Unlock Your Health Potential: Brad Feinberg's Secrets to Mindset, Sleep & Sustainable Wellness

Ready to take control of your health and transform your life? Join us as we sit down with Brad Feinberg, a leading health and fitness expert. Brad shares his incredible journey of overcoming a type 1 diabetes diagnosis at age 5, and how it ignited his passion for helping others achieve their health goals. We delve into the power of mindset, the importance of sleep, and practical strategies for creating a sustainable, healthy lifestyle. Get ready to be inspired and empowered to make lasting change!

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• The mind-body connection and overcoming health challenges
• The importance of sleep for optimal health and well-being
• Simple strategies for improving nutrition and exercise habits
• The impact of stress on our physical and mental health
• How to cultivate a positive mindset and build resilience

Key Takeaways

• Take ownership of your health: You have the power to make choices that support your well-being.
• Prioritize sleep: It's the foundation for physical and mental recovery.
• Keep it simple: Focus on consistent, sustainable habits, not quick fixes.
• Shift your mindset: Your beliefs and perceptions shape your reality.

About Brad:

Brad Feinberg is a renowned health and fitness expert with a degree in exercise science. He's worked with a diverse range of clients, from youth athletes to CEOs and entertainers, empowering them to achieve their health goals. Brad's passion lies in helping people understand the "why" behind their actions, creating lasting change through education and mindset shifts.

Connect with Brad:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bradfeinberg88/
• Website: TheFeinbergMethod.com
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bradfeinberg88

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Angie Leitnaker: Hello, everyone welcome back to the sip and soul. Podcast I'm so honored to share my friend Brad with you all today he was teaching me fun facts about Pop right before we started this. So we need to have that conversation. But Brad's journey began at age 5, with a type, one diabetes, diagnosis, a challenge that taught him resilience. Early on turning to sports for a sense of normalcy, he discovered a passion for health and fitness

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Angie Leitnaker: earning a degree in exercise. Physiology is that it.

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Brad Feinberg: Exercise, science, exercise, physiology, yep.

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Angie Leitnaker: Okay.

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Angie Leitnaker: and you went to Westchester University, and your career has spanned coaching youth athletes, 1st responders, high profile clients like Ceos and entertainers, including imagine Dragons Dan Reynolds, whom he supported while touring. You have just. You are a wealth of knowledge. I've watched you speak I don't know how many times, and every time you speak I'm like taking notes, and I'm like, I didn't know that I didn't know that. So thank you so much for being here. Welcome.

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Brad Feinberg: Of course. Thanks for having me. It's great to be here.

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Angie Leitnaker: So fun. So there are 10 million directions. We can take this conversation. But

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Angie Leitnaker: let's 1st share a little bit of your journey, and how you've become so passionate about helping other people on their health journey and mindset journey. Really.

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Brad Feinberg: Yeah, and it it like you 1st mentioned in the bio. It did start with diabetes, you know, and and you've you've heard me share this story many times now. But I love sharing the story because

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Brad Feinberg: it really shows that how amazing the mind and body can be, you know. So at 5 I was diagnosed with type, one diabetes, and it was all about survival. We knew a little bit about diabetes, but didn't really know the extent of it.

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Brad Feinberg: And so going through that every decision we made was really about survival.

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Brad Feinberg: And you know it's I'm sure many people can relate to this. But when we went

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Brad Feinberg: to get when I got diagnosed, not that the doctors did a bad job. It was just you have diabetes. You need insulin.

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Brad Feinberg: Here's how you do it.

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Brad Feinberg: Good luck! You know it. It wasn't. Here's a plan. Here's how to, you know, really take control or manage it. It was just very reactive.

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Brad Feinberg: But I don't fault them, because that's what that's what we're taught in this culture, you know as of how to be reactive instead of proactive. So fast forward many years.

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Brad Feinberg: it! We discovered the power of food and exercise.

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Brad Feinberg: and that is what gave me control.

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Brad Feinberg: really discovering in a very fast way that if I eat a certain way it's going to impact, not just my blood sugar, but my energy. How I feel! And then, if I move a certain way again. Not just impact my blood sugar, but how I look, how I feel everything!

