The Greg Bennett Show

In this episode of The Greg Bennett Show, Greg has a wonderful conversation with Heather Jackson.   Heather Jackson is one of the world’s greatest Ironman champions. With consistent podiums at both the 70.3 and Full Ironman World Championships. She’s the current American Ironman record holder and has won 12 IM 70.3 and 5 full Ironmans.   She’s a relentlessly hard worker and is an aggressive racing...

In this episode of The Greg Bennett Show, Greg has a wonderful conversation with Dr. Joseph Maroon.   Dr. Joseph Maroon is one of the most accomplished people I’ve had the pleasure of having on the show. Neurosurgeon, Professor, Triathlete, and Author.   As a neurosurgeon. He has an international referral base, including numerous professional athletes and celebrities.   As a Sports medicine expert...

In this episode of The Greg Bennett Show, Greg has a delightful with Rebecca Rusch.   Rebecca Rusch is one of the world's greatest ultra-endurance athletes.   Her career has spanned numerous adventure sports including rock climbing, adventure racing, whitewater rafting, cross-country skiing, gravel biking, and mountain biking. She was nominated to the International Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 20...

In this episode of The Greg Bennett Show, Greg has a delightful conversation with Cam Brown.   Cam Brown is redefining what we think of aging and longevity. His passion for Triathlon is evident in his consistent, relentless pursuit of bettering himself every time he races.   At 48, he toes the line with athletes more than half his age. He’s raced three generations of professionals and continues to...

Ryan Bolton is a former professional Triathlete and Olympian and now one of the world’s greatest endurance coaches. With a successful college running career, he made the move to Triathlon and represented the USA at the 2000 Sydney, Olympic Games, and post-Olympics had great success in the world of Ironman. Combined with his studies in exercise physiology, and master’s in human nutrition, with an e...

It’s been one year of the Greg Bennett Show, formally Be with Champions. And Greg has had the privilege to have the most wonderful conversations, with the world’s greatest athletes, coaches, doctors, entertainers, and entrepreneurs. It's simply incredible that these incredible people have been willing to come on the show and chat. Some Greg has known but many he's only come to know from these conv...

In this episode, we discuss Ancestral Health, the benefits of stress, physiologic headroom aka resilience, sleep and circadian rhythm, Nutrition, and Social connections.   Dr. Wood shares his thoughts on DNA and genetics, you may be surprised with where he thinks we're at. Plus so much more in this one.   A quick recap of Dr. Wood’s background - He received his bachelor's degree in biochemistry fr...

In this episode of The Greg Bennett Show, Greg Bennett has an incredible conversation with Gustav Iden. Gustav is spearheading the next generation of superstar triathletes.   At 24 he’s already won the IronMan 70.3 world championships and more recently the challenge Daytona PTO championships. Both events had two of the greatest fields ever established in the world of triathlon, and both events he...

In this episode of The Greg Bennett Show, Greg Bennett has a delightful conversation with Paula Findlay. Paula has one of the most incredible stories of perseverance.   Ten years ago, she burst onto the world scene in dominating fashion. Winning 5 World Triathlon series events in a 12-month window as a 21-year-old. After those events, she dealt with several almost career-ending injuries. And spent...

In this episode of The Greg Bennett Show, Greg Bennett has an entertaining and insightful conversation with Dr. Dan Plews.   Dr. Dan Plews is a Doctor of exercise physiology, a world champion Ironman athlete and coach, and founder of endureIQ. His athletic accomplishments are extraordinary. He won the 2018 Age Group Ironman World Championship, was the 1st non-professional athlete to finish, and se...

Jamie Hunt is a former professional Triathlete who transitioned into the world of High-Performance sports apparel and co-founded the brand 2XU. He built that brand at a mind-boggling pace, to a brand that had over $100 million in transactions a year and sold for a 9-figure sum. His passion, energy, and hard work were evident as an athlete. We raced each other throughout the 90s and he was a part o...

Holly Lawrence is one of the world's greatest Triathletes. She’s won almost 50% of the Ironman 70.3s she’s started in since 2012 or even better 65% of the races started since 2016. And, when not winning, she’s on the podium every time she races. That includes the world championships…which she won in 2016. Then after dealing with an almost career-ending injury in 2018, she came back in 2019 with a...

