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🗓️ 31 October 2016
⏱️ 71 minutes
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This week, I interview my good friend Mike Bledsoe (@mike_bledsoe). Mike is the CEO of Barbell Shrugged and Barbell Business, two very popular podcasts in the CrossFit/ Fitness community. We’ll be diving into a few topics this week such as Mike’s view on nutrition, training, and leadership, as well as tips to improve your focus & attention. We’ll also be getting into some advice for gym owners on how Barbell Business can help improve your box!
Topics of discussion:
[4:00] Mike on Self-actualization & Life philosophy
[11:50] Nutrition, Training & Movement
[27:01] Fear & Failure
[33:30] Leadership & Awareness
[41:15] Improved attention & focus
[51:45] Talking business & social media
[59:30] Barbell Business
[1:01:15] Barbell Logic
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0:00.0 | What's up everyone? This is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the Brut Shrink podcast. |
0:05.0 | This week I interview Mike Bledso, CEO of Barbell Shrugged and Barbell Business. |
0:10.0 | Most of you probably have heard him on his own podcast, Barbel Shrugged as well as his |
0:15.8 | newer one barbell business. Mike is a guy that I've known for the last few years and look up to |
0:21.6 | for several different reasons, whether it be, you know, how to become |
0:25.6 | a better person or business owner or leader and so much more. |
0:32.3 | Before we get started, if you have been listening to this podcast for a while, you love |
0:36.7 | it and you haven't done so already, please head to the iTunes store real quick. |
0:41.8 | Subscribe, leave me your review. Enjoy the show. |
0:44.3 | What's up everyone? This is Mike Kaju. I'm here with the legend Michael Bledso. |
0:49.9 | What's up Mike? Man, just living life enjoying San Diego and I'm super appreciative that you would bring me on your show. |
1:00.0 | Absolutely man, it's taken long enough. |
1:03.7 | Yeah, what's wrong with you? |
1:06.4 | You know, most people that have listened to this for some time know that you were a huge inspiration |
1:12.2 | for me not only starting the podcast but you know how I how |
1:17.0 | I do the podcast how I've learned to overcome some of the fear and self-doubt with this thing so I'm I'm super |
1:25.1 | pumped to do this man and it's been too long since we've chatted so kind of |
1:29.3 | selfishly I have a lot of questions that really I'm just interested in hearing and I've you |
1:35.2 | know I've heard once if you want to be interesting then you have to be |
1:38.2 | interested so hopefully people get a lot out of this one. You know I I'll start this off by saying I look up to |
1:47.2 | you for so many different reasons and I respect you in you know the way that you live your life physically, emotionally, intelligently, as well as from a business standpoint and so I'm going to kind of break up the questions into some different parts because I you know I want to learn |
2:07.8 | about lots of different things |
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