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Brad Feinberg: And even at a young age like I remember how impactful that was for me, and how much I like got obsessed with it, so much so that

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Brad Feinberg: it really like, you know, as a kid kind of feeling like I'm the out, you know. I'm the odd one out with diabetes. I really wanted to.

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Brad Feinberg: Not just like

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Brad Feinberg: prove to myself, and not just to like, prove to like family and friends. In a way, it was like even a young age. I wanted to like. Prove to the world that you know this didn't have to hold me down.

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Brad Feinberg: and that's what I did, you know, going through school high school. And then I found out I had.

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Brad Feinberg: and a similar passion in wanting to help people.

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Brad Feinberg: And but inside of this vehicle where it was like, if I could do it.

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Brad Feinberg: so can you? And that's where I really started to. When I got into college, I was like, Okay, I want to do more with exercise, more with food.

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Brad Feinberg: So I got my degree

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Brad Feinberg: exercise science. And then, soon after that, I became a personal trainer, and it was really like

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Brad Feinberg: learning what I learned from diabetes from school, and being able to create a way that, no matter what you're dealing with, you can still make it work. You can still get what you want. But that's that's how it started, and that's what really fueled everything for me.

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Angie Leitnaker: Yeah, you do such a great job. I've I've

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Angie Leitnaker: had the opportunity to work with you, and I love how you shift mindset. It's such a big part of what you do. You don't just

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Angie Leitnaker: tell people like what to eat, but you teach so much of the why behind it, and the how like it? You really empower people to create a whole new way of looking at sleep and exercise and nutrition, and all the things. So can you share with us like some.

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Angie Leitnaker: Let's say someone's listening to this today. And they're like, you know, Brad, I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. You're talking about energy, I have 0. I I am really ready to change. Can you kind of walk us through the foundations that are

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Angie Leitnaker: that you see, with most of your clients.

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Brad Feinberg: Yeah, it. The 1st one is, and this is, this is hard, but I don't want to say hard. This one. What I've noticed is the most challenging. And I'm sure you're gonna appreciate this. But one is to just like stop kind of making excuses or feeling sorry for yourself.

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Brad Feinberg: And I say that in the most loving way, but I also say that because that's what I had to do for myself, and I still do that. There are times when you know I'm not perfect with my blood sugar, but when it gets out of whack I'm like the only fault is mine. My sugar is out of whack because of me, because I ate something that maybe I shouldn't have. Or maybe I didn't work out that day, or whatever it is. So 1st things 1st is like.

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Brad Feinberg: I call it like, just kind of taking ownership of what you're doing.

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Brad Feinberg: And the reason I say that is because a lot of times when people come in, even if it's like, Okay, I'm ready to take the step. They have this belief that it's Oh, it's my genetics. Or oh, the doctor said so, or Oh, it's in my family to be fat. No, just put down the fork

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Brad Feinberg: your doctor is telling you XY. And Z, because they only have a certain perspective. And are you going to believe everything that is said? You know so? And again I said, because that's what happened to me as when I went into the doctors, and they said they really said, They're like.

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Brad Feinberg: you're not going to really be the same ever again.

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Brad Feinberg: So it's just it's just going in and and taking ownership of of who you are and what you're doing.

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Brad Feinberg: But then, once you do that.

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Brad Feinberg: it's really just about keeping it simple, and I call it like the non-negotiables

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Brad Feinberg: you got to wake up at the same time. Go to bed at the same time, because sleep is massive when it comes to just your overall health, longevity, everything. So a lot of times we'll start there because it's all about building consistency day in and day out. This isn't rocket science. It is, you know, science, but it's not rocket science. You just got to do the same certain things every day, you know. So

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Brad Feinberg: build consistency out of waking up and going to sleep.

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Brad Feinberg: Pit. We're looking at food. Food does not have to be complicated again take control of what you're putting in your mouth.

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Brad Feinberg: why I, what I've noticed is this can be difficult at times is because, as humans, we have emotions. And again, this is why it goes back to mindset and your purpose, because

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Brad Feinberg: we sometimes feel like we are a puppet to our emotions and all we want. The body is amazing at

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Brad Feinberg: wanting to make you feel comfortable.

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Brad Feinberg: and we turn a lot of people turn to food. A lot of people turn to drugs. Alcohol. I've been there, I've been at every point of that.

