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Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Episode 512: Anxiety, Healthy Coping Mechanisms, and Recovery with Brad Jensen

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.8516 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Sober Body Builder Brad Jensen is on the show this week! Brad is a former client of mine who has a tremendous redemption story. He is the founder of Key Nutrition where he works with his clients to help them live healthy lives and understand how food and fitness can change your life for the better. In this episode Brad shares his journey of overcoming addiction and finding wellness through fitness, nutrition, and personal development.  Some of the topics we discussed include: Brad shares his downward spiral into addiction and later recovery, which spanned six treatment centers between 2005 and 2012 and 17 bookings in the county jail (5:37) “The gift of desperation often offers a moment of clarity. The gift is to be desperate enough to do something different.” (31”08) How Brad handles triggers today and employs better coping mechanisms following his recovery (34:57) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.3

you don't have a drug problem you have a brad problem drugs are your solution and i they're not my solution. Drugs have caused me problems. And they're like, no, that is your solution. Your problem is you. Like you run from everything. You don't have any stressful thing. You have no coping mechanisms. You just go to that. The tipping point for me, and I'm sure for you and so many that have struggled with the same thing as it got to the place where my solution became a bigger problem than the problems

0:57.8

I was even dealing with. It took me a long time to grasp that, but I'm grateful the day to realize

1:02.0

that I still am my problem, but I'm also can be my solution too.

1:07.6

You're listening to Makesenoise podcast, episode number 512, with guest, Brad Jensen.

1:16.4

Welcome to Make Some Noise podcast, your guide for strategies, tools, and insight to empower yourself.

1:30.5

I'm your host, Andrea Owen, global speaker,

1:36.2

entrepreneur, life coach since 2007, an author of three books that have been translated into 18 languages and are available in 22 countries. Each week, I'll bring you a guest or a lesson

1:42.5

that will help you maximize unshakable confidence,

1:45.9

master resilience, and make some noise in your life. You ready? Let's go.

1:57.1

Hey, everyone, welcome to another episode of the podcast. I'm so glad that you're here and so grateful for your time. Brad Jensen is here. Brad is actually a former client of mine who has such a roller coaster of a life story and completely turned his life around. Super amazing redemption story and I can't wait for you to hear it. Also, for those of you who

2:20.8

basically what I decided is that I'm going to pause on the themes for a while. And if you have

2:28.2

someone that you would love to hear as a guest on our show, maybe you heard them on another show

2:32.9

and you were like, Andrew would be great at interviewing that person. I want to hear more of them. Or if you just follow an expert on social media and you think they would be a great fit for the show, please, please, please head over to the survey that I'm doing right now. It's at Andrea owen.com slash survey. The link is in the show description. And we're also doing a drawing. If you do the survey

2:53.4

before the middle of March, the date will be on there. I'm giving away, we already did one round of

2:59.3

giveaways, make some noise tote bags, a signed copy of one of my books. And just your feedback

3:04.8

is invaluable about the show because I want this show to be for you and to give you the best value, bring you the best guests that I possibly can.

3:13.4

So all that being said, also, if you are interested in the Daring Way program, which is, I mean, some of the key takeaways are getting crystal clear on what your values are,

3:25.1

what trust looks like to you and how to build it in your relationships, the myths and paradoxes

3:31.0

of vulnerability and how to work past those in your life so you can have better connections,

3:36.9

so you can have more courage, you can have more shame resilience. That's really what the entire

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