Transformation. Discipline. Business. Health.

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This week on the Dual Coast Podcast, we sit down with Josh Friedman for a wide-ranging conversation about what it really takes to transform your life physically, mentally, and professionally.

Josh breaks down his approach to discipline, personal growth, and coaching, sharing how he helps his clients push past limitations, build better habits, and create lasting change. We also get into his journey through entrepreneurship and business, the lessons he’s learned along the way, and the mindset required to keep evolving when the stakes get higher.

And we don’t stop there.

We dive into the world of health optimization, peptides, performance, recovery, and longevity, discussing why taking control of your health can have an impact on every other area of your life.

In this episode:

🔥 Transformation & building real discipline
🧠 Mindset and breaking through limitations
💪 Josh’s approach to coaching his clients
🚀 Entrepreneurship, business & taking risks
🧬 Peptides, recovery & health optimization
📈 Building a stronger body, mind, and business
🎯 Why consistency beats motivation

Whether you’re looking to level up your health, mindset, career, or business, this conversation is packed with perspective you can put to work immediately.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:01

What's up, Dual Coast fans? Welcome back to another exciting episode of Dual Coast Podcast. I didn't get it in right there.

SPEAKER_01 0:09

Keeping him accountable. Keep him in check. Accountable. It's my accountability right there.

SPEAKER_03 0:14

How's everybody doing this morning on this fine morning? Morning. How you feeling over there?

SPEAKER_01 0:18

Doing great, man. I'll tell you. Shower day, wet hat, you know, wet rat look today. You know, uh, it's the podcast starting at 6 30. There's a difference between waking up at 4 50 as opposed to 5 30. So, you know, I I just yeah, I don't want to wake up early to have to shower for four, you know, for 5 30 a.m. So I'm you get the hat in the morning.

SPEAKER_00 0:38

Got it, got it.

SPEAKER_01 0:39

Yeah, what about you? What about you? What's your excuse?

SPEAKER_03 0:41

Uh I have an excuse. It's about 9 30 in the morning here on the east coast, so I have no classic attire, so I'm gonna rock it.

SPEAKER_01 0:49

Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_03 0:51

Classic dual coast hair.

SPEAKER_01 0:53

Yes. Oh man.

SPEAKER_03 0:56

So yeah, great start. We have a very special guest coming up in a few minutes, guys, Josh Friedman. He's gonna talk about a lot of stuff on entrepreneurship, fitness, transformation, and uh, we're gonna get to him in just a minute, but we got a little something from that Russ wants to talk about for a second. So, Russ, tell us a little bit about that.

SPEAKER_01 1:10

Awesome, man. Thanks so much, Dan. Um, Next Gen Visionaries is a group that I started back in January, and it is a community of people right now that we go online one time a month for 45 minutes. And on this, which is actually next Tuesday, and you know, there's a there's a yes, there's a fee to be a part of it, but it's not, you know, it's not a massive amount. But the most important part of it is community. The most important part of it is that it's called next gen visionaries. Next gen visionaries is about creating visionaries for the immediate future and for your future, whether it's your family, whether it's your business, whether it's your lifestyle, whatever it is, we want to create the whole goal is creating visionary leadership. Because in our world today, what do we lack? We lack vision. What do we do with most of our time? We spend it on here, we're scrolling, we're not creating vision for what we want to accomplish. This guy today, Josh Friedman, I'm guaranteeing we're gonna talk about this, but this is an opportunity for you guys to check in and see what Next Gen Visionaries is all about because this community that I'm creating is all about um building relationships with one another. We got people from around the country that are a part of this. Anybody can be a part of this. 45 minutes a month. Time is not the excuse that you have that I don't have 45 minutes a month. We go through, we work through a workbook, we go through, we we create our vision for what we want to see in the next three, the next six months, the next year. What do we want to do with our lives? Let's let's think bigger than who we are. We all have this imagination, let's use it. Let's all dream bigger, let's all create a vision and a purpose for where we want to go in life. So I want to ask Dan, Dan, who's a part of NextGen, what has been your experience, Dan, with being a part of Next Gen Visionaries?

SPEAKER_03 3:03

Yeah, so Russ started this a while ago, guys, and it's something that me and him talked about off air a few times and uh prior to him starting it. And it's an incredible group, it has an incredible amount of people in it. It's really transformational, in all honesty. You go in there, we work through a workbook, you have an incredible network of people around you at all times. And it's not just working through the workbook, it's things that you could bounce ideas off each other, you could run business ideas across each other, people from all different realms, all across the United States, probably trying to venture out in different countries. I would assume Russ is going to say at the same time. Amazing community. We still talk even all the time on a chat. Russ, right? The chat is continuously ongoing simultaneously off next gen. It's an amazing time, really transformational. I think it allows a lot of people to get out of their comfort zone simultaneously. Those who don't like a little bit of public speaking and maybe those who don't like putting their ideas out there. It creates a community that's a bit of a safe space for everyone. And I think it's a great idea. And I think Russ is really doing a great thing with it.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

Awesome, man. Thanks so much. And you know, it's not about just you know, me speaking and me pouring into your life. That is part of it, but it's an opportunity for people to share with one another their experience. So we're learning from one another and we're building relationships outside of this community, which is absolutely amazing. So check it out. DM me on Instagram at Russell Rogers Official, Russell Rogers Official. Check it out. I'd love to have you be a part if you're considering wanting to do something like this, creating a bigger vision for yourself. Thanks so much, man. Appreciate you guys listening. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 4:32

And without further ado, without further ado, we have an incredible guest right now backstage, Mr. Josh Reeman. We're gonna bring him up to the stage in just a second. Russ, tell us a little bit about Josh for a second here.

SPEAKER_01 4:41

Oh man, I I met Josh uh as a kid, probably about 10, 10, 11 years old, somewhere in there prior to high school. And um, you know, he was just like a normal, you know, little kid and just loving the game of baseball, um, having just an amazing time. And so Josh and I connected then. I coached for a couple of years, and then we followed each other through high school. Our sons were on different high school teams, so they were uh competitors for four years. Then after that, we kind of lost touch. And Josh has basically reinvented his life. And um, you're gonna hear all about peptides, you're gonna hear about um high rock, you're gonna hear about reinventing himself in business, and uh he is an amazing guy with a lot of energy and recently got engaged, which we're gonna hear about it.

SPEAKER_03 5:25

He's getting he's getting amped back there. I can see him getting amped back. Let's go, bring him off. Without further ado, Mr. Josh Freeman coming to the stage right now.

SPEAKER_00 5:34

Good morning, friends.

