1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:05,080 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fitness Disrupted, a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: I am Tom Holland and this is Fitness Disrupted, Climbing 3 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:19,440 Speaker 1: Higher and Living Well with Montell Williams. Yes, my guest 4 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 1: today none other than Montell Williams. For those of you 5 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: who may have been living under a rock for the 6 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: past several decades, who is Montell Williams. Well, he is 7 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: an Emmy Award winning TV personality, a decorated Navy officer, 8 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:38,160 Speaker 1: and inspirational speaker, and yes, a best selling author. Alright, 9 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: his TV show ran for twelve years, seventeen seasons, for 10 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 1: a total of four thousand episodes. Could not be more 11 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 1: excited to speak with him, could not be more excited 12 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: for you to hear from him, Because Fitness Disrupted is 13 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: not just about the science and not just about you know, 14 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: anecdotal stories. It's about all of the above. I'm bringing 15 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: you all the tools you need to live your best life. 16 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 1: And one of those tools is hearing from people like 17 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 1: Sean Swarner, who was a guest not too long ago 18 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: climbed Everest. First cancer survivor to climbed Everest two separate 19 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: totally distinct forms of cancer survived them both both should 20 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: have killed them. Amazing story and many of you have 21 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:31,199 Speaker 1: reached out about him and Montel Williams diagnosed at age 22 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: forty three back in with MS multiple sclerosis. And he's 23 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:44,199 Speaker 1: going to talk about how he has not only survived 24 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: but thrived, and his journey and how he's pushed through. 25 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: And we're gonna talk about the diet and the exercise 26 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: and the mental fortitude that he has exhibited and continues 27 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: to in his struggle. And he also recently had a stroke, 28 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: So so many different obstacles, but that's life. And I 29 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: know it sounds harsh, and I know I often give 30 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: the analogy of the endurance races. I do. You know, 31 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: it's not a matter of if something is going to 32 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: go wrong, but what and how much? And that is 33 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: another reason I love endurance races is everyone is suffering together, 34 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: everyone is suffering in their own way. And again, that's life. 35 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: So Montell has such an incredible story, and I'm gonna 36 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 1: tell him right off the bat how much I loved 37 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: reading his books because everything he's about, his philosophy, his 38 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: approach is everything I'm about. So obviously I'm a little 39 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: biased because we agree he's about science and He's about 40 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: the simple solutions, and he's about trying different things that 41 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: work for you. That then diagram I talk about that 42 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 1: applies to fitness disrupted. Take the science, take the anecdotal, 43 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 1: take common sense. See where it all connects. And that 44 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 1: is what Montell's about. You know, he has taken the 45 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: scientific approach to his not only physical journey, but his 46 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: mental journey as well. And just sit back. I think 47 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 1: you're gonna get a real kick out of this when 48 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 1: we come back from the break, Montell Williams, We'll be 49 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: right back, and we are back. Could not be more excited. 50 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: You know. I always say on the show that I 51 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: have the greatest job in the world. I get to 52 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: help people look better, feel better, and live longer. And 53 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: part of that job entails getting to speak with amazing 54 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: people like Montell Williams. Montell, thank you so much for 55 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: taking the time. Thanks for having me sor I appreciate it. No, 56 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: you know, reading your books, Montell, I have to say 57 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: right off the bat, it was so ridiculously refreshing to 58 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: read your books. And I'm calling this show Climbing Higher 59 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: and Living Well with Montell Williams, because uh, it's so 60 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: rare to have. You have that combination of, you know, 61 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: a scientifically based approach to diet, an exercise, keeping an 62 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: open mind, you know, being so honest with your kind 63 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: of experimentation, and then not having that personal bias montell 64 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: that listen, so many celebrities obviously have and so I 65 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 1: just it was so refreshing. And where where did you 66 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 1: get that from? You know, where did you get that 67 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: kind of ability to go for the science and not 68 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,720 Speaker 1: bring you know, some crazy bias like so many people do, 69 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:43,480 Speaker 1: you know? I mean, I I've worked on exercise and 70 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 1: been in the fitness my entire life, right, but then 71 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: when I faced you know, a life crisis, you know, 72 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: I you know, I got my degrees in engineering from 73 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: the United States, right, and I got a minor international 74 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: good affairs and so I don't believe in doing anything 75 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 1: unless you know, you back it up with research and study. So, 76 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 1: you know, when I was diagnosed with MS, first thought 77 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: that went through my mind is how dare someone tried 78 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:07,039 Speaker 1: to hold a crystal ball out and tell me what 79 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do? And what's gonna happen to me? When 80 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:13,039 Speaker 1: they can't crystal ball anybody? If doctors were God's none 81 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,279 Speaker 1: of us would be sick and they are not God's 82 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: and so they go to school, they study, they learned, 83 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 1: sometimes they read the right articles, sometimes they don't. So 84 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: it was incoming upon me to make sure that, you know, 85 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 1: after initial conversations with the doctor who literally showed me 86 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,839 Speaker 1: that he had not done enough research himself, I needed 87 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: to do more research to understand what this clown was 88 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 1: trying to say to me, right, And I started digging 89 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: and digging and digging and digging, and the more I dug, 90 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:39,359 Speaker 1: the more I learned. And you know, the reason for 91 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: those books was because I feel it's almost criminal too, 92 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: you know, gay knowledge. Learn something that can improve your 93 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:48,039 Speaker 1: life and don't share it with other people and brew theirs. 