Sexualized Social Media Is More Dangerous Than Porn - Dr. Trish Leigh - #76

AI Is Not Coming For Your Job - Fawzi Ammache - #77

Fawzi Ammache is an AI engineer, emerging-technology educator, and the creator of Future with Fawzi. What's actually going to happen with AI? Every headline swings between utopia and collapse, leaving most people anxious and convinced their job is next. So what's real, what's hype, and what should we actually be worried about? Expect to learn why the most useful AI will also be the most boring, whether AI is really coming for your job, why Fawzi doesn't believe AGI will ever arrive, what the data-center water debate gets wrong, why the biggest risk of AI is becoming more isolated, how to tell when to use AI and when to embrace friction, the difference between working AI-first and human-first and much more… - Save hundreds on the best saunas on the market: HERE [https://www.heavenlyheatsaunas.com/MERRILL ] (use code MERRILL) Save on an amazing cold plunge: HERE [https://tidd.ly/4fqqzf1] (use code MERRILL) - Thank You For Listening To The Chase Merrill Podcast - Get in touch in the comments below or head: HERE [Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chasecmerrill/] - Fawzi's Instagram: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/futurewithfawzi/] Fawzi's Website: HERE [https://www.futurewithfawzi.com/] - 0:00 Why AI Doesn't Have To Be Scary 1:46 What's Behind The Magic Wand 3:16 The Three Real Fears About AI 4:13 Why Friction Is Good For You 5:08 Will AI Actually Take Your Job? 8:53 Why He Doesn't Buy AGI 12:48 AI Is The New Electricity 15:40 Self-Driving Cars And Vanishing Jobs 27:55 Are Data Centers Draining Our Water? 32:57 Treat AI Like A Normal Technology 35:39 The Real Danger Is Isolation 39:39 Quantum Computing Is Next 46:50 Let AI Do The Dishes, Not The Drawing 55:39 Three Things Everyone Should Do 1:00:04 Closing Questions

Sexualized Social Media Is More Dangerous Than Porn - Dr. Trish Leigh - #76

Dr. Trish Leigh is a neuroscientist, author, and neurofeedback specialist. What is pornography actually doing to your brain? It floods the reward system with levels of dopamine no real-world experience can match, and after only a couple of exposures — often in childhood — the brain recalibrates around the high. So why does it become so hard to stop, and what does it actually take to rewire the pattern? Expect to learn why porn qualifies as a supernormal stimulus your brain can't compete with, how dopamine desensitization quietly drives erectile dysfunction, why Dr. Leigh believes sexualized social media may be more dangerous than porn, what "strain brain" and "drain brain" reveal about screen compulsion, how neurofeedback can unwire and rewire an addicted brain, what every parent should do before handing a child a phone and much more… - Save hundreds on the best saunas on the market: HERE [https://www.heavenlyheatsaunas.com/MERRILL] (use code MERRILL) Save on an amazing cold plunge: HERE [https://tidd.ly/4fqqzf1] (use code MERRILL) - Thank You For Listening To The Chase Merrill Podcast - Get in touch in the comments below or head: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/chasecmerrill/] - Trish's Instagram: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/dr.trishleighofficial/] Trish's Website: HERE [https://drtrishleigh.com/] - 0:00 Is Porn Addiction Even Real? 1:14 The Smoking-Industry Playbook 2:45 Dopamine Dependency And Reinforcement Loops 4:49 Why Age Eight Is The Real Danger 5:59 Is Fitness Content Pseudo-Porn? 9:42 What Healthy Dopamine Looks Like 13:02 The Loneliness Loop 17:47 Strain Brain vs Drain Brain 21:04 Why You Keep Relapsing 25:46 Cold Plunges And Earning Dopamine 35:16 What "Regulated" Really Means 44:34 Porn And Erectile Dysfunction 54:53 Men vs Women And The Stats 1:01:18 A Message For Anyone Struggling 1:05:15 Protecting Kids From Screens