SPEAKER_03 5:35

How are we doing? How are we doing? I just hyped you up, baby.

SPEAKER_02 5:38

Hyped him up, man. I'm hyped up. My fiance brought me uh an espresso. I'm I'm alive, right?

SPEAKER_01 5:44

That is awesome, man.

SPEAKER_02 5:46

Ready? I can't complain. We're living out here in Scottsdale, Arizona, so it's uh it's getting real, real crispy and uh warm out here. But um, hey, that's all right. It's I'd rather it be beautiful and sunny 300 days out of the year than uh rainy, wet, and cold and freezing. But weather's just circumstances.

SPEAKER_01 6:05

Well, just just to bring you back to this area of Santa Cruz as much as you liked it. I'm looking out right now and it's foggy. So you remember those June gloom days.

SPEAKER_02 6:16

I miss Northern California at times. You know, Scot Sale's great, it's beautiful. There's a bunch of entrepreneurs, like-minded individuals. It's clean, it's easy to get around, uh, but doesn't have the beach. And uh I I love the the ocean because I'm from Santa Cruz, of course. You know, I grew up on the on the water, but yeah, we're doing good. I appreciate you guys having me on today, and I'm excited to get into some of those topics and kind of just let the conversation flow. Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_01 6:46

So awesome, man. So I was just talking about you and kind of introducing you off stage. But uh you and I connected through baseball uh when you were just you know pre-high school, and it was amazing. Uh, my son and you played together. I coached you guys, and then um, you know, from the travel team, and then from there, uh you went on and played at Santa Cruz High School. And our, you know, my son and you were you know competitors, but we, you know, we stayed in touch, and then after that, kind of lost touch uh with one another, and you went on with life and everything. And so I want people to know, let's get to know who Josh Friedman was before you are right now, because we're gonna have plenty of time to talk about that, but let's talk about those early years of of what you did. Let's go post-high school. After high school, you got done with baseball. Fill us in on what happened with uh with Josh Friedman.

SPEAKER_02 7:36

Yeah, so after college or after high school, um, you know, I was I had a couple really good years there, Russ. I know, you know, back on the waves, was it the waves? No, yes, yeah, back on the waves, I hadn't really hit my stride yet, you know. Like I wasn't that good. Honestly, uh kind of sucked. And uh anyway, I ended up getting better in uh my junior year of high school. And man, I really wanted to go try to play at Chico State, some D3 baseball, something like that. But then I tore my rotator cuff uh senior year boxing one of my friends. So one of the stupidest ways to carry your rotator cuff. And uh anyway, I'm like, you know what? I'm just gonna go to college to make friends and and party and uh get a degree. Um that's what I told my dad. And uh yeah, yeah. So I went to Chico State and um man, I had, I would say, one of the best four years, four and a half years of my life, but also one of the most detrimental. Went out there and I just had a blast, uh, you know, made so many friends and was in intramural sports, but I I was a party animal out there. I joined a fraternity within the uh very first or second semester of being there, and I I found partying, and man, I've always been a passionate guy, and and I just put all my passion and energy into that. And uh I mean, I'm I'm really glad that I didn't get hurt or anything, but I was crazy, like crazier than just a couple drinks, crazy. And so anyway, I uh yeah, went to Chico State and um, you know, I was always getting good enough grades to get C's and and B's, but I was not a good student, something I look back on now. I didn't have a lot of appreciation for the education that was in front of me. So I have a lot of regrets, but at the end of the day, like made so many connections, so many friends, and um, you know, I got a lot of it out of my system, and I ended up later on in life, uh, a couple years after college, getting a little bit quicker to realize like, hey, this is done. Right. So anyway, I had a blast in college. Um, and then I got my my shit kind of figured out uh senior year, junior year, and I started doing door-to-door sales in uh junior year. I started doing solar sales door to door, and I was a killer. I had my own uh team and they promoted me before the guys were like 28, so they all hated me there. I got all my fraternity brothers knocking doors. We were drinking a couple beers, knocking doors, but we were we were great at it. And um, so anyway, that was like the first job, real like a real job that I had that took skill and that wasn't just like an hourly wage where I was like, damn, like okay, I have a skill here. Uh, I'm good at sales, I'm good at connecting with people. So that was really cool. But um, like I said, from there, kind of locked in on figuring out, hey, I want to get a really good job out of school. I studied uh business and so business marketing. So I knew I wanted to go into sales. Um, but but yeah, fitness was always in the background the whole time. Got into sales though, out of college, went down to Santa Monica and worked with uh at Oracle Net Suite. So I was selling software, financial management software right out of college. Um, got a great job right out of college, jetted down to LA, didn't know anybody, and started my uh my professional career there and did that for about two and a half years. Um, and then COVID hit, and you know, the story can uh continue from there. It kind of changes routes uh around 2021. But I was continuing to kind of bring those bad habits from college into post-grad Los Angeles, corporate lifestyle, uh saving no money, going out every weekend. Uh a lot of those bad habits I learned from Chico continuing on uh at that time of life.

SPEAKER_01 11:34

Wow. That's amazing. You know, I I um you know, going back to those those early days, you know, um, you know, my son and you, and and and I will say, you know, you hadn't, yeah, Bubba, you hadn't hit your stride yet. But in high school, I definitely saw some growth in you uh as a ball player, you know, seeing you elevate your game, you start to lengthen out, getting some height, getting some strength. Yeah. And uh, you know, Santa Cruz high had it had a good program. It was a it was kind of a unique ball field as well. It was kind of like the the finway of the league, you know, it was kind of this built-in stadium, you know. Uh it was it was awesome. So I always loved going to Santa Cruz uh and playing there, and you could just back your truck up right behind home plate and watch the game if you wanted, you know. But it was um but amazing. And and I knew back then like there would be some potential. I had no idea, you know, with kids and you lose touch and lost, you know, lost touch with a lot of kids. But to now see you, my daughter connected us um because she was following you and she goes, You got to check out Josh Freeman. So then all of a sudden I'm like looking in, I'm like, holy smokes, man, you're doing some amazing things. Now, let's jump forward. We're fast forwarding to now, okay? Just recently got engaged, yeah, and um, you know, traveling all over. Um, you you know, you're tatting yourself up. You uh I I gotta hear the experience of the leg thing. You please tell us because it looked extremely painful when you tatted out your leg, was it?

