Speaker 1: 0:14

So I have amateur bodybuilder okay online fitness coach and content creator extraordinaire, ryan Bradshaw, here at the Respecting Perspectives podcast at the Watermelon Room in Baltimore, maryland. Hey man, thanks for being here, dude. Thank you I appreciate it. It's awesome to have you here, man. Tell the people a little bit who you are. You know, kind of dig a little bit. Let them know what you're doing here and how you got here and any information that might be helpful for them to understand your journey.

Speaker 2: 0:57

Yeah, so I mean, we know each other, we're homies.

Speaker 2: 1:01

Yeah for sure. Um, but the reason I'm on this podcast is hopefully to give people my perspective on my growth and kind of uh, where I'm at, with how I can help the world. Uh, you know, I think everyone wakes up every single day kind of, you know, wondering how they can offer a better version of themselves to society. And ultimately, that's what's bringing me here, cause I feel like doing this kind of talking about my journey, talking about just my endeavors and, um, getting people maybe generally excited about their future through my story, uh, I think that's probably what brings me here generally. Um, so, yeah, I I would say it's probably where I'm at yeah, nice, yeah, I mean me and ryan.

Speaker 1: 1:52

Ryan and I have known each other a bunch of years and I think we've both kind of went through, uh, a few transformations in that time and he's going to get into a lot of let's see here the history of where he was in pre-fitness and where he is now and all the things that he has, um, you know, going on. So why don't you, why don't you, tell us a little bit about some of your childhood, uh, and, and some of the inspirations maybe, where you grew up and, uh, you know, give us some of the things that that kind of inspired you as, uh, as a kid?

Speaker 2: 2:43

yeah, so so I would say, definitely being a kid is like what I did. As a kid gave me my biggest perspective on life and I feel like I still hold to that Some of my biggest inspirations growing up. You know, back then it was just so different. We didn't have access to a lot, so we kind of were spoon-fed what society decided to give us right um, I was super into cartoons.

Speaker 2: 3:16

Uh, you know, growing up watching pokemon, dragon ball z, um, all of the new cartoons. Uh, you know seeing super jacked guys on, uh, dragon ball z and just like high testosterone. Um, like video games, like call of duty, halo 3, halo 2, the original halo, all those, uh, james bond and, like you know, just like the multiplayer era of games was some of my biggest inspirations. I mean we had like WWE, like I remember, you know, pay-per-view was so fun I would go over and I'd like do pay-per-view with my friend and we would just watch these crazy fights and then we would play the games after all night and then eventually that turned into computer games. I played starcraft, war, world of warcraft. That's probably the most influential game of my childhood. Um, and that kind of like is some of my biggest inspirations.

Speaker 2: 4:19

Next to like the music culture like, while I was doing that I was, you know, into the walkman, into um, mp3 downloading limewire, you know the whole like I. I liked, basically I liked a lot of alternative rock, like lincoln park, nice, you know, papa roach stuff like that. Um, and then I liked rap, I think. Uh, eminem was probably my first rap album I ever bought. Which one was it? Um, I think it was a self-titled slim shit, the slim shady album. Yeah, it was my first like uncensored record that my mom was like I'm buying you a cuss word album and I was just like, oh, this is sick oh, dude, that's like, that's a, that's uh, that's probably a monumental time yeah, I think I think I got that.

Speaker 2: 5:07

I got a sum 41 album and then a blink 182 album. Those three I bought those three I remember the same day. They were my first three cuss word cds. Oh dude, so I still wish I had those, but uh where?

Speaker 1: 5:22

where do you? Did you get them from, like Sam Goody or something? Dude, I got them from.

Speaker 2: 5:27

Oh my gosh. It was this place called Babbage's which turned into like electronics boutique, and then I think that eventually became like FYE for your entertainment.

Speaker 1: 5:37

Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2: 5:39

So that's where I would get the.

Speaker 1: 5:40

I know right, remember where, the places where you could get CDs, that was a thing and then you'd just be like searching throughout the seed you could. You could spend like hours, dude yeah, in places like that it was it was cool um, that was like, probably like that time period.

Speaker 2: 5:57

I call that the montage time why so? Because that's when we were. It's kind of like music when back in the 80s, when they were getting into like drum programming and kits and like learning equipment. I feel like we were learning a lot of visual equipment through the like 90s and early 2000s, like commercials, like in, like montages, like showing what a you know like car commercial style stuff.

Speaker 1: 6:27

Right showing what a you know like car commercial style stuff, right like just the new way people cinematic and shoot yeah, make people look like a badass, you know, just like yeah, and so showcasing like the best of someone you know what I mean, and that's, before social media, the shiniest of something, or like the, the, and I think it had a lot to do with the angles, and not just that, but the ambiance, the atmosphere that it was in, exactly.

Speaker 2: 6:51

And it was like an exploration period.

Speaker 2: 6:53

So, you either consumed it or you kind of explored new, you pioneered new ways of just like media. You know what I mean. Yeah, isn't it wild Like the age of media? I, I guess. So that's my biggest inspo's. Um, I still feel like I try to represent myself as that, uh, being at the age that I am 33, um, I don't even feel 33, honestly nice. How old do you feel? I feel 23, yeah, I feel 23, yeah, nice. That's good to hear, you know, and that's really important because it's like your, you know your, I feel 23.

Speaker 1: 7:24

Yeah, I feel 23. Nice, that's good to hear and that's really important because it's like your body, I'm sure, and that's up and down. You know different personally, different days I'll feel different ways, you know. But I do think that you know, as long as you try and keep your mindset young, you know, and not even just like your mindset, half of our life was lived without a cell phone and then most likely half of our life will be with the cell phone. So we're kind of on that cusp and I think we're lucky to have been able to have that time before, lucky to have been able to have that time, you know, before. So we, we did really get to see the beginnings of most uh, media, you know, other than like the, the radio itself, but like, yeah, when you know commercials, you know, think about, like the budgets for commercials, what they probably used to be, and then now, dude, you got like super bowl commercials that are like millions of dollars For 30 seconds.

Speaker 2: 8:46

For 30 seconds, dude. I don't even know what it was. Eight million Right.

Speaker 1: 8:51

And that doesn't even count the money that they need to spend to make the commercial. Yeah, you know, but sorry to kind of go off on a side note there, but um, other than like childhood inspirations, let's see here, um, I kind of want to, I kind of want you to to help everybody know you know what started your fitness journey and um, what maybe prompted you know you to to start making some, some changes to to your body and your mind throughout throughout that time yeah.

Speaker 2: 9:26

So I mean honestly, it's like so cut and dry, it's uh, in a good way I so I feel great now. When I was 23, I didn't feel great. I was, um, in like a, you know, I was in like a club scene and in like a a you know very of the entertainment scene and I, you know, I DJed. I had all my friends were DJs or band members or through club events or did something of that nature, and so obviously, recreational drugs happened and I, my life was pretty consumed with that. So, you know, waking up, you, you know, going to bed at four, waking up like to go to work the next day, when I was that young, uh, it still felt like crap, even though I was what they call. You know you're invincible in your 20s, but I wasn't. I, I acted like I was, but I felt like crap.

Speaker 2: 10:22

So I think COVID took a turn for everyone, like everyone, you know, did not think that that was going to happen and then took maybe advantage of the opportunity or they did something right. They did something with their life and at the time, initially, I just got out of a bad relationship and it kind of forced me to one of like recreate myself, okay, and I, I got my door kicked in by the feds. I, you know, I I sold drugs and I, you were that pusher, I was, I Pusher With a whole bunch of other guys.

Speaker 1: 11:03

Now you're pushing me.

Speaker 2: 11:05

We were doing it and I don't regret that time period. I had a great time. I definitely burnt tons of bridges, which I regret, but I think that is the defining point. And, like throughout my whole life, I always wanted I always, you know, kids are so influenced when they're young. I understand that now, um, I always wanted to like people, please, or like share with people, or, like you know, just just be accepted or feel like I was doing something, benefiting, like, like benefiting the group, benefiting society, right, yeah and um, I wasn't really doing that.

Speaker 2: 11:43

In the scene that I was in, there was a time period I remember I didn't even really like the like music that I kept going to force myself to listen to, and I was like, oh man. And then, like, I started, you know, an e-commerce business that did that, did great, towards the end of the relationship I'd gotten out of. And then the woman I was with was like you're spending too much time doing this. I was like, oh man, like you know, I do have an addictive personality, but at least it's not drugs. Like I got to just force it out. So I knew that was the beginning of the end. And with COVID, you know, I took the good stuff from my partying days which was kind of expanding my mind and and I was like you know what I need to do this with my body? I need to. You know, I I kind of was a little kid Love that. Um, saying to myself I always I'm going to be jacked one day. I was like I'm going to be fucking shredded to the gills ripped.

Speaker 1: 12:46

Gonna do it now it's not the time, I don't care. You know I'll get by through my life just being goofy and being charismatic. So that was always in the back of your, your mind.

Speaker 2: 12:50

Oh yeah, like I had a friend in high school who um won like mr maryland body, you know I mean yeah, I still talk to him here and there.

Speaker 2: 12:57

He does not lift anymore, unfortunately, but um, he he was a full-fledged bodybuilder like hardcore, loved arnold, you know all love before bodybuilding was as big as today, you know, because it didn't have the spotlight on it like social media gives it right, and so I knew one day I was like, and so I knew what bodybuilding was the whole time like I just knew the ins and outs to an extent, just because I had a friend who did it uh-huh, so, um, but I didn't know like how to work out like one or anything.

Speaker 1: 13:31

So I was just like I'm gonna get jacked but I'm gonna figure it out.

Speaker 2: 13:33

So I feel like this begins with every guy. They begin with uh, I just wanted to get abs in in 90 minutes and they realize that's like a snake oil it's never, never going to happen. And then it goes down this just like they're. You know, you know me, five years in the making of really working out hardcore and but starting out with no goal. When you start out with no goal, you, you literally can get sold anything like drink water at 11 AM and you'll get jacked Like right, just just right, just just, it's insane.

