The Meat Mafia Podcast

In this eye-opening episode, we sit down with Texas Slim, a passionate advocate for the American rancher, to discuss the dire state of the beef industry. Texas Slim has dedicated his life to exposing the deception within the beef industry. Growing up in the heart of Texas cattle country, Texas Slim witnessed firsthand the devastating changes that have occurred over the past 50 years. Through his work with the Beef Initiative, Texas Slim has become a voice for the American rancher, tirelessly advocating for a return to sustainable, community-driven food systems. His passion for building relationships between consumers and ranchers is evident in his motto, "Meet your rancher, shake their hand."Texas Slim reveals the startling truth about how just four multinational corporations control the majority of the cattle industry, leading to a consolidation that is pushing small, independent ranchers out of business. He shares his personal journey of discovering the correlation between our broken food systems, declining health, and the commoditization of our currency. Other key topics include:The importance of building relationships with local ranchers and supporting sustainable, community-driven food systemsTexas Slim's personal journey and the founding of the Beef Initiative to advocate for American ranchersThe alarming consolidation of the cattle industry by four multinational corporations and its impact on small, independent ranchersThe correlation between broken food systems, declining health, and commoditized currencyThe innovative solutions developed by the Beef Initiative to support small-scale processors and promote a more transparent, locally-focused beef industryThe national security implications of losing control over food systems and the urgent need to address this issueTimestamps:(00:07) Cattle Industry Challenges and Collaboration(04:27) Focus on Quality and Integrity(08:34) Revolutionizing the Beef Industry(18:56) Connecting With American Ranchers(26:17) Global Food System in Crisis(41:08) Advancing Microprocessing Centers in Texas*** LINKS*** Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Connect with Texas Slim & Beef InitiativeWebsite Texas Slim Foundation Texas Fire ReliefThe Beef Initiative Association CouncilBeef Index Beef Initiative MapsConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

Welcome to Part 2 of our podcast with Michael Kummer. Michael is a digital health entrepreneur, homesteader, a former professional sprinter, a CrossFit athlete, and the founder of MK Supplements, selling freeze-dried organ meat supplements sourced from 100% pasture-raised cattle. He has a popular blog and hosts the Primal Shift Podcast, where he explores topics like local food sourcing, benefits of homesteading, ethical animal husbandry, and modern agriculture's impact on food quality. Kummer merges advanced health optimization strategies with traditional food cultivation, bridging the gap between different health communities.Topics discussed today include:Adjusting carbohydrate intake to support cognitive and physical healthStrategies for establishing your metabolic baselineThe ultimate food diet for monitoring how the body responds to different foods and optimizing dietThe benefits of dietary variation for health optimizationNavigating food cravings and the influence of diet and environmentExamining the carnivore diet's role in managing autoimmune conditions like Hashimoto's diseaseCreative approaches to making organ meats appealingTimestamps:(00:00) - Homesteading and Local Food Sourcing(12:49) - Embracing Nature Through Homesteading(19:16) - Learning About Homesteading and Regenerative Farming(22:28) - Homesteading Lifestyle and Personal Reflection(31:06) - Teaching Kids Healthy Relationship With Food*** LINKS*** Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Connect with Michael:InstagramWebsiteYoutubeConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

Michael Kummer joins us on todays episode. Michael is a digital health entrepreneaur and homesteading expert, a former professional sprinter, a CrossFit athlete, and the founder of MK Supplements, selling freeze-dried organ meat supplements sourced from 100% pasture-raised cattle. He has a popular blog and hosts the Primal Shift Podcast, where he explores topics like local food sourcing, benefits of homesteading, ethical animal husbandry, and modern agriculture's impact on food quality. Kummer merges advanced health optimization strategies with traditional food cultivation, bridging the gap between different health communities.Topics discussed today include:Transitioning from corporate life to homesteading.The process and journey of learning to care for animals on a homestead.Building a closer relationship with nature through homesteading practices.Integrating outdoor activities into daily life for better health.The impact of changing one's living environment to be more in sync with the outdoors.Exploring the emotional and ethical aspects of raising animals for food.The experience and emotions involved in consuming meat from animals raised at home.Educating children on the importance of a hands-on relationship with their food, supported by family values.The importance of teaching natural eating habits to the next generation.Homesteading as a means to grow real food and create a legacy of health and understanding.Timestamps:(00:00) - Homesteading and Local Food Sourcing(12:49) - Embracing Nature Through Homesteading(19:16) - Learning About Homesteading and Regenerative Farming(22:28) - Homesteading Lifestyle and Personal Reflection(31:06) - Teaching Kids Healthy Relationship With Food*** LINKS*** Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Connect with Michael:InstagramWebsiteYoutubeConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

On this episode of the podcast, we're taking you back in time to Episode #75 where we had the chance to sit down with Joel Salatin to discuss Regenerative Farming and why Americans should invest heavily into the future of our soil & food.If you enjoyed this segment of the episode, please go check out the full-length podcast with Joel Salatin.Also, if you feel compelled, please rate our show and share it with a friend. Your support means the world to us and helps us continue forward on our mission to help fix the food system.****Join the revolutionary Joel Salatin, the mastermind behind Polyface Farm, as he imparts his wisdom on regenerative farming and the urgent need to rethink our relationship with the earth. In this groundbreaking discussion, we unravel the secrets of a farm that resonates with biodiversity, where animals dance a sustainable ballet of grazing and fertilizing, and the soil's vitality is as crucial as the air we breathe. Salatin's compelling stories and insights challenge the conventional food system and provide a blueprint for a future where food is grown in harmony with nature's design.Venture into the world of pastured meats with us, where Joel Salatin illustrates the stark differences in nutrient profiles compared to their conventionally raised counterparts. From pastured eggs rich in folic acid to grass-finished beef bursting with riboflavin, this episode is a treasure trove of revelations about the meat we consume and the profound effects of farming practices on taste and health. Salatin's passion for quality food production is infectious, guiding us toward choices that not only tantalize the palate but also fortify our health.This conversation isn't just about farming; it's an urgent call to action. As Salatin eloquently points out, the future of our food system hinges on decentralization, adaptability, and the ingenuity of small-scale operations. We probe the potential for an 'uberization' of food commerce, unlocking the power of community resilience and self-sufficiency. So, prepare to be inspired, informed, and perhaps even transformed, as we share a feast of insights on how we can collectively cultivate a more sustainable, nourishing world.Here's a summary of the full-length podcast:(0:00:01) - Regenerative Farming With Joel SalatinJoel Salatin shares his journey and vision for sustainable farming, emphasizing the connection between soil health and food quality.(0:13:23) - Restoring Land With Nature's PrinciplesNature's influence on farming, using grasslands and herbivores, restoring fertility with perennials and strategic cattle movement.(0:25:04) - Biodiversity and Fertility in AgricultureNature's intricate connections between species and their roles in distributing nutrients, focusing on animal fertility democratization and the choreography of farm animals at Polyface Farm.(0:33:58) - Nutritional Quality of Pastured MeatsNature's food production prioritizes growth over taste and nutrition, but pastured farming methods yield higher nutrient levels and better taste.(0:40:35) - Animals and Food Selection InstinctsFood is seen as inert fuel, leading to selection of processed options; animals prefer nutrient-rich foods; industrial vs. natural production.(0:46:12) - Nutrition and Variety in EatingNature's instinctual eating, genetic factors, and pastured livestock can increase diet variety for improved health.(0:52:11) - Food IndustryNature's labeling nuances in agriculture, genetic diversity, and creating location-specific breeds for genuine pasture-raised methods.(1:00:25) - Resilience Through Decentralization and AdaptabilityResilience is crucial in systems, highlighted by COVID-19's impact on large-scale facilities. Decentralization and adaptability in agriculture proved advantageous. Challenges of decentralizing and democratizing food processing include bureaucracy and startup costs.(1:06:18) - Revolutionizing the Food System Through CircumventionCentralization, long-distance transportation, and misuse of antibiotics contribute to E. coli and salmonella outbreaks. Decentralizing and "uberizing" the food system could promote informed consumer choice and modern food safety.(1:16:36) - The Future of Food and FarmingNature's movement towards homesteading and self-reliance, competitiveness of small-scale farming, and potential for community-based resilience.

