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Barbell Shrugged

The Bledsoe Show w/ Aubrey Marcus: Own The Day, Own Your Life #61

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

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

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Aubrey Marcus is the founder and CEO of @Onnit, a lifestyle brand based on a holistic health philosophy he calls Total Human Optimization. Onnit is an Inc. 500 company and an industry leader with products touching millions of lives, including many top professional athletes around the world.

Aubrey hosts his own podcast, The Aubrey Marcus Podcast, a motivational destination for conversations with the brightest minds in athletics, business, science, relationships and spirituality with over 10 million downloads on iTunes.

Aubrey is also a writer who regularly provides commentary to outlets like @entrepreneur, @forbes, @thedoctorstv, and The Joe Rogan Experience. He has been featured on the cover of @menshealthmag, and his newest (and first!) book is Own The Day, Own Your Life.

In this episode, we cover how Onnit is true to the bone, how you can pursue your passion while making enough money, why you need to fail to succeed, why it’s important to listen to your heart, and much more.

-MIke Bledsoe and The Shrugged Collective

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Barbell Collective is a network of fitness, health and perforamnce shows that help people achieve their physical and mental health goals. Usually in the gym, but outside as well. In 2012 they posted their first Barbell Shrugged podcast and have been putting out weekly free videos and podcasts ever since.

Along the way we've created successful online coaching programs including The Shrugged Strength Challenge, The Muscle Gain Challenge, FLIGHT, Barbell Shredded, and Barbell Bikini.

We're also dedicated to helping affiliate gym owners grow their businesses and better serve their members by providing owners tools and resources like the Barbell Business Podcast.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Bloodsauce show on the Shrug Collective.

0:04.3

I'm so excited to be launching the very first episode today on the Collective.

0:08.3

We're expanding our network and bringing you more of what you already love.

0:11.9

Go to Shrugcollective.com to see what we're up to.

0:15.3

Today's show we sit down with Aubrey Marcus.

0:17.5

He's the CEO and founder of On It and we get to discuss leadership and everything that's

0:22.5

going on on it on it right now.

0:24.2

I'm super impressed.

0:25.2

I've never seen anything like it before and his ability to lead that team, best trainers

0:32.1

I've met, great supplement company, just amazing across the board.

0:36.4

I love spending time there.

0:38.1

We get into his book on the day, on your life and what it means to have an optimized

0:42.5

psycho-emotional and physical well-being.

0:47.4

He's also the guy who brought us Alpha Brain, which was the first new tropic that really

0:52.7

came to the market and was popularized.

0:55.7

The first one I took and it's the one that I keep taking actually.

1:01.0

It really helps me stay on task, avoid distraction and keep me in the zone for a long, long

1:08.1

time.

1:09.1

One thing I like about Alpha Brain is that I was taking it four or five years ago and I'm

1:13.8

still taking it today and really, really like it.

1:17.1

One of the things that does is brings you into Alpha Brain Wave State.

1:20.4

Most of us are hanging out in beta wave and in that state, we really can't focus for

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