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CTP BooksAuthorsWeekApril2026B (S3EAprSpecial4) The GOAT Within
Exploring more of the fascinating intersection of Activism, Community Engagement, Faith / Religion, Human Nature, Politics, Social Issues, and beyond
We talk with Timothy Ward about The Goat Within and why strength, cardio fitness, nutrition, and recovery matter more for longevity than most people realize. We connect his personal story to a practical system that helps adults reverse midlife decline and build real fitness momentum.
• Books and Authors Week context plus behind-the-scenes setup
• Timothy’s New Hampshire upbringing and a quick reality check on today’s housing bubble
• Childhood abuse and why sports become a safe place
• The shift from gym guesses to exercise science and kinesiology
• Why fitness is misunderstood and why recovery is a pillar, not a bonus
• Making a fitness book actionable with QR codes, links, and an interactive learning path
• Toxic food and the slow damage that shows up in your 40s and 50s
• The overlooked risk factor of low strength and low cardiorespiratory fitness
• The Fitness Quadrant blueprint and how momentum builds over 8 to 18 weeks
• Supplements vs peptide therapy and why education comes first
• LifeStrong ecosystems, home gym setups, and customized training
• Faith, mental health, and closing reflections
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Exploring more of the fascinating intersection of Activism, Community Engagement, Faith / Religion, Human Nature, Politics, Social Issues, and beyond
We talk with Timothy Ward about The Goat Within and why strength, cardio fitness, nutrition, and recovery matter more for longevity than most people realize. We connect his personal story to a practical system that helps adults reverse midlife decline and build real fitness momentum.
• Books and Authors Week context plus behind-the-scenes setup
• Timothy’s New Hampshire upbringing and a quick reality check on today’s housing bubble
• Childhood abuse and why sports become a safe place
• The shift from gym guesses to exercise science and kinesiology
• Why fitness is misunderstood and why recovery is a pillar, not a bonus
• Making a fitness book actionable with QR codes, links, and an interactive learning path
• Toxic food and the slow damage that shows up in your 40s and 50s
• The overlooked risk factor of low strength and low cardiorespiratory fitness
• The Fitness Quadrant blueprint and how momentum builds over 8 to 18 weeks
• Supplements vs peptide therapy and why education comes first
• LifeStrong ecosystems, home gym setups, and customized training
• Faith, mental health, and closing reflections
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00:00Hello, welcome to another episode of Perstitutionalist Podcast.
00:06I am your host, Joseph M. Leonard.
00:09That's L-E-N-A-R-D.
00:12It looks French.
00:13It's not.
00:14It's Leonard without an O.
00:17Thank you for tuning in, as Graham Norton used to say, on his show.
00:24Let's get on with the show!
00:28For those looking on the five behind-the-scenes video channels, sneak peek videos, you will
00:40see, oh, first let me say, this is a cheat intro again, kind of like I do on Saturdays
00:47if I'm presenting a video exclusive from prior, the same cheat.
00:54You'll see the same, or here on the 40-ish audio-only platforms, this same mini intro, but I am
01:06wearing the Book of Kennedy Project Carpe Diem book shirt because welcome to Books Slash Authors
01:17Week, just one week for April of 2026.
01:23Prior, I had Books Slash Authors Weeks this time to get caught up on some back interviews
01:32of authors.
01:33I'm doing a singular Books Slash Authors Week for April 2026, Monday through Friday.
01:44Also, I want to say, at the end of each episode, I will tack on one of my newer, more
01:54recent,
01:55Suno-created songs.
01:57If you remember, my dad, Ted Leonard Jr., the Polk Kings, tinyurl.com, the Polk Kings, to
02:05see that tribute page to him.
02:07He had a record deal.
02:08I used to write and record music the old way, you know, get out a piece of sheet music and
02:14write out the actual song on the sheet music, the chords, the notes, the lyrics.
02:23But, all my equipment's been long sold off, but thanks to Suno AI Music System, I'm back
02:34to writing lyrics and releasing music again.
02:39Thank you, Suno.
02:41So, each day, Monday through Friday of Books Slash Authors Week, 2026, April, I will tack
02:52on a Suno-aided-created new song from Joseph and Leonard, J. Leonard, Detroit, on Suno.
03:03So, thank you to them.
03:05And, I've already delayed things, so without further ado, let's get to an author.
03:11Joining me today is Timothy Ward.
03:14Before we get into the who he is, why he's here, he's got a story to tell about Xfinity.
03:22Go ahead and say what you were saying in the green room.
03:25Oh, Joseph, I love you already.
03:27Thank you, because Xfinity is driving me crazy.
03:33Yeah, up and down.
03:35Oh, for the second day.
03:37Like, I was on three shows yesterday.
03:39Today, I'm booked for three.
03:41And, unbeknownst, they don't announce it.
03:43They're in my, quote-unquote, area, laying with the lines.
03:46So, I said, you know, you've got to be kidding me.
03:50So, the show, you know, with the internet's going in and out and all of this crazy stuff.
03:55So, to come here for you, Joseph, I just drove like a madman over to a business friend of mine's
04:04office to use.
04:05And, I barely made it here for our one o'clock tea time here, as I call it, right?
04:13Yeah, because two days ago, we were supposed to record, and there was a mix-up of time then.
04:20So, it's like, oh, boy.
04:22Yeah, yeah.
