Get Yourself Optimized®

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.

What if the second most important organ system in your body isn't your heart, lungs, or liver — but your skeleton? That's the case my guest, Peter Simonson, makes in this episode. Peter trained as a mechanical engineer at Georgia Tech, then spent years designing spinal implants for Medtronic before discovering — almost by accident — a dormant bone technology company called Juvent after its founder passed away. He and his brother revived it, and what he's since learned about bone as a metabolic, hormone-producing organ (not just a structural frame) reshapes how you think about aging, mobility, and even things like blood pressure and balance. In this Get Yourself Optimized episode, Peter breaks down: ➡️ Why your skeleton functions more like an endocrine organ than scaffolding ➡️ How osteoporosis can show up in children, not just the elderly ➡️ Why more "powerful" vibration platforms can actually be dangerous ➡️ The JAMA-published, placebo-controlled study that found a 10% bone density increase from safe microimpact therapy ➡️ Peter's own daily biohacks — from seasonal fasting to reframing walking as "a luxury," not a chore If you've ever taken your mobility for granted, this conversation will change that.  

In the age of AI, what is the one thing you still cannot outsource? According to Eric Ries, author of the mega-bestseller The Lean Startup and the new book Incorruptible, it is the hard work of learning itself. Eric has spent 15 years helping founders build companies, and the deepest lesson he has taken from it applies to anyone trying to grow: the real bottleneck is still how fast your own mind can learn. You can let tools build and summarize for you, but no one can lift the heavy weights of understanding on your behalf. In this Get Yourself Optimized episode, Eric shares: ✅ Why learning, not technology, is still the real bottleneck in the AI era ✅ How to escape the trap of reading summaries of summaries and go deep on what actually matters ✅ Why booking real time to think is a tool almost everyone underuses ✅ How to refine your vision without losing your commitment to it, and why morale is a resource worth guarding ✅ The surprising power of equanimity when life seems to go wrong Whether you are building a company or building yourself, Eric's approach to learning, focus, and staying the course is worth your time. Tune in!  

Cameron Herold sold everything he owned and has visited 54 countries in 39 months. The biggest lesson he brought back? None of it really matters. We're all just walking each other home. Cameron is the operator who scaled 1-800-GOT-JUNK to $100 million, founded the COO Alliance, and wrote the book on Vivid Vision. In this episode, he sits down with me to talk about what actually moves the needle in business and in life. In this Get Yourself Optimized episode, Cameron breaks down: ✅ Vivid Vision: how a four- or five-page description of your future gets your whole team, and your whole life, aligned ✅ The flywheel: how obsessing over one or two things built a company people called a cult ✅ R&D, or rip-off and duplicate, and why you never have to be the smartest person in the room ✅ Why the only people who should fear AI are those not using it, and how to get your team playing with it weekly ✅ The stop-doing list, and why killing off half-finished projects can free up more energy than finishing them He also gets personal about refocusing on his marriage, raising two grounded sons, and becoming the chief energizing officer in every role of his life. Tune in! The show notes, including the transcript and checklist to this episode, are at getyourselfoptimized.com/567

What if the hardest thing in the world isn't earning money or finding success, but trusting the process when you have every reason not to? My guest, Adrien Fournier, went from being a corporate business lawyer in Geneva to spending the last fifteen years doing energy work, and he offers his healing sessions for free. We met through Yanik Silver's Maverick mastermind, and in this conversation Adrien walks through a worldview where everything, from your body to your bank account to the stock market, is a form of energy that reflects who you are. In this Get Yourself Optimized episode, Adrien breaks down: ✅ Why you are made of more than a physical body, and how you're already equipped to perceive it ✅ Why darkness and contrast are what give light and love their meaning ✅ The reason he refuses to do energy work for money, and why that keeps it clean ✅ How to treat money as neutral energy and become a steward rather than an owner ✅ The Viking concept of destiny and causality, and why your effort is at most 49 percent of the equation If you've ever felt like you're doing everything right and life still isn't cooperating, Adrien's take on faith, surrender, and getting back on the horse is worth your time. Tune in! The show notes, including the transcript and checklist to this episode, are at getyourselfoptimized.com/566