Speaker 2: 14:07

So wait, then the whole 90 minute ab thing like what? What? I did those? I was at co coven. I was in my room doing like you know, shout out to brent and scotty uh, they we did, we did a push-up challenge and and they will hold it to. And I let them tell the story. They're like yeah, we, I got ryan into bodybuilding, we started a push-up challenge and he just took off so it was around the same time period, but it was a candle that was burning in my.

Speaker 2: 14:28

You know, it was a burning desire of mine for a long time. And um, and ironically, right when covid happened, I got in a jet ski accident and broke my leg. I literally text my buddy who was a power lifter and, uh, the day before kid, I grew up with chris chu and, um, I was gonna just pay him to show me the basics. Yeah, because I didn't even know. I was like, okay, well, if I don't have a goal, I need to at least learn how to squat right, bench and deadlift. There, you know, and I knew that that was a thing, okay that's what we learned in high school.

Speaker 2: 15:02

So I was like I'll begin there, okay, and boom broke. My leg went into another like depressing hole of. Like holy crap, I was gonna work out and like really start this journey. And then now I'm back on my ass playing world of warcraft. Um, during covid sidetracked again, sidetracked again, sidetracked again, and I was like screw it. I got some time Played World of Warcraft with a bunch of people. I had a great time. And then something clicked where I achieved all my goals in a video game and I was like I need to gamify my life.

Speaker 1: 15:40

Oh, I like that way to say it Gamify my life. I love that.

Speaker 2: 15:44

And I was like I'm so good at this game and there's so many little metrics that this game encompasses.

Speaker 1: 15:53

that's just real life.

Speaker 2: 15:55

Like money, health, just everything, resources.

Speaker 1: 15:59

Well, I think the coolest thing, about a video game. You know like they, they have like I forget what it's called exactly, but where they have all those little. You know the, the metrics of like, or let's just say like with a car. You know it has, like the speed itself, or like the um, um. You know the uh, what's it called? Um the endurance. You know there's all those different different aspects.

Speaker 1: 16:25

Stamina man yeah all the, all, the, yeah, yeah, all those things, and you're like, okay, how can I get all of them to be, as, as you know, as full as possible?

Speaker 2: 16:36

exactly right and so, like I was, you know, something is a. When something becomes a waste of time, it's when it feels like it's a waste of time you know what I mean.

Speaker 2: 16:45

You could be like, oh, you're wasting your time, but you could be having literal the time of your life. Right, like that is not a waste of my time, right for sure. And video games did that for me, became a waste of time. I realized there was so much more I could do. Um, you know, there are so many missed opportunities I missed. I was spending bitcoin on drugs missed that one. Uh, I did great on the drop shipping e-commerce thing and kind of ended it just because I got out of relationship and covid basically china shut down their manufacturing, so I couldn't. So I just took the time to invest in myself and, um, when I, I'm competitive as crap. So I was like, oh my gosh, this is like a never-ending me versus me battle. I love working out. So I found just this crazy love for it. I felt like you know, when you're like so broke that you're just like willing to do anything for money.

Speaker 1: 17:44

You don't care, you're shameless bro. I think we've all been there at some point and so like that's how I felt in the gym.

Speaker 2: 17:50

I was like I got no muscles, like I'm just gonna get in there and like just beat it up. You know what I mean?

Speaker 2: 17:56

yeah, and so that is literally why I say it's eat sleep intensity, not eat sleep and train, because if it was eat sleep and train, I'd be reading a book while I was right right sleep intensity yeah, because muscle growth is just getting your muscles to a point where growth can occur and then getting the heck out of the gym, eating, sleeping, getting on with your life and recovering and being living a stress-free life. You know what I mean. So, and when I started out with no goals, like directionless, so like so you didn't have like a mentor or something and I didn't even know that. That's how it worked, I thought you know, the more reps you did, the better right and then now I'm over here doing like two sets per per like like movement.

Speaker 2: 18:43

You know, like uh-huh dumbbell flies. Maybe I'll do like a set to begin with, but then just two intense sets. Gotcha right, gotcha um. And that's just because studies and what like, uh, what has come out and just. But I still do believe you got to look at the old people that said it. You know arnold lou ferrigno, the guy who played the hulk back in the day, like. You know lee priest, all these crazy. You know dorian yates, all these people that invented all these. You know different types of movements and had crazy physiques. Like if they did it back then without the the science we have today, it was intensity, right. So right.

Speaker 1: 19:21

I guess if you look, if you were to pay attention to it in a particular way, I'm sure you could describe it in a few different ways, but that makes a lot of sense though, and so, like no goals, I got injured and, in the gym and just doing like you know, dealt flies or something's really. Wait, you got injured in the gym.

Speaker 2: 19:40

Yeah, just being in the gym and not having a personal trainer and just like you know, slamming your body around. Um in like, in your late 20s, you're like well, this is the time to do it, to slam your body around, but also I don't know what I'm doing.

Speaker 1: 19:54

Yeah, and um, when let me ask you this when you would have these injuries, like would it be something that you would feel, like instantly, like it would happen, or like would it be something that you would like, over time, start to to feel, oh my gosh both, both, yeah.

Speaker 2: 20:09

So like I I got to a point where my my tendons felt so weak but my muscles were kind of strong, so like when I would do, like you know, curls, uh, and it's just over. It was over working out my body okay, where my tendons were kind of like just just sore. Yeah, so that's like the long-term effect of just not training properly, and then, uh, some of the instant injuries would be like doing the leg press wrong or like doing uh something too far of like a range of motion to where gotcha and uh, yeah, I've literally had to walk out of the gym and like, whoop, that's it, I hurt my leg. You know what I mean, right?

Speaker 1: 20:47

so were there. Did you ever get any injuries like that where you were like, yeah, like this is, this is not working out, like this is this. Is that maybe like stopped you from from working out for any uh particular uh amount of time or anything?

Speaker 2: 21:03

well, when I got back on my feet from getting injured I recontacted my buddy and I did the squat bench deadlift with my both my boy, uh, those are like some of the first videos I have of me like lifting any weight at all, gotcha and um. After when I did that I kind of was coming out of a hurt leg, so I knew what uh pting a injury felt like, I guess you know like internally yeah, I knew what.

Speaker 2: 21:34

So um the injuries, they would always come unexpected, but it never was like, uh, oh, I'm immediately stopping bodybuilding. It was just a crap.

Speaker 2: 21:42

Now I can't do my favorite thing it's like if it rained every day and you were a skateboard, like you skateboarded like you can't go out there inside somewhere yeah, you're gonna figure out a different way to somehow get better, of course, and if there's a couple hours of no rain, you're you know, you might still go out let me ask you this you know, when it comes to that, that early mindset, you know what were some of, uh, the goals.

Speaker 1: 22:06

You know that you had, um, and did you have like a, a particular like physique that you wanted, um, did you have like a particular amount of time that you wanted to, uh, you know, spend in the gym and then like, maybe kind of give me some like short term, you know, and long term maybe, then goals and even like some goals that you have, you know now yeah, yeah, no, that was good.

Speaker 2: 22:30

I um yeah, like when I finally was like, okay, um, I I'm getting into, I want to be jacked. I don't know how I'm gonna get there. That's the goal. Somehow I don't even know like, what type of jack that I want to get. I didn't know that, like you know, lower body fat meant that you might not be as strong at that moment and that your body's always changing. So, like, right, you know, everything's temporary, you can't just be jacked forever or whatever. So when I dialed in kind of yeah, I'm gonna get jacked, I don't know how, um, I was already past the, I got into fitness for to get rid of my addiction and depression phase, like that I had already like yeah, that's something that we didn't even really.

Speaker 1: 23:11

I mean, we touched on it a little bit, but yeah, I think that's a really good point to make.

Speaker 2: 23:20

I mean, you know, falling out of a relationship that I was in, that I really you know the person that I was with I cared about a lot, um, and I didn't see the damage I did till it was already you know, walking away, gotcha and um between that and losing friends and then a world crisis, that kind of changes up. Um and I was, I was, you know, doing drugs like every day. Yeah, like club drugs and just staying up and doing parties, just just being a degenerate, like going and dropping two grand at horseshoe casino on a monday right uh, and going to the bathroom and just like doing cocaine and drinking yeah, and like, yeah, just being crazy.

Speaker 2: 24:02

So, overcoming that addiction and depression, that kind of showed me that I can go into the gym and if I'm not feeling good that day, there's a place I can go and kind of just like physically exert some force and that I feel like is important to people Right.

Speaker 1: 24:22

That's my. It's like me with the studio. 100%. It's like someone was like I feel like it's important to people Right.

Speaker 2: 24:25

Um, that's my it's like me with with the studio, 100%. It's like someone was like I feel like it's like some people like diary or they like write out their emotions or whatever, Like, um, I like just putting on some good music and like, or you know, they say, like people walk around, they go on a walk and throw some weight around.

Speaker 1: 24:43

Yeah, I think it has to do with your outlet, right? I think everybody needs an outlet, and it's hard to find that outlet that really helps you grow. At the same time, I feel like there are some outlets that only allow you to, like, get things out, but, like with what you're speaking about, like you know, you're also able to, like you know, build something inside, like at the same time.

Speaker 2: 25:16

Yeah, and so, like that's what led me down the road to like understanding how to build a physique.

Speaker 1: 25:23

And then, with social media, I just started following people that I was like I like the way they look, I'm gonna follow them yeah, how, um, uh, important was social media, um itself to, to what you that that beginning, uh, phase there and like was it like what? What was what was big? Was it just facebook or was like was it like what was big? Was it just Facebook or was like Instagram? You know, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 25:49

I deleted my Facebook around COVID because I thought it was boring. I don't know why I was getting so much spam and it was like I don't know, I just didn't like it. So Instagram is, I would just doom scroll on Instagram and I didn't download TikTok. I was kind of late on that game, um, but I used instagram. I just consumed so much of it, um, you know, following models, liking music, just like whatever a bro would use like instagram for yeah um, but it wasn't until, like I followed fitness people that I realized like there was this big world of like content creation.