In today's episode, we dive deep into the transformative journey of Jordan Ferrone. Struggling to find purpose in life, Jordan turned to the practice of daily ice baths as a way to challenge himself and break free from negative thought patterns. What began as a 12-day challenge quickly evolved into a life-changing journey that has now reached an incredible 474 days and counting. Along the way, Jordan has amassed a following of over a million people on Instagram, all inspired by his dedication and the profound impact cold exposure has had on his life. A completely new man from when he started the challenge, and a partner now with various cold plunge and health products, Jordan has changed the direction and scope of his life immensely. He joins us to shed light on this process.Topics discussed include conquering the inner negative voice, the importance of mindset, developing confidence and a sense of self through friction, why Jordan began this journey and when he will stop, the importance of values learned through sports, the transformative power of taking on challenges, the role of identity in personal development, the impact of consistency and discipline on one's life, the benefits of cold exposure and endurance sports, the significance of loyalty in partnerships, the surprising powers social media to inspire and connect, and many other topics.(00:00) Ice Barrel Challenge and Personal Transformation(04:03) Finding Inner Strength Through Challenges(14:25) Athletic Discipline and Personal Growth(21:44) The Power of Consistency and Purpose(29:39) Journey to Personal Growth Through Endurance(33:40) Building Confidence Through Challenging Pursuits(43:25) Personal Accountability and Mindset Transformation(46:59) Navigating Relationships for Personal Growth(52:12) Reflections on Personal Growth and Impact(57:18) Transformation Through Hard Work and Loyalty(01:04:35) Personal Growth and Cold Plunging *** LINKS*** Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Connect with JordanInstagramYouTubeConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

Josh Clemente, the co-founder of Levels and former SpaceX engineer, joins us on today's episode. After experiencing firsthand the challenges of managing his own metabolic health, Josh founded Levels, a company that provides users with real-time data on their blood sugar levels through CGM technology. With Levels, Josh aims to make personalized health information accessible to everyone, enabling individuals to make data-driven decisions about their nutrition and lifestyle.Topics covered include Josh's personal health journey, the founding of Levels, the importance of metabolic health, the limitations of traditional healthcare, the power of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), the role of technology in personalizing medicine, strategies for optimizing blood sugar control, the impact of diet and lifestyle on metabolic health, the future of preventative healthcare, the potential for engineering principles to revolutionize the way we approach health and wellness, and many other topics. *** LINKS*** Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Connect with Josh and Dr CaseyJosh' TwitterDr Casey's Instagram Connect with LevelsWebsiteInstagramTwitterConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

Robin Switzer joins us on then podcast today. Robin is the founder of KetoCon - Hack Your Health. Robin's backstory is fascinating - having worked the majority of her professional career in corporate at Bank Of America, she found herself deeply unmotivated, facing serious health concerns, and ultimately left her job to start KetoCon. Robin shares her personal voyage from facing health challenges to spearheading one of the most globally recognised inclusive health and wellness events today. Learn how to face and take on adversity, actionable insights into nutrition, and tips to navigate the complexities of the current health and wellness landscape. Key topics include Robin's favorite learned insights into nutrition and wellness, how to stay on top of your insulin and blood sugar levels, the benefits of fasting, the mental science behind snacking and stopping it, the science behind individuals dietary choices, the origins of KetoCon, marketing strategies for KetoCon, the future of health and wellness events, the importance and impact of collective learning and growth, examples of resilience, tackling and overcoming adversity, and many other topics. *** LINKS*** Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Connect with KetoCon - Hack Your HealthWebsite InstagramYouTube Connect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

Today we sit down with Sean Glass. Sean is a former U.S. Navy Seal officer, combat leader, and current leadership instructor with Jocko Willink's Echelon Front and co-founder of Primal Beef. Sean spent 13 years in the SEAL Teams, leading five SEAL platoons. Primal Beef is a beef company that focuses on providing high-quality, sustainably sourced beef to consumers who value nutrition, environmental stewardship, and the ethical treatment of animals. Sean's experience in life offers him a unique perspective on the simplicity and nutritional benefits of getting back to basics with our food sources.This conversation explores the intersections of sustainable agriculture, why America is a beef country, and the pivotal role of leadership in both personal and professional realms.Topics discussed include the contrast between homesteading and ranching, the benefits and logistical challenges of adopting a carnivore diet, Primal Beef's business model and emphasizing grass-finished beef, why America is a beef country, the importance of direct connections between consumers and food sources, the role of leadership and team dynamics within the SEAL teams, the powerful tool of debriefing, strategies for maintaining focus and detachment in decision-making, reflections on the personal growth and life lessons learned from military service, and many others. *** LINKS*** Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Connect with Primal BeefWebsiteInstagramConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

In this episode, we sit down with Trevor Gibbs, the founder of MANBAR, to discuss his journey in creating a truly unique and nutrient-dense meat bar. Trevor Gibbs is an avid outdoorsman, hunter, and cooking enthusiast who combined his passions to create MANBAR. MANBAR's journey started in Trevors home kitchen selling to friends. In scaling production, Trevor has remained adamant in his continued use of regenerative, grass-finished bison and beef, along with a commitment to avoiding encapsulated acids and seed oils; setting MANBAR apart from many other meat snacks. Listeners will gain valuable insights into the importance of clean ingredients, the benefits of high-fat content in snacks, and the mindset behind building a brand that prioritizes quality over shortcuts.In this episode, we dive into a range of topics, including the evolution of MANBAR from a meat and nut bar to a high-fat bison and beef stick, the importance of clean ingredients and avoiding encapsulated acids and seed oils, the challenges in finding the right co-packer and scaling production while maintaining quality, the concept of "man hands" and the pursuit of excellence in one's craft, the art of hunting and its connection to food appreciation and sharing meals, building a brand that prioritizes quality over shortcuts and staying true to one's values, the benefits of MANBAR's high-fat content for active individuals, supporting local artisans and the value of handcrafted, high-quality products, the role of authenticity and genuine messaging in building a resonant brand, the long-term vision for MANBAR and focusing on the journey rather than just the outcome, and other topics. *** LINKS*** Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Connect with MANBARWebsite Instagram Connect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

In this episode of the Meet Mafia Podcast, we welcome Sol Brah, an Australian digital creator, ‘physical spiritualist’ & founder of the Sol Empire – a collection of his companies, pages & communities which create content discussing health, bodybuilding, philosophy, biohacking, mindset and total life optimization. Sol discusses the profound benefits of sunlight and raw foods on well-being, highlighting the immense energy benefits of raw foods and how he approaches eating raw foods. Emphasizing community, real-world connections, and a life of freedom and entrepreneurship, Sol's story is a call to embrace a holistic approach to health and living, offering invaluable insights for those eager to explore beyond mainstream narratives.Other key topics covered in this episode include harnessing "muscular meditation" for spiritual growth, overcoming mediocrity and self-doubt, allowing divine inspiration to flow through your work, an intuitive approach to nutrition, shaping your reality through mental alchemy, taking control of your destiny, moving past fear and resistance, and many other topics. *** LINKS*** Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Connect with Sol BrahWebsiteTwitterInstagramYouTubeConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

In this episode, we sit down with CEO of Ballen Studios, Nick Witters. Nick is the strategic mind behind some of YouTube's most influential creators, including his current work with MrBallen and past experiences managing MrBeast. A combat veteran and law graduate, Nick offers a unique perspective on the challenges and triumphs of navigating the digital content sphere. He unpacks the layers of talent management, content strategy, and the relentless pursuit of excellence that drives the most successful creators. Other topics discussed include how a follow-up email launched his career in the William Morris mailroom, how to connect with impossible-to-reach clients, what it's like managing MrBeast and MrBallen, always putting clients' needs first, why being a lawyer makes you a better negotiator, obsession as a prerequisite for greatness, the power of "mental chess" in closing huge deals, knowing when to be a freight train and when to tread lightly, why it's crucial to hire a CEO once you reach 3-5 employees, how failure can kick you to the next level, the truth in the quote "fail fast", the value of impatience, and many other topics. *** LINKS*** Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Connect With Ballen StudiosWebsiteConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

