Faith & Discipline Rebuilding Physical And Emotional Health With Steve White

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In today's conversation, former CFL player Steve White joins the podcast to share the story of how his life unraveled — and how he rebuilt it from the ground up. After years of concussions, post-concussion syndrome, seizures, illness, and personal loss, Steve hit rock bottom. What followed wasn't a recovery, but a full reconstruction: rebuilding his brain, body, and faith through disciplined systems rooted in breath, movement, environment, nutrition, nervous-system regulation, and purpose.

In this conversation, Steve explains how brain injuries reshape emotion and identity, why trust in yourself must be rebuilt deliberately, and how science and faith-based discipline can bring someone back from the edge.

If you want to understand what it takes to come back from neurological collapse and build a life that's stronger than ever, this episode is for you.

This podcast dives into:

How concussions and PCS alter brain health and emotional regulation.
The hidden psychological toll of neurological injury.
Rebuilding self-trust after physical and personal collapse.
The mindset behind the Brae 100 method.

Be sure to preorder Steve's upcoming book, The Best Defense is a Relentless Offense, and check out his website!

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Keep up with Steve White socials here:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebrae100/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thebrae100

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebrae100/

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Transcript

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0:18.2	Richard Jacobs has made it his life's mission to find them for you.
0:22.2	He hunts down and interviews geniuses in every field.
0:25.1	Sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic diets, and more.
0:28.6	Here come the geniuses.
0:30.3	This is the Finding Genius podcast with Richard Jacobs.
0:37.5	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast.
0:41.1	But yesterday is Steve White.
0:42.8	He's a former CFL player who rebuilt his life from a neurological collapse by creating
0:47.5	what he calls the Bray 100.
0:49.7	We're going to talk about his journey, which involves a heck of a lot of resilience.
0:53.6	So welcome, Steve.
1:16.6	Thanks for coming. Yeah, pleasure to be here. Thank you. Appreciate you being here. Well, tell me, so a CFL player, I didn't have any background. What kind of activity was it? That's a Canadian Football League. I play your football, okay. Yeah, I played quarterback. I didn't have, I always stuff you like I had the best, no career. My first concussions were before that, and I had a significant concussion where I was knocked out for like 12 hours for that. They spent all that time. I got TFL.
1:20.8	I look back in and laugh now for a few years. There was a movie with Will Smith where he was a doctor
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