SPEAKER_02 13:03

Like, that was the worst experience of my life. I do not recommend doing that uh for anybody uh listening. I was in Poland, Indonesia, and I got an entire leg sleeve, and my leg's pretty thick uh in three days. So three back-to-back 10-hour sessions. They're heavy-handed out there, those guys. It's a very dark style, you know, large-scale black and gray tattoo. So yeah, I didn't really know what I was getting myself into after day one. I was I was sick, I was sweating, I was terrible headache. Um, I was just like, why that why did I do this? But at the end of the day, like all complaints aside, that's not really what I'm about. I I just I committed to it. I was like, you know what, we're doing this, like obviously I'm not gonna back out. Um, and yeah, we powered through, and now I have the whole leg in three days, where some people take years uh uh to get their leg done. But uh definitely I if you're gonna do it, give yourself a couple days after, don't get right back on a plane, fell up like crazy. And my doctor was like, I don't know if that was the best idea, Josh. No, and you could get could have got a blood spot. But uh my gosh. Yeah, I know. Dan, Dan, you know I commit, I commit. I mean that's the kind of guy I am. Whether it's uh when I figured out quickly that I want to do online coaching and I quickly invested ten thousand dollars that I didn't have, uh I I'm a betting man and I like to bet on myself. So like if I'm gonna do something, I just I just go all in to a default. Yeah, that was commitment. I like that.

SPEAKER_03 14:36

Yeah, but uh was there like a specific moment in your life that you said that pushed you toward this fitness entrepreneurship? Was there a shifting moment there?

SPEAKER_02 14:46

Yeah, so got fired from that Oracle job uh in late 2020, uh, midst of COVID. And I just was sitting there, I realized that I hated being told what to do. I I hated corporate. Um, I didn't, I I wanted something bigger for myself. Russ, you mentioned vision. I believe if a man doesn't have a vision, he doesn't have anything. I didn't have any vision for my life. I didn't even really know what vision was in reality, but um, yeah, I just I just knew there was some incongruency that I wanted to do something that created a lot of impact. I wanted to do something on my own, build my own legacy. Again, I didn't like being told what to do. I've never liked being told what to do. Um and working for someone else, I'm like, I gotta figure something out. Uh so yeah, the wheel started turning there. And as I continued to get in great shape, and fitness has been my first true love. And I started lifting weights uh freshman year of high school, even eighth grade, a little bit, uh, as my parents were going through a divorce. I remember uh I was angry, I was confused, I was pissed, and found the gym and started lifting weights and came into freshman year and in uh high school and then sophomore year, and I put on a good amount of weight. So anyway, but it was it was COVID. COVID went while a lot of people let their life wither away and uh excuses. I built my life in COVID.

SPEAKER_01 16:12

That's awesome. Yeah, so when when did you when did you actually start your coaching business?

SPEAKER_02 16:19

2022. Okay, is when I launched Freedman Fit. Uh before that, I was coaching some buddies and uh a couple people local in Santa Monica uh on the beach. So I was doing some in-person training. I didn't have a business though. Uh I didn't have an LLC, I just had a side hustle. Yeah, so yeah, 2022, I built it up. And so now it's 2026, obviously. What is that? That's year five. I'm not a big time guy. Um and uh yeah, 2022 started.

SPEAKER_01 16:53

That's amazing. You know, uh not everybody, not everybody has that drive. You know, my my dad always told us, you know, my my brothers, you know, if you can work for yourself, that is the best avenue that you can take. And yes, there there are some there are some negatives and everything, but you know, I have worked for other people and I too work for myself. And it was the greatest advice that my dad gave me, gave gave us brothers, um, to all, you know, to all work for ourselves. And we all do. We are independent uh owners, operators, and um we we just have that inclination. My dad didn't finish high school, he dropped out at 16, ended up, you know, with a construction company for you know 60 years. It was, you know, and so I look at that and say, yeah, let's do that. And I had no idea because I was kind of one of those guys that worked for companies, worked for a church, you know, worked for an orphanage, you know, always working. But the greatest experience has been the last 25 years of my life working for myself. So I give you props, Josh, for stepping out during COVID, post-COVID, doing what you're doing because, you know, you are creating a vision for yourself and what you want for you and your future wife and for your future family, you know? And you know, when I look at that, I look at your posts and I just see all that you're doing. You're doing the high rocks, you know, you're developing yourself, and um, you've created it, you've created it from nothing. And so my hat is off to you, man, because not everybody can do what you're doing.

SPEAKER_02 18:26

Well, I appreciate that, Russ. And I'm curious to hear about what you've been doing the last 25 years, too, because you know, I came across your page. I know Samantha connected us, and I was like, man, that that's my old coach. Like, I don't I don't remember him doing this kind of stuff, like that's so cool. You know, I see you speaking and doing you know similar stuff in in your own facet and in you know a different niche or in a uh in a different environment in Santa Cruz and then than myself, and uh it's really cool. So I want to hear what uh what you've been up to as well. But yeah, I mean, I believe we all have skills, and if you can understand how to tap into those skills and uh help other people uh get better at those skills, then you got a business. And uh if you have an uh a gut desire to do something, a calling from God, you uh have to do it, and you're disobeying if you're not doing it. So um there's an incongruency there. If you're disobeying, uh you know, you're gonna be out of alignment. You're you're gonna be disobedient to the greater good, and things aren't gonna uh go as how they could. But now if you follow the path, uh then you know you can create the life of your dreams and and help a lot of other people live a better life, too. So yeah, people just don't think bigger, you know, it's like ingrained in our system, obviously, to get a job and go to school, get a job, who are you gonna work for, like what career are you gonna do? But uh, especially this day and age, oh my gosh, we are living in a gold rush. Uh, there's so many ways to make money that are not the typical nine to five. The nine to five is actually getting like almost old. Uh, it's outdated, and you're gonna see that more and more um as time goes on and as AI uh continues to evolve.

SPEAKER_01 20:07

It's outdated, Dan. That's why he works from like seven to seven.

SPEAKER_03 20:13

That's outdated. That's why I work longer.

SPEAKER_02 20:17

Yeah, I know. I was I was up late this morning, huh? He said four o'clock. I was up four a.m. You know, that's that's something I uh I gotta continue to cultivate that sharpness now. Um what is it? I'm I'm year five. Year five into my entrepreneurial journey. I'm still hungry, but I'm not as dangerous. I'm not as like that feeling of when you're at the bottom, you're building, you don't have much money in your accounts yet. You're just hungry. You got that dog, right? You have nothing to lose. And that that energy I really fed off of for the first two, three years of business. And then life started getting really good. Uh, everything kind of came together at once, and I got a little comfortable. Um so we've been rewiring the last year or so, and I'm still working my ass off, but I just I don't have as much of like nothing to lose anymore. You gotta find different things that are gonna motivate you and get you to that next level because what you do to get to the first level is not gonna get you to the second or third or fourth.

