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"jordan fried" Discussed on Ben Greenfield Fitness
"And like I mentioned, Andrew and Jordan will send me some of the other cool little things that they're up to as well. But yeah, if you guys want to get one of these genesis keys, I'm going to get one. From Jordan and Andrew, and I just think it's super cool. And I'm kind of a dummy with all this stuff. So if I can do it and you're listening in, you can wrap your head around it too. I read a little bit about this stuff every day and I'm slowly learning and I've gosh, I've been kind of dollar cost averaging a little bit here and there in the crypto for about 8 years and I'm no whale and I'm no crypto catalyst and I'm no blockchain evangelist like these guys are, but it is a cool new frontier and as we move away from at least I think I will more and more from Fiat currency. I think these are the type of areas where you want to consider putting more of your energy and investments. And guys, I did want to ask you too. But before I let you go. Obviously, when you're launching something like this, you're working busy. And you might even be working overtime, maybe sleeping less, you know, I don't know, but you shared with me some of your bio hacks already, but what I want to know a little bit about, maybe both of you can each share. Top thing that you do, whether smart drug or neutral or lifestyle modification or something like that that you think is kind of a cool little secret tip. Maybe you've been keeping to yourself. I don't know, but as a way for you to really get good energy and productivity, when you just got a bang through a long work day, what's your go to? I have been listening to these entrepreneurial podcasts, not yours, yours is more health, but these people who say all this stuff about like don't sleep over. I always prioritise sleep, diet, and exercise. And those things, I know that the foundations, but it's such a BS, man, when people are like, oh, don't sleep or sleep less. I mean, yes, on occasion. That's it. But I operate at a 110% when I sleep 8 hours. I operate at 90%. That 20% is all the difference. So I would say those three things and the one, if you want to cheat code, it's a new calm device. I will, when I'm crashing in the afternoon, I knew calm for like 20 minutes or whatever the other device he said that probably works as well. The brain top? Yep. And then I'm literally about to do a lot of these. I've got to know another talk after this. I'm actually going to, I'm like, man, that was a hardcore session with you guys. And I'm just going to go and you come and then be fresh as in 20 minutes, I'll be fresh as before the podcast. All right, well, I'm sorry for exhausting you, Andrew. How about you, Jordan? What's your go to? A giant giant ass piece of nicotine gum or what is it? It's funny. We have nicotine spray in the office. And I do take a hit of it every now and then. I definitely think we got that. It was either from the biohacking group or from you, bed, but we do have the nicotine spray. It's exactly what Andrew said, but more importantly, I do two things. We have a rebounder as well. Change your physiology, change your state, do like ten minutes on the rebounder, just a little trampoline in the office. Just like jump up and down, get all that negativity out, change my breathing, get my heart rate accelerated. We got a ping Pong table in. If I'm in a really bad rut, get a quick game of ping Pong in. But the other thing, I got to just tell you, and this has been such a difference maker for me. I am so obsessed with where we're going, that I really do forget how far we've come. I'm so obsessed with, oh my God, we have all of this left to do to get the product launch. You get the genesis key keys ready to get the marketplace ready to really launch this thing. Make sure it's like pixel perfect and all of that. And you really do just forget to be grateful. You forget to like, you know, give your thanks if your spiritual, for those listening, it's like, you know, don't forget to pray, right? If I think it's really important to just be thankful. So I do like a 5 minute gratitude journal. That grounds me a lot. I feel totally different when I just anchor on three things I'm grateful for. I do some very serious intention setting. I use this app called the 5 minute journal. It's pretty great. You just throw out it's like all set up for you. You can upload a picture. Just to kind of remind you of that day, gratitude, three things you want to accomplish that day. And then you write some like affirmations. I think that whether it's like the inner bitch that negativity, the voice that talks to us, just kind of taming that and writing down some just some words of positivity. Man, I do that daily. I feel so different if I miss a day, I actually do feel worse. So those are my little tidbits. I don't know where I would be without gratitude a little bit of fitness and of course some of that nicotine spray. I dig it. You can do a little nicotine spray and then write down your graceful for it. You guys, I'm serious. If you have more resources, like I mentioned, I'm gonna link to Android's concussion protocol and into this NFT dot com site where people can get their genesis keys for the next couple of.
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"jordan fried" Discussed on Ben Greenfield Fitness
"Of the top 3000 bids, the top 3000 bids will all get keys, but they actually pay the 3000 in first bid price. So everyone will end up paying less than what they bid, which is pretty important. And everyone pays the same price, regardless of what their bid is, as long as they weren't in the top 3000. We thought that would be the fairest mechanism to get the first keys out. Now, that's just the white list immediately after the white list, the remaining keys will be sold in a public sale, the public sale is the median of the 3000. So that 1500th bid that becomes the sale price so that will definitely be more than what the people in the white list pay and what happens then is you've got 10,000 key holders in a decentralized community helping make decisions for what could become one of the next great Internet tech platforms and those gen key holders are kind of like Mark Zuckerberg's decentralized market. I mean, we've got a crypto dot com stadium. We've got an FTX dot com stadium. Wouldn't it be cool to have an NFT dot com stadium that was actually controlled by the community, you know? That's what we were thinking, right? Like we've built unicorns before, but nothing like this where it's like and the domain itself NFT dot com is cool enough is marquee enough for us to pledge it to something that is community centric, not that is venture capital centric, for example. And that's why there aren't these season this round, right? This is really for us a marquee sort of what do you call it? It's the important.