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Brad Feinberg: And so but again this comes back to

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Brad Feinberg: taking ownership of who you are. So inside of food it's again

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Brad Feinberg: eating the right amount, but also eating the right quality.

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Brad Feinberg: And that doesn't mean it has to taste bad.

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Brad Feinberg: And then the last one really is. Just move. You know, you don't need this super elaborate program. It just needs to be simple and basic

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Brad Feinberg: that you can do every day for the rest of your life.

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Brad Feinberg: and the biggest piece of advice I can really say is, stop looking at health and fitness as a thing to do for like 30 days, 60 days. It's something that is going to

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Brad Feinberg: that one we should do for the rest of our lives. But it's something that's going to allow you to live your legacy allow you to play right up until the day that you die. So when someone 1st comes in, those are the main key pieces that we really dive into. We build off of that. But that's like the foundation that has to be set. I know that was a lot. But that's like the main, the core components.

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Angie Leitnaker: No, it's absolutely awesome. And I I

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Angie Leitnaker: was surprised when you 1st you started with sleep. You're like, okay, let's talk about how much you're sleeping because it's such.

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Angie Leitnaker: Can you teach us you? You'd always

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Angie Leitnaker: share fun facts about it. Can you teach us some things about sleep?

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Brad Feinberg: Yeah. The biggest one I share, especially with entrepreneurs. Parents, leaders is one night of bad sleep. The next day it can amplify anxiety and depression by like 3 to 400%. Now, one episode of that. Okay, we'll get through it one night of bad sleep. You know your Circadian rhythm will be fine. You may feel like crap the next day, but you get back to sleep and go.

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Brad Feinberg: but that can add up. So imagine not only you're dealing with family work, your own mental health.

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Brad Feinberg: and then we're not sleeping on top of that. That's how we start to burn the candle at both ends.

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Brad Feinberg: But sleep is what keeps you alive. Sleep is what allows you to push hard in whatever you want to do in life. Sleep is the best recovery and repair thing you can do for your body, not only physiologically, cellularly

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Brad Feinberg: muscle wise, but mentally as well. And I would like I don't mean to laugh at this, but it's like I feel like most mental health concerns would be fixed with proper sleep, eating right and exercise. But sleep is like what ties? It's the web of everything, and if you're not sleeping, you're shortening your life

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Brad Feinberg: long, long, short of it.

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Brad Feinberg: Wild.

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Angie Leitnaker: Talk a little bit about the brain science. So in the mind, body, spirit, connection, and I know you just spoke about. You know addictions, whether it's food or drugs or alcohol. So can we talk a little bit about what you've learned through your decades of studying this.

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Brad Feinberg: Yeah. So I really look at it all starts kind of going down this emotional rabbit hole where the first, st

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Brad Feinberg: the 1st signal of all of this, like I just mentioned, is stress. And when we 1st think of stress, stress tends to get a negative connotation which is very valid, because if stress doesn't go away.

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Brad Feinberg: you're there's telomeres

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Brad Feinberg: in your in your DNA, that impact like how we age, how we function like our like, everything within the body.

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Brad Feinberg: and when stress is always there, cortisol

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Brad Feinberg: Put it in like real time, like someone goes to like attack. You, or, you know, fight you cortisol, because of your perception, will flood the system so you can immediately make a decision and get away. That's like.

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Brad Feinberg: I essentially like the ideal scenario for cortisol.

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Brad Feinberg: What we forget is when we're perceiving things to be stressful, that's still happening all the time.

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Brad Feinberg: So we have all these stressors that are kicking in cortisol just stays up.

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Brad Feinberg: And now we mix in, maybe lack of sleep, not eating right? Not moving right? Cortisol is just like flatlining at a super high level

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Brad Feinberg: when that doesn't go away. So we're looking at chronic stress.

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Brad Feinberg: The telomeres start to shorten like just literally start to like, chip away. So imagine like a shoelace, you know, the plastic tips on a shoelace that when you get wear and tear they like start to peel off. Telomeres can do the same thing

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Brad Feinberg: that can immensely have us age faster.

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Brad Feinberg: So now we have this layer of stress that's not going away.

