55. Overcoming Adversity: Interview with Joshua Perry
The Kris Gethin Podcast
Kris Gethin
4.9 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
On this episode of the Knowledge and Mileage podcast, we chat with former professional BMX athlete, motivational speaker, and certified holistic health coach Josh Perry.
He got his first BMX bike at 14 years old and at 17 he turned pro. He's been on a wild ride ever since!
His passion and motivation for living his best life stems from the discovery of a genetic predisposition to accumulating tumors - a realization that sparked his investigative journey into researching the health, performance, and longevity of the human brain. As a result, Josh follows a ketogenic diet - and since adopting this lifestyle paradigm, the growth of his tumors have ceased and he feels better and more fulfilled than ever before!
Tune in to hear Josh's strategies on overcoming adversity and how facing his fears set him up for success.
Time Stamps
- In order to succeed you have to fail [2:48]
- Fear is just a thought, thoughts can be changed [4:58]
- Most people these days are afraid of judgement [8:32]
- The fall that saved Josh's life [12:40]
- The first time Josh learned about the Ketogenic diet [15:00]
- You can't just live off one form of food, you need a variety to stay healthy [18:56]
- Benefits of Intermittent Fasting [21:00]
- Josh's top health hacks [30:00]
- Josh's career change and why he made the switch [38:00]
- You can prolong your career by taking care of your body and mind [43:00]
Featured Guest: Josh Perry
Related Links/Products Mentioned
People Mentioned
Connect with Kris
Instagram: @krisgethin
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Chris Githyn is here in the house and welcome to another episode of the Knowledge and Mileage |
| 0:07.0 | podcast. Today is going to be a doozy. We have an awesome person on the end of the line and his |
| 0:15.9 | name is Josh Perry. Welcome to the show, Josh. Thanks for having me, Chris. I appreciate your time. No, I appreciate it too. Now Josh, you have quite the story here, but let's start from the beginning. You actually grew up in Cape Cod from my understanding and you came over to where you are now in North Carolina, but 2007, 2007, is that correct? |
| 0:40.7 | Yes, sir. |
| 0:41.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.7 | Yeah, around that. |
| 0:42.6 | You were like 17 years old. |
| 0:44.6 | And you were obviously, you know, you're a professional BMXA today, traveling around the world, being paid, you you know for what you love but from what age |
| 0:58.3 | were you actually BMXing back in Cape Cod I got my first BMX bike just after I turned 14 my |
| 1:05.5 | birthday is in November so before Christmas and that's where it started wow so you actually rose to the professional ranks |
| 1:12.5 | rather quick i should imagine then compared to other guys yeah about it's actually crazy to think |
| 1:17.9 | about it yeah actually about three years damn that is insane i i never like i follow extreme sports |
| 1:24.7 | quite a lot i used to race uh motoc for about 13 14 years so I that is a |
| 1:32.9 | rarity so like we had you know we were always kind of fearless of course you have to be very |
| 1:38.9 | technical direct but you know you obviously have to have a little bit of craziness in you at the same time. |
| 1:47.0 | Like I know like anybody in showbiz, like in a musical industry or actors or extreme sports, |
| 1:53.0 | definitely have to have some craziness in them to exceed. |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah, and for sure we call it a calculated insanity or, you know, things like that. But ever since I was little, my mom's always told the story of me going down the drive over the tricycle at the end of it, jumping off and yelling bail and just always been jumping off counters, telling her to catch me midair and things like that. So I just got bored of school sports, and then I got into skateboarding when I was about 11 or 12 |
| 2:17.5 | and then saw that bike could ride ramps and I thought that was cooler and just had out it. |
| 2:22.3 | Did you used to suffer a lot of injuries, you know, when you'd be wiping out, were |
| 2:26.6 | you like breaking wrists, fingers, you know, anything like that and did any of that deter you? |
| 2:32.5 | Yeah, so there was like minor injuries you know scrapes and |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kris Gethin, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Kris Gethin and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.