04:23He's going to think I'm a nut job if I miss this one.
04:28So, yeah, you were saying, you've got to tune into the Wi-Fi there.
04:34And, oh, how can you set up?
04:35Where can you set up?
04:37What room can you set up?
04:39Oh, yeah.
04:39Yeah.
04:40I feel like I just ran a marathon in about 32 minutes.
04:45I got the Wi-Fi wrong, and I'm like, he gave me the wrong Wi-Fi because it's a new
04:49place I just set up here so I can get on with you.
04:52And I must have typed that thing in six times.
04:55I'm like, oh, no.
04:56Oh, no.
04:57He gave me the wrong Wi-Fi.
04:59Anyway, God bless us.
05:01Here we are.
05:02Yeah, thanks.
05:04Somebody doesn't want us to record.
05:06Hey, that's one way of looking.
05:08I'm looking at it.
05:09All right.
05:10At any rate.
05:12So, Timothy Ward, The Goat Within book, as long as it isn't The Sheep Within, we've got enough sheeple on
05:22the planet.
05:23Oh, yeah, we do.
05:24So, if for nothing else I wanted you on so I could make that lame pun.
05:30We're done now.
05:32Bye-bye, everybody.
05:32You know what?
05:34You just made me think.
05:35Maybe I should have called the book The Lion Within.
05:38Right.
05:39You know?
05:40Exactly.
05:41The next edition, right?
05:43Absolutely.
05:43You can write it.
05:44Well, there's short stories, there's novella, there's novelette, then there's novel.
05:51I invented the novel X, E-X-D for extended.
05:56I love it.
05:56Because if there's a novella and a novelette is shorter than the average novel, a novel X would be like
06:04the director's cut.
06:05You could do The Lion Within as an extended version, expanded version, or novel X, E-X-D for expanded.
06:15You could do an expanded version of The Goat Within, call it The Lion Within.
06:21Oh, you know what?
06:21You're getting me thinking now.
06:23Yeah, add some extra chapters to that.
06:25Oh, yeah.
06:26Oh, yeah.
06:27So, indeed, at any rate.
06:29But before we get into The Goat Within, about lifespan, longevity, and fitness, let's do the proverbial Christian show, pun
06:41intended, proverbs, proverbial first question.
06:44Where were you born and raised?
06:47Where are you now?
06:49Significant places you've been in between.
06:52How much time you spend in prison for what?
06:55All that nitty-gritty.
06:57You did your research.
07:00Yeah, no, for the record, he's laughing.
07:03He knows it's a joke.
07:04It's a joke.
07:05I'm just joking.
07:06But, yeah, where were you born and raised and all that stuff?
07:10So, I'm coming to you right now from a beautiful coastline up in New Hampshire, where I was born and
07:17raised.
07:18Rye, New Hampshire, Newcastle, New Hampshire, little seaside town north of Boston, about maybe an hour north of Boston, Massachusetts.
07:27Everybody knows that, right?
07:29And I'm south of Portland, Maine, which would be the next kind of big city.
07:34Portland, Maine is about 50 minutes north of me.
07:37So, I'm right in the middle.
07:39Absolute live-free-or-die state of New Hampshire.
07:42Love New Hampshire.
07:44It's where I'm raised.
07:45It's where I know lots and lots of people.
07:48In particular, the coastline here.
07:49When people come here from all over the world now, you know, New York, Europe, Canada, Boston, they come here
07:58thinking it's going to be a little, you know, cow, you know, fields and cows and, you know, pigs and,
08:05you know, where are all the shotguns and the pitchforks?
08:08And they come here and they're like, wow, this place is right on the ocean, 16 miles of coastline, absolutely
08:15gorgeous.
08:16And this area has absolutely exploded in growth, unfortunately.
08:21It's okay for a little growth.
08:23I get it.
08:23But it is really the epicenter in the northeast or one of the epicenters where prices of real estate and
08:31houses and buildings going on.
08:33It's at such a fever pitch, you wonder, how long can this go on for?
08:38My family, you know, I've got my grandfather, great-grandfather that lived here.
08:43They were lobstermen.
08:44Little boats, that's how they made their, you know, made their living.
08:47That ran up all the way to my older brother was a lifelong lobsterman, so he carried that tradition on.
08:53I'm probably the one that broke it.
08:56I eat lobster.
08:57I tell people I'm so sick of lobster.
09:00I had it my whole life, right?
09:00But people are fascinated with lobster, New England lobster, all that sort of stuff.
09:05We grew up in that town where it was little, small, Newcastle, New Hampshire, small little town.
09:11Lou Collar, you know, a couple fishing piers, you know, tiny.
09:14It's a little island in between Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Rye, New Hampshire.
09:18If anybody cares to look it up quick on Google or whatever, you'll see this little island.
09:23About 900 people live on it, connected by, you know, two little bridges.
09:26My mom's an artist, very well known around here, painting different landscapes and all that sort of stuff.
09:32I guess I had that small town experience growing up.
09:35Once it was discovered, the houses here, you know, beautiful house on the ocean when I was young.
09:42I just turned 61 last week.
09:44I remember as a little kid, you know, delivering the newspaper, all that stuff.
09:48You could buy a house for 80 grand on the ocean.
09:51Now, those same houses are going for 6, 7 million and more.
09:56So you sort of itch your head.
09:58What is that?
09:59Is that really how much the dollar has devalued over, you know?