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"jordan fried" Discussed on Ben Greenfield Fitness
"You can even trade or sell your own profile. Exactly, because the profile is yours. Yeah, and to NFT. So of course, yeah. Yeah, it's an NFT. So it's in your wallet. If you want to go sell it, go sell it, it does belong to you. And I think that's just such an important question. So you could even have like NFT dot com slash whatever, like keto recipes. And just like load that thing up, turn it into like a great hub for keto recipes. Utility to it. Wow, that's pretty cool. Exactly. So the way you start all of this, the start of the user journeys, these genesis keys. Now, if you have too many initial users, it doesn't really incentivize community building. It doesn't incentivize participation. There's too many people, you're not going to show up to vote. You're not going to show up to help out. And if it's too small, also, it won't have the right impact. So 10,000 is somewhat symbolic and we did want to pay homage to these amazing NFT projects that have come for us. But admittedly, it's the right number of people to really form a community to submit proposals. You can actually shape NFT dot com with the genesis key. You can submit a proposal and say, hey, I think we should, I think we should add these features to the platform. Hey, I think we should integrate this blockchain. I really like it. Hey, we should, you know, we should we should do an in person event where a genesis key is needed to come to the event. All of that is really going to be community led community governed. And I think that's the future of Internet platforms. In general, right? What if we as Facebook users had somewhat of a voice? You know, Facebook makes like $15 per user per quarter, $60 per user per year, but we don't see that back. Do you get $60 in value and talk in your old high school friends? I don't know. Maybe some people like yourself who have been who have built a business on it. But largely for a lot of these platforms, we've been disenfranchised. We, the creators, we people adding value to these ecosystems. So the other thing of note really just when it comes to NFT dot com is our model is quite different. Andrew and I are not taking a fee in the marketplace that fee really belongs to our Dao. It belongs to the community and the community can direct even the proceeds of that to reinvest it in the ecosystem to say, hey, we should do artist grants for people who are looking to do NFT creations. We should do grants for students to educate them about NFTs and how they can be used. And I think that's what excites me the most is it's somewhat of an experiment, but I'm very confident that user experience of using a web three platform is going to be far greater long term to that of using a centralized platform like a Facebook. So if people did want to get one of these genesis keys, what do they do? Yeah, great, great, great question. You go to NFT dot com right now, a shameless plug. A whitelist NFT dot com or just go to NFT dot com. You can't screw it up. It's NFT dot com. And you just.
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"jordan fried" Discussed on Ben Greenfield Fitness
"Can do things like sell my art. Feature NFT art or music or anything else in the NFT category. And if the real estate that I own, including trading and buying NFTs as well. And basically, it will not only be that but a place where people can learn about NFTs, you know, via content and be connected to other creators and collectors of NFTs, but it's all centrally governed or not centrally government, but decentralized and community governed because it's a decentralized autonomous organization where basically all of the people who are part of NFT dot com were the owners and the profile that we've minted. We have full control over. Nobody can ever take that away from us or dictate what we can or can not put onto it. You know, aside from I suppose the governance of the people who are part of the DAO itself. Correct? Yes. So the only addition I would say to that is that these profiles and the genesis keys which can create the profiles initially form the foundation of an NFT marketplace and a road map which hopefully in accordance to the Dow will form also one day the foundation of a web three social experience. Whether that's a social network or something else, that is going to come down to the Dow and going to get to come down to the people who execute. But yes, this is a marquee domain which will form the basis of the ecosystem starting with the profiles, then going to a marketplace, ideally, a web three social experience after that. What we've seen really as is the birth of an ecosystem of NFTs of this new technological trend that is governed and controlled by the community. So can anybody just go to NFT dot com right now whether they're listening and start an account or a profile, how exactly does it work? Yeah, so this is the most important consideration when you're launching anything. It's not just a web three project, but it was also a web two project. Let's go back to the early days of Gmail. Remember Gmail, then you're old enough to remember Gmail. You couldn't get a Gmail account until someone you knew gave you an invite. That's how Gmail grew. How famous Facebook? I remember, I literally remember when Facebook was just for the people at Harvard. Now I was at University of Idaho and I was jealous because I didn't have a Facebook account. Exactly, great example, Harvard dot EDU email addresses were the only ones that could get in until they went to Stanford everywhere else. Clubhouse, no different. You had to know somebody. You have to, this is a really big vision. And it's going to take because it needs to be community run. You have to somehow invite the community to come in and open up the kimono for the community. So we came up with this really cool concept. It's called the genesis key. And there's 10,000 genesis keys. And basically, genesis key holders.
