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50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

The “Okayest Coach” on finding purpose as a male military spouse and the essentials of good coaching | Guest: Toby Ralph

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Tv & Film, Business, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Toby spent a decade as a first responder -- with all the stress and hazards those careers entail. Then, he left it all behind to marry a woman with a military career. Military families are used to not having control of a lot of the conditions of their lives, especially where they live and what kinds of jobs are available to spouses. A lifelong interest in fitness led to the kind of flexible work that this military spouse and dad was looking for. Now he's coaching remotely and trains clients in person, and has made their fitness his personal mission.

You can find Toby on Instagram @theokayestcoach. (His IG handle lets you know he doesn’t take himself too seriously.)

Check out our gym (Third Street Barbell) at ThirdStreetBarbell.com https://www.thirdstreetbarbell.com/!

Check out our podcast website: 50percentfacts.com https://www.50percentfacts.com/

50% Facts is a Spreaker Prime podcast on OCN – the Obscure Celebrity Network.

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Hosted by Mike Farr (@silentmikke) https://www.instagram.com/silentmikke/ and Jim McDonald (@thejimmcd). https://www.instagram.com/thejimmcd/

Produced by Jim McDonald

Production assistance by Sam McDonald and Sebastian Brambila.

Theme by Aaron Moore. Show art by Joseph Manzo (@jmanzo523)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Yep. Welcome.

0:12.9

This is my friend Toby. Toby, tell people about yourself.

0:17.8

I work in the fitness industry. I spent a long time as a first responder and got into the fitness industry sort of, let me back up a couple.

0:27.7

I was a really small guy.

0:29.3

I wanted to put on some quality weight.

0:32.0

A friend of mine who's a competitive bodybuilder, shout out to my buddy Joe, brought me into the gym and showed me a pretty

0:38.4

hardcore, sort of a hardcore gym. It's a little intimidating. I go in there, I think the first day and somebody had like five, six plates loaded up on squats and was ripping it out. So it's a bit of an, you know, I'm going there, I'm like 140, 145 pounds, a skinny guy, you know. but he brought me in there,

0:35.2

showed me how to train,

0:35.9

introduced me to it,

0:36.9

and then after a while,

0:38.4

you know,

0:38.7

once you start doing something for a while,

0:39.7

people start asking you,

0:40.5

they take no,

0:40.9

hey, and they start asking you for advice. And I noticed that when I would give advice, and people would go, hey, thanks, you know, and they're accomplishing goals and stuff, I got out of that what I had been searching for, as far as job

1:11.3

satisfaction, I'd been searching for out of my career. And so when I married, married my wife's in

1:16.8

the military, we got married and, of course, can't stay in one place too long. So we moved, and I took

1:22.0

that opportunity to transition into the fitness space. And so I have been, since then, I have been training, coaching people from all walks

1:34.2

of life.

1:34.6

A lot of military first responders and their immediate families.

1:40.3

And yeah, I mean, I've been doing that ever since.

1:42.9

And I do some volunteer work. I do some charity work for some military centered organizations for wellness and health like that. I volunteer for a wonderful organization called Independent. And it's all about wellness for the military spouses and the military and the service members,

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