10:03No.
10:04It has devalued a ton, but I don't think that much.
10:09We're in for another bubble burst again.
10:12I agree.
10:13Housing is so overvalued again.
10:15I fear another 2008 because people will, when they correct, people will be underwater in their mortgage.
10:25In like 2008, they'll walk away.
10:27Banks will be holding a bunch of foreclosed properties.
10:31Yep.
10:31So hopefully some things can be done in the interim so that it eases down, doesn't collapse.
10:38But I want to say the dog is trying to steal the show.
10:42We could see him in the mirror there.
10:44Oh, that's my buddy.
10:46That's his dog.
10:47I'm using his place right now.
10:49Yeah.
10:50Yeah.
10:50We could see him in the mirror on the door there.
10:53Oh, Theo, yeah.
10:54Trying to steal the shot there.
10:57Hi, Theo.
10:57Theo's protecting me.
11:00He's got your six, apparently.
11:03All right.
11:04So give Theo a hug for us when we're done.
11:07You bet.
11:07You bet.
11:08Tell us about The Goat Within.
11:11What was the genesis, another Christian pun, right?
11:15The genesis of the book.
11:18Yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:19Well, it's funny.
11:22So I've been involved in sort of a long story.
11:25Let me give you just the quick background of how I ended up being an author of what now
11:31is a best-selling book now, unbeknownst to me at the time of writing it.
11:36It's the first book I ever wrote.
11:37But let me tell you how I got there.
11:38When I was young, sounds like a song, when I was young, pretty tough upbringing, pretty
11:43heavily abused physically, beat up in the hospital from my dad, both my older brother
11:49and me were, and my mom, unfortunately, really had some tough years.
11:54In today's world, he'd be straight car ride to prison, right?
11:59But back in the 70s, early 70s, it was a different era, all that sort of stuff.
12:07And so between the beatings, between the black eyes and the, you know, busted lips and all
12:13that stuff, I was naturally good at athletics at a young age.
12:19And that became my safe place.
12:21That became my happy place.
12:24I was obviously, as a young kid, six, seven, eight years old, you know, a world of hurt.
12:30I didn't know what to think of it.
12:31I just know there were a lot of tears, a lot of crying, a lot of hurt.
12:35Um, um, so, uh, once I picked up a basketball or a baseball, man, I was good at it.
12:41And it felt like, wow, people are actually cheering for me.
12:45You know, the, the, my, my buddies, uh, parents are like, wow, you scored 40 points and you
12:50this and you, so it felt great.
12:52And of course.
12:53Yeah.
12:54Positive attention that you weren't used to.
12:57It wasn't used to.
12:58Cause I was, I lived in fear.
13:00I lived in tears, you know, really worried to even say something wrong.
13:04Right.
13:05So, so that became something that all I wanted to do was play sports, obviously.
13:10And so it became a year round thing for me.
13:13And I was good at the football, basketball, baseball, soccer, you name it.
13:17And so I was, you know, 364 days a year.
13:20That's all I wanted to do.
13:22And that progressed into, you know, uh, grade school and then junior high and then into the
13:28high school years.
13:29But, um, uh, I got scouted by, um, uh, a couple of minor league, uh, baseball teams, the Paw
13:36Sox and all that sort of stuff.
13:38It was right around when I was 17 years old that, um, um, I had an okay game and the,
13:45you
13:45and, uh, uh, the beatings were still not as, as, as, as, uh, uh, frequent, but the mental
13:56stuff started to happen, scream and tell me I was a loser telling me it just, just awful
14:02stuff.
14:02Right.
14:03And, uh, so one night, uh, coming home, you know, 11 o'clock at night, you know, uh, I,
14:08I just got the, the absolute tongue lashing because the Red Sox, uh, you know, uh, minor league
14:15team, you know, they, they cross you off the list because you didn't have a good game
14:18and you're awful and all that stuff.
14:20Well, I lost it.
14:22I lost it in the car ride home from dad and, uh, uh, did some pretty unsavory things physically
14:29and, um, uh, just exploded as a young man.
14:33I couldn't take it anymore.
14:34You know, watching my mom get beat up all, all the bad stuff we've heard stories and,
14:38you know, I lived it and I'm sure there's a lot of people that have had it worse than
14:41me in those situations.
14:42Right.
14:43So, uh, that was the last time the guy ever laid hands on me.
14:47Um, uh, and I saw fear in his eyes because some of the things I told him I was going
14:51to do to him, if he ever touches me or my mother again.
14:54Well, that's usually what a bully needs, right?
14:57A bully remains a bully till he stood up to.
15:02And cause a lot, we don't know it at the time, but as we grow older, we, I've had bullseye
15:09the clown, um, he became a clown out of bullying and hence his name bullseye.
15:17Bullseye.
15:17Yeah.
15:17Yeah.
15:18Yeah.
15:18You know, the bully it's the in, and I go into it to a degree in my, the book of
15:25Kennedy
15:25project, Carpe Diem Natasha, who bullied Kennedy in right.
15:31It's an insecurity in the person that causes them to lash out at others to deal with their
15:40low self-esteem.
15:42Right.
15:42Right.
15:43But you don't know that in that time and place.
15:48Yeah.
15:48At seven, eight, nine years old, you, you can't think of, you, you, you don't have the smarts
15:52to think about that.