Angela Gargano joins us on the podcast today. Angela has a unique perspective on life and success. Her background includes studying biochemistry, starting her own gym at 22 years old, winning Miss Fitness America in 2016, 6 x Ninja Warrior and now a leading instructor in the field of pull-ups for women. Having suffered a devastating ACL injury which changed the trajectory of her career, Angela was forced to shift her mindset and reassess her identity. Learn insightful lessons around building confidence, overcoming setbacks, establishing your ‘why’, and on the relationship between mindset and identity. Other key topics discussed include Angela's approach to overcoming challenges, the power of alter egos, turning vulnerability into empowerment, intuitive eating, foundational strength, the role of mindset in achieving peak performance, practical fitness advice and motivational tips, the debate on assisted pull-ups, and much more. '*** LINKS*** Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Connect With AngelaWebsite InstagramYouTube Connect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

In this episode, Kareem El-Ghayesh, the founder and pitmaster at KG BBQ in Austin, Texas, joins us today. His path from the banking sector in Egypt to the heart of Texas barbecue is incredible. Kareem has revolutionized the barbecue scene, fusing the unique blend of spices and techniques from Middle Eastern cuisine, with traditional Texas BBQ. Learn the tools and invaluable lessons that allowed Kareem to turn his life around, leave his country, pursue his passion and ultimately create his life's work. Kareem was born and raised in Egypt. After tasting Texas-style brisket for the first time over a decade ago, Kareem became enamored and left his job in Egypt to live in Austin and pursue his passion to master barbeque. Kareem trained under legendary Austin pitmasters for years, allowing him to hone his culinary craft and eventually combine his Egyptian upbringing with Texas barbecue to launch KG BBQ. His passion project quickly became one of the hottest spots in town. Kareem is known to bring a fierce creativity, care, and passion to his art, which you can distinctively taste in his food.Other topics include the art and science behind top barbecue, favorite cuts of meat and barbecue tricks, the intricacies of blending cultural cuisines, what it's like working as a BBQ pitmaster, pursuing your passion, intrinsic motivation, food bringing people together, the differences in BBQ between Texas and Egypt, knowing when to quit your job, the power of believing in yourself, and many other topics.(00:00) - Kareem's Transition to KG Barbecue(10:12) - Transformation Through Texas Barbecue(18:21) - Barbecue Techniques and Experiences(30:21) - Barbecue Job Hunt in Austin(37:22) - Dreams and Evolution in Austin(41:27) - Transitioning Careers in Culinary Industry(48:39) - Glimpse Into Culinary Job Experiences(54:48) - Success in Food Truck Business(01:16:29) - From Supper Club to Food Truck(01:26:19) - Becoming the Hottest BBQ in ATX(01:40:09) - Overcoming Challenges for Success(01:48:44) - Pursuing Dreams and Following Passion *** LINKS*** Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Connect with KG BBQInstagramWebsiteConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

Vinnie Tortorich, creator of No Sugar No Grains (NSNG) returns to the podcast. He provides insights on the pitfalls of the standard American diet and interrogates misconceptions surrounding protein and plant-based nutrition. Vinnie provides actionable advice on how to cut through the noise of modern health advice, simplify your health goals, and develop lifelong health habits. Vinnie is a celebrity fitness trainer, podcaster, film director, author of the best-selling book Fitness Confidential, and creator of No Sugar No Grains (NSNG). As a fitness influencer who rose to fame with his documentary “Fat Head,” Vinnie has spent over 40 years working with morbidly obese clients using low-carb, high-fat principles. He explains why and how an animal based diet provides superior nutrition and has helped him stay fit at age 61.Other topics covered include why protein is falsely blamed for cancer, the horrors of seed oils, the benefits of beef tallow, dismantling myths that demonize animal foods, reasons why people becomes obese, what things people above 60 need to consider when evaluating their health, testosterone dropping in younger generations, electrolytes, longevity, and many other topics. *** LINKS*** Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Connect with VinnieWebsite InstagramYouTube TwitterConnect with NSNGWebsite Amazon Connect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

Ashleigh Di Lello is a brain coach and founder of BioEmotional Healing, where she specializes in using neuroscience and mind-body medicine to resolve complex physical chronic illnesses and mental & emotional complications that conventional medicine often calls “incurable". Over half of her clients are seeking coaching to improve mental health conditions like trauma, anxiety, and depression. After surviving a mysterious systemic infection as a teenager that left her bedridden for years, Ashleigh rebuilt her strength and became a top-ranked professional ballroom dancer before a failed surgery triggered full-body nerve pain and chronic conditions. Ashleigh shares her incredible story of recovering from these illnesses, and how she used her knowledge of the mind-body connection to heal when Western medicine failed her. Key topics covered include:The pivotal mind-body factors behind “incurable” diagnosesHow past emotional trauma can secretly drive chronic nerve dysfunction and painSimple but radical self-healing practices accessible to anyoneLearning to harness the power of neuroplasticity*** LINKS*** Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Connect with Ashleigh InstagramWebsiteConnect with Bio Emotional HealingWebsiteConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

For the second time, Sam Moffett joins us today on the podcast. Sam is the co-owner of regenerative ranch Shirttail Creek Farm and farm owned Austin grocer Local Pastures. From growing up in the suburbs to running a successful grass-fed beef operation, Sam provides a raw, behind-the-scenes look at the trials and triumphs of ranch life. Learn about the exponential growth of consumer demand for locally-raised meats post-COVID, Sam's and other ranchers approach to ethical farming, and why he believes an animal's quality of life directly correlates to the quality of product. Sam and his wife started Shirttail Creek Farm from scratch six years ago. After an unfulfilling career in digital marketing, Sam was determined to take control of his health and align his values with his work, leaving Austin with his family for the countryside to start raising grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pasture-raised pork and poultry. The farm supplies meat and eggs to their Local Pastures store in Austin and ships products nationwide.Topics discussed include the complexities around food labels such as “free-range” and “organic”, the challenges and rewards of sustainable ranching, the intricate process of pasture management, the impact of COVID-19 on local farming, the honoring process of slaughtering your own animals, key questions to ask a rancher you might source meat from, the importance of community-supported agriculture, cultivating meaningful relationships in the social media age, and many other topics. *** LINKS*** Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Connect with SamLinkedinConnect with Shirttail Creek FarmWebsiteInstagramConnect with Local PasturesWebsite InstagramConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

In this episode of the Meat Mafia Podcast, we dive into the topic of sourcing high-quality food. We've created a simple framework for you to start to improve the quality of the food that you're putting in your body, and it starts with knowing how to find high-quality food. In our first episode of this series, we discussed the importance How To Eat Healthy and we covered the basics on what to eat and how to form the right habits to consistently fuel yourself properly.Before we keep going, here's our free e-book for the episode!As you'll hear in the episode, we get into a philosophical discussion about how we've grown disconnected from our food system, and its implications. We believe in the spiritual essence of food, and how we're designed to live in connection with the world around us. Our current food system divides us from our conscious connection to true life-giving nutrients. We believe it's imperative to reconnect with our food system to become healthier.On this episode, you'll learn:How to navigate the grocery store?Where to find farm fresh food?Why you should order some food online?How to improve your health one step at a time?How to reconnect with our food system?TIME STAMPS(0:00:00) - Sourcing Food(0:06:17) - Importance of Sourcing Healthy Food(0:14:46) - Navigating the Supermarket for Healthy Food(0:17:40) - Grocery Store for Healthy Eating(0:21:55) - Grocery Shopping and Sourcing Tips(0:28:28) - Food Preparedness, Finding Local Farms(0:36:14) - The Importance of Transparency With Farmers(0:42:08) - Grass-Fed Meat Benefits(0:51:15) - Meat Defrosting Trays and Hunting Exploration*** LINKS*** Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Connect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