Speaker 2: 26:29

Honestly, right like, like I did because I like knew music and I knew, just, you know, raving, yeah, and jam bands and the festival scene and kind of all of the things that encompass that. Um, and I understood content creation. You hop on on YouTube, you see everything, right, yeah, but there wasn't like an inspiring sector of which I was like, oh wow, this is interesting, gotcha, and a bunch of people are displaying their physiques, and so I instantly knew that I was like, all right, pulling it out of the backlogs. Young Ryan wanted you know, I'm pulling that ticket for young Ryan.

Speaker 2: 27:05

Right.

Speaker 1: 27:05

We're getting jacked. We are becoming a bodybuilder, and so there was just like a switch, that just kind of.

Speaker 2: 27:13

Yeah, I like ordered bodybuilding clothes that you know looked horrible on me. Whatever. I followed every bodybuilder man, female. I like watched Pumping Iron, learned I was texting people that I even knew touched a weight and was like what supplements do you like? I was just on all ends, just like getting.

Speaker 1: 27:37

You were firing off on all, firing on all ends in the fitness industry.

Speaker 2: 27:41

I made it my whole personality, which was interesting, cause I didn't even have like a physique. So I feel like that's. I respect that, because everyone comes from different angles when they're into stuff, like some people I know they're they be. They're like I'm a bodybuilder now and they do a show in like two months. I'm five years bodybuilding. I've like well, three and a half really dialed in like a bodybuilder Five just lifting weights to become jacked. Okay, I haven't even done a show yet but that's not the plan.

Speaker 1: 28:15

Is that something you plan on doing?

Speaker 2: 28:17

Yeah, for sure I was going to do it this spring, but I think I'm pushing it. The urge to always want to be bigger, yeah, and I stay pretty lean and I kind of with content creation, I like to keep the content creator body.

Speaker 1: 28:32

Yeah for sure. So you know, it just works for what I'm doing right now. Gotcha. As far as goals, let's see here what are maybe some of the yeah, some other, maybe like long-term you know, goals that you kind of see yourself either like wanting to achieve or hoping to achieve.

Speaker 2: 28:52

So I mean, dude, 200 pounds lean and shredded. I'm trying to do that there you go. I think I'm at like almost 180. I'm at like 176. If I eat some food I'll weigh a little bit more.

Speaker 1: 29:04

That's how much you weigh right now.

Speaker 2: 29:05

Yeah, Like after a poop just with my boxers on in the morning fasted. I'm 176. Okay.

Speaker 1: 29:16

Now let me ask you this how important is I? I knew there was a point in my life where I really focused on my weight, you know, and and, uh, it was at one point, uh, a downfall for me because, like I had to be, you know, at, like that, that particular, um, you know, uh, size, uh, do you have any? Maybe a feedback, or like, maybe some challenges, you know, that came along with with that.

Speaker 2: 29:51

The weight on the scale, it doesn't matter because like you could weigh 190 pounds, workout for three months and still, at the end of it, weigh 190, but you converted that fat into some muscle, or you know what I mean. So there are recomposition phases like your body will go through. Through. Like I'm not someone who's going through recomposition phase because I work out all the time. I've already done it, yeah, you've already gotten past that, yeah, but I understand, like, how much you weigh depends, you know, it's all in conjunction with how tall you are, okay, and how much body fat you have. And if you're like man I got away under 165, or else I, you know, you could be thirsty, you could be dehydrated. You got to drink some water, like you know. Or you, you know, you eat a lot of salty foods the day before and you're holding more water than usual because of the sodium or whatever it is. Um the body weight, it shouldn't matter. Like from a day to day, you shouldn't get upset from day to day.

Speaker 2: 30:47

But from week to week or month to month. If you're trying to trend and I'm trying to gain weight or lose weight, that's going to matter, of course. You can gain and lose around a half a pound of weight a week, depending up or down. Gotcha, I would say, that's like safe, that's like your safe way of doing it. Gotcha, safe, that's like your safe way of doing it gotcha.

Speaker 1: 31:03

So so when you say, um, let's see here, let's get back to maybe some of those other what or maybe some other goals that you have other than, like you said, 200 um, yeah, like I mean, dude, I got crazy goals, dude, I shoot for the stars, nice.

Speaker 2: 31:17

Um, so I mean you, if you want to hear the crazy goals yeah, let's hear it.

Speaker 1: 31:22

I mean, what have you got? I want to. I want to help you, you know, realistic happen so, so realistic goals. I mean, obviously I want to hear the crazy goals. Yeah, let's hear it. I mean what?

Speaker 2: 31:27

have you got? I want to, I want to help you. You know, realistic happen. So, so realistic goals. I mean, obviously I want to do my first bodybuilding competition, I don't care where I'll place. Uh, I mean, I know I have decent posing, I'll do men's physique. That's the category.

Speaker 1: 31:36

Okay, that's just how many different categories are there?

Speaker 2: 31:40

there's men's physique. There's classic which encompasses like arnold's, look like the the old school look okay and then, uh, open bodybuilding, which is, like you know, the biggest. Okay, just anyone. And then there, well, there's like a 212 division where you got to be 212 max weight.

Speaker 2: 31:58

No, it's for shorter people like literally just shorter guys, um, which those guys? I've seen guys go into open from there and still do as great. So size doesn't matter because it all comes into, like how you're, the package you bring that day, your conditioning, how you look. Yeah, there's a whole, a lot of factors so. But so doing a show, that's pretty easy. It's just a goal that I can just.

Speaker 1: 32:22

I know eventually I'll do um, but what's the timeline on something like that within?

Speaker 2: 32:28

within a year.

Speaker 2: 32:29

Yeah, yes but I've been focused on my content and just I want to just build a. You know, I like teaching people how to work out, yeah, and I like to do it in a motivational way and I like to add comedy, because that's where I came from before, before any muscles, you know, any lick of confidence I ever had, it was because I was like funny and charismatic, close, close, clown. So I've just been building my platform to hopefully attract young men and hey, if there's like the, the two women that enjoy my content out there, that's great. Yeah, but it's really just to attract where I came from. So I want to I feel like I put myself in that mold young men to, um, figure out what they want to do in life.

Speaker 2: 33:13

Nice, like, straight up, like that's it, like I and I think going uh to the gym and just doing general fitness and having a goal in that fitness, understanding that you're not just happy lifting weights for fun, like you know, you're someone who's like you know I'm gonna train for this 5k coming up, even though it's, you know, just something I'm doing, whatever it is, yeah, uh, kind of. Like you know, having fitness in your life elevates your life and that shows perspective that it elevates everything else in your life for sure. Sure, and like you won't take no for an answer for some things now, or you'll like. Just you know, you just start to treat yourself with more respect, right, and therefore you carry out situations differently in life.

Speaker 1: 33:58

Yeah, and you treat those other situations with respect, exactly as well.

Speaker 2: 34:04

Yeah, treat those other situations with respect exactly as well. Yeah, like, in so long term, it's to build a, you know a community, uh, through my social media platforms, um, to help people in that way, help guys, um, um. But but, dude, if I had like the craziest you know and go, I really just want to be able to make a living off of my full, you know fitness. I feel like I have a unique ability to help people with fitness For sure. So if I could make that my complete full-time job, that'd be great, right, you know so.

Speaker 1: 34:48

How long? What's the timeline for something like like that?

Speaker 2: 34:49

do you think within a year, two years, because I've been, I've been hit the ground running on it, you know what I mean. I uh left where I was working, um, about five months ago and kind of figured out what I was doing. So it's been like since the new year as a resolution, right?

Speaker 2: 35:05

to uh kind of pump it up and see what I can do for myself. Uh, I have like other things that will help supplement the, the income of all this, that are kind of intertwined with fitness. But okay, you know, big overarching goals of life. Um, it's the community to help people. But I mean, lately I've been, I feel like I'm, you know, I'm like ADHD, so I get like so hyper fixated on certain goals and I have to like realize that about myself right, you know what I mean your goals are going to change exactly as they go.

Speaker 1: 35:41

no, dude, I think you did a great job of pointing out some of the things, and I've known you for a while now, so I really do think those are the goals that you're living by recently. Let's talk a little bit about the gym itself and your relationships. Yeah, I really want to kind of dig into that. Yeah, I really want to want to kind of dig into that. Um, yeah, tell me, tell me a little bit about, um, maybe either like some of the relationships that you've like built, like through the gym itself, or, um, just relationships you know in in general yeah, no, uh, this is a great opportunity to explain that.

Speaker 2: 36:21

You know muscles don't just automatically get you things. Um, yeah, right, I, I so, um, you know, I want to build my social media platform so I'm always posting crazy, you know thirst trap photos. You know abs, you know whatever, whatever I'll post anything. There's some humorous stuff, there's advice on there, but, um, dude, my dms is basically, you know, when I get dm'd like some weird things, it's always like you know, same sex, always like a gay guy or just some like creepy girl from the woodworks dude, like just just coming from the floorboards, like um, and so, luckily, like that doesn't happen all the time and I've managed, like the dms, to like separate them, uh, but uh, the reason I'm saying this is muscles like, does, like, yeah, oh, you know, the woman of your dreams would probably like you to be in a, in a good shape, yeah and um, I kind of realize that there's personalities of you know other people where they don't want their partner to be in better shape than them oh, right, right, right but like.

Speaker 2: 37:36

Then there's some people that they don't care. They're like, yeah, I want to jack the guy, I don't care, and like, yeah, so so people like it. But muscles just show that you put in the time that you didn't buy it right, you can't buy it like you can. You know you can buy bbl or whatever you can buy muscle insurgents, but to have like a real robust looking physique takes time and effort and like delayed gratification. It shows delayed gratification. Oh, I like. You know what I mean. That's the biggest one. And if you can tie that in with your personality and being funny, and you know like women care about, like when someone walks in and they're like, oh hey, well, like everyone says hi to him, like everyone knows, like he's a good guy, everyone care took the time to say hi to that guy. Muscles don't equal women, but muscles can help put yourself in a better position. You're just looking good and confident, right, it helps it ties the whole package together.

