142: Chris Duffin - How to Strengthen Your Mind, Body, Relationships, and More
The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin
Dr. Anthony Gustin
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🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Chris Duffin is the only person to squat and deadlift over 1000 pounds for reps, he holds the Guinness World Record for the sumo deadlift, he’s been the number one ranked lifter in the world for eight years, and he’s a best-selling author.
With such an extensive background, he comes on the show with Dr. Anthony Gustin to share how to strengthen all parts of your life, including your mindset, relationships, body, and so much more.
Chris also discusses why it’s crucial for parents to pursue their dreams, how failure is your best teacher and why it’s necessary, what’s possible when you apply yourself to insurmountable tasks, and why you don’t need a bucket list.
Chris also chats about the five “whys”, filling your cup and how to do this, and how to really establish your values.
If you don’t know Chris, he has an engineering background, he’s earned an MBA, and he’s the best-selling author of The Eagle and The Dragon.
Chris has also co-founded Kabuki Strength, Build Fast Formula, and Barefoot Athletics and he knows what it takes to build strength in all areas of your life.
He comes on the show to share his knowledge on a number of different topics.
Tune in now to learn more and enjoy!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This week I have Chris Duffin on the podcast for you guys. |
| 0:09.2 | Chris is an amazing human being. |
| 0:10.7 | This guy would not believe his upbringing if I told you about it. |
| 0:16.0 | He wrote a book on it and we dive a little bit into it in the beginning of episode here, |
| 0:20.2 | but just a crazy, crazy upbringing where he was basically a modern day hunter gatherer |
| 0:26.5 | in the northwest. |
| 0:27.5 | We even had that, but some trials and tribulations, it's really difficult to do that. |
| 0:31.5 | So he saw some really wild stuff, but has really gone after things in a way that we've |
| 0:37.8 | been covering minds that a little bit recently in the podcast just because I've seen so many |
| 0:42.0 | people try to make positive changes in their life with health and nutrition, etc. |
| 0:47.2 | And it's such a hard thing to do when you don't have minds at correct. |
| 0:51.4 | So obviously we have Tim Grover on the show. |
| 0:53.5 | I think Chris has another sort of really interesting approach to how he frames his life around |
| 1:00.2 | all that stuff he's doing. |
| 1:01.2 | And coincidentally he has a company called Kabuki Strength. |
| 1:04.1 | He also has a barefoot shoe company. |
| 1:08.2 | All these things tie into health in a really tremendous way. |
| 1:10.6 | But he's an amazing guy, amazing story. |
| 1:13.0 | He had a world record, power lift, you're just an amazing human all around. |
| 1:18.1 | So tuning in this one and I think really soak it up from what's possible when you really |
| 1:23.2 | apply yourself to really I think otherwise thought of as insurmountable tasking. |
| 1:30.4 | And Chris is in his story just again, always blow me away. |
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