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Welcome to Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser. This is the podcast designed to help you lead your life enthusiastically.

Today, tomorrow and every other day. I am your host, Ron Kaiser. I'm a positive health psychologist and also a TEDx and keynote speaker and author of the best selling and award-winning book Rejuvenaging, the art and science of growing older with enthusiasm.

My podcast is the one you're listening to Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser. My website is the mental health gym, your source of all kinds of information about wellness, positive psychology, rejuvenaging and wellness in general, how to become the best version of yourself.

Listeners to the podcast know that that's the theme of our podcast is to bring on interesting guests who lead their own lives with enthusiasm and can help each of us to lead our lives in a way that can enable us to be the best version of ourselves.

And today's guest is somebody really special. Nate Palmer started working as a personal trainer in 2009, but quickly became obsessed with helping busy people get in great shape despite the challenges of travel, family and life in general getting in the way.

Nate pulls from his experience and creating thousands of people in the world and online as well as personally.

Nate is also the author of a couple of books that emphasize his approach to life and staying in shape, one is passport fitness and he just came out with the million dollar body method.

So our eyes should light up. I don't know if you do it, whether you mind up becoming a millionaire or going to feel like one, but we'll be interested in finding that out. Nate, we're so happy to have you on Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser. Welcome to our podcast looking forward to our conversation.

Thanks for having me on Dr. Ron. I'm super excited to dive in and got some cool stuff to talk about today.

Well, I'm sure we do. And in my introduction, I, aside from mentioning that you got obsessed about helping people, which has a psychologist, my ears perked up right away.

It's like this was a healthy obsession, but maybe it can tell us a little bit about your journey to get to to be who you are.

Sure, let's, you want to just go deep right off the bat. Let's, let's do this. Sure, sure. You know, this is, you know, this is the real world.

This is, this is sacred. Right. I read your books, so I know you don't mind going deep and telling you it like it is.

Cool. So what, like when I was growing up, I think I was always kind of interested in physical culture. I was wanted to be like, you know, the Arnold Schwarzenegger, the superheroes and stuff like that.

And then one day I was 11 or 12 and my parents were out of the house and someone knocked on the door. And I didn't recognize them. They came around the back and broke into my house.

And so I did what any 12 year old would do. I grabbed a steak knife from the kitchen, ran into my room, locked the door, hit under the bed with the steak knife.

And I just remember feeling so powerless in that moment, just so scared of everything that I kind of got to this point where I was like, you know, if I just have a bigger meat suit.

If I just was more powerful of a person like this won't happen. I would never feel like this again.

I think that's when I kind of started working out more trying to develop some of like these physical attributes that I was looking for, you know, because of this incident.

But what I found along the way was that like no amount of muscle or additional body mass or anything like that really made me feel any kind of way.

But what I did discover was that throughout the process of committing to a goal and staying in the course and then, you know, having like looking back at my 10 year of like two years, three years, 10 years of training and nutrition and dialing these sorts of things in.

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