SPEAKER_01 21:29

Yeah, we have we have a mutual friend, Dan Sikowski, that he basically changes um coaches every year. Yeah, yeah so that he um you know it's because everybody has you know different means of communicating to get your attention, right? So yeah, I uh I'm pressing. I've had I've had four different coaches.

SPEAKER_02 21:49

Really? That's awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's awesome. That's amazing. Oh man, the key. You have to do it. Everyone, everyone, um, most people miss that. Uh, and investing in yourself is is the greatest decision of your life. And uh why would I why would I take three years to do something I could pay for and take six months to figure out?

SPEAKER_03 22:18

Like that's why you said something you said something key too there, that you were out of alignment and you brought yourself back into alignment with this business. I feel like a lot of people, and like you know, we have a mutual friend too, Craig Siegel, who talked about being in alignment all the time. And I think that's something that's key that a lot of people don't have in their lives. They keep themselves out of alignment and do something that doesn't really align with what they want to do. You know, I understand not everybody loves what they do all the time. Some people do, I guess, but you know, you have to be in alignment with it. Like fitness was with an alignment to you. It's something that made sense to you, it's something that always grew with you, and you were able to transform it to something big. You agree with that? Like you wanted to be in alignment with that?

SPEAKER_02 23:00

Yeah, yeah. I mean, everything was out of alignment back in uh but before COVID and that first year of COVID. I was right. So out of college, I think I was 22, 21, it's 22, 22 to 24 and a half, partying, doing drugs, random sex, just not in alignment at all. I thought it's that it's oh, I'm having fun, I'm I'm a player, uh, I'm I have a lot of friends, but um that combined with the job I was doing, which I just didn't fulfill me, and half of my week being hung over, I just, you know, I just looked in the mirror one day and a couple things that kind of led to it, but I was just like, I had a vision of myself, 35, fat, uh addicted to substances and just hating my life. And I said, that's not gonna be me. And so it was a lot of misalignment, right? It was a lot of areas where I was just like, yeah, I I don't want to live like this. I I want to do different stuff. I I don't want to be drinking and uh a man of my vices. So I made a complete 180. Like uh people tell you that went to college with me that know me now and have followed my whole journey. They're like, dude, I don't like literally Josh spent a year, two years. I went sober, uh I've started reading a bunch of books, podcasts, best shape of my life, insane shape. And uh I just yeah, like I said, I made a complete 180 and started rewiring my my brain and uh subscribing to different things and desubscribing to other things. So yeah, I don't know. I just have this ability to uh when I go all in, I go all in. But yeah, it was it that that was the most beneficial year of my life, like 25 years old. Um a lot went down. Yeah, yeah. No, it's amazing, right?

SPEAKER_01 24:57

Well, like like I mentioned before, you know, or earlier is that I was kind of disappointed you showed up in a call a shirt today. Um because this is a wax, man. This guy, yeah, this guy is shredded, man. Not that I expect you to come shirtless, you know, but but Josh is invested. Um but you know, this guy's shredded. I I want to let's talk about let's go into peptides. Okay, let's talk about that because you're a big proponent, and I know Dan is probably loaded with uh you know some information and and questions for you and all that. But what what transition for you to get you into peptides and what has peptides done? Because as far as I know, it's not USDA approved, um, or maybe some of them, you know. You cut out FDA approved. Yeah, FDA, sorry. And uh, so it's not FDA approved. And so what is it uh, you know, what is it that got you into it? Why are you such a big proponent of the peptides? And what is it doing for you physically and mentally?

SPEAKER_02 26:07

Yeah, I mean, so peptides, there's there's hundreds of different peptides, right? Right. And there's you know, chains of amino acids uh that send signals to certain parts of your body. These peptides are already in your body to some degree, um, and they speak to you know a similar spot uh when you you know put them in your body, right? And that's what they do is they help optimize whatever that specific signal is meant to optimize. Um, I mean, I've always been uh a big supplement guy, a big health guy. Like I said, I you know found the gym when I was 15 years old. So I've been working out, taking supplements and uh looking for ways to enhance my energy and my physique. Even before that, right? Like, I don't know if you remember my mom, Denise, uh Diani, right? Like, oh my gosh, she's amazing, right? She she started us on all holistic, natural path. I remember all types of different tinctures, Chinese medicine. And so so she's incredibly knowledgeable, and so is my father as well. I don't mean to um leave him out either. So I came from, you know, he was a he's a doctor, he's a DO, she's a PT, and also a healer. And so I came from taking vitamins at three years old. I've always been uh taking handfuls of things to make my life better, and so it's been in my my DNA to you know be the anecdotal experiment. So yeah, like peptides came around and I started uh experimenting with them, doing a lot of research into them, and yeah, I felt amazing. Um, you know, my energy was was through the roof, my blood work was the best blood work I've ever gotten. And so I just saw like, wow, okay, like these things really work. Yeah, I mean, we don't know uh long term what could be a possible side effect to them, but uh, I mean, pick your poison. I'm incredibly healthy. My blood work is some of the best blood work my doctor's ever seen. And look, I think it's a lot more unhealthy to eat crab food, drink alcohol, and be at 30% body fat, right? Those people are gonna die, I believe, a lot sooner before me. So um, anyway, I like to take a little risk. Uh but I don't think it's too much of a risk overall. I think we're gonna see these peptides next to the milk, next to the butter, uh in everybody's fridge here in the next three years. They're gonna be a household uh you know thing that we all use to get healthier. But uh yeah, I've I have some other opinions on them and and the people that are just taking them um willy-nilly. But yeah, I think peptides are great and I think they're here to stay.

SPEAKER_01 28:45

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:48

Uh Russ was telling me um you work in the medical field and that you like peptides too. So I'm curious to you know hear what you think about them.

SPEAKER_03 28:55

Yeah, yeah, I'm a PA. Um, so it's interesting. What you said is 100% true. I I agree with that. Because if you look at it, like all fast food is approved. You can go to the McDonald's, Burger King, no problem. But you can't use this peptide because it's not approved yet. But it's amazing to me that like it just has a taboo around it still, is the thing. There's no tenure look back study, there's certain things that people are questioning. Um, but I think what's your take on the GLP ones for a second? Do you a lot of your clients on the GLP ones?