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Brad Feinberg: and our mental health or emotion starts to go down this rabbit hole. So now we become frustrated. And we just like, you know, that that vibration, that positive vibration that we maybe normally would have. It's just you wake up. And you're like, today's gonna suck, you know, or just, I'm not looking forward to this. My body feels beat up. I don't want to do this. I'm not looking forward to that, and you know things that maybe didn't annoy you before. Now annoy you immediately.

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Brad Feinberg: Now we're in that frustration, exhaustion, feeling

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Brad Feinberg: we go down even more down the rabbit hole, and this is where anxiety and depression can kick in for a lot of people. I do want to say if there is a chemical imbalance where we are like diagnosed with depression, that's it's a different scenario. But this still kind of operates in the same vein. And that's where obviously medication can come in. But

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Brad Feinberg: that's like a different population. But some of the stuff like same science is still going on. So now we're getting anxious and depressed literally at everything.

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Brad Feinberg: and no one teaches us how to deal with it.

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Brad Feinberg: So what do we do? The body wants to feel comfortable again, but we don't know what to do, so

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Brad Feinberg: we can turn to food. We can turn to alcohol. We can turn to drugs because that gives us an immediate, immediate response to feel better. But.

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Brad Feinberg: The problem is, we know that like we're, our brain is not as funny as it sounds smart enough to overcome that vicious circle that we set up because drugs, for instance, alcohol, sugar, food, we get a dump of dopamine, and that's that feel good, you know, excitement. And now we're not feeling like crap anymore for like

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Brad Feinberg: So we want more and more and more.

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Brad Feinberg: And then we create this vicious circle of these habits that will literally kill us, that will literally slowly break us down even more than just the normal layers of stress that we're dealing with.

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Brad Feinberg: kind of scenario that I'll be honest. Probably almost every American experiences in one way or another.

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Brad Feinberg: Humans are very susceptible to getting addicted to something, and everyone has a different layer of that, like, I'm so much more susceptible to get addicted to things than maybe someone else.

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Brad Feinberg: And but it has a lot to do with again, how our brains are designed and everyone's different.

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Brad Feinberg: this scenario can operate, you know, over years, and we just dig this grave for ourselves. But that's when we look at

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Brad Feinberg: stress inside of the mind, both from I'll call it a subjective standpoint and an objective standpoint. That's what can happen?

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Brad Feinberg: So it's like, well, what do we do? How do we? How do we, you know, confront this? Or how do we fight against it? But again, that's where it comes back to being proactive.

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Brad Feinberg: So when we look at sleep, goal setting

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Brad Feinberg: certain things that we can do throughout the day to promote feel-good hormones, both acutely and chronically. Eating right and exercise all

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Brad Feinberg: have us build this armor against that that scenario that I just talked about.

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Brad Feinberg: and that's why that's why I you'll hear me say this, that this, this health and fitness thing that we gotta do. That's why we have to do it from day one not like.

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Brad Feinberg: you know, we should have started this like 20 years ago. But that's this is this is how we're able to

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Brad Feinberg: properly manage the the unfortunate, very real negative side effects that can happen with chronic stress. So I know that was like a bit of a story kind of mapping it out. But in my opinion that's the best way to kind of understand it.

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Angie Leitnaker: Yeah, no, that was very helpful.

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Angie Leitnaker: Okay, so let's talk a little bit about fear. Because when we're starting something new to your point, that the the body likes things to be familiar and safe

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Angie Leitnaker: when someone's coming to you. They're starting something new. They they haven't

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Angie Leitnaker: created this as a lifestyle yet, but they want to, and fear can hold us in a headlock, and discipline can be tricky if we've spent a lifetime not doing it. I know I came to you with the excuse that I didn't have time, remember. And then you also reminded me that you work with like

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Angie Leitnaker: way cooler people that are on tour, and they're making the time for it. And I'm like, okay. So that excuse went right out the window.

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Angie Leitnaker: so yes, talk to us about fear and discipline.

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Brad Feinberg: Yeah, fears, fears interesting, especially inside of the health and fitness. Space. Because it it's and and I know you know how fear can operate, you know. So it's like

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Brad Feinberg: a lot of the people that I interact with. There's there's a fear of that. It won't work for me

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Brad Feinberg: that I've tried everything and there's there's normally, the fear is even more so is because

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Brad Feinberg: they've woken up one day, and they've realized they've aged

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Brad Feinberg: 10 years inside of like a 2 to 3 year span

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Brad Feinberg: because of the previous scenario that we talked about because of lack of taking care of yourself.

