Ep. 1 - Improving Learning, Education, and Total Wellness Through Conversation with Christie Idiong
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Release Date: 03/01/2021
Ep. 21 - How to Say the Hard Things with John Romaniello and Amanda Bucci
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Save 15% on Strong Coffee Company with checkout code UPANDADAM at Up and Adam is an production. For your podcast needs email us at This show is filmed at studios in Austin, TX. John Romaniello is a NYT best-selling author, writing mentor and business coach that helps entrepreneurs build and scale businesses through writing and branding. His partner, Amanda Bucci, is an online business and conscious leadership coach that helps entrepreneurs start, grow and scale their business rooted in alignment and authenticity. Follow John Follow Amanda
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Ep. 20 - What Makes a Great Fitness Coach with Ryan Thomson
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Save 15% on Strong Coffee Company with checkout code UPANDADAM at Up and Adam is an production. For your podcast needs email us at This show is filmed at studios in Austin, TX. “It’s hard to be depressed or be sad or be worried about shit when I’m helping someone change their life.” ~Ryan Thomson Ryan Thomson is a Milwaukee-based fitness coach who specializes in boxing, strength, bodybuilding, fat loss, endurance, and HIIT training. He is the owner of multiple 9Round franchises and the General Manager at social performance club KOLLECTIVE. A college dropout, Ryan...
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Ep. 19 - Thriving as a Family Man and Entrepreneur with Nicholas Noel
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Save 15% on Strong Coffee Company with checkout code UPANDADAM at Up and Adam is an production. For your podcast needs email us at This show is filmed at studios in Austin, TX. Being an entrepreneur can be challenging, moreso if you’re a family man. Nicholas Noel just so happens to be both. He is the CEO of Meal Proz, a healthy meal prep service with three retail locations around Austin that offers low sodium, no added fat or sugar, prepackaged meals. Adam speaks with Nicholas on the ins-and-outs of running a meal prep business and how the company has evolved since its...
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Ep. 18 - Finding Your Tribe in a Post-COVID World with Joe DiStefano
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Save 15% on Strong Coffee Company with checkout code UPANDADAM at Up and Adam is an production. For your podcast needs email us at This show is filmed at studios in Austin, TX. “In some way, even if our circle or our audience or our whatever is being reduced, it’s possible that our impact is actually becoming greater. [...] Starting anew, right now, is the best thing we can do.” ~Joe DiStefano Joe DiStefano is a coach, educator, the Founder of RUNGA, and host of the STACKED podcast. Joe joins Adam once again on this episode of Up and Adam to look back on the past 19...
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Ep. 17 - Navigating a High-Stress Society with Joe DiStefano
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Save 15% on Strong Coffee Company with checkout code UPANDADAM at Up and Adam is an production. For your podcast needs email us at This show is filmed at studios in Austin, TX. Joe DiStefano is a coach, educator, the Founder of RUNGA, and host of the STACKED podcast. Joe joins Adam on this episode of Up and Adam to do a deep dive into the science of stress, how the modern world has cornered us into a neverending state of survival mode, and how to break out of that vicious cycle. Joe kicks things off talking about his transition out of the corporate side of the wellness...
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Ep. 16 - Finding “Flow” in Life and Business with Geno Mattioda
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Save 15% on Strong Coffee Company with checkout code UPANDADAM at Up and Adam is an production. For your podcast needs email us at This show is filmed at studios in Austin, TX. “How do you get into that ‘state of flow’ within your business? It’s all about finding that intersection between what challenges you and what you can truly be the best at.” ~Geno Mattioda Geno Mattioda is the founder of the Austin-based wellness hub known as theDEN. Geno joins Adam on this episode of Up and Adam to discuss his long and turbulent journey leading up to theDEN’s founding....
