Brad Stulberg: Mastering Change, Taking Action, and Rugged Flexibility
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Brad Stulberg is the bestselling author of the new book Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything is Changing, Including You. Brad writes and coaches on mental health, well-being, and sustainable excellence. He regularly contributes to the New York Times and his work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and the Atlantic, among other outlets. In his coaching practice, he works with executives, entrepreneurs, physicians, and athletes on their mental skills and overall well-being. He is on faculty at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health. His past books include The Practice of Groundedness and Peak Performance. He lives in Western North Carolina.
The Starretts are navigating the massive life change of their oldest leaving for college. Brad’s book is the framework everyone needs to create a rugged and flexible mindset in times of change.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:08.3 | And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast. |
| 0:12.4 | This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to you by our friends at Element. |
| 0:21.9 | Let's clear some things up first. It's Element, not LMNT. Yeah, I was going to say that as well. |
| 0:26.3 | When people say Elementy, where I'm like, who are you? Element. Element. I want to talk about one of the |
| 0:31.8 | use cases for Element, when people are going low carb for utter of reason wanted to play around with ketosis |
| 0:38.1 | wanted to just hey i'm not traveling i'm traveling i don't need to eat very much i don't need |
| 0:43.1 | many fuel that just recently happened to you right that's right so some of the original or source |
| 0:47.3 | cases for this were when people were getting keto flu they were feeling so bad and when they |
| 0:52.6 | up their salts that keto flu went away. |
| 0:55.0 | When I travel sometimes, I don't eat a lot of carbohydrate because I'm not really moving. |
| 0:59.5 | Yeah, we're just sitting there on the plane. |
| 1:00.9 | But one of the things that happens when I go low carb and start to become glycogen depleted |
| 1:04.4 | is that my understanding is it pulls all the water out because that glycogen is held in the muscle with water. |
| 1:09.2 | And I start to feel achy. |
| 1:10.7 | Like literally my low back starts to ache. Yeah, like you literally are like, wait, my low back is aching. And it never aches. And it always takes you a second to realize that you're like, wait, I haven't had a carbohydrate yet today. And guess what happens when I drink element? You're fixed. So weird, because that I'm changing, again, element is really about moving water through different compartments |
| 1:29.2 | of your body. That's the magic of this thing, plus good taste. And when I add that water back |
| 1:34.9 | with Element, keto ache gone. If you want to get rid of your keto flu, it's time to try |
| 1:41.2 | Element. Right now, if you order through our link, you get a free sample pack with all of Elements' flavors. |
| 1:47.6 | Go to drinkelement.com slash TRS. |
| 1:51.9 | This episode of the Ready State Podcast is brought to you by our friends at Vitruvian. |
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