Joining us on the podcast today is Kelsi Sheren. Kelsi is a Canadian veteran, entrepreneur, author & speaker. Kelsi shares her inspiring story of overcoming trauma through plant based healing and other unconventional methods. Learn why plant healing medicine works in the veteran community, real stigmas surrounding mental health, and practical advice on integrating meaning in your life through intentionality, accountability and self-exploration. Kelsi is the CEO of Brass & Unity and author of "Brass and Unity, One Woman's Journey Through the Hell of Afghanistan and Back". She served as an Artillery Gunner & CST in Afghanistan in 2009 with the Canadian, American and British military. Deployed to Afghanistan at the age of 19, Kelsi returned home and was diagnosed with PTSD and TBI, marking the beginning of an intense internal struggle. In overcoming these challenges, Kelsi is now a strong advocate for mental health, leveraging her platform to offer support and resources to those in need. Her approach to wellness, influenced by her military and plant based healing experiences, provides a fresh perspective on many of life's most important issues. Other topics include psychedelic-assisted therapy, her advice for people seeking to start plant based healing, the realities of transitioning from military to civilian life, strategies for building and maintaining a support network for veterans, the impact of mindfulness and meditation on stress reduction, techniques for managing anxiety and depression, creative outlets in processing and healing from trauma, growing a socially responsible business, and many more. *** LINKS*** Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Connect with KelsiInstagramTwitterSpotify PodcastYouTubeConnect with Brass & UnityWebsiteConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

We're excited to launch the first episode of a series of Meat Mafia exclusive podcasts intended to cover specific health topics. By the end of this series, we expect you to be well-equipped to start improving your health in a meaningful way. We'll cover everything from how to eat healthy to improving your environment to support optimal health. In this episode, we provide a blueprint for taking control of your health through optimizing your diet. It's broken down into three sections: 1) The emotional relationship with food2) What foods to eat and avoid3) The execution for eating healthyWe share specifics around the nutrient-dense foods your body thrives on as well as key strategies for overcoming emotional eating patterns, meal prepping efficiently, and structuring your days for success.For context on this series, a huge reason why we started this show is that, we're not doctors, we're not MDs, we're not personal trainers, we're not nutritionists, we're just two guys that graduating college fell out of optimal health and put in the 10,000 hours of trial, error, and understanding what worked well and what didn't. We really feel like we found a blueprint that's helped us optimize our health and create the life that we've ultimately dreamed of. Hence, the goal of these solo episodes is to break down meaningful and important topics in health to give you as much value and impact as possible in your life. We cover in this episode emotional eating triggers, understanding your relationship with food, the best nutrient-dense foods to eat, proteins to prioritize, why you should cut out refined sugars/grains, the benefit of seasonal and local eating, meal planning strategies, efficiently grocery shopping, preparing food in advance, overcoming emotional eating habits, using food to transform your energy levels, focusing on food quality over quantity, and more. We try cover all the key bases here to equip you with our favorite science-based nutrition tactics. Enjoy, and thank YOU for all your support. It means an incredible amount to us and we hope this series can give back in some small way. *** LINKS***Here's our free guide on How to Eat Healthy Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Connect with Meat MafiaInstagramYouTubeBrett TwitterHarry TwitterConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

In this episode, we are joined by CEO of Teqball, Ajay Nwosu. An investor in over 27 companies, Ajay shares his unique approach and mindset behind investing and business. Shaped by growing up in four continents, Ajay breaks down his favorite life lessons and why they all have a remarkable compounding effect. Learn why surrounding yourself with truth-tellers, pushing your comfort zones, “auditing” your inner circle and day-to-day time allocation, all lead to invaluable collaborations and opportunities. As a global citizen, leader at Teqball, experienced investor, and graduate in aerospace engineering, Ajay has an approach to life focused on rigorous personal growth, new challenges, and a dedication to making a positive impact in the world. Ajay is a strong believer in cultivating empathy and clear communication as a leader, whilst adamant in the claim that "you're mind is a laboratory, not a library", stressing you have to apply and iterate daily the lessons you're exposed to in order to achieve real change. Additional topics covered include: the strategic growth and challenges of Teqball, Ajay's investment approach and philosophy in over 27 companies, the importance of continuous learning and personal development, interplay of technology and sports in current business trends, mentorship and leadership in business, balancing personal wellness with professional responsibilities, predictions and trends in health-oriented business ventures, and many more. Connect with AjayLinkedinConnect with TeqballWebsiteInstagramYouTube Connect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinJoin The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.SPONSORSHVMN What you put in your body today is the foundation for who you become tomorrow. HVMN [Health Via Modern Nutrition] is obsessed with helping you get to the top. Visit https://hvmn.com/MEATMAFIA for 30% off your first subscription order (discount automatically applied at checkout).NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

In this insightful episode of the Meat Mafia Podcast, we're joined by the dynamic Jen Gottlieb, co-founder of Super Connector Media. Jen shares her transformative journey from dreams of being an actress to successfully paving her path as an entrepreneur and speaker. Jen highlights how to find joy in the struggle of personal development, tactics to build confidence and battle imposter syndrome, and the art of effective communication. Jen provides tactical tips on mindset, productivity, handling fear, and fully realizing your potential. Jen Gottlieb is the co-founder of Super Connector Media, where she helps entrepreneurs get seen in the media. A former actress on Broadway turned fitness entrepreneur, Jen's built an incredible career merging her performance talents with her business acumen. Jen brings high energy and actionable advice to this conversation, along with a spirited vulnerability as she shares her favorite lessons learnt from her own struggles. Key topics include strategies to overcome fear, battling imposter syndrome by acknowledging your wins, why you should document your work, going the extra mile to provide extreme value, the power of being seen, sharing your gifts, overcoming resistance to doing hard things, how taking action builds motivation, practicing public speaking through social media, getting out of your comfort zone regularly, and so much more.This ep is a big motivator for anyone looking for ways to start actively pursuing their goals. Connect with Jen:InstagramYouTube Website Connect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinJoin The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.https://t.me/+kjtD9vQBh-s5YzFhSPONSORS1. CrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses. Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months. https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/2. NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out! https://nobleorigins.com/AFFILIATES LMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb diet https://drinklmnt.com/The Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican Bar https://carnivorebar.com/pages/shopPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & Montana https://perennialpasturesranch.com/?sca_ref=2773923.WJlPpRyTNkFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFF https://farrow.life/shop/Heart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins! https://heartandsoil.coCarnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA. https://carnivoresnax.com/Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MEATMAFIA https://eatpluck.com/?ref=MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw - 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA' https://www.feedraw.comFond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! https://fondbonebroth.com

Raw milk is making a powerful resurgence as more people discover its remarkable health benefits after years of propaganda against unpasteurized dairy. In this episode, Tommy and Luke of Raw Milk and Deadlifts share their journey to raw milk. They share how its easily digestible nutrients, enzymes, probiotics and ability to cure nutritional deficiencies transformed their health and provided sustained energy.Growing up on the standard American diet, Tommy and Luke struggled with acne, inflammation, and other health issues. Introduced to health and fitness in high school, they discovered the power of nutrition and local farming, which eventually led them to raw milk. They were shocked by how much better they felt, with increased energy, improved digestion, clearer skin, and faster muscle recovery. Best friends since kindergarten, their venture, Raw Milk and Deadlifts, is a culmination of their passions: farming, fitness, and faith. Key topics include: the lost history and hidden health benefits of raw dairy, Louis Pasteur vs Antoine Béchamp, firsthand experiences of increased strength and workout recovery, how raw milk supports gut health and a diverse microbiome, benefits of bone broth and bone marrow, the ethics of small farming, using every part of the animal, food waste in America, clarifying myths about the legality of raw milk, finding local raw milk producers, and much more. Connect with Raw Milk & DeadliftsWebsite InstagramConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinJoin The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Visit https://hvmn.com/MEATMAFIA for 30% off your first subscription order (discount automatically applied at checkout).SPONSORSHVMN What you put in your body today is the foundation for who you become tomorrow. HVMN [Health Via Modern Nutrition] is obsessed with helping you get to the top. Visit https://hvmn.com/MEATMAFIA for 30% off your first subscription order (discount automatically applied at checkout).CrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

