Living Alcohol Free w/ James Swanwick, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash #794

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Doug Larson

Business, Training, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Paleo, Weightlifting, Nutrition, Crossfit

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🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Swanwick has worked as a print, TV and radio journalist. He began his career in 1993 as a reporter at The Courier-Mail in Brisbane, Australia. In 1996, Swanwick won the Queensland Media Award for his interview and exposé on Pauline Hanson, one of Australia’s most publicized and controversial political figures. Swanwick moved to London in 1999 where he reported for Sky Sports.

In 2003, he moved to Los Angeles where he became a Hollywood entertainment correspondent, writing for newspapers and magazines throughout Australia and Britain. In 2010, he began working as a host for ESPN SportsCenter.

Swanwick hosts podcast Alcohol Free Lifestyle, focused on "health, wealth, love and happiness.”

He co-founded international media agency, Sports Entertainment Network, which he started with Craig Hutchison in Melbourne, Australia.

In 2015, Swanwick co-founded Swanwick Sleep, with brother Tristan, and founded the Alcohol Freedom Formula, which produces programs including 30 Day No Alcohol Challenge and Project 90 to help people reduce or quit drinking.

Also in 2015, Forbes listed Swanwick as one of 25 Professional Networking Experts to Watch.

Swanwick has been interviewed on podcasts Bulletproof Radio and Ben Greenfield Fitness, been featured in Psychology Today and Yahoo Health.[4] and spoken at health conferences including Paleo f(x).

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0:00.0	Shrug family this week on Barb El Shrug James Swanwick is coming to the show. We are talking about
0:05.1	alcohol. You may even notice me get a little bit passionate about this subject and some of the
0:12.0	the things that we talk about, the transformation that can happen when you move away from alcohol,
0:16.1	the massive shift that I've seen really in the business landscape over the last three to five years away
0:22.9	from alcohol as it not being really like the centerpiece so much anymore and so much of how
0:29.0	business gets done as the really successful, powerful executive level has really started
0:35.7	to take a notice to their health and realizing that they just cannot
0:39.5	keep the alcohol moving with the dinners and still being productive and happy and being able
0:45.4	to keep their energy, the brain fog, all those pieces. And personally, you'll also probably hear me
0:50.8	open up a little bit on this one and that call it 15-ish years ago when I opened my
0:54.8	first gyms. I realized that many of the relationships that I'd kept over the years really focused on
1:01.1	going to a bar, watching a game, probably having a couple beers too many, probably making not so great
1:07.4	decisions as I was just going through college, going through grad school,
1:15.9	just kind of going through the motions of life. And when I really sat down, there was a many,
1:23.6	but one particular conversation, as many of us have, the voice of reason many times in our life, our parents and specifically my father, and dad just sit me down going, hey, dude,
1:28.2	you might be a little bit too good at this thing. I also had started kind of noticing a lot of
1:32.9	physiological drawbacks, things that happen, protective mechanisms that your body will go through,
1:40.5	your brain will go through, when you just get too good at a thing that is very unhealthy.
1:46.2	I by no means had any issues in the way that many, many people do suffer from alcoholism and
1:51.7	things like that. But it's kind of one of those moments where the old man sat me down and said,
1:56.0	hey, dude, if you keep this going to be really unhappy with the place you end up.
2:01.2	And it's probably a little bit better of a time that we start taking life seriously, which also
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