Speaker 1: 38:39

I think you actually made a good point there at the end, there with confidence. It also, i'm'm sure, really builds confidence. So whether or not, uh, you know it helps.

Speaker 2: 38:52

You know, like what you want, you know in life, yeah yeah, 100 and like and like some people they work out just because they're into fashion and they want their like. Um, yeah, yeah, show a little shoulder here. I got this little bodybuilders show the action but people work out just for fashion, like some like I know guys that have been like I'm not really into bodybuilding, I just want my shoulders to be bigger you know what I mean, straight up yeah, they're just like you know, like seriously, so I think that's kind of that's kind of cool.

Speaker 2: 39:25

Yeah, you know that my first like the ex that I didn't work out with or wasn't into, right before COVID, she wouldn't touch me with a 10-foot pole. Now.

Speaker 1: 39:41

Straight up, Wait. Why do you say?

Speaker 2: 39:43

that I just, she just would not. I've talked to her, I've asked her for, like hey, can you give me the pictures of when I was a skinny little bitch?

Speaker 1: 39:51

Yeah, right, right, right.

Speaker 2: 39:52

And she's like don't say that you look great, and I a skinny little bitch, yeah, right right, right.

Speaker 1: 39:57

She's like don't say that you look great. You know I was like yeah, because you dated me. Then you don't want me to say that I look like shit, but well, at least she cared about you. That she, you know that's actually. You know the fact that she cared about you, you know when, when maybe you didn't even care about yourself is uh honestly well said.

Speaker 2: 40:07

You know that was so. I I mean my, my next relationship. I met her at a power, the guy who taught me how to bench. He had a little powerlifting competition and I met her there and then the rest was kind of history with that.

Speaker 1: 40:27

Are most of those events kind of like multi, you know, multi-site?

Speaker 2: 40:30

This was just powerlifting, so no posing, not what I do, no bodybuilding, just guys lifting their one rep max but then?

Speaker 1: 40:38

but there's girls there too.

Speaker 2: 40:41

Yeah, there's a whole um women division gotcha. Yep, women competing against women, do you?

Speaker 1: 40:48

do you feel like, um, do you feel like now, uh, kind of to tie into the relationship thing there? Do you think that now, or do you feel like now, um, you know, your girlfriend has to be someone, or relationship has to be significant, other has to be someone who goes to the gym, dude no, like okay, I'm into the like thick muscle mommy.

Speaker 2: 41:14

Look like I don't mind it, like I I got, like okay, I have a type and I'm not even gonna explain the type, right like whatever, it doesn't matter, everyone's got a type.

Speaker 2: 41:24

If you want, everyone's got a type, you know but like when it comes to your talking to the world here, dude true true, yeah, but listen, I do got a type ladies, find out, find out his type all right, but when it comes to body type like that, my type can exist in many body types. That's what I mean, right, yep, and so I just like a girl that would appreciate herself as much as I do when it comes to the gym so it doesn't mean she's gonna have to work out like a bodybuilder.

Speaker 2: 41:50

If she wants to um, like, by all means do it, I'll help you. If you want to even lift like a guy, if you're like nah, I'm trying to build my traps, right you know what I mean. I'm like all right, but um, I, it's not like a must, um, but I like a fit girl, you know, um, I like, I like the part of body positivity that is, you working on yourself, not just you accepting you for the crap of pile you want to be. You know you are.

Speaker 1: 42:20

Yeah and I'm not saying that, that's how it is but you know what I mean.

Speaker 2: 42:23

It's like yeah, I don't think I gotta say any other, no, I like that, I love the way you put that actually, um, so, what about like, what about like gym culture itself?

Speaker 1: 42:36

um, yeah, you know, because I, I guess there's, there's, there's, you know there's like the inside, the outside looking in, you know, and then like the inside looking out, um, you know, like, tell me a little bit about like, especially with, like social media, like nowadays, you know, um, I feel like there is there are some people who kind of, they just use the gym as like their way of like showing, you know, people that they are, you know, doing things like that when, like, maybe they're not actually putting in. You know the proper time and, and you know the proper time and and you know I'm not speaking about anyone in, you know specifically, but, like, you know, give us a little bit about like gym culture itself and like, maybe, like the do's and don'ts, you know, yeah, things like that.

Speaker 2: 43:30

Yeah, no, that's a good question. So gym culture has been. It has gone at an accelerated rate and I feel like it's multi-faceted. Uh yeah, like me being a raver and then becoming a gym bro, like now. I'm literally like a rave gym bro do you know? You know what I mean like but but I also like the like you know I was telling you about my childhood and like listening to, like emo and metal and I'm like a alternative metal rave gym bro.

Speaker 2: 44:06

You see what I mean I think you just, you just like, created a pocket there and that is, I feel, like the algorithm like, like, slaps that, like, like, like the algorithm pushes that, like you know, there's gym culture has gotten to a point where, like you know, because, because I think it's because of tiktok, okay- because, before instagram.

Speaker 2: 44:29

Instagram was good and you had just like people like, you know, like doing the ad, or like shots, or just like bros taking selfies and or product placement, and, and I feel like other than vine, there wasn't like video to audio, yeah, and so now you can create this like text hook, video, a video hook and an audio hook, so within the first three seconds of people turning on their phone, you can throw, you know, something that was just an image. It's now way more catchier, right, right. So TikTok now, and then they had the whole like. It changed the music industry. It changed how people virality of songs. It used to right before that, in which it's still its runner up. I'd say it's getting your song added onto Spotify, right, like certain playlists and stuff and you know I'm not an artist, but I would assume it's that. And then, but having a song go viral on TikTok, people pay money, people pay me to make content for their song on TikTok. I enter those things all the time, yeah, you know, even if it's just 50 bucks or whatever.

Speaker 1: 45:36

I've seen that personally and I don't think I've ever paid an influencer or someone to use my music, although it was always like a thought, but I see it happening. It's a real thing. So how are you able to do that? Do you put your name in some sort of database and they see your profile and they're like all right, this guy is doing this. I think you pay TikTok.

Speaker 2: 46:10

I think you pay TikTok to do a campaign event for you. Okay, and then they either dish it out to like affiliates or content creators okay, um, can anyone do that?

Speaker 1: 46:21

do you know if I think any?

Speaker 2: 46:22

artists can do it. I think, yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure I need to look into yeah yeah, we can. We can look into it. Yeah, let's, yeah, um, but I feel like tiktok set this new standard for gym culture to where you got like anime lifters. You have, like you know, golden era bodybuilder lifters. You got power lifters that are into anime. Now you got power lifters that don't like anime. You have just metal heads. You got like people that know they lift. They're like they like drake. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1: 46:59

They're in there. That's all the place, that's all they play is drake 207.

Speaker 2: 47:03

They live right and so like gym culture has gotten, or some people, they listen to no music at all. They listen to tiktok, like hype up montage videos. I'm dead serious, you'll see that.

Speaker 1: 47:14

I mean, I could see that Maybe not even TikTok montage videos, but just like-.

Speaker 2: 47:19

Inspiration yeah yeah, inspiration.

Speaker 1: 47:21

Oh, I could see that, for sure, yeah with music playing in the background.

Speaker 2: 47:23

Sped-up versions of songs and stuff.

Speaker 2: 47:25

Yeah yep, yep. And so because of all of that, it's changed my taste in music. I've added some stuff that I'm like dude, I can't believe I've added this, my spotify, but I'm listening to it right, and uh, so gym culture has kind of taken that and it's there's. There's different gym. So I feel like back in the day you just buy like nike for sports or you buy like you know speedo if you were a swimmer, or like you know there's maybe like that one company for the sport. So they got like like you know, gymshark for gym or whatever. And then they got like Young LA, which is like more street wear and more you know kind of what is popular everywhere outside of the gym, like literally that's what they do, like baggy stuff and kind of like like yeah, like streetwear, and so there. And then there's even more acute like um, really like this whole cyber sigilism, like alternative punk, like this new sigilism means sigil is, like you know, like a sigil, like a symbol or like a crest or something sigilism, I guess, cyber sigilism.

Speaker 2: 48:32

It's like this new cybernetic, like morphed look that a lot of people are like rocking. There's this company called Breath no, breathe Divinity, okay, and they just, you know, I'm not sponsored by them or anything.

Speaker 1: 48:46

Not yet.

Speaker 2: 48:47

Yeah, true, but they have, like you know, like this very, you know, low-exposure, dark, dark, like type of vibe, oh cool um because most of the time you'll see like brighter colors, yeah, stuff like that exactly, exactly, and so it's like they. There's cult following gym clothing. Yeah, I see that.

Speaker 1: 49:09

You see this. Who do you think who were some of the the earlier um gym clothing? Uh, let's see here entrepreneurs.

Speaker 2: 49:20

Yeah, oh, dude so like back in the day, like z's is like the rave bro, you know he's the guy that does the like, that's the pose, uh-huh, like throws the two fingers and the fist and uh, you know he raved and was just like. Honestly, he has the story. Most people are. They're like I'm just trying to get jacked and get girls, literally. Yeah, and so z's, you got uh david laid from jim shark.

Speaker 1: 49:45

He's like one of the biggest models he's the one who started jim shark he didn't start it but he's one of their biggest models, gotcha, um and uh.

Speaker 2: 49:53

There's a guy I like from young la, and these are just models that I'm naming that have kind of pushed. I feel like those because I feel like if you started the company, you maybe had a outlook, but, like most of these owners that own the gym brand, the gym clothing brand, they're not like super accomplished in the bodybuilding world. Really. Yeah, they're just like a guy that wanted to start a fitness clothing company and yeah, some of them are.

Speaker 1: 50:16

They're not like super accomplished in the bodybuilding world really, yeah, they're just like a guy that wanted to start a fitness clothing company, and some of them are.