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"jordan fried" Discussed on Ben Greenfield Fitness
"Going to be able to come to NFT dot com and literally own NFT dot com slash Ben or Ben Greenfield life or whatever handle you want and mint that as an NFT. Now that profile is quite literally your gallery or your storefront or your decentralized identity on the blockchain and we're really excited for the users. I like to joke, you know, I'm quite literally not the CEO of NFT dot com nor as Andrew, where the evangelist were the founders of it, our users are in control or going to be governed by a Dao, a decentralized autonomous organization. I really do think that we now have the technology. And listen, remember, remember the Internet in the early days dial up, like connecting to it was a very poor user experience. That's very much true for blockchains and has been true in the very early days of blockchain. It's getting much better. And as that user experience improves, I really do think we're going to start to see a shift, how the users interact with the platforms that they use. Okay, so I'm going to repeat this back to you just so I fully understand. NFT dot com is basically something that's going to be very, very similar to this whole idea of decentralization, it community governed portal where people who actually are part of NFT dot com can do something like mint or for people who aren't familiar with that term just basically create known your own profile. Let's say like you alluded to NFT dot com slash Ben Greenfield. And there.
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"jordan fried" Discussed on Ben Greenfield Fitness
"In fact, they did take and Instagram dot com slash millivolts away from an Australian lady, I believe, and it was in the news. But who cares? It's there. It's there. That's very different for us, right? We're giving the people the base ownership of the basic unit that creates value within this, which is your participation in your profiles. Join do you have anything to add to that? Yeah, I would say Ben, I think it's really important for everyone to understand the founders of the Internet never intended for the Internet to be the way it is today. In fact, many of them have even publicly stated like, hey, I'm sorry, was not supposed to be like this. And the reason for that is they were all well intentioned people. We wanted to create this information superhighway, but in a well intentioned effort to keep everything free, we've become productized, right? We've exchanged the right for free social networking, talking to our old friends, right? Exchange the right to free Google searches or free just web searches in general and free messaging. We've opted to give over our data and if you actually look at what has happened, data has become the oil of this digital economy. It's literally the oil of the Internet. When you break it down, we have quite literally handed over our most valuable asset, our personal identifying information to what has become several tech conglomerates that have monetized that. When you build a following on Instagram or on Twitter, you're quite literally building a mansion on Mark Zuckerberg's land or on Jack Dorsey's land..
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"jordan fried" Discussed on Ben Greenfield Fitness
"This web three metaverse that we are trampling headfirst towards. And NFT dot com is just by virtue of the domain. I mean, we've got near a 100,000 emails over 25,000 people in our Discord, without really even having tried that much. And forget the phenomenal team of founders who have built unicorns before and all the founding team that joined us from hedera and for me from reserve as well. But what makes us different from open sea and the other competitors is a couple of things, but besides from the things I just mentioned, this is going to be a community controlled ecosystem. So going are the days of, we don't have VCs. We didn't have like inside their investors. I mean, we played that game before in Silicon Valley. Honestly, Ben, it can be a really ugly game. And it helps certain people win, but it doesn't help the community when it doesn't help the people who use and who are the real value behind this win, right? These marketplaces reward the shareholders and the insiders, you know? And that's not what we wanted to create. So on that note as well, final point of differentiation I'll mention is that we are focused on this thing called genesis key. And we're going to be launching 10,000 genesis keys who will be the founding members of our community. Why? Why? Because we wanted these people to govern the way that the. Potential unicorn of the NFT world, because of the domain, the governance to be very community driven and very community centric. Not only.
