EP734 - Personal Trainers, Sobriety vs Recovery, Fat Loss Self Sabotage, and Raising Healthy Kids
The Brad Jensen Show
Brad Jensen
4.9 • 792 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This month's Q and A episode is one of those conversations that went everywhere it needed to go.
Craig Smith and I sat down and answered real questions from real people. Just honest perspectives from years in the trenches coaching humans through health, fitness, mindset, and life.
We covered things like how to actually find a good personal trainer and what red flags to watch for before you waste your time or money.
We had a real conversation around sobriety versus recovery and why those two things are not the same even though people use them interchangeably. This one always opens up some nuance and perspective.
We dug into why so many people sabotage their fat loss even when they know exactly what to do. Not from a willpower angle, but from an identity, comfort, and self protection standpoint.
We also talked about how to influence your kids to eat better and slower without creating anxiety, pressure, or a weird relationship with food that follows them into adulthood.
And of course, we answered a few other questions that always seem simple on the surface but go a lot deeper once you actually unpack them.
If you're a parent, someone working on your own health, or someone who wants to understand why change can feel so hard even when the path is clear, this episode will land.
Listen in and let us know which part hit home for you.
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| 0:00.0 | You are now listening to the Brad Jensen show with Health and Mindset Optimization podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Let's go. Welcome back to another episode of the Brad Jensen show, joined as always by Mr. Craig Smith. |
| 0:30.1 | Happy Tuesday. |
| 0:31.2 | Good morning, BJ. |
| 0:34.5 | Get a text from you and it says BJ. |
| 0:37.7 | Can I call you BJ from now on? |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.9 | It was like the most five-year-old thing you've ever said. |
| 0:46.0 | You know, people go by their abbreviations. |
| 0:48.1 | Hey, growing up, I was CT. |
| 0:49.9 | That was my nickname. |
| 0:50.7 | C.T. Fletcher? |
| 0:52.9 | I was about to say lightweight. Damn it. That's Ronnie. I forgot my water. It would be rough. We can share. You want to share? Not with you. Why would you say that? I'll pour some into this bottle that's sitting here. I don't even dare open that. No, it's just fair life, but that would be |
| 1:11.4 | kind of gross together, water and fair life. Well, and how long has that fair life been sitting there? A couple of days. Okay. Maybe a week. It's like the the protein shaker bottle. You got to get rid of that shit. When you leave the shaker bottle. It's like under your car seat or chair. Especially in the Like where how I've been I I've been looking for that for months. I won't even open them. I learned the hard way. I opened it once and I was like, my car stunk for like a month. Dude, I, I attended one time. Instead of just buying a new one for $12. I was like, I'm going to, I scrubbed it before I put in the dishwasher. |
| 1:44.9 | I'm going to say this. I put it in the dishwasher. It came out and it still stunk. The dishwasher sunk and then everything after that stunk. That is the worst. Oh, man. You get away with it a little better in the winter. It still gets, but when that heat, ooh, you just got to throw that shit away. It's like your favorite workout shirt that you find finally at the bottom of a workout bag. You're like, what? How long is it? Just get rid of it. Don't try to save that. My favorite workout tank, they don't make any more by Vanquish. It would get all sweaty. So when I'd pull it off me, I'd rip it from the back and I ripped a hole in it. |
| 2:19.8 | Okay. |
| 2:20.8 | And I had Jen sew it. |
| 2:22.6 | Apparently she knows how to sew, which was impressive. |
| 2:24.7 | I was like, you're a sower. |
| 2:26.3 | So a sewist. |
| 2:27.5 | She's a, you're a seoist. |
| 2:31.0 | You know, so, solology. That was so stupid. She's a sewist. You know, soology? |
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