The Primed Mind Podcast

Brad Pedersen is an award-winning entrepreneur, angel investor, thought leader, and sought-after business coach. In 2008, he founded and scaled Canada’s top toy company, Tech 4 Kids, and subsequently co-founded Pela, the $100m sustainable phone case startup that created an entirely new category.  In 2021, Brad and the team at Pela successfully launched a record-breaking $9.8M crowd-sourced campaign for the Lomi, the world’s first smart waste kitchen composter.   Brad has a passion for faith, fitness, adventure, and outdoor pursuits and lives in the mountains of British Columbia with his amazing wife, where they are building a beautiful life! Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.

Peter Platzer stands at the forefront of space technology as the founder and CEO of Spire Global, Inc. and its subsidiary. With a foundation in finance, having held pivotal roles at Deutsche Bank AG and TRG Management LP, Peter transitioned to space innovation with academic credentials from the International Space University and an MBA summa cum laude from Harvard Business School. His contributions earned him the esteemed White House Champion of Change award in 2013.   Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.

Dr. Pedram Shojai, an ex-Taoist monk and Kung Fu student, is a renowned doctor of Oriental Medicine and a pioneer in integrative health. Disillusioned by the limitations of traditional healthcare focused solely on acute care, he redirected his efforts towards promoting overall wellness and vitality. Shojai has authored 8 books, become a New York Times Bestselling Author, and produced numerous health-related films and series, emphasizing lifestyle changes for better health.   Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.

Roy Krebs is a passionate supplement manufacturing expert who strives to promote the need to have an optimally functioning brain. He does this by creating supplements that can help you boost your productivity. Brain health supplement holds tremendous potential in boosting our mood and overall cognitive function and with a balanced approach, we can unlock our full potential and lead lives brimming with vitality, and productivity.   Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.

Jon Nastor is a digital entrepreneur, podcaster, and bestselling author. Being a content-obsessed marketer, Jon loves driving organic traffic for outstanding companies. Not only is he the creator of “Hack the Entrepreneur”, he also owns several digital commerce sites. We’ll discuss his ADHD diagnosis when he was 39 years old, how it impacted his business career, what he’d advice to other digital entrepreneurs, and his own podcast.  

Nick Sonnenberg is an entrepreneur, WSJ Bestselling Author, Inc. columnist, and guest lecturer at Columbia University. Having spent 8 years working as a high-frequency trader on Wall Street, Nick developed a passion for efficiency before he founded his company Leverage. He has created the CPR® Business Efficiency Framework, which is the result of working nearly a decade with many teams across all industries. His framework helps teams to get better results, less stress, happier employees, and productivity - just by the use of the right tools in the right way. His latest book features Nick’s story as well as the CPR® Framework: Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work.   Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.

As a highly sought-after transformation and performance coach she takes leaders, entrepreneurs, celebrities and ambitious individuals like you to the next level. Her work is more than just coaching, it’s a highly transformative experience, enabling you to shift the way you view yourself, others and the way you interact with the world and one another. It’s powerful work, support, expert strategy and accountability that change the trajectory of your life forever. She is here to elevate you, and help you create lasting success, in all areas of your life, from the inside out. She is a regularly featured mindset & transformation expert in media. You can see her places such as FOX, CBS & NBC. Samm’s prior history as a successful entrepreneur, who has scaled multiple businesses, has taken these years of personal experience, insight and the pain along the journey and combined it with her obsession to optimize human potential and the human experience. She learned through her personal journey what was effective and what wasn’t for providing lasting change. As a result, she utilizes the most powerful combination of the tools available to help you achieve your goals.   Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.

Dr. Adam Dorsay, licensed psychologist and certified executive coach, specializes in assisting high-achievers deal with issues in their relationships, stress, anxiety, and becoming more happy and fulfilled.  Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.

Angelo Keely is Co-founder and CEO of Kion, a company that offers premium, clean, research-backed supplements and foods that support a long and active life. He was born in Austin, Texas and was raised on a foundation of organic, mostly vegetarian, whole foods plus an array of supplements. After a series of traumatic events during his adolescence, Angelo dove headfirst into nutrition research, meditation, yoga, breathwork, cold/heat therapy, acupuncture, psychotherapy, and religious studies. With the dream of building the healthiest and most inspiring work culture at the heart of a fast-growth, consumer products company, Angelo co-founded Kion in 2017 in Boulder, Colorado.  

This week’s guest is Dan Martell, serial entrepreneur, investor, husband and athlete from Canada. He has coached over 600+ SaaS founders, founded 5 companies and successfully exited 3 of them. Knowing how rocky his journey was, he wanted to pass on his experiences by helping others to get there in half the time, which is why he created SaaS Academy. You’ll learn how Dan mastered his life after having had a rough upbringing which resulted in a high-speed chase with the police and what advice he gives to people who are in similar situations. He also talks about his newest book “Buy Back Your Time” where he teaches ho to build a business that you don’t grow to hate. Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.

Today’s guest is Todd Youngblood. Not only is he a successful serial entrepreneur, but also Co-Founder and CCO of Sleepme Inc., a company that focuses on sleep-driven health with sleep temperature optimizing technology. Having had multiple incredible successes in the business world as well as being a prolific innovator, who filed over a dozen patents, Todd Youngblood now tries to shape the future of sleep. How he wants to achieve this, he’ll explain in this podcast episode. Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.

