Ryan Sprague

Highly Optimized

Health EN ↓ 159 episodes

The Highly Optimized Podcast is your backstage pass to the minds of modern-day wizards, creatives, and changemakers who’ve ditched the rulebook and designed life on their terms.  I launched this show to help others (like you) break free from the boring box society tries to stuff us into—and to remind you that you’re not crazy for dreaming big.  Through deep, real, and sometimes hilarious conversations, we explore the inner work, wild ideas, and bold moves that light the path of the hero’s journey.  This isn’t about fitting in—it’s about tuning in and turning your life all the way up.

Author

Ryan Sprague

Category

Health

Podcast website

www.buzzsprout.com

Latest episode

Jan 2, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 109: How To Make Every Day The Best Day Of Your Life (feat. Mychal Prieto) 08.06.2022

Send us Fan Mail It is said that the journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step. As someone who has passion oozing out of every fiber of my being, I found myself becoming challenged in taking the big picture of my dreams & goals & solidifying them down to that first single step. This being said, I was able to transmute this challenge by meeting others who allowed me to stop taking my...

Episode 108: The Art of Enjoying Your Life To The Fullest (feat. Miguel Felix) 01.06.2022

Send us Fan Mail As I imagine you have all been able to tell at this point, I adore podcasting. For me, life is the most beautiful when I am able to have conversations with like minded individuals who allow me to realize that in our truest sense, we are all much more similar than we might realize. Within this realm of conversations, however, some of my favorite are when I have the opportunity to s...

Episode 107: Diving Into Belief Systems & the Importance of Adventure (feat. Matt Gallo) 25.05.2022

Send us Fan Mail In the modern era, there seems to be an uprising in the subject of leadership & what it means to be & act as a leader. Since the dawn of time, it has been leaders that have been able to not only guide others in how to live a fulfilling life, but also become friends with the shadow aspects of themselves, such as their fear. These leaders recognized that rather than run from...

Episode 106: Healing Ourselves Through High Quality Food (feat. Kathy Davis) 18.05.2022

Send us Fan Mail Over 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates stated to “let food be thy medicine & medicine be thy food.” I imagine at the time of him stating that, he truly believed that people would quickly catch on & that would be the end of that story, however, when we look around at the world today, it’s easy to see that something became lost in translation. With much of our food in the present...

Episode 105: How to Revolutionize Your Life to Be In Alignment With Your Soul (feat. Jason Pickard) 11.05.2022

Send us Fan Mail Throughout our lives, we will inevitably move through seasons in which we question everything it was that we knew up until that point. These season changes can come forth as if from out of thin air & really do a number on our state of being when they do, however, in my experience, they always come at the perfect time in hindsight to be able to evolve into the next best version...

Episode 104: Maximizing the Other 23 Hours of Our Day After the Gym (feat. Brian Costello) 04.05.2022

Send us Fan Mail When it comes to the subject of life & the goals you have that you’re looking to manifest into this reality, the main component as to whether you will be successful in accomplishing them boils down to your lifestyle. Lifestyle, said simply, is the physical, emotional, mental & spiritual processes by which you live your life & with more & more information coming out...

Episode 103: Allowing Separation To Make The Heart Grow Fonder (feat. Chase Ramey & Mimi Lindquist) 27.04.2022

Send us Fan Mail A lot of times, people think of the idea of “optimization” as an outcome, rather than a process & if there is one thing I’ve learned it’s that what we do to optimize ourselves today may change tomorrow. The more that we are able to look at the idea of optimization as a journey, rather than a destination, the more we can actually enjoy that journey & trust in the notion tha...

Episode 102: From BBQ Champion to Productivity Master (feat. Boomer Anderson) 20.04.2022

Send us Fan Mail For anyone listening to this show, I imagine you are all passionate about being a go getter & a high achiever. This being said, living life with these types of passions can create the slippery slope of understanding how to balance your desires in a way that allows your life to still have time left in it for you to develop your relationship to yourself. Todays guest on the show...

Episode 101: Ascending Life Through Faith & Perseverance (feat. Andre Mytty) 13.04.2022

Send us Fan Mail A notion I have been actively tuning into as of late is the notion of the hero’s journey that each of us have the opportunity to embark upon within our lives. This journey, although it’s called the heroes journey, is a journey in which much of the time, speaking from my own experience, the individual walking this path will feel far from a hero, as challenges & dark nights of t...

Episode 100: The First Hundred Are The Hardest - Hosted by Mark England (feat. Ryan Sprague) 06.04.2022

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode 100 of the Highly Optimized podcast! In this episode, I get the opportunity to be in the interviewee seat & be interview by one of the individuals who is directly responsible for me discovering my passion for coaching & beginning Highly Optimized, the one & only Mark England Together, we dive into a ton of hilarious & fun stories & memories o...

Episode 99: Becoming Fit From the Inside Out (feat. Christian Van Camp) 30.03.2022

Send us Fan Mail Over 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates stated to “let medicine be thy food & food be thy medicine.” In the modern day world, much of society has forgotten this notion. With chronic disease, obesity & stress being seen as almost “normal” these days, it is more apparent than ever that what the world needs now more than ever is to re-educate them on the importance of high quality...