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Brad Feinberg: So there's the fear that, you know

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Brad Feinberg: it's not going to work. I'm going to put all this effort in, and it's just I'm just going to waste time. I'm going to die early. I'm not gonna have energy. How am I going to make it all fit like fill in the blank of of what that can be.

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Brad Feinberg: What I say to that is that that's just not true.

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Brad Feinberg: It's just not.

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Brad Feinberg: what I've noticed is that many people think that it takes so much time and effort to to rebuild this body, to rebuild their foundation. And I think you can

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Brad Feinberg: back me up on. This is when I

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Brad Feinberg: programmed it out for you. Correct me if I'm wrong. But it was like 30 min a day.

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Angie Leitnaker: Yeah.

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Brad Feinberg: And then you built up to that like to to an hour. So it's like you could if if we look at all the hours in a week

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Brad Feinberg: you could put in 3 h in a week of physical activity, and that could drastically improve your life

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Brad Feinberg: Then, when it comes to food it does not have to be this boring

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Brad Feinberg: rice, broccoli and cod, and if you like that great for you, but it does not have to be this boring meal.

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Brad Feinberg: It can be extremely flavorful, and you just got to learn little tricks to either, maybe make it taste flavorful or understand that

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Brad Feinberg: we're always conditioning our bodies. And if we're always eating junk food.

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Brad Feinberg: that's all you're going to want to crave

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Brad Feinberg: when we remove the drug, whether it's sugar, alcohol, or drugs, or fast food. And we introduce these new foods.

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Brad Feinberg: And yes, it takes time, but it doesn't again. It doesn't have to be this

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Brad Feinberg: complicated, unexciting, unflavorful process that I think a lot of people thinks that's what it takes. And so it's just starting simple in that and realizing it does not have to be perfect at all.

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Brad Feinberg: most of what you're eating is gut health friendly, you know. It's it's you're eating the right amount of foods.

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Brad Feinberg: You can have something sweet or naughty or greasy every once in a while.

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Brad Feinberg: and that leads me to the next point with the food is that where, when? This is why social media can be brutal. But you see some of these diets on there, and they're very extreme

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Brad Feinberg: that serves a purpose for a very small period of time.

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Brad Feinberg: being in a deficit diet, meaning your main goal, is to burn fat looks very different than being at a maintenance diet where you get down to that body fat that you love. Then guess what you can eat more and your options expand more, and you can just stay balanced at that new body weight.

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Brad Feinberg: But it's that's some say we we don't a lot of the perspective on on how we have to do it just is not true. So again, that's where, when I look at the fear in doing this.

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Brad Feinberg: that's where it comes from, and it's just that's just, it's not true. And then I'm like, Where where's your validation? In that like? What experience do you have that promotes that? And if you did have an experience that was maybe bad, which a lot of people do, or they get with a trainer, or they try a new diet. And it was absolutely horrible.

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Brad Feinberg: That's because maybe it wasn't designed for you in the right way. Maybe maybe it was just too extreme. And it that. And it doesn't mean that's how it has to be.

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Angie Leitnaker: So helpful. That's 1 of my favorite things about the way that you coach is. It's very individualized because you have, as we said, you have high profile, you know, clients that are on tour. Their schedules look very different, their their, you know, facilities look very different. You work with Ceos of different corporations. You work with men, you work with women.

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Angie Leitnaker: What are some of the things? And I know we're getting ready to wrap up here shortly. But what are some of the

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Angie Leitnaker: are there differences between like? If a woman's listening to this now, and she's ready to tone and and feel better in her skin and a man is, are there specific things that you notice are very different between the 2.

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Brad Feinberg: There can be, but it's not a lot, because at the same time, like yes, when we look at

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Brad Feinberg: between different from a woman there are differences.

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Brad Feinberg: but burning fat between a man and a woman is the same building muscle between the man and a woman is. The process is the same.

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Brad Feinberg: Now, how we go about it

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Brad Feinberg: can be different. But that's more so on the individual's lifestyle and personality, and maybe more of what their gut microbiome is made up of.

