The FOURTH PHASE PODCAST

EMF exposure at home: what's real, what's hype, and what you can fix tonight. Building biologist Jonathan Farrar of JF Healthy Homes walks through the room where he says he often finds the highest EMF levels in the house: your bedroom. In Part 2, retired Navy SEAL JJ Parma and Kristel Parma get practical. What to check before you rent or buy a home. How to read a TriField meter. Why your W...

Is your home making you sick? Brain fog, fatigue, headaches, a cough that won't quit. Building biologist Jonathan Farrar of JF Healthy Homes says the problem might not be you. It might be your house. In Part 1, retired Navy SEAL JJ Parma and Kristel Parma sit down with Jonathan, who got seriously ill from mold exposure and rebuilt his life around finding the hidden toxins most inspections miss...

Aging doesn't start at 50. It starts with the habits you build at 18, 25, and 35.Dr. Mathew Barry has spent more than 20 years working with people at every stage: WNBA athletes with the Sacramento Monarchs, off-season programs for Sacramento Kings players, and now patients as a Doctor of Physical Therapy. His book is called 50 Is the New 20, but his message is simple: don't wait until 50 t...

In Part 2, Robb Wolf gets into what he actually uses now: peptides, TRT, and the GLP-1 drugs everyone's talking about, cutting through the hype on all three. We cover the real mechanism behind Ozempic and tirzepatide (and why cartilage and tendons respond to it), JJ's own TRT numbers using Clomid and Enclomiphene, and why TRT for women is a completely different and far more complex convers...

Robb Wolf built his career telling people how to eat and how to be healthy. Then he spent seven years sick and couldn't figure out why. In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Robb tells us what it was actually like living with an undiagnosed gut infection, giardia, candida, and a roundworm, while running blood work, trying every protocol he knew, and still coming up empty. We get into what f...

Tommy Marquez spent nearly nine years inside a Congressman's office fighting for veterans, working thousands of cases on VA benefits, disability claims, healthcare, and education. In this episode he breaks down what he learned from the inside: the mistakes that get claims denied, the benefits veterans leave on the table, and how to actually get the system working for you. If you served, this o...

What if Southern California's sewage crisis wasn't inevitable? What if it was already fixed... and then everything changed? In Episode 14 of the Fourth Phase Podcast, retired Navy SEAL JJ Parma and Kristel sit down with Imperial Beach native Dane Crosby of Citizens for Coastal Conservancy to examine the Tijuana River sewage crisis and the decisions that shaped years of beach closures in Im...

Tonight, while you sleep, your body is supposed to produce a hormone that fights cancer, regulates your metabolism, and repairs everything that broke down during the day. It's called melatonin. There's a good chance the lights in your home are shutting it off before it can do its job. Dr. Moore-Ede spent over 20 years at Harvard Medical School studying the biological clock in the human bra...

A divorce lawyer with 26 years defending men in family court breaks down why the system tilts against dads, and what to actually do about it. David Pisarra has spent almost three decades in family law defending fathers. In this episode, JJ and Kristel sit down with him to unpack why men lose in divorce court, what judges actually look for, how to spot a bad mom in a custody fight, and the real too...

Most men married to a narcissist don't know it. They just know something is wrong, and they've started to wonder if they're the crazy one. Phillip Dugas, founder of Narc Free Man, joins JJ and Kristel to break down the signs men miss: the covert narcissist's two personalities, the trauma bond that works like a slot machine, what growing up in that home does to your kids, why couple...

Every day in America, 1300 new step families are formed. 70% of them will not make it. We were almost one of those statistics. 8 kids, two broken families, one shot to get it right. In this episode, JJ and Kristel break down what they learned the hard way about blending two families, what the science says every child needs, and how to actually beat the odds. What we cover: Why 70% of blended famil...

Richard Grannon has spent decades helping people identify and escape one of the most damaging and least understood dynamics in human relationships: narcissistic abuse. With over 800,000 YouTube subscribers and a global following spanning military, law enforcement, and everyday people, Richard built his system from the ground up, starting in self-defense and martial arts, and following the pain poi...

Trevor Millar is the co-founder and COO of Ambio Life Sciences, one of the world's leading Ibogaine treatment centers. He has spent 15 years on the front lines of trauma recovery, co-authored peer-reviewed research with Stanford University on Ibogaine and traumatic brain injury, and appeared in the Netflix documentary "In Waves and War" following US veterans through their healing jou...

69% of women file for divorce. If you are a college educated woman that number jumps to 90%. So what is actually driving that? In this Swim Buddy episode JJ and Kristel break down what men and women are really longing for in a relationship, why couples disconnect without realizing it, and five things you can do this week to make your partner feel seen and valued. Topics covered: what men need to f...

Connection isn't soft. It's not weakness. It's not therapy talk. It's discipline. JJ and Kristel sit down for Swim Buddy episode #3 to break down the one thing that makes or breaks every relationship — connection. How you lose it. How you bring it back. Why it matters more than almost anything else. This episode is for the guy who thinks "connection" is for couples therap...

Dr. Kirk Parsley, former Navy SEAL turned physician, joins JJ Parma and his Swim Buddy Kristel, on The Fourth Phase Podcast to break down what's really destroying elite operators from the inside out. Kirk discovered something terrifying as the doctor at SEAL Team. 28-year-old elite athletes walking into his clinic with the hormonal profiles of 60-year-old men. Destroyed by sleep deprivation, A...

You can't show up to your marriage with a half-empty tank. In this Swim Buddy episode, JJ and Kristel get into the truth about self-care , why it's not selfish, why it's mission readiness for marriage, and how to support your partner without guilt or resentment. We disagree. We push back. We get to something real. If you've ever felt guilty taking time for yourself, or watched your...

Ian Urtnowski grew up in Coronado, California, a beach kid turned waterman, lifeguard, and entrepreneur who built URT from $700 and zero guarantees. In this episode, Ian opens up publicly for the first time about the personal battle that has shaped every decision he's made. A close friend of Navy SEAL Charlie Keating IV, killed in action on May 3, 2016, Ian turned grief into purpose. The Chuck...

In this first Swim Buddy episode, JJ and Kristel share the real story behind The Fourth Phase Podcast—why it took years to launch, what they went through to get here, and why the timing finally mattered. From divorce and life transitions to rebuilding, discipline, and connection, this episode breaks down what it actually means to start over—and why you’re never out of the fight. They introduce the...