94 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:50,600 Speaker 1: Was this the same doctor Montell who told you you 95 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 1: had ten years before you're gonna be a wheel chair? Yeah, 96 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 1: you know, I mean it's really it's really very interesting 97 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: because you know, if you go back again when I 98 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: was I should have been diagnosed in and was misdiagnosed 99 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: by some of the top doctors in the world. I 100 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: went to JOHNS Hopkins, I went to you know, Walter Reid, 101 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 1: I went to you know, the Mayo Clinic. I went 102 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: to the walmer I Clinic and everyone others doctors I 103 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 1: saw completely made a misdiagnosis. And then from the next 104 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 1: nineteen years in the military, I was misdiagnosed. So that 105 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 1: tells you right there clearly that if they knew everything, 106 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:26,479 Speaker 1: that I would not have been misdiagnosed, but I was. 107 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: And so twenty years later I finally get a diagnosis 108 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: that I could have had twenty years before, and from 109 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: a doctor who tried to lay out a crystal ball 110 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: and I'm going, you know, dude, you didn't know me 111 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: when I walked in the door. How do you think 112 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,039 Speaker 1: you're gonna know me five years from now when I 113 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,720 Speaker 1: don't come back in your door. And so I tried 114 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 1: my best to figure out and learn as much as 115 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:50,359 Speaker 1: I possibly could. And my journey is has been, you 116 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: know now almost the thirty year journey with m S. 117 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: And I dealt with some other life crisis that I've 118 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: had to deal with and and journey through. And you know, 119 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: every time something happens that it's about knowledge. Knowledge is king. 120 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: That's what they tell you when you're young, and and 121 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: that's there's truth on that. I love it. You know. 122 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: One of the first guests I had on was Dr 123 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: Daniel Lieberman from Harvard who is the barefoot running guru, 124 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: just all about running and how we're born to run 125 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 1: in the documentary or and the books were based on him. 126 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: And he reminded me I didn't even know, Montell that 127 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: the third cause of death in the United States was 128 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: dr you know, malpractice, basically doctor screwing up. So when 129 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 1: we were talking about this very topic, that's why, right 130 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: so Joan, I'm I'm I'm not casting an assursion would 131 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 1: say that they don't know everything. But the truth of 132 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: the matter is they don't know everything. And I would 133 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: say again, if they knew everything, none of us would 134 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: be sick. What's going on right now with the COVID. 135 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: I mean, you have some of the greatest, the brightest 136 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: minds in the world can't get out of each other's 137 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: way because everybody's trying to figure out how they can 138 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 1: wint a dag On Prize, the Nobel Peace Prize or 139 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: something for science where they're not really paying attention to 140 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 1: their original hypocritic oath and do no harm, you know. 141 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: So it's now time for these same doctors to start 142 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: digging into the research. Big, big, big, big, big looking 143 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: at science. And even though we live in a time 144 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: when our politicians don't want to believe the science, those 145 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: who claimed to have studied medicine, those who claims to 146 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: have taken that hypocratic oath to serve the public, need 147 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: to step up to the plate and do exactly what 148 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: they promised they would do when they got the degree. 149 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:21,119 Speaker 1: And I love when you talk about in your books 150 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: as well, Montell, because I love doctors too. But like 151 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: we were talking about, I want the best information and 152 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna, you know, go to three doctors, five doctors, 153 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: as you were talking about, But you never let that 154 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 1: kind of prevent you from still looking for the best 155 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: information from the best doctors. You talked about therapists too. 156 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: You know, we're depressing at best, and you know probably 157 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: you know, really bad at worst. Um. But I think 158 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 1: that's such a great lesson to people, as you don't 159 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 1: throw out the whole industry just because they're they're bad doctors. 160 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: There's there's bad everybody, and I mean, you know sign bad. 161 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: You know, one scientific experiment can go bad, but a 162 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 1: hundred of them can go well, or one can go 163 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 1: well and a hundred can go bad. So that doesn't 164 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 1: mean that we throw out all signed and science is 165 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: what's gotten us here, Contrary to popular belief. Science is 166 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: the reason why we're live. Science is the reason why 167 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 1: you know, we don't drink you know, two point nine 168 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: alcohol water content. You know, I mean, if you remember 169 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 1: back in the beginning of the you know, when this 170 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: country was first creative, people don't recognize the fact that 171 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 1: all human beings, all Americans, even down to infants out 172 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:25,439 Speaker 1: of the womb, drank an alcoholic beverage all day. Why 173 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: because if you drank the water that you know, passed 174 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: through the rivers, you got sick because it was so 175 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: much disease in the water. You know, up streamed from you. 176 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 1: There's a bear taking a lake and you were drinking 177 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 1: at and so you know, we started boiling water. We 178 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: started boiling it adding alcohol to it. And that's how 179 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: we lived our lives. That's you know, when you think 180 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: about cannabis. When we were back back at the turn 181 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: of six hundreds, you know, all of our forefathers grew hemp. 182 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: All of them ate a hemp seed protein or hempseed 183 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: porridge every day. Why because they've realized very quickly that 184 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 1: hemp was one of the highest protein laden seeds on 185 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: the planet. It wasn't just because they were trying to 186 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: get high, but at the same time they also recognize 187 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: that a little buzz help them get through. You know, 188 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 1: the day, you know, we didn't have air conditioning, we 189 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: didn't have heaters. You were sleeping on the ground, you 190 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 1: were wiping your butt with leaves. Okay, so science is 191 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: what got us the toilet paper. And you have the 192 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: great line that goes to all that. You know that 193 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 1: you just you're you're constantly looking and then have an 194 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:23,319 Speaker 1: open mind. And I think your mind is I have 195 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 1: an open mind to all approaches to health, conventional medicine, 196 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: non traditional and alternative therapies, acupuncture and Eastern medicine. And 197 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 1: I say montel because people ask me all the time, 198 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: you know, cupping and acupuncture and all tho things like 199 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: go listen, whatever works for you and whatever doesn't hurt you, right, 200 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: try everything and see what works for you. Look, you know, 201 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: I mean, let's just get it straight. You know, Western 202 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: and Eastern medication. Eastern medication has been around for five 203 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: thousand years. Okay, so for five thousand years. Yeah, they 204 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:50,719 Speaker 1: may not have been doing it all a hundred percent right. 