Loneliness Is As Deadly As 15 Cigarettes A Day - James Ellis, PhD - #63

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

Archaeologist: The Superfoods Quietly Poisoning You - Bill Schindler - #72

Bill Schindler is an archaeologist, anthropologist, chef, and author. What did our ancestors actually know about food that we've forgotten? For millions of years, nearly every tool humans invented was built to make food safer and more nourishing, yet today we're surrounded by more food than ever and sicker for it. So what went wrong, and what would it take to eat like a human again? Expect to learn why almost every prehistoric technology was built around food, why the diet that healed you isn't the diet you should stay on forever, the only three foods on earth actually meant to be eaten, why the "superfoods" you've been told to eat are loaded with oxalates, how processed corn quietly killed hundreds of thousands of people, why humans have one of the weakest digestive tracts of any animal, and much more… - 0:00 From Mountain Men To Two-Million-Year-Old Tools 1:31 Every Ancient Technology Was About Food 4:39 The Shower Moment That Changed His Health 14:08 Absence Of Proof Is Not Proof Of Absence 16:49 How Peer Review Suppresses New Ideas 22:15 The Deer Study They Wouldn't Publish 27:00 The Diet That Healed You Isn't Forever 36:03 What "Processing" Actually Means 46:07 Why Every Plant Is Toxic 50:59 How Corn Killed Millions 1:02:21 Oxalates: The Glass Shards In Superfoods 1:06:47 Why You Should Eat Seasonally 1:19:20 The Truth About Fiber 1:24:54 Why Raw Food Diets Are Dangerous 1:32:38 Closing Questions & Book 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/] - Bill's Instagram: HERE [https://www.instagram.com/drbillschindler/] Bill's website: HERE [https://modernstoneage.com/]