Tom Jones is a former Marine, ex sparring partner of Chuck Norris, and someone who has overcome some serious disadvantages in his early life and a terrible drug addiction to get to where he is now. 
Tom created the ‘QUITPROOF’ program for physical, mental, and spiritual development for those in need of a better lifestyle.

In this episode we discuss:

Tom has quite the list of achievements.
Shout outs to Laird Hamilton and Chuck Norris.
Tom moved 35 times before he was 12 years old.
A childhood of abuse, neglect and many other challenges.
Experience of abuse and child molestation in care homes.
Tom ran away to join the Marines.
He studied martial arts from a young age.
Was he naturally talented? Or just started so young?
Fighting in bars in Okinawa.
How Tom became friends with Chuck Norris.
The importance of men having positive male role models.
Tom's experience with addiction to drugs and going into rehab.
Meeting another mentor Glenn McCusker, working as his bodyguard and trainer.
A return to fighting.
Seven major titles in Muay Thai kickboxing.
About marriage and divorce.
Muay Thai is brutal and demanding fight sport but Tom was prepared for it.
Mind-boggling achievements in running.
Tom was not an endurance runner before he started these challenges!
About the support team for the 121 marathons.
'It's over when you decide it's over'
Marathon vs Muay Thai:
Running a marathon and winning a Muay Thai fight in one day, done for a local children's foundation.
Shout out to Joe in Bali!
How did Tom get into his epic SUP trips?
Shout out to Charlie Moore who discovered the Northern Pacific Garbage Patch and leading expert in plastic pollution.
Shut out to Mickey Munoz and Joe Bark.
Meeting Laird Hamilton for the first time and Dave Kalama.
SUP-ping the length of the state of California.
Running into a 17 ft Great White.
Donny mentions a book about Great Whites called The Secret Life of Sharks by Peter A. Klimley.
'Your WHY has to be strong enough'
Tom was 58 years old at the time of recording.
How does Tom recover from all this?
The importance of great nutrition and supplementation.
What part does faith play in Tom's life?
What is a hydrofoil? And the hydrofoil distance record.
New challenges offer the chance to be humble.
What is the status of QUITPROOF?
Does Tom have any regrets? (Didn't go to officer's school)
Shout outs to the influential people, including also Jennifer, Tom's wife and God.
What is the most important advice to pass on to listeners?
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Stephen Snyder began practicing daily meditation in 1976. Since then, he has studied Buddhism extensively–investigating and engaging in Zen, Tibetan, and Western nondual traditions. Stephen was authorized to teach in 2007 by the Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw, a Burmese meditation master and renowned scholar. In 2009, he coauthored Practicing the Jhānas, exploring concentration meditation as presented by Pa Auk Sayadaw. 

In this episode we discuss:

Stephen is in Michigan at the time of the interview.
We are focusing on the deeperr dimension of meditation.
Stephen was born in California but raised in Guam and Hawai'i among other places.
An early calling to spirituality with an encounter with a running monk.
How he came to study meditation in the Theravadan tradition.
How and where did Stephen practice Zen?
Stephen and Tina Rasmussen's book Practicing the Jhanas and it's demystification of the deeper levels of meditation.
Issues with the watering down of meditation and yoga.
People and their karmic affinities.
What is meditation actually?
How Stephen got started in meditation himself.
What is anapana meditation / vipassana meditation?
The initial stages of meditative development leading to jhana.
A detailed look at the jhanas and the jhana factors.
The importance of a teacher to guide one through these stages.
Comparisons with the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
How can someone get started with mediation?
The importance of going on retreat and more intense periods of practice.
Discussing Stephen's new book Buddha's Heart.
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Mr Beau Miles is an award winning film maker, a poly-jobist, a speaker and a writer with a PHD in outdoor education based in Australia.

In this episode we discuss:

Beau is from Australia but has been travelling and wandering into adventures since he could.
About Melbourne and the surrounding area.
Australians, the dilemma of being of white, European descent and growing up there, and the question of belonging and one's true home.
How would Beau describe the films he makes?
Ideas of adventure and long-range travel.
Why did Beau choose film as his medium?
What is the premise of A Mile an Hour?
Beau's most challenging film? The Human Bean!
Where does he get his ideas?
Would he still do the things in the films, without the filming?
Which film gets most to the core of what he does?
Wood and trees play a big part in Beau's stories, why?
Is it too late to start working with wood?
To what extent is he motivated by health and physical potential?
How has becoming a father changed things for Beau?
What aspects of his personality does he need to work on?
Shout out to some important people in Beau's life.
Plans for the future and all about the book.
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How to find out more about Beau Miles and how to contact him.
What is Beau's personal philosophy of happiness?