Episode 562: Shawn Stevenson: Why Your Relationships Shape Your Health More Than Any Wellness Trend

Habits and Hustle

Jen Cohen

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 820 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The most powerful longevity tool you have is not in a bottle or a needle. It’s in the quality of your relationships. There’s a body of data that’s been saying this for decades. Yet, the wellness industry kept focusing on the other direction of wellness. Shawn knows this not only because he read it in a study but because he lived the opposite of what healthy relationships look like first and paid for it with his health. Shawn Stevenson is the host of The Model Health Show, the no.1 nutrition and fitness podcast in the United States, and the bestselling author of Sleep Smarter and Eat Smarter. He grew up in poverty in St. Louis, was told at 20 he had the spine of an 80-year-old, and rebuilt his health from scratch with no money, no access, and no roadmap for any of it. In this episode of Habits and Hustle, Shawn makes the case that we have been optimizing the wrong thing all along. Your culture, your community, and the quality of your relationships are what the largest longevity studies keep pointing to, and almost nobody in wellness is talking about it. He also gets into why GLP-1s and peptides are a shortcut to the wrong destination, what circadian medicine is about to change, and why the healthiest thing you can do today has nothing to do with your supplement stack. If you have ever felt like your circumstances were too far gone for health to even be possible, this episode was made for you. What's Discussed: 04:12 The hidden impact of sleep on metabolism and energy 09:35 Common habits that undermine long-term health 15:48 Practical strategies to improve recovery and resilience 20:55 Final thoughts on building sustainable daily habits Thank You to Our Sponsors! AirDoctor: Head to AirDoctorPro.com and use promo code HUSTLE to get up to $300 OFF today! AirDoctor comes with a 30-day money back guarantee, plus a 3-year warranty (an $84 value) FREE! Kion: Visit getkion.com/habits for 20% OFF Momentous: Ready to try supplements that actually do what they claim? Head to livemomentous.com and use code JEN for 35% OFF your first subscription. Therasage: Visit Therasage.com and use code JEN to get 15% OFF your order. Your skin deserves this level of care. Magic Mind: Head over to magicmind.com/jen and use code JEN at checkout. Prolon: Prolon is offering listeners 30% OFF sitewide plus a $40 bonus gift when you subscribe to their 5-Day Program! Just visit prolonlife.com/JENNIFERCOHEN and use the code JENNIFERCOHEN to claim your discount and your bonus gift. Rho Nutrition: Go to RhoNutrition.com and try Rho's Liposomal Glutathione. Use code JEN20 for 20% OFF sitewide. Manna Vitality: Try it now by using the code Jennifer20 at mannavitality.com. Find more from Jen Cohen: Website: jennifercohen.com Instagram: @therealjencohen Books: jennifercohen.com/books Speaking: jennifercohen.com/speaking-engagements Find more from Shawn Stevenson: Website: themodelhealthshow.com Instagram: @shawnmodel YouTube: Shawn Stevenson X: @ShawnModel Podcast: The Model Health Show Book: eatsmartercookbook.com

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0:00.0	Hi, guys. It's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle. Crush it.
0:07.0	Hey, friends, you're listening to Fitness Friday on the Habits and Hustle podcast, where myself and my friends share quick and very actionable advice for you becoming your healthiest self. So stay tuned and let me know how you leveled up.
0:29.8	Today we have Sean Stevenson, you guys. He is probably an OG, you are an OG in podcasting.
0:35.7	He has one of the top health podcasts probably in the, is it in the U.S. or in the world at this point? You know, it's like the billboard charts. But we've been number one in the United States like, you know, many, many weeks. Forever. Like a long time. It's also could be because of your voice. You don't, he does have a really nice sounding voice, which kind of helps kind of, not to mention the
0:54.8	science background, but the combination. And you always give such great information. So the whole thing,
1:00.6	it's really nice to finally have you. I can't believe how long, I'm shocked it's taken six years to
1:06.9	have you sit here. Because I feel like we should have met before.
1:11.2	Yeah.
1:11.6	I want you to tell me the top three biggest myths in wellness right now.
1:17.4	Okay.
1:18.3	Top three biggest myths in wellness right now.
1:21.3	Oh, you want to get controversial?
1:22.8	Oh, my gosh.
1:23.4	Mm-hmm.
1:23.7	I've been waiting.
1:26.3	Okay.
1:26.8	I mean, the hot thing on people's tongues right now, which they might be injecting their tongues is the peptides.
1:34.6	Yeah.
1:34.9	You know, that's super popping right now. And for good reason, there's some interesting science around this.
1:41.2	And I'm saying this from the perspective of somebody who was unintentionally kind of
1:46.0	saw this coming. When I was working on my book, Eat Smarter, and this was like 2018, 2019,
1:52.8	when I first started to put the book together, I was pointing out, you know, some of the most
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