The Mike White Podcast

The White family brothers started an annual tradition to watch the Super Bowl in Vegas 14 years ago. Now Mike (MJ) will start a tradition of recording a podcast with the family to document each person's picks for the game and any other sports topics the family wants to talk about. This year Tyler White, Michael Hormuth, Tyler Lobe, Van White, Dirk White, and Mike White Sr. hop on the podcast to ta...

Ifra Khan is a labor and delivery travel nurse stationed in San Jose, CA. She grew up in Texas and attended Texas Women's University to study Biology, not knowing exactly what she wanted to do as a career. While at TWU, she decided to ditch Biology and switch to nursing. After graduating nursing school, she found her calling as a labor and delivery nurse. Ifra was working in the field for six year...

Another week in the books! Clark talks about how he wants to start prioritizing sleep more. Mike goes into why he made a slight deviation from the scheduled runs. The two talk about Fartleks and best ways to measure the interval time.   Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCewKjRwfzsklBBGTew49YUA Apple:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mike-white-podcast/id1648140777 Spotify:  http...

Mike talks about creating New Year's Resolutions. He argues it is important to identify what your values are before deciding what your goals for the year will be. He also talks about this idea of having a "central purpose." While Mike is still trying to figure his out, he recently found an article/video from Objectivist intellectual Jean Moroney describing the concept. The article and video can be...

Clark and Mike talk about the difficult week 6 and outline training for week 7. The two have some more tips for running outside safely. Clark incorporates hill training for week 7 and discusses a few ways to get the hills in. Embrace the suck!   Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCewKjRwfzsklBBGTew49YUA Apple:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mike-white-podcast/id1648140777 Spoti...

The first week of 2023 is complete! Clark and Mike discuss their takeaways from a "recovery" week that involved five 30 minute runs. They discuss next week's training plan which includes quite a few more miles!    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCewKjRwfzsklBBGTew49YUA Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mike-white-podcast/id1648140777 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/...

Mike replays one clip from each episode in 2022.    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCewKjRwfzsklBBGTew49YUA Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mike-white-podcast/id1648140777 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7uO5R8VLZJtNrowqqOrSbz?si=ddfa85276f1a4c03 Website: www.mikewhitepod.com Insta/TikTok: @mikewhitepod

Happy New Year! Mike starts out the podcast by describing what a "code brown" is and how he has been dealing with them over the holidays. Clark covers the difficulty of the previous week and explains week 5's workouts. Week 5 is more of a rest day to recover from the difficult week 4.   Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCewKjRwfzsklBBGTew49YUA Apple:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

Coach Fichtner joins the podcast to discuss his career from playing football for Purdue to becoming the Offensive Coordinator for one of the most storied franchises in all of sports, the Pittsburgh Steelers.     7:40 - Leaving home to play football for Purdue.   14:00 - Graduate Assistant roles.   34:00 - Pittsburgh Steeler vs. Baltimore Ravens rivalry.   37:00 - Troy Polamalu's impact on the fiel...

Merry Christmas! Clark and Mike (MJ) talk about how their third week of running went, and what to look forward to for next week. The two discuss the effects of cold weather when running.   Clark and Mike go over week 4, which includes six running days and only one rest day.   Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCewKjRwfzsklBBGTew49YUA Apple:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mike-w...

Mike interviews First Class Petty Officer Jaime Salgado. Jaime is a Logistics Specialist in the United States Navy. Jaime discusses how he decided to go into the Navy, and describes his experience across two different submarine platforms.     Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCewKjRwfzsklBBGTew49YUA Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mike-white-podcast/id1648140777 Spotify: h...

Clark and Mike (MJ) talk about how their second week of running went, and what to look forward to for next week. Clark spent the last few days of his week driving from Baltimore, MD to Dallas, TX. He says he still has to get his last run in before the end of the night.   Mike verified his heart rate on the Apple Watch matched the heart rate shown on a chest heart rate monitor. He also talks about...

