KNP441 - How to Use Adversity to Your Advantage With Doug Bopst
The Brad Jensen Show
Brad Jensen
4.9 • 792 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Doug Bopst is an award-winning personal trainer, author, speaker and podcast host. Those credentials and accolades are a result of his own transformation. He is a former felon and drug addict, sentenced to months in jail due to being found guilty of "possession with intent to sell." He chose to use his time locked in that small cell to beat his demons and reinvent himself thanks to a combination of faith, family and fitness.
He has helped hundreds of people improve their health and wellness. The three books he has written are a reflection of his personal story: "From Felony to Fitness to Free," "Faith Family Fitness" and his newest book, "The Heart of Recovery," where he interviewed roughly 50 of the most inspiring individuals who have beat addiction from of all walks of life with hopes of helping others get into recovery.
Doug is also the host of the Adversity Advantage Podcast where he interviews people from all walks of life on how they have turned their trials into triumphs and the exact tips, methods and tactics they used.
He has been featured on national media outlets/podcasts such as the Today Show, Men's Health, Forbes, Goalcast, Cheddar, mindbodygreen, The Rich Roll podcast, Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey, Mind Pump, The Be Well By Kelly Podcast, Rise Together Podcast with Dave Hollis, The Darin Olien Show and many others…
The Baltimore Sun voted him as one of Baltimore's "12 Fitness Heroes" in 2015. "From Felony to Fitness to Free" a short documentary about his story premiered at The Reel Recovery Film Festival in Los Angeles and New York City in 2018.
He has spoken to and worked with many companies, organizations and schools including McCormick and the Clemson football team.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Brad Jensen and Michelle Raines. |
| 0:02.6 | You listen to the Key Nutrition Podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | Doug, thanks for going on the show, man. |
| 0:28.8 | Brad, man. It's good to see you again. Good to see. It was just on yours. Last month, |
| 0:42.0 | I don't know, a couple months ago. I think we recorded, was it last month, two months ago? Yeah. Time flies. i can never keep track but i appreciate you on my show and i was like you know what's crazy man was i don't know if i said this on the i feel like |
| 0:46.9 | it hit me after our episode was or did i say this on maybe it was the off air i told you or maybe |
| 0:53.0 | i didn't at all it hit me that I had heard your podcast on mind pumps. |
| 0:57.0 | Did I tell you that? |
| 0:58.0 | No, you didn't tell me that. |
| 0:59.2 | So, dude, all of a sudden, I'm just sitting there hits me. |
| 1:04.4 | I'm like, wait, I heard him because I remember I was like, the title had something to do with drug addict right or |
| 1:12.5 | yeah yeah yeah was something about like felon or jail or something like that yeah yes and so I was like |
| 1:18.8 | I listened to it it's so crazy um it all hit me later I was like holy shit yes because I was like |
| 1:24.8 | I know his voice from somewhere I'm like hmm, hmm. Anyways, yeah, so super cool. |
| 1:30.5 | That was like during the pandemic, I felt like. It was right. I think it was right before. |
| 1:35.9 | I think I went and did their show. I think it was the summer or early fall of 2019, I believe. |
| 1:44.0 | Okay. |
| 1:44.3 | Not too long before it. |
| 1:45.6 | So I think I listened to it late is what it was, is during that time. |
| 1:50.5 | I, you know, we all had a lot more downtime on our hands. |
| 1:53.0 | And I was flipping through because, you know, we do like four episodes a week, right? |
| 1:56.4 | And so I was like looking for catchy titles. |
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