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Ben Greenfield Life

Ben and Jessa Greenfield Go On A Walk & Talk About Education, Legacy, Finances, Daily Habits & More (Boundless Parenting Book Series).

Ben Greenfield Life

Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Throughout my career, I've been known as a health and fitness icon.

I have to admit that I sometimes find this kind of silly.

It's not that I don't think that taking care of my body is important. Far from it. My physical health remains a top priority, and this will probably be the case until the day I die. However, my days as a bodybuilder, Ironman triathlete, obstacle course racer and hardcore masochistic endurance athlete are over, and my vision for my life has notably changed (although I'm still heavily sporting in different skills, such as bowhunting and pickleball). Back in January, I released an article about how to find your purpose, and in that article, I also shared my own new purpose statement that reflects the higher priority I'm now placing in my life upon faith and family, as opposed to, say, fitness: “Love God through prayer and worship, and love my family through preparing and providing.

A significant part of living my purpose is starting to think and talk more about money and legacy.

How you handle your finances has a substantial impact on how you show up in the world and how you show up for your family.

What this means for Jessa and me is that we are committed to only spending the money we need to spend to live a modest, satisfying life. For instance, we still go on vacations, and when we do, we don't deprive ourselves of pleasures like going to a nice restaurant. But we're careful with spending, never mindlessly purchasing things that are likely to quickly lose their appeal. Rather, we have decided that additional income that we earn will be put back out into the world to help people.

This philosophy also directly applies to the family business. The primary goal of Ben Greenfield Life is to touch lives, not to make money. However, that doesn't mean that we don't care about profitability, since we need to be profitable to continue to share with you with the help of a paid team.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

My name is Ben Greenfield and on this episode of the Ben Greenfield Life Podcast.

0:04.4

We live in a very dopaminergic era, you know, whether it's social media or food or sexual sensations.

0:12.8

I've been thinking about this term. I was even thinking about writing a book by this title called Viceless.

0:17.6

Having this mentality that you want to not be attached to anything in life, Viceless. Like, I think that that's something I really want to make sure that, you know,

0:25.6

the Greenfield family is known for is we don't have any dependency on dopamine and don't tend to be addicted to, you know, substance and activities.

0:33.6

Faith, family, fitness, health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and a whole lot more. Welcome to the show.

0:55.6

It's time to start hacking your sleep. The big part of that is choosing the right mattress for your desired outcomes and essential is the company that I now use for my mattress.

1:03.2

It's organic. They have a patented beyond latex organic foam technology. You may have heard me interview the founder Jack. You can find that interview over at Ben Greenfield Life.com.

1:12.8

The deep sleep cycles, the REM sleep cycles, the cooling, even the EMF blocking technology. They have introduced this EMF barrier foam technology that protects your body against the negative impacts of EMF exposure.

1:24.8

They show your nervous system repairs where you sleep. They've actually done dark film microscopy studies on the red blood cells reaction to sleeping on this thing.

1:33.6

It allows those cells to return to their natural free flowing state. So you get optimized oxygen flowing through your body during the entire night of sleep.

1:41.6

There's even like this special profile you can fill out online that can customize your mattress to your sleep type.

1:46.8

So my wife's side is different than my side because we sleep on the big old California king. They have not just the mattress. They have pillows. They have frames.

1:57.2

They have everything you would need for the best night of sleep ever. I would gladly pay, let's say, 20 bucks a night for an amazing night of sleep.

2:07.2

This thing pays for itself pretty quickly. It's allergen free packed technology that gives you the active cooling accelerator recovery and unmatched deep sleep cycles with no funky electricity turning into your body while you're asleep.

2:19.6

They're going to give you a hundred bucks off your mattress purchase. You go to my ascensha.com slash Ben Greenfield. That's my ESS ENTIA.com slash Ben Greenfield.

2:32.4

You can be sleeping on the same mattress that I am now using and I absolutely love it.

2:37.6

I used to spend a lot of mookabucks, moola money at juicery places where you fork over 13, 15, 17, whatever, dollars, 55 cents for the tiny, tiny little red bottle of superfoods, so-called superfoods.

2:55.6

Jam packed with a little spinach, a little maringa, and 18 apples and four bananas, like diabetes in a bottle. A lot of the juice bars they do a good job, but let's say you want to make this stuff for pennies on the dollar in your own home with all of the highest quality plant-based ingredients.

3:12.0

Full organic with less than three grams of sugar per serving without all the fruit back to them, but they still taste amazing.

3:19.2

Enter the superfood powders from Organify. Spell this in I Organify. For less than three bucks a day, you can be juicing all day long, but none of the mess, none of the cleanup because these just powders.

3:30.4

You add them to water, cold water, for most of their stuff, although they're golden milk lattes are fantastic with like frothy coconut milk.

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