Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.

We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.

Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach,

2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ,

Michael Kaju.

Mind, Body, Brute. body brute.

Hello and welcome back. My name is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast.

This week's guest is John Verardi.

John is the founder of Precisient Nutrition.

And our first episode together,

episode 78 is the most downloaded show I've ever done and I've received so much engagement and positive

comments on the show that I had to get this dude back.

He's also been one of my biggest idols in the health and fitness industry.

So it was a pleasure to get to do this with him again today.

We started out talking about, and I didn't plan this at all, but we talked for several minutes about wisdom.

And the reason is because John is one of the wisest men that I know and so we talked about how he became

that way and kind of his process before becoming more wise.

We also talked about mentorship and finding good mentors and how to go about finding them.

And then we talked about nutrition, obviously.

We talked about gut health.

We talked about instilling positive habits in children.

We talked about the 80-20 principle

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