Our guest on the show today is Lauren Wright. During Covid, Lauren realized something was not right with her health when a nagging tooth infection triggered a cascade of debilitating symptoms. Refusing to accept bandaid solutions from dismissive doctors, Lauren shares her powerful story of how she took control to heal herself from the inside out. Learn the connection between oral health and whole body inflammation, how she learned to listen to her intuition, and the step-by-step protocols that ultimately allowed her to self-regulate her nervous system and regain her health. A must listen for anyone looking to get to the root cause of their health issues.A mother and wellness enthusiast, Lauren lives in New York with her husband and kids. Lauren guides us through her successful health approach, including functional lab testing, alternative therapies and profound personal growth work tools. Lauren has also endured immense personal tragedy, including the loss of her mother and brother. She reflects on the life-changing lessons grief taught her about what matters most.Key topics covered include: the dangers of root canals and tooth issues, healing leaky gut, spiritual psychology for trauma, how to support thyroid and hormone health, the power of personal experience in healing others, the relationship between personal health and family health, using medical mediumship, the self-healing potential within us, vulnerability and connectivity in healing, and many other topics. Connect with LaurenInstagramConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinJoin The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show. https://t.me/+kjtD9vQBh-s5YzFhSPONSORS1. CrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses. Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months. https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/2. NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out! https://nobleorigins.com/AFFILIATES LMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb diet https://drinklmnt.com/The Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican Bar https://carnivorebar.com/pages/shopPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & Montana https://perennialpasturesranch.com/?sca_ref=2773923.WJlPpRyTNkFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFF https://farrow.life/shop/Heart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins! https://heartandsoil.coCarnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA. https://carnivoresnax.com/Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MEATMAFIA https://eatpluck.com/?ref=MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw - 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA' https://www.feedraw.comFond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! https://fondbonebroth.com

Today, artist Mike Posner joins us on the podcast. In our raw and vulnerable conversation, Mike shares his powerful journey of self-discovery through immense physical and mental challenges. Hear Mike reflect on the inner turmoil that drove him to walk across America, the internal shifts that allowed him to grow, techniques for quieting our suffering mind, and motivational insights on unlocking our human potential. Known for chart-topping hits like “Cooler Than Me,” and "I Took A Pill In Ibiza", Posner is a celebrated and grammy nominated musical artist, songwriter, and producer. Less known however, is Mike's personal and spiritual side. In 2019, he walked from New Jersey to California, averaging over 24 miles a day. He has since climbed the tallest mountain on each continent, including Mount Everest, while raising money for charity. Mike has a deep love and affection for humanity and the world, which he seeks to share wholeheartedly. You can feel it. Key topics discussed include overcoming pain and fear on extreme endurance challenges, accessing higher states through breathwork, Mike being bit by a rattlesnake, the 'no matter what' clause, the three stages of maturity, infusing spirituality into our everyday movement, leading into hardship for growth, creative abundance, the miraculous in our existence, Mike's future plans, and more. Side note: Mike was quite an incredible guest. We were pretty stunned by this one. You may find, like us, that he's an enlightened David Goggins - so happy, yet gives you that adrenaline shot to charge into life. Enjoy!Connect with MikeWebsiteInstagramYouTube TwitterConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinJoin The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.If you're enjoying the show, you will LOVE our newsletter.Visit https://hvmn.com/MEATMAFIA for 30% off your first subscription order (discount automatically applied at checkout).SPONSORSHVMN What you put in your body today is the foundation for who you become tomorrow. HVMN [Health Via Modern Nutrition] is obsessed with helping you get to the top. Visit https://hvmn.com/MEATMAFIA for 30% off your first subscription order (discount automatically applied at checkout).CrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

Today, Dr. Anthony Chaffee joins us again for the second time on the podcast. If you're curious about the carnivore diet, this is a must listen. Dr. Anthony Chaffee explains how humans evolved as meat-eaters over millions of years, making animal foods profoundly healing while plant toxins tend to trigger conditions like autoimmune disease. He addresses in depth how the shift to agriculture and processed foods has led to declining health across populations, and how a carnivore diet focused on fatty meat and water will ensure dramatic health turnarounds.Dr. Chaffee is a neurosurgeon and leading educator on using ancestral nutrition to heal chronic disease. After overcoming his own health struggles with a meat-focused diet, he set out to understand the science and is now a well known educator of his teachings through many communities. Dr. Chaffee's message is backed by years of research, clinical observations, and personal experience, making him a credible and fascinating figure in the world of health and nutrition.Other topics covered include why humans evolved as meat eaters, debunking common misconceptions about plant-based diets and chronic diseases, myths surrounding cholesterol and fiber, how agriculture and processed foods have damaged health, real-world examples of disease reversal on carnivore diets, how more doctors are coming around to ancestral nutrition, and tips for getting started on the carnivore diet.Connect with Dr. ChaffeeYouTube InstagramTwitter Connect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinJoin The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.SPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

If you’ve ever felt confused about conflicting nutrition advice or wondered where your food actually comes from, this episode is for you. Ashley and Sarah from the popular Strong Sistas give an inside look at the realities of our modern food system after starting their own farm. Gain powerful insights into how you can take control of your health journey.Ashley and Sarah, founders of Angel Acres Farm, run the influential Strong Sistas brand. After struggling with their own health issues for years, they finally traced the root causes back to the quality and sources of the food they were eating. This set them on a path to start their own regenerative farm and educate people about the importance of real food.In this info-packed episode, you’ll learn about the girls personal health journeys, why farming real food is so challenging today, the truth about common toxic chemicals used in agriculture, how to actually fix your metabolism through food, the impact of diet changes, pro-metabolic diets, addressing thyroid issues, and much more.Connect with Strong SistasInstagramYoutubeWebsiteConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinJoin The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.Visit https://hvmn.com/MEATMAFIA for 30% off your first subscription order (discount automatically applied at checkout).SPONSORSHVMN What you put in your body today is the foundation for who you become tomorrow. HVMN [Health Via Modern Nutrition] is obsessed with helping you get to the top. CrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

Today we have on the podcast Dan McCormick, CEO and founder of the D2C creatine gummy brand, Create Wellness. Dan reflects on Create's backstory, where after 10 years of Dan taking creatine, he identified a clear market in gap in the benefits creatine provides and the negative misconceptions surrounding it. Learn how he's battled these misconceptions and grown his business as the sole employee, his perspective on publishing real revenue figures publicly, and his advice for aspiring founders in the oversaturated supplement space.As the sole employee of Create, Dan oversees all aspects of the business. He also co-writes an optimistic newsletter called Not Boring with his brother Packy McCormick, a well-known tech writer and investor, which has over 200,000 subscribers. Despite Create's impressive growth, Dan still battles imposter syndrome when talking about the "creatine gummy business." However, he powers through by focusing on the tangible health benefits Create provides customers.We also discuss trends in the ecommerce landscape, the benefits of creatine and the challenges in selling it, Dan's lessons from publishing revenue numbers publicly, why female fitness influencers have been key partners, and his advice for aspiring founders, why females have held more market share than males, the ideal mechanism to delivery creatine gummies, and many other topics. Connect with DanLinkedinTwitterConnect with CreateWebsiteInstagramTwitterConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble Protein Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.SPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

We’re thrilled to have Michael Brandt — co-founder and CEO of leading ketone supplement company, HVMN (Health Via Modern Nutrition) — join us on the podcast today.Michael’s background as an accomplished endurance athlete inspired him to create HVMN and spearhead the first company to commercially sell exogenous ketones. We learned a ton talking with Michael about evolution of exogenous ketones and their overall impact on health and performance. Beyond that, it was fascinating to hear Michael entrepreneurial story as well; how HVMN battled with taste, early investor breakthroughs, and insights into their successful launch. So add some fuel to your day and give this episode with Michael a listen! Bonus points if you put back some KetoneIQ before doing so. Connect with MichaelInstagramLinkedin WebsiteConnect with HVMNWebsiteInstagramTwitterYouTubeConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinJoin The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.SPONSORSHVMN What you put in your body today is the foundation for who you become tomorrow. HVMN [Health Via Modern Nutrition] is obsessed with helping you get to the top. Visit https://hvmn.com/MEATMAFIA for 30% off your first subscription order (discount automatically applied at checkout).CrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

In this fascinating conversation with Sahil Bloom, we dive into what it really means to live life to the fullest. Sahil shares his unique perspective on chasing your purpose, embracing your weirdness, and prioritizing your relationships above all else. You'll hear Sahil's insights on manifesting the life you want through daily evidence-building and identity shaping. He shares the one simple habit that ensures you'll never fail, the key to transforming your hardest days into growth opportunities, and why the loudest person in the room is often the weakest.Sahil also opens up about his guiding principles for success - creating positive ripples in the world, choosing your hard, and playing the long game in life and relationships. With humor and candor, he inspires us to take risks, have it all on your own terms, and never underestimate the power of your influence.Most impactfully, Sahil puts the spotlight on fatherhood and family as the secret sauce to a life well-lived. He shares his journey to buying time and making memories with the people closest to him and why bearing witness to your child's smile is the true marker of a life lived to the fullest.Connect with SahilWebsiteTwitterInstagramConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinJoin The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.SPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