Speaker 2: 50:18

They're more business guys which dude, you don't want to be a broke bodybuilder. Being of that broke body like the chicken and rice broke bodybuilder lifestyle sucks, like you know. Spending all your money on like all the things that are just probably going to kill you in the long run. Like you know, people use peds. Diets not um, or cheap, it's just like so much. Like, if you're gonna do bodybuilding, be financially stable, yeah, straight up, yeah, um, I mean you can still kind of get away with doing bodybuilding stuff. But if you're, like, going to compete in full-fledged commit, yeah, it's gonna be hard. So of course I think so.

Speaker 2: 50:57

So some of the biggest I think, being a business owner kind of should go hand in hand with working out, which is why I feel like some of these companies have gotten so big. Yeah, because, like you see, just you know every, you know regular joe schmoe wearing the, the stuff that I'm wearing, jim shark now we're wearing right, and so yeah it's. I'm at a weird sector in my life where I I respect the grind and the grit of these companies. I just don't wear a lot of them now, because why is?

Speaker 1: 51:26

that or like well, maybe not, why is that? But like, have you ever um, is there any brands that kind of like? You know that you do uh, support uh more than others yeah, I'm.

Speaker 2: 51:40

I think that, like, if you're going to start a clothing company, there's no way around fast fashion.

Speaker 2: 51:47

There's just no way you're like there there's some unethical strings that are going to be pulled to getting clothes. I know it's just how business is. Yeah, so the only way to not do fast fashion is the freaking thrift, right, right. And so, like a lot of the times and this kind of comes back from the person I was before muscles and everything is like I don't like making a big footprint on more than I like to. I live beneath my means. Like, yeah, I might drive like a tesla or whatever, but, like, dude, I don't own a house. Like, yeah, and I'm 33, I eventually will because I screwed up my life and I'm rebuilding it, but I am someone who's I don't like to live beyond what I need to, and part of that is like clothing, and I like to look good and feel good when I'm looking good in my clothes. But clothing, dude, fashion, is a silhouette, it's not a brand. It's not brands.

Speaker 1: 52:45

Say that again.

Speaker 2: 52:46

Fashion are silhouettes. It's like what you look like. It's not just the clothes, but's the, the person, and and the clothes, yeah, together and so I that's why I don't like wearing a lot of logos and stuff, because it's like free advertisement, yeah, and and there are like three things I treat my like. I told myself at the beginning of 2025 how I was going to live my life. Treat myself like a commodity, like I'm a stock, like I'm brand. Ryan Bradshaw.

Speaker 1: 53:15

Nice Right, I like that.

Speaker 2: 53:16

Two is do everything, and this is hard because sometimes you just can't. But the real answer is to stay consistent. But two do everything. Like a gun is being held to your head. Oh, shoot, okay, because if someone was like hey, you're not posting three times a day on TikTok, you know yeah. You're going to find someone was like hey, you're not posting three times a day on tiktok.

Speaker 1: 53:36

You know, yeah, you're gonna find a way to post three times, right? Yeah, it's, it's motivation.

Speaker 2: 53:38

And then, third, I just said, it's a living beneath my means and I feel like that goes like you see, billionaires live beneath their means and uh, but not real, but you know, and just like the way they dress or whatever I guess I don't really like adam sandler, like guys like that you see rich people live beneath their means and there's not a lot of them.

Speaker 1: 53:57

It's possible, though it's yeah, it's possible.

Speaker 2: 54:00

And I feel like, if you're trying to become successful and you want to splurge, one day and you know, if I was elon musk I would not be in politics, I'd be sitting, you wouldn't even know who I was anymore because I'd have so much money, right like you're, I'm gone that's a good point though so.

Speaker 2: 54:15

But kudos to him for having the you know, psychotic nature to wanting to, you know, be in the limelight of that. But I'd be like jeff bezos just sitting here launching rockets, you know, trying, you know that look like a penis trying to fuck the sky. No, I mean, that's what he's trying to do. Sorry for all the kids and all the cussing, but yeah, jeff bezos seems like he's enjoying his money. So I mean I would love. I don't. I'm someone who's not like screw the rich. Of course I want to be rich and I don't want to work. That's like ever. There's no one in life that has said I want to do more work and less. I want less money, right?

Speaker 2: 54:53

you know that's good. So, yeah, I want to do no work and I want all of the money. Yeah, but um, to get there you gotta live beneath your means, you gotta have some morals and you gotta have a code that you gotta follow.

Speaker 1: 55:04

And do you feel like also, um, to kind of go back to the whole um culture of it, do you think, do you feel like it's it is expensive though, like to to, yeah, live like that?

Speaker 2: 55:18

um, yeah, especially if you're gonna go like the content creator route. Um, it's expensive. Just health is expensive. There's the health tax on things, right right, um, and dig into that a little food is the most expensive, the amount of food that I eat and because I like quality food. Um like, I weigh 176 pounds. I try to get around 200 grams of protein in my body each day and how do you track that?

Speaker 2: 55:50

um, I use cal ai. It's's actually a super cool calorie tracker that uses AI. You can take a picture of, you know, like pancakes with blueberries on it, and it'll register every blueberry, really you just take a picture. Yeah, and you know, if you had pulled pork but it was pulled chicken, it might not register that it was chicken but, you can go in and change that.

Speaker 2: 56:11

Okay, but you get it. And then, once you've taken pictures of your meals, if you eat that same meal, you can just re-add it again, re-add it. So I use a calorie tracker nice.

Speaker 1: 56:20

How long have you been using something like that?

Speaker 2: 56:22

I've gone through so many, so probably like two, three years I've used them nice probably like three years so and that's proved helpful.

Speaker 1: 56:29

What about um? Yeah, what are some other um tips? I or tricks to eating healthy and not spending, maybe?

Speaker 2: 56:38

Or getting the right calories your physique. So going to the gym is like 10% of your physique, really.

Speaker 1: 56:44

You think it's that low?

Speaker 2: 56:46

Yeah, dude, yeah.

Speaker 1: 56:47

So what's the other 90?

Speaker 2: 56:49

Because eating what you eat, what you put in your your rest, in your stress levels, in your cortisol, and like, like uh what is cortisol? It's so. It, cortisol, is a hormone in your body that raises, as um, you start to get like fatigued, or your central nervous system starts to get basically fried. As you get more stressed and as anxiety rises, cortisol rises and it's like a part of, like your, your fight or flight uh mechanism, um, but it'll prevent muscle growth.

Speaker 1: 57:22

So and you won't sleep well, you'll hold more water, you'll feel lethargic how do you know if if cortisol is is high or low in your body?

Speaker 2: 57:31

um, I mean, that's a good question. Uh, you can just get. You can go and get it tested.

Speaker 1: 57:35

But uh, so what? You go to the doctor and you say, hey, I need, you can get a whole test you can get a whole blood panel of your hormones and, like your, yeah, yeah which, but that's what would be listed under your. If you get your blood tested, that's what it would be under their cortisol.

Speaker 2: 57:51

Yeah yeah, yep yeah okay, and um, I mean, I take ashwagandha. You know I got little gummies right here that I take. Um, nice, yeah, they're great. And lowering your cortisol will debloat you. You know you'll be less bloated. Uh, because you'll be holding less water, okay, um. So, like any, like you know, like this, like stubborn, like water hole that's not necessarily fat um water around, like your face, like you can, you'll feel more puffy when you're when your cortisol is high.

Speaker 1: 58:24

So huh, yeah, have you ever felt like, like that?

Speaker 2: 58:28

oh yeah, dude, all the time, um, and what do you? Do yeah, a a lot. What type of activity Caffeine raises your cortisol? Sleep, a lot of sleep, a lot of sleep. And just and like dude meditation, just like get your mind right.

Speaker 2: 58:49

When you become stressed physically, it means you know that's your body sending a little red bubble notification to yourself saying right, oh you need to go, you need to chill, you need to listen to music and read a book, or you need to go eat healthy and chill. That's a good point. And so, yeah, I would go to the gym like I wouldn't even take rest days and just my cortisol. I wouldn't be, it'd be. You know you can go to the gym too much and not build muscle, and that's why I say going to the gym is like 10% of it, because 90% of it is stress management, all your relationships. If you're broke, your family doesn't like you and you don't have any friends, you really expect to build the most muscle that you can, if all the other areas of your life aren't providing for you, then how do you expect one of the other ones to?

Speaker 2: 59:43

Exactly, and your body is going to realize that and notice that you can't lie to yourself. I feel like cortisol is the good Right Damn that's pretty well.

Speaker 1: 59:51

What about, like let's talk about, like, mental health itself and kind of like you know, the building of that and like how you've been able to I don't know or what you know having the confidence you know throughout what you've been doing here. You, how has that helped your, your mental health and and, um, you know, from like in the beginning, when you said you were kind of, you know, addicted to certain things, um, yeah, how have you been able to shape your mental health in a positive way?

Speaker 2: 1:00:26

I um, I mean, I I still think going to the gym on a day that it would might better your, your mental, is worth it, but I don't. I think, you know, going to therapy and talking to people is also, you know, beneficial, um, yeah, but I don't, you know, it's hard like with the, with the whole you know. I guess, like mental side of things and it's it's kind of the gym has pushed me to be on the gym to kind of do other things, okay, um, like become more financially, uh, successful and uh, to maybe like return. You know, you know, I, I think, like the, I would love to retire. You know, you talk about big goals. I would love to just retire.

Speaker 2: 1:01:17

My parents, like my parents, are pretty well off but I think it's such a flex, oh yeah, to like, like, just sign like a five hundred thousand dollars over to your parents or something, or like. You know what I mean, and so and and and. To do that with like, something, like. Social media is like a slippery slope with fitness because you can get body dysmorphia, you can get. You know, there are these crazy dark sides of PED use and the pressure of physique inflation. Like your body, like dude, what, what people thought was a sexy, you know, ideal body back in the day, like, think of, like Tobey Maguire from right, that's him from Spider-Man, you know and like Wolverine, like those like dad bods still jacked, but like, or like all the old like wrestler bodies.

Speaker 2: 1:02:20

Yeah, like, if you look at now because of social media, if you're not like super, like david, laid like diced to the gills right, right um they're like yeah, that you're, you ain't shit.