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"jordan fried" Discussed on Ben Greenfield Fitness
"Bitcoin and cryptocurrency now NFTs, the whole notion of being able to have 24/7 three 6 5 control over your assets is pretty remarkable. I mean, literally 24/7 three 6 5 on a Saturday at noon, you can send the equivalent of a wire transfer, a transaction through a cryptocurrency wallet to someone on the opposite side of the planet. If you try to go to your bank right now, whether you're using Bank of America Wells Fargo Chase or a European bank standard chartered over in Europe, you can not go and withdraw your entire balance in cash. You may think you can, but you just can not. They're not going to allow you to do it. Try it. I encourage you to. If you've got over $30,000 in the account, either they don't have the cash on hand, they're going to want a reason for why you're making the withdrawal. You typically have to call in advance. You don't have access to your funds. You're probably limited in how much money you can send via wire transfer on a daily basis or how much you can withdraw from the ATM machine. So crypto is a pretty revolutionary innovation in that if you have a public key and private key on a blockchain, like the Bitcoin blockchain or the Ethereum blockchain or the hedera hashgraph blockchain, you have access to your money around the clock. If you have access to your money around the clock, that is like the founding primitive of the innovation, there's so many other things you can do on top of that. So we've seen a whole world of DeFi, decentralized finance form where there's yield opportunities, better yields than what you'd get in the checking account. We've seen a ways to capitalize businesses. There are literally startups. I just invest in a startup. The company didn't want me to invest in them with cash. They didn't want a wire transfer. They wanted me to send USD C on the blockchain. And I did pretty phenomenal. I mean, the company wants the engineers want to be paid in it. It's a software business. They want to receive that. And a lot of companies in 2016 and 2017 capitalized that way. We capitalized hedera hashgraph Andrew and I, we raised a $124 million at a $6 billion valuation, largely 80 million of that was in Bitcoin. To fund the launch of hydara hash graph. So it became a mechanism for funding new businesses. And now when we look at the trend, where we are in this trend because it is still somewhat early, you probably hear a lot of people try to talk about where we are on this timeline or probably in the late 90s. If you think about it, or try to compare it to the dot com boom in terms of adoption in terms of number of user accounts on the network. But if you look at the trend, we as humans objectively are spending more time than ever, digitally connected online. And it seems to reason that if we're spending so much of this time, whether you're walking down the street in a metaverse environment like Roblox or World of Warcraft or RuneScape or whatever your game is or whatever you're doing online, we've already validated that people are willing to spend real world money in the gamer community is called the RW T real world trading. People are willing to spend real money on characters on avatars on swords, hicks on shields, on games, grades, their powers. Exactly, upgrade their powers. NFTs are really emblematic of digital property rights. They're digital property right protection mechanisms that are stored on a decentralized ledger. That's what another way of calling a blockchain distributed ledger technology or an immutable ledger or a decentralized ledger. All other ways of describing these blockchains, but we can store property rights that says Ben owns this piece of land in Roblox or Ben owns this piece of land in decentraland or an axe infinity or in the sandbox. And Andrew owns this shield and Jordan owns this shirt in the game. And tremendous remarkable things are happening. Like things that people are balking at. Someone just paid $4000 for a digital version of a Gucci bag in the game Roblox. Now fun fact that actually wasn't an NFT, but it's emblematic of what an NFT could be used for, which is someone is spending so much of their time walking down the street or the equivalent of the street of the wilderness or whatever it is in Roblox. They don't play Roblox. What your avatar says about you in the real world, right? Then you walk around in a fanny pack, which I think is super cool. Others may think is funny, but like how we dress, what we do says something about us and it's a statement that you're making, and the same is true for the digital versions of ourselves. What are Twitter, what our Twitter feed looks like, what your Instagram grid looks like, what your TikTok grid looks like, what your character in a game looks like. And NFTs are, again, just ways for us to assign the rights to these to the various different individuals there. So it's a very powerful technology. It's being used in a very interesting way, right? Like we've got board apes Andrew is quickly become one of the more prolific collectors in the world. He's got some multi-million dollar NFTs and arguably one of the best collections in the world, just really some of the original NFTs. And again, just credit to him for being early to it. Andrew doesn't own one of my, one of my boundless cookbook NFTs. I'm just saying, well, those are highly valuable. If you don't have an NFT that teaches you how to make homemade carrot fries, then really, you know, those pretty little ape pixels that you have are not that valuable. And look, guys, I should note, by the way. I have close don't laugh. I have close to zero interest in the metaverse aside from education. Like I am actually upgrading my office currently to be able to put on a VR headset and present to people in a far more dynamic and rich way where they can walk around a room that can interact with my presentation, they can be there with other people in the room that can pick things up, they can have some haptic sensation and some light and sound sensation that goes way above and beyond what they would be able to get via something like a zoom presentation by me. But I don't have a lot of interest in buying swords and upgrading powers and owning some type of virtual real estate or anything like that. But I actually really do like, you know, as a guy who likes to think around with singing and songwriting. I love the idea of artists being able to release NFTs related to their music that are literally digital sound art that translates to things like concert tickets or allows an artist to get a higher royalty for a song that they've produced or a single or an album without having to go through a music production company or the same thing with something like real estate. I think I briefly mentioned this to you guys like I am actually moving to Idaho. I'm going to be getting rid of my Spokane Washington property and I'm considering as one of the possible options that I have on the table of literally listing it as an NFT where people can own a piece of this real estate and have access to it as around the year retreat center or timeshare. And I also love the idea of having things like the book project that I talked about, right? You don't just buy a book, but you own a book. You can share it with others, kind of like you guys do with audible. You can have the copyright access to that book to be able to use it almost like Creative Commons and other places. And you can even by owning that NFT version of the book unlock things like a book signing party with me or private Q&A with me. I think things like that. I like the utility that crosses over into the real world that essentially uses NFTs in their smart contract function. If that makes sense..