Episode 98: Breathing Harmony into Life (feat. Yury Opendik) 23.03.2022

Send us Fan Mail If there is one thing that life has taught me up until this point, it’s that anything can happen. This notion of anything being able to happen at any moment, when we really sit into it, is one of the main reasons so many of us are experiencing challenges in our state of being, such as anxiety, paranoia & agitation, to name but a few. These all stem from an overactive sympathet...

Episode 97: Bioptimizing the Mind, Body & Spirit (feat. Wade Lightheart) 16.03.2022

Send us Fan Mail When we think about the concept of health as a whole, few subjects come to mind quicker than that of nutrition. The food we eat can either act as medicine which allows us to live out our full potential or poison that will force us into the throes of dis-ease as our body attempts to perform its processes without high quality food. The challenge in the modern day however, is that, a...

Episode 96: Daring to Thrive (feat. Allison Pelot) 09.03.2022

Send us Fan Mail When it comes to the subject of health, there are endless side quests one can go on to create harmony in their physical, emotional, mental & spiritual well being. This being said, it begs the question for all of us on this collective journey of health to ask ourselves, where do we start? What I have found in my own health journey is that this is the hardest part, especially wi...

Episode 95: Winning the Inner Fight (feat. Eric Uresk) 02.03.2022

Send us Fan Mail When we think of the concept of life, what is immediately apparent is that no life is without its fair share of challenges. If there is one thing I’ve come to realize in my own experience of life, it’s that we must fight to not only accomplish our dreams, but to also remember who & what we truly are. This fight is cyclical, in that throughout our lives, we will inevitably face...

Episode 94: Training Camp For the Soul (feat. Anat Peri) 23.02.2022

Send us Fan Mail Joining in with us today on the show is a woman who has not only been a huge influence in my self development & positive self image journey, but has also done the same for countless individuals looking to transform, connect to themselves & the world around them deeper & take their experience of life to the next level. She has a background in business, an absolutely inc...

Episode 93: Word Magic & the Power the Spoken Word (feat. Laurel Airica) 16.02.2022

Send us Fan Mail When I began viewing life through the lens of us being the creator of my reality, no area became more important & pertinent to put that concept into play than the choice of language I spoke. The famous term “abrakadabra” literally translates to “with my word I create.” This shows that this is no new discovery & is actually much more of a re-membering that many are currentl...

Episode 92: Putting the Primal Back Into Health (feat. Aleks Rybchinskiy) 09.02.2022

Send us Fan Mail One of my favorite aspects of life is discovering people who remind me how similar we all are, despite are unique differences. For me, this is yet another example of the gift we can receive when we choose to see ourselves mirrored back in the people around us & tune into the freedom that occurs when we take ourselves less seriously, embody the medicine of laughter & allow...

Episode 91: The Art of the Runners High (feat. Josiah Hesse) 02.02.2022

Send us Fan Mail For anyone who has been listening to this show long enough, you know my love & affinity for the Cannabis plant. This plant is one which I have a deep relationship with & one which has aided me in my never ending quest for physical, emotional, mental & spiritual well being. This being said, one of the areas that is gaining a lot of popularity within the realm of Cannabi...

Episode 90: Building Men Back Better (feat. Dennis Morolda) 26.01.2022

Send us Fan Mail When we look at the idea of masculinity as a whole, it is easy to see that somewhere along the way, our path as men became challenged & confused. A path that was once focused upon concepts of being centered in ourselves, acting as pillars of strength for those we love & being compassionate warriors for the world at large became refocused into concepts of aggression towards...

Episode 89: How to Build Freedom Into Your Life as a Coach (feat. Mike Gonzalez) 19.01.2022

Send us Fan Mail For anyone who knows me personally, you’ll know that one of my core values is liberty, or, said differently, the ability to be free in all the aspects of my life. To me, freedom is, quite literally, the bridge which allows us to cross into living life on our own terms or have our terms created for us by someone else & their goals & aspirations in life. I don’t see one as n...

Episode 88: Why Devotion is Key to Finding Fulfillment (feat. Salvatore Liberti) 12.01.2022

Send us Fan Mail Within the realm of business, more & more individuals are breaking out of the typical paradigms given to us by society & are combining their mission & soul purpose into the aspect of business in order to create alignment in the areas of physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, material & financial well being. Speaking for myself, I feel this is the change we have de...

Episode 87: Remembering Our Divine Nature With Psychedelics (feat. Paul Chek) 07.01.2022

Send us Fan Mail If there is one thing I have noticed within the world at large & more specifically, the realm of plant medicines, it is that we have many elders, but have lost much of the wise elders of the world. In ancient societies & even today in small circles, these wise elders would help the rest of their tribe understand the process of life & in the realm of plant medicines, ac...

Episode 86: Breathing Into The Flow (feat. Bill Burnett) 05.01.2022

Send us Fan Mail There is a big reason that breathwork is becoming such a hot topic right now as the collective of human beings begin remembering their true power. As many ancient traditions have spoken about since the dawn of time, breath is life. It is our connection to the infinite source of spirit within each of us & allows anyone, regardless of age, gender, location or status to tap into...

Episode 85: Finding A Zest For Life (feat. Devin Bailey) 29.12.2021

Send us Fan Mail More & more often as of late, I am having the pleasure of meeting individuals who are clearly on their path to inner-standing themselves & are open to the idea that they don’t know anything, but rather are eternal students in the art of curiosity. When we see children, the reason they are able to feel their emotions & move through the energies of life in a way that us...

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