SPEAKER_02 29:29

We have uh some clients on the GLP ones. It depends. Um, I mean it's a very, very strong peptide. So starting it right off the bat isn't always the best move. Uh something I talk about a lot is the the host taking the peptide, their health matters, right? Like the health of the host. The host isn't doing the work, if they're very dysregulated, if they have a lot of things to optimize and to figure out within their own health, you you don't just want to start throwing a bunch of peptides at them, right? And especially GLPs, that it can really actually uh be a negative uh thing inside of their body and their biology. But uh, but I love GLPs, I think that they're amazing, taken correctly with the right nutrition, the right uh exercise protocols. That's what people don't know, and that's why there's problems because people aren't eating enough, they're you know deficient in nutrients, they're getting osteoporosis and all these other things because they didn't know about nutrition to begin with. Now they're not hungry, so they're not eating at all. So they're they're causing a lot of issues. But um, but yeah, I think that there's I mean, uh semiglutide, right? And terzepitide, um, they're all right, but I think the retotrutide is night and day much better um than either of those. And they are they can come with some side effects. Those ones are stronger peptides and shouldn't just be, oh, I'm I'm fat, let's take it. Like right, right.

SPEAKER_03 30:55

Yeah, no, I agree with that. You need you need all encompassing, you can't just take Retta either, and then just you know, just think you're gonna be great. You have to diet, you still have to train, you still have to do everything like that.

SPEAKER_02 31:05

And you and it's a responsibility, you need to get blood work, you know. You have to like people that it's irresponsible. So some people might have some sort of side effect to it with your pancreas or your liver, your kidneys. And if you're not getting blood work two, three months after starting it, and you're working with a physician who actually understands what to look for, then it's not good for you, right? It's not good for everybody, but uh people don't take that responsibility on when they take a peptide or when they take an anabolic or whatever it may be.

SPEAKER_03 31:38

Yeah, no, it's true, it's absolutely true. It's interesting too with RETA because I have a couple of people who I know who are on REDTA right now who are type one diabetics, and they've actually had better glucose control now than they've ever had without taking you know their standard Nobolog or Humolog or whatever they were on previously.

SPEAKER_02 31:53

I've heard that story time and time again.

SPEAKER_03 31:55

Yeah, and it's interesting too because they were even on semiglutide previously and didn't have as good a glucose glucose control as they do on REDA. And it's interesting with REDA too because you have a triple agonist on there now. So you have a glucagon agonist that is pretty much retaining your lean muscle mass simultaneously as opposed to atrophying at with you know with training. So I think you know it's it has its it has its taboo around it right now, but I think in the near future it's gonna come way more to the marketplace, even though it's already big right now, but I think it's it's still got a little bit of taboo around it. It's gonna be really interesting in the next like 12 to 18 months. I think what happens with those.

SPEAKER_02 32:33

Yeah, I mean, there's there's a money grab for it, right? Um, Eli literally, I think they they patent uh it if I'm not correct. Um, but uh you could you could yeah, I am correct, yeah. So but there's a money grab for it right now. That that's why I was posting about peptides for a while, and then you know, I I believe that uh you know someone's paying Meta to censor people and to take people's posts off. And I started getting my account banned and um running into issues. I had to pay my hacker in uh in Turkey, a couple bands to get my account. I like that. And um anyway, so there's there's a war on them, you know. They I believe they don't want people to be you know fully healthy if uh everyone's walking around healthier, then you know the medical, uh the pharmaceutical companies aren't making as much money.

SPEAKER_03 33:29

No, I agree with that. I agree with that. What's your take, real quick, on the recovery peptides? BPC 157, TB500. What do you take there?

SPEAKER_02 33:37

I mean, I I really believe in most all of these peptides. They they truly work if you're working, right? Like I said, the better the host, the the better the peptide works. So the better sleep you're getting, the better your nutrition, the better your central nervous system is regulated, the better you know, you're you're getting you're getting sunlight, right? All of your systems are playing nicely. You're you're doing strength training, weight training, um, and you're moving your machine, right? You're doing cardiovascular work. So your heart is getting worked out. Um, your lungs. So the BPC, I my shoulder has some issues. I take that one pretty much year-round. I take little breaks, uh, but I love the BPC. Uh, it's so many stories again and again of people saying, Man, I've had this injury, this issue for a while. I started taking BPC and it's night and day better. Um, so and it's great for the gut too, as well. Um, BPC is great. All the recovery ones, I love the GHKCU. Uh, I like the KPV, uh, like the BPC. Uh, right now I'm really into the mitochondria peptides. So um the SS31 as well as the MOTC. So those are revamping and re rewiring the mitochondria, which you know is the cell, the power plant of the cell. And there's billions of cells in your body, so everything kind of falls back on the health of the mitochondria. And um, so yeah, I I've never been in better shape. I've never been healthier. I eat a ton of high-quality food. I'm incredibly insulin sensitive, which is the key to uh your nutrition. And uh granted, I I I work out very hard, I do cardio, I run, I hike, I bike, I do weight training. Um, and I've been doing it for years, but you know, really seriously, I guess you could say um since I I kind of figured things out, or not, I we never fully figured things out, so I take that back. Um yeah, it's like 2020, right? So I guess like six years of of really hard training and paired with the nutrition, but that was a very long answer to your question. That's that's what I wanted, that's okay. Uh yeah, I mean, have you used them? Do you do you like them or uh what do you have any uh yeah negative uh stories uh around them?

SPEAKER_03 36:01

I actually have no no negative stories, and like I'll be honest with you, I'm on Reddit right now. But I mean, as far as negative side effects, I've heard nobody say I've heard some people say like they feel a little bit like off here and there, and some people are concerned about. I was actually talking to a buddy of mine yesterday, and you know, him and his wife are trying to get pregnant, he was asking concerns about that, like conception and things of that nature, and that I told him to be honest with him, I've said that's a little bit out of my realm. I don't want to answer that question because I don't really know, and I don't know if they have great answers on that stuff either yet. But I haven't heard of anybody having a true negative side effect at all on BPC, on TB500, on REDA, on GHK, on any of the recovery ones. I mean, I've heard of negative effects on semaglutide a little bit from people, you know, you know, getting nausea and gastric issues and things of that nature. But I mean, like you said too, it's all about the host simultaneously. It depends on what their diet looks like. Because I know people who have been on you know semaglutide and had like really big meals and everything like that. Like, oh, I felt so nauseous, this and that. I'm like, well, it could also be because you ate so-and-so on you know, gezepertide or semi-glutide simultaneously. But I do think that these are definitely the future of optimization and longevity in the future. I think this is where you know the start of it, so to speak. I think it's gonna come to more of the marketplace, like I said, over the next 12 to 18 months, maybe the next couple of years. But I agree with you, like you said, I think once a lot of these get FDA approval, and I think once the pharmaceutical companies take over as opposed to the compounding pharmacies right now, I think that's gonna be the the move, so to speak. Once the money shifts a little bit, I think it's gonna come way more to the marketplace and be less taboo. And you'll get 10-year look back studies, you'll get multiple studies, you know, on each peptide individually, because right now I feel like there's no like big study on BPC right now, or no big study on TB500. Once that comes to the marketplace and they have more funding towards them, I think that's gonna be the looking, you know, each for each one is gonna get looked at individually.

