#472: Redefining the Midlife Male w/ Greg Scheinman
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Greg Scheinman is a performance coach, speaker, and bestselling author. As an entrepreneur he built and sold two successful businesses, and was a multimillion producer for one of the largest insurance firms in the US.
He's a husband, father, 2x winner of the D10 Decathlon, and is the founder and face of the Midlife Male; a media company that reaches a weekly audience of 15,000 high-earning men.
Midlife and crisis don't have to be synonymous, and he's here today to help you live your best life in your 40s, 50s, and beyond.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you hear the term midlife and automatically picture a guy who's out of shape, slurvenly, |
| 0:16.8 | down in his luck, and is living in the past with glory days by Springsteen on repeat? |
| 0:22.2 | Well, midlife doesn't have to mean crisis. |
| 0:25.6 | It can mean the best days of your life, the best physical shape, great relationships, |
| 0:29.9 | financial abundance, and more, and that is what we're going to talk about today with my guest, |
| 0:34.4 | Greg Scheinman. |
| 0:35.9 | He is the host of the midlife mail podcast and the author of the midlife mail book. |
| 0:42.5 | And we are going to talk about how you can live your best life in your 40s, 50s, and beyond. |
| 0:55.6 | Greg, my man, welcome to the show. Thank you for being here. |
| 1:03.0 | Oh, Jay, thank you for having me, man. This is an honor and a privilege. It's great to see you. |
| 1:06.8 | Yeah, you too. It's such a pleasure. So I got the book, I haven't read the whole thing, but |
| 1:12.1 | went through, I probably read the first 50 pages and then kind of just, you know, to prepare for |
| 1:16.0 | this scan, the rest of it. Awesome work and grads. And so describe to us in, you know, in your terms, |
| 1:23.2 | what is the midlife mail? Yeah, thank you. You know, first of all, the cool thing is, like you said, |
| 1:28.8 | well, you have not finished the book. I did set out to write a book that guys could pick up |
| 1:34.3 | from any page and at any stage and grab something out of, you know, because that's probably that's |
| 1:40.0 | the way I read. You know, when I have lots of books, pick them up, maybe read a chapter, read a few |
| 1:44.5 | pages, you know, and move on. So I did want to create something that for guys, a lot of guys |
| 1:50.0 | like us pick it up, turn to any section, any page at any time and you can grab, you can grab |
| 1:55.1 | something out of it. So you don't have to read it, cover to cover, which is, which is nice. Who's from |
| 1:59.6 | me? You know, yeah, sure. You know, what is the midlife mail? It's a great, it's a great question |
| 2:06.0 | and, and the way that I look at it is it's, it's this guy, you know, call it 35 to 55, wherever you |
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