The Fawn Response: Owning Your Power
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Fawning isn’t weakness—it’s a survival strategy wired in during moments when safety depended on keeping others happy. But what once protected you now quietly sabotages trust, intimacy, and self-respect. People-pleasing feels kind, yet it’s fundamentally dishonest: you’re managing reactions instead of telling the truth. And people feel that. Especially in dating. The opposite of “nice” isn’t mean—it’s authentic. Real inner work becomes a built-in BS meter, helping you discern when to speak, when to pause, and when you’re betraying yourself for approval. Liberation begins...
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Why Cold Exposure Works: Motivation, Nervous System & Mental Edge
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Yesterday was the coldest day of the year here in Miami. We still got into the cold plunge. This short video is all about activating motivation and focus through deliberate cold exposure. Science calls it hormetic stress: brief, intentional discomfort that builds resilience and steadies the nervous system. Yes, there are risks—protocol matters, and less is often more. I share more about the Wim Hof Method and why this breathing technique is a potent integration strategy and very aligned with microdosing and psychedelia in general, and why its having its moment in our culture. Want to...
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How to Find Your Sweet Spot: Start Low. Go Slow. Take Time Off
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Finding the sweet spot is everything. Real growth happens in the Goldilocks Zone—not too much, not too little. Start low. Go slow. Take time off. Whether it’s microdosing, creativity, or healing, the goal isn’t intensity—it’s sustainability. When the dose is right, empathy increases, plasticity opens, and flow becomes accessible during the week, while deeper healing can unfold when space allows. Long-term transformation isn’t about pushing harder—it’s about listening closely, adjusting with awareness, and honoring the rhythm that actually works for your nervous system and your...
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Movement is Medicine
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What if each step wasn’t just movement—but actual medicine? A simple 10–15 minute walk after meals can cut glucose spikes by 20–30%, sharpen thinking (we solve problems best around ~3 MPH), and bring us back into alignment with how we evolved to live—moving often, gently, and daily. From AM walks to PM strolls, yoga to lifting, dancing to cycling, Zone 2 is the quiet powerhouse: low stress, high return. It builds an aerobic base, improves insulin sensitivity, sparks mitochondrial mitogenesis, clears out the old wiring via mitophagy, and delivers compounding energy over time....
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Eat With Awareness: Psychedelia, Self-Love, and Natural Weight Loss:
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From ManBoobs to Best Self. This isn’t about willpower or white-knuckling weight loss—it’s about awareness. Psychedelic-informed work helped me rebuild interoceptive awareness: actually feeling what my body needs instead of intellectualizing unhealthy habits. As I tuned into nourishment, cut toxic, nutrient-dead food, and recommitted to simple practices—real ingredients, batch-cooked veggies, probiotic foods—my body responded naturally. Weight loss became a byproduct of self-love, energy returned, mood lifted, and digestion improved (remember: ~90% of serotonin lives in the gut)....
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From Addiction to Alignment
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Can microdosing help bring balance to addictive patterns? For many, yes—when approached with care, intention, and self-honesty. Rather than suppressing urges, intentional microdosing can create space to observe habits with greater awareness and choice. When paired with practices like movement, breathwork, meditation, journaling, and time in nature, it can support healthier relationships with substances, behaviors, emotions, and compulsions. This isn’t about perfection or quick fixes—it’s about harmony. Learning faster, choosing differently, and reconnecting with your innate capacity...
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Adapt & Thrive: Rewiring the Brain for Lasting Change
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Our brains and nervous systems are not fixed—they are living, adaptive systems constantly responding to how we think, sleep, move, feel, and meet challenges. In this episode, I explore the science of neuroplasticity and how we can intentionally rewire our brains for greater joy, vibrancy, and connection at any stage of life. We break down why sleep is foundational for lasting change, how stress and challenge act as catalysts for growth, and how intentional practices can direct plasticity toward what truly matters. When we work with the nervous system rather than against it, transformation...
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Focus Is the New Wealth (How the Attention Economy Is Stealing Yours)
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Social media isn’t free—it’s funded by your attention, and the cost is higher than most people realize. What masquerades as poor focus, sleep issues, and low motivation is often something more systemic: an engineered attention economy designed to train your brain for novelty instead of depth. In this episode, I share my personal experience with a digital declutter and unpack how constant scrolling fragments attention, crushes flow, hijacks our dopamine, and our dreams. We explore why “it’s not that bad” and “it’s the world we live in” are usually ego talking, how attention...
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The Hidden Psychedelic Blueprint: Ancient Roots, the 60s Revolution, and the Third Wave
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Most people stepping into psychedelics today have no idea where this movement came from—and that’s a problem, because the past is often the clearest preview of our future. In this episode, we walk through the three waves of psychedelics: the ancient indigenous roots (and the compelling idea that these medicines may be connected to the origins of major religions), the explosive Western surge of the 1950s–70s after Albert Hofmann’s discovery of LSD and the rise of psilocybin in modern culture, and the counterculture "60s Psychedelic Revolution" peak marked by Tim Leary’s “Tune in....
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10 Million Americans Are Microdosing (The New Mental Health Edge)
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In 2025, an estimated 10 million Americans are microdosing—up from 8 million in 2023—and this shift isn’t random… it’s a signal. We’re living through rapid cultural change, AI acceleration, nervous system overload, and a mental health crisis that’s pushing people to seek new solutions beyond the old “BS Inc.” defaults of alcohol, pills, and burnout. In this short podcast/YouTube video, I break down what’s driving the rise, how microdosing may support neuroplasticity, adaptability, and emotional resilience, and why responsible use matters. I share how to get the most out of...
info_outlineThe Skill They Never Taught You (Daily Dose Mindset Upgrade)
Most people break when life gets chaotic. You don’t have to.
There’s a different way to live: Become the kind of person who gets stronger under pressure. In Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb coined a concept that changes everything:
Antifragility: You gain from disorder. Not survive it. Use it. So here’s the question: What if fear was fuel? What if confusion was initiation? What if the chaos you’ve been resisting… was the exact training ground you needed? Because right now, the world isn’t calming down.
It’s getting louder. Faster. More fractured. And most people are being crushed by the noise. But antifragile people? They convert volatility into power. How do you build that? You train it. Through hormesis: healthy stress.
Not self-destruction.
Not burnout.
Deliberate discomfort.
Here are a few practices that forge an antifragile nervous system: * Exercise * Breathwork * Cold exposure (gradual) * Sauna/steam * Fasting (from food… and from tech) And yes — meditation matters too. Not because it’s hard… …but because it teaches you the skill most people lack: Regulation. Awareness. Choice.
These aren’t just wellness habits. They’re an integration framework — so insight doesn’t stay in your head… It becomes energy. action. results.
So here’s the move: Lean in. Embrace discomfort.
Train your system. Because when you choose a worthy struggle… BS Inc. loses its grip.
Love, peace + prosperity,
Matt
www.worththefightbook.org