SPEAKER_02 38:01

Yeah, I agree. We're gonna know a lot more in depth and have lots of clinical trials and studies uh in the next five to ten years. Quick note anyone listening with the GLPs, because I've seen this time and time again. If you are on a GLP, it what should you can't just eat whatever you want. That's what you think, because overall, yeah, I mean, technically you can because you're not consuming as many calories. So it's really easy to stay in that calorie deficit. That's why people are losing weight. One of the reasons. But night and day difference if you are focusing on high protein, lean protein, and easily digestible carbohydrates, clean carbohydrates compared to if you're going eating, hitting the taqueria, Los Gallos, we can't be hitting Los Gallos. Um anyway, uh, yeah, so GLPs do not agree with high fat, greasy meals. I every single time when I've because I've taken red ashrootide, I love using that uh periodically uh just to get really lean and uh it's very easy to be in a calorie deficit. And there's other aspects, it really helps with your lipid panels and um you know your inflammation in your body. Uh anyway, there's a lot of things that that it does. But point being, greasy meals, high-fat meals, you know, your gastric emptying really slows on it. And it just, if you have a lot of fat at that meal, oh man, you'll get a stomachache. You're gonna, that's where people eat like half their food and they just feel sick, is because what they're eating is it's not high quality food. It's got a lot of grease and a lot of oils in it. So you really want to stick to high carb, high protein. You're more insulin sensitive on these GLPs, right? So your body processes basic clean carbohydrates so much better. And so, anyway, you'll feel so much better if you eat just clean food, you know, lean protein and and carbohydrates on these GLPs compared to if you're well, I didn't eat breakfast, I had a protein shake, so I'm just gonna eat whatever I want for dinner and feel like crap. So that's a big thing.

SPEAKER_01 40:08

Yeah. What do you think, Josh? Um, like retitude tried. Oh, go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 40:12

Sorry, no, diet is so important. Diet is yeah, I'm I'm a nutrition nerd, and I think that um people don't know enough about food, and uh, I think there's a big issue around that in this day and age. And uh, well, I don't think I know. We we all know, look around, go to the airport, but uh anyway. So what were you saying?

SPEAKER_01 40:36

No, I uh well, my uh uh my buddy says, you know, you can't outwork a bad diet, right?

SPEAKER_00 40:43

It's true, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:44

Um, you know, that's not what I was gonna say, but go ahead. Can't outlive it either. No, yeah, no, you can't. No, you know, so you know, Reddit 2 tried uh Ozempic that's out there. I've had friends that have taken Ozempic. You can only take Ozempic, you know, for so long. You know, for the person that's out there that's overweight, whether they put themselves into that position by just eating, eating, eating, eating and doing nothing and living the sedentary lifestyle, or those who, you know, genetically just have bodies that are just larger bodies, right? But um, what do you think about those people who just want to get on reditutride or Ozempic or something like that just to lose weight? Like, because in my mentality, it's like some people just don't want to put in the hard work.

SPEAKER_02 41:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:39

Right. And so this is an easy alternative.

SPEAKER_02 41:42

100%. I mean, that's uh if it was easy, you'd see everybody in good shape uh putting in the work. But that is a huge issue, and that's where you're running into people with uh issues around um osteoporosis and other you know health issues that are going to continue to occur. We're seeing one-off cases and uh people losing muscle mass, right? Metabolic dysfunction and disorder, hormone dysregulation through that happening. And so if if you're one of those people, you're in for uh a laundry list of issues, right? Uh, you always got to think of what is this decision causing down the road, right? People just want that instant gratification, but the the harder it hits, the more the instant gratification, the more the punch you're gonna have later on in life. So um, anyway, yeah, it's the world we live in. People want the quick fix, people want the easy route, they don't want to put the work in, and um you know, you'll definitely lose some weight, you'll lose some muscle mass, but you'll also be looked at with no respect, at least for me.

SPEAKER_03 42:47

Yeah, yeah, I get that, yeah, it's true.

SPEAKER_01 42:51

Yeah, because that you know, I my my encouragement is as far as like what I do is most importantly, is to get outside and move every day. Like, but just that is not enough, right? Because you can go out and walk two or three times a day and then go back inside and eat you know, terrible food and not feel any better, right?

SPEAKER_02 43:11

Yeah, I mean, I that's some sort of movement is is king, uh, especially the the older you get, right? You don't need to be beating yourself up in the gym. I think uh weight training, uh doing some strength training at least three times a week uh until you can't move anymore is is highly beneficial. Uh muscle mass, we've seen study and study again. Muscle mass determines it so much of your health. It is the building block to your your body, your metabolism, to disease, it everything it kind of runs off of. So um, but but yeah, you you gotta be uh in a calorie deficit. That's why you see people, and I've I've had people come through and they think, oh, I'm just gonna take this retitrue tie, but they still end up not being in a calorie deficit. If you're not in a calorie deficit and Body's in dysfunction, you're not gonna lose weight. So you've seen people, and I'm sure you guys have heard people tell you, Yeah, I'm taking this the GLP, but it's not working. I it's I'm not losing weight. Yeah, well, it's because you're still you know bending that elbow too much and uh and you're not moving enough. No, it's true, it's true. Yeah, it's not just them. I mean, for some people, it really does the trick. Um, the more overweight you are, the easier it is to lose weight. Um, but for for other folks, it's not as simple as just taking the GLP and you're just wasting your money. Yeah, these things are expensive. And if if you are not doing you know, lifestyle aspects or not controlling some of your lifestyle aspects and habits and changing the way you think and the way you behave with them, um, yeah, they're not gonna work. It is interesting what uh these GLPs do to your brain to some degree. Uh, for some people, it's stronger than others, but how it uh changes the way you process dopamine and you experience pleasure. So that is actually a side effect. I will tell you, I like I said, I like to experiment these things. So I wanted to try a high dose of retitrutide. High dose of retitrutide, any of the GLPs, but specifically, because I haven't really tried the other ones, the retitrue tie, you you have um wow. It's called well, you kind of lose interest. Uh, there's a word for it. I'm I'm sorry I'm blanking, but um, again, your your pleasure senses are are kind of dulled. So um you're just you're not as enthusiastic, you're not as energetic, you're a little bit more just like just even keeled, right? You're not having all these cravings, but it's to a an area where it took away from my personality, it took away from the pleasure of having sex uh as much, right? Like it zaps your pleasure, and so too much of it. I've had a lot of friends and people experience that same thing of just kind of being like dull, like life's not as is uh is fun and is energetic, which I didn't like at all. I'm an energy guy, so uh I I love that. Interesting, it's a good word, man. Yeah, that's uh that's interesting. I like that. Yeah, yeah, you can look it up more. I'm I'm sorry I'm blanking on the scientific word. Um anemia, no, not anemia. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna throw around words, but uh, but yeah, that's this is it's it's something that we're seeing um in uh in folks. Even my dad, I got uh Harry on some red shrue tide, and he's lost uh a bunch of weight, and overall he's he's much healthier, but he was just feeling the same thing, just kind of dull. Uh kind of numbs you out a little bit when you take too much.

