623: Josh Trent Digs into Adam's Childhood, Motivation, Keto, Emotional Intelligence & MORE

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sal and Adam talk with Josh Trent of Wellness Force Radio (www.wellnessforce.com) at the Spartan World Championships (@spartanrace) at Lake Tahoe.

Josh is an excellent interviewer and the conversation goes deep and gets quite personal as Josh probes Adam about his childhood. We guarantee that the discussion is not only engaging but will provide you with real and actionable value.

Adam “Big Bougie” Schafer (2:19)
Guys talk childhood and where they came from (4:16)
What is the greatest lesson your father taught you? (14:50)
Being a victim or victor coming from broken home (17:05)
Being a father figure in life or fitness setting (19:15)
Taking care of others motivates you or are you self-motivated? (20:46)
Keto is not for everyone (25:38)
Appetite suppression (38:00)
Adam’s transformation story (39:48)
Taylor Valenzuela story (46:18)
Did Adam’s transformation spark Mind Pump? (52:05)
Giving without wanting anything back (54:00)
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Emotional intelligence, how do you fill the gap between knowing and doing? (1:00:05)
How do you define real wellness? (1:11:00)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.
0:06.0	Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts.
0:09.0	Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
0:13.0	You know, this was done at the Spartan 2017 Tahoe Championship.
0:19.0	We had a chance to sit down. We told Justin to get the fuck out of here for a while.
0:23.0	You guys just kicked me out. No, I appreciate it.
0:25.0	No, what were you doing? You were out that you were at the races doing a bunch of funny stuff.
0:28.0	No, actually, I was out interviewing all these different people racing and messing with them.
0:33.0	True P toll. We know how you get when we talk about emotional stuff.
0:36.0	You're right. He didn't want to be a part of it because he's super uncomfortable.
0:39.0	Somebody's not okay with talking about their feelings, but I tell you what, out of all around you guys.
0:44.0	Out of all the interviews that we've done, this is real talk right here.
0:47.0	This is true. Shout out to our boy, Josh Trent.
0:50.0	He's one of our favorite podcasters. He's a great interviewer.
0:54.0	He has amazing conversation with them. It gets real deep. It's not formulaic.
0:59.0	It flowed really well. Me and Adam talked about quite a few things.
1:03.0	Everything from childhood to connection to food, wellness, motivation.
1:06.0	We did. We went all over the place with leadership and personal development.
1:11.0	We got into business stuff. You said nutrition exercise.
1:14.0	It was a great conversation. It flowed really well.
1:16.0	Josh just has an incredible ability to really direct the conversation and ask really good deep questions.
1:23.0	I love an interviewer that has that ability to get into your soul.
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