15:53So you can't cope with it.
15:54Right.
15:55So by the time I was, you know, in my middle teens, I started, you know, okay, this is,
16:00this isn't going to happen anymore.
16:01Uh, so, um, um, you know, to move on, uh, you know, from that situation.
16:06So, um, um, naturally in athletics, when you get to that age of your, you know, 14, 15,
16:1316, certainly 17, you know, your performance, um, uh, becomes more important to keep climbing
16:19the ladder in the athletic pyramid.
16:22So that meant training, working out, hitting the gym, all these different, you know, things
16:27that we would do.
16:29So obviously I went in like 99.9% of kids that age, even today, they go do it incorrectly.
16:37So I started to work out and really one of my motivations was I wanted to, I wanted to
16:43physically dominate my father.
16:46And, and, and so it was coupled with wanting to be a better athlete, all that sort of stuff.
16:50So that went on and, uh, I got scholarships into, you know, division three and division
16:55two colleges for basketball.
16:57Right.
16:57And I kept my training going, uh, in the gym fitness wise, but it wasn't until I was in
17:02my, probably my late twenties.
17:05But I, you know, I, I, I got, I got a can't pass, but Spike Lee tells us white men
17:10can't
17:10jump, right?
17:13I had to throw that in.
17:15Sorry.
17:16Sorry.
17:17Go on.
17:18He's right to a point, but you know, some of them can really jump.
17:22And I was one of them that could jump.
17:25That's funny.
17:27Uh, so, uh, you know, I was very serious about my health and fitness and, you know, it felt
17:34good to be strong and all the things that I guess a young, a lot of young guys, you know,
17:39even in their twenties that, you know, thirties, we want that.
17:41Right.
17:42So, um, I was just a little bit hyper about it because it felt great, but I started to
17:47plateau.
17:48I couldn't really get anywhere with my training.
17:51And then I met an exercise scientist and told me I was doing everything incorrect.
17:58And I was like, what are you talking about?
18:00I mean, it's just going into the gym.
18:01It's just work.
18:02He sat me down and in about two hours, I was speechless at the depth of science involved
18:09with fitness and, and, and, uh, working out and, and all the things that society thinks
18:17fitness is in working out is, I got to tell you something, Joseph, it is the, the most
18:24misunderstood thing under the sun.
18:26It really, really is.
18:28And so my track went into exercise sciences, exercise kinesiology, some education.
18:33Uh, I ended up working with some, uh, PhD guys, um, uh, really, really bright, um, um, uh,
18:42scientists, researchers, and completely immersed myself into the science of fitness.
18:50Fitness doesn't mean just lifting weights.
18:53It really means, uh, nutritional sciences, uh, cardiovascular sciences.
18:58And what I ended up really learning is rest and recovery.
19:02Those are big time components, right?
19:05So, so a lot of people wanted to work with me.
19:08You know, I've been doing this for 30 years, right?
19:10Uh, so, uh, I started to work with people and it got pretty popular in terms of, uh, training
19:17people and working with people.
19:18Uh, so what happened is I really started to understand, you know, what a brand really was
19:26and how you can connect with people to really, really, um, address real, real health issues
19:34people are having.
19:35And this is one of the reasons why I wrote the book.
19:39So, uh, yeah, in your, in your bio though, yeah, it says like translating all this into
19:45words was challenging and it's, yeah.
19:50How do you turn all that, especially physical things and working out and are, are there indeed
20:00illustrations and images in the book to help the words depict what needs to be done?
20:08You know, that's a, that's an absolute fantastic question.
20:11And the answer is yes, there is, but it's even better.
20:15Cause I do have a few QR codes in the book, which, which my publisher loved.
20:20He said, man, that is such a great idea.
20:22So, you know, we go into it a little bit, but the, the honest answer is it's such a massive
20:26body of work.
20:28You couldn't possibly write a book to, to cover all that stuff.
20:33Right.
20:33So, so the, or it would be way too long.
20:36It'd be more in peace.
20:37It would cost too much.
20:39Nobody could afford to buy it.
20:41So you do like I do, you include bonus material in the book.
20:45You said QR codes that'll take you to additional things online.
20:49I do that with all my books too.
20:52I provide links.
20:53I didn't think I'm a former IT guy and I'm not right.
20:58QR code.
20:59My books are like, duh, I should be doing that.
21:04Obviously.
21:05And now going forward, thanks to you, I will.
21:09It was pretty, it was pretty cool because my, my publisher, who's got really, really deep
21:15experience in the industry, he was like, wow, that really makes the book interactive.
21:20And I said, exactly.
21:21Because my mission, my mission is really, really to get society to understand this stuff
21:30at a, at a, at a, at a simpler level yet executable, uh, something that they can really start to
21:37understand what it means.
21:39So, um, I really thought a lot about the name, the message is a lot to it.
21:44It really challenged me.
21:45It's just what I'm asking people to do in fitness and their health.
21:50Right.
21:50Goat is obvious.
21:51People associate that with sports.
21:54And in fact, uh, uh, I don't know when this will air, but full disclosure, we're
21:59recording in December of 2025.
22:02So this will probably air in 2026.
22:05I think out now or out soon, there's a movie called goat or something like that.
22:11It's an animated thing about a goat that's too small, but wants to play basketball or
22:18whatever.
22:19But back to the QR thing, I at least finally got to put QR codes on my business card, but
22:28I don't have them in my books yet.