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"jordan fried" Discussed on Ben Greenfield Fitness
"Much more public, right? When you talk about cryptocurrency and we're about to talk about it, I can feel it. But crypto is so religious. Everyone's religious about Bitcoin and everyone's religious about H bar Andrew and I are part of the founding team of age bar and these H Barbarians, you know, if we do something positive, they're happy. If you do something negative that they don't like, they chew you out. And I needed some I really needed to prioritize my mental health. So I started seeing this performance coach who also is a doctor. He's a psychologist. And honestly, two sessions a week has gotten me over those mental hurdles, gets me, make sure that I'm anchored and know what, why am I waking up at four 45? Why am I still building even with multiple exits, even with success? I'm very fortunate to be at this level where I've attained that financial freedom, Andrew, as well. But what continues to drive you, I think, is so important to know what those answers are. So my two things are have someone to talk to, a medical professional that can help diagnose me, keep me hungry, can help tell me why is this behavior self sabotage or can help me correct that? And just getting up in the morning, that four 45 wake up just anchors me, I can start my day react proactive instead of reactive because from 8 30, a CEO of a publicly traded company, my phone starts blowing up with fires that I got to start putting out. In fact, I don't even like to call myself CEO. I'm a firefighter. I just put out fires all day long. So yeah, those are my two things. So you guys are obviously optimized. I feel like we could probably talk about your respective protocols until we're blue in the face. And I would encourage you because you already mentioned a few things that you could send over to me that I can feature in the show notes, which are going to be at Ben Greenfield fitness dot com. Ben Greenfield life dot com. There I go again, Ben Greenfield life dot com slash NFT podcast. I'm going to link to anything.
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"jordan fried" Discussed on Ben Greenfield Fitness
"And then I just add my own dressing with a little bit of sea salt. Because dressing usually in America terms is the very definition of how you make a salad bad. Well, I'll tell you make a salad tasty comma unhealthy. I have a similar regimen. I travel with a ziploc bag full of a really good salt in my fanny pack, but because I don't travel. I don't travel with a lot of liquids, but usually whenever I get to where I'm going, I'll drop in local whole foods or even just the average grocery store will have like a really good extra virgin olive oil. I'll pick that up and during my travels during my trip. I used to do that exact same thing, except now it's pumpkin, it's steering and pumpkin seed oil. Yeah, so you got to check it out. And it taste wise and health wise. It's extraordinary. It might not be able to find out the 7 11, but okay, so a couple other questions here. And then I actually do want to talk about NFTs a little bit because I'm super curious about this and the fact that you guys own and run the URL NFT dot com. I think is very interesting. I'd love to hear what you're doing with that. But besides the styrian pumpkin seed oil, do you guys have any other? And I know both of you are somewhat familiar with my podcast. So maybe you could throw in a few things that you think would be kind of unique for my audience because otherwise you'll be the billionth person who says something like, oh, I have a compressed feeding window. But are there any other kind of real cool things that you guys have set up in your daily routine as pretty prolific biohackers, guys who are pretty tuned into this personal optimization space that are non negotiables for you. So maybe I'll start on that join. So yes, compressed compressed engine. Yes, raw. Yes, little made. Usually fish, smaller fish, so we don't get these are all things that you know. I'll give you some of the things that I do, which are interesting that I so firstly, I have a problem with waking up and having an overactive brain. So I'll sleep for like 6 hours. I'll wake up and now I can go back to sleep. I could work, but I just don't feel great. So a couple of things that I do. I have different sleep stacks. So there are different products. So different CBD products and or what do you call it magnesium products, et cetera, and I can give you so I never do the same one every day, one after another because I find my body adapts. So I will rotate them. None of them are pharmaceuticals. They're all healthy. Awaken the alchemy, that sort of product range so I will make sure that I actively spend 8 to 9 hours, even if I can't sleep, I'll force myself to be in a relaxed state, you know? So I don't, as busy as I am, I don't compromise on that, because I find sleep to be infinitely important. The second thing which maybe your audience may not have heard before is totally minimize downtime. What I mean by that is if I'm walking to if I'm at the gym or I'm walking here to I don't go to whole foods anymore, my PA does, but if I'm walking I'm walking anywhere going anywhere, then I'll usually have headphones in and there's this hack with audible, which allows you to share the same audible across infinite and infinite number of devices. That is not a well-known fact now. It might be because it's going to be on your podcast. Okay, wait. Say that one more time, just to understand. So basically, I know people like you, Ben, who are self optimized people and who are interested in similar things. And what I do with those. People, I invite them in, I haven't invited you, but you're more than welcome into an audible group, and we just buy the books we want, and that audible group gets huge. So the library of books I have to read is literally not just massive, but it's very well curated because it's people like you and or its people like Jordan and other entrepreneurs. So it's different than like a lending library. You're actually, you all. We're getting shut down right now because you're talking about it. I think this is the opposite of what audible wants us doing, but it's a great idea. We just sharing books. That's amazing. And that's a built in native function of audible. I think we're all sharing the same username and password, aren't we? That's right. We'll share in the same username and password. I don't know. Okay. All right, now we're done. But isn't the username and password that you'd use to log into audible, the same as you would use to log into Amazon and thus you're sharing your Amazon account information? That's the thing. No. Maybe we have a legacy account. I don't know, but it doesn't have to be no. Ours, ours is a different login. We're not fully, they're not fully integrated after the Amazon acquisition. Yes. Okay. It's still something. But here's the line. But here's the thing, right? Over the course of a year, it made it a little different. The course of two, three years, it's made a lot of difference over the course of like 5 to 7 years, which is how long I've been doing it. I honestly feel like I've lived a different life. There is just so much downtime in life. And people are like, how do you execute on so much? It's just cumulative wisdom that I think I've gained from just optimizing that downtime, you know? It's really nothing like waiting together for plane and I'll just put it on and it's super interesting now. People get really stressed out about not being able to listen to everything because you're distracted sometimes. But there's just way too much information in the world to consume anyway. So even if I were to put those headphones in and consume 20% of what I gather in that time, that's 20% when compounded over time is going to make an absolute world of difference. So I'm not so focused on listening to everything that or absorbing everything. I'm more focused on having the aha moments and also letting my subconscious draw in these ounces of wisdom that I get from your listeners. I love that. And I'm the same. I will whip out my laptop when I've got 5 minutes before I got to be boarding the flight and write a 150 words. I will listen to two minutes of an audiobook when I'm walking up the ramp out of an airplane. I will literally as I'm making my smoothie like hammer out a quarter of a podcast at four X speed. So I'm kind of the same way not in a stressed out fomo. Oh, I got to absorb all the information the world has to offer sort of way. But rather in the sort of way that dictates that though I do want to be present in the mindful, I am constantly analyzing my day to identify spots where I can absorb information that allows me to be more intelligent in a way that I can then turn around and present that information to my audience or to people I know in a helpful manner and really by the end.
