Blunt fitness talk with inner work attached.
The Brad Jensen Show treats health as more than macros and workouts. It moves from jokes and studio banter into discipline, emotional regulation, recovery, identity, relationships, and the awkward work of changing for real.
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The Brad Jensen Show is a health and mindset podcast where fitness advice is rarely allowed to stay only about fitness. The surface is casual and fast. Brad Jensen and the people around him joke, interrupt, restart thoughts, and let ordinary stories take up space before the useful point arrives. That looseness is part of the format. A bit about a missed calendar update can sit next to a serious discussion of discipline. A riff about music can lead into language, self-talk, and the phrases people use to excuse inaction. Recent episodes return often to the gap between wanting change and actually living differently. Training hard while still feeling average, losing weight and gaining it back, weekday structure collapsing into weekend chaos, and the debate over GLP-1s are treated as behavior problems as much as body problems. The show also spends real time on emotions. Fear, guilt, shame, people-pleasing, defensiveness, weak boundaries, and relationship breakdowns are presented as patterns that shape health, business, and family life. The Next Level Experience bootcamp episodes make that connection explicit, moving from emotional awareness to relationships to mind-body-spirit alignment. Guest episodes widen the lane. Dr. Bradley Nelson brings energy healing, bioenergetic medicine, and books such as The Emotion Code, The Body Code, and The Heart Code into the conversation. Mike Ilias talks about identity-driven coaching and the difference between self-respect and self-hatred as fuel. Mike Mills brings a transformation story tied to Next Level Experience and coaching other men. Frank Young and Cass Zimmerman appear in bootcamp conversations that mix personal history with practical assignments. The show is not tidy. It includes program promotion, blunt language, and recurring asides that may test anyone looking for a polished expert interview. Its strength is the feeling that change is being argued through in real time, with humor still present when the subject gets heavy.
Made for: For people working on fitness, weight loss, discipline, relationships, and emotional growth who prefer direct coaching over polished wellness slogans. It especially fits listeners who can handle messy banter before the takeaway lands.
What sets it apart: The show links macros, workouts, and supplements to identity, boundaries, shame, recovery, and self-respect. Its edge comes from treating ordinary excuses and awkward personal stories as the raw material for change.
Welcome to The Brad Jensen Show! Your one stop shop for everything nutrition, fitness and mindset. We believe this a mind, body and spirit evolution. Educational episodes drop every Tuesday and Guest Appearances drop every Friday! My name is Brad Jensen, owner and CEO of Next Level. It's my oath to bring you value. That is the whole goal of this podcast. Thanks for tuning in!(Formerly The Next Level Podcast)
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Brad Jensen connects fitness progress to routines, emotional regulation, and the practical work of getting back on track.
Brad Jensen turns health improvement into a working conversation about what happens after motivation wears off. Coaching-style episodes examine weekend eating patterns, consistency, self-talk, boundaries, people pleasing, and the gap between following a plan and building habits…
Brad's calendar mishap gets the laugh; your Saturday eating pattern gets the closer look.
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A free bootcamp on fear, boundaries, and the habits that grow out of self-protection.
The Brad Jensen Show uses this episode to bring Cass Zimmerman back for a free three-day bootcamp and spend time with fear, guilt, shame, and the habits that can grow around them.
A conversational nudge to stop hiding behind easy phrases.
The episode begins with playful Air Supply banter and a quick correction, which gives it a self-aware start before it settles into a larger point: people often lean on phrases like "I don't have time" when the real issue is what they choose to value.
A grounded coaching conversation about consistency, self-respect, and the stories that keep a goal alive.
The Brad Jensen Show frames weight-loss consistency as an identity question, then follows it into self-respect. Brad's conversation with Mike Ilias works best when it links a stalled routine to the way a person sees the reflection in the mirror.
A candid look at unfinished challenges turns a routine habit discussion into a study of the fear behind follow-through.
Habits function here less as a tidy wellness checklist than as a way into self-sabotage. The episode moves from a mistaken Air Supply search and an Amazon detour into a more revealing admission: the speaker still drops challenges, courses, and coaching before reaching the…
A focused look at peptide enthusiasm, access battles, and the scrutiny still needed around health claims.
Jay Campbell comes in with a new book, his ninth, and another already close behind, but the conversation soon narrows to peptides, access, and the commercial pressure around them.
A candid Q&A about weekend routines, hunger, and the difference between following a plan and owning one.
The episode uses a familiar weekend pattern to examine how routines actually hold up once Saturday and Sunday arrive. Brad and Craig move from sleeping in and pushing breakfast late to errands, long gaps without food, emergency pizza, and the optimistic two-slice plan that…
A grounded discussion of hemp regulation, sobriety, and the line between relief and impairment.
The Brad Jensen Show frames hemp regulation as a practical question: when does relief become impairment? Brad Jensen talks with Joe Sheehy, owner and founder of Cured Nutrition, about pressures on the business and a bill that could affect low-dose THC products.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Brad Jensen interviews personal trainer Chris Martin about his journey in fitness, social media growth, and commitment to debunking myths in the industry.
This episode of the Brad Jensen Show discusses health and mindset optimization topics including recognizing self-sabotage patterns, deciding when to leave or stay with a coach, smart training volume, keeping clients long-term, and building a business.
Joe Sheehy, founder of Cured Nutrition, discusses a federal provision slipped into a 2025 bill that redefines hemp and could make 95% of the industry illegal by November 2026.
Brad Jensen and co-host Craig answer listener questions on health and mindset.
Nick Krance and Alyssa Moyo, two Key Nutrition coaches, answer five of Brad Jensen's questions in the third and final coach roundtable.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
This episode of The Brad Jensen Show features a casual, humorous introduction discussing podcast scheduling mishaps and personal anecdotes, setting the stage for health and mindset topics.
Host Brad Jensen interviews Mike Mills about his journey from podcast listener to coach, discussing personal transformation, mindset shifts, and their connection through health programs and fatherhood.
This solo episode concludes a three-part bootcamp series on health and mindset optimization, emphasizing the value of the content and promoting the final round of the Next Level Experience program for the year.
This episode continues a three-part boot camp series exploring why relationships break down, focusing on emotional aspects and personal growth with insights from coach Frank Young.
Brad Jensen opens the episode by announcing a three-day bootcamp series and saying the show is sharing actual lessons and assignments from Next Level Experience for free.
The episode opens with Air Supply and a quick correction about the wrong song.
Mike Ilias, an Australian identity-driven coach on The Brad Jensen Show, says he rebuilt his life after hitting 130 kilos and feeling disgusted by his reflection.
Brad Jensen and Craig spend the episode naming their own worst habits instead of hiding behind advice, and Brad quickly reframes vulnerability as a problem when it turns into “dumping your problems on your partner.” Craig adds a specific pattern: waking up in the middle of the night for crackers with peanut butter or hummus, a habit he ties to stress and under-fueling.
Brad Jensen opens by welcoming Jay Campbell and landing on the headline detail: this is Campbell's ninth book, with a tenth already close behind.
This episode features Joe Sheehey, founder of Cured Nutrition, discussing a potential hemp ban that threatens his business and the broader industry.
This episode is a Q&A session discussing topics like the biggest lie about success, navigating nutrition in social settings, and what men struggle with most emotionally.
This episode features an interview with Sam Miller, an expert in functional nutrition and metabolism, discussing health, hormones, and fitness insights.