Total Upgrade
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsGuys helping guys become better men. That's what we do at Total Upgrade. Dedicated to helping men by giving men a library they can turn to whenever they need it. We're simulating what it means to pull up a chair with a dozen other guys in a room and have guy talk - as if it's only men in the room. Total Upgrade is doing away with pretense. We only have time for the most meaningful, and engaging conversations.
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Ep #8 - The Effect of Honesty on the Body, Recognizing Loneliness, & Explorations of the Self - Tah Whitty and Barton Scott
May 14, 2020 10:00 - 56 minutes - 78.2 MBIn today’s podcast, Tah and Barton talked about the effects of honesty on the body, recognizing loneliness and explorations of the self. Tah started by sharing his experiences as an ER nurse for 25 years in every borough of New York City and how much he has learned with that experience. It opened his eyes to how the physiology of humans interacts with their environment, how loneliness is an inherent part of a person’s psyche and how the effects of honesty on the body leads to h...
Ep #7 - Being Your Own Coach and Overcoming Body Image Issues and a Lack of Love for Yourself - Shawn Wells
May 11, 2020 10:00 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MBIn today’s podcast, Shawn Wells, a biochemist and a top supplement educator, public speaker and health coach together with Barton talks about the different struggles Shawn experienced throughout life - namely body issues, mindset, having an negative internal voice, suicide, much more and understanding how it is possible to be your own source of strength. Shawn shared about how he overcame his suicidal tendencies and trauma from childhood and to become the great and inspiring man that ...
Ep #6 - Mindset Tools for Overcoming OCD, Eating Disorders, Depression, and Debt
March 06, 2020 11:00 - 42 minutes - 97.9 MBIn this podcast, Robert Sikes, bravely shares his struggles with overcoming depression, OCD, debt issues, starving himself, and other eating disorders, drowning him in a spiral of unhealthy habits and failed business attempts from which he has now emerged so much stronger, wiser, fit, healthy and more empathetic than before. Mindset and motivation are such a big part of everything we do. Robert is a great example in this space. Particularly considering his humility in this space. This ep...
Ep #5 - The Power of Empathy and Vulnerability - with Drew Manning
January 05, 2020 17:00 - 40 minutes - 56.1 MBDrew Manning, is a NYT best-selling author of “Fit to Fat to Fit”. Drew is on a mission to bring empathy into the fitness industry. He shares about the things he learned by deciding to get fat on purpose and then worked his way back to getting fit afterwards in the pursuit of understanding how his clients thought about food and the stress of carrying extra pounds. In this podcast, we also covered: 07:17 Common ground 10:07 Healthy masculinity 12:41 Daring greatly 17:11 Stress and ...
Ep #4 - Space, Quiet and Relationships: Thinking Terms of Decades - From One the Top Digital Marketers Alive - George Bryant
January 05, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 91.2 MBIn this podcast, Barton and George sit down for a wide-ranging chat. George is a NYT Best Selling Author and top-tier digital marketer. He has helped hundreds of the largest companies in the world ethically scale their businesses by deepening their relationships with their customers... and creating transformational breakthroughs that help them accomplish their goals. He believes a company’s financial success is directly dependent on the amount of value they share before AND after a pu...
Episode 3: How to take BIG leaps in Personal Growth and What That Means For Those In Your Life
December 05, 2019 11:00 - 55 minutes - 75.5 MBEpisode 3: How to take BIG leaps in Personal Growth and What That Means For Those In Your Life Keith initially started with a story about how he survived drowning when he was 12 years old and how that molded his mentality -- sometimes benefiting him and leading him to think that he could survive anything that came along his way, and at other moments causing difficult angst. The journey each and every single person takes in this lifetime comes with a mixture of joys, heartaches, and d...
Ep #3 - How to take BIG leaps in Personal Growth and What That Means For Those In Your Life with Keith Norris
December 05, 2019 11:00 - 55 minutes - 75.5 MBEpisode 3: How to take BIG leaps in Personal Growth and What That Means For Those In Your Life Keith initially started with a story about how he survived drowning when he was 12 years old and how that molded his mentality -- sometimes benefiting him and leading him to think that he could survive anything that came along his way, and at other moments causing difficult angst. The journey each and every single person takes in this lifetime comes with a mixture of joys, heartaches, a...
Dealing with relationships, whether it be romantic, platonic or professional
November 22, 2019 11:00 - 55 minutes - 75.5 MBKeith Norris is a former standout athlete and military veteran. He is an elite strength and conditioning specialist and habit change expert with over 40 years of in-the-trenches experience. As a serial entrepreneur in the health and wellness space, he is a co-founder and Chief Development Officer of the largest Paleo platform in the world, Paleo f(x). As well, Keith is the CEO of Phoenix Equipment Group, LLC, and a founding member of ID Life, a company whose mission is health and lifestyl...
Ep #2 - How Your Environment is Screwing with You —Aaron Alexander
November 06, 2019 05:00 - 46 minutes - 63.5 MBEpisode #2 - How Your Environment is Screwing with You —Aaron Alexander In this podcast, Barton talks with Aaron Alexander, a movement expert, wide reader and movement/habits author. We dive into what keeps us in flexing our visions with what we do everyday. “They say that the way you walk in a room is how you walk through life.” The human brain works in a two-way communication scheme where you take in what the environment gives you through your senses and formulate a response ...
Episode #1 - How your environment is f with you and what to do about it —Aaron Alexander
November 06, 2019 05:00 - 46 minutes - 63.5 MBEpisode #1 - How your environment is f with you and what to do about it —Aaron Alexander In this podcast, I am with Aaron Alexander, a movement expert, a wide reader and an author. We dive into what keeps us in flexing our visions with what we do everyday. They say that the way you walk in a room is how you walk through life. It's not just about posture, but also about the energy you exude with how you carry yourself. The human brain works in a two-way communication scheme where ...
Episode #2 - How your environment is f with you and what to do about it —Aaron Alexander
November 06, 2019 05:00 - 46 minutes - 63.5 MBEpisode #2 - How your environment is f with you and what to do about it —Aaron Alexander In this podcast, I am with Aaron Alexander, a movement expert, a wide reader and an author. We dive into what keeps us in flexing our visions with what we do everyday. They say that the way you walk in a room is how you walk through life. It's not just about posture, but also about the energy you exude with how you carry yourself. The human brain works in a two-way communication scheme where ...
Ep #1 - How To Be a Better Man: Brian Bradley - Who Tony Robbins Goes to for Advice
October 02, 2019 05:05 - 48 minutes - 66.4 MBEpisode #1 - How To Be a Better Man: Brian Bradley - Who Tony Robbins Goes to for Advice In this podcast, Barton talks with Brian Bradley. He talked about being responsible with resolving one’s chronic pain, introspecting into the losses we endure in life and extracting lessons from it. At the end of each day, small gestures for oneself like sitting and taking the time to concentrate on your body and which part of your body feels pain, helps in recognizing that each part is tied ...
Episode #1 - How To Be a Better Man: Brian Bradley - Who Tony Robbins Goes to for Advice
October 02, 2019 05:05 - 48 minutes - 66.4 MBEpisode #1 - How To Be a Better Man: Brian Bradley - Who Tony Robbins Goes to for Advice In this podcast, I am with Brian Bradley, a life coach and an Egoscue trainer. He talked about being responsible with resolving one’s chronic pain, introspecting into the losses we had in life and extracting the lessons from it. Chronic pain does not only imply physical pain, rather it is anything that causes us misery and shy us away to confronting ourselves, whether it’s emotional, physiological ...