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Ep. 15 - Better Sex and Holistic Healing Through Integrative Medicine and Psychedelics with Chancellor Aven and Kristin Elise
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Save 15% on Strong Coffee Company with checkout code UPANDADAM at Up and Adam is an production. For your podcast needs email us at This show is filmed at studios in Austin, TX. Do you devour life? This week’s guests certainly do… Chancellor Aven is an entrepreneur and creative. Kristin is a model, entrepreneur, and pleasure coach. Together, they create content on OnlyFans. Listen in as Chance and Christina join Adam on this episode of Up and Adam to talk about overcoming chronic illnesses while pursuing entrepreneurship. After a business partnership blew up, causing...
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Ep. 14 - Sacred Hunting and the Keys to Integrated Manhood with Mansal Denton
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Save 15% on Strong Coffee Company with checkout code UPANDADAM at Up and Adam is an production. For your podcast needs email us at This show is filmed at studios in Austin, TX. “That’s what I’m trying to do with Sacred Hunting: Get people into a place where they can feel things that they’ve never felt before, that they may already know intellectually. You know that animals have to die for food to get to your plate. You don’t know in your body what it feels like to look that animal in the eye and put a knife in its heart and realize, with its eyes looking back at...
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Ep. 13 - Understanding Our Place in the Universe as Conscious Spirits with Jesse Elder
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Save 15% on Strong Coffee Company with checkout code UPANDADAM at Up and Adam is an production. For your podcast needs email us at This show is filmed at studios in Austin, TX. “The only thing that I can do is live authentically if I actually care about serving other people, because the words that I’m saying are irrelevant.” ~Jesse Elder Jesse is a speaker, mentor, entrepreneur, podcaster, action philosopher, and all-around lover of life. He’s devoted his life to sharing his principles of self-mastery with people all around the world. Through his popular Mind Vitamin...
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Ep. 12 - The Evolution of Pain Science with David Skolnik, DPT
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"My mission is to close that gap between healthcare and fitness and raise the level of both." – David Skolnik David Skolnik is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, entrepreneur, and strength and conditioning coach. He is the founder and owner of Stronger in Motion, which offers personalized training and nutrition programs as well as one-on-one coaching with David and his team. David is also the Co-Host of The Essential Strength Podcast. In this episode, Adam speaks with David Skolnik on his unique purpose in the health and fitness world. He also gives his take on why many in the PT field tend to...
info_outline“Vulnerability that's attached with movement is emotional.”
Expert Educator Christie Idiong joins me for a heartening conversation on teaching and learning today. Christie is a certified Life Coach and the Founder of Cornerstone Conversations, a black-owned education-driven, people-oriented, principled Health and Wellness platform. She aims to rejuvenate the purpose and passions of individuals experiencing burnout using motivational interviewing and her educational background in human behavior.
Listen in as Christie shares her professional journey with us, talking about how she started with the profession and why she continues to do what she does with love and passion. We also discuss the need to build a rapport between doctors and patients, making people intrinsically motivated towards an activity, and three basic requirements for bringing positive change in their lives. With society continually evolving and creating room for newer advancements, how do we adapt to our goals? Tune in and find out how Christie views challenges and change!
Key Highlights
- Christie's thesis research was qualitative, and it stood out for two reasons. One, not many people go into qualitative, where it is the words, and you're investigating the gray area. And second, she looked into exercise adherence and intrinsic motivation. The twist on her thesis was on social media- how does Instagram influence people's adherence? Does it actually motivate people to stay in a program? Does it motivate individuals to truly exercise?
- Christie talks about Cornerstone conversations and why they started in the first place.
- How do we get people to adhere? Does building a rapport between doctors and patients make them healthier? The fitness business is excellent, but you need to be in the people business.
- A lot of people don't ask those why's to understand the person themselves. "And when we look at that, we know that people are more motivated to do things or continue with an activity and here to an activity if it's internally driven, or intrinsic motivation."
- Christie talks about the three basic needs- Autonomy and Connection, Connectedness, and Competence.
- We talk about being successful online versus in person.
- Can we succeed as a society? If all of a sudden, all the gyms were just gone right now? Like, could we do it based off of what you say? What would our success rate be? We as humans need to move, and we will be drawn to move.
- Learn why coaches will have to evolve and why online training will weed out those that cannot communicate what they need, with words, properly.
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