245. Jesse Itzler & Devon Levesque: On Life Design, The Misogi Ritual and Winning Routines
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
Gary Brecka
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's an old Japanese ritual called the Musogi. And the notion around the Misogi is you do one big year defining thing every year. Like, you don't have one thing to show for your year. Like, your work-life balance is so out of whack. |
| 0:12.2 | You're never like counting the accomplishments. You're stacking up the adventure of life. You bond so much more with people through experiences than you do sitting at a cubicle. The reason why you have so much wisdom is because you had these different experiences and you didn't just let them pass through your life. You said, what can I learn from this? Why don't you go talk to someone that's 100 years old and just go listen to them? And every single person, the common denominator, is regretting what they did with their time, not maximizing it. People aren't lacking time. |
| 0:39.2 | They're lacking a system. |
| 0:40.5 | What is the life design that I can go through to make sure that I bring some of this back into my life? |
| 0:45.5 | Don't change anything. |
| 0:46.9 | But you just layered in these three things. |
| 0:49.3 | One. Ultimate Human Podcast. |
| 1:03.0 | Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human podcast. |
| 1:05.6 | I'm your host, human biologist Gary Brecker, where we go down the road of everything, |
| 1:09.7 | anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. |
| 1:13.6 | Today is definitely one of those in-between podcasts. |
| 1:16.6 | I got to actually set this up before we even start running the podcast. |
| 1:20.6 | So every morning I work out with my son Cole, |
| 1:23.6 | I drive over to his house about a mile away. |
| 1:25.6 | We run a workout and then I come back home. |
| 1:32.0 | So Devon Levesk joined us this morning for the workout. And I'm talking to Devin. He's like, |
| 1:44.2 | what do you got on calendar today? And I'm like, oh, I'm running a podcast with Jesse Idsler. Dude, I can't wait. This guy changed my life. And he's like, wait, that's my guy. dude, that's my boy. You know that Jesse and I are boys. And I was like, well, why don't you come over? |
| 1:44.2 | So when I, when Jesse got here and he did the tour of the house, I actually had Devin sitting in the podcast seat and he came around the room into the podcast studio, freaked out. So this is going to be one of my first triplet podcasts. It's a, it's a three camera shoot today. Guys, Jesse, Devin Levesk, welcome to the Ultimate Human Podcast. It's great to be here. Does everybody, does the audience know that you shoot this at your house? They do now. Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah. And I just wanna say I walked in here, my cells are freaking out. It's like the air quality in this place is on another level. Yeah, he's like, I want to see everything. I'm like, all right, let's take the tour. We showed a water filtration, air filtration. We had a little meeting in the hyperbaric today. We'll probably hit the sauna before you leave. Because Devin told me that your priorities are sauna than everything else. And I was like, all right, well, I got that covered. |
| 2:42.0 | You know, I got to tell you, Jesse, truthfully, I've had hundreds of people on my podcast. |
| 2:49.2 | I can count on one hand the number of people that I could say have truly had an impact on my life. |
| 3:08.8 | And I really mean that. I've been inspired by all of my podcast guests. They tell amazing stories. There's some of the most impactful people in the world. I don't mean to take anything away from them. But people whose advice I've actually applied in my life that have been made a material change in my life, and you are absolutely one of those five people. I remember a podcast that you did. You must have been around 50 because you were talking about |
| 3:11.6 | how you had 28 years, statistically speaking, |
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