SPEAKER_01 46:46

Interesting. Yeah, Dan, you don't want to be going dull in your marriage. No, not at all.

SPEAKER_00 46:53

We're on an extreme dosing.

SPEAKER_03 46:55

That's it. We're keeping uh you know therapeutic dosing throughout.

SPEAKER_02 47:02

That's so key. People think uh that's with everything in life, I believe. Uh moderation, right? Like you always start small with all these peptides. You give it time. Not everything you have to feel. Just because you don't feel it doesn't mean it's not working. That goes for uh weight loss, that goes for supplements, peptides, uh whatever it may be. So, you know, we always start small. I believe a microdose of everything is how you start. And um, again, if you're doing the the right things with the uh substance or whatever you're using, the medicine, uh you don't need a lot of this stuff. And so less is always more, I believe, when it comes to uh this side of the house. Absolutely, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 47:46

Josh, what would you say is one thing you've changed your mind about in the fitness industry over the last couple of years? Something that you used to believe that maybe you shifted away from.

SPEAKER_02 47:58

Yeah, so when I first got in really good shape, um, actually in high school, when I first got lean, I started lifting weights, uh, put on a lot of a lot of weight. I was drinking uh I was drinking a liter of whole milk and uh taqueria burrito every day as woken up. And you guys know, oh my gosh, I miss the mechs. That's another thing I miss about Santa Cruz is the tacarillas. Uh I eat pretty clean, but I also I'm not afraid to eat a burrito now and then. I'm not afraid to go. I'm a foodie too. So um anyway, yeah. When I first started my fitness journey and first dropped weight, got the abs showing. I looked up, I was like, all right, how do I how do I get shredded? It's like, oh, just don't eat carbs. And so I just didn't eat carbs and I got shredded, but I felt terrible and it didn't last long. I ended up bingey eating and gaining the weight back eventually because it wasn't sustainable for me as an athlete with muscle mass and working out and burning energy at a high level. So, you know, that's that's how I first for the lap for the first four or five years of me working out, I thought, oh, like I just don't eat carbs. And I see so many people get caught up into this, especially men who are they're they're crushing work, they're crushing their caffeine, their coffee. Um, and and they just think, oh yeah, I just won't eat, or I just won't eat carbs. I'll just do this carnivore diet. And there's there's some benefits for the basic, it depends on the individual. Um, like a carnivore diet can can be a benefit in a certain time period of their health. But anyway, I was a big no-carb guy, but I was I was young, I didn't know anything. So we're talking, you know, 16 to 20. Yeah. And uh, yeah, I mean, carbs, I believe, are it depends on the individual, right? This isn't just for anybody. Uh like my mother, for example, you know, this does not apply to her, but if you are, you know, 15 to 45, 50, even 16, and you have muscle mass, you're lean uh to some to some degree, you work out hard, you need carbohydrates. And I utilize carbohydrates uh with most all of my guys. And they always are like, oh my gosh, I didn't know I could eat so many carbs. I feel so good. My my energy, my training, my sleep, everything. So um I I'm a really heavy believer in using carbs correctly. And uh a lot of people that come to me, and myself included, when I started, was like, Oh, I just I just don't eat carbs. Like, that's how I'll I'll get really lean. So I think that's uh a huge, huge limiting belief in a lot of people. And uh they just don't have the knowledge, and and that's why I believe so heavily in what I do, teaching people about nutrition, about macros, about calories, about their body and how food, how their body handles food and how to get their body to handle more food or be more insulin um sensitive, like I mentioned before. It is one of the coolest things and the most beneficial tools to learn for your health, to actually learn about nutrition. Because otherwise, you're just someone scrolling, hearing this, hearing that. Oh, well, this person said this, and oh, this person, well, yeah, Sherry over here doesn't eat carbs. And oh my God, she looks great. So I'm not gonna do this. But you don't have any actual knowledge. So I've always been on like, I really nowadays with so many different pieces of information. If you guys hear anything we say, go fact check it, go figure it out for yourself and do double research on anything you hear. Don't be the person that just believes what you see because most of the time, who knows what it who's putting it out, what the agenda is behind it. Um, that's something that my parents always taught me to do is think for myself and go get my own answers through research and uh yeah, my own uh exploration.

SPEAKER_01 51:46

Yeah, so good. What um, you know, people that are listening today or listening in the future that are on that edge of making a decision to go to Redditutride or Ozempic or start working out. What can you? You've said a lot of good things today. How can you encourage them today to take that next step?

