Get Yourself Optimized®

Dr. Donese Worden says some of the most stressed people she knows are biohackers. She's back on the show for the first time since 2021. Dr. Worden is an integrative physician, researcher, and educator specializing in mitochondrial health and metabolic oncology, and she's co-founder and COO of the MORE Alliance, which advances research into metabolic approaches to cancer. Her take on the health trends everyone is chasing: more isn't always better, and the latest trend isn't necessarily right for you. In this episode, we get into: ✅ Why she says peptides are "too early," and what the FDA actually did and didn't do ✅ Why she asks supplement makers for lot numbers, not just a certificate of analysis ✅ What she says a recent study found about short bursts of exercise versus 10,000 steps ✅ Why your wearable may not read your sleep as well as you think, especially after 50 ✅ Her seven-pillar self-check-in, and the pillar she calls the most important ✅ Why timing and dosage matter for everything, including fasting, exercise, and food If you want to live longer and feel better without turning your health into a full-time optimization project, this conversation will help you cut through the noise. Listen now!  

The average entrepreneur wastes at least four hours a week on things they shouldn't be doing. Kathi Burns says that adds up to about $78,000 a year. My guest, Kathi Burns, calls it the "friction tax," the cost you pay silently every day when things don't flow smoothly through your business. Kathi is an operational architect and a board-certified professional organizer with 22 years in the industry. She has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, on Good Morning America, and in Martha Stewart Living. She is also the author of How to Master Your Muck and Organizing with Tetris. Before all of that, she was a U.S. Coast Guard-licensed captain delivering yachts. In this episode, we get into: ✅ What the friction tax is and how to spot what you're paying ✅ Why the bottleneck is so often the owner, not the team ✅ The one fill-in-the-blank question that shows what your company depends on you to do ✅ Kathi's FLOW framework: Filter, Logistics, Operate, Withdrawal ✅ Why you should build your structure before you add AI ✅ The four folders that keep your digital files findable If you've ever felt like your business runs you, this conversation will show you where to start letting go. Listen now!  

What if the thing standing between you and your next level isn't strategy, but what you're still carrying? My guest, Marie Diamond, is a globally recognized feng shui master, spiritual teacher, and featured expert in The Secret. After a near-death experience at 15, she says she was told her purpose was to enlighten more than 500 million people, a mission that's led her to work with everyone from politicians to Hollywood stars. One of her most well-known stories: Mindvalley founder Vishen Lakhiani had been losing $100,000 a month for seven months when Marie looked at his office floor plan. The very next month, he made back more than he'd lost in the previous seven. In this episode, we get into: ✅ What Marie actually sees when she reads someone's chakras and aura field ✅ The real difference between forgiveness and condoning someone's actions ✅ Marie's simple forgiveness-letter practice for releasing what you're still carrying ✅ Why she believes your environment can influence your life and business by 33% ✅ What she says exists beyond "enlightenment," and why integrating it into daily life matters more than reaching it If you've ever wondered whether something in your environment, or your own unresolved emotions, might be quietly shaping your results, this conversation will give you a lot to think about. The show notes, including the transcript and checklist to this episode, are at getyourselfoptimized.com/572.

What if the difference between a hit song and a forgotten one has almost nothing to do with talent? My guest, Benjamin Groff, has spent his career finding out. He's a music publisher who's signed artists like Ryan Tedder, Tiësto, Kelly Clarkson, and Kid Cudi, built Kobalt's first U.S. office from the ground up, and now runs his own boutique publishing company, Brill Building — which just landed its first Billboard Hot 100 #1 with Beyoncé's "Break My Soul." Back in 2016, Benjamin and I had a conversation on a bus tour of NASA about whether AI would ever replace musicians. He was certain it wouldn't. By the time we got off that bus, he wasn't so sure. Nearly a decade later, he's now a private investor in the AI music platform Suno — and still finding tomorrow's biggest stars in the noise. In this Get Yourself Optimized episode, Benjamin breaks down: ✅ How he still finds emerging artists before anyone else notices them ✅ Why data and virality metrics can't replace real taste and curation ✅ What 100+ years of "the new technology will ruin everything" panics — player pianos, drum machines, Napster, now AI — actually teach us ✅ Why 85% of success comes down to identity and mindset, not raw skill ✅ The Tony Robbins framework for why only "outstanding" work gets rewarded anymore If you've ever wondered whether AI is coming for your creative career, this conversation will change how you think about it. The show notes, including the transcript and checklist to this episode, are at getyourselfoptimized.com/571.  

There are around five people who dislike uncertainty for every one person who actually likes it. My guest this episode, Scott Stirrett, wants to help you become the one. Scott is the author of The Uncertainty Advantage, founder of Venture for Canada (which he grew from a $300K budget in 2016 to $14 million by 2022), and a former Goldman Sachs analyst. He's also refreshingly candid about his own struggle with OCD — and how learning to tolerate uncertainty didn't just help him manage that, it reshaped how he approaches risk, career, and resilience entirely. In this episode, we get into: ➡️ Why "the only way out is through" is Scott's core message for tolerating uncertainty ➡️ How to catch a "ritual" before it quietly takes over your life ➡️ Why self-compassion — not toughness — is what actually builds resilience ➡️ Scott's simple weekly practice for building your "risk-taking muscles" ➡️ Why he believes solopreneurship, taste, and face-to-face relationships will define the AI era ➡️ The AI risk that actually keeps him up at night — and it's probably not the one you'd guess If you've ever felt like uncertainty is something to survive rather than use, this conversation will shift that. 🎧 Listen now The show notes, including the transcript and checklist to this episode, are at getyourselfoptimized.com/570.