Renowned health entrepreneur Dr. Josh Axe joins us on the podcast today. He shares his fascinating personal journey into medicine, turning to holistic healing to help his mother overcome cancer as well as his own injuries where he was unable to walk for a year. Listen in as he reveals ancient Chinese medicine secrets for personalized healing, how to shift your mindset to overcome limiting beliefs, and what the future of functional medicine will look like. Dr. Axe is a qualified doctor, clinical nutritionist, and co-founder of the popular supplement brand Ancient Nutrition. He is the author of six best selling books including Keto Diet, Eat Dirt and Essential Oils. Having healed himself from a serious spinal infection, he is passionate about helping others experience vibrant health by addressing root causes and explaining the benefits of holistic healing. Tune in to learn Dr. Axe’s unique approach to wellness.Other topics discussed include how food can be used as medicine, the link between emotions, mindset and physical health, how to build a growth mindset, the best herbs and mushrooms in Chinese medicine, the importance of Chinese medicine in the world today, AI predictions in health, the future of medicine, and many other topics. Side note - this was incredible. Dr. Axe is truly on the forefront of modern medicine and holistic healing. We learnt so much from this episode, so we're pumped to share it with you guys. Happy new year!Connect with Dr. AxeWebsiteInstagramFacebookTwitterLinkedin Connect with Ancient Nutrition WebsiteInstagramFacebookTwitterConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinJoin The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.SPONSORSHVMN What you put in your body today is the foundation for who you become tomorrow. HVMN [Health Via Modern Nutrition] is obsessed with helping you get to the top.CrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

Eric Hinman joins us this week on the podcast. Eric is one of the top influencers in the health and wellness space, finding success in his athletic achievements as well as ability to build brands. Eric shares his insights in how to successfully build a brand, how individuals can differentiate themselves, and how to design a lifestyle to help you thrive. Eric is a hybrid athlete (5x Ironman), serial entrepreneur, and brand builder, who specializes in scaling early-stage consumer and wellness brands. Unhappy as an insurance broker at 27, Eric transitioned to health and fitness. Finding huge success in building his own brand and pursuing his athletic endeavors, Eric now advises wellness brands such as Ice Barrel and Ten Thousand on marketing, social media, and product development. As you'll hear, Eric is truly a master at networking and establishing relationships.We also discuss trends in biohacking, the power of over-delivering and being memorable, Eric's Ironman journey, designing your perfect day, the power of connection in business, networking tips, identifying your niche, the art of storytelling in content creation, and much more. Third time on the pod for Eric, and following his ethos, he over-delivered again. Connect with EricWebsiteInstagramTwitterConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinJoin The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.SPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

Want to recover faster, have more energy, and boost your overall health? In this podcast we connect with Rob, founder of The Grounded Athlete, to dig deep into the esoteric and science-based benefits of grounding. We explore how grounding works, it's protocols, benefits around inflammation, stress and diseases, and practical ways to utilize grounding each day. Learn how this free health tool can enhance both mental and physical performance.Rob, a physics graduate and track athlete, grew up split between his Lakota culture in South Dakota and small town Iowa life. After discovering grounding as a means to enhance his athletic performance and recovery, Rob went onto establish The Grounded Athlete, a platform selling products dedicated to making grounding, it's benefits and the science behind it, accessible and understandable to all. Rob also handmakes grounding sandals and is currently finishing his book on grounding, called Earth and Water. We also cover why grounding helps reduce pain, accelerate recovery and improves sleep, the minimum dose to reap benefits, ideal grounding surfaces, how grounding reconnects us to the earths rhythm, finding simplicity in health, creativity, authenticity, and much more. Seriously, if you have any questions on Grounding, it's likely being answered in this episode! Rob comes with an abundance of knowledge and useful takeaways on grounding and his unique approach to health - check it out!Connect with The Grounded AthleteInstagram WebsiteFacebookTwitter Connect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinJoin The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.SPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

If you've been feeling drained and disconnected lately, EMFs could be to blame. Tristan Scott, electrical engineer, author, and EMF consultant, blows the lid on the overlooked impacts of electromagnetic frequencies on our health. He makes the case for getting grounded in nature as our best safeguard, strategies to reduce EMF exposure, aligning with circadian rhythms, and the critical role of fat-soluble nutrients in our dietary regime. Tristan Scott brings expertise as an author, podcast host of Decentralized Radio, and health consultant focused on empowering others to take control of their health. After overcoming his own struggle with post-concussion syndrome through alternative modalities like light therapy, Tristan now shares his message from his Wyoming home base. Key topics covered include the dilemma of EMF and bluetooth headphones, the toxic threshold of EMFs, simple ways to reduce EMF exposure, why perfection in health shouldn't be the goal, the critical importance of sunlight and circadian biology, the importance of mindset in healing, historical human dietary practices, the role of vitamins, and more. Connect with TristanInstagram WebsiteTwitterConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinTimestamps:01:25 Austin - Entrepreneurship Scene02:33 The Magic of Hunting05:30 Using Nature to Heal from Concussions09:30 Playbook for Healing Concussions14:10 Programming Your Subconscious to Heal17:45 Beginning to Understand EMFs20:20 Evolving as a Person - Bitcoin to EMFs20:56 What Do People Need to Know About EMFs?26:37 What is the Electromagnetic Spectrum?29:44 Studies to Support EMFs causing Disease31:35 Red Light versus Blue Light34:00 Studies Showing How EMFs Effect Animals36:21 Practical Advice for Reducing EMFs42:10 How Bad Are Bluetooth Headphones?49:40 What’s Tristan’s Mission?55:00 Funding a New Era of Research56:03 Circadian Biology59:10 Seasonality & Locality: The Most Important Nutritional Factors1:05:30 Social Programming & FoodJoin The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.SPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

Super Coffee co-founder Jimmy DeCicco joins us on the podcast today. He shares the intense focus on nutrition, training, and mindfulness that has fueled his athletic and entrepreneurial ambitions. Learn how hustle, grit, taking action, and leveraging authenticity grew a bootstrap start-up into a blockbuster product backed by JLo and ARod, disrupting the bottled coffee space.Jimmy founded Super Coffee in his early 20s alongside his two brothers, starting the company out of a run-down Baltimore factory. Super Coffee is now a leader in the RTD coffee space, carried in over 50,000 stores nationwide. Hear the Super Coffee origin story, explosive growth trajectory, lessons from mentors like Jesse Itzler, authentic branding and marketing tactics for upstarts, personal development as a young founder/CEO, the future of health trends and nutrition, hiring tips, meaningful relationships, and much more.Jimmy is no nonsense. His insights will certainly help people seeking to achieve their goals. This one was powerful - we hope you enjoy!Connect with JimmyInstagram LinkedinTwitterConnect with Super CoffeeWebsiteInstagramFacebookConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinJoin The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.SPONSORSHVMN What you put in your body today is the foundation for who you become tomorrow. HVMN [Health Via Modern Nutrition] is obsessed with helping you get to the top.CrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

Today's guest is Michael Chernow, founder of the food and lifestyle brand Kreatures of Habit. Michael overcame addiction and transformed his life through fitness, nutrition, and community — and his story sure is an incredible one.From being an entrepreneur, investor, bodybuilder, ultrarunner, and restauranteur, Michael has done it all. Kreatures of Habit is Michael’s current venture and its staple product — Meal One — contains the superfood oatmeal that aided his recovery 20 years ago.Topics discussed include morning rituals, teaching your kids values, overcoming addiction, fitness as therapy, breathwork for self-discovery, the importance of self-care, the impact of sobriety, and much more. Michael truly lives what he preaches and this conversation is full of actionable advice that could only be shared by someone with the worldview that has come from Michael’s fascinating journey. He’s raw, emotional, honest, and an incredible storyteller with a life full of adventures you’d have to hear to believe. So buckle in and enjoy! Connect with MichaelInstagramTikTokTwitterConnect with Kreatures of HabitWebsite InstagramYouTubeConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinJoin The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.SPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.Paleovalley is on a mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health. Check out their Gut-Friendly Beef Sticks and more at paleovalley.com/meatmafia and you'll receive 15% off your order.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

