Escape Your Limits & LIFTS

On this week's Escape Your Limits podcast, we talk to Partha Unnava , founder and CEO of Lasso , a new wave of performance compression activewear to improve movement and recovery. After becoming frustrated with his own rehabilitation path following an ankle injury playing basketball, Partha used his biomechanical engineering background and set out on a mission to bring to market products that chan...

Oliver Trevena is a Hollywood actor, investor, and serial entrepreneur whose passion has been a key component to his incredible success. His passion for health and wellness inspired a number of business ventures, including a new drink company called Cali Water, which he founded with Vanessa Hudgens. He also has investments in the cardio fitness machine Climbr and the exclusive personal training cl...

To close out what has been an amazing year, we are going to dive into some of the most popular podcast episodes of 2021. But first, we want to thank our loyal community of listeners, everyone who has watched on YouTube, commented, engaged with an episode, or shared their favorite segments. The Escape Your Limits podcast was created to deliver on-demand, inspirational, valuable content to our audie...

Joseph McClendon III is a neuropsychologist, best-selling author, performance coach to celebrities, and lead speaker for Tony Robbins programs. As a global leader, his tools and techniques have given millions of people around the world the competitive advantage to lead their best lives. He literally radiates with positive energy and wisdom, and his remarkable influence continues to set the standar...

Ultra endurance athlete James Lawrence aka the "Iron Cowboy," has truly escaped the limits of human performance and endurance, both physically and mentally. He has broken multiple Guinness World Records and achieved what was once believed to be impossible by completing 100 triathlons in 100 days with "Conquer 100" to raise $250,000 for charity. The incredible feat required strength, community, fam...

Dr. Edythe Heus is a sports medicine and movement expert who developed Revolution in Motion. She is a renowned doctor whose groundbreaking balance, fascia, and proprioceptive training methods have radically optimized the athletic performance of professional and Olympic athletes. At the intersection of physical and cognitive function, she invites you to explore the body's interconnectedness and to...

Alwyn Cosgrove is a best-selling author, speaker, 2x cancer survivor, and the owner of Results Fitness. He is also a member of the Nike Performance Council. His gym was named one of the top 10 gyms in America by Men's Health magazine.  Joining us this week is also out co-host Pete Holman. He is an entrepreneur, inventor, product developer, and trainer who is a subject matter expert on the evolutio...

Superheroes aren't born, they're made. As you can imagine, making a superhero takes a hell of a lot of consistent, ass-kicking hard work. New York-based trainer Don Saladino is one of the most sought-after celebrity trainers in the industry when it comes to getting Hollywood's finest insanely fit. He's had his hand in more big screen role preps than just about anyone and is responsible for some of...

Mike Rashid is a business mogul, professional boxer, social media influencer, and serial entrepreneur who built a fitness empire from the ground up. According to Mike, there's no limit (besides yourself) to what you can achieve. If you're interested in achieving entrepreneurial success, this episode is for you. It covers everything from working with Mike Tyson, investing, his $1 million offer to f...

Do you know what leads one person to achieve success in life over another? What are the ingredients for unreasonable success and how is it achieved? Our guest this week, Mr. Richard Koch, joins us to explain. Successful people typically don't plan their success. Instead they develop a unique philosophy or attitude that works for them. They stumble across strategies which are shortcuts to success,...

Legendary bodybuilder Tony Pearson AKA the "Michael Jackson" of bodybuilding is a 9x world champion winning Mr. America, Professional Mr. Universe, and World Mixed Pairs. Throughout his life, he has faced impossible challenges — rising above poverty, abuse, and neglect to achieve incredible success. Tony's story is an inspiration to say the least. At 63-years-old, he won the AAU Master's Mr. Unive...

To say that the pandemic has impacted traditional gyms and the way people train would be an understatement. In-person training, group fitness, and big-box memberships aren't going to disappear but the adjustments that have been made during the pandemic are here to stay. In our interview with Fitness First's Managing Director, Lee Matthews, he explains how traditional gyms like Fitness First are re...

