/ Website - https://isaacmorehouse.com/ MORE CONTENT Follow Matt on social to get the latest updates and Essential content. Instagram: @mattbeaudreau Twitter: @mattbeaudreau YouTube: Matt Beaudreau

When it comes to creating the perfect day- the perfect routine- we often think we need to go above and beyond. We think our diets have to consist of green juice and waking up at obscene times to fit in all that we hope to accomplish. But today's guest makes the case that the perfect day has less to do with jamming in more things, and has more to do with doing less of the things that we know aren't beneficial. As our Apogee participants are auditing their own time in the program, there was no better man than Craig Ballantyne to talk to about how they can maximize their own days. Today's sponsor is Discover Praxis. Right now, listeners of E11 can get a $1,000 scholarship + a free book! Simply follow the link: discoverpraxis.com/essential11 CRAIG BALLANTYNE Craig is known as the World's Most Disciplined Man. He built Turbulence Training Fitness to over $10 million in sales and now runs EarlyToRise.com. His books, The Perfect Day Formula and Unstoppable, have helped over 55,000 high-performers own their day, double their income, and work less. MORE PLACES YOU CAN FIND CRAIG Instagram - @realcraigballantyne Twitter - @craigballantyne Facebook - Craig Ballantyne Website - https://www.craigballantyne.com/ MORE CONTENT Follow me on social to get the latest updates and Essential content. Instagram: @mattbeaudreau Twitter: @mattbeaudreau YouTube: Matt Beaudreau

Despite the stereotypes, extremely jacked men are often so much more than meatheads. As we've seen previously with former guest, Mark Bell. Today's guest is another prime example of how discipline, hard work, and self-awareness translate into impeccable physical health AND incredible success in life. The patterns of success apply to all areas. And no man knows that better than Ben Pakulski. Today's sponsor is Discover Praxis. Right now, listeners of E11 can get a $1,000 scholarship + a free book! Simply follow the link: discoverpraxis.com/essential11 BEN PAKULSKI Nicknamed the Pak-Man, Ben is a Canadian IFBB professional bodybuilder and winner of the 2008 Mr. Canada competition. In the IFBB, he finished 2nd twice in 2008. He has increased his standing in the Arnold Classic competition, placing 2nd in 2013, after a 4th-place finish in 2012 and a 10th-place finish in 2011. In the 2012 Mr. Olympia contest, his first-ever, he finished 11th. Today, Ben helps other men achieve lean, healthy, and muscular physiques and hosts the podcast Muscle Intelligence. MORE PLACES YOU CAN FIND BEN Instagram - @bpakfitness YouTube - Ben Pakulski

Perspective and leadership are everything on today's episode. It's easy to fall into feeling sorry for yourself. It's easy to avoid putting in the work because you're afraid of failure. It's easier to blame someone else. So that's the route many people take. For the few, while their peers may be avoiding the work, they're seeking it out. They're putting in the reps. They have gratitude for the challenging path. Because they know that's where refinement takes place. And no one knows that better than our guest, Leif Babin. Today's sponsor is Discover Praxis. Right now, listeners of E11 can get a $1,000 scholarship + a free book! Simply follow the link: discoverpraxis.com/essential11 LEIF BABIN Leif Babin is a former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, co-author of #1 New York Times bestseller Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, and co-founder of Echelon Front, where he serves as President/Chief Operating Officer, leadership instructor, speaker, and strategic advisor. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Leif served thirteen years in the Navy, including nine in the SEAL Teams. He is the recipient of the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and a Purple Heart. Upon his departure from active duty, Leif co-founded Echelon Front, a premier leadership consulting company that helps others build their own high-performance winning teams. MORE PLACES YOU CAN FIND LEIF Twitter - @LeifBabin Instagram - @realleifbabin Website - echelonfront.com MORE CONTENT Follow me on social to get the latest updates and Essential content. Instagram: @mattbeaudreau Twitter: @mattbeaudreau YouTube: Matt Beaudreau