The Mindset Advantage

This week on The MiFit Podcast I chat with former FBI top hostage negotiator, Chris Voss. Chris is one of the preeminent practitioners and professors of negotiation skills in the world. He is the founder and principal of The Black Swan Group, a consulting firm that provides training and advises Fortune 500 companies through complex negotiations. Chris currently teaches at the University of Souther...

This week on The MiFit Podcast I chat with Molly Galbraith. Molly is the cofounder of Girls Gone Strong, the world’s largest platform providing evidence-based, interdisciplinary health, fitness, nutrition, and pregnancy education for women and the health and fitness professionals who work with them-including industry-leading certification programs and personal coaching for women. The Strong Women...

This week on The MiFit Podcast I bring back Training Think Tank Coach, Brannen Dorman. Brannen is an incredibly intelligent and talented coach who works remotely with CrossFitters, Military Personnel, Triathletes, Weightlifters, and Field Sport Athletes. Brannen also programs the Masters path on the DSGN training program and has found a lot of success in doing so. Brannen is somebody who I look up...

This week on The MiFit Podcast I chat with Dr. Sean Pastuch, founder os Active Life Rx and Active Life Professional. Dr. Sean has been working to bridge the gap between fitness and healthcare since 2005. Over the past 15 years Dr. Sean has helped Olympic medalists, professional athletes, CrossFit Games champions, and thousands of every day people to get out of pain and perform at their best withou...

This week on The MiFit Podcast I chat with highly sought-after mental skills coach, Jim Afremow. Jim is the author of best selling books The Champion’s Mind: How Great Athletes Think, Train, and Thrive and also The Champion’s Comeback: How Great Athletes Recover, Reflect, and Reignite. For over 20 years, Dr. Afremow has assisted numerous high school, collegiate, recreational, and  professional ath...

This week on The MiFit Podcast I chat with world’s leading breathing experts, Patrick McKeown. Patrick is an International best-selling author of The Oxygen Advantage and creator and master instructor of the Oxygen Advantage®technique. Over the past two decades, Patrick has trained thousands of people around the world to safely challenge their bodies and produce positive changes through breathing...

This week on the MiFit Podcast we throw back to Episode 82 when I was joined by Julie Foucher. Julie was a 4x CrossFit Games competitor and never finished outside of the top 5. She also spent time on the seminar staff traveling all around the world teaching movement and the methodology of CrossFit. Since competing, Julie has worked her way towards being a family physician as well as build her bran...

This week on The MiFit Podcast i’m accompanied by Nutrition Coach and CrossFit Athlete, Frank Mastroianni. Frank is the owner of Active Works Nutrition where he works one-on-one with clients who are pursuing performance, body composition, and/or lifestyle goals. Frank’s has a passion for nutrition and helping people reach their nutrition goals and you can tell from a far distance that he truly lov...

Mark Divine is a retired Navy SEAL commander and New York Times best-selling author. He is also the founder of SEALFIT, an integrated functional fitness and mental toughness training program, and Unbeatable Mind, an intensive online training program for gaining mental clarity, increased focus, physical fitness, and increased awareness. Mark has a wide array of life experiences that have molded him...

This week on The MiFit Podcast I interview Michael Crawley. Michael is an anthropologist, author, and elite runner clocking in at a 2:20 marathon. In 2019, Michael was awarded a PhD in anthropology by the University of Edinburgh, following ESRC funded research, living and training alongside runners in Ethiopia. For 15 months, Michael immersed himself within the Ethiopian culture in hopes to find o...

This week on The MiFit Podcast I chat with Brett Ledbetter. Brett is a Performance Consultant, Author, and Speaker. He works with some of the best coaches and teams in professional and college sports. He is the Co-founder of What Drives Winning which is a company that puts on conferences, keynotes, and seminars all over the United States. Brett has also done two Ted Talks and has recently released...

This week on The MiFit Podcast I connected with Noah Ohlsen, seven times CrossFit Games veteran. Noah is one of the best CrossFit athletes of all-time and has displayed several years of consistency. But he’s still hungry for one more thing and that is to stand on top of the podium at the CrossFit Games. Noah has a lot of admirable qualities, but what I admire most about him is his authenticity, tr...