22:30So, but yeah, there's an animated movie coming out, uh, with a story.
22:37Yeah.
22:37So we all are so associate go, of course, greatest of all time acronym there with sports
22:46related things.
22:52So, so here's some, here's some stuff.
22:54So, so my website also, and we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll get to that address here in a
22:58little bit, uh, um, also has a lot of information on the website.
23:03So obviously those links are in the book and all that.
23:06So people could kind of go on a little bit of a journey.
23:08They can take it as far as they want.
23:10Um, but here, here's the bottom line, uh, you know, society, especially the U S, um,
23:17is really, there is an absolute tsunami that's growing bigger and bigger every year.
23:22People are really, really sick and nose diving into decay, especially people that are 45, 55,
23:3065, 70.
23:31That's the age group where, where people really start to, to, to lose their physicality.
23:38And there's a reason for that.
23:39And the book really covers about it.
23:41The book isn't all about working out.
23:43A third of it is about, uh, the toxic world we live in.
23:47And so I go into that for people.
23:49Um, you, that's the first thing I teach them.
23:52Listen, you have to understand that the, the, the mass produced food industry is loaded with
24:00toxins, toxins that literally take years to tear your body apart.
24:05It starts showing up in your forties and fifties.
24:08We're resilient when we're, you know, 15, 20, 30 years old.
24:11So this book and my whole brand life strong is geared to take 45 to 75 year old men and
24:19women in, I build ecosystems for them.
24:22So, and I mean, like you want to, you want to turn the ship around and add 10 years, 15
24:28years to your life the right way.
24:30This is what we do for people and we are busy and yeah, I'm a former IT guy.
24:37The old saying garbage in garbage out in this case, garbage in created garbage body.
24:43Yes.
24:43There you go.
24:44So, so this is a typical visit to the doctor.
24:47I train a lot of doctors and it's not just in the U S anymore.
24:50It's in Italy, Singapore.
24:52So I do a lot of online work where I customize stuff for people.
24:56I literally videotape custom workouts for them, narrate them.
25:01So they get this, this, this silver platter of stuff customized to them.
25:06And a lot of people that are executives and really, you know, really want, they want answers
25:11and I give it to them and we, we really drill down and deliver them an incredible, incredible
25:17ecosystem.
25:18All right.
25:19So here's, you go to the doctor, right?
25:22This is tip.
25:22This is so typical.
25:24And you look at the, you know, three or four big markers that they always talk about, right?
25:29Diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure.
25:31You do all your checkups and all that stuff.
25:33Right.
25:33And let's look at the stats on some of those things.
25:36Right.
25:36So we know that high blood pressure adds about 20, maybe 25% increase to, uh, early, early
25:43death, your, your lifespan.
25:45Right.
25:45Uh, we have type two diabetes, which is all caused by food.
25:50All this stuff is all caused by toxic food, by the way.
25:53Right.
25:53Uh, type two, two type two diabetes is around 30% increase in early, early death.
26:00Right.
26:00Dying young.
26:01Right.
26:01You go to high blood pressure.
26:04It's about 30, maybe 34%.
26:06And so you check all your vitals and all that sort of stuff.
26:10And, you know, uh, they'll either put you on pharmaceuticals, which leaves avoid them.
26:15Everybody that's listening to me, it is a slippery slope and it's not the answer.
26:19Okay.
26:20So smoking, if you're a smoker, you, and this is all published in the, you know, New England
26:25Journal of Medicine, JAMA, all these publications, all the, all these studies I'm talking about
26:30smoking, you have a 50% increase in your mortality.
26:34Okay.
26:3550% increase in higher risk of early death.
26:39All right.
26:39Those are staggering.
26:40Those are big numbers.
26:41So you have to manage them.
26:42Yeah.
26:43But here's what they don't tell you, Joseph.
26:45Here's what they don't.
26:46And this is all published.
26:47These are all published studies.
26:48If your muscle and strength is in the bottom 20 to 25% of your age group, you have a
26:58250%
26:59rate of early death.
27:03If your heart and lungs are in the bottom 20% of your age group, you have a 400%
27:14increase
27:15of early death.
27:16Think of those numbers compared to what everyone's scared about.
27:20This is why longevity and wellness are becoming a very, very strong thing right now because
27:28people are starting to realize, listen, how, how did, how quick did these 50 or 60 or 70
27:34years go by in a blink of an eye?
27:36So if somebody says, listen, you could add 10 years to your life and there's really a
27:42formula to do that, right?
27:44They listen.
27:45And once they start to understand there's a system in place that you can literally start
27:51to turn the ship around and start to add years to your life.
27:55And that's what we do at Lifestrong.
27:57And that's why I wrote the book, The Goat Within.
27:59It's all about this stuff.
28:01And it's not a ghostwriter that wrote the book.
28:04I'm the guy on the floor that has worked with well over a thousand people.
28:08My sample size is so big in terms of how many men and women I've worked with and taught
28:14them a system that I've trademarked called the fitness quadrant.
28:18And it's four phases of fitness in how it applies to you.
28:23If you want a strategy on really how to press back against longevity, you know, uh, uh, early
28:31death, right?
28:32You have to have a blueprint to do it.
28:36You just can't go to planet fitness for $10 a month, get on a treadmill a couple of times
28:42a week, maybe, or not that that hurts.