In this episode, Loren Castle, founder of Sweet Loren's, shares her journey from battling cancer to founding and leading the #1 natural cookie dough business in the U.S. We break down Sweet Loren's incredible success and story, the positive irreversible change that dietary transformation has on oneself, and how we can nourish our bodies whilst enjoying delicious treats.After overcoming Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at age 22, Loren became devoted to living a healthy lifestyle through nutrition, yoga, and mindfulness. After years of product iteration, adversity and a desire to align her commitment to wellness with her craving for a tasty, high quality snack - Sweet Loren's was born: a line of gluten-free, dairy-free cookie dough made with responsibly-sourced ingredients to satisfy any sweet tooth or dietary need.We cover Loren's intuitive approach to entrepreneurship, navigating relationships with retailers like Whole Foods, product innovation based on customer feedback, the adrenaline one finds in pursuing a passion, and more. Side note - this conversation was awesome - Loren is so passionate about wanting people to be able to enjoy all that life has to give, and her company might have honestly created the blueprint for how smaller companies with clean ingredients and win over customers and change the tide with big food corps. Go Loren!Connect with Loren CastleInstagramLinkedinConnect with Sweet Loren'sWebsiteInstagramFacebookTwitterConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinJoin The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.SPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.Paleovalley is on a mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health. Check out their Gut-Friendly Beef Sticks and more at paleovalley.com/meatmafia and you'll receive 15% off your order.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

In this episode, Adam Von Rothfelder, founder of Strong Coffee Company, shares how he started and scaled his CPG company, detailing his core principles to business success such as daily action, embracing failure, authentic customer engagement, and the significance of confidence and mindset.Adam's backstory is as absolutely fascinating. His journey entails starting as an electrician and MMA fighter to becoming a personal trainer and ultimately a full-time entrepreneur. Adam has successfully launched multiple supplement companies, including Strong Coffee, and his latest project, 60thandupham, where he aids health and wellness brands in product development, branding, and marketing. We also discuss managing entrepreneurial challenges, balancing give-and-take, optimizing time through systematic approaches and strategic hiring, among other key topics.Connect with AdamInstagramFacebookLinkedinTwitter Connect with Strong Coffee CompanyWebsiteInstagramFacebookTwitterConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinJoin The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what’s happening between episodes of the show.SPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.Paleovalley is on a mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health. Check out their Gut-Friendly Beef Sticks and more at paleovalley.com/meatmafia and you'll receive 15% off your order.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

In this episode, we're joined by Wyatt Ewing, founder of Ice Barrel, to discuss the profound mental and physical benefits of cold therapy, how he built his business from the ground up, the power of instincts and self-awareness, and living a primal lifestyle. Wyatt began his cold therapy journey after hitting rock bottom from extreme stress and anxiety. Daily cold exposure initially through cold showers, then ice baths, transformed his life. This led him to create Ice Barrel in 2018, a unique and original designed upright barrel for cold water immersion, as well as instilling in him a passion to bring cold exposure to the masses.From barely getting by selling tractors in Amish country to supply cash, to the origins of choosing his first headquarters in Ohio, Wyatt doesn’t gloss over the realities of building a business out of sheer passion. We cover his inspiring founder journey, techniques to optimize health through intuition over science, creating community around a brand, the importance of core values in hiring, supporting local economies and supply chains, and much more. Connect with WyattLinkedinConnect with Ice BarrelWebsiteInstagramYouTubeFacebook Connect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinSPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.Paleovalley is on a mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health. Check out their Gut-Friendly Beef Sticks and more at paleovalley.com/meatmafia and you'll receive 15% off your order.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

On today’s episode, Brett chats with Pete Nelson — the founder of SISU Saunas — about how stepping into the sauna and cold plunge helps with stress, sleep, and motivation. From struggling to sell a single sauna for months on end to now selling dozens of high-end, US-made saunas every month, Pete’s story is one of perseverance, leaning into hardship, and practicing a lifestyle around “sisu” — a Finnish ideal about grit, determination, and bravery that Pete has built his company around.During our conversation, we discussed misconceptions around sauna usage, the ideal sauna temperature for different goals, how consistent sauna usage provides a dopamine reset and reduces stress, using sauna as a tool for zone 2 cardio, and much more. Pete also shares his crazy idea to run ultra-marathons in Antarctica as a way to give his life excitement and face fears. A must-listen for anyone interested in learning the ins and outs of saunas and the general tenets behind pursuing a healthy lifestyle. Connect with SISU LifestyleInstagramWebsiteLinkedinFacebookConnect with PeteInstagramConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinSPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.Paleovalley is on a mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health. Check out their Gut-Friendly Beef Sticks and more at paleovalley.com/meatmafia and you'll receive 15% off your order.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

In a unique episode of the show, our friend — the fantastic health coach Chris Bates — interviews us! Listen along as we share the stories behind our personal health journeys and the lifestyle changes we adopted along the way. Beyond that, we discuss the creation of The Meat Mafia and everything that has come with it: overcoming imposter syndrome, the challenges of entrepreneurship, the power of relationships and positive mindsets, business partnerships, bromance, making genuine connections, dealing with negativity, the reality of monetizing, legacy, techniques on handling pressure and setting boundaries, and more. We truly loved this conversation with Chris and hope you’ll enjoy learning more about our personal stories through health, The Mafia, and more! Connect With Chris:Instagram Connect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinSPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.Paleovalley is on a mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health. Check out their Gut-Friendly Beef Sticks and more at paleovalley.com/meatmafia and you'll receive 15% off your order.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

In today's episode, we're thrilled to welcome Ben Spell, the visionary behind Good Ranchers. Ben's journey from humble beginnings to leading a company that's skyrocketed by an astounding 1400% in just two years is nothing short of inspiring. Good Ranchers isn't just a business; it's a movement, bridging the gap between American families and the heart of American agriculture.Our conversation dives deep into the pressing issues facing our food industry. We explore the ripple effects of importing low-quality meats on local farmers, the critical need for transparent labeling, and the real struggles faced by American ranchers. But it's not just about challenges; it's also about solutions and reconnecting consumers with the source of their food.Ben opens up about the misconceptions in agriculture, the power of supporting local farms, and the driving force behind his success. His approach isn't just about business; it's a mission, fueled by his ministerial heart, to foster community and connection through the power of food. Ben's story is a reminder to us all: doing the right thing isn't just a mindset, it's a way of life. So, tune in, get inspired, and join us on this enlightening journey with Ben Spell!Connect with BenInstagramConnect with Good RanchersWebsiteInstagramFacebookTwitterConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinSPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.Paleovalley is on a mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health. Check out their Gut-Friendly Beef Sticks and more at paleovalley.com/meatmafia and you'll receive 15% off your order.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

In this episode, we sit down with Todd Anderson — a former Michigan State walk-on turned captain and the founder of Dream Recovery, the company with products that help people defeat bad sleep. When it comes to all-things sleep, Todd is a clear expert. On the pod, Todd shares insights into the interconnectedness of sleep, wellness, and performance. We discuss the importance of understanding personalized sleep patterns and maintaining consistency in sleep schedules. And we dig into sleep aids, sunrise alarm clocks, and the impact of light on sleep. If you want to learn fascinating nuggets about sleep, along with life lessons from a high-performing athlete and entrepreneur, this is the episode for you! So buckle in and enjoy 😊Connect with ToddInstagramTwitterLinkedin Connect with Dream RecoveryInstagramFacebookTwitterConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinSPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.Paleovalley is on a mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health. Check out their Gut-Friendly Beef Sticks and more at paleovalley.com/meatmafia and you'll receive 15% off your order.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