205 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: But they were getting something right, or nobody would have 206 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: repeated it for five thousand years. Remember we're only we're 207 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 1: only in about you know, a hundred and fifty years 208 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: worth of Western science medicine, and not all those techniques 209 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: that were early we're early touted by doctors. Remember they 210 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: used to slice your wrist and believe you, when you 211 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: were sick, if you had the flu, they used to 212 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: put leeches on your body. And I mean now we 213 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: found out in some cases that leeches still do work. 214 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 1: That's right. We actually we actually use some of the 215 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 1: you know, the expectorate from around the leech's mouth to 216 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 1: help with you know, I'm not collaborating your blood quickly. 217 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: So I mean there's things that we learned along the way, 218 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,680 Speaker 1: and we should be open to them and open understand that, 219 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: you know what may not as long as it doesn't 220 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: hurt you. I don't see any reason why we can't 221 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: practice medicine that will help you, right, And that's what 222 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 1: this show is about. Montel is always say, you know, 223 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,080 Speaker 1: we take the science, we take our experiences, and we 224 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: take comment sense, right, and then then you take what 225 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 1: you can do, Like what what do you like this 226 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,679 Speaker 1: green drinks. You know, are you still drinking the drinks 227 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:52,839 Speaker 1: by the way, you know, And I gotta tie something. 228 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: You know that this whole pandemic has just jacked up 229 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 1: my whole world in some ways. I mean, for you know, 230 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 1: for almost two and a half month, you know, you 231 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 1: couldn't go to a gym. Uh you know, so I 232 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: was exercising in my apartment, trying to exercise by my 233 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,560 Speaker 1: my wife walking, you know, and taking long walks. But 234 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:10,199 Speaker 1: now that I have limited use of the gym, I'm 235 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 1: back to the gym. Um. I will probably get back. 236 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:14,319 Speaker 1: And my wife is just saying it to me the 237 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: other day, we gotta get back to taking some green drinks, 238 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:17,679 Speaker 1: and I will, but I try my best to make 239 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: sure that I put in a you know, I'm eating 240 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: about a sixty plant based by it now. Yeah. And 241 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: and you know, one of my terms of Montel is 242 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 1: excessive moderation, right. And that's what I love again about 243 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: your philosophy is it's it's not extremes. You talked about 244 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: doing the rough food diet and how it worked, and 245 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: then you saw always probably extreme. And I love when 246 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: you talked so openly about, you know, seeing someone who 247 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 1: was on a specific diet. You said, didn't look like 248 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 1: the healthiest person in the world. Like I always go 249 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 1: by resigns as well, right, so it's moderation correct. And 250 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,559 Speaker 1: then I learned, you know, I had a really tough lesson. 251 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: Talk to me about two years ago when I suffered 252 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: a major no category four hemorrhagic stroke and almost took 253 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: my life. I'm very lucky to be here and be 254 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 1: alive today. And I was working out like crazy. I 255 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: was doing an hour forty minutes every day. I was 256 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: banging big heavy weights. I was running around acting like 257 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 1: a dag on the antithon and I'm closed at the time, 258 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm fifty eight years old, acting like 259 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: an idiot. And you know, there comes a time when 260 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,079 Speaker 1: you have to just recognize a fact. I had to 261 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 1: recognize fact, I'm never gonna be in another bodybuilding contest. 262 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:19,680 Speaker 1: I'm never going to you know, stand on Mr. Olympian stage. 263 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: So with the devil am I trying to push myself 264 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:25,680 Speaker 1: so hard for you know, let's stop for a second, breathe, 265 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 1: you know, and and and enjoy the roses. And so 266 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 1: you know, it's the same thing when it comes to 267 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 1: diet you know, I went through a key too thing 268 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: here for about an eight month period of time, so 269 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:39,199 Speaker 1: extreme that you know, I stopped and I realized, Man, 270 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: you know, just a little bit more to just being 271 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 1: alive than every second of the day trying to figure 272 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 1: out exactly what I'm gonna put in my mouth. Well, 273 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: I I you know, pay attention. I pay as close 274 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 1: attention as I possibly again, and you know, I concentrate 275 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: on making sure I make good choices, right. I'm happy 276 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 1: to be the cook in the house, and um so 277 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 1: I try to make sure that I do a variety 278 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 1: of foods that my wife will you consume along with me, 279 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: and we just sit down at the table to eat 280 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 1: at the same time together. And you know, I try 281 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: to make it make sense rather than try to make 282 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: it a chore. Right. Yeah, I'm a Mediterranean guy myself 283 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:18,079 Speaker 1: as far you know, whole foods. Keep it simple. If 284 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 1: man makes it, you try to avoid it, right Jack Olaine, 285 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: You're interviewed many years ago, and it's just such a 286 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: great line, you know, keep it simple. You know, it 287 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: just doesn't sell books, montell, and it doesn't sell videos 288 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: when we have this kind of and I love I 289 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: read a bunch of the comments on some of your books, 290 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: and you know, so many people and the same thing 291 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 1: about my books. They go, well I kind of knew that, 292 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: and you go, yeah, well, then you got to apply it. 293 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 1: I say, people know the solutions, montell it's just the application. 294 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: Extremes are easy. It's the application. And you're absolutely right. 295 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: So I write something that you are never gonna do, 296 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: which you go, wow, that really works. Well, how do 297 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: you know it works if you never do it? Right? 