Terenzo Bozzone is one of the world’s greatest endurance athletes… with over 47 wins including 33 Ironman 70.3 and numerous ironman victories. He has 5 World Championship titles in Triathlon, duathlon, and his 2008 Ironman 70.3 World Title. It hasn’t all been smooth sailing, he’s had enormous setbacks with Achilles injuries and eventually surgeries and a frightening accident in 2018 when he was ta...

In this episode of The Greg Bennett Show, Greg Bennett has a powerful conversation with Ben Hoffman. Ben is one of the world's greatest Ironman athletes.   For 15 years Ben has chased the dream of being the very best in the world and he’s on the verge of making that happen with a 2nd and two 4th’s at the Kona Ironman World Championships, He has 7 Ironman Victories, 7 Ironman 70.3 wins and when he’...

In this episode of The Greg Bennett Show, Greg Bennett chats with Ky Hurst. Ky is one of the greatest endurance athletes the world has ever seen.   For 24 years he has competed as a professional athlete across three sports.   He stormed onto the Australian sporting scene as a teenager winning his first of four Ironman Superseries titles at the age of 17. He went on to win Seven Australian IronMan...

Lance Watson is one of the greatest Triathlon coaches of all time. In three decades of coaching triathlon, he has coached at four Olympics and over 50 world championships. Coached more than 20 professional IronMan winners and an Olympic gold medalist, he is one of only five Ironman master coaches and was inducted into the triathlon Hall of Fame. The athletes he’s worked with have reached the top o...

In this episode of BE with Champions, Greg Bennett chats with Functional Sports medicine physician, Dr. Ara Suppiah.   Dr. Suppiah is a certified ER physician, trained cardiac surgeon, Sports Medicine physician, Functional medicine, and Chinese medicine physician. He works with some of the world's greatest professional athletes.   His journey from a small Malaysian town a few hours out of Kuala Lu...

Jonny Brownlee is one of the greatest triathletes of all time. His resume is truly remarkable - Olympic bronze medalist at his home Olympics in London, 2012 then Olympic silver medalist in Rio, 2016… combine that with his 2012 World Championship title, 2010 and 2011 Sprint World Titles and three World Championship silver medals and Commonwealth Games silver medal, and his consistent podiums for ov...

Dan Macpherson describes his journey from wannabe Professional Triathlete to  Hollywood actor, Television presenter, and award-show host. He describes the mental strength he gained from Ironman training and racing and how he was able to transfer that into his pursuit of roles in Hollywood and then optimizing those characters once he got them. Dan discusses the difficulties of coming out of charact...

In this episode of BE with Champions, Greg Bennett chats with, Cliff English. Cliff is a World Champion Triathlon Coach, 4 x NCAA National Champion Coach.   Cliff describes his journey and transition from athlete to coach. It took Glandular Fever to end his athletic career and focus on his coaching. Looking back he realizes that coaching was always in his blood. He's a natural teacher. He's patien...

Richard Murray is one of the great personalities of the sport of Triathlon. He’s one of the most consistent men on the ITU World Series, rarely out of the top 5 for almost a decade. He’s had his big wins including the ITU World Series events in Edmonton, Hamburg, and Leeds, and the ITU Duathlon World Championships. He placed 4th at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. He’s won big money races including...

Laura Bennett is a champion athlete with 4 World Championship medals, 4 US National titles, two Olympic Games representations, and a multitude of wins, none bigger than the 2007 Hyvee World Cup and the enormous check that went with it. She’s someone who cares deeply about helping others optimize their own lives and someone who understands managing human emotions better than anyone I’ve ever met.  ...

Vincent Luis returns to Be with Champions after defending his Triathlon World Championship title in Hamburg, Germany, last week. Vincent shares his mindset and what was fueling him going into the race and during the race. He describes the race in detail and his past few months of training during these uncertain times. Vincent tells us why he didn't race the mixed relay world championships that the...

In this episode of BE with Champions, Greg Bennett chats with, Dr. Mansoor Mohammed. Dr. Mansoor is a pioneer and a recognized authority in the fields of medical genomics and personalized medicine.   Together Greg and Dr. Mansoor discuss how Dr. Mansoor started in Functional genomics. Dr. Mansoor describes what the DNA and the genes represent and how he reads them from person to person.   Our gene...

Siri Lindley is one of the few to reach the top of the world as an athlete by winning an ITU World Championships and two World Series titles and then be able to transition into a multiple World Champion coach. 5.20 Siri describes her recent battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and is now cancer-free. 17.30 How Siri found the sport of Triathlon 22.40 - Recognizing some mental and physical ability 30....