Matt Lysiak, a crime report and author of critically acclaimed book 'Fiat Food', joins Harry today as he shares insights into the relationship between the advent of fiat currency and the transformation of our global food system. Matt reveals the dubious alliance of governmental organizations, big corporations, and certain dietary advocates that have led to the normalization of unhealthy, ultra-processed food. By dissecting historical events such as the departure from the gold standard, the creation of fake food commodities, and the subtle manipulation by influential personalities and religious entities, Matt decodes how our dietary habits have been economically engineered. Additionally we discuss Bitcoin's potential role in restoring personal health sovereignty and disrupting the unjust food and economic system.Connect with MattTwitterAmazonConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinSPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.Paleovalley is on a mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health. Check out their Gut-Friendly Beef Sticks and more at paleovalley.com/meatmafia and you'll receive 15% off your order.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

On today's episode, Matt Schweitzer -- a fan-favorite guest (from episode 154) and Vice President of Culinary Operations at the esteemed burger establishment Hopdoddy -- re-joined Brett on the pod. This time, Matt dove deep into sharing how he leveraged his business background to turn his burger concept into a chain that's scaling quickly without compromising on ingredient quality. Matt's principles shine through in everything that's done in the business, and so we also dug into how Hopdoddy gives back to the community, Matt's thoughts on company culture, and how to bring out the best in people. Oh, and we also might've gotten a little sneak peek into Hopdoddy's expansion plans as the company gets closer and closer to world domination. So give this episode a listen, both for the behind-the-scenes view of The Meat Mafia's favorite burger chain and to hear timeless tips on navigating business and life while pursuing your passion.Connect with HopdoddyWebsiteInstagramFacebookConnect with MattInstagramConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinSPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.Paleovalley is on a mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health. Check out their Gut-Friendly Beef Sticks and more at paleovalley.com/meatmafia and you'll receive 15% off your order.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

Jake Ryan (aka Jake 'Steaks'), a grass-finished beef provider, shares his entrepreneurial journey from starting his business in July 2022 to successfully distributing quality beef to 45 U.S. states. He emphasizes on the importance of consumers knowing the source of their meat and provides insights on sustainable and regenerative farming methods. Jake delves into the benefits of grass-fed beef and bison, highlights the potential financial incentives for farmers adopting these methods, and communicates his future plans to start shipping frozen beef and set-up nodes nationwide. He also offers tips on buying and storing locally sourced beef in bulk and shares how customers can connect with him to access quality meat products. We have a ton of laughs in this one. Enjoy!Connect with Jake SteaksWebsiteInstagramConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinSPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.Paleovalley is on a mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health. Check out their Gut-Friendly Beef Sticks and more at paleovalley.com/meatmafia and you'll receive 15% off your order.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

In this episode, I sit down with Mark Ritz, co-founder of Carnivore Snax. Mark's journey is fascinating, from starting the Ritzfit podcast and ecommerce company to eventually launching Carnivore Snax with his partner Sylvia.Mark shares the origin story of Carnivore Snax, beginning with Sylvia's personal health journey with the carnivore diet. We loved hearing how they built an audience around her story first before running a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2020. Mark gives us an inside look into the ups and downs of rapidly scaling Carnivore Snax over the past few years - expanding their product line, working directly with regenerative farms, and handling all the adversity that comes with running a growing business.Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, interested in the carnivore diet, or care about regenerative agriculture, we think you'll get a ton of value from Mark's transparency and wealth of knowledge in this episode. Connect with Carnivore SnaxInstagramWebsiteConnect with MarkTwitterConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinSPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.Paleovalley is on a mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health. Check out their Gut-Friendly Beef Sticks and more at paleovalley.com/meatmafia and you'll receive 15% off your order.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

In this episode, we had a chance to sit down with one of our best friends, Ryan Griggs. A fellow autoimmune and Hashimoto's guy, Ryan has gone through the journey of finding himself with a broken food system. The founder of The Regenaissance, an apparel company whose mission is to inspire reconnection with food sources and systemic change, shares the devastating sequences of life events, the diagnosis of brother's stage 4 colon cancer to his passing followed with a passing of his mom, that tore his life apart and left him on the route of rebuilding it and becoming a renaissance man. Ryan can be found on Twitter / X at: https://twitter.com/RegenaissanceManThe Regenaissance can be found here or at their website.Connect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinSPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.Paleovalley is on a mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health. Check out their Gut-Friendly Beef Sticks and more at paleovalley.com/meatmafia and you'll receive 15% off your order.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

In this episode, Brett and I sit down with each other and go through 25 questions from you via Twitter. A few of the questions that we cover:Can you help me explain the benefits of regenerative farming to someone that's unfamiliar? (L. Jacob Weiss)Eating on a budget. Where can I cut corners and still be alright? (Agua Apostle)How was the vision when you started the show, and how has it evolved since episode 1? (Austin Hill)Who would be your dream steak dinner with 3 people, dead or alive? (Nolan Wilson)What's the most likely vice to break you? (Danny Miranda)Connect w/ usBrett's TwitterHarry's TwitterConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinSPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.Paleovalley is on a mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health. Check out their Gut-Friendly Beef Sticks and more at paleovalley.com/meatmafia and you'll receive 15% off your order.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Crisps - 10% OFF - Carnivore / Animal-based snacks for eating healthy on the go! CODE: MEATMAFIAPluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

In this episode, I sit down with Biohacker YouTuber, Kyle Lasota to discuss his fascinating journey into the world of biohacking and human optimization. Right off the bat, Kyle recounts his background as a videographer and how he eventually started a YouTube channel to share his growing obsession with biohacking. He remembers feeling alone in his interest and wanting to spread the word to others who might also be curious.Throughout our conversation, Kyle generously shares the wealth of knowledge he's accumulated on all things health and performance. From gut health to managing stress, Kyle emphasizes actionable tips that anyone can apply, like taking a 20-30 minute morning walk and scheduling meals at consistent times. He also dives into more technical topics like using heart rate variability and blood sugar tracking to optimize sleep and recovery.Connect with KyleKyle's YouTubeInstagramConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinSPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.Paleovalley is on a mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health. Check out their Gut-Friendly Beef Sticks and more at paleovalley.com/meatmafia and you'll receive 15% off your order.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Crisps - 10% OFF - Carnivore / Animal-based snacks for eating healthy on the go! CODE: MEATMAFIAPluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA25'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!

Our guests Jeff and Kara represent the 5th generation of their family cattle ranch in Colorado. Their story began over a century ago when Kara's great great grandfather claimed land in eastern Colorado through the Enlarged Homestead Act of 1909.In 1917 he officially established the ranch that would become the foundation for Colorado Craft Beef today. Fast forward to now, Kara has taken the lead in evolving their family business. She is driving innovation while maintaining their legacy of quality cattle and stewardship of the land.By selling beef directly to consumers nationwide, Colorado Craft Beef connects people back to the source of their food. Kara and Jeff are keeping small family ranching traditions alive while building a sustainable business model for the future.We were blown away by the incredible flavor and quality of the steaks and burgers from Colorado Craft Beef. As rising leaders in the direct-to-consumer meat space, Jeff and Kara go above and beyond to surpass customer expectations.They offer nationwide subscriptions for their curated boxes of burgers and steaks. We love that Colorado Craft Beef uses innovative yet time-honored animal husbandry and land management practices. This allows them to produce a delicious, high-quality source of protein for families across the country.Elevate your home dining experience by trying their humanely raised, grass-fed beef. We certainly did! You can check them out at Colorado Craft Beef. Use code MEATMAFIA to get 10% off.Get Connected with Colorado Craft BeefInstagramTwitterConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinSPONSORSCrowdHealth provides an alternative to traditional health insurance by allowing members to crowdsource their medical expenses.Use the code 'MEATMAFIA' to get coverage for $99 for your first 6 months.Paleovalley is on a mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health. Check out their Gut-Friendly Beef Sticks and more at paleovalley.com/meatmafia and you'll receive 15% off your order.NOBLE ORIGINS Complete and simple, animal-based protein powder with an organ blend for additional nutrition! Use Code: MEATMAFIA at check out!AFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - CODE MAFIA for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use the CODE 'MAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA10’ for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Crisps - 10% OFF - Carnivore / Animal-based snacks for eating healthy on the go! CODE: MEATMAFIAPluck Seasoning - 10% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! CODE: MAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! CODE 'MEATMAFIA25'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It’s a daily product for us!