Mads Friis Podcast

How do you build a company that gives you financial freedom and the possibility to travel while impacting millions of people positively? I think this is a question many people have asked themselves :) However, many entrepreneurs end up feeling trapped in their own business and without the opportunity to really experience the freedom for which they started the company to get. To help find a better...

“Happiness comes from trying to make others feel good rather than yourself.” Do you agree with that statement? 🤯 Whether you agree or not then that is what a new scientific paper says. I know many people would be a little on the fence about it, because not all answers are black and white, and need some more digging and nuances which the full paper also provides. So today’s podcast is about the fu...

How do you become not just good, but one of the world's best in whatever you do? Well, that’s a sentence you can google, but real answers are often more nuanced than a quick Google result. I personally love to learn from either someone who have done what I want to learn or someone who have studied it. For this episode, I bring to you Michael Gebi. Five times Olympic windsurf participant, winner of...

Do you know that Coldwater swimming can help you lose weight? 🏊‍♀️🤸‍♀️ Your first reaction might be: You gotta be crazy to say that” OR You’ve already joined the club that swears to cold showers and cold water swimming!! 💪 No matter what your reaction, you’re curious. What’s the healthiest way to do that? And what’s the fuss really about? Does it actually work? Is there proof? Today’s podcast i...

Immortality is not just for Draculas and Vampires anymore. You can be young forever too (without any bloodsucking being involved!) What if we told you that death could be ‘optional’ soon? That technology of the near future will let you reverse your age, and people can become eternally young again! Sounds ridiculous? Well, this podcast will prove you wrong. Over the last few years, Scientists have...

Stop eating and you will feel better 😮 WTF, what kind of advice is that 🤷‍♂️ Well turns about there is a bit more to the latest health trend of fasting. The science backing it up is strong, but fasting needs to be done the right way so it won’t be dangerous. I, therefore, got Andri Peetso on the podcast who just released his book “Mastering Fasting”. If you never heard about fasting and you have...

How do you go from being good to one of the world's very best? To answer that I had the world’s 3rd best kitesurfer on the podcast. Paula Novotna, I first met her in Cabarete at one of the world cup stops. I have since had the pleasure of following her from the side and she always shows up with good energy and a big smile :) In this episode she shares about her love of watersports, going through h...

Want a quick easy way to improve your health, energy and sexual experiences? Then Breathwork might just be the next thing for you to practice. Today, I’ve got Leigh Ewin as our guest, and I’m excited to introduce him. He’s an expert breather, a certified Bulletproof Coach, and a renowned instructor in breathwork methodologies. He coaches people across the world in breathwork techniques to enhance...

What do you do when you are told you are losing your sight? Victor Mifsud was in this position years ago and has since gone on a journey to save his sight. We talk about his condition, how it relates to other eye challenges, and concrete steps to improve eyesight. Victor has recently completed a feature-length documentary called My Neuroplastic Adventure. It shows his journeys from the cutting edg...

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. This is what Churchill said through one of its darkest periods. Entrepreneurship is often drawn in bright colors but what does it actually take to become real success? Have you ever wondered if you had what it takes to launch a startup? A recent Growth Island podcast guest Sean Percival, who is a serial entrepreneur, investor, author and a former VP at M...

What can you actually do about cancer besides Chemo and Radiation? Cancer, a diagnosis that most of us fear affects 1 in 3 people in the USA. Chances are high that you or someone you know has been affected by cancer. And still, we lack lots of knowledge about the most efficient ways to deal with it. I have invited Dr. Bouchard to join my podcast to talk about that. She is a licensed Naturopathic D...

How did health become so complicated? Are potatoes evil? Can you drink milk? Well, it doesn't have to be so complicated if you get the right guidance. I managed to get one of the functional medicine pioneers in Denmark on the podcast. If functional medicine was music then he would be a true rock star :) Today's guest, Umahro Cadogan, shares the simple framework for health that he teaches students...

Each step we run consumes movement from 200 muscles 🏃. But you properly got other reasons why you run. Whether it is to compete in races or to stay active. To get the secrets of how to run better whether you are a pro or beginner or pro I interviewed Mads Taersboel, one of the fastest 5km runners in the Nordic and a former competitor at the European Championship. Mads is also a person you could s...

