233: Aubrey Marcus - Own The Day, Own Your Life • Get Weird With Lunch • Start With The Hardest Thing First
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Aubrey Marcus (@aubreymarcus) is the founder and CEO of Onnit, a lifestyle brand based on a holistic health philosophy he calls Total Human Optimization.
He hosts the Aubrey Marcus Podcast with over 10 million downloads. Aubrey regularly provides commentary to outlets like Entrepreneur, Forbes, The Doctors and The Joe Rogan Experience. He has been featured on the cover of Men's Health and just released his first book, Own the Day, Own Your Life.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Releasing Aubrey's new book Own the Day, Own Your Life
- The catalyst for a big change in his life at age 30
- Onnit started out producing hangover supplements
- The entire Onnit empire was built on the back of podcasts
- We lose over a pound of water overnight, just from breathing
- Sunshine and movement set your circadian rhythm
- The benefits of a cold shower (acute stress)
- Can you push yourself to do the uncomfortable things because they're good for you?
- Utilizing the time you spend commuting
- Why Aubrey checks his emails first thing when he arrives at work
- Starting with the hardest thing first
- Cultivating the right scent environment
- Creating an inspiring office space
- Grinding out work at a coffee shop or cafe to minimize distractions
- Cultivating courage
- Using caffeine to feel like a superhero
- Matcha... the king of green teas
- Get weird with lunch
- Why Aubrey is a big fan of napping
- If Aubrey could only keep one biohack, it would be... binaural beats
- Squeezing in a nap if you have a 9-5 job
- You're going to be your strongest in the afternoon
- Exercise is a bonafide miracle drug
- We're simultaneously more and less connected than ever
- Building intentional community
- Kids can teach us how to play
- Shutting down your phone to rest and recover
- The bedroom should be used for sex and sleep
- Aubrey does two different types of journaling
- A ginger hack if you're feeling too full after a meal
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I think we make too many excuses and rely on too many other apps, |
| 0:03.7 | pandering to a weak willpower, build that willpower, |
| 0:07.4 | and that's really the thing that we need to cultivate if we're going to |
| 0:10.6 | live anywhere close to our potential. |
| 0:12.6 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 233. |
| 0:21.6 | Jesse Chapp is here with M Wasserman and we are here on a |
| 0:25.1 | weekly basis to take your health to the next level. This week our featured guest |
| 0:28.9 | is Aubrey Marcus. He's the founder and CEO of On It, a lifestyle brand based on holistic health philosophy he calls total human optimization. |
| 0:37.0 | Aubrey currently hosts the Aubrey Market's podcast and has over 10 million downloads on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:43.2 | He regularly provides commentary to outlets |
| 0:45.5 | like entrepreneur Forbes, the Doctors, and the Joe Rogan experience. |
| 0:49.8 | He's been featured on the cover of Men's Health |
| 0:51.9 | and he just released his first book, |
| 0:53.6 | which we're talking about today, Own The Day, Own Your Life. |
| 0:57.4 | You guys are going to get so much out of this episode. |
| 0:59.6 | Aubrey really does own his day and provides such amazing tips on how to start your day and |
| 1:05.1 | finish your day. So here's some of what we get into. We talk about how sunshine and |
| 1:09.3 | movement set your rhythms, the benefits of a cold shower in the morning, how to utilize your commuting time. your |
| 1:14.0 | commuting time in a cold shower in the morning, how to utilize your commuting time in a beneficial way, |
| 1:16.0 | how to start your day with the hardest things first, |
| 1:19.0 | why it's important to cultivate courage, |
| 1:22.0 | how to squeeze in a nap even if you work from 9 to 5, and |
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