Doug Bopst. When You Know You Want More For Yourself. Episode 443 with The Real Brad Lea (TRBL)
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Doug Bopst is an award-winning personal trainer, author, speaker, and podcast host. Those credentials and accolades are a result of his own transformation. He is a former felon and drug addict, sentenced to months in jail due to being found guilty of “possession with intent to sell.” He chose to use his time locked in that small cell to beat his demons and reinvent himself thanks to a combination of faith, family, and fitness.
In this episode, Brad and Doug discuss what it means to want more for yourself when you lose track of what matters most. Listen in!
00:00 Intro
03:08 Why the book…
04:42 Doug’s podcast, The Adversity Advantage
06:55 The back and forth podcast
08:42 Bomb: Keep it real
11:21 Vulnerability
14:25 Jail
21:04 “Sayings” you shouldn’t believe
22:05 Addiction
25:10 When things changed in jail for Doug…
29:48 Exposure
30:02 “I want to help people use adversity to their advantage.”- Doug Bopst
33:00 Check out https://www.dougbopst.com on his website
40:00 How you feel after exercise
46:00 A talented speaker
49:44 Bomb: Guests on Dropping Bombs
50:09 Buy Doug’s books
51:05 Faith
56:20 God
59:22 Single? Reach out to Doug on the DM @dougbopst
01:00:10 Perspective
01:03:00 Worrying about yourself so other people can
01:08:00 What other people think
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Listen up or run for cover |
| 0:07.5 | From the people who have asked you the people who need another real |
| 0:13.9 | Bradley |
| 0:14.9 | is dropping |
| 0:23.2 | What it is Bradley back again with another episode of dropping bombs listen today |
| 0:29.6 | I've got Doug Boehmst is it boapsed yes sir Doug Boehmst he's a personal trainer author speaker podcast host out of those |
| 0:38.8 | What do you think you're most known for? |
| 0:40.8 | Probably being a trainer really well? Yeah, it's been it's been what I've been doing the longest it's been a trainer for almost 11 years |
| 0:47.7 | Dude you're a podcast host |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, but I guess that must mean like how many people listen to it to how many people have you trained? |
| 0:56.1 | I've trained a lot of people and a lot of people listen to my podcast. I guess I just look at it through experience like what I'm talking about |
| 1:01.2 | You like you reach the podcast has more reach than people you've trained like what do you mean trained? How do you train people? |
| 1:10.0 | Well, I mean it's trained thousands of people |
| 1:14.3 | Now probably not I mean I trained hundreds of people a podcast you don't think thousands of people have heard it now thousands of people have |
| 1:22.3 | But I would say what most people have known me for that know me I guess personally now would be just through |
| 1:27.9 | I'm training the world. Yeah, I guess podcasting and just my story and |
| 1:34.4 | what I've |
| 1:35.7 | How I turned such a horrible moment in my life into something positive and it was all a result of the choices that I made and you wrote a book |
| 1:43.7 | Couple what's it called so I wrote three the first one was from felony to fitness to free. That's it |
| 1:50.6 | And then faith family fitness and then I wrote the harder recovery |
| 1:56.8 | Now we're gonna go over your story in just the moment, but personal trainer |
| 2:01.4 | So you actively train people at the gym. Yeah, what do you charge for that? |
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