This week on The MiFit Podcast I am accompanied by Greg Everett. Greg is the owner of Catalyst Athletics, coach of the USA Weightlifting National champion team, and author to Olympic Weightlifting: A complete guide for Athletes and Coaches and also Tough: Building True Mental, Physical, & Emotional Toughness For Success & Fulfillment. Greg has coached over 30 national level lifters includi...

This week on the MiFit Podcast I interview former NBA basketball player and Hall of Fame Motivational Speaker, Walter Bond. Walter has an incredibly powerful story that started when he was a top basketball recruit coming out of high school, getting a full ride scholarship at the University of Minnesota, then becoming the first ever free agent un-drafted rookie to start in the NBA, and is now one o...

This week on The MiFit Podcast I chat with Dr. Jonathan Fader. Dr. Fader is a licensed clinical and performance psychologist. He is best known for working with professional athletes in the MLB and NFL, including the New York Mets and New York Giants. Dr. Fader regularly works with athletes, performers, entrepreneurs, businesses, schools, physicians, and with first responder group such as The New Y...

This week on The MiFit Podcast I chat with the winningest coach in CrossFit, Shane Orr. Shane has coached Mat Fraser and his wife, Tia Toomey for a combined 9 CrossFit Games world Championships. Being a coach myself, I was eager to learn everything I could about how he has trained the best athletes in the world and what makes up a winning environment.  Topics -Olympic bobsledding  -Coaching Styles...

This week on The MiFit Podcast I chat with William B. Irvine. William practices stoicism and is a professor of philosophy at Wright State University. He is a Stoic author of seven books, including The Stoic Challenge and A Guide to the Good Life. William has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Salon, Time, and BBC.  As many people know, I have a passion for all things stoici...

This week on the MiFit Podcast I’m accompanied by Dr. Stacy Sims. Stacy is a leader in research on differences between men and women in training. She has spent the last decade focusing on how to improve women’s experiences, life, and the correct approach to training, recovery and fueling your body for optional performance. Dr. Sims has an incredible resume including writing the best selling book,...

This week on The MiFit Podcast I chat with New York Yankees hitting coach, Rachel Balkovec. Rachel has been in professional baseball coaching for 8 years and was the first female to be a full time strength and conditioning coach when she worked for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Houston Astros. Early in her career Rachel had to overcome extreme adversity and discrimination when she was applying f...

This week on the MiFit Podcast I am accompanied by Dr. Caroline Leaf. Dr. Leaf is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist with a Masters and PhD in Communication Pathology and a BS in Logopaedics, specializing in cognitive and metacognitive neuropsychology. Since the early 1980’s Dr. Caroline has researched the mind-brain connection, the nature of mental health, and the formation...

This week on The MiFit Podcast I bring back friend, Marcus Filly. Marcus is a former 6x CrossFit Games athlete and has now shifted his focus to building his business, Revival Strength, and spreading the word about Functional Body Building. Marcus has spent several years in the gym training for a variety of different events whether it be college soccer, the CrossFit Games, the Grid league, and now...

-How Jon turned into “The Positive Guy” -Common characteristics of the best coaches  -Talk to yourself vs. listen to yourself -Feeding the positive dog -Energy Vampires -Advice to the senior in high school who’s life has been flipped upside down due to COVID-19 Follow Jon at IG @jongordon11 Website: https://www.jongordon.com New Book The Garden: https://www.jongordon.com/books/garden/ YouTube: htt...

This week on The MiFit Podcast I chat with EC Synkowski, owner of OptimizeMe Nutrition and founder of the 800g challenge. EC’s mission is to provide solutions for anyone to improve their weight, health, and overall wellbeing through sustainable diet methods. EC has incredible resume including a BS in biochemical engineering, a first MS in environmental sciences, and a second MS in Nutrition and Fu...

This week on The MiFit Podcast I bring back friend and mentor, Sam Smith. I recently had the opportunity to travel to Arizona for vacation and had some time to workout at Opex Hq and hangout with Sam. In today’s episode Sam and I took a deeper dive how weightlifting is expressed in the sport of CrossFit and how we as coaches can help our athletes progress weightlifting in such a chaotic sport. If...

This week on the show I chat with Human Performance Specialist PJ Nestler. PJ has trained dozens of athletes from the UFC, NFL, NHL, and MLB and he has become a leader in combat sports performance training having worked with over 100 professional fighters. He is currently the Director of Sports Performance for XPT Life where his role entails researching and developing educational curriculums aroun...