298 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 1: So let's do some things that you know you're going 299 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: to do. Make good choices, Yeah, simple steps, and let's 300 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: go right to that obstacles you obviously diagnosed at forty 301 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: three most people you know, that's it. That's it, and 302 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 1: you have, as you said, three decades, not only survived, 303 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 1: but thrived. Talk to people about just you know, the 304 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 1: overcoming obstacles. We see those memes all the time, but again, 305 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: the actual doing day to day and getting yourself up. 306 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 1: You know, how do you do it? And where do 307 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: you find that? You know? You guess? I mean, and 308 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think it's something that was born 309 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: in me as much as I think it's just something 310 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 1: that you start to recognize when you do things, and 311 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: you accomplish things, you get benefit out of it. Once 312 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: you see some benefit, then why not rely on the benefit? 313 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: I mean I I It's like, you know, if you 314 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: take a match and you hold your finger over and 315 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: you burn yourself, you ain't gonna do that again. Let's 316 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: hope enough to do a second well, so you know, 317 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 1: let's be smart. If you do something and you get 318 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 1: you know, good gains out of it, well, you know 319 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: that made me feel pretty good yesterday. Let me try 320 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 1: it out again today. I feel pretty good today. Let 321 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 1: me try it out again tomorrow. Feel pretty good to 322 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: borrow and then maybe the next day you wake up 323 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: and you go, oh man, I'm tired. I'm a past 324 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 1: And I used to be one of these people who 325 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 1: literally worked out until I couldn't work out anymore. I 326 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: mean I would go fourteen fifteen days in a row 327 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 1: without taking a break and realized I wasn't even giving 328 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 1: my muscle as an opportunity to recover. And now you know, 329 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: I'm just not. I don't beat myself up that way anymore. 330 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 1: I try to work out more days a week than 331 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: I don't, so if I can get in five days 332 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 1: or six days in a week and six days in 333 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: a row, that's good. I make sure I take the 334 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: seventh day off even if I don't feel like I 335 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 1: take it off, just to cut my body a break, 336 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 1: you know. And you need to because you know, as 337 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: we especially as we start to get up in in 338 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 1: our you know, we're in that last quarter. You get 339 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 1: up in years, you know, you've done as much lifting 340 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 1: as I've done and much strain as I've done. You know, 341 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: I'm now, you know, almost three quarters in shorter than 342 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 1: I was when I was twenty years old. Well there's 343 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: a reason for that. Because I was putting you know, 344 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: three d four pounds on my back you know, five 345 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 1: days or three days a week for twenty years. Yeah, 346 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: compacting my spine. It's time to stop. That's stupid, you 347 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: know what I mean. So there's some things that you 348 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: just gotta figure out that you have to do. When 349 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: you start, you know, your tendants start to hurt a 350 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: little bit. Maybe I didn't need to do giants sets 351 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: for seventeen days in a row. Maybe I could have 352 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 1: done you know, just supersets, or maybe I could have 353 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: just done straight sets, or maybe I could have just 354 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 1: done moderate resistance training. And I don't have to do 355 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 1: this where I write down a regiment and say, for 356 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:25,959 Speaker 1: the next sixty days, I'm gonna do X y Z. 357 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: I can do something for the next ten days, do 358 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: something else in the next ten days, to something else 359 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,160 Speaker 1: for the next ten days, as long as I'm doing 360 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:35,360 Speaker 1: something right. And and that's the thing, montell. I tell 361 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: people to take the words justin only out of their vocabulary, 362 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 1: especially as we get older. Right, they'll say, oh, I 363 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 1: only walked three miles today, or I just did you know, 364 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,360 Speaker 1: twenty minutes of strength training a go. No, you did 365 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,200 Speaker 1: twenty minutes. You walked three miles, right, And there's nothing 366 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: magical about the gym, right, There's nothing magical about an hour. 367 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,399 Speaker 1: It's about doing it consistently, as you said, And that 368 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: should be great news to people. Right. It's always surprised me. 369 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 1: Montell what I tell people you don't have to do 370 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: as much, and they get angry, right, you know, I mean, 371 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 1: like I tell you what I've done. And one of 372 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,119 Speaker 1: the things I've done, really literally during this whole COVID 373 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:09,040 Speaker 1: crazy is that I have tried to maintain the idea 374 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 1: of intermediate fasting. I've been, I've been, and my fasting 375 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,440 Speaker 1: is where I try to make sure that I eat 376 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 1: my evening meal no later than six thirty every day. 377 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 1: And if every if I happen to slip in and 378 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: I put the last bite in my mouth at seven o'clock, 379 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 1: I make ready I register that I don't put another 380 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:29,919 Speaker 1: piece of food in my mouth until at least a 381 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: minimum twelve or thirteen hours later, you know, intermittent fasting 382 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 1: that cuts that gut a break, So I'm not you know, snacking, 383 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:39,840 Speaker 1: and and the match back it up because every once 384 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 1: in a blue moon, maybe one day a week, I 385 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 1: may eat a little popcorn with my wife at nine 386 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:46,920 Speaker 1: o'clock at night, but I don't eat my first meal 387 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:50,360 Speaker 1: of the day until ten or eleven o'clock the next morning. Period, 388 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 1: So I always put twelve hours before between the last 389 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:54,680 Speaker 1: thing I ate and the first thing I ate. And 390 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,119 Speaker 1: by doing so, I've now started to notice that, you know, 391 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 1: I don't do breakfast, lunch, dinner. Whoever came up with 392 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 1: that crap? Anyway, when did we ever decided you had 393 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,440 Speaker 1: to eat three hours a day every day? And when 394 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 1: we weren't out, you know, running around on the savannah. 395 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:12,400 Speaker 1: You know exactly the reason why we ate three meals 396 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: a day was to provide enough energy so that we 397 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: could get all that work in. But you know, when 398 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:18,719 Speaker 1: we're not doing all this work, do you really have 399 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: to have breakfast, lunch of dinner. Do you really have 400 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: to go in and make that sandwich and eat those 401 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 1: chips and all that crap in the middle of the day. No, 402 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 1: you don't. So now I'm by to myself. I'm eating. 