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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1340: Fatherhood, Parenting, Home Schooling & Religion with Ben & Jessa Greenfield

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.811.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sal, Adam & Justin talk with Ben & Jessa Greenfield on the subjects of parenthood, home schooling and much more.

  • How Ben’s hitting his muscle-building potential. (4:04)
  • The paradoxical effect of what/when you eat on your gut for elite athletes. (9:10)
  • Jessa’s famous sourdough bread. (12:20)
  • The Greenfield’s are NOT helicopter parents. (13:10)
  • Ben’s definition of attachment theory, how the way you are raised affects your relationships & MORE. (15:44)
  • The importance of traditions and the greatest challenges faced, as a couple, by the way they were raised. (26:20)
  • The idea of love and logic parenting. (32:35)
  • Raising your children to have virtue and make their own mistakes. (39:45)
  • How fatherhood has been devalued in modern societies. (47:25)
  • Religion, the foundation that holds communities together. (53:45)
  • From a scientific standpoint, what are the values of having a spiritual practice? (57:48)
  • Why science doesn’t work if you have morality attached to it. (1:04:30)
  • Busting the myths surrounding homeschooling/unschooling. (1:09:28)
  • The value of saving/investing. (1:17:58)
  • Speculating on the future of education. (1:23:19)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

0:06.0

MIND, MIND, MIND, UP with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

In this episode of Mind Pumped the World's Top Fitness Health and Entertainment Podcast,

0:18.0

we interview one of our very, very good friends, Ben Greenfield, the great Ben Greenfield,

0:24.0

and his wife, Jessa.

0:27.0

We have the luxury of knowing these people quite well, they're good friends of ours.

0:31.0

We were on the Ben Greenfield Podcast years ago when Mind Pump was in its infancy,

0:36.0

and just hit it off right out the gates.

0:38.0

He's a very, very smart guy.

0:41.0

One of the original, I guess biohackers, knows a lot about health and fitness,

0:47.0

but one thing that struck us was how involved him and his wife were with their children.

0:53.0

They're very, very involved parents, and they seem to have a great family dynamic.

0:59.0

So we had them on the show to talk all about parenting, fatherhood.

1:04.0

We talked about homeschooling, they're both homeschooled, they're children,

1:08.0

and we talked about how their religion plays a role in raising their children.

1:15.0

Now, Ben Greenfield is also an author, and his book, Boundless,

1:21.0

talks a little bit about parenthood.

1:24.0

It's a great book.

1:26.0

You can check it out at boundlessbook.com, and of course you can find Ben Greenfield,

1:30.0

all over social media and his podcast is the Ben Greenfield podcast.

1:34.0

Now, this particular episode is brought to you by our sponsor, Zbiotics.

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