SuperLife Best of 2025 Holiday Special — Year-End Reflection & Awakening
Release Date: 12/26/2025
Dr. Richard J. Brown: Health Isn’t About Looking Better — It’s About Living Better
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this wide-ranging and deeply grounded conversation, Darin sits down with Dr. Richard J. Brown to unpack some of the most pressing issues at the intersection of modern medicine, aesthetics, ethics, lifestyle, and personal responsibility. From GLP-1 medications and obesity treatment to body dysmorphia, medical ethics, AI in healthcare, and the urgent need to integrate lifestyle medicine into traditional care, this episode explores what it truly means to help people heal — not just shrink symptoms. Dr. Brown shares candid insights from the front lines of plastic surgery, preventative...
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Why Time Feels Like It’s Speeding Up (And How to Slow It Down)
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this solo episode, Darin dives into one of the most universal modern experiences: the feeling that time is accelerating. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, and lived experience, he breaks down why time doesn’t actually speed up, but our experience of it radically changes. From the impact of digital distraction and divided attention to the way novelty, memory, aging, and even COVID reshaped our internal sense of time, this episode offers both clarity and agency. Darin shows how reclaiming attention, breaking monotony, and creating richer experiences can give us the...
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Frank Zummo: "No Plan B" — A Rock Star’s Guide to Relentless Persistence
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this raw, wide-ranging conversation, Darin sits down with Frank Zummo, award-winning drummer for Sum 41, founding member of Street Drum Corps, and current touring drummer for Electric Callboy, to explore what it really takes to sustain creativity, health, and purpose inside the extreme demands of the music industry. From high-pressure fill-in moments and massive tours to mental health, fatherhood, fear, discipline, and recovery, this episode is a masterclass in resilience. Frank opens up about grief, identity, panic, persistence, and how true success comes from staying available when...
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Your Environment is Stronger Than Your Willpower: The Neuroscience of Behavior Change
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this solo episode, Darin breaks down one of the most misunderstood drivers of behavior change: environment. We’ve been taught that success comes down to discipline, motivation, and willpower, but neuroscience tells a very different story. Darin explains how modern environments hijack the brain’s reward system, override conscious choice, and quietly shape habits before we even realize it. This episode is a practical, science-backed roadmap for redesigning your surroundings so healthy behaviors become automatic and self-sabotaging patterns lose their grip. What You’ll...
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Hagen Thiers: The Real Reason Your Body Refuses to Change
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this powerful and deeply personal conversation, Darin sits down with Hagen Thiers to unpack one of the most misunderstood journeys in health: why doing “everything right” still doesn’t always work — and how true transformation requires decoding the body’s survival signals, not fighting them. Hagen shares his remarkable physical transformation after decades of extreme metabolic adaptation, chronic gut inflammation, and stress-driven physiology. Together, they explore metabolism, inflammation, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, protein intake, discipline, and why sustainable health is built...
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Why You’re Exhausted All the Time (Even When You Do Everything Right)
SuperLife with Darin Olien
Are you exhausted all the time? In this solo episode, Darin breaks down why so many people feel chronically exhausted despite eating clean, exercising, and “doing everything right.” He explains how modern life disrupts mitochondrial function, circadian rhythm, stress signaling, and nutrient availability, and why fatigue is not a personal failure, but a biological signal. This episode offers a grounded, practical roadmap to restoring energy by realigning your environment, habits, and daily rhythms with how the body is actually designed to function. What You’ll Learn in This...
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Gregory Schwartz: Healing Ourselves, the Planet, and the Systems Between
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this expansive and deeply honest conversation, Darin sits down with Gregory Schwartz for a wide-ranging exploration of awakening, ecology, food systems, energy, consciousness, and what it truly means to live in right relationship with the planet and ourselves. What begins as a conversation about athletic identity and environmental travel unfolds into a profound dialogue on political ecology, spiritual awakening, mitochondrial intelligence, community-scale solutions, and the collapse of outdated belief systems. This episode bridges the scientific, the spiritual, and the deeply...
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Discipline Is Freedom: Reclaiming Your Energy, Health, and Joy
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this solo New Year episode, Darin Olien strips everything back to what actually works. Not hacks. Not trends. The fundamentals. Discipline, food, movement, stillness, sleep, hydration, and real human connection. Darin explains why sovereignty is built through small daily practices — and how mastering the basics is what creates freedom, resilience, joy, and a truly SuperLife. What You’ll Learn 00:00 – 02:00 Welcome to SuperLife + why this episode is about foundations, not quick fixes 02:00 – 03:21 Why New Year change fails — and how discipline actually creates...
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SuperLife Best of 2025 Holiday Special — Year-End Reflection & Awakening
SuperLife with Darin Olien
As we close out the year, this special Holiday episode of the SuperLife Podcast weaves together the most powerful moments, conversations, and awakenings from an extraordinary season of inquiry. From environmental toxins and metabolic health to resilience, trauma, consciousness, and human potential, this episode is a reminder that living a SuperLife isn’t about perfection — it’s about awareness, sovereignty, and choosing differently. This year challenged assumptions, exposed broken systems, and offered real tools for healing — physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. This...
