102. Homeless to Entrepreneur | Chris Duffin

The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast

Mikhaila Peterson

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🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This episode is sponsored by ancestralsupplements.com. Use code MP for 10% off. Today, Chris Duffin and I sit down to discuss some of Chris’s incredible life stories and entrepreneurial ventures. From Duffin’s homeless childhood to his multiple companies, this episode depicts the relationship between adversity, strength, and health. Learn more about the Kabuki strength and Chris’s go-to modern BearFoot shoes in this episode. Chris Duffin, the guy who made me reconsider my running shoes, is an inventor, thought leader, and serial entrepreneur in health and fitness. He has co-founded multiple prominent brands, the largest of which is Kabuki Strength. Not stopping there, he also founded a shoe company, Barefoot Athletics, and Build Fast Formula, which we will learn about today. So, if you are anything like me, impressed with Chris’s world record for squatting and deadlifting 1000 pounds for reps, then make sure you check out his detailed autobiography, The Eagle and the Dragon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I grew up homeless in the wilderness. This is Northern California in the late 70s and through the 80s
0:06.0	where we were living off grid. Six years old. We were living out by a stream. There's no roads
0:12.2	into where we're at. We've got beams lashed up into the trees and that's where our bedding is at
0:17.1	at night because there's rattlesnake dens. That's the environment. I'm I'm being taught how to
0:21.6	capture live rattlesnakes by hand. That's the environment I live in. Like here's a here's how you
0:27.2	carve a fork stick and this is how you entice it to strike so that you can you can capture and
0:32.0	pen it snack and then pick it up and then hold it and know how to hold and control this snake while
0:37.6	it's wrapping around your arm with the only intent in its life at that point is to kill you. And so
0:44.9	you know learning how to manage your fear because if you don't, if you let fear overtake you,
0:51.1	you're going to die. And if you don't respect it and you're just careless and have no fear
0:56.3	whatsoever, you're going to die. Welcome to episode 102 of the Michaela Peterson podcast. Today
1:06.2	I'm happy to introduce Chris Duffin for those of you who don't know him. Chris is the world record
1:11.2	holder for squatting and deadlifting 1,000 pounds for reps 1,000 pounds. That's incredible.
1:18.5	Not only that, he's also a serial entrepreneur in health and fitness and the co-founder of Kabuki
1:23.5	Strength and other multiple prominent brands. We had a chat about his absolutely unbelievable
1:29.1	life story and entrepreneurial ventures. This guy has been through so much. He lived in the wild.
1:36.4	He came from such adversity that hopefully it'll make you so guilty about not improving your own
1:41.4	life that you will. I love talking to Chris and I think you'll all enjoy this episode. If you do,
1:47.1	don't forget to hit the subscribe button.
1:58.0	Chris Duffin, welcome to my podcast. Yeah, thanks for having me on. I've been looking forward
2:03.3	to it for this for a little while. Yeah, it's been a while since I invited you. But I had a
2:10.0	weird ear. But I'm glad to be speaking with you now. Well, I've been watching. It's a lot of good
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