How I Built A Cold Plunge Empire From My Garage - Wyatt Ewing - #75

Wyatt Ewing is an entrepreneur, the founder of Ice Barrel, and the co-founder of Founders Only Club and World's Toughest Mile. What does it actually take to build a company out of nothing? Wyatt went from selling million-dollar private jets to hand-painting toxic epoxy onto barrels in his garage, betting everything on a cold therapy practice most people thought was insane. So what separates the founders who break through from the ones who quit, and what does cold water have to do with any of it? Expect to learn how a stranger at the gym accidentally changed Wyatt's life, why cold therapy pulled him out of years of anxiety, what it really took to build Ice Barrel from a garage, why belief matters more than a business plan, how to know when your business needs outside help, what Wyatt would do differently with investors and employees, the exact cold exposure protocol he swears by and much more… - 0:00 The Founders Only Club Retreats 6:03 Starting His First Real Company 8:44 A Stranger Told Me I Looked Like Shit 11:42 How The Cold Cured His Anxiety 18:25 The Garage, The Barrels & The Epoxy Disaster 23:24 Building The Most Advanced Chiller 27:02 The Moments It Almost Fell Apart 31:19 Why The Mission Made Him Unstoppable 38:12 Cash Is Oxygen 40:10 Not All Investors Are Your Friends 43:35 Selling Ice Barrel 47:24 Caring Too Much For His Employees 52:16 The Vision Quest & The Arrival Fallacy 1:01:49 His Cold Exposure Protocol 1:03:10 Closing Questions - Save hundreds on the best saunas on the market: HERE [https://www.heavenlyheatsaunas.com/MERRILL] (use code MERRILL) Save on an amazing cold plunge: HERE [https://tidd.ly/4fqqzf1] (use code MERRILL) - Thank You For Listening To The Chase Merrill Podcast - Get in touch in the comments below or head: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/chasecmerrill/] - Ice Barrel: HERE [https://tidd.ly/4fqqzf1] (Code: MERRILL) Founders Only Club: HERE [https://foundersonlyclub.com/]

"I'd Trade The Gold Medal Before The Depression" - Steve Mesler - #74

Steve Mesler is an Olympic gold medalist bobsledder, three-time Olympian, co-founder of Classroom Champions, and an executive performance coach. What happens after you achieve the one thing you've chased your whole life? Steve won gold in Vancouver and, years later, found himself crying alone on his couch every morning, standing on a train platform thinking his family would be better off without him. So why does reaching the summit so often leave high performers emptier than before, and what actually fills the gap? Expect to learn why Steve decided he would simply never get injured again and why it worked, what the "life algorithm" is and how to use it on any goal, why achievement runs on toxic jet fuel and what to burn instead, how to stack reasons to do the hard thing when one reason isn't enough, why the arrival fallacy quietly wrecks champions, how to actually practice satisfaction and gratitude in your body, why connection is wired into us at a survival level, and much more… - 0:00 "I'm Just Not Going To Get Hurt Anymore" 3:49 If You Look For A Problem, You'll Find One 5:32 The Life Algorithm Explained 10:54 He Loved Winning, Not Bobsled 14:34 Stacking Reasons To Get Out Of Bed 21:49 Toxic Jet Fuel vs. Satisfaction 25:32 The Arrival Fallacy & Gold Medal Syndrome 33:28 Masculinity, Connection & The Tribe 43:27 The Big Five Goals Framework 47:13 A Live Lesson In Feeling Satisfied 54:44 The Most Important Question Technique 58:08 When Depression Hit After Gold 1:02:30 The Train Platform & "I'd Trade The Gold" 1:10:24 Climbing Out: Connection & Asking For Help 1:17:19 Closing Questions: Book & Guest Recs - Save hundreds on the best saunas on the market: HERE [https://www.heavenlyheatsaunas.com/MERRILL] (use code MERRILL) Save on an amazing cold plunge: HERE [https://tidd.ly/4fqqzf1] (use code MERRILL) - Thank You For Listening To The Chase Merrill Podcast - Get in touch in the comments below or head: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/chasecmerrill/] - Steve's Instagram: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/steve.mesler/] Steve's website: HERE [https://www.stevemesler.net/]

You Have More Free Time Than You Think - Laura Vanderkam - #73

Laura Vanderkam is an author, journalist, and speaker focused on time management and productivity. What's actually getting in the way of using our time well? Most people insist they have no free time, yet the same hours slip away to doom scrolling and busywork every single day. So is the problem really a lack of time, or the belief that we don't have any? Expect to learn why we don't build the lives we want by saving time, how tracking a single 168-hour week changes the way you see your schedule, why you should plan your week on Friday instead of Monday, what the "golden hours" are and how to stop wasting your weekday evenings, why one big adventure and one little adventure a week makes time feel bigger, how the List of 100 Dreams reveals what you actually want to do, why you have far more room for friends, fitness, and family than you think and much more… - Save hundreds on the best saunas on the market: HERE [https://www.heavenlyheatsaunas.com/MERRILL] (use code MERRILL) Save on an amazing cold plunge: HERE [https://tidd.ly/4fqqzf1] (use code MERRILL) - Thank You For Listening To The Chase Merrill Podcast - Get in touch in the comments below or head: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/chasecmerrill/] - Laura's Instagram: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/lvanderkam/] Laura's website: HERE [https://lauravanderkam.com/] - 0:00 Does Parkinson's Law Actually Hold Up 2:05 The List Of 100 Dreams 5:59 Build The Life, Time Saves Itself 8:19 One More Hour On Work You Love 10:54 Finding Your Venn Diagram Overlap 13:24 Big Time And The Abundance Mindset 15:08 Track Your 168 Hours 19:44 The Weekly Planning Session 21:56 Why You Should Plan On Friday 25:13 The Golden Hours After Work 28:16 Beating Your Electronic Hobbies 33:58 One Big Adventure, One Little Adventure 38:42 The Four Burners Myth 40:23 Do You Have To Specialize To Win 46:16 Closing Questions And Book Recs