28:45No, it's not that it's bad.
28:46No, you're right.
28:47I don't want to minimize it.
28:49It's better than, let me full disclosure, better than me with my health issues sitting
28:56here on the couch far too much.
28:58I don't have a gym membership whatsoever.
29:0290 pound weakling, well, 167 pound weakling, unfortunately.
29:08But yeah, I had taper heart surgery this year.
29:12So I'm finally at least now getting up and going for walks on occasion.
29:18So I get, but before with the heart issue, I couldn't do that.
29:22I couldn't make it down the block without having to stop and sit down.
29:28Right.
29:29So, yeah.
29:30Which brings up a great point that I talk about in the book.
29:33And I talk about when I, I'm starting to do public speaking gigs now for small companies
29:37that's starting to, you know, really get to be an interesting thing.
29:42Emails I get from companies saying, Hey, we, we, we'd like you to speak because you'd start
29:46talking about productivity, less sick day, all that stuff.
29:49Right.
29:49Yeah.
29:49The sedimentary lifestyle of everybody.
29:52Right.
29:52It, it, it, uh, it's a benefit to not only the employee, but the employer, because yeah,
30:03as you're suggesting them being healthier and in better shape, less sick days, less, you
30:14know, it's the roots of your entire life, your health and vitality.
30:18It really is.
30:19Everything comes back to that.
30:20And the stronger, more healthy, more vibrant you are, you're a better spouse.
30:25You're a better parent.
30:27You're a better worker.
30:28You're a better business owner.
30:29You're better in your society.
30:31You, you, you add more to it.
30:33And I talk about that in my speeches where, you know, fitness gets, gets, you know, channeled
30:39into this little workout thing.
30:40It's much bigger than that.
30:42When you take a bigger view of it, you're, you're talking about tectonic plates moving
30:47in your life.
30:48And the thing about it is there's an exact science on really how to do it properly.
30:54And there's an entry point for everybody.
30:56People that have never worked out before or never really focused on it.
31:00I love those type of people because, uh, they're the ones that want to do it, but they're
31:06intimidated.
31:07They don't want to go into a gym.
31:08Maybe they're overweight.
31:09They're a little embarrassed.
31:10I love taking people like that because they're open and they know they have to make a move when
31:16they're 40, 50, 60 years old.
31:18Those are the decades, man.
31:19If you're not doing something right around 72 years old is when it is really clear.
31:27That's when people fall off a shelf.
31:29So I'm trying to get people to avoid that and make the right decisions, the right choices.
31:35You just can't eat right and expect to really add a lot of long longevity to your life.
31:42You'll add a little bit.
31:42You can't just do resistance training, right?
31:47Light workouts.
31:48You can't just do that.
31:50You can't just do cardiovascular work.
31:53This is a combination of four major phases of fitness and each one of those components
32:00in my fitness quadrant, right?
32:02They have a big dropdown list of science underneath them.
32:04I do all that work.
32:06People just look at that quadrant and I tell them this is, this is an easy plan.
32:10How you can, how you can enter into this little ecosystem I built for you.
32:15And then guess what happens about eight to nine weeks in, they start to feel the effects
32:22like, wow, I'm sleeping better.
32:24I've lost seven pounds.
32:26I feel stronger.
32:27People are saying you look different, you know, then 12 to 18 weeks hits.
32:32Oh man.
32:32It that's when they hit a phase.
32:35What I call in the book and I call in, in, in the real world with, with a lot of
32:38clients
32:39I work with, that is called fitness momentum.
32:41They've put those four pieces together the right way, the right diet, the right, you know,
32:47lifting some weights, the right cardio work, the right rest and recovery.
32:51That's when the synergy starts to really pull.
32:56And then we have other things that we can add to that.
32:59People are talking about, I don't know if you've heard or seen anything, Joseph, on peptides.
33:05But they are, I'm certified level one.
33:08I'm getting my second, uh, certification in peptide therapy.
33:12We work with a peptide company.
33:14I'm telling you, anybody listening to this, it is going to wipe out the supplement companies.
33:21Supplements are, you know, they've been around forever and they, they've really gone so far
33:27overboard with their promises and guarantees.
33:29And it's a multi-billion dollar industry.
33:31You're taking in a pill or a tablet or a drink.
33:33And a few of them are good.
33:36Most of them, they really don't do much.
33:39Snake oil.
33:40Yeah.
33:41Most of them are snake oil.
33:42They really are, you know?
33:43So, so peptides, they are messengers.
33:49They're naturally occurring in your body.
33:50We lose our ability to produce them as we get into our forties and fifties.
33:54I'm telling you, we're doing a whole series on peptides, uh, on our website.
33:59Now we're, we're rebuilding that part of the website.
34:02Um, so by, you know, by January, by the time people hear this, I beg you to go on and
34:07listen
34:07and learn.
34:08Education is number one.
34:10You get, you have to have knowledge.
34:11And this is what we do for people.
34:13Uh, we do a lot of one-on-one work.
34:15Uh, we do a lot of husbands and wives.
34:18Um, we do a deep dive and I tell you, I'm blessed.
34:22Uh, I feel like, uh, God put me on the earth to do this.
34:25And it's a big turnaround for me getting beat up when I was five, six, seven years old to
34:31be in 61 and now having a brand where I'm helping people.
34:35I'm not beating them up.
34:36Right.