Speaker 2: 1:02:34

Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, it's always like the guy that doesn't post anything, that's like you know, whatever. Who says that? But their physique inflation is a thing and that leads, you know, people down, especially the younger generation who wants to feel accepted, right down this dark road of like, um, bad, poor dieting. Um, because dieting has been like the main, people start to realize like dieting is really what's going to affect your body, them, this whole looks maxing generation of trying to, you know, mewing. And what's mewing?

Speaker 2: 1:03:05

it's when you put your tongue at the top of your mouth and, uh, it's when I can't do an 11, but it's when you uh fix your jawline by oh wow, you know okay no, it's okay, I'm I'm exaggerating it, but it's just a way of breathing through your nose and out your nose and keeping your tongue at the top of your mouth in order to change your facial features over a long period of time.

Speaker 1: 1:03:33

And you're basically just trying to change, like your jawline, basically yeah, yeah, which I mean, if you work out and you see healthy your body's got, your face is going to change for sure.

Speaker 2: 1:03:41

Yeah, which I mean if you work out and you see how healthy your body is, your face is going to change for sure.

Speaker 1: 1:03:45

Yeah, but I feel like there are some people who will go through some pretty let's see here pretty strange lengths to get certain things.

Speaker 2: 1:03:55

Yeah, it's getting crazy. So it's, I mean, but there's every like. I think that as long as you just do it in a healthy way again, I do believe in the whole my body. My choice thing, like PED use is rampant in bodybuilding and a lot of people don't understand where it even starts or come from. People think you could just take steroids and just get jacked or whatever. Um, and there's natural guys that literally look almost better than there's. You would be surprised about the amount of people that are at the gym that are on some type of gear, uh-huh, and they look like no, you would never think they look like dog shit, really Dead serious.

Speaker 1: 1:04:44

Oh, wow.

Speaker 2: 1:04:45

And it's because of the poor diet. Okay. So, ladies and gentlemen, steroids does not just mean you're going to look amazing or be big. It's actually going to be the exact opposite. It's going to be you'll have side effects before the good effects, and until you do your research and dial it in and you commit down that path and you have a full understanding of what that entails, I would not choose to do it right.

Speaker 1: 1:05:15

Let me ask you this back to like the diet itself. Do you feel like? How do you feel like? You know not, how are you able to not spend all of your money? Cause you said it's expensive to eat um, healthy, um, and I I, you know, have found this personally as well, because there was a time where I, um, let's just say I spend too much money I got you right, super easy it's, it is dude and like.

Speaker 1: 1:05:50

There'll be times where, like, I'm looking at my account and I'm like you know, how did you? And? And it doesn't help with, like the the price of food, food, yeah, you know, no matter what, whether, no matter what the food is, uh, these days, we all know what eggs cost these.

Speaker 2: 1:06:03

Yeah right dude yeah, exactly I love eggs. I eat so many eggs, yeah.

Speaker 1: 1:06:08

So, like, do you have any advice on, like, how to budget properly with diet?

Speaker 2: 1:06:13

yeah, dude, I'm sorry, I, like you, asked that question. I didn't even answer it. Um, no, it's okay. Yes, uh, there's 100. So if you're trying to eat healthy and you want to spend a lot of less money, I literally have general guidelines and I'm trying to like. The reason I'm fumbling my words a little bit is because I don't want to give you just something that you get stuck on. This is super general. That literally will give you 90% of the benefits. Here it is First off, you're trying to save money. Definitely give you a 90 of the benefits here's. Here it is first off, you're trying to save money. Definitely get like a sam's club, bj's, costco, right like, and I'm not saying for everything, but we're gonna start bulk here, okay yeah um, and the next one is gonna be seasonings.

Speaker 2: 1:07:00

Okay, right, because we're gonna be eating so simple that you know, when it comes to carbs, for example, potatoes and rice you could probably live off those as your carbs for a very, very long time, right? So buy in bulk. Buy potatoes, but buy, you know bulk items, but just season them different, right?

Speaker 1: 1:07:21

season them all, your different ways, different ethnicities.

Speaker 2: 1:07:24

You know, watch some YouTube, right, right. Another thing is if you have the right equipment, like a big air fryer, a big rice cooker, like, invest in that, because then you can keep your food, you can cook bigger batches of food, uh-huh. And if you can cook big batches of food-huh, and if you can cook big batches of food, then you don't have to spend as much time each week. You don't have to spend much time each week. More time is more money. It's, you know. It's just you got to set yourself up for success here for sure.

Speaker 2: 1:07:56

But another good tip is before you shop in between the aisles, get all your groceries on the outside, so like on the out, the outer rims of the grocery store okay and that's where, like all the fresh produce is, that's where the meat, if you think about it that's where, like the dairy is, and then the meat and then so you're gonna eat healthy, like literally, that's where 90% of the healthy food is Right, you got all the canned crap and all the sauces and everything in the box crap.

Speaker 1: 1:08:28

Yeah, yeah, you're right, and so chips and stuff like that are in the middle. Exactly, yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:08:34

And then so that. And then the third, like you know. So club card shop around the outsides, obviously, season your crap, but that's pretty general, unless you just like to eat bland food. But um, when it comes to like protein sources, that's like going to be your most expensive. Um, you're going to have to settle. You know, choose 90, 10 ground beef instead of, uh, like leaner whatever angus top sirloin or filet mignon or whatever. I because that's what I eat, a lot of filet mignon and I like, I like ribeye too. But um, I try to eat a little more filet mignon because it's it's more lean but it's still soft. So it's got you, but um, it's expensive as crap, dude you know.

Speaker 2: 1:09:17

So I, um, I do the like. I get the big back on B, back on my bullshit tubes is what I call them, and that's those big those big 10 pound tubes from Costco of 90, 10 ground beef for like 40 bucks, right, so nice.

Speaker 2: 1:09:37

So there's, like you know, there's cooking in bulk is is probably in in living under beneath your means, just being like, yeah, I'm not gonna pull over and get chipotle because I have that same exact protein sources at home. Yeah, um, I feel like that's the biggest. Uh, so I eat. You know, I eat like 80 clean and then 20. I actually eat out, like I have cheap meals and stuff and I like to eat out and when I do, I'm taking advantage of every freaking reward. Dude, if I'm at McDonald's, I'm doing the mobile order thing and I'm editing the thing to where, just for the one item, because you can't add more than one deal, I'll do the deal again.

Speaker 2: 1:10:23

I'm multiple customer yeah, so I um, if there's money to be saved, I'll do it. I'm like you know. There's no shame in that yeah, so sure so that's what. When it comes to saving money, um like, or when it comes to just for fitness, don't spend every dollar on trying to look your best. Yeah, right, right like, because you're not going to look your best. So we're going to go right back to cortisol. You can get the cortisol high because you're broke now and you're living a shitty life.

Speaker 1: 1:10:55

Dude, I think it does it comes down to like. You do have to like also like be happy with, like, the food that you're eating. You know, like it doesn't just have to be like this regimented um deal to where it's like oh, I have to do this, you know. So you do have to kind of like spice it up, I'm sure, and make things a little bit different. Um, let's, let's, uh, let's pivot a little bit. Um, let's talk about um social media itself and what some of your either like how you kind of evolved with social media, with what you're doing here, and I think I do want to kind of also I want you to kind of segue as well into like what you see for the future, and I want you to tell people how they can possibly, you know, be a part of this community. You know that you're, uh, that you're, that you're trying to build.

Speaker 2: 1:11:50

Yeah, so, um, you know, I I've basically I'm all in on social media. Um, I started just throwing like skits at the board or like just content ideas at the board, just mimicking what other people have been doing, and uh, um, and it's wild how algorithms work. One video that does well on instagram won't do well on tiktok, and it's just a consistency thing. And, um, and you know, the algorithms are there to help you and figure out who you are so that they can take your information, put it in a vehicle and drive it to the right community like, right people, right like. And so, if you can like, always mold your content around your niche audience. Yeah, I feel like it doesn't matter. As you know, you know you get 200 views. 200 views is a. 200 people is a lot.

Speaker 2: 1:12:37

You know yeah, right now, right when you think about that so and and you know, I know people that are making a full-fledged living off of and I'm not, uh, off of online coaching off of you know just five thousand. You know a thousand followers. Oh, wow, they've converted. You know ten of those people out of their a thousand people following. Yeah, that's not anything. Yeah, you know, to. That's a good point because you can build a huge following and none of those people can resonate because you don't have anything to offer. You got viral off of, like you know, a dance that you did or something. So I always try to tie my stuff back in to. You know, I'll go a little out Like I've had. My most viral videos have nothing to do with content.

Speaker 1: 1:13:18

Yeah, nothing, I'm sorry, nothing to do with gym content.

Speaker 2: 1:13:22

They're just funny, which nothing, I'm sorry, nothing to do with gym content. They're just funny, which is fine because they still do, because it's either like me eating or like, and I'll incorporate, and then right after that I'll post gym stuff, because I'm like, now that I have you here, uh, that's smart, you know, so I like that you know what?

Speaker 2: 1:13:36

you know, one of my biggest videos has been like me just hanging around with this goth girl. Literally, I've just been hanging out with the with this uh goth chick and, um, I'll just like post her with me. Include jim and goth, because we talked about these weird little you know personas that are created in gym culture. The goth mommy stomp on me, jim mommy you know, babe, that's a thing, so like there are guys that like that. You know, jim girl, that's like a goth girl.

Speaker 2: 1:14:08

So so so I just leaned in on some of the films and they went well, and then now I'm trying other stuff. Am I going to stick to that? You know, I don't want that to be who I'm entirely based around and that's not going to attract. So I just make sure that I am always aligning, like with my niche.

Speaker 1: 1:14:28

You know what I mean.

Speaker 2: 1:14:29

So you know and you know my name's Ryan Bradshaw. You can find me on Instagram and.