SPEAKER_02 52:10

Yeah, I mean, think about what you want for your life. Uh what Russ mentioned at the beginning of this, the the vision for your life. Uh, I'll speak directly towards men because that's who I work with uh specifically. And you know, I believe if your health isn't in order and you're not tapping into that pillar, you you aren't successful. Um you're missing a fundamental fundamental key, a pillar to your life to live the best life possible. Uh you know, so if you have optimized energy, testosterone, um, overall your your energy from the inside out and you feel really good, you're gonna be able to serve everybody at such a higher level. You know, your quality of life is gonna be so much better. So if you're found yourself in a place where you're you're dysregulated, you have no energy, you're overweight, all these things, right? Where you want to start your journey, flip a switch, right? You have one life. You gotta realize, you gotta look in the mirror. Stop making excuses, take full accountability for every single thing in your life, start building some discipline. Like it's not it's not easy, but it's simple. My friend Michael Smoke, if you guys know who he is, you should go check him out. He uh that's his his line, so I won't take that from him, but it's not the hardest thing in the world, right? Like you gotta just cut the excuses, take full accountability, and start putting in the work. And I guarantee you, your your your quality of life is gonna be so much better night and day. It's not even a question. So um, yeah, I mean that's a long, long kind of answer to your question, but just start, right? Like, don't don't get too um uh just distracted or uh overwhelmed with like how far you have to go, because you probably have to, you know, spend some time. How many, how many years did it take you to get to where you're at, right? It's gonna take you years to get to where you want to go. So just one foot at a time, focus on the basics. I I actually recommend don't get distracted by peptides and supplements and start focusing on yourself. Start focusing on the stories you tell yourself, start focusing on your habits, and every single day get a daily habits that are gonna move you forward. Start with small things, learn about your nutrition, start moving your body in one way or another, whether it's just you're starting to walk more, you're hitting 10,000 steps a day, you're getting in the gym, you're investing in a coach, a mentor uh that's gonna help you with your health. But you need to walk, you need to drink uh enough water, you need to get good sleep, you need to manage your uh uh central nervous system and your stress, the parasympathetic versus the sympathetic. Uh, you need to move your body, right? And um, that's it. Like I said, with five or six things. Um it's it's not the most complex thing in the world, but you have to be consistent with it. So again, focus on the day, day by day. Don't get too overwhelmed with how far you have to go. And um, yeah, get in in an environment that benefits you. Most people are in an environment that's uh not benefiting them at all. So it's not at the house, there's people that are distracting you. Get a coach, get it, join a community of like-minded individuals that are gonna help you through it. I believe that that's a superpower for so many people, whether it's like you know, their spouse or their family or their you know, people around them at work are all uh not who they want to be or distracting them. So yeah, yeah, but just simplify it to answer your crest question. I love it. Yeah, great, great word, Josh. Focus on the basics. It's not it's not the most complex thing in the world. All the answers are right in front of us, they've always been in front of us. Uh it's move your body, get outside, don't be on the computer all day. Eat good food, go to bed, go to bed. Like uh the stuff on the shelf that has a thousand chemicals, right? Like, just be the human you were meant to be a thousand years ago. I guarantee you you'll be a lot healthier. Go jump in the ocean, go yell, you know. I don't know. It's it's people we we overcomplicate everything when it comes to our health.

SPEAKER_01 56:16

Sure. And don't get a full leg tattoo in three days.

SPEAKER_02 56:19

Yeah, and if you do your yeah, yeah, I mean, oh man, you should have heard my my mom. And you know, there there is some study. Like, I put some poison in my body for sure. Um, we've been slowly doing things to to get it out to drain it. I've I've lymphatic drainage is um super important, something I like to practice. Uh, but uh anyway, yeah, there's uh there was some ink in me. There was some poison in me, but whatever. Look at him now. That's okay.

SPEAKER_03 56:47

Everything in moderation, everything in moderation, yeah. Everything in moderation, right? Everything in moderation. Uh seriously. This has been a great podcast. Super informative, a lot of information came across today. Josh, thank you so much for being here. Uh, we'd like to close out with this question or this statement, and I'm gonna ask you, Josh, what it means to you. So we have a statement that we close out every episode with, and that statement is wellness is not about perfection, it's about progress. What would you say that statement means to you?

SPEAKER_02 57:20

It's all about you. So listening, we if we want to be better for others, it starts internally, right? So wellness is not about progress. It's a what is it again? Uh wellness is not about perfection, it's about progress. Right. So for you, it we're doing your your wellness journey, your health for you. You got to remember that. Maybe there it's for other people as well, because you know how much it's gonna impact them, but you're not gonna be able to serve them until you are happy and you're content and you are serving yourself, you are uh putting energy into your vessel. So progress for you is is is not it can be measured in ways that you may not even think, right? The small little things, having a journal, having goals, having these short-term uh milestones that you you know place. And as long as you're happy, I believe, like humans, we we just want peace uh internally. We we just want to experience life and we want to be peaceful. We don't have all this stress and all this crazy stuff going along. So um, you know, taking account and into uh taking into account and understanding, okay, like what where did I get more peace today? Uh, where did I come through and say what I do what I said I was gonna do? Uh, how did I move the needle forward? How do I win the day? So small little things and uh just being present enough to to see those things play out is uh is really what wellness is, and that's all gonna turn into progress. So uh yeah, I think that's a great question. You know, don't let anybody else determine and label your wellness journey. You know, that's why I would say look in the mirror, you know where you're where you're going good and where you're you're full of it. So like you gotta know I did pretty good today, like genuinely, or uh full of crap.

SPEAKER_01 59:17

Well, if you are out there and you are listening today or in the future, I and you're on that brink of making a decision, or maybe you need a coach in your life, maybe you need a somebody that's in fitness, or maybe you're considering, you know, peptides, GLP ones, and you're looking for somebody to coach you right here in front of us today, Josh Friedman. Make sure you connect with him. And Josh, how can people find you uh today if they want to hit you up uh through a DM or email or whatever?

SPEAKER_02 59:48

Yeah, I'm on Instagram. That's uh my main platform. We're on some other ones as well, but underscore Josh Friedman, uh spelled fried man, so f-r-i-e-d-m-a-n. And uh yeah, shoot me a DM. I got a whole bunch of resources and guides that I've uh built out that if you, you know, just introduce yourself, I'm happy to send you over and uh we can start up a conversation, or you can just grab some of my my value. I believe uh I like to just give with no expectation in return. And uh, if you need help, which you know you might uh because we all do, uh hit me up and I'm happy to help. But yeah, you can find me on Instagram. And yeah, guys, thank you for having me on. This was fun, man. We might have to do uh part two where we just talk about more entrepreneurial vision, starting a business.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:35

Yeah, that's done deal, man. We'll definitely get part two going for sure. Okay, man. We'll bring you back. This has been great, man. Thank you so much for course. Thanks for having me on, fellas. Crush the week. Absolutely. Everybody, please check out Josh on his Instagram at Josh underscore Josh Friedman. Yeah, please check us out on all social media handles at Dual Coast Podcast. Check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, as always on our YouTube channel, where we are live on Instagram simultaneously every Tuesday morning. Please check out Josh again for all your coaching needs and transformational needs. We will see everybody next week. Thank you so much for listening.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:09

Thank you, guys.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:10

Thank you. Thanks, Josh.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:12

Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:12

See you guys. Take care, bro.