403 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: You know, I've reduced a lot of you know, some 404 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 1: of my animal protein and take. But like I'll eat 405 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,239 Speaker 1: oatmeal every moment my wife makes the cooks because it's 406 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: burgerency makes opmeal with with uh walnuts or pecans every day. 407 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 1: So that's my first meal of to day. I won't 408 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:48,399 Speaker 1: eat again until my six pm meal. And and I 409 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: don't snack. I don't go if I'm gonna snack, I'll 410 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 1: go grab an orange, I'll go grab some grapes. I'll 411 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: go grab some watermelon. You know, I'll do some piece 412 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: some fruit in the middle of the day and maybe 413 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:58,440 Speaker 1: you know, like a cup of that. But I'll eat 414 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 1: my second meal of the day, which is six o'clock, 415 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 1: and that's all I need. That's all I need, just 416 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: to feel energized and to keep myself up and running. 417 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 1: I don't need to throw in that extra meal in 418 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,119 Speaker 1: the middle of the day just because and things change, Montell, 419 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 1: And people are different, as you say in your books, right, 420 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,199 Speaker 1: you gotta try what works for you. And what I 421 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 1: love though, is I have a brother. I got five brothers, 422 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 1: one who has always struggled with his weight, Montell, and 423 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 1: he uh, he started intermittent fastening. But he said to me, 424 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 1: is it's so great, Tom because I don't eat and 425 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 1: then I can eat whatever I want, like garbage. And 426 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 1: I said, no, no, no, you're getting it wrong. And 427 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 1: that's what I love about you. You can't. So let's 428 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: talk about healthy foods and how you know, Yes, like 429 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,480 Speaker 1: eating less is a great thing for so many people, 430 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,160 Speaker 1: but when we do eat, the protective elements in foods 431 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: that people just don't realize, right, the anti cancer effects 432 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: and just phytochemicals, minerals and everything that we get from 433 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,680 Speaker 1: food that people don't realize. It's about eating more good 434 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 1: stuff and so much of it has been grown out 435 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: of the food that we get right now, you know, 436 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 1: whether we like it or not. When we think that 437 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 1: we're eating organic, we're not eating organic. We think that 438 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: we're eating you know, hunter percent whole food. We're not 439 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:05,760 Speaker 1: necessarily eating Hunter present whole food. But you know the 440 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 1: objective is to try to eat around, especially if you 441 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 1: can the outside of that perimeter at that grocery store 442 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 1: first before you started ducking up and down the aisles, 443 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 1: and you know, the outside perimeter normally has in it 444 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: the basic foods that you need, and that's where all 445 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,160 Speaker 1: the you know, the vegetable aisles are, and that's where 446 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,160 Speaker 1: you know on the outside runner, that's where the meat 447 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 1: and fish aisle is, outside perimeter. So I mean, I 448 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,880 Speaker 1: try my best, and I think you know I'm right now. 449 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 1: You know, I hate to say it, but I'm sixty 450 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:33,159 Speaker 1: four years old, and I'm looking at trying to make 451 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: sure that at least sixty seventy percent of what I 452 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: take in every day is a vegetable of So I'm sorry, 453 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,400 Speaker 1: that's what we're fer so if I can can get 454 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 1: in sixty seven percent vegetables and food, so I try 455 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:44,880 Speaker 1: my best. And my wife, you know, at least six 456 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 1: days a week we eat a pretty I'm talking about it. 457 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 1: I make on myself. So we eat a pretty large 458 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 1: salad um every evening meal with our meal, and and 459 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 1: you know, and I make sure that that salad, you know, 460 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: has at least three types of greens, you know, I 461 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:04,199 Speaker 1: you know, iceberg, lettuces, just water. But so that's just 462 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 1: the filler. But I make sure that I use garden greens. 463 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 1: And I make sure I eat a lot of spinach, 464 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 1: and you know, you know, our spinaches, and up to 465 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,640 Speaker 1: as far as it used to be, I still eat 466 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:14,960 Speaker 1: a lot of spinach. I chop it up, you know, 467 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:16,880 Speaker 1: and I try to put carrots in it if I can. 468 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 1: And I try to make sure that I fill that 469 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 1: salad with you know, after i've I've put all the 470 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 1: greens in, and I do in roma tomatoes. I've gotten 471 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:28,640 Speaker 1: away from the big beef steak tomatoes, so I try 472 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,439 Speaker 1: to eat romatovators so I can cut down on some 473 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: of the seeds that you you actually consume. And then 474 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:34,919 Speaker 1: I eat a lot of nuts. I put a lot 475 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:39,639 Speaker 1: of nuts in my salad. My salad is filled with almonds, pecans, walnuts, 476 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:41,959 Speaker 1: chopped pray leans. I put them in there too if 477 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: I want to. And I make my own salad dressing 478 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,639 Speaker 1: every day, which is you know, avocado oil, extra virgin 479 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,199 Speaker 1: olive all and be interred, and you know, I may 480 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: shake a little salt and pepper in there, but that's 481 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: that is every dinner that I've had for the last 482 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 1: now six months, I try to make sure I include 483 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 1: that and maybe maybe one day equal skip that, you know, 484 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: and I might you know, good sports. I have a 485 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: French friar to doing an a air fryer, but you know, 486 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,199 Speaker 1: I try to make sure that that's the basis of 487 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 1: my diet. Then, you know, I try to spread out 488 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 1: my red meat and if I'm eating it. For a while, 489 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 1: I went, you know, years without eating any red meat. 490 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: Now I'm back to eating a little bit. I eat once, 491 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 1: you know, twice a week maybe if that, and then 492 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: I try to eat chicken maybe twice a week, and 493 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: then I eat fish the rest of the time, or 494 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: I skipped the meat. I love it. And that's you know, 495 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 1: the blue zones. As you know, that's exactly what people 496 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: who are eating right who live to be hundred and older. 497 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 1: It's the nuts and the seeds and the and we 498 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 1: just need to find those foods Montel that we like 499 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:38,879 Speaker 1: always tell people like you, I'm sure you look forward 500 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: to that meal. It's not like you dread it. You 501 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 1: and little also look forward to cooking. You know what 502 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,959 Speaker 1: I mean. It's like, you know, putting your hands on 503 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 1: what you're gonna put in your mouth is uh uh, 504 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,399 Speaker 1: it's a treat. It's a treat. Knowing when you know 505 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 1: my wife's smalls, it goes out really that it's how 506 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,200 Speaker 1: over day, well, thank you, and I do too, And 507 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 1: I realized what it's doing for our guests, So I'm 508 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,359 Speaker 1: glad that you like it. We'll keep eating. You know, 509 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 1: we control three things, montell. We control how much we 510 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 1: move what we put into our mouths, as you've been 511 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:07,199 Speaker 1: talking about, and our attitudes, right, and that's amazing, And 512 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: people don't realize that how much control we have. I mean, 513 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: there's so much, especially now that's way outside of our control. 