1775: Combatting the Detrimental Effects of Blue Light With David Roger
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin speak with David Roger, founder and CEO of Felix Gray, a company addressing the detrimental effect digital devices have on the eyes.
- Felix Gray LISTENS to their customers. (2:19)
- Combining function with fashion. The origin story of Felix Gray. (2:55)
- How Mind Pump was skeptical of their product early on. (9:04)
- Their mission to improve your relationship with technology. (10:48)
- You get what you pay for. (12:22)
- The process of blocking blue-light without changing the color of what you see. (14:30)
- How Felix Gray filters blue-light and doesn't block it. (17:12)
- The evolution of the science behind blue-blocking glasses. (20:37)
- Where do they see the biggest room for growth in their market? (23:37)
- Better educate their customers through internal data. (27:16)
- The importance of being authentic first. (29:53)
- The four key buckets they look for white space to add value to their customers. (32:48)
- What gives him confidence in himself? (35:54)
- How finding their product-market fit early on put them on a path to success. (37:24)
- His current vision for himself, the company, and his leadership model. (40:14)
- Any unique personality traits from childhood that he uses in his current profession? (44:49)
- Where does the name 'Felix Gray' come from? (48:51)
- His favorite book and why. (49:51)
- Why does he go off the grid 1 week a year? (50:58)
- Why he is a BIG proponent of getting into a flow state. (55:28)
- The value of listening to where people are coming from. (57:09)
Related Links/Products Mentioned
- March Promotion: Limited Time Power Bundle! MAPS Strong and MAPS Powerlift for the low price of $79.99
- Visit Felix Gray for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners!
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- Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
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- Mind Pump #1115: The Amazing Adventures Of Tommy Caldwell, Star Of Netflix's The Dawn Wall
- Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube
- Mind Pump Free Resources
People Mentioned
- Tommy Caldwell (@tommycaldwell) Instagram
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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, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | You just found the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Mind Pump, alright, in today's episode, we talked all about the science of blue light blocking technology, |
| 0:25.0 | blue light blocking glasses, digital wellness, with the CEO of one of the leading companies in the space, Felix Gray. |
| 0:33.0 | We talked to David Rodger, and so he kind of talked to us about the science and why blocking blue light is beneficial for sleep and for eye health and the science behind their patented pigment technology. |
| 0:45.0 | Really great episode, if you value your sleep, you value your health, especially your eye health and your brain health, you're going to want to check out this episode. |
| 0:55.0 | By the way, we work with Felix Gray, one of our sponsors, we love their products. |
| 0:59.0 | If you want to get blue light blocking glasses that don't change the color of everything around you, that also are effective, head over to MindPumpPartners.com and click on Felix Gray. |
| 1:08.0 | One more thing, we're running a sale right now on two maps workout programs, we've taken maps strong, and we've combined it with maps power lift, we call it the power bundle, and we took the retail price from $300 all the way down to $79.99. |
| 1:23.0 | Okay, so you get both programs for the one time price of $79.99. If you're interested, go check them out, head over to mapsmarch.com. |
| 1:33.0 | It's just so nice having done an in-person interview and since COVID. |
| 1:38.0 | So much really. Yeah, we have like seven virtual ones. When you guys said in person, I was like, fuck yeah. That's awesome. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, we way better. We appreciate it because there's a lot of things you can't read and see and connect with. |
| 1:50.0 | 100%. You also just like, it's better to get to know you know, yeah, I'm with you. |
| 1:55.0 | Did you did you guys see a spike in in sales? In fact, during this like virtual the very beginning was like bonkers. |
| 2:04.0 | Yeah, because like everyone just went immediately indoors like wait, but I'm on zoom for like 10 hours a day plus all the time I'm supposed to do stuff. |
| 2:13.0 | And then I'm watching Netflix at night. And so just like kind of one crazy. |
| 2:17.0 | What made you guys decide to do glasses for kids? Cause that was a game changer for my kids. |
| 2:22.0 | Yeah, they were at home doing school all day long. Yeah, I pads all day trying to get their work done. |
| 2:29.0 | Yeah, I could see I could notice a huge difference when I had them wear the glasses versus when they didn't. |
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