Speaker 1: 1:14:35

TikTok, we'll put your information at the bottom here. Yeah, spell it out, though, for everybody. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:14:42

So Ryan R-Y-A-n and then x, ryan x bradshaw, because you know we're coming from the hardcore alternative era. There you go. Ryan x bradshaw, nice. Um, that's b-r-a-d-s-h-a-w, nice.

Speaker 1: 1:14:58

No relation to terry, unfortunately, um now and also hey, why don't you? Uh, I know you say you had some, you had some products here, that uh, yeah yeah, that uh, you wanted to, kind of, you know, show people that you have I um.

Speaker 2: 1:15:15

Part of my content is um. You know I do. I do tiktok shop and um. This is products I use every single day. Uh that I've had the pleasure to share the world with um. One of them is a good caffeine gum. I got neuro gum right here um you got several cameras, you can yeah yeah, check it out, guys, neuro gum. Uh, it's great. I mean, look at this, so it's healthy. Yeah, it's l-theanine and caffeine, okay, and I chew it basically whenever I want like a cup of coffee.

Speaker 1: 1:15:50

Okay, yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:15:52

And L-theanine helps me focus. I have bad ADD and L-theanine helps. Okay and L-theanine's in matcha.

Speaker 1: 1:15:59

Oh is it.

Speaker 2: 1:16:00

So if you're a smooth, chill matcha guy, oh yeah.

Speaker 1: 1:16:05

I don't drink coffee.

Speaker 2: 1:16:05

I'm a matcha guy, who ain't you know? So, um, this is. I love this. This has been like, I'm a huge advocate for this. I do it. Um, I basically wake up when I'm at the gym I'm chewing a piece. Right before this podcast, I was chewing a piece. Right, I'm always chewing it. And so do you drink coffee too, I do like coffee? I do like coffee, but I, you know, I, I care about myself, you know, honestly, I care about my teeth I like I don't like the like.

Speaker 2: 1:16:32

I try to keep my teeth kind of white and, um, so coffee's yeah. And so I've always been a gum chewer. Okay, because, dude, I feel like gum is kind of like a resistance band. You're kind of like working your jaw out oh, for sure, for sure.

Speaker 1: 1:16:47

So this is like that same piece of gum for like three days exact dude.

Speaker 2: 1:16:51

Yeah, no, seriously man, seriously. So, um, I do love this. And um, so, basically, companies I will reach out to companies that I feel like I've used your product and I really resonate with. So this has just been something I use every single day. I love it. And then cortisol right, we talk about cortisol Dude. I have ashwagandha gummies.

Speaker 1: 1:17:10

Oh, yeah, so what the cortisol is in ashwagandha?

Speaker 2: 1:17:13

So ashwagandha lowers cortisol Lowers Okay yeah, so these are like. I love these Honestly. I'm going to eat two right now. Yeah, hit it up, dude. Let me rip them up. I'll take one. Yeah, dude. Yeah, well, two's a serving bro, two's a serving.

Speaker 1: 1:17:27

You got to eat two, okay.

Speaker 2: 1:17:28

And they taste like normal gummies, but these are something, so gummies are just a fun way to take a supplement. Right, they make pills of this. But goli ashwagandha I have ashwagandha in my tea in the morning. Yeah, good, yep. So this is like the ksm 66, it's like their best ashwagandha. And, um, is it good you like?

Speaker 1: 1:17:54

yeah, you're right, awesome dude but um they taste yeah they help me relax.

Speaker 2: 1:17:59

I use them. As you know, a lot of people are like ashwagandha will do all this crazy stuff for you beneficial. I use it as a cortisol regulator.

Speaker 2: 1:18:07

Yeah uh, so I can go to bed is ashwagandha um, it's a plant right, yeah, yeah, it's a plant, it's a root root, yeah, it's a root extract. So I really like it. Um, goalie is goalie nutrition. Uh, you know, this is a 60 serving bottle. Uh, I'm pretty sure, like on my tiktok shop, it's like six or eight bucks. It's like eight bucks a bottle, like normally these are like 16 at like cvs gotcha. So pretty cool. Um, I definitely, I, I use this. I would not even be putting this up here if it wasn't a thing. So this is another one. And then ooh, ooh, Ooh, ooh, we're good, we're good.

Speaker 1: 1:18:49

You're good.

Speaker 2: 1:18:50

So my third.

Speaker 1: 1:18:52

Oh, yeah, what else?

Speaker 2: 1:18:52

you got. This raises your cortisol, ha ha. No, I'm joking. So this is a pump product, this is a pre-workout and I just love this flavor. It's watermelon grape. It is a tiktok shop exclusive, oh exclusive. So they sent it to me um. I sell it on my tiktok shop um, and you can only get it there, no I can't get it in any other supplement store. Um, I do have other flavors on there, but I just thought I'd bring the cool one yeah, so for sure and, uh, I love it, so I'm gonna actually use some of this later.

Speaker 2: 1:19:29

Uh, after, after the podcast today so nice um, but all of these products you can literally get on my tiktok.

Speaker 1: 1:19:36

Okay, super easy like we'll put that all, all that those links uh below here tiktok shop is crazy, isn't it?

Speaker 2: 1:19:43

like it's better than amazon. You think it's gonna be it's?

Speaker 1: 1:19:47

it's gonna be the biggest competitor because it's like qvc it comes as fast as amazon the packages and it's like I agree, I believe that um, you don't think that there's any um harm at all with, like the, the, you know the like the political parts of the, of like of tiktok or just not even that, but like having your information um have you know buying something through tiktok, putting your credit card on I feel like because, uh, the most recent, like january 19th, like how they brought it back or whatever, uh-huh, I feel like it's more safe.

Speaker 2: 1:20:26

you think, yeah, I feel like it's gotten more safe just because it's more accepted in terms of like it's here to stay, like I don't think now because it's tiktok survived its third ban, yeah, I don't think, um, it's gonna, you know, there's gonna be any more Gotcha.

Speaker 1: 1:20:42

Wait a second. Wait a second. Do you hear that? Do you hear that noise? Oh shoot, okay, okay, yo. Who's this? This is the OG Ryan Bradshaw. Oh well, dude, I got somebody sitting right next to me right now who wants to have a, uh, conversation with you. All right, be a. Be nice to him. Be nice to him, all right. Here he is. Dude. This, this is you. This is your older self, dude hello, dude, you're loud as shit.

Speaker 2: 1:21:19

You need to tone down that vote. Yo, where are you? Yo get out. Yeah, move away. All right, there, you go. There, you go. Yo, what's up?

Speaker 2: 1:21:32

Man, your voice sounds a little higher and, uh, I don't know what you're listening to, but that's not what I listen to now. It's crazy, dude. Are you who? Who are you there with? Are you still selling drugs? Nice, you sound fucked up. You sound pretty messed up. You sound messed up.

Speaker 2: 1:21:55

Um, listen, man, if there's a couple pieces of advice I could give you right now, it's that that next bump that you're gonna do probably won't be worth it. Um, and whichever girl you're with, she might be wasting your time, unless, unless you got it all planned out ready to rock. I'll be honest with you, because that's just in your nature you're. You're someone that's gonna always you know waste your time with other people. You, you're going to soon figure it out, though, but if I tell you now, you'll save a lot of time. That's one thing. Also, dude, all that Bitcoin that you're spending on drugs, just pocket it and run with it, because eventually you are, you're going to work for Apple for seven years too. You don't even know that yet, but you'll do that one.

Speaker 2: 1:22:48

But, yeah, man, you're jacked as shit. You're jacked, that's great. You're confident, right, and you've proven to yourself that a lot of things that you never thought you could accomplish you can, and you did it in healthier ways that you thought thought you could accomplish you can and you did it in healthier ways that you thought that you, you know you couldn't. So, you know, if I could tell you anything, it's to focus more on yourself, you know, don't? You know there's no hater that is doing better than you.

Speaker 2: 1:23:20

You know the there's no hater that is doing better than you. Um, because the people at the top are collaborating and, uh, it's good to be competitive and to have the grind and the grit, uh, but to stay in your lane and, uh, stay the fuck in that lane. No, stay in your lane, seriously no, because you're a little shit. So, yeah, man, I, seriously, no, sure, because you're a little shit. So, yeah, man, I, I, I hope that you know you've taken the time to listen to me on all this and you walked away from the crappy music and the the loud, uh, you know area that you're in, uh, but yeah, man, I, uh, I wish you the best, live long and prosper.

Speaker 2: 1:24:07

Right and listen. Ufos might actually be sooner to be seen than you realize. So that's another thing, another thing to think about. So, all right, bro, keep listening to techno, though I do like that. Tell them you love them, I love, hey, I love you and uh, you know, hug your bros at night and uh, whichever girl you're with, bro, just actually treat her pretty nice. Okay, she might be a waste of your time, but just treat her better than you are.

Speaker 1: 1:24:40

So all right, dog, you, you end up being, uh, being, a stand-up guy. All right, and yo, he wasn't lying, you are jacked dog. Yeah, yeah, we're talking like arnold. All right, love you, bro, peace nice.

Speaker 2: 1:25:02

Nice isn't it awesome?

Speaker 1: 1:25:03

that is, that's good, that's good uh, all right, hey, I got, I got a few, uh, rapid fire questions for you here. All right, you didn't get to see these, okay, so, um, we're gonna go right into them all right now. You got to be quick with these, okay, we're ready all right, like like right off the dome.

Speaker 2: 1:25:24

We're not thinking about it. No, no, it's going to be what comes natural. Yeah, yeah, straight off top All right.

Speaker 1: 1:25:31

Do you like the music your parents listen to? Yes, okay, all right. Name something that always puts you in a bad mood.

Speaker 2: 1:25:41

People that wear their sunglasses at the gym oh, that's too funny.

Speaker 1: 1:25:48

What do you think the world would be like in 20 years?

Speaker 2: 1:25:53

uh, robots are doing our laundry and our dishes and cooking food for us, and we're living our lives at a? Uh, more, a better version, and we are just being better. We are, um, living for a higher purpose.

Speaker 1: 1:26:08

Oh, like that would you rather be able to speak every language or play every instrument?