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The Real Reason Being Tired Has Nothing to Do With Sleep or Food
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this solo episode of The SuperLife Podcast, Darin Olien dives deep into the true biology of energy—not motivation, not stimulants, not willpower, but the mitochondria themselves. Inspired by a groundbreaking conversation between Dr. Andrew Huberman and Dr. Martin Picard, Darin reframes energy as an emergent property of how we live, not just what we eat or how much we sleep. This episode explores how mitochondria act as signal translators, listening to your food, stress, sleep, movement, emotions, purpose, and environment—and turning those signals into either vitality or depletion. Darin...
info_outlineAs we close out the year, this special Holiday episode of the SuperLife Podcast weaves together the most powerful moments, conversations, and awakenings from an extraordinary season of inquiry. From environmental toxins and metabolic health to resilience, trauma, consciousness, and human potential, this episode is a reminder that living a SuperLife isn’t about perfection — it’s about awareness, sovereignty, and choosing differently.
This year challenged assumptions, exposed broken systems, and offered real tools for healing — physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. This episode is both a reflection and a recalibration: a moment to pause, integrate, and step forward with clarity into what’s next.
What You’ll Learn
00:00 – Welcome to SuperLife + why this Holiday Special matter
02:10 - Year-end reflection: the conversations that cracked us open
07:26 - Dr. Aly Cohen on how her golden retriever’s autoimmune illness revealed the unregulated chemical soup in our daily products.
10:57 - Dr. Laurie Santos on the arrival fallacy of happiness and why our brains are wired to get used to the good life.
16:03 - Dr. Stephanie Venn-Watson on how a study on Navy dolphins led to the accidental discovery of C15, a fatty acid that may slow aging.
20:55 - Jennifer Cohen on how a simple "spit and catch" game taught her that boredom forces kids to build resiliency.
24:05 - Ian Clark on the moment he refused a terminal prognosis and committed to finding a different way to heal.
29:59 - Jim Poole on inventing NuCalm, a technology using physics and math to bypass trauma responses and restore the brain.
35:32 - Dr. Richard J. Brown on how his muscle mass provided the metabolic reserve needed to heal from severe burns after a grill explosion.
39:45 - Chef Bailey Ruskus on how the failure of Western medicine regarding her chronic illness led her to find her cure and calling in the kitchen.
48:48 - Sheila Morovati on how asking one question about default settings on food apps saved over a billion pieces of plastic cutlery.
53:28 - Cameron Waters on the theory that Jesus wasn't angry about money in the temple, but about the massive animal slaughter taking place.
01:01:04 - Redfoo on a masterclass in manifestation and how he decided his work was play.
01:08:24 - Ilan Sobel on bio-farming and mirroring nature to grow specific cells without soil.
01:14:08 - Dr. Jessica Stavale on fascia, the bioelectric web that holds us together and might be the missing link to understanding chronic pain.
01:18:05 - Gabrielle Reece on the ultimatum she gave her husband Laird Hamilton that saved their marriage and deepened their love.
01:22:29 - Johnny Fine on the vulnerability of the power grid and practical solar solutions for an EMP event.
01:28:26 - Josh Macin on discovering a physical parasite that changed his understanding of his own depression and intrusive thoughts.
01:34:40 - Gustavo Herman Moro on finding a literal treasure beneath the sea during a lightning storm just as time was running out.
01:39:26 - Dani Fontaine on the endocannabinoid system as the body’s master thermostat and regulating signal system.
01:44:02 - Catharine Arnston on how algae acts as a firefighter for our mitochondria to put out the flames of inflammation.
01:49:26 - Dr. Mindy Pelz on the grandmother hypothesis and how menopause rewires the female brain for leadership.
01:55:00 - Dr. Max Butterfield on the surprising mismatch between what men think women find attractive versus what they actually do.
01:59:00 - Kyle Nicolaides on an Ayahuasca ceremony where he realized depression was an initiation rather than a defect.
02:03:52 - Dr. Aimee Apigian on why you cannot think your way out of trauma and why the body must physically move through the experience.
02:09:00 - Aaron Bigelow on the science of the human voice as a holographic blueprint for our health.
02:13:30 - Charlie Goldsmith on the moment he first felt magnetic energy in his hands at 18 years old and his first accidental healing.
02:21:10 - Maya Raichoora on using visualization to heal her body and walk again after a rude comment from a nurse ignited her fight.
02:25:20 - Dr. Lori Woodley on the "cross backwards" technique to break autopilot and stop reactive behavior.
02:29:32 - Chloe Temtchine on flipping the script from victimhood to empowerment to reclaim her health from a terminal diagnosis.
02:35:10 - Jürgen Horn on a somatic release technique for the jaw that shifted his body enough for his wisdom teeth to grow in.
02:39:23 - Jeff Turner on getting crushed in a rap battle in high school and finding the humor that launched his career.
02:44:53 - Dr. Michelle Jorgensen on how her own mercury poisoning led her to uncover the toxic truth about modern dentistry.
02:50:05 - Robyn O'Brien on the character assassination she endured when she blew the whistle on the food industry and how it forged her resilience.
02:54:16 - Darin synthesizes the year's insights into a final message of empowerment, reminding listeners that they are not victims but possess the agency and tools to actively shape their own biology and destiny.
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Key Takeaway
“What shocked me most this year wasn’t how broken our systems are—it was how powerful the human body is when you remove the interference. When you give it clean inputs, space to recover, and permission to heal, it does what it was always designed to do.”