Stay ConnectedHi, I’m Chase Chewning (@chase_chewning on Instagram) and this is the podcast that is devoted to help you build a life that propels you forward – EVER FORWARD. Conversations with industry leaders in health and wellness, personal development, entrepreneurship, celebrities and entertainers, creatives, military and so much more.
I am a US Army veteran, ACE Certified Health Coach, and I hold a BS in Exercise Science and MS in Health Promotion and currently live in Los Angeles, CA.
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Your April questions answered from Instagram! Make sure to follow me @chase_chewning for frequent posts around the behind-the-scenes work for the podcast, as well as insight into my life and what the Ever Forward family is up to.
Today we dive into effective time management skills, choosing the best philosophy to live your life by, safe levels of caffeine consumption, how to secure the job you always wanted as well as a few military topics from my time serving in the Army.
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We pick up with guest Craig Ballantyne from where we left of a few weeks ago at the Fitness Business Summit 2018 event. Craig shares his history of overcoming crippling anxiety and becoming the author of The Perfect Day Formula, co-host of The Empire Podcast Show with Bedros Keuilian and highly sought after business and personal development coach.
Ever Forward Radio is made possible by our proud partners. Four Sigmatic coffees, cocoas and elixirs to help us relax, be well, energize and support productivity. Bare Performance Nutrition health and performance supplements to help us before, during, and after our best workouts. Using code "EVERFORWARD" with both sponsors saves you money and keeps supporting the podcast, we thank you!
If you find value in this content we please ask you to let us know! Simply leaving a 5-star rating or review helps the podcast grow and serve even more people on their journey towards living a life ever forward.
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Today's very special guest is Mr. Fit Body Boot Camp himself - Bedros Keuilian. This man's story is one of true survival, literally, and the ability to create our own life once we decide to "MAN UP" and make our impact on this world. Fleeing Soviet Russia with his life, Bedros came to this country with nothing and creating everything from the ground up through the power of seeking mentors, coaches, and outside accountability to help him maximize his potential. Today, Bedros is a family man, multi-seven figure business owner, author and entrepreneurship mogul in the fitness business world.
This episode is brought to you by Health IQ. Your healthy lifestyle can save you over 25% on your life insurance! That's because people (like you, yes YOU) who are health conscious have a 56% lower risk of heart disease, 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality and even 22% lower risk of cancer.
Head to https://www.HealthIQ.com/EFR to take the super fun and super educational "HIQ" quiz, if you beat my score of 194 YOU WIN! Make sure to screenshot and share your results on Instagram, tag me @chewningtheelder to make sure I can send you your prize!
Max Lugavere is a filmmaker, health and science journalist and the author of the New York Times best-selling book Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life. He is also the director of the upcoming film Bread Head, the first-ever documentary about dementia prevention through diet and lifestyle. Lugavere has contributed to Medscape, Vice, Fast Company, CNN, and the Daily Beast and has been featured on NBC Nightly News, the Dr. Oz Show, the Rachael Ray Show, The Doctors, and in The Wall Street Journal. He is a sought-after speaker and has given talks at South by Southwest, TEDx, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Biohacker Summit in Stockholm, Sweden, and many others. From 2005-2011, Lugavere was a journalist for Al Gore's Current TV. He lives in New York City and Los Angeles.
You can hear Max's book for free via Audible by going to https://www.audibletrial.com/everforward or get your hard copy from Amazon here https://amzn.to/2IVQdpE.
Our first Ever Forward Foundation event is happening Saturday, April 21! Join us here in Washington, D.C. from 4-7pm in beautiful Georgetown for this event raising money for the VCU Children's Hospital. Click here for tickets or visit:
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This is the March Instagram Q&A! Follow me on IG @chewningtheelder for pretty much daily posts, stories of behind the scenes here at Ever Forward and to ask your questions each month for these question and answer episodes!
This episode is brought to you by Health IQ. Your healthy lifestyle can save you over 25% on your life insurance! That's because people (like you, yes YOU) who are health conscious have a 56% lower risk of heart disease, 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality and even 22% lower risk of cancer.
Head to https://www.HealthIQ.com/EFR to take the super fun and super educational "HIQ" quiz, if you beat my score of 194 YOU WIN! Make sure to screenshot and share your results on Instagram, tag me @chewningtheelder to make sure I can send you your prize!
On today's episode, Justin Andrews of Mind Pump Media shares with us his story of progressing through the conventional fitness world with his unconventional training methods and approach to life. You can hear Mind Pump's interview of me on their podcast here:
The Fit Body Boot Camp vision is pretty clear: "As one of the fastest growing global brands in the fitness industry, Fit Body Boot Camp's Global Goal is to expose and engage 20% of the world's population to a healthy and fit lifestyle by the year 2020. We can only accomplish this by continually innovating what we do and how we do it while staying passionate about helping people achieve their health, fitness, and fat loss goals." We sat down with one of their own multiple-franchise owners and learned what is that makes the FBBC experience the best of his fitness career.
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What an absolute pleasure meeting this guy! Chris Dufey and I spent the entire weekend together in the media room at Fitness Business Summit 2018 conducting interviews for our respective podcasts, but the real gem was "jamming out" as Chris put it. We discussed how in the hell it is that we get to do this for a living, our struggles as entrepreneurs and small business owners and our favorite components of content creation in the modern age of technology.
This FBS mini-series is proudly fueled and sponsored by Four Sigmatic. Their coffees and elixirs give us the mental clarity, focus and alertness we need to get our podcast on! Grab any of their amazing products for 15% off using code "EVERFORWARD" at checkout - http://www.foursigmatic.com/everforward.
My podcast mentor, the one and only Shawn Stevenson from The Model Health Show! Always a pleasure connecting with this incredible mind and learning how he has been able to scale his business from a physical place to a podcast and online community that reaches millions of people. You can, too! We live in the most powerful age of technology where we can create and manage a business from our phones and laptops. Podcasting is fast-becoming one of the most lucrative ways people can grow their business and reach their ideal audience, we can all learn from a page of Shawn's book (Sleep Smarter book to improve our sleep health at least for sure!).
Shawn and I both love, use and are proudly partnered with Four Sigmatic. Their coffees and elixirs give us the mental clarity, focus and alertness we need to get our podcast on! Grab any of their amazing products for 15% off using code "EVERFORWARD" at checkout - http://www.foursigmatic.com/everforward.
This episode is sponsored by Health IQ. HIQ uses science & data to secure lower rates on life insurance for health conscious people including runners, cyclists, strength trainers, vegans, and more. In fact, 56% of HIQ customers save between 4-33% on their life insurance.
Like saving money on your car insurance for being a good driver, Health IQ saves you money on your life insurance for living a health conscious lifestyle. Learn more by learning your personal Health IQ quiz and get a free quote at www.healthiq.com/efr. If you can beat my personal score of 194/200 make sure to screenshot and tag me on Instagram @chewningtheelder to claim your prize!
Obi Obadike is a Telly award winning TV host who has authored more than 100 articles for fitness magazines and fitness sites. He is a best-selling author of the diet and exercise book TheCut in which he co-authored with Hollywood Actor Morris Chestnut that came out April of 2017. He has been a guest as an author and expert on national daytime talk shows such as Wendy Williams, Steve Harvey, Dr Oz, Rachael Ray, Access Hollywood, Home & Family, The Today Show, Roland Martin's NewsOne Show, etc.
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