The Active Life Podcast

Most frustration in life can be avoided by doing your job and allowing other people to do theirs. The hardest part of achieving that end is having people around you who you can trust to do their job effectively. In this episode Dr. Jeremy and I (Dr. Sean) discuss the jobs that the Coach, and Doctor, and the Athlete have to execute on to keep an athlete performing at their best. Remember before you...

Episode 61 - Dawn Fletcher, How to Improve your Performance by Shifting your Mindset   Dawn Fletcher is an absolute savage when it comes to making athletes and high achievers better by building an indestructible mind. In this talk with Dawn we get into topics from how to approach difficult conversations to why effective mindset can make the difference between 30+ spots in the final standings of th...

Episode 60 - What we learned from teaching   We just wrapped up our third internationally attended assessments workshop and we learned a lot this time. Dr. Jeremy and I (Dr. Sean), spend some time with you today discussing what we learned from our attendees and how we are using it to make ourselves and our services better. If you are the head coach at a gym, a teacher, or a manager at a business,...

You have had the same injury over and over again, now you identify as someone who just has a certain chronic issue that you have no control over. Fortunately, you’re wrong. In this episode Dr. Ray Gorman, a Physical Therapist for the University of Nevada Athletic Program, Owner of Engagemvmt Physical Therapy, and member of our esteemed Workshop Staff discusses how you can have a smarter strategy w...

You have no idea how much opportunity you leave on the table when you are afraid to ask for something that you want. We constantly put ourselves in the position of others, or at least in the position we think others are in, and that’s the problem. When you put yourself in someone else’s shoes, you risk them not fitting you. Often times people want you to ask them for things, for help, or to help t...

CrossFit NYC AKA “The Black Box” pays almost $1,500,000 per year in rent. Staff members make over $100,000 per year. The concrete floor to buffer sound cost over $100,000. The cleaning service costs over $2,000 per week. And according to the gym’s owner, Hari Singh, that, and more is all worth it. In this episode we talk to Hari about the responsibility associated with the health and fitness of ov...

This is an absolute must listen for anyone frustrated by their co-workers. “It’s not my job” might be the best thing to say if you want to lose your job but also the most tempting thing to say when your co-workers under perform. Usually we are proponents of just knowing and doing your job, staying within your responsibilities and absolutely nailing them. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t ask for mor...

Dr. Jacob Harden is an innovator in the space of social media for Doctors. With great video clips and his tagline “Helping you live pain free 1 minute at a time”, @dr.jacob.harden has amassed over 365,000  followers! On this episode we discuss how Dr. Harden hacked social media culture, how that social media culture has affected his private clinic, and how he manages to maintain credibility while...

Despite major age and experience differences, the experience of working with adults in a group setting is very similar to the experience of working with children in a school classroom. The tactics used in both are parallel, the need for versatility and introspection are the same, and the long reaching value of outcomes are profoundly similar. In one case we are educating the world’s youth, in anot...

The best fighters in the UFC are making the pilgrimage to see Dr. Beau Hightower and today we have him on the show. Dr. Hightower is a professor for doctoral candidates at SUNM, he runs a multi modal health services clinic that is booked out for 8 weeks, and on this episode we talk about topics like how to grow your social media following and how to leverage social media influence to build a medic...

Today I had the chance to sit down with a friend of mine with the sole objective of intentionally making each other better people. In this episode I discuss how we did that, some of the hard truths that I had to hear, and how hearing those things made me better. This is a serious episode that comes with a serious challenge. It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it  

Emily Schromm blew our minds in this interview. This is a tactical interview in which you will learn through both direct advice and through Emily’s life experiences. We discuss Emily’s experience growing up in a cult, her 15 minutes of fame on MTv’s The Real World DC, how to have better self talk, and how making a cup of coffee changed her entire life. This is an episode you do not want to miss. I...

If you own a business or work in the field of education you need to sample your own product regularly. In this episode Dr. Sean talks about attending class at his gym, CrossFit Island Park and what he got out of it above and beyond the physical benefit.   CrossFit Island Park can be found at: @ActiveLifeAthletics

Buckle up for this episode, Stuart Brauer moves fast and he moves intentionally. This episode is absolute must listen for anyone in the fitness business because I have never heard anyone tell it like it is and tell it like it should be like Stuart. His company, WTF Gym Talk is educating fitness professionals on the bottom line, the top line, and every line in between. One line to sum this podcast...

There are hundreds of workshops available for you to attend every weekend. The question you need to be asking yourself is not “which one to attend?” The question is “How should I decide which workshop to attend?” In this short episode Dr. Sean covers the three main things to think about as it pertains to choosing a useful workshop for your personal or professional development.   Next Active Life W...

Eating well and looking awesome doesn’t have to be really hard. In this episode nutrition coach Sarah Pierce breaks it down in a very simple and tactical way. You will not only listen to the theory and science around nutrition, you will learn exactly how to manipulate in a healthy way, your own eating habits. She answers questions like “How do I eat better without weighing and measuring my foods?”...

Not only is it possible to measure your quality as a coach, it’s easy to do. In today’s episode Dr. Sean delivers a 3 step process to becoming a better coach that you can start today and finish by tomorrow.

Carl Paoli is on the show today! Carl is a wizard of human movement coaching. In this podcast we discuss things like how you can get better at muscle ups without even touching the rings, how you can be a better coach by making a one degree change to your mindset, and how to get started as an influencer of culture as a seminar presenter. Carl has presented over 600 times which means he has personal...

The most common question we get asked is “What’s wrong with my ________ and how can I fix it?” The most common answer we send back is “we have no idea, we need to see your movement assessment first.” We want to help you, but we need you to start getting serious about helping yourself so that we can be effective. In this episode we talk about why an assessment is important and some of the most glar...

Jay Leydon is the owner of CrossFit Milford and the coach of dozens of CrossFit Games athletes, but if you know us by now, you know that just as important as his coaching capacity to us is the kind of person Jay is. The more we speak with Jay the more we want to work with him. In this episode we discuss everything from how to write programming for athletes, to how to build relationships with peopl...

A well rounded fitness program is great for someone with well rounded fitness and physiology. Unfortunately, that’s probably not you. Find out on this episode why a well rounded program is actually a problem and how you should change yours.

You breathe like shit. Sorry, it’s true. According to Dr. Belisa between 90% and 95% of Americans are using the wrong muscles when they breathe. Breathing with the wrong muscles can lead to diminished athletic performance, back pain, and even early death, so it makes sense for you to listen to this tactical episode. Dr. Belisa takes us through not only theory but on this podcast we have some very...

Doctors are too often hoping that their type of treatment is appropriate for your condition instead of evaluating your condition and modifying how they deliver their treatment. Often times a referral is the best option. In this episode we speak about how healthcare needs to function more like the UFC if it’s ever going to do for you what it’s meant to.

Meet Raph and Lachlan, together they make up The  Mind   Muscle  Project, the most popular fitness and nutrition podcast in all of Australia. This episode is a unique opportunity to speak with professional learners who have interviewed some of the most influential people in all of fitness. We discuss what they have learned, how they have been influenced, and how running their podcast has changed h...

On this call-in episode, learn about how Dr. Sean Pastuch approaches shoulder pain that comes out of nowhere. We can be found at: @activeliferx www. PerformanceCareRx.com www.youtube.com/theactivelife