Consequence of Habit

Send us Fan Mail This week I had the opportunity to talk with teacher, professional mountain guide, adventure athlete, Stoic philosopher, and all-around motivational guy, Jason Hardrath. I initially asked Jason to come on to discuss his goal of completing 100 Fastest Known Time (FKT) records, but as you’ll hear, our conversation wanders into topics much deeper. We discuss the effects of ADHD in ou...

Send us Fan Mail Joining us this week is Brian Walton, a highly decorated cyclist and three-time Olympian. Brian raced professionally for fourteen years on Team 7-11, Motorola Cycling Team and Team Saturn, as well as for the Canadian National Team. During his cycling career, he achieved a great amount, such as a silver medal at the Olympics and three Pan American gold medals. In 2006, Brian was in...

Send us Fan Mail This week’s guest, Freddy Shegog, is a man of excess. For the past couple years that excess has been in positivity, compassion, education and motivation to help the community around him…but that hasn’t always been the case. There was a time in Freddy’s life when the excess was in alcohol, drugs, and symptoms associated with mental illness. The consequences of these excesses left F...

Send us Fan Mail One of the things I enjoy most about hosting a podcast is that sometimes I get the opportunity to interview people who’ve found something they're passionate about, and they turn that passion into a career. This week’s guest, Pat Cunnane, is a prime example of someone who’s done just that.  Pat and I have few things in common, we both love bikes, and we’ve both spent our forma...

Send us Fan Mail This week we welcome back a CoH OG, Taylor Spike! Taylor revisits the podcast to discuss his sobriety, future plans to honor his son at K2, and why the hell he would want to enter a 250-mile foot race.  Taylor’s first episode (episode 6) is one of the most downloaded episodes for a reason. The man has battled with depression, addiction and tragedy and doesn’t shy away from sharing...

Send us Fan Mail This weeks’ guest is Retired Major General Gregg F. Martin, US Army, and he’s undoubtedly changing the way mental illness is viewed within the military ranks. Gen. Martin didn’t set out to be an advocate for soldiers, airman, and marines suffering with mental illness, and it certainly wasn’t a position he could have imagined himself in prior to mid-July 2014. That is until he was...

Send us Fan Mail This week I had the opportunity to sit down with Danielle Cook Kawash and Simon Matthews from First In Wellness. FIW is a wellness program specifically designed to help first responders manage their physical and mental health by improving their physical fitness, nutrition, mental agility and sleep. Addressing the issues facing our first responders is WAY overdue, and I was extreme...

Send us Fan Mail This week I welcome EAT LOOK FEEL founder Dan Hyman to the podcast. At first glance, it’s clear to see that Dan has a profound understanding of fitness and nutrition; it’s what helped him become a highly successful male model. Dig a little deeper though and you’ll find that Dan’s understanding of fitness doesn’t end there. He approaches fitness from all angles, training, nutrition...

Send us Fan Mail This week I welcome to the podcast my childhood sports hero, three-time winner of the Tour de France (1986, 1989, and 1990), two-time winner of the Road Race World Championship (1983 and 1989), and one of the greatest cyclists of all time, Greg LeMond. I tried my best to play it cool during this interview but truth be told, this interview was a very big deal for me. As a young cyc...

Send us Fan Mail This one is a first! Prior to my interview with this week’s guest Spencer Ploessl, I knew very little about him or his story. I usually put a fair amount of time into researching my guests’ backstory prior to inviting them on the show….but this week I’m trying something new. This time around, my research started and ended with me stumbling on a picture of Spencer along with a capt...

Send us Fan Mail This week I sit down with the co-author of Under Our Roof: A Son’s Battle for Recovery, a Mothers Battle for Her Son, Harry Cunnane. Harry co-authored this book with his mother, Congresswomen Madeline Dean, and it describes the ugliness of addiction through the eyes of both the individual struggling with this disease, and the subsequent pain felt by parents as they try desperately...

Send us Fan Mail This week I sat down with award winning professional climber, filmmaker and climate advocate, Graham Zimmerman. When I started CoH my goal was to empower individuals and communities by bringing awareness to the impact habits have on mental health, success and the environment. Having said that, I would be hard pressed to find another guest who hits all of those objectives as much a...

