#486: Life Lessons from U.S. Special Forces Member, Bryan Ray
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Bryan Ray is a dedicated family man and a true patriot. He served 20 years in the U.S. Army, most of which in Special Forces, has travelled the globe and gained a vast amount of experience leading teams through complex mission sets with strategic impact.
Now the Institutional and Government Sales lead at H.V.M.N. - Health Via Modern Nutrition, his passion for working with teams and improving performance provides a natural connection with team owners and trainers with a desire to achieve excellence.
And he's here to share some of that with you today.
Listen as we discuss:
- The bizarre reality of social media. [8:45]
- What are the 2 questions every successful leader must ask? [13:19]
- Is there a secret to building high-performing teams? [16:04]
- The remarkable impact of ketones on brain and body functionality. [24:00]
- Is this robbing you of joy and healing? [30:52]
- What you need to know about drinkable ketones (and why you need to go to HVMN now). [37:50]
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys, this is the Renegade Strength Show. |
| 0:02.9 | I am Jay Faroujia. |
| 0:04.5 | For 27 years, I have been helping to build jacked, strong, fit, lean, healthy human beings. |
| 0:10.7 | And we continue to pursue that mission each and every week here on the show. |
| 0:14.3 | Before we get to today's guess, I want to tell you that things have changed across |
| 0:17.6 | the entire supplement industry in the last year and most are not telling you about this. |
| 0:21.8 | Every brand has how to deal with significant price increases and supply shortages. |
| 0:26.0 | There are two ways they mitigated this, really. |
| 0:28.4 | They waited it out and they deal with the increased material costs. |
| 0:31.7 | They tinkered with their formula to make it cheaper to produce. |
| 0:35.3 | Chances are they didn't tell you about number two, so you should check the ingredients. |
| 0:38.8 | Your favorite islo protein may now be a blend, meaning they use some islo material and |
| 0:43.6 | mix it with some concentrate. |
| 0:45.5 | Epic didn't do that. |
| 0:47.0 | They fought to keep this formula the exact same way it was. |
| 0:50.2 | Did you know that some products claiming New Zealand grass fed weight is very loose terminology? |
| 0:55.4 | Some brands use material that is shipped through New Zealand, meaning the material is made |
| 1:01.7 | somewhere else. |
| 1:03.0 | They just get it exported out of New Zealand so they can call it New Zealand way. |
| 1:07.5 | That is shady as a motherfucker. |
| 1:10.6 | Chances are if that product you were using is dirt cheap at the local store, it's garbage. |
| 1:15.6 | You get what you pay for and pay for the best, the highest quality grass fed away. |
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