34:38And it's full circle for me.
34:41Yeah.
34:41I go in, in the terrorist, not the terror strikes, the book of Kennedy project, Carpe Diem talking
34:49about bullying.
34:50And you wouldn't, as bad as it is to look back on, you wouldn't be who you are and where
34:56you are today, though, without it, you would be a different person.
35:01So I don't like to say there's a positive to it, but I think you understand what I, without
35:08it, you would be a different person.
35:11So indeed, what is that website for people to look for more info and to reach out to you?
35:18Uh, you mentioned life strong.
35:21So if I were a betting man, I would bet that might be the name of the site.
35:26It is.
35:27There's a couple of ways to get to my site.
35:29Very good.
35:29Joseph.
35:31I honestly didn't know that.
35:33I didn't look it up.
35:36So it's so intuitively.
35:39It's life strong.net.
35:42Okay.
35:42Okay.
35:43And you'll see about the fitness quadrant.
35:45I've got some freebies in there, but there's a lot of information in there.
35:48And people can get in touch with me through there.
35:50Uh, and my whole mission is to really help people that, that want to do this right.
35:55A lot of people don't want to do it right.
35:56They, they sort of skip through it.
35:58And, uh, Hey, we're all looking for cheats.
36:01We're all looking for hacks.
36:02Uh, I mentioned most supplements are snake oil, but with my health conditions and that, I
36:10can't show you, but there's a dozen pill bottles over there.
36:14There's another dozen.
36:15And so bottles of supplements are over there.
36:20Uh, so.
36:23Yeah, it's a, it's a journey.
36:25Uh, some supplements are good, right?
36:27So I have, I have all that on my website here.
36:29Some choices you may want to think about.
36:31Um, uh, I have that.
36:33I, we set up home gyms for people.
36:35So I have a list, very inexpensive to set up a little workout area.
36:39And we actually have videos for at home workouts, real basic, and we can get real complex if
36:45we want to, but this, this is the way we're reaching out and trying to get people engaged
36:49in their health and longevity.
36:52And, um, it's been going very, very well.
36:54The, the, the, the other thing is the book, go on to Amazon.
36:58If the spirit moves you go on, it'll be the best $18 you ever spend and just read through
37:03it.
37:04I promise you, you're going to get stuff out of this book that are going to make you think,
37:09Hmm, maybe I should start, start doing a few things here.
37:13Maybe I can't handle it all at once, which is fine, but just to trigger people to think
37:17about it a little bit, um, uh, I, I think is, is a key issue.
37:22Uh, we don't bite.
37:24We, we just love when people communicate with us.
37:26And of course, when we dive into, to really write an ecosystem for people, we are all in
37:31for them.
37:31We want them to succeed and really change their, change their trajectory of their life.
37:38And I ask everybody, once you're with me and we're doing these, this training, please
37:44share it with your loved ones, share it with your kids, your spouse.
37:47Get them engaged, pass on, you know, pass on the light.
37:51Uh, uh, now I will tell you, um, uh, with your podcast, Joseph, one of the reasons I
37:56was, was, uh, really interested to connect with you is my entire life, uh, on top of
38:03the abuse and all that stuff.
38:04I always got told that, you know, church was, was, was evil and it was bad and it's all this
38:10bad.
38:10So I grew up thinking, ah, what was it?
38:13Ah, stay away from those, those Bible thumpers and the, all this stuff, right?
38:18Well, let me tell you something.
38:19Uh, I got baptized four years ago and, um, uh, I am a, a, a full-on Christian.
38:27Uh, I absolutely am amazed at how comforting it is.
38:34Oh, you're talking physical health.
38:37It's part of better mental health.
38:39Yep.
38:40Really?
38:40And I was going to close out with a joke.
38:43And since we're talking mental health now, and yeah, uh, uh, faith being a good, strong
38:49part of that, uh, that thank you, Timothy straight from the mental ward for coming on
38:59for the benefit of the transcript.
39:01He's laughing at the joke.
39:04We're laughing, right?
39:05The book is the goat within the site is lifestrong.net Timothy ward and guest appearance.
39:13It's by CO the dog.
39:16That's right.
39:17I'll say hi to Theo for everyone.
39:21Take care.
39:22God bless.
39:23You bet.
39:23Thank you, Joseph.
39:24God bless you.
39:24Bye-bye.
39:30As a family friend, I cannot wait to meet you.
39:36I feel already know you.
39:41They waited and prayed, watched the calendar turn.
39:47Now a brand new heartbeat has made their whole world turn.
39:53Little hands and tiny feet, a gift straight from above.
39:59God already knew you, formed you in his love.
40:06We anxiously await thee, little one so dear.
40:13A blessing in the making, your arrival drawing near.
40:19For Leon, the legacy lives on.
40:25A new page in the story.
40:29The journey's just begun.
40:33Respectfully, in family tradition.
40:38Your gracious mom and dad will try their best in life.
40:43So nothing good, you'll be missing.
40:47Salutations for Leon.
40:51Congratulations to mom and dad.
40:55No doubt you'll be a stellar future college grad.
41:00Legacy continues.
41:15He'll teach you how to pray, how to love and how to give.
41:21How to stand up tall, even when life makes you bend.
41:28Outrooted deep in faith, in the values they hold true.
41:35Every hug, every lesson points your heart toward what is good.
41:41So good, proper life to live.