514 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 1: But when we control how much we move, I mean 515 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,879 Speaker 1: I run ultra marathons and marathons for sanity, right, not 516 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,879 Speaker 1: for vanity, for my head like you the depression. You know, 517 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: it's a whole another show. But um so powerful how 518 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:25,920 Speaker 1: much we move what we put in our mouths and 519 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:27,880 Speaker 1: our attitudes, our state of mind. And you talk about 520 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 1: self talk. I mean, it's one of the most important 521 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 1: things in my life and when I coach people, you know, 522 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 1: the positive and negative self talk, and we're in control 523 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: of that and it's so powerful. Well yeah, I mean 524 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 1: I think people don't understand that, you know, we especially 525 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 1: right now this time of you know, pandemic, where people 526 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 1: are are really sheltered at home. I mean I did, 527 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 1: I just realized, you know, yesterday or this morning. You know, 528 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: I didn't go outside yesterday at all at all. I 529 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: was inside all day long. Didn't even open up the blinds. 530 00:24:56,359 --> 00:25:00,119 Speaker 1: I was inside. How stupid was I? So you know 531 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: this morning I did. I walk with puppy well outside, 532 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,680 Speaker 1: got a fresher breath there, David. For yesterday I was 533 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,440 Speaker 1: outside and realized, Wow, how beautiful it was outside, just 534 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:11,159 Speaker 1: to be outside. And you know, right now, it's so 535 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:15,640 Speaker 1: easy for us to slip into inspiral ourselves down into 536 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 1: a depression, not recognizing that we can also spiral ourselves 537 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,359 Speaker 1: right back up out of that depression. You know, I 538 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,719 Speaker 1: think there was a study that was done now it's 539 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 1: almost almost twenty years ago, Blue Ramorski study that I 540 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 1: talked about in my Living Well book. That was a 541 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 1: study of unhappiness and how you know, how humans are 542 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: and what we're we're happy. It's comes from but we 543 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: gotta know that a whopping for of how we are 544 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: at any given moment of a day is based on 545 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: our gen x. I mean, when you're born, you're born, 546 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,680 Speaker 1: and some people are you know, oh what was mean people? 547 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,560 Speaker 1: But you know they're born with that. That's part of 548 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: your psychological mitochondrial makeup. However, another forty of it, another 549 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 1: sixty of it is based on everything from circumstances into 550 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: how you personally tell yourself you feel. Just as easy 551 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 1: as you conspire yourself down into a depression, you can 552 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,440 Speaker 1: inspire yourself up out of depression by focusing on those 553 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,359 Speaker 1: really good things that happened in your life. We have 554 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,119 Speaker 1: that control and that ability to do that. And so 555 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,399 Speaker 1: often people think that no depressed, Well, you know, if 556 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: you're clinically depressed, you know that's a real term. But 557 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 1: that was really a term. It was only designated for 558 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 1: people to you know, experience for about a two week 559 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 1: period of time. You're a human being. Human beings have 560 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: highs and lows. There's nothing wrong with having a low 561 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: when that low seems to stretching the six and seven 562 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: and eight weeks. Now, you gotta stop and go talk 563 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 1: to somebody and say, wait a minute, there's no reason 564 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 1: for and you don't need drugs to get out of it. 565 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 1: You just need to turn your butt around. That's what 566 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 1: I feel about it. Yeah, you have two great lines. 567 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 1: As we wrap this up. And when I love is 568 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,479 Speaker 1: you say you own the definition of who you are. 569 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,200 Speaker 1: That's my mantra, my friend, that's how I live. And 570 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 1: you know, and finally, you know, you're not depressed. You 571 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 1: just have to figure out how to regain your happiness. 572 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 1: We're in control of that so much more than people, 573 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 1: you know, have any concept, correct, you know, especially right now. 574 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:11,360 Speaker 1: I tell you one of the things I've been doing. 575 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,920 Speaker 1: You know, I used to do this fifteen years ago, 576 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 1: twenty years ago. I used to take a piece of 577 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,960 Speaker 1: paper before I went to sleep at night, and I'd 578 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 1: write down, at the end of the day, what did 579 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,359 Speaker 1: I do today that's worth talking about tomorrow. I write 580 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,440 Speaker 1: that sentence. Then I've list two to three things, okay, 581 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 1: and then I fold a piece of paper up to 582 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 1: sit up the side of bed. And then when I 583 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 1: wake up in the morning, I grab a piece of 584 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: paper going the bathroom while I'm standing there and get ready. 585 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,359 Speaker 1: You know do my business. I take a look at 586 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 1: that piece of paper so that I'm reading the three 587 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:40,919 Speaker 1: things that I thought were great about yesterday, which are 588 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,680 Speaker 1: three things that helped me start my day off with 589 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 1: a success. Now I don't have to write it down anymore. 590 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:49,920 Speaker 1: I can just memorize it. I remember it. I say 591 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,680 Speaker 1: that to myself every day, what did I do today 592 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 1: that's worth talking about tomorrow, So that when I get 593 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,360 Speaker 1: up in the morning, I talked to myself and tell 594 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 1: myself those three good things. That's what helps set my 595 00:27:58,119 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 1: day as a not an old wool was me day, 596 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: that's such my day as hey, I can't wait to 597 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,200 Speaker 1: do three more good things right. And I wrote down 598 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 1: that line Montel. I look for every opportunity to just 599 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 1: do something different today, something good today. And it's the 600 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 1: small things, right. But people try to swing for the fences, 601 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 1: I would say too often. And you started by talking 602 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 1: about self efficacy. And it's those small victories that give 603 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: us confidence to go forward and do bigger things right. 