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"jordan fried" Discussed on Ben Greenfield Fitness
"And one other thing related to this to a certain extent, Andrew was, as you were explaining, this entire protocol that you put together, you mentioned that you began to run this biohacking group online, which I think is a Facebook group. Can you explain what that is and where that fits into the equation? Yeah, I mean, look, join the I've always been really into optimizing our minds so that we can execute on building these projects. And Kyle, who is also part of the team. And I will like, look, community sourcing these sorts of these sorts of because it's so hard to know what is actually working and what is not. So we decided to put a little group together called the buyer hacking group or by a hacking group dot com on and it was just a Facebook group. And you really exploded and so now it's a pretty active group. We've met a lot of great friends through it. And we kind of share tips and tricks that help us sort of use biohacking and use health to optimize, not just our business life, but our wildlife. And that's kind of an interesting theme because I consider, for example, my relationship to Jordan, my health, my romantic relationships, and or the general view of my life as a kind of more complete approach. And so by hacking is a part of that, but very important part of it as health is. And that's kind of the auspices and the sort of feel of that group. Yeah, Jordan, by the way, Andrew described you a few minutes ago. I don't know if you heard this as hardcore keto. What exactly, what exactly is he talking about there? Yeah, so, you know, it's funny because our worlds really, really collided. I used to be really overweight. I mean, just not a healthy guy. I'm already not on a big frame. I'm like a 5 foot 5 on a good day. You know, height wise. And I'm from buffalo, New York. I just kind of grew up on the classic American diet. I want a ten kids, three brothers, 6 sisters. And my mom always just made one thing for dinner. You know, I like to joke. The reason I often get compliments, people are like, hey, you can pitch, you got a good sales pitch. And I'm like, yeah, that's because I always had to sell my brothers and sisters to convince my mom to make what I wanted to have for dinner, which was kind of always like pasta or something really starchy. I gained a lot of weight. I just, I don't think I ever really understood what nutrition was. I didn't really know what a carbohydrate was. And I made this pretty rash life change. I left, didn't finish school, and really before I was 20, I ended up moving to Budapest Hungary. Somewhat random. I heard there was cheap beer and beautiful women. Turns out that's true. But leaving, I think my American dietary lifestyle and going to a place with a lot less genetically modified food, much more of like that whole like farm to table culture. I quickly realized like, wow, I'm eating a lot of packaged goods coming from the states. There's started eating a lot more produce. I learned what a whole foods diet could be. And then I found this thing. I don't want to hype it up. It's called CrossFit, probably heard of it. But it was just high intensity intervals. Never heard of it. Nobody who does it ever talks about it so it's kind of like a secret. It's like veganism. Exactly. It's kind of like a good secret. So, you know, I don't want to hype it up or promote it, but what I liked about it was it was the first time that you kind of get what CrossFit does so well is you finish a workout. You look like an absolute idiot. I mean, there were women in this class squatting more than me. I know like strength whatsoever. And then I ended up working up to squatting more than 2.5 times my body weight. And in that process, it's just, you know, it's all of this high 5s, high 5s. You kind of get that they build community Andrew's talking about biohacking community and coming together. I think CrossFit got that really great. So here's this gym that welcomed me in. It was called Reebok CrossFit. If you're in Budapest, there's not that many CrossFit gyms. So this is an amazing one to drop in on. And they're the only one in Budapest that had English speaking classes. So started working out and then all of a sudden I find Andrew, I think it was probably you who brought this to me. But this whole notion of eating a high fat diet started reading up on it and yeah, I got really religious on it. I've got, I think I have three different devices to take my ketone levels. I do it while I travel, actually, I have a rule when I travel now, when I'm on a flight, I use it as a fasting day. So I fast, I fasted the entire way to actually did a 96 hour fast to fly to Amsterdam from New York while I was living in New York, gave a speech on hedera and blockchain and cryptocurrency at a conference, didn't eat anything while I was in Amsterdam, which was somewhat challenging because I did make it to one of those coffee shops and did smoke some of that stuff. And I got super hungry, but didn't eat and flew back to the states. And I love how I feel with ketones in my body. I love how my brain operates. I have all of this mental clarity and focus. I don't think the diet is one size fits all for everyone, but for me, and for my body type, I think I got rid of all of that inflammation. And I generally feel healthier, which was new for me. Coming from buffalo eating chicken wings. Yeah. Yeah, totally. 