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Brad Feinberg: you know, rather than because they're female, or because they're male.

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Angie Leitnaker: Got it.

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Brad Feinberg: What I notice that will be more different when it comes to building muscle, because

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Brad Feinberg: women have much lower testosterone than men, and testosterone is one huge factor from a hormone standpoint that contributes to building muscle.

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Brad Feinberg: But so, and I say that because a lot of women are like, Oh, I don't want to get too bulky. You you won't, and you can't unless you're on drugs, or unless you're the 1% that has this crazy genetic makeup that can get you bulky. It's just not going to happen. And so that's when I look at with working with females.

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Brad Feinberg: I'll either explain it in a different way that makes more sense to them, because what I've also noticed is a lot of times what men want is different than what women want. So but that's goal driven not because of who they are, male or female.

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Angie Leitnaker: Got it.

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Angie Leitnaker: So what would be some if there's like a parent listening to this? Or there's a teacher listening to this, and they want their the kids in their world to have this mentality, this lifestyle, I mean.

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Angie Leitnaker: we both have talked a lot about this. If this were taught in schools, or if this were taught to kids when they were really young, you know, we wouldn't be coming to when we're older and saying, Help us unlearn all of these practices. So what are some things that you feel are necessity for parents and teachers to to teach to our youth?

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Brad Feinberg: Yeah, really good question. The 1st one would definitely be around food.

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Brad Feinberg: and I say this because IA little story with this if it'll make sense. I remember growing up my mom.

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Brad Feinberg: But she said one day, you will thank me, and I remember the day that I thanked her.

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Angie Leitnaker: And a lot of times.

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Brad Feinberg: What I've noticed is, parents just want their to please their kids

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Brad Feinberg: when it comes to health and fitness. I do not recommend that you need to teach them

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Brad Feinberg: how the importance of fruits and vegetables and yes, of proper meats, proper grains. And I yes, I understand. That's a challenge.

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Brad Feinberg: But to me. That's part of being a parent.

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Brad Feinberg: and I said, because that's what my mom did to me. And I looked at these treats as a bit of a reward in a balanced way. I'm not saying they can't have it, but if they are going to have it, let's say every day they need to learn that, you know, one serving is all they should be having.

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Brad Feinberg: But take the time to explain it to the kid, even if they're gonna fight you on it. It will pay off so much because you're not gonna kill the kid. And I say that boldly.

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Brad Feinberg: there's so many obese kids out there because the parents are just not wanting to parent, or they don't know, or they're just

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Brad Feinberg: So the big one is around food and just understanding. You know why that's so important for a child and for the rest of their life.

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Brad Feinberg: And the second one with that is just being active like.

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Brad Feinberg: working out with the kid. I see I see a lot of in the health. And in this industry, especially a lot of trainers who have kids. They will work out with their kids and teach them that, and doesn't have to be this punishment type of thing or this

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Brad Feinberg: this unpleasant type of thing, even though yes, working out, can feel unpleasant at times. But realizing the reward of it and making it fun with their kids.

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Brad Feinberg: If those are the if that's all you did with your kids, it would literally change their life like it would add years onto their life.

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Brad Feinberg: So that's that's really what I would say, that that's those would be the main things to focus on.

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Angie Leitnaker: Yeah.

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Angie Leitnaker: well, it's amazing. Because when you know, you can't unknow. So just someone listening to this today, it's like they. Now you're aware. And so you can begin taking little tiny steps starting today to just, you know, change it. And I I was thinking back, I think I may have shared this story with you? Did I share with you that I thought I was allergic to church?

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Brad Feinberg: Did. I.

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Angie Leitnaker: It's like.

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Brad Feinberg: I remember hearing this, yeah.

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Angie Leitnaker: My mom was an amazing mom, but she would bribe me to go to church with Mcdonald's and Burger King afterwards, and I just remember every time leaving church. I thought I didn't really attribute it to nutrition. I always felt terrible, and I literally remember, like putting the car seat back like on the way home, the drive home.

