SelfWork YGTG (You Get the Gist): Need Better Sleep? A Conversation with BiOptimizers' Wade Lightheart
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Today on You Get the Gist, you’re going to get to hear from Wade LIghtheart Who’s Wade Lightheart? Well, he’s the cofounder of BiOptimizers, who became a new sponsor of SelfWork just last week! But he’s a three-time Canadian national all-natural body building champion, and a former Mr. Universe contestant who trained as a vegan – so he’s a guy that’s doing things differently. I think you’ll find him personable and his message truly vital to hear.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Self Work Podcast. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford and today we're |
| 0:11.4 | doing a you get the gist. Or YGTGs we'd like to say it. Hey, I want to apologize to any |
| 0:17.2 | of you who are avid fans and tried to tune in on Friday morning. We had a little bit |
| 0:22.0 | of a distribution issue. The episode was up by Saturday afternoon, so hope you're enjoying |
| 0:27.0 | Sadie Sutton's interview on team depression. Today on you get the gist, you're going to hear |
| 0:32.6 | from Wade Lighthart. Now who's Wade Lighthart? He's the co-founder of by optimizers. And they |
| 0:38.8 | became a sponsor of self work just last week with their magnesium breakthrough. But he's also a |
| 0:44.5 | three time Canadian national all natural bodybuilding champion. And what that means is he never used |
| 0:50.6 | any kind of steroids or something like that. He's a former Mr. Universe contestant who trained |
| 0:55.8 | as a vegan. So he's a guy that's doing things differently. I think you'll find him |
| 1:01.0 | personal and his message truly vital to hear. So I want to welcome Wade Lighthart to you get |
| 1:06.6 | the gist today because bio optimizers magnesium breakthrough was introduced as a sponsor of self |
| 1:13.1 | work just last week. And I wanted Wade to come on and talk more about the inside scoop about |
| 1:18.6 | magnesium breakthrough. Wade, welcome to self work. Great to be here. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:23.6 | And congratulations on the success of your podcast. Thank you so much. So tell me about |
| 1:29.2 | you're an all natural bodybuilding champion. And yet you started all this 25 years ago. Is that |
| 1:35.6 | correct? Yeah, I mean, I got started at 35, I spoke 35 years ago. I'm 50 now. And I was a kid |
| 1:41.8 | growing up in Canada and doing all the things played hockey, lived in the woods and all that sort of |
| 1:46.9 | stuff. And when it was 15, three things happened to me that changed my life. One, my parents move |
| 1:52.3 | from a small town to a place of nobody. It was like my parents. We were caretakers of a private |
| 1:58.2 | resort for a wealthy individual. Oh, wow. So it was five miles by nearest neighborhood road. |
| 2:03.5 | And my sister was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, which is cancer of the lymph nodes. |
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