How a Celebrity Trainer Rose to Success – Jason Walsh : 1138
The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey
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🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Today I’m talking with one of the most sought-after celebrity trainers on the planet. Jason Walsh has trained stars like Matt Damon, Miles Teller, Brie Larson, and Bradley Cooper for some of the most physically demanding roles of their careers.
He’s also the founder of Rise Nation, a global fitness studio powered by the VersaClimber, where you train like an athlete.
On today’s episode, we talk about how Jason rose to success as a celebrity trainer. He shares the moments that defined his life and career, plus his advice for anyone who wants to get started in the fitness industry. We also go deep on the painful parts of entrepreneurship—unpacking the betrayals and heartbreaks we’ve both experienced as founders.
We explore ways to train your brain and your body for resiliency, and how to redefine forgiveness as an energetic shift. We also talk about Jason’s new protein company, Rise 311. Plus, his take on why you don’t need to train for an hour a day to get results.
(00:02:06) How Jason Became a Celebrity Trainer
(00:22:22) The Rewards of Being Disciplined
(00:25:40) How to Rise in Your Fitness Career
(00:33:52) Building Rise Nation Step by Step
(00:40:13) The War Against Small Businesses
(00:42:47) Heartbreaks & Betrayals in Business
(00:48:23) Train Your Brain to Reframe Trauma
(00:53:47) Redefining Forgiveness
(01:00:33) The Rise of Rise 311
(01:02:32) Finding Joy & Resilience
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:05.0 | Formerly Bulletproof Radio. Hi. Asbury. Today we're filming in beautiful Beverly Hills site of one of the |
| 0:27.8 | upgrade labs for many years and this is a chance to talk in person with one of the most sought after celebrity trainers on earth. |
| 0:38.0 | And when I say celebrity trainer, just like celebrity, well say nutritionist. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm always kind of like, what's your qualifications here, |
| 0:47.1 | dude? |
| 0:47.7 | So I went deep before I decided to talk with Jason Walsh. |
| 0:51.4 | Jason's trained Oscar winners. |
| 0:53.6 | You've maybe heard of Justin Timberlake |
| 0:55.4 | or Jake Gillin Hall and Breed Larson and so many more. |
| 0:58.9 | 30 years of working in the field, |
| 1:00.4 | 20 of them in LA was studio saying, you know, this person with this body and this background needs to look this way by this date, how are we going to do it? |
| 1:09.2 | And so he's got a unique perspective that's from a true expert in the field and |
| 1:14.2 | working with celebrities means either that you're good at schmoozing or we'll figure |
| 1:18.5 | that out or whether you're actually the best in the field because it's like are you a vet or do you work on race horses? |
| 1:26.0 | And I look at celebrities and musicians, they're basically human race horses in that every minute they're spending on stage or performing is really expensive so the world's best has to work on them. |
| 1:37.5 | So we have a lot to learn from people who are working in that field and helping celebrities reach whatever their goals are for a specific |
| 1:46.8 | film or for a specific performance because that speaks to biohacking this idea |
| 1:51.8 | of changing the environment around you and |
| 1:53.2 | inside of you so you have control of your own biology. You might have heard of |
| 1:56.7 | Rise Nation or Rise 311 and these are both Jason's. Jason, welcome to the human upgrade. |
| 2:04.0 | Pleasure, thank you for having me. |
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