This week’s guest is John Gray, author and relationship expert. His book “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus” has forever changed how we view relationships. His unique approach combines specific communication techniques with healthy, nutritional choices that create the chemistry for lasting health, happiness, and romance. Not only is he an advocate of health and optimal brain function, but he is an avid follower of his own health and relationship advice. Through his books continuing to be bestsellers, John has been profiled in Time, Forbes, USA Today, People, and has appeared on Oprah, as well as on The Dr. Oz Show, Today, CBS This Morning and many others. In this episode, John Gray joins the show to provide valuable insights to improve relationships at all stages of life and love. Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.

This week’s guest is Dr. Deanna Rose, the founder of Wellth by Deanna Rose Inc. and Peak Performance Coach, who helps entrepreneurs and high-achievers to overcome burnout and achieve more in business and life. In this episode, we will discuss how to maintain a high-performance lifestyle and strategies to prevent burnout in order to optimize energy for achieving more in business and life. Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.

This week’s guest is Nick Mayhugh, a former professional soccer player and Paralympic sprinter.  Not only was he named U.S. Soccer Player of the Year with a Disability in 2019, he also accomplished the unthinkable and won 3 gold medals and 1 silver medal as a Paralympic sprinter in the 2020 Tokyo summer games. In this episode, we’ll discuss how he was able to shift his career so radically and still kept performing on a level that’s only accessible to the best of the best. Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week's episode.

This week's guest is Jason Rodgers. Jason is a sprinter and 3-time Olympian who represented Saint Kitts and Nevis in this year's Summer Olympic Games.  In the episode, we dive into Jason's story of becoming such a high-level athlete and how he's recently integrated mindset work into a training program.

This week's guest is Dr. Sheila Kilbane, a board-certified paediatrician, integrative medicine practitioner, and author of the book Healthy Kids Happy Moms.   Much of the talk you hear in the high-performance world is about optimizing and improving one's self, and as important as that is, the health and well being of your family has a huge impact on your potential.   In this episode, Dr. Sheila Kilbane joins the show to discuss how to make high-performance living a family affair.   Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week's episode

NFTs? Metaverse? Minting? Cryptopunks? Bored Apes? Lazy Lions? You might be wondering what is an NFT and why someone would pay thousands or even millions of dollars to purchase one. While some people see them as “just pictures on the internet,” others view them as the future and back up that belief with huge sums of money.  Celebrities such as Tom Brady, Steph Curry, and Reese Witherspoon are getting in on the action, and Visa even made headlines when they purchased a Crypto Punk NFT for over $150,000. This week’s guest goes by the online handle of Keyboard Monkey, and he’s one of the most successful NFT traders and a prominent influence in the field. With a decade of experience in trading stocks and cryptocurrencies, he was able to spot the NFT trend early on and take full advantage of the upswing.  This week, he joins the show to break down the mindset driving these astronomical values, explain the space in as simple terms as possible, and describe the success principles that allowed him to spot this trend and become an early adopter. NFTs? Metaverse? Minting? Cryptopunks? Bored Apes? Lazy Lions? You might be wondering what is an NFT and why someone would pay thousands or even millions of dollars to purchase one. While some people see them as “just pictures on the internet,” others view them as the future and back up that belief with huge sums of money.  Celebrities such as Tom Brady, Steph Curry, and Reese Witherspoon are getting in on the action, and Visa even made headlines when they purchased a Crypto Punk NFT for over $150,000. This week’s guest goes by the online handle of Keyboard Monkey, and he’s one of the most successful NFT traders and a prominent influence in the field. With a decade of experience in trading stocks and cryptocurrencies, he was able to spot the NFT trend early on and take full advantage of the upswing.  This week, he joins the show to break down the mindset driving these astronomical values, explain the space in as simple terms as possible, and describe the success principles that allowed him to spot this trend and become an early adopter. Download Our App: www.PrimedMind.com Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week's episode

Leonel Franco’s dream was to become a professional soccer player. However, when he fell short of that goal he was forced to shift his focus on other athletic endeavors.  In fact, the day the door closed on his soccer career was the same day he first stepped foot into a CrossFit gym. The competitive atmosphere of the gym allowed him to tap into the best version of himself, and he quickly started preparing to compete in the CrossFit games.  In this week’s episode, Leonel joins Elliot to discuss the mindset that allowed him to channel disappointment into opportunity and his journey to winning the title of the Fittest Man In Nevada. Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week's episode

Robbie Bent is the CEO and Co-Founder of Inward, a company looking to solve the world's loneliness problem by creating digital and physical communities around mindfulness and breathwork. Robbie's background isn't something you'd typically associate with a breathwork practitioner. He got his start in finance, started and rapidly grew a tech startup, and eventually moved into the crypto space, becoming an early employee of the Ethereum Foundation.   In this week’s episode, Robbie joins Elliot to discuss his shift from a success-at-any-costs mindset to hosting breathwork classes in his garage-turned-bathhouse and how this led him to founding one of the most innovative companies in the breathwork space. Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week's episode

Michael Lovitch is a co-founder of the Baby Bathwater Institute, a private membership community for highly successful entrepreneurs and founders.  The first question most people ask is, “What the heck is Baby Bathwater?” and while the name might sound a bit funny, it’s one of the most prestigious communities in the entrepreneurial space due to the methodical curation from Michael and his team.  In this week’s episode, Michael and Elliot dive deep into the power of community building and why you should start building yours immediately if you’re not already doing so. Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week's episode