41:48From the ones who came before you, to the ones still yet to be.
41:54The chain of love keeps rolling, and now it rolls through thee.
42:02A Christian home, a praying heart.
42:05That's the greatest gift of all.
42:08Little Leon, welcome.
42:12Answer, heaven's call for Leon.
42:17The legacy lives on, a brand new chapter written underneath God's dawn.
42:28Your gracious parents smiling, doing all they can.
42:35So in this life you'll miss nothing good.
42:39My little man, congratulations mom and dad.
42:44Here's to Leon's name, a future full of promise.
42:52Never gonna be the same.
42:59Legacy continues.
43:03And this boy so new.
43:06We thank the Lord above, for bringing him into view.
43:17Legacy continues.
43:21Welcome to the world, sweet Leon.
43:27Legacy continues.
43:31God bless you, little one.
43:52Hec take a living.
43:55We went from brother, can you spare a dime?
43:58Nowadays brother, can you spare some time?
44:03Fast paced, hectic days.
44:06Need return to simpler ways.
44:09Get it quick, need slow it down.
44:12We're lost and need be refound.
44:15Can we turn it around?
44:20We went from bread lines to deadline.
44:24From brother, can you spare a dime?
44:27To brother, can you spare some time?
44:33Get it quick, need to slow it down.
44:38Get it quick, need to slow it down.
44:39All this gold, can't buy solid ground.
44:44Fast paced, hard skipping every sign.
44:49We're losing ground.
44:53Brother, can you spare some time?
45:01Scream glow, midnight.
45:05Scream glow, midnight.
45:06Eyes still wire.
45:09Chasing every little fire.
45:12But the hot chocolate's gone cold.
45:16The kid's outgrown.
45:18And we missed it.
45:20And we missed it, scrolling on our phones.
45:25Get it quick, need to slow it down.
45:31All this gold, can't buy solid ground.
45:35Fast paced, hard skipping every sign.
45:41We're losing ground.
45:43And we're losing ground.
45:45Brother, can you spare some time?
45:50Maybe trade this rush for a walk round the block.
45:54Talk like we used to talk.
45:59Hey, counting blessings.
46:03It's not the overtime, just your hand and mine.
46:11Get it quick, need to slow it down.
46:17All this gold, can't buy solid ground.
46:24Fast paced, hard skipping every sign.
46:28We're losing ground.
46:31Brother, can you spare some time?
46:52Complex beans, yeah, we bend.
46:55We break, we mend.
46:57We got moods, we got ranges.
47:00Quick flips, strange rearrangements.
47:04Season shifting in our skin.
47:06Quiet storms behind a grin.
47:08One word, whole day changes.
47:11Heart rewrites its own pages.
47:13We're just complex beans, that's what we are.
47:16Puzzle piece hearts, little bite-sized scars.
47:19We got ups, we got downs.
47:20Still we stick around on a dime.
47:22We can turn it, turn it all around.
47:24Complex beans, tangled and true.
47:26Half of me running, half running to you.
47:29Complicated.
47:30Yeah, the book spells out the reasons.
47:33But I love you through the chapters and the season.
47:41You're a sunrise.
47:42You're a shutdown.
47:43You're a soft laugh in a letdown.
47:46You go quiet and you're singing.
47:48Every mood, every shade, still clinging.
47:52I'm a question in your doorway.
47:54You're an answer set the long way.
47:56Both hands full of tiny treason.
47:59Still we stay.
48:00Still we stay through the reasons.
48:02We're just complex beans, that's what we are.
48:05Puzzle piece hearts, little bite-sized scars.
48:07We got ups, we got downs.
48:09Still we stick around on a dime.
48:10We can turn it, turn it all around.
48:13Complex beans, tangled and true.
48:15Half of me running, half running to you.
48:18Complicated.
48:18Yeah, the book spells out the reasons.
48:22But I love you through the chapters and the seasons.
48:30Complex beans, we have moods, we have ranges.
48:35Seasons and changes.
48:39We have ups and downs.
48:41On a dime can turn it around.
48:44Complicated, the book spells out some of the reasons.
48:53Complex beans, we got moods, we got ranges.
48:57Little storms in our teacups, whole climates.
49:01Seasons and changes.
49:03We go quiet, we go wild, we go tender, then tough.
49:06One word, one look, one moment.
49:09Can be way too much.
49:13We're just complex beans.
49:16Breathing, trying to make some meaning.
49:19From all these turns and twists inside, we fall apart, then realign.
49:24We're just complex beans, reaching.
49:27Hearts cracking, open, healing.
49:29We got ups and downs.
49:31On a dime can turn it around.
49:33Oh, some days I'm the hero, some days I'm the doubt.
49:37I'm the riddle and the rumor, and I'm still working it out.
49:40Complicated, complicated like the book spells out some of the reasons.
49:44Every chapter, every scar, every quiet little treason.
49:50So if I change in the middle of a sentence, if I laugh when I'm breaking down, that's just all
49:57my different versions showing up at once right now.
50:01We're just complex beans.
50:04We're just complex beans.
50:05Breathing, trying to make some meaning.
50:10From all these turns and twists inside, we fall apart, then realign.
50:22We're just complex beans, reaching, hearts cracking open, healing.
50:27We got ups and downs.
50:29On a dime can turn it around.
50:31On a dime can turn it around.
50:34Oh.
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