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Angie Leitnaker: And I was like, Wow, like intuitive eating, like we know our body knows. But when we aren't aware that that's like, hey? The things you're putting in your mouth are going to change the way you feel and tap into that like, listen to your body when it's saying, Don't eat that

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Angie Leitnaker: anymore, you know. And so to your point with nutrition. I think it would just be so cool if we learned like. How do you feel now? I feel great when I eat those. How do you feel after eating donuts? I think most of us can say like we don't feel great after eating donuts. So yeah.

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Angie Leitnaker: and and making I love how you said that, too, about making it fun. I think paradigm and perception of when you were when you were speaking earlier. I was like, so true. It's like I'm going to start working out is very different than like I'm creating this fun, lifestyle. So I get to live.

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Angie Leitnaker: I get to feel great and experience life more. And you know, looking at it as it's actually way, more of a reward than

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Angie Leitnaker: a punishment, you know, like or a time block of. Okay, I'm gonna work out for a little bit of time. So I can.

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Angie Leitnaker: Yeah.

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Brad Feinberg: Yeah, no, I I that's so true. Because yes, exercise

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Brad Feinberg: can be unpleasant in the moment, like you are blood pressures rising, heart rates going up when you're weight training. The the muscles are burning.

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Brad Feinberg: and this can really kind of be the last thing I'll say with this. But why exercise is so important

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Brad Feinberg: when you think about for you like, and whoever's listening can really do this real time. If you think about how working out will change your body, or you think of your dream body. You know whether you're down a certain.

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Brad Feinberg: the amount of fat you're building muscle. You get excited.

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Brad Feinberg: That's dopamine coming into the system. Dopamine equals motivation

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Brad Feinberg: exercise can help with that, and how it helps with that is.

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Brad Feinberg: as we start to exercise one acutely and chronically adrenaline is released into the body, and why I always encourage working out in the morning is because

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Brad Feinberg: when we're working out and beyond hours after that, we have higher levels of adrenaline, which is like that rush, that that energy type of feeling.

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Brad Feinberg: So now that can impact other areas of life, whether you're having to make a crucial decision, you're doing business, whatever it is. Adrenaline's in your system.

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Brad Feinberg: When we look at exercising eating right for a longer period of time, maybe like 2, 3 months. That's where serotonin comes into play, and your body can release more serotonin. And that's like that, that happy feeling where you're sitting there. And

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Brad Feinberg: well, one, when individuals are depressed. It's a lack of serotonin.

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Brad Feinberg: So serotonin can just make you feel happy. And if you're happy when you're doing challenging things which is eating right exercise and living in general, you're going to be more potentially motivated, but more importantly disciplined in doing something.

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Brad Feinberg: And then the last one. When you do this for 4, 6, 8 months, and beyond

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Brad Feinberg: your body can naturally release more oxytocin into the system. Oxytocin is self-love. Oxytocin is when you hug someone, or you're playing with a dog, and you get that butterfly, giggly, mushy feeling in you

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Brad Feinberg: that's oxytocin and oxytocin

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Brad Feinberg: improves that self image and allows you to stand in what you're doing, and not make not only poor judgments about yourself, but what you're doing in life. And that is why this is so damn important to do it because it literally impacts everything else you're doing. But not only how you love yourself, and that is why.

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Angie Leitnaker: So good. So, so, so good. I'm gonna have to listen to that over again. It's

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Angie Leitnaker: thank you so much.

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Angie Leitnaker: Okay, Brad, so there is likely going to be someone listening to this. That's like, how do I work with him? How do I

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Angie Leitnaker: get in his world so I can learn more, and really just live a life that's more fulfilling.

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Brad Feinberg: Yeah. So easiest, 2 easiest ways is Instagram, which is at Bradfeinberg, 88. You go to my website, thefeinbergmethod.com.

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Angie Leitnaker: And check out his tiktok. I literally was like Brad. Teach me your ways with Tiktok so what's your tiktok Channel?

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Brad Feinberg: It's the same one. Brad Feinberg, 88. Yeah. I was very fortunate to get the same names on most of my social media, so.

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Angie Leitnaker: Awesome, awesome, Brad, thank you so much. I I was telling you right before we hopped on here. I just spoke to someone, and they were like. He's completely changed the game for me, like just the way that they they live, they the way they experience life. And it's like

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Angie Leitnaker: absolutely priceless to get to people. Say that. So thank you for sharing your gifts with us.

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Brad Feinberg: Of course, thanks for having me.