Feeling bloated or having skin challenges? You are not alone! One of the keys to improve all of this is through the microbiome. A subject that is gaining a lot of attention these days. Therefore I got Medical Doctor Ulrik Hjerpsted for this episode of the podcast. He is the founder of the Copenhagen Center of Functional Medicine. Over the past 10 years, Ulrik took a step further into functional me...

Digging deep into the world of autoimmune diseases with the leading medical doctor and author of the book How to Use Functional Medicine to Successfully Treat Your Rheumatoid Arthritis, Dr. Eva-Maria Hasenbeck.☺️ Dr. Hasenbeck shares Concrete Steps to Battling Autoimmune Conditions and what Functional Medicine truly is. She is one of the leaders of this movement in Germany that inspires a change i...

An orgasm right before sleep might just mean your glucose levels return back to normal despite drinking alcohol or eating food that increases your glucose level 😃🙋‍♂️Perhaps an experiment you want to try? ☺️ That and what other things you can test and learn from data is what you will learn about from this episode. For this episode, I went to academia to see what science actually says about data...

Do you want better sleep? Well, then you might just have to stop wearing your sleep tracker!!! What???🤪 Was the whole point of a sleep tracker not to get better sleep? 😜 Yes it was! But turns out your sleep tracker might just be an additional reason you have poor sleep. Today's guest on the podcast Greg Potter has a Ph. D. in Sleep, Diet, and Metabolic health and is the second guest to point to...

Have you ever felt a little confused with all the new health and biohacking advice? I surely have… There are so many claims and contradictory advice that it feels like you need to dedicate yourself full-time to understand what is good and what is not. I, therefore, reached out to my buddy Boomer Anderson who has done exactly that, and that is what this episode is all about. Boomer runs the podcast...

You try to start a new habit but somehow it ends up not becoming a habit 🤷‍♂️ I have tried this way too many times 😅 However, I learned a tool when I was at Harvard which when followed has helped me a lot with building new habits and reaching goals 🎓 Today's episode is therefore a quick walkthrough of the tool and some of the research backing its effect. You can also find a cheatsheet here to g...

You might have heard about biohacking and thought what the f… is that and how does it apply to me? To answer that I got one of my close friends who is both a TedX speaker and one of the leading biohackers in Denmark to join the podcast. Martin Kremmer and I talked about what is Biohacking and the entry points for people to get them into Biohacking. We discussed the different criteria for deciding...

Red Light Therapy or more correctly Photobiomodulation has been one of the hottest subjects in the health and biohacking space the last year. And there is a good reason for that. The amount of scientific papers that document the effectiveness is growing massively with papers about everything from joint pains, reducing inflammation, reducing fine lines, hair regrowth, faster recovery and other subj...

What is the most effective dose of bodily exercise for people with a limited amount of time? We will dive into that whis week, thanks to Boomer Anderson, the host of the Decoding Superhuman Podcast who introduced me to my today’s guest. I am extremely excited to have Sten Stray-Gundersen on the show today as he is studying for his PhD in Physiology Science and he really understands the data of our...

I got to interview one of my favorite humans and a trusted advisor on an extremely important subject: Women's health! It was a shocker for me to learn that an important part of health research is only done on men despite women being overrepresented within the disease areas. During this episode, Dasha Maximov and I discuss why that is the case and some concrete strategies for optimizing women’s hea...

I had the pleasure of being invited to share some of my key takeaways from Growth Island for the wonderful people from TalentGarden and their audience. The episode delivers some of the simplest and easiest things you can try out in your own life to find more meaning and happiness. My goal with the talk is that after you listen to this, you will take away at least one concrete thing that you will t...

Have you ever thought “Why are romantic relationships so difficult?” I sure have. But then again, I never spend the time studying and intentionally learning what makes a good romantic relationship. In all of the areas of my life that I mastered I followed a simple process: Study it, find good role models and practice :) With relationships, most of us follow a different model: We grow up with less...