Speaker 2: 1:26:13

oh, um, okay, so quick, both. If I want to be super rich, every language, yeah, because you're an ultimate negotiator, oh. But if you're doing every instrument you could like, you could literally like, impress like anyone yeah, like you could literally like and which could kind of put you in the same position as both, so I'd have to go with instrument nice instrument.

Speaker 1: 1:26:36

I agree. If you could be good at something overnight, what would it be?

Speaker 2: 1:26:42

one thing overnight yeah, dude, becoming a wwe performer. If I could tomorrow become a wrestler like a like a, like you know, rowdy ryan bradshaw, whatever the heck is that what your name would?

Speaker 1: 1:26:56

be honestly, that's not that bad no, that's not that bad, no, but I, um, I have to get back to you on the official name.

Speaker 2: 1:27:03

Okay, man, maybe I should do that. I should go down the route you should. But yeah, that would be it nice, nice.

Speaker 1: 1:27:08

Would the world be better or worse if no one carried around phones?

Speaker 2: 1:27:14

oh, you know what I think it's going to be. I think it'd be the same. Yeah, because without phones we haven't been able to see as transparent of things. There's been more lies and more smoke and mirrors without phones, right, but because of phones there's more access to more BS, and so I like the more phone. I think that the world is a better place with phones. I'm on that optimistic aspect because we wouldn't be here today doing this if it wasn't for phones. Oh so great point, yeah, and I think that it's getting better nice all your clothes have to be one color forever.

Speaker 1: 1:27:52

Which color would you choose?

Speaker 2: 1:27:54

dang uh. Gray different shades of gray nice, that's a good one.

Speaker 1: 1:27:59

What's the first thing you notice when you meet a new person?

Speaker 2: 1:28:03

um, dude, they're well, I'm a bodybuilder, so physique and smile and like eye contact, like demeanor, like how someone like looks at you and their reactions to things so like when they laugh, who they look at.

Speaker 1: 1:28:21

Yeah, just little stuff like that yeah, so yeah, can a person have several best friends or just one?

Speaker 2: 1:28:27

no, bro, you can only. Okay, you can have a like a crew, you can have like like some bestie westies right, you know what I mean the besties westies but like nah, if you, if you're like he's my best friend, like that needs to be your like ride or die. Like your best friend bro, like he's gonna be your first man, he's the guy that like you know he, you know you, you seen his dick bro.

Speaker 1: 1:28:53

No, but like yeah, it's a requirement of a best friend these days.

Speaker 2: 1:28:56

Come on, you know that like inadvertently it's just a best friend and dude, I don't, I don't necessarily have. I'm on the the tight-knit crew side. I don't have like that one person that's like my best friend, best friend. But I got like three or four homies that um always know my t, they always know the bs that's going on and um, they just know what's up. So yeah, good one.

Speaker 1: 1:29:19

Would you rather burp, glitter, glitter or fart fireworks, Dude.

Speaker 2: 1:29:23

I feel like fart fireworks, baby, because that's just fucking, that's American baby.

Speaker 1: 1:29:32

That's American man. There you go. If you were given a robot, what would you program it to do?

Speaker 2: 1:29:38

Dude my laundry meal prep for me. Um answer. Answer some emails. Uh, basically all the stuff that, like I that's just automated, that I can automate more to make my life better. Save some time, love that Do. Aliens exist 100%.

Speaker 1: 1:29:59

Yeah, yeah. If you could have any superpower, what would it be, and why?

Speaker 2: 1:30:07

Honestly, a mind reader, yeah, a mind reader man, that's a good one dude. Because all the other ones are. So cop out like strength and flying and teleportation and invisibility. Yeah, You're messing with society too much doing one of those. But if you're a mind reader, yeah, you're messing with society. But like you can do it at your own discretion and no one sees the power, oh, shoot, they don't see the power You're just proving it to them and, at the end of the day, they don't even know.

Speaker 1: 1:30:36

They don't even know you know, damn Crazy. If you had the power to make someone not famous anymore.

Speaker 2: 1:30:46

Who would you choose? All right, dude, like that one, there's so many hot seat candidates for that. Yeah, but like not even to push him down further. But Drake, drake, dude Guys make their whole personality. There are some guys you know there's that archetype, they make their whole personality. There's some guys you know there's that archetype, they make their whole personality. A Drake fan, especially with everything Drake's just in the spotlight for and just like I just know him as the Degrassi kid. So like no hate, I'm not like I hate him, but like if I could just defame someone, might as well completely knocking down yeah, more than just knock down.

Speaker 1: 1:31:27

So what describe what you think your life will look like when you're 85?

Speaker 2: 1:31:33

oh, so I'm hoping health advancements are to the point where my skin won't be as wrinkly as people are at 85. But I'm hoping that at 85, I'm just with the love of my life. I have a great family, I've made a living to where I can pass down all of my. I put it this way I want that I have a defensive living so that I can take more offensive swings at life. Oh, I like that, you know, just being comfortable and being at a point where my future livelihood, whether I have kids or not, is doing well, and I know in my heart that I can, you know, die at peace Nice. So, yeah, love that you know 85. And I hope I'm still jacked on the beach, I don't know, in italy sipping wine someplace, um, you know. And if I'm not with the love of my life, then hopefully I'm surrounded by, you know, a couple of good-looking girls or something or some friends at least exactly it'd be cool to.

Speaker 2: 1:32:39

It'd be cool to be, uh, an old guy and be like we all made it with all your buddies.

Speaker 2: 1:32:45

Right, you know what I mean right, right, y'all ride off into the sunset with shoppers. Oh, you know what I mean. You know what I mean. So, uh, love that dude. I would hope to do that. You know 85. You have so much money. When you know you're it's your friend's birthday and you're like did you like the rolex I bought you? Oh right, you're just at the end of your game. It's like friend's birthday and you're like did you like the Rolex I bought you? Oh right, right, you're just at the end of your game. It's like you got nothing else.

Speaker 1: 1:33:07

You're just out there. You're just out there. You're just like living, yeah, having a good time, yeah, that's like that's what I do. Love that dude. Well, dude, hey, man, I of your journey and I was able to learn a whole bunch of new stuff about you and just like your fitness journey, and I think a lot of people are going to be able to take some tips and some tricks from what you said. Have any last minute forms of inspiration for anybody or last minute thoughts that you want to kind of put out there and tell people again, maybe, where they can find you and how to be a part of the community that you're building now.

Speaker 2: 1:33:58

Yeah. So I know I said it within the podcast, so I'm going to reiterate it. So, like this could be like a clip or like you know, whatever Clap it. So, and Triple H told Dave Batista this, so it's good to you know this is all WWE record.

Speaker 2: 1:34:14

But, like I said, three things live, live beneath your means as you're grinding and getting your goals in order and and do shit with a passion, like literally like a guns being put to your head, like you know the do it tired, do it hungry, do it sleepy, like seriously, like give yourself that time, but just get it done. Don't lie to yourself, because you're gonna. If you lie to yourself, you're gonna get used to that and you don't wanna let yourself down. That's a good point, right? And then, third is, treat yourself like an asset, like a commodity, like a stock, like a personal brand. I think personal branding is the future. I think no one likes these manufactured big commercials and celebrities that push these brands. I think people are reading between the lines and realizing that they want to relate to people and, um, they want to see their story within those people, um. But so those are the three.

Speaker 2: 1:35:09

And then, and then you know something that I'm living my life by um, because I used to be like, uh, you know, everyone's just the same, but do lean into that thing that people make fun of you for, like, lean into the thing that people tell you to stop because they don't think they you can accomplish, because that's just them thinking they can't accomplish.

Speaker 2: 1:35:34

Yeah, um, be exceptional that's what it is, because being exceptional is being of the exception and going down the road less traveled, and you'll never know, unless you go down that road, if, if it's going to work out, so you might as well. Uh, because that's the life that you want to live. If you choose the other one, you're choosing the life that you're not going to live. And if you just go down that unconventional, less traveled, exceptional route and it works out for you, well then people are gonna see. You know, people only like to see your accomplishments, not how you got there, right? Yeah, and that's kind of sad to say. You know what I mean. No one likes to dig in a mine until they know that diamonds were found there you know, you know what I'm saying so it's like.

Speaker 2: 1:36:23

That's like that persistence and grit is just if you're going to be the exception, like lean into that stuff that you're like not confident about because that's going to make you who you are.

Speaker 1: 1:36:33

So man love that yeah. Great Dude well said, Well said, Dude. I appreciate you having me man, no problem man.

Speaker 2: 1:36:42

No problem.

Speaker 1: 1:36:42

Appreciate you coming through, tell everybody your um, your social uh socials.

Speaker 2: 1:36:47

One more time so I am, uh, it's ryan x bradshaw. Uh, okay, on everything, on everything. Yeah, on tiktok youtube. Uh, I do long form stuff on youtube, like diary style, uh, kind of experimenting with that. But, um, yeah, ryan x bradshaw and everything. And yeah, follow me for comedy, motivation, gym advice, dm me, uh, if you need help, send me videos. If you need help with your form, I have, um, I'm actually looking for a couple more clients. So nice, I think I'm gonna do a giveaway and have two clients like like uh, train two people for free for three months, um, for some testimonials. So I'll probably do a post in like, uh, maybe a couple we'll see like a week or so. I already have one guy, um, that I one of my clients that he's willing to be a testimonial for.

Speaker 2: 1:37:40

But, uh, but yeah so keep a look out for that dope.

Speaker 1: 1:37:43

Yeah, love that, love that well, yeah, thank you, man, I really appreciate you coming through and, um, this was something that I've been looking forward to uh for a while now, and I'm glad we were able to uh to make this happen.

Speaker 2: 1:37:57

Yeah yeah, I get a little bicep flex in there. You really get it in there.

Speaker 1: 1:38:02

Well, hey, man, I and I appreciate everybody, the Respecting Perspectives crew out there for tuning in and until the next episode, we'll see y'all on the flip side, peace.

Speaker 2: 1:38:18

Peace.