Do you know how to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and accomplish the things that matter to you? How do you eliminate self doubt and learn to love yourself? In this interview, celebrity fitness trainer, Dolvett Quince, reveals some of the reasons and unconscious patterns that cause us to self-sabotage and explains what we can do to change them. He encourages us to believe in ourselves to ac...

Did you know that you're constantly losing weight 24 hours a day just by breathing?  Most people think that body fat is converted into energy or heat. But this belief violates the law of conservation of mass, according to physicist Ruben Meerman. His findings on this topic were published in the British Medical Journal and his TEDx Talk has received more than 10 million views. Ruben's fascination w...

Chris "Kiwi" Ashenden is the founder of Athletic Greens, a health and fitness expert, entrepreneur, and investor. What began as a bold vision to create an essentialist nutrition product has become a multi-million-dollar company that is trusted by world-class performance athletes and everyday consumers around the world. In this conversation, we discuss: • His wellness journey and battle with sickne...

How do everyday people unleash their inner athlete? Michael Piercy is a former pro baseball player, founder and owner of The Lab Sports, and IDEA Personal Trainer of the Year. His specialty is identifying and developing the talent of elite and everyday athletes. For Michael, successful high-performance coaching is about so much more than just balancing the win-loss record. It's about people becomi...

When it comes to mental health, a holistic approach considers how a person's well-being is affected by their physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual condition. Greg Schmaus is a highly recognized Paul Chek practitioner, the CEO of Healing 4D, and the creator of "Healing the Mind," a 21-day holistic program. His fully integrated approach is dedicated to helping people hit the rese...

Why do most weight loss diets fail? Why are you not losing weight? This week, we're speaking with Amanda Nighbert, a registered dietician and creator of the LEAN program who specializes in weight loss nutrition. She is a renegade in her field who has spent the last two decades helping more than 34,000 people take control of their health. Chances are, you could be sabotaging your weight loss journe...

What does McDonald's have to do with gyms and how is Hussle getting the other 90% interested in fitness? Hussle, the UK's largest fitness network, recently partnered with McDonald's to offer a fitness-based prize as part of its annual McDonald's Monopoly game, which is played by more than seven million consumers nationwide. The deal will give McDonald's customers the chance to win access to any of...

Natalia Karbasova is the CEO of the FitTech Company and Founder of the FitTech Summit, the leading conference in Europe devoted to fitness technology and the future of wellbeing and healthy lifestyle. Throughout our interview, she illustrates where technology is taking the fitness industry. Right now, health is the largest market in the world. And Silicon Valley now wants its piece of the action....

Our guest this week predicts the future for a living. Not peer into a crystal ball kind of future predicting. His role as a forecaster in the real world is concerned with future certainty. Prof. Dr. Carl Rohde looks at how hidden trends in the present signal direction changes for society, brands, and the world at large. He doesn't tell us how we should think about the future; instead he lays out h...

Kory Angelin has over 25 years experience in the fitness and business industries. He is an award-winning fitness expert, sales strategist, two-time published author, speaker, and podcast host of Rep It Up. He has helped to elevate some of the biggest fitness companies in the world teaching brand experience and is the author of "#Sellout: How a Great Experience Can Help You #SELLOUT of Your Product...

Chris Voss is the former #1 Lead International Kidnapping Negotiator for the FBI. He is the author of the bestselling book "Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended on It," and the CEO of Black Swan Group. He spent 24 years with the FBI and was the FBI's hostage negotiation representative for the National Security Council's Hostage Working Group. His many years of experienc...

On this week's  Escape Your Limits podcast , we interview Pete Moore, the  founder of  Integrity Square ,  which is the leading boutique financial advisory firm for the  Health, Active Lifestyle, and Outdoor, or HALO, sector. He is also an author, former investment banker, and co-founder of IRON Planet, a notable B2B auction site for used equipment that sold for $758 million.   For anyone interest...

Gold's Gym first opened in 1965. At that time, there were only three gyms in the Southern California and Los Angeles area. It became the mecca for bodybuilding. Today, there are more than 700+ Gold's Gym locations in 28 countries. Our guest this week is Angel Banos, the President and CEO of Gold's Gym SoCal. From the very beginning, Gold's Gym was built on community — something that remains true t...