604 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,160 Speaker 1: And it's it's there are no small victories right there, 605 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: just victories absolutely. And I mean and and you know, 606 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 1: as much as you can try to focus on things 607 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 1: that you can do to help others. I mean, you know, 608 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:31,879 Speaker 1: I spend a lot of time, you know, it's it's 609 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,399 Speaker 1: very strange. But even in this strange time, I've been 610 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 1: involved in virus mitigation and involved in trying to develop 611 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 1: out and help people figure out some and and working 612 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 1: with companies across the world looking at different forms of ppe, 613 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,960 Speaker 1: look at different forms of mitigation techniques, and trying to 614 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,880 Speaker 1: share that with as many people as I can. But 615 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 1: at the same time, I'm working on a protocol for 616 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 1: you know, curing PTSD. I'm working on a protocol to 617 00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 1: help with traumatic brain injury. And I try to east 618 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: engage myself in a conversation about one of those things 619 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,960 Speaker 1: each day. That makes me know that I'm doing my 620 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: part for make hunt that's amazing. And one final thing 621 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 1: you are doing is that Military Makeover show. Amazing. I 622 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 1: had it was fortunate to be apart, but tell people 623 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 1: about Military Makeover who might not have seen it. I'm 624 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 1: so glad and thank you so much for participating in 625 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 1: so much fun. Thank you for having me. Yeah, the 626 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 1: family we're featuring right now. You know, Military Makeops a 627 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 1: show that you know, if you kind of remember it 628 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 1: was at home make Over home improvement where we we 629 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 1: take really deserving veterans and we literally make their home 630 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: over from the ground up. But it's not a handout, 631 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 1: it's more of a hand up. We turned their home 632 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 1: into it forever home. And you know, in the cases 633 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 1: of veterans that are handicapped or or differently able to 634 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: we try to make sure we can figure home to 635 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 1: make it easier for them to get around. But we 636 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 1: do everything from the floors to the ceilings, to the walls, 637 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:53,120 Speaker 1: to the kitchens, to the paint, to turning their homes 638 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 1: into a smart house. You help us, you know by 639 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,600 Speaker 1: having some equipment donated for the family that we're working 640 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 1: on right now, which is the Marquess family out of 641 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 1: the Coola, Georgia that we're working on. And these these guys, 642 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 1: you know, um they needed help now. You know. Marcellino 643 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,920 Speaker 1: Marquez is as a soldier who spent his whole career 644 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 1: had three different ms is in the military and this 645 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 1: final MS working basically as a more titian and going 646 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: out and retrieving the precious remains of our fallen and 647 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 1: also civilians who were killed at the same time in 648 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:29,120 Speaker 1: Afghanistan and literally taking them back and trying to help 649 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 1: turn those disfigured bodies and something that a family could 650 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 1: honor in an open casket. And you know, you don't 651 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 1: think about the trauma that that brings on an individual 652 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 1: has to do that day in and day out. So 653 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 1: we're so happy that you guys really stepped into the 654 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 1: plate to help his family. You know, Marcella is a 655 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 1: big workout guy. You got some equipment, and I know 656 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 1: that when our our final episode airs on September, and 657 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 1: that final episode air's a seventh thirty in the morning 658 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 1: every Friday morning, but that airs, I think you guys 659 00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 1: are giving away both flex C six bike that people 660 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 1: can watch, tune in and get the details on how 661 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 1: to win. And I really appreciate that, man, honestly, Oh well, 662 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 1: thank you again so much for having me. It's so 663 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: amazing and I love that it's not just one episode, 664 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,280 Speaker 1: two right, it's five different episodes. I believe for his 665 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: family because you did so much to this guy's house. 666 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 1: It's incredible about well, you know what we do is 667 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 1: people don't get it. We we basically when we filmed 668 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 1: at Home Makeover, we tried to before COVID. We were 669 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 1: accomplishing our makeovers in ten days and now they're probably 670 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 1: taking it between eleven and twelve days, but we're getting 671 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:29,800 Speaker 1: them done. And we filmed the whole thing and then 672 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 1: we break those into episodes or seasons, and those seasons 673 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,760 Speaker 1: really last about four to six weeks, so every individual 674 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 1: family has a four to six week airing of the show. 675 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 1: And we, you know, give a shot out to all 676 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,120 Speaker 1: the sponsors. I'm telling you that we just sponsors and 677 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,959 Speaker 1: give us everything from floors to ceilings, the windows, two 678 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 1: tiles for the roof, to backyards, you know, you name it, 679 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 1: and it becomes a whole community affair. I'm not just 680 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 1: saying thank you for your service and doing with lift service, 681 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 1: but actually showing thank you for your for your service. Yeah. 682 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,440 Speaker 1: We When I is on the back porch just admiring 683 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 1: the house before I left Montell, there was a gentleman 684 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 1: who was cutting down some trees or something, and one 685 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 1: of the production people said, I said who's He said 686 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 1: hi to me. I said hi back, and I said 687 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 1: who's that And they said, oh, it's just a neighbor. 688 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 1: And they said he offered a couple of weeks ago 689 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 1: to come over and he's been just like clearing the 690 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 1: woods and I mean just helping out, so it wasn't 691 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,720 Speaker 1: just people of the production team. But as you said, 692 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 1: I mean, it's so amazing, so you have to check 693 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 1: it out. Military Makeover so fortunate. Thank you for having 694 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 1: both flex and allowing us to help him in his transition, 695 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,479 Speaker 1: right because as you and I both know, we've been 696 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 1: talking about helping him with the exercise, with that stress 697 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 1: and PTSD. You know, hopefully it is a small help 698 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: to him and is you know, transition to his new life. 699 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 1: Absolutely no, thank you so much. I missed so much, 700 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 1: and you're absolutely right when people understand when Military Makeover 701 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,440 Speaker 1: comes to your town, we take volunteers. We love volunteers. 