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"Nerd wallet that do credit card offers and get paid out by all the banks to have those keywords. So Andrew had kind of dominated that space, had moved on, and then I'd kind of come join him in some of those industries. So to his credit, when I had exited from my VPN company and I'd actually just moved to New York, it was really just I think Andrew somewhat serendipitous. You asked me what I was doing at the time. I had just had this liquidity event. I was day trading cryptocurrency. And he said, hey, read this white paper. And it was the hedera hashgraph white paper. So I poured a bunch of my newly found liquidity into that project. Somewhat blindly, knowing more that business is mostly about people. It's about working with people who you trust. People that are high integrity, you know, I had been impressed with Andrew's ability to and this is kind of where some of his bio hacking comes in. Just sort of optimize and operate and peak performance. He's one of the few guys I know that can actually pull off an 18 hour work day. A lot of people say that they work like 18 hours. Andrew somehow gets somehow and it gets that done. So yeah, it's been an unbelievable journey and then obviously wasn't the last thing we did together. I had been trying to get him to come get involved in several of the other domains I had been picking up and finally we agreed and we had to do something in the NFT space. And happy we are. Yeah, well, I can certainly attest to Andrews go get this because I remember, I guess it was probably like three or four years ago. I published the post to my Facebook group about this very impressive concussion and TBI management regimen that Andrew had filled me in. I mean, it was crazy. It was everything from vagal nerve stimulation devices to brain photobiomodulation to a special brain shake with about a hundred different ingredients. And this was all based off of a discussion that Andrew and I had about his management of a pretty serious head injury that he sustained and I think that that alone, we could probably fill people in on that protocol and they could press stop now on the podcast once they hear it because I think it's one of the best concussion management protocols I'd ever seen. And Andrew, I'm curious if you could fill people in on that little head injury that you had, sure. How it occurred and what you strung together as this concussion or TBI management protocol. Yeah, so when I dive into something, I go a 110% and whether that be on business or buy a hacking, as you know, I started buying a hacking group dot com with one of the other founding team Kyle armor. And if he dot com. And we really delve into it. Jordan's kind of the same. I mean, I don't know anyone who was as hardcore Kido as Jon is when he discovered what he did for his brain, happy to go into that later. But one of the things that I was looking into was holotropic breathing, which was put on me by wim hof, I trained with women his trainers in Iceland. And one day actually, I was exploring the fringes of holotropic breathing through someone who probably shouldn't have been teaching it to be honest. And I passed out while upright and smashed my head against concrete. So you were doing like wim hof S hole stroke and breathing while standing on a hard surface. That's exactly why this mess should have been ill advised. Ill advised, extremely ill advised, just to catastrophe and I blacked out. When I woke up, the world was not the same place. And I recently had a friend of mine say that he had a concussion and he just said to me, it's a very different world when you perceive it through the lens of this gray concussed sort of state. And so I went all in then with what intellect I had left, I went all in and finding solutions. Now, the interesting thing been is that not only did I find solutions to concussion, but I found solutions to optimize my brain. And I found dysfunction in my brain, which was not even related to the concussion. So while I was focused on improving my currently, my then my then bad mental state, you know, I got to a point where I had sort of fixed it, but then I was starting to optimize for more and more base on dysfunction that I had found that wasn't even related to the concuss quick question. When you talk about finding dysfunction, you know, I've done stories before on electroencephalography and this idea of using Q EEG measurements to identify areas in the brain that need to be up trained or down trained, so to speak, for anything from ADD to ADHD to better sleep onset to distract ability, et cetera. I've done a couple of podcasts, for example, with doctor Andrew hill of peak brain in LA and then of course there are folks like doctor Daniel amen, who will do a spec scan to instead an analyze a blood flow to the brain. Now when you say that you found brain dysfunction, were you doing a scan similar to one of those? Exactly. So I went to cognitive FX. I think it's in Utah. I know you're aware of it, but they are when I am. Yeah, well, go ahead and explain. Yeah, they went on the top concussion clinics. Now, it's interesting because when I went there, I spoke to them, I was still having I thought I still had some dysfunction with my brain. And that was later confirmed. But basically what I figured out with cognitive effects was that they were a certain parts of my brain that had sort of black on the scan and thus were just not functioning in the same way, which they believed weren't related to the concussion. So they started doing training around specific things. It was like touching very, very interesting activities, touching lots on the wall or different types of coordination or remembrance exercises, et cetera, to improve those parts of my brain, which were gray. In the scan, which may not have been related to the concussion. By the way, Andrew, if I could jump in super quick, I should clarify that cognitive FX. And I've sent several people their way ever since you told me about their existence. They're down in Provo, Utah. They actually don't do EEG or spec scan. They actually do something called F NCI, which stands for functional neurocognitive imaging. And that's like an F MRI of the brain. And so they've got, which is a very complete scan. We hear about people, for example, with the health nucleus program, which is a really advanced anti aging and longevity management program..