Mike interviews Luke Blough about his introduction to Bitcoin and what led him to create the website Satoshi's Gulch .   Luke graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Biology and then went to work for a vertical farming ranch in Colorado. Luke talks about how the money printing during COVID caused him to question how the financial system functioned. At the same time, his brother...

Clark and Mike (MJ) talk about how their first week of running went, and what to look forward to for next week. Clark starts off by saying he only measured the time for his slow runs, not pace nor heart rate. The workout schedule for Week 1 was 30 minute runs on Monday,  Wednesday, and Friday. Clark added in a 60 minute Sunday run because he was feeling froggy. Clark emphasizes it is important to...

Clark joins the podcast to discuss his goal for training for the NYC Marathon on November 5th, 2023. Clark and Mike talk about their goals for the marathon and the training regimen to get them there. Each week we will post a new episode with thoughts from the previous training week and the plan of attack moving forward. We hope that you join us, whether it be for a marathon or just wanting to star...

In this episode Mike, Travis, and Mike Sr. discuss one of the largest cases of fraud in our lifetime - FTX. They go into the inappropriate relationship between FTX and Alameda Research and how this ponzi eventually got exposed. They discuss the importance of taking Bitcoin off exchanges and holding your own keys with multisig for maximum protection. Finally they look into how this event will affec...

Mike interviews his cousin Tegan White who is an Operating Room Nurse in Arizona. Tegan discusses why she decided to become a nurse and her path to get there. She talks about the education pipeline to become an RN and the different specialties within nursing. Tegan outlines the daily duties of an OR nurse and discusses what she finds most rewarding about the job. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c...

In this episode Mike interviews two personal trainers, Austin and Carolina Martin. Meeting each other at the University of Texas, Austin and Carolina fell in love with health and fitness and decided to pursue personal training full-time. Their journey led them to moving to London together and then Bristol before heading back to the Texas. In this time, the duo developed a fitness mobile app to con...

Born and raised in downtown Philadelphia, Edward "Eddy" Ta did well in high school and chose to go to Penn State to pursue Mechanical Engineering. In order to help pay for school, Eddy joined Navy ROTC. This led him to being accepted into the Nuclear Navy as a Submarine Officer. Eddy talks about the submarine pipeline from Power School, Prototype, SOBC, to the boat. Eddy discusses some of the earl...

Vinnie Tortorich is a fitness trainer, entrepreneur, and author of the book Fitness Confidential. Vinnie defined a way of eating, which he trademarked "NSNG" for "No Sugar, No Grains." He has found that sugars and grains have terrible health effects on the body. Not only that, but there is evidence supporting the idea that cancer feeds on sugar, and Vinnie doesn't want to go through cancer again!...

Vyom Joshi is an electrical engineer and value investor. He founded Superior North LLC and creates YouTube videos and writes blog posts where he analyzes stocks. Vyom discusses his path to value investing and the learning resources he has found most useful. **No investment advice in the episode. Episode is for entertainment purposes only.** Superior North Website: https://superiornorthllc.com/ Sup...

Travis and Mike were Navy Officer Candidate School classmates and went through the submarine pipeline together. Travis shares the financial mindset he had in college and explains how that led him into real estate. From house hacking to renovating, Travis shares his lessons learned throughout his real estate experience. Travis and Mike also discuss the current economic environment and how deals are...

Clark is a former track and cross country runner at Texas Tech University. In this episode he explains the different cross country workouts he recommends. He also goes into how he qualified for the Boston Marathon, only to have it canceled for COVID. Mike and Clark talk about Lubbock, TX and Clark's terrifying homeless hitch hiking story.  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7uO5R8VLZJtNrowqqOr...

Mike interviews his dad in the inaugural pod of The Mike White Podcast. They start by discussing Mike Sr.'s childhood playing baseball in San Diego, CA and how he ended up enlisting in the Air Force as a Russian Linguist. Then they discuss his time at the Air Force Academy and how he became Captain and MVP of the baseball team there. Next they get into his career as a fighter pilot flying the T-38...