Send us Fan Mail This week I was honored to sit down with cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist and author of How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius, Donald Robertson. Stoicism has played a big part in my life over the past couple years and Donald’s book was part of my initial introduction into the philosophy. The book is a detailed account of my personal favorit...

Send us Fan Mail This week I sit down with Team Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert Performance Manager Aike Visbeek. Aike was formerly Team Sunweb’s sports director and contributed to Tom Dumoulin’s overall victory in the 2017 Giro d’Italia. Aike and I take a deep dive into the physical and mental challenges required to compete at the highest level in the world of cycling. We examine the intense pressure pu...

Send us Fan Mail This week I sat down with former Navy SEAL Adam Wright from Field Trip Health , the world’s first integrated company in legal psychedelics. Adam heads Field Trip’s veterans division, where he and his team pair veterans with psychedelic therapy to help treat mental health issues related to PTSD. Adam and I discuss the benefits of and science behind Field Trip’s PTSD treatment, a Ke...

Send us Fan Mail As a huge fan of cycling, I’m extremely excited to welcome to the podcast a man who’s considered one of the greatest cyclists of all time, Sean Kelly. Sean has won 193 professional bike races and was ranked the top cyclist in the world five years running. His victories include the Vuelta a Espana, Paris-Roubaix twice, Tour de Suisse, and five stages in the Tour de France. Sean and...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode I got to sit down with Josh Duntz to discuss the amazing work he and his team at Stasis are doing using the power of breathwork. We discuss why breathwork has gained so much recent notoriety and the science behind the practice.  Josh initially developed his passion for breathwork while serving in the Navy as a member of the special operations community.  As...

Send us Fan Mail This is a big one ladies and gentleman! In this weeks’ episode I have the privilege of sitting down with Bill Shufelt, the visionary and co-founder behind Athletic Brewing Company. Bill and the team at ABC have flipped the script on what it means to drink non-alcoholic beer. In our conversation Bill discusses how the seeds of ABC were sewn by his love of great beer, and the realiz...

Send us Fan Mail This week I had an awesome conversation with Elaine and Heath Brewer from Humble Warrior Wellness . These two have established a Wellness Center that incorporates yoga, meditation and other relevant methods of integrative and holistic therapies to help veterans and first responders deal with the inevitable stressors associated with their jobs.    Heath is a combat veteran, deploye...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year! This week’s guest, Jesse Simpson, is a guy who on the surface seemed to be kicking ass in life. After his enlistment in the Marine Corp Jesse landed his dream job as a firefighter, eventually being named Arizona Firefighter of the Year in 2017. He had a great girlfriend, his dream job, and on all accounts should have been a happy guy. Except his history of anger, a...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Holidays everyone! I switch it up a bit this week and have a couple laughs on the show. This week we sit down with nationally headlining comedian and host of The Commissioner of Comedy Podcast , James Mattern. I invited James on the podcast for a couple reasons, first he’s a very funny comedian who I had the privilege of opening for a couple years ago, and second because I w...

Send us Fan Mail One of the biggest benefits of hosting the Consequence of Habit podcast is having the opportunity to meet and talk with amazing people, and this week’s guest is no exception. This week I sit down with Toronto based artist, and podcast host Seb Duke to discuss what it really takes to turn your creative passion into a career. Seb is a fascinating guy with a deep understanding of wha...

Send us Fan Mail This week’s guest is Emilio Goldenhersch. Emilio is the co-founder and chief science officer at MindCotine, an expert in mindfulness, and all-around interesting guy. We discuss the science behind addiction, and what he and the people at MindCotine are doing to help you finally quit the habits that are holding you back. They’ve developed a virtual reality intervention system that c...

Send us Fan Mail This week’s guest is Retired Army SFC Dan Jarvis. While deployed to Afghanistan, SFC Jarvis was involved in numerous traumatic incidents, including stepping on a pressure plate that detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) five feet from his position. Dan’s traumatic combat experience and personal tragedies eventually sent him down a dark path that nearly caused him to take...

Send us Fan Mail This week’s guest, Jay Shifman, is an addiction speaker, coach, consultant, and host of the Choose Your Struggle Podcast . His expertise comes from both living through the destructiveness of addiction, and from extensive research into mental health and addiction. Jay is a gifted communicator and does an outstanding job telling his personal story of struggling with mental illness a...