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"All right folks, well, strap yourselves in for a wild ride today because while most of my guests are indeed in the realm of health and biohacking and fitness, my guest today are not only into all of that, but they're also into this idea of health being about more than just biohacking. These guys have studied up on wealth. They've set it up on relationships and they also happen to be real experts in the whole realm of crypto and NFTs. And so this is going to be a fun discussion. Andrew masato is a guy who I ran into quite some time ago in New York City, I believe it was doctor Holland Chen, I think, who might have introduced us, but anyways, I got a chance to hang out with Andrew and kind of see him in his space over there a few years ago. He owns biohacking group dot com. He's a serial entrepreneur. He's an investor. He's very active in blockchain. He was the founding CMO of reserve, which is backed by Peter Thiel and coinbase and a few others, which is currently at a 1 billion plus valuation. He was the founding CMO of another company called hedera hashgraph, which was backed by Google and IBM and Boeing with a fully diluted 10 billion plus valuation and crypto. Recently launched an NFT based website that he'll be talking about quite a bit as well. And he's lectured on Internet marketing, Harvard Business school. He founded and sold higher click SEO agency. He's lectured at Oxford University. He is widely quoted by a lot of industry leaders on growth marketing, he has worked as a lawyer in the UK as an investment banking analyst in Australia. So this guy is up to quite a bit. He's a real renaissance dude. Andrew before I introduce your partner in crime, he's also joining us, say hello, just so people know your voices. Hey, Ben, that was quite the introduction. I'm going to make sure that my staff never give that length of introduction. Again, to anyone. You know, people send me these bios and you know, I got to fill people in, hey, at least I'll help to make you credible, ma'am. I appreciate you. Make you sound smart. Jordan is my other podcast guest on today's show. Jordan fried. He's a blockchain evangelist, a crypto capitalist. He's currently the chairman and the CEO of immutable holdings, which is a blockchain holdings company. He founded and operates NFT dot com, which is a relatively newly launched website. We'll be talking about as well as immutable asset management. He was also part of the founding team behind hetero hash graft. I served the senior VP of business development there until the end of 2020 and they signed partnerships again with Google and IBM and Boeing and LGE electronics and that kind of launched that particular offering into being one of the top hundred cryptocurrencies in the world in Jordan is also cofounded and served as CEO of buffered VPN, which is a real popular VPN service online. And Jordan's been involved in Bitcoin and crypto since 2012, so Jordan, welcome also to today's show. Thanks, Ben. Big fan and super excited to talk about the intersection between biohacking your world in crypto because I think there's a lot more overlap than people realize. I actually want to get into get into quite a bit about that. But first of all, tell me about you guys a story. How did you meet and what's been the journey of you two working together? Well, we have really been through quite a few companies together to join in and I our story starts, data back in, I think, close to 2010 over ten years ago, I'd started higher click Jordan came in as sort of almost like a CEO, really, and he built that company up. The one I started to sell, eventually he started buffered VPN, and I went on to do Internet marketing. And I think the and then in 2017, we reunited after he just sold Buffett VPN. We reunited and started a hashgraph together. And man, that was just timing within 6 months we had raised a 100 million at a $6 billion valuation. Now it's at like between a ten to $20 $1 billion valuation. And then he came to me more recently and it's just so hard not to say no to this guy because a is a great salesman and B and I have many passions together and we've been together for such a long time. I think that's one thing to emphasize we have kept a strong bond over time is someone I deeply trust and love and our paths have collided and we've just added a lot of value to each other. So I'm really grateful for that long-term relationship and for our continued success all the way up to what is now us cofounding NFT dot com together. Yeah, I've got to give the other perspective Ben because the truth is, Andrew's always been one step ahead of me. He's a few years older and definitely a few years wiser, but when he was just getting into performance marketing or sort of actually I would say just getting out of performance marketing and moving on to the next thing. I was really just getting into it. When Andrew and I had met, Andrew has been over a decade now. It was clear to me that this guy is on the bleeding edge of what's coming, often before other people realize it. You got to realize at the time we were doing search engine we were doing search engine optimization. It was still a relatively nascent industry. It's a cottage industry for those that don't know, optimizing your search profile. So you rank higher in the SEO cert pages. It's very lucrative. If you can rank number one for best credit cards, that's a $100 million a year keyword for companies.
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