702 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,479 Speaker 1: The whole community comes out. They swing hammers, they they 703 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 1: push brooms, they swing paintbrushers. It's the community that makes 704 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,160 Speaker 1: this happen. That's where the magic really is. Montell thank 705 00:32:58,200 --> 00:32:59,720 Speaker 1: you so much. Such a pleasure and an honor to 706 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,640 Speaker 1: speak with you. And uh, congrats on on you know, 707 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,719 Speaker 1: being such a fantastic role model, right for all these 708 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 1: people with exercise and nutrition. It's so rare and it's 709 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:09,960 Speaker 1: so nice to talk to you. And you know, I 710 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 1: encourage everyone. I mean, you have what eight books nine books. 711 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 1: Now I have eight books out, six of which were 712 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 1: New York Times bestsellers. Yeah and um yeah, so I 713 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 1: mean I think that they're worth a read without a doubt. 714 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,880 Speaker 1: You know, living well, living well emotionally, and climbing higher 715 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,000 Speaker 1: is my journey with a mass. But I also wrote 716 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:26,800 Speaker 1: a book which was a Mountain Get Out of Our Way, 717 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,400 Speaker 1: which just talks about my own personal motivation, and several 718 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,360 Speaker 1: books in between. I have a fitness book, Body Change, 719 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:34,640 Speaker 1: that shows some of the exercise routines and some of 720 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,800 Speaker 1: the stuff that I was working on and doing. And um, 721 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,959 Speaker 1: you know, and again you know, I I lived by 722 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 1: the mantra you know, you didn't do what works for 723 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:46,080 Speaker 1: you and everything in moderation. Right, We'll have a perfect 724 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,480 Speaker 1: way to end, Montell. Thank you so much. Everyone. Check 725 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 1: out Military Makeover Montell. Hope to speak with you again soon, 726 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 1: absolutely sure. Thank you so much. I have a great day. 727 00:33:53,800 --> 00:34:07,880 Speaker 1: You stay safe out there. Ye and we are back. 728 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,240 Speaker 1: I want to thank Montell one final time for taking 729 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,120 Speaker 1: the time out of his busy, busy schedule to be 730 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 1: a guest on the show. And I said it at 731 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,880 Speaker 1: the start, and I mean it. I have the greatest 732 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:23,239 Speaker 1: job in the world hoping people look better, feel better, 733 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:27,480 Speaker 1: and live longer, and part of that is speaking with 734 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:33,400 Speaker 1: and meeting people like Montel Williams. And I truly considered 735 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:39,359 Speaker 1: a gift because I learned from every guest. I'm inspired 736 00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:45,000 Speaker 1: by every guest, and you know, you get an appreciation 737 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,760 Speaker 1: of all that we have our health when you speak 738 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 1: with people like Montell, and everyone has an issue. Everyone 739 00:34:55,960 --> 00:35:02,480 Speaker 1: is battling something. Sometimes it's extreme, sometimes it's not so, 740 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:10,239 Speaker 1: and there's those fluctuations, but we learned from adversity. We 741 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:17,840 Speaker 1: become stronger when things go wrong. And Montel is such 742 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:23,320 Speaker 1: living proof that you keep moving forward, you control what 743 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:28,040 Speaker 1: you can. And I just love that he is so 744 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:33,960 Speaker 1: much about the science, finding the best answers to the 745 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,840 Speaker 1: things he needs, and that's what this show is about. 746 00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:40,600 Speaker 1: I'm trying to give you the best science. You may 747 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:46,360 Speaker 1: not like the answers, but they're the answers based on 748 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 1: the current research, and that changes, of course, but I 749 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,919 Speaker 1: just love his approach and it's worked for him. Look 750 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,879 Speaker 1: at the results, and I love that he talked about 751 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:06,040 Speaker 1: he is obviously prone to the extremes and then he 752 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:10,120 Speaker 1: learns from them, and that's pretty much all of us 753 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,759 Speaker 1: and the goal is to not go too far into 754 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,080 Speaker 1: the extremes, and then the goal is to try to 755 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:21,319 Speaker 1: avoid them and focus on yes, excessive moderation. All right, 756 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:26,640 Speaker 1: So again, Military Makeover Show. Check that out. You can 757 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,520 Speaker 1: watch it on Lifetime. You can also check it out 758 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:33,320 Speaker 1: on online. The shows will be up there. Military Makeover 759 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,960 Speaker 1: with Montel an amazing show and I'm so glad to 760 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,959 Speaker 1: have been a part of it, to have been able 761 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,360 Speaker 1: to give just an amazing home Jim thanks to bow Flex. 762 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,839 Speaker 1: And I just have the greatest job, as I keep saying, 763 00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,120 Speaker 1: so I hope you enjoyed that. Montel Williams so inspirational 764 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:52,240 Speaker 1: no matter your issues, and we could have talked for hours, 765 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:59,600 Speaker 1: hours about all his battles. But you keep moving forward. 766 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,000 Speaker 1: You can troll what you can get the best information, 767 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,680 Speaker 1: do the work, as he said, and really good things happen. 768 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,600 Speaker 1: But there's no giving up. There's moving forward. There are 769 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:17,600 Speaker 1: no small steps, and obstacles are made to be overcome. 770 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:23,040 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. If you have a spare second 771 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,759 Speaker 1: or two, that's all it takes. Just rate the show 772 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:28,880 Speaker 1: and subscribe to the show. I love hearing from you. 773 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,920 Speaker 1: So many people again reached out about the Sean Swarner 774 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,880 Speaker 1: show that I did recently, amazing, amazing guy climbed Everest, 775 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,560 Speaker 1: first cancer survivor. And I'm gonna bring you many more 776 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,760 Speaker 1: guests like Sean, like Montell. If you have any requests, 777 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,040 Speaker 1: let me know. Tom h Fit is Twitter and Instagram 778 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,200 Speaker 1: for me, Tom h Fit. You can also reach out 779 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,160 Speaker 1: right through Fitness disrupted dot com. Check out my new 780 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:52,600 Speaker 1: book by the way, if you have it, The micro 781 00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:56,239 Speaker 1: Workout Plan, perfect for what we're going through right now. 782 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,360 Speaker 1: Great workouts done at home or wherever you want to 783 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,800 Speaker 1: do them. Uh. And it's all the philosophy, all that 784 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,680 Speaker 1: we're talking about here. And I have to say one 785 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:10,560 Speaker 1: final time, we control three things. Montela's living proof of that, 786 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,480 Speaker 1: and it's in his books and it's what he's lived. 787 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,520 Speaker 1: How much we move, what we put into our mouths 788 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,520 Speaker 1: and our attitudes. I don't just say this lightly at 789 00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:23,880 Speaker 1: the end of every episode. When you truly embrace that fact, 790 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,960 Speaker 1: it's life changing. Control what you can and let the 791 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,840 Speaker 1: other stuff go. Thank you for listening. I'm Tom Holland 792 00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:41,520 Speaker 1: this is Bitness Disrupted, Believe in Yourself. Fitness Disrupted is 793 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:45,000 Speaker 